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"What Brushes Do You Use?" Answer Extravaganza!

I wanted to share some of the tools I use from sketch to inks to color (since it's a lot like how I approach artwork for Slasher U!) I'm working on some character artwork for a client's video game, and above, you can see each step of the character design process so you can follow along!

PROGRAM: Clip Studio Paint

Sketches

These are done with a blue-color pencil brush - I use "Perfect Pencil with Tilt": 2025-06-04 16:00:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Five Alarm Fridays: (Headless Horse)Mike Hawk

Working out how I want Mike's body type to look in the minigame! So I try to have each dateable with variation in their body types, and Mike's the kind of guy who has a basketball player/swimmer body - not a lot in the abs department, but a GREAT way for me to look at some pecs, massive fuckin' biceps and forearms with a kind of cartoony jut to them and a big ol' contrast in size and angle from the bottom of the bicep down to the elbow, and calves. Definitely calves. Mike's also got big hands...

An Outfit for Panadoll!

One of my friends is a singer who does lovely covers of tunes such as Ladyworld and Snake Eater - her onstage persona is Panadoll, a K-Pop meets cyberpunk magical girl of the future! This year, she's planning a new outfit for each night of her stage perfomance - so we all got together to design her some possible looks! This "Springtime Panadoll" look has lots of fluffy translucent organza and sparkle to accentuate her dance moves as she twirls.

Sect of the Robot Moon: Post-mortem!

Holy SHIT what a two-weeks that was! Our beautiful Robot Moon's mechanical temple had:

• 12 fully functional complete quest chains, with physical puzzles with moving parts, several of which took you all around the festival to do extra activities like build chemical compounds or decode a VHS tape,

• We fully ran out of cypher amulets (over 100 given out!) by Saturday!

• About 20 or so folks completed the complete Pilgrimage of Niavis, aka all 12 quest chai...

  2025-05-07 18:29:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Saucy Little Slasher U Doodles (Five Alarm Friday on a Wednesday!)

It's been a while since I did some studies on just how sexy I can make each dateable, right? (Plus Bonus Tate!!)

I REALLY wanna make more Fiendish Laila expressions and art in the future, and also I just love drawing Hex's butt. I mean. Who doesn't??

Vampire: the Taskerade: Conversations!

Some of you may know that I ALSO work on a game for my friend Tris over at Back That Elf Up! It's an anticapitalist corporate satire about vampires working at a startup (so right up my alley, haha).

Here, we see the conversation trees in action - and, more importantly, get to hear the sound chatter!

The sound designer Eve designed four different suites of dozens of beeps and boops, which can be remixed and randomized for four different "voice types", a la Animal Crossing. Each tim...

Slasher U: Act 2 Spring/Summer '25 Update Schedule!!

I'm SUPER PSYCHED to announce the Spring/Summer Act 2 Update Schedule, featuring Slasher U's FIRST EVER guest writers - who'll be bringing you some extra Tate and Sawyer stuff that'll blow your absolute brains out!!

UPDATE #1 - TATTOOS N' COSMETICS - APRIL 4TH

• Tanya finally flexes that tattooing license and is ready to ink up the player (and not just NPCs!)

• New outfits, garments, makeup, and more cosmetic items!

• Fuller integra...

  2025-03-11 03:45:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Sect of the Robot Moon: Trailer Video Rough Cut!

SUPER PSYCHED to present some of our vid media for Neotropolis this year!! Frog did an AMAZING job with the writing and acting, and I can't wait to welcome people to our module this year!! Just needs some color correcting, a nice shiny final polish, and fixing the sound mixing!

If you find yourself on Kepler 609-C this year partying your ass off, come visit our sacred Mechanical Temple!! There are 13 puzzles in all...

Sect of the Robot Moon: Stained Glass Stencils

As part of my Sect of the Robot Moon design work, I came up with these stencils that tell the story of the history of the cult, like the Robot Moon version of the Stations of the Cross in a church!

Each of these stencils is designed for the black areas to be cut away and colored in with blacklight paint of the artist's choice over black cloth, then stretched over a cathedral-window shap...

Slasher U: Act 2 Alpha is OUT NOW on itchio!!!

It's HAPPENING!!! Act 2 Alpha is officially out on itchio NOW!

You can read the first patch notes of the season here: https://suiteddevil.itch.io/slasher-u-act-2/devlog/887564/new-build-v70049-first-public-build-of-the-game-ahoy

I can't WAIT for you ...

Slasher U Act 2: A little fashion sneak peek!

As the drop date for Act 2 Early Access/Alpha rolls around, I wanted to give you all a tiny sneak peek into some of the individual garment pieces I'm working on!

Each layerable piece has a 2d "mesh" base in grey, drawn individually for each of the 8 body types. Then, I can go in and redesign, recolor, recut, and redecorate without having to remake every new garment from scratch (which means more variance in clothing for you guys!)

Slasher U: Act 2 Alpha/Early Access comes out Feb 14th, 2025 (in two weeks!!)

THAT'S RIGHT NEIGHBORINOS!! 🖤

🔪 https://suiteddevil.itch.io/slasher-u-act-2 🔪

🩸 Trailer Here! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkUQBUFZ_18&ab_channel=SuitedDevil 🩸

WHAT'S NEW IN ACT 2:

• Main Quest: ...

  2025-02-01 19:55:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Slasher U Act 2: Off-Campus Dorms!

One of the new maps in Act 2 is The Nuclear Arms, an off-campus dorm/housing development where a bunch of SU characters/students have their own lived-in rooms. Here's a peek at the inside of Veronika's (I'm wondering if you can figure out who the other rooms belong to just by vibes alone in this video?? haha)

Slasher U Act 2: Them Dads Pt 2!

So. I absolutely FUCKING LOVE the design I landed on for Jason. A big thing I wanted to do with Hex's dads is humanize them, in a way that I feel like Mr. McGillicutty can't really be. They might not be making good decisions, but it's possible to understand WHY. Jason here was supposed to be a visual representation of the scariest, most milquetoast, most white bread kind of villainous bully - we get to dive a little more into his backstory in Act 2 and I really hope the whole villain arc come...

Slasher U Act 2: Them Dads Part 1

Another in a long line of parents I've had to draw for Act 2 (how did so many of them get in there?!), here's one of Hex's long-awaited Dads! Pyramid Head "Phil" Jones-MacDuff is the enabler in the Jones-MacDuff relationship and never really stops his husband, Jason Krueger Jones MacDuff, from destroying Hex's life - mostly because he agrees with Jason, and doesn't wanna be seen as the bad guy. Of COURSE I had to opt for the pink Lacoste-esque polo shirt.

Concept Art: Sect of the Robot Moon!

 When I'm not making 2D stuff professionally, one of my hobbies is creating immersive environments for assorted (3D, IRL, physical) full-immersion events like Wasteland Weekend!

This is one of my concept drawings for a module (basically a 5x10 foot section of space) for one of our factions for Neotropolis 2025 (an ongoing yearly full-immersion cyberpunk festival in the Mojave). This modul...

Slasher U Act 2: All My Friends Are Dead

What do you fill a graveyard in your video game with? Why, the names of all your friends, of course! Each and every single grave here is a reference to one of my IRL friends, which, yes, is goth as fuck. >:)

I've always wanted to do a dumb little easter egg like this! Hi, everyone!

Slasher U Act 2: DAD FIGHT PART 2

Something I wanted to finish before the Act 2 alpha was a bespoke Mr. McGillicutty fight that would be both conversation and battle-based - with extra moves based on who you've recruited to help Tate on his journey (if anyone). Each extra NPC randomizes between one of two movesets (one that heals Tate and one that damages Tate's dad), then randomizes between a few lines of text they can say based on context.

Abstract, I know, but this was THEEEE way I wanted to splash off the actual "fi...

AKNF: Excelsior!

"What are you doing after Slasher U?" WELL I AM GLAD YOU ASKED. I talked about this a little in my IndieCade developer chat with the glitchSPANKR guys, and - I've been working on the beginnings of a rock n' roll/heavy metal music/rhythm RPG tentatively called ALL KILLER NO FILLER. The jist of it is, you're in a land where rock n' roll/music is banned, and you must defeat the fascistic over-the-top villain with the power of ROCKKKKKK by recruiting bandmates, doing guitar hero/clone hero style ...

Sawyer Speed Draw!

A little snack (ok, well, a BIG snack if you consider Sawyer the snack) for you today - a speed draw vid of the Sawyer Summer banner! I love making these every sale event tbh, I don't get to draw enough :'))

This week I'm headed to CA to take part in the rest of IndieCade and do some dev conversations! Did you know SuperGiant will be there?! Will they talk to me about my beautiful future wife Nemesis?? (hopefully). I'm psyched to learn some new design shit I can take back to Act 2 &...

Slasher U: Act 2: Slushee Minigame!

Based on the Bartending minigame, I'm working a Slushee serving minigame for Act 2! The big difference here is that you'll be able to walk around and actually take orders/serve the slushee. Next stop - making a visual representation of that slushee itself!

Slasher U: Act 2: Adeena!

One of the saddest things I have to do as a dev is scrap characters (and hopefully bring them out later on, if possible). Adeena is a Valkyrie who has an extremely black-and-white sense of justice, and absolutely zero sense of nuance or mortality. She was originally going to be the owner of the Secret Shoppe Where You Can Exchange One (1) thing Once (1ce) for a Great Boon, but I'm still waffling on whether to break her out for a full reveal in Act 2. (I have a LOT of main quest/character ques...

SPX: Dropping Secret Tate Lore on a Panel About Body Horror TM

Does what it says on the tin! I joined Corinne Halbert, Gigi Murakami, TInguu, and kickass mod Peter Rostovsky at SPX (Small Press Expo) to discuss body horror, get really deep into the nature and reasoning behind the drive to make it, and, yup, drop a shitton of Tate backstory, process, and lore at some point. (He was my talking point, lmfao).

It was a total honor being among some of the greatest fucking minds in indie horror comics, and I can't wait to hang out with everyone again!! &...

SHANTYTOWN! (aka Sometimes I Make Art For My Friends' Events)

slams fist on table I FUCKIN' LOVE POSTER DESIGN. My good friend Brett asked me to design and create this flier for our festival event - we're hosting a drunk-ass singalong during one of the nights of Wasteland Weekend, and I was honored to be able to draw our camp mascot (the boar skull seen here)!

Slasher U Act 2: What'll it Be, Hon?

First of all: HOLY SHIT I FORGOT TO QUEUE UP THE PATREON WHILE I WAS ON VACATION. My DEEPEST FUCKIN APOLOGIES 😭😭 I'll be queueing up the missing post for the start of next week!

Today's update features a look at the diner waitress in New Ontario! I wanted to use the classic Diner Waitress Dress, but in a shade of brick/wine instead of the usual light blue. I tried to channel my hardest chain-smoking, 50/60-something, Ma-type character here. Like, Cookie the radio operator from Dis...

An Assortment of Dominatrixes (Dominatrices??)

When I'm not making splashy saucy stuff for myself/you fine folk, I'm sometimes making splashy saucy stuff for my comics job!! These are some designs for a domme themed mascot for one of my client's books. She said to go for fun yet spicy, and hey, who's better at that than the guy who makes Hit Sexytime Video Game With A Lot of Bad Jokes Slasher U Tee Em!

Slasher U Act 2: Alternate design for Juno's mom!

I originally had this sort of biker look in mind for Juno's mom, but the floaty hippie thing matched her personality way more. Here's some designs, and the ghost effect (here it's a glitch effect, instead of the ghost blur I used eventually for the final product). Plus, it was kinda hard to tell her age here, but I AM happy with the outfit!

Slasher U Act 2: Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle A

Channeling my hardest Bill and Ted for this one! Wade works at the convenience store in New Ontario (the Circle A), and is one of Juno's oldest childhood friends. The design on his hoodie is an adjusted version of one of the airbrush designs on the side of Krieger's van from Archer (it says "SCREAMING FOR VAN-GEANCE")!

Slasher U Act 2: Jolyne, Jolyne, Jolyne Jooo-lyyyne!

I'm begging of you not to steal my man! Here's the first sneak peek at Juno's eldest sibling, Jolyne! I really wanted to channel my hardest ModCloth gurlie for her, so it's toadstools and twee (/pos) all around! Part of my ongoing attempt to capture the fleeting zeitgeist of 2000's-2010's fashion before it all disappears like tears in rain :'))

Slasher U Act 2: Dilf Island / Juno's Dad

I'm a man who keeps his promises, and when I promised more horror movie dilfs, I meant it, dammit! Here's your first look at Juno's dad, Mr. Park.

A notable difference between Juno's dad and the Park siblings is that he died a ghost, while Juno, Jenny, and Jolyne were born ghosts. I wanted to make sure that was visually clear, so Juno's dad is wearing the clothes he wore when he died (car crash in the 70's), unlike the Park siblings, who operate under the whole "you have to concentrate ...