lackadaisy

Recent reward art.  It sort of turned into an experiment to see how fast I could do a semi-decent painting job using some new brushes.  (Not fast enough.)

Volume 2 Pre-Orders Open

The Volume 2 Hardcover book is now available for pre-order. Books should begin shipping in late July.

If you're a $5+ Patron, you also should have received a message from me containing a discount coupon for the book.  If for some reason you did not receive one, please let me know (either by message or in a comment here) and I will remedy that, forthwith!

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A mini-comic to address a couple of related reader questions - one from a Patron, one from tumblr. 

Volume 2 Proof

Welp...it'll be a more effective bludgeoning instrument than Volume 1, at least.

This is just the proof.  The cover colors won't look so dull, and will have some spot UV shine in the final product.  I've also adjusted the tones and sent the modified version off to the printer to de-purple-ize a bit.   Overall, though, this is what the Volume 2 hardcover will look like. 

They should be available and shipping in the latter half of July.  Orders will open so...

Next Livestream will be Wednesday, June 8th at 7:00pm CST at my Twitch channel.

I'll be working on some art, like usual - probably something related to a Patron-submitted question.  If you feel like coming by, joining the chat, asking questions, or just watching from a shadowy corner, I'd be happy to have you!

Depending on how things are with Calvin (my sick cat), I will try to ...

May 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Process Q&A

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New mini-comic coming up shortly.  Meanwhile, here are some responses to Patron questions about process.

Some of the images below are clickable thumbnails. Sorry about that - couldn't add full size images to this already enormous post.

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Erika H. asked:

Recent reward art - this one for Chanie, who did an amazing job voicing Serafine for Elson Wong's Lackadaisy Audio Contemplation .

Rakusaru asked

"Can we see the Lackadaisy cast as dogs? I've always been curious what they would look like."

I did a lot of these in the last Patron livestream - many of the breed choices were the result of suggestions from the chat (the consensus seemed to be that Zib was more vulpine than canine, however).  Had a lot of fun with it.  It turned out to be a pretty good exercise in character design too.....

Anthrocon/Lackadaisy T-Shirt

Proposed t-shirt design for Anthrocon.  They caught wind of this image of Zib and asked for something with a similar theme.  The shirt will be a spot color dealy, though, so I had to take a different approach with the art here.  Ultimately, I might need to pull back on the swirly nonsense to open up the composition a little more.

I've been invited to be a guest at Anthrocon this year, mostly because they're doing a 1920's theme for their 20th anniversary.  The arrangement involved doing the cover art for the conbook, of course.  

It's a wrap-around, so the front cover is the right half of the image and the back is the left (picturing a parody Arrow Collar ad).  It's not Lackadaisy exactly, but close enough that I figured I'd be justified in sharing it here.  And I'm not supposed to be showing this a...

Hey guys,

The next livestream will be Wednesday, May 18th at 6:30pm CST at my

Twitch Channel.

As always, feel free to join me while I work on some artwork - chat, ask questions or just lurk in the shadows.

(My 17 year old cat , Calvin, is very sick right now and nearing the end of his life.  Just as a precautionary note and apology in adva...

This is how the Volume 2 cover is looking.  I figured I'd give Patrons the first look at it.  I left the title art out for display here since, well, you know what the title of the thing is.  If anyone's interested in wallpapers, I'll happily make those available.

Also, thank you for all of your questions on the last post!  I have collected them and will start posting responses later this month, a few at a time. 

Above is a little bit of recent reward art.  

Posting with an ulterior motive, however....

Questions Invitation

Most of the mini-comics and mini-tutorials I've drawn over the past few years were the result of a question someone asked about characters or comic-making.  Because I'd like to keep on drawing comics for you guys while I've got Volume 3 development and book and convention prep going on in the background, I figured I'd put an...

Streaming  while I work on cover art tonight (starting now - 9:30pm CST Saturday) at my Twitch channel

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This month's big update was the Volume 2 PDF, but since that's exclusive to $5+ patrons, I figured I'd squeeze in an extra open stream for all patrons before April is out.  If you're interested, come on by!  Feel free to chat or ask questions.

April 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Lackadaisy Volume 2 PDF

Hey, guys!  Here's what's up with Volume 2 - you should see it as a downloadable attachment here. (Warning - it's about 100MB, so you might not want to download it to a phone.  It should be nice and big and easy to read on a monitor, though).

This is close to going off to print.  A few things still need to be added or touched up - the cover art isn't included yet, page numbers at the bottom corners aren't added yet, and the bleed is obvious in some places (you might s...

A little bit of extra art for the last interior page of the Volume 2 book.   Volume 1 closes out with Rocky and a conflagration of his own making, so I figured I'd follow suit with a similarly themed Viktor for this book. 

Mr. Pinstripe Suit

An EDM swing cover of Mr. Pinstripe Suit (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy) by Amadhia

.  I collaborated a bit with her on the video.

Anyway, if you follow Lackadaisy, you've seen the art before, but I think the song is pretty fun and catchy, so I thought I'd share it with you here!

I'll give you guys first look at the new cover art shortly,  and  the Volume 2 PDF will be ...

Rocky as the Joker.  This was one of the sketch requests from the last livestream.  I did most of the coloring during the stream, but it was a fun little reprieve from some of the other things I've been working on, so I figured I'd polish it up a little and post it here.  Thanks to whoever made the suggestion!  I'm sorry I don't recall specifically who did...or it might have been a sort of group consensus.  There was a lot of Bat-chat to sift through. 

Some thumbnail sheets from Volume 2.  I was originally going to post these as a sort of kitten update because Maya has chewed holes in every single one of these pieces of paper, but the scanner did a remarkably good job of lighting the sheets such that the holes are barely discernible.  Oh well.  You can probably see some of the paw smudges, though.

Anyway, I thought these still might be of minor curiosity to some of you as a part of the process of making a comic. &...

Next livestream will be Thursday, April 14th, starting at 6:00pm CST at my Twitch Channel

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(I might slip in an impromptu late night stream before then as well - I'll send out a message to Patrons if I do!) 

I'll be answering questions like usual, and I'm not sure yet what I'll be working on, but I thought I might try taking some quick little  sketch requests from the ...

Wallpaper #14 - Queen of Diamonds

The downloadable ZIP here contains common desktop and device aspect ratios, as always, and a large image you can feel free to crop to your own liking.

Many thanks to my best friend, Candy Janney, for helping me get this wallpaper together while I'm working on  book layout!

Looking ahead, is there anything among my comic art, playing card art, illustrations or even sketches that  you guys would like to see as a wallpaper?  Ideally, of course, I'd like to be makin...

Lackadaisy Whirlwind/Headlong

The last two pages for Volume 2.  You can view them at their full sizes here:

Lackadaisy Whirlwind

I do hope you've enjoyed the 'book'.  I've been at it for so long, calling it complete feels a bit unreal...

March 2016 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Hey guys!  I'll be streaming again tomorrow evening - that's Friday, March 25th, starting at 6:00pm CST at my Twitch Channel

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I'll be working on some book layouts and comic art.  If you'd like to drop by and chat or just watch, you're quite welcome!

Hope to see you there! 

Layout, Layout, Layout

I've been spending a lot of time this month reformatting all of Volume 2 into book-shape.  A lot of what's on the web site will end up rearranged for print, so I thought I'd share a little bit of what I'm doing.  Above are some sample page spreads. 

I've also attached a downloadable ZIP file here that contains the layouts  for the first half of the book.  There are some obvious rough spots where I'll be going back to rejigger/repaint come large panels, place...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Streaming tonight on my

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I'll be up late working on layouts and comic panels tonight, so thought  I might as well stream and chat a little while I do.  Come on by if you happen to feel like it!

Reward art I had started in last month's livestream.  I hadn't picked a plane at that time, but someone in the chat suggested the Red Baron's Fokker Dreidecker, so I thought, why not?  That'd be fun to paint.

I don't recall who made the suggestion, but thank you!

The last comic update for Volume 2 is underway, and I'm doing a ton of layout work to reformat all of the pages on the web into book shape right now.  It's...quite a project.  If anyone is interest...

Some recent reward art that I probably had a little too much fun with.