Hi guys,
Very regrettably, I have to cancel today's livestream I have a sick kitten who was at the emergency vet yesterday. He needs to go back today to his regular vet for x-rays. Because it might be an obstruction of some kind, I can't put it off. I'm so sorry.
In lieu, here's some (sappy) recent reward art. The separate prompts were for Wick and Viktor enjoying themselves/having a happy moment.
I will announce the new livestream date and ...
2016-10-10 18:56:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys,
Next livestream will be Monday, October 10th, starting at 4pm CST at my Twitch Channel.
I'll be working on some art, but I'll be happy to switch over to doing sketch requests if those of you in the chat would like. As always, feel free to bring along any questions you have too, and I'll do my best to answer or demonstrate.
Hope to see you there!
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2016-10-04 20:34:51 +0000 UTC
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This doesn't really belong here, probably, but a couple of you have asked for kitten updates, so I figured I'd share the latest video I put together for the people who are adopting. (Pardon my baby talk. It seems only natural to speak to a tiny squeaking squeaker in their own squeaky patois.)
I've got two separate flights scheduled into October to deliver 4 of the 6 kittens to new homes. I have a good prospect for a 5th kitten as well. Number 6 may end up staying here. ...
2016-10-01 04:13:06 +0000 UTC
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Part 1 of a two part mutual interview I did with Axe Cop creator Ethan Nicolle is up on his blog. I had a lot of fun chatting with Ethan about artistic style, influences, day jobs and making the leap to self-employment. In turn, hopefully it makes for a bit of enjoyable reading!
2016-09-30 06:50:00 +0000 UTC
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Live stream sketches, mostly from the last request session (except for the picture of Maya, which was from an earlier stream).
The prompts were for Viktor and Mordecai playing chess, Wick + dynamite, Ivy and Freckle dancing, and Mordecai as Blackadder. Thanks to Ragark for the game board layout suggestion. Had a lot of fun with these!
2016-09-30 00:39:29 +0000 UTC
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Some art, finally...although I would like to do something less nonsensical with the lighting here eventually. (Is it too dark or contrasty? I've stared at it for too long.)
This is actually for a yet-to-be-announced Lackadaisy card game currently in the works. To be clear, this is a separate thing from the card deck. Most of the main cast will be playable with specific abilities, and the object will, of course, be running liquor across a randomized environment (based very muc...
2016-09-23 12:56:45 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys,
I'm sorry updates have been sparse this month. This litter of kittens is killing me. I've got 4 adopters lined up for October, though, so I'm hoping life will resume something close to normalcy soon.
I am still working on the the things I said I'd be working on, but progress has been slower than I'd like. To try to make up for this, I'm going to hold an all-Patron livestream this Sunday afternoon-evening. This will be a request sketch session...
2016-09-15 21:06:12 +0000 UTC
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Just sharing this here in case you don't follow my other social media.
Amazing little bit of animation from the 'Flirtation' comic by Ravietta! You can find more of her incredible work here on DeviantArt.
2016-09-12 03:25:38 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
The next livestream will be this Wednesday, September 7th at 4:00pm CST at my Twitch Channel.
I'll be working on one of a few illustrations I've got in the works and, if you guys want to throw some sketch requests at me, I can do that too.Streams usually go for about 3-4 hours, so feel free to come by anytime and, if you like, join in the chat. I will probably talk a lot abou...
2016-09-04 17:22:34 +0000 UTC
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*******Harrowed Screaming********
Ahem, now that I have that part out of the way, this is what's happening now - kittens under a neighbor's porch, courtesy of this gray feral cat I've long been trying to nab for TNR. If you attend my livestreams, you might have heard me talking about her.
My neighbors discovered them and we set about catching the kittens in a humane trap, one by one with the aid of some tuna late Tuesday night. They've since been camping out ...
2016-09-01 20:52:53 +0000 UTC
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Some sketches from Anthrocon panels, other convention art and reward requests. The drawings at the top were characters designed on the spot by the live-draw panel audience. They selected a fennec fox and a caribou.I don't always post this sort of thing because, well, not everything seems quite worthy of a post, but I had a request from patron Garrett S. to share them.
I'll have some new art and that news I referred to in the last post up soon....as soon as i figure out what to do w...
2016-08-31 08:36:36 +0000 UTC
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The Lackadaisy Intro, retouched and reformatted for mobile. Lackadaisy will be debuting on Webtoon Discover soon, and updating weekly for the coming year.
It's really about time that the comic was available in mobile format. It's rather late to the party, actually, so I'm excited to have a venue for doing this. I realize this probably isn't particularly interesting news to you guys since, presumably, you've a...
2016-08-28 18:53:49 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
You're probably getting sick of this picture by now, but I did promise I'd make it available as a wallpaper/device background. Here it is! Common aspect ratios and display resolutions are included in the attached, downloadable ZIP file, as is a large version of the full image that you can crop and modify to your liking. Hope you enjoy!
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Links to all other Patron -Exclusive Wallpapers:
2016-08-23 21:37:30 +0000 UTC
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An attempt at answering a Patron question (from Daniel G.) with some notes about rhythm in a drawing and how I try to portray motion in gestures and poses.
I'm not sure I've done a particularly good job of explaining rhythm here - it's sort of a novel length topic, quite related to line of action or flow - but it is definitely one of the more prominent things that distinguishes natural looking character drawings from more awkward ones. It's also something an artist adopts an understandi...
2016-08-17 07:22:14 +0000 UTC
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Art from the livestream - pencil and water soluble graphite. I've posted a quick process video of this too.
This was my first time streaming natural media work with a webcam (as opposed to monitor display). It was a bit awkward and difficult to keep up with the chat this way, but I will try to iron out the kinks for the next time. Thanks to the viewers for bearing with me!
2016-08-13 17:32:46 +0000 UTC
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Missouri State Penitentiary-
My birthday was a couple of days ago as was my friend's, so we decided to treat ourselves to a little prison time. That is to say, we went to tour the Missouri State Penitentiary, which operated between 1836 and 2004 and, for a time, was the nation's largest prison complex.
This fortress of a place was host to a number of famous and infamous prisoners (Emma Goldman, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Sonny Liston, James Earl Ray), numerous executions, rio...
2016-08-06 09:32:48 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
The next livestream will be Friday, August 12th at 5:00pm CST at my Twitch Channel.
I've recently acquired a (supposedly) quality web cam so that I can do some live drawing on paper for these streams. I'm going to try to get that working for this stream, but I'm not sure yet how well that'll work out on the first attempt. If I'm not able to live draw for whatever techn...
2016-08-06 01:43:18 +0000 UTC
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Patron and musician Elias Luukkanen shared with me this lovely composition to accompany the Dandelion artwork. It's rather a perfect match, I think, so I thought I'd share.
Thank you, Elias!
2016-08-03 14:49:48 +0000 UTC
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Ryan W. asked:
How was high Mordecai when they had to take the bullets out of him in Lackadaisy Momentum and how was he afterwards? I can only imagine they used the same horse doctor after all and we all remember Viktor's experience with him. If it made Viktor smile, I wonder what it did to Serious McGrumpy pants!
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Well, an injection of morphia alleviated him of an array of neuroses, at least temporarily. By virtue of proximity,...
2016-08-02 13:45:45 +0000 UTC
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Thank you so much for the support this month!
2016-07-31 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Some embarrassingly messy pencils from a smallish thing I was going to post today...but I just had a crash and I lost a few hours of work on it. I'll have the actual thing up in a bit.
2016-07-31 12:04:23 +0000 UTC
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Another round of redesign for the playing card backdrops (for the pip/number cards specifically). They'll be significantly more faint in actual use since there will be art on top of them.
If you catch me trying to redesign these yet again, just please slap me until I stop.
2016-07-26 14:02:09 +0000 UTC
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First attempt at a process video.
I cut out a bunch of color adjustment work at the very end because I was waffling back and forth about altering the strictly gold palette or sticking with it...for hours. In retrospect, I think I probably should have left the original colors, but that much yellow gets to be unpleasant once you've stared at it for 16 or so hours.
I also zoomed in on the video clip for much of it because I wasn't sure how helpful seeing the Photoshop me...
2016-07-20 01:17:05 +0000 UTC
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Feeling rather artistically bereft after recent goings-on, and trying to work my way through it. There's a detail image of this
here.
I don't particularly like how this came out, but I did at least take the opportunity to experiment with recording the ordeal. If I can manage to edit together a serviceable process video, I will share that here...and will hopefully t...
2016-07-18 11:57:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
I've put together a little album of Anthrocon 2016 photos here. There's at least one short video included as well, and a few of the sketches I did for attendees on the second page.
Many thanks to both Jay and Angela who were not only exceedingly helpful at the con, but took a lot of these photos while I was running around googly-eyed, flapping my wings ...
2016-07-11 22:20:38 +0000 UTC
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A little reward drawing that morphed into a little vignette.
2016-07-08 01:00:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
I've just returned from Anthrocon, and I'm compiling some photos to share with everyone. In the meantime, though, I figure I'll go ahead and schedule that weekend Livestream I promised:
The stream will be
Saturday, July 9th at
3:00pm CST at my
Twitch Channel.
I have a little painting in mind that I might be working on. I can take s...
2016-07-05 20:02:24 +0000 UTC
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Thank you so much for the support this month!
2016-06-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Thank you for the kind and thoughtful comments in the last post. I'd have a hard time explaining how much I appreciate it, but please know I do. It's a comfort to be in the company of so many people who understand, and likewise have animal companions occupying large tracts of real estate in their hearts.
Some recent reward art. More when I'm back from Anthrocon.
Speaking of which, are you guys interested in seeing photos from the convention? ...
2016-06-29 21:49:05 +0000 UTC
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A little Ivy/Freckle pencil commission from not long ago.
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I did say I was going to try to fit a second weekend livestream in this month, but apologetically, I'm going to have to back out of it. I just lost my best friend and constant companion of the past 17 years, and if I try to stream this weekend, I'm just going to be an embarrassing, blubbering mess.&n...
2016-06-24 18:04:35 +0000 UTC
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