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Sketch Dump!

I'm not set up to draw comics while we're travelling, so I often drag my sketchbook along and doodle the old-fashioned way.

This is pretty much everything I drew over the holidays and this past weekend, omitting one or two drawings that are particularly meh. Hope you enjoy!

We're back next week for sure with Chapter 11!

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Weekly Update - 200 - 1/8/24

Happy 200th Weekly Update everyone! I wanted to do something special for it, but... I got dragged to a furcon this weekend and didn't end up doing much of anything. I thought we'd all agreed no more travelling for the medium term, but I guess I was alone in thinking that.

It was fun though. PDFC is always a fun little con, hosted by good people with a great staff. I think I'm also finally getting past the worst of these terrible holiday illnesses I keep being afflicted with. Ho...

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God Slayers - Page 182

She seems a little upset.

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God Slayers - Page 182 - High Res

This isn't exactly where I originally intended to finish Chapter 10, but it seems as good a place as any.

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Weekly Update - 199 - 1/1/24

OMG WE WERE SO CLOSE to having Weekly update 200 land on the first day of the year!

I hope everyone had a fun new years celebration, or if you didn't celebrate, I hope you had a nice, pleasant, quiet evening instead!

Comic this week? Yes! Wrapping up Chapter 10 I think. I should probably take some time to iron out my script for this upcoming segment, it's a bit raw, I think.

Drawing: Page 182

Playing: WoW again.

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Riley in Lights

Guess I'll share a few for everyone to enjoy! I screwed up the animation so it doesn't work, but here's some stills from what it was supposed to look like!

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Whoops!!!

So... I apparently screwed up. Not only did my animation program lack some features I was hoping it had, it also simply does not do the thing that I assumed it did. Animation Paper is free software that I'm using, it's under development, and I guess right now it is purely for rough animations so it doesn't do imported drawings or any sort of finishing, AT ALL. Seems like... something I should have maybe checked before starting all this, but alas. Am foolish. I dove in head first and discovere...

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Blugh, been sick

Caught something pretty nasty over the holidays. Second time being really sick in just two months, I HAAAATE it. Screw airports.

So I know I said I was hoping to post that Riley thing today, but I spent all day yesterday on the couch killing an entire box of tissues and I don't think I'll be getting it done quite yet. It's nearly done, so soon, just not today. Thanks for your patience! <3

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How It Started / How It's Going

Like I said, because of the holidays and travel and such, no new comic today, BUT! I am working on something special for you guys.  This is a preview of that! Hoping to be done with it Friday.

It's gonna have movement! Maybe. I'm still only a dabbler in this whole animation thing. Truth told, if I actually want to ever finish it, I prooooobably can't be quite as ambitious as I was when I started on it. I was hoping the free tools that I am using included features that they...

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Weekly Update - 12/25/23

Happy holidays everyone!

Comic this week? Nope, travelling, visiting family, it's been a thing.

Also I got sick again. Hopefully it's not as bad as last time.

Looking forward to returning to the regular thing next week, with hopefully some renewed Vim and vigor.

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Weekly Update - 198 - 12/18/23

Hey it's still technically Monday! In some parts of the world.

Comic this week? Nope. I'm not going to be able to get this page done. It's not far enough along, and I don't wanna rush it. We're leaving town soon and I still gotta do a bunch stuff to get ready before we go. It's been a busy holiday, as is typical for this time of year. Will there be a comic on the 27th? Almost certainly not. We're gone all week long.

I will, however, GUARANTEE a comic for the 3rd, ...

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Quinn

Here's art I did as a thank you/Christmas present for Quinn, because simply saying I appreciate them doesn't seem like enough!

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God Slayers - Page 181

Who dis now? Oh, it's Skye, obviously.

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God Slayers - Page 181 - High Res

Does this character seem familiar? I wonder if Skye has appeared in the comic at all before now...

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Weekly Update - 197 - 12/11/23

OwO, who dis? Could it be we're finally getting our first glimpse into the secretive world of [REDACTED]? We know almost nothing about these guys after all these years, but after seeing what Kiva can do to the Citadel on a whim, I think they have very reasonable reasons to not want to be discoverable.

Guess I wasn't the only one with complaints about how they moved the Tags to the second page of writing a post. Patreon fixed it! I can number my Weekly Updates again without needing to ad...

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God Slayers - Page 180

Life flashing before his eyes?

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God Slayers - Page 180 - High Res

Die or don't, pup.

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Weekly Update - 12/4/23

Whap! Kiva is filled with determination!

Comic this week? Yep! Might be late Wednesday because today was busy but I'm certain I can get it done this week.

Drawing: Page 180-182, plus something special for Quinn!

Playing: BG3

Drinking: Delicious delicious eggnog!

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Sick Week

Suggested by BorderlineAxo, making the core four suffer through the same illness I had the other week!

Not my best work, but I have to admit I sorta lost the motivation to finish it after I was no longer sick.

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Riley Roll

Bit of a longer animation this time, and some of you have probably seen earlier versions of this one. That roll at the end though? Again, I'm proud of what I've done for having no idea what the crap I'm doing!

If I finish this one, thinking I might use it in an FA ad some day. I dunno.

Also Patreon's video upload feature seems to work great!

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Bit o' Animate

Wanted to try Patreon's video post system, and also share a couple of animations I've been dabbling with off and on. The first is just a simple walk cycle.

I want to do more animation, but animation takes a lot of time. This animation needs a lot of work, but you know what I'm proud of it coming from a novice with no prior animation knowledge, training or experience.

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Weekly Update - 11/27/23

Let's all welcome Nick Vasquez to Kuserra! Joining in this week at the Scavenger tier, thank you so much!

Comic this week? No. See the Ramble (lol wut?!) for more info!

Drawing: Same as last week!

Playing: Baldur's Gate 3

Volume #1: Fenris sounds like it's still swamped with these pesky end-of-year holidays.


Ramble:

Been awhile since I rambled last, which is prob...

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God Slayers - Page 179

Eyyy, he blocked it this time!

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God Slayers - Page 179

Whew! Got it done in time. Now we can all enjoy shirtless Kiva in full color and high res. :P

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Weekly Update - 11/20/23

It's about time for Kiva to get serious! When was the last time he took his shirt off? Like, seriously? Chapter 3/4?

Comic This Week? Part of the reason I'm posting so late today. I wanted to make sure I could say "yes" before I did so. Today was rather productive, thankfully, and if tomorrow is the same, I should be able to finish it by Wednesday.

Drawing: Page 179, and Borderline Axo's suggestion (sorry, I've been struggling with it)

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God Slayers - Page 178

No.

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God Slayers - Page 178 - High Res

"Our love has had to endure your constant hatred, and now this?"

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Weekly Update - 11-13-23

I know I've been pretty radio-silent lately. I did end up getting sick, as I thought I would, and it's been a nasty one, as I was hoping it would not be. Was pretty much bedridden all day Friday, couldn't even muster the energy to check my phone, and then Saturday and Sunday was just a whole lot of moping around being gross (and playing Cobalt Core.)

I continue to be gross as of today, but I'm alive! And improving. Slowly. Slowly requiring less and less medicine to be functional. I imag...

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Weekly Update - 11-6-23

Hard to believe it's already almost 2024... By now, we're supposed to already have our first astral gate connecting the Earth to Mars, the first Replicant was supposed to have already been born, and Johnny Silverhand was supposed to have already planted a bomb in Arasaka Tower. We don't even have an Arasaka Tower yet. This is a pretty lame AF future, you ask me.

Comic this week? Not this week. My husband was travelling for work last week and he ended up catching an illn...

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God Slayers - Page 177

Remember me?

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