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Rock Tier Sketches- September 2020

Back to normal (finally) next month, thank you so much for your patience the last couple of months! Hopefully I'll be able to announce what this comic is for soon ¬_¬, but here's a finished third of it! 

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Sketches- September 2020

Lots of studies again, I'm really having a good time with the green pen I got!

Next months might be a little different, because I want to take part in an october challenge. I'm not sure how many I'll manage, but the $1 tier will get the initial sketch, and the $3 tier will get some process images. I think I'll compile the $1 sketches into the monthly pdf, and I'll probably make a few process posts through the month for the $3 <3

(also maybe patreon is just broken- but if you...

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg18 process & high res

I forgot to save proper process images for this page! Here's what I could salvage :'). You can see how ugly it looks without the purple and blue layer ontop of the characters! It's quite tough working like this- I like to work with the colours myself rather than use overlays, but its a lot slower and a lot more restrictive! I figured so I could gradient between pink and blue I would use the fast way, rather than having two palettes like last time (it sucked ahaha)

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg18

a terrible time in drink form

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg17 process & high res

I've been really unsatisfied with the quality of the pages I've been uploading to tapas recently, so I'm trying to take more care + spend a *little* bit longer on each. Its a tough balance!


ALSO at some point next month I'll be doing some October challenge art (poscatober? Do what I wantober?) so $3+ tier will get some good process stuff :)!

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg17

What a nice guy.

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Charity Case sketch preview + info

Thanks for your patience, see you next week!
In some good news, I'm almost done with this secret project  (1 and a half pages left), so I'll be back to making stuff I can share again soon :)!

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg16 process & high res

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg16

oho, a fan?

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Sketchy character design- charity case

It's not much, but here's a character i forgot to design in the chapter break! (he's on the next page, oops)

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Red- traditional- Process & high res

As always I make a mess with watercolour and go in to fix it with colour pencils :P

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg15 process & high res

I actually had to change the colour scheme of the room here so it didn't seem like such an abrupt change back to non-music pages!

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg15

whomst??

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Rock Tier Sketches- August 2020

A surprisingly fat one, and a preview of the project I've been working so hard on! Next month should get the final pages (sadly I can only share a third)

Thanks so much for your patience, your support means the world to me <3

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August Sketches & charity case info

 I've overdone it a little with my wrist (partially due to some intensive yoga, oops), so the charity case page will likely be out early next week! The good news is I'm very ahead with the secret project I've been working so hard on, so I'll probably be able to get back to normal charity case updates at the end of september <3. Thanks for your patience this month!

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg14 process & high res

you can tell I'm getting tired of drawing crowds :P

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg14

bye moms!

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Brandi/Red kiss process (+scrapped attempt)

Sometimes sketches just aren't good enough to be polished- the hand in the second sketch was badly placed + it was throwing off the tones/shapes for me! 

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg13 process & high res

You see now why I included so much Alma in the last two pages...sorry bud, drum kits don't fit in with the big triangular composition :')

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg13

I swear this is the last page where it's just lyrics and dramatic lighting ;P there's a whole lot of good stuff to come very soon (I just finished polishing the script for this chapter and I'm Excited)

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Pickup Artist preview

So the $5 tier will get to see 1/3 of this project in the nsfw sketchbook, but here's a preview of some of the sfw stuff! I'm really excited about the palette in this one, its really out of my comfort zone, I usually gravitate towards warm colours, but I wanted to go for more of a 90's feeling. 

 I'm not really allowed to share much, so I'm having to be quite limited, sorry! 

I'm hoping to do something bigger soon so that I can share a proper artwork process. I'm qu...

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg12 process & high res

we finally made it to the chorus :P

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg12

This is one of those scenes where it *should* have impact when its read all together, but good lord its a snails pace to work through, what a bad part to be uploading once a week :')!


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Charity Case Ch6:Pg11 process & high res

I dont have the ref here but I absolutely just copy a 3D model of Almas drum, who has time to draw drums...

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg11

angst angst angst

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July sketches- 2020

All traditional this time, I hope you enjoy, I know its a bit different :P

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Rock Tier Sketches- July 2020

Next month I should have some pencils from the comic I'm working on! I'm almost to the end of the sfw section....but I can only share a 3rd so I figure I'll wait til it gets juicy.

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg10 process & high res

Love getting out that soft brush for the glow effect :3

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Charity Case Ch6:Pg10

proud parents

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Process for character artwork

The comic I'm working on is set in 90's Britain, so I've been researching a lot of grunge and britpop fashion, to try and make the characters feel distinct from current styles! You can see I've re-vamped Brandi and Red, technically they belong in the 70's and 80's, but I've shoved them along the timeline for this project.

Note for $5 tier- The story is nsfw- focused on intimacy, friendship and vulnerability between butches, as opposed to the usual butch/femme dynamic. I know a lot of yo...

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