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sketchbook (april 2022)

Hello and thank you for being here, as always. Also...it's May! Please forgive me for this late post.

I've been going pretty hard on my project in development lately, but 99% of that energy went into writing instead of drawing this month. I was finally able to share a coherent outline of the first chapter with some friends, so it feels more real than ever before. But there's still an incredible amount of work to be done.

2022-05-01 10:04:52 +0000 UTC View Post

sketchbook (march 2022)

Hi again, and thank you for being here. I can't believe this year is three months in already... Here are some sketches of my characters from recently!

2022-03-08 03:32:43 +0000 UTC View Post

sketchbook (february 2022)

Hello, and thanks for joining me again. I hope you've been well. Here are some sketches from recently:

I'm fussing with this costume again! I know! I know it's fruitless at this point!! Don't shame me!!!

sketchbook (december 2021)

Hi there! Thanks for joining me again. We're already at the end of the year... Here are some sketches from this month (mostly characters from that one project of mine, as usual).

2021-12-31 09:43:53 +0000 UTC View Post

sketchbook (november 2021)

Happy Halloween...! Oh, it's November already.

Thank you for being here, as always. Here are some sketches from recently!

This one ended up on Twitter last month after I colored it.

I've been fussi...

sketchbook (october 2021) & tier reshuffling

Hi there! If you didn't see the announcement in my previous post, my schedule is changing pretty drastically due to a new job, so I won't have much time for Patreon posts for a while. After this month, sketchbook posts will be for $5 patrons only, and the $1 tier will revert to its original form of "tip jar." If you'd like to adjust or cancel your pledge in light of this, please do so before the end of the month! And, of course, thank you for your support up ...

dr concept art

Hi!

Once again, it's been a very busy month for me! Long story short, I started a new job! One I'm very excited about! But! It won't leave me much time for other projects, so... Starting next month, the $1 tier will revert to a tip jar, and sketch posts will continue to be uploaded for $5 patrons. (There will be one more $1 sketch post before I make the change.)

As for today's post... Since Deltarune Chapter 2 released...

flower language comic wip

Hi again! Thanks for being here, as always. 

The CQ retrospective series is over, as you know, and I haven't really settled on anything to replace it...! But at least until I do, I'd like to post monthly updates on whatever project I'm working on, with insights about my process and approach here and there. This post will be the first of those!

If you've been following my sketchbook posts, you're probably familiar with the fantasy project I've been chipping away at for the pas...

sketchbook (august 2021)

Hi! I've been busy with work things, so this month really got away from me. Here are some sketches, mostly character explorations for the usual project.

2021-09-01 06:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post

CQ Retrospective (Chapter 5 - Final!)

Here we are! The actual end! Let's do it!

The overlay is a bit phoned in on this page, and I feel it works against the composition, especially in that first frame. Also, I'm not sure if I meant for Obsidian's speech bubbles to be missing tails here, but it's probably okay in this case because it's eas...

sketchbook (july 2021)

Howdy! Thanks for being here, as always.

I don't have very many sketches from this month, it turns out...or at least not sketches I can show, for various reasons. Here's what I can show, mostly from my still-developing project:

2021-08-01 00:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Cucumber Quest Retrospective (Chapter 5 - Part 1)

Welcome back, and thanks for being here. This is it...the final episode! Well, not quite, but we're almost there.

Since Chapter 5 is the most recent chapter of Cucumber Quest, this retrospective might provide a more up-to-date look at my comic process... But it was still 2+ years ago, and I was suffering from extreme burnout at the time, so I wouldn't say it's my best work. It is what it is, I guess!

Let's do it!

2021-07-01 05:59:50 +0000 UTC View Post

CQ Retrospective (Interlude 4 - Part 2)

Welcome back! It's the end of Interlude 4.

I've mentioned before that for a long time, I was resistant to using pure white and black in my painting. Eventually, I got over this, and then I made up for lost time. I think this scene has a really good "morning light" feeling.

2021-06-03 03:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post

sketchbook (may 2021)

Hi! I hope you had a good May. Here are some sketches from this month.

This I posted on Twitter. It's not "finished," but I wanted to share some process shots anyway:

This was the initial sketch. The idea is there, but the anatomy was pretty rough.

2021-06-01 06:14:43 +0000 UTC View Post

sketchbook (apr 2021)

Hi again! Here are some sketches from recently.

I'm playing FF5 lately and really enjoying it.

2021-05-02 22:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post

CQ Retrospective (Interlude 4 - Part 1)

Hi again! I hope you've been well this month. This one will be a two-parter.

Interlude 4

This interlude was the first that didn't cut immediately from Cucumber to Caketown Castle, instead following Besty down the bathtub drain to an unknown location.

This was a reference t...

sketchbook (mar 2021)

I hope you've been well. Here's a roundup of some art you may have seen already, then a few new sketches from recently. 98% of the space in my brain has been occupied by the same project lately, so I think this post will be completely that.

I cut this up into sections for Twitter, but here's what the whole file looked like. (Bigger version 2021-03-30 02:51:37 +0000 UTC View Post

CQ Retrospective (Chapter 4)

Howdy! Let's get started.

Chapter 4 began mid-2016, after I'd taken a few months off to publish a completely different comic. Naturally, readjusting was a little tough, and I struggled through the first few scenes...but I think it resolved into something I can still be proud of.

This may have be...

sketchbook (feb 2021)

Hi everyone, and thanks for being here, as always. Once again, I've collected some sketches to show you. A couple of them are reposts from Twitter, but lately I've been thinking the convenience of having all of my recent sketches gathered together in one place is nice.

I recently imported my Photoshop ...

CQ Retrospective (Interlude 3)

Welcome back! Let's get into it.

I can't seem to find any preliminary sketches for Almond and Peridot's dresses here, so I think I just made them up on the spot, maybe because I was short on time. I think it would have been cute if Peridot's hair had been pinned up. Also, I wish the values on this pag...

sketchbook (dec-jan 20-21)

Happy New Year, and thanks for being here, as always. I've been sketching a lot more these days, so I thought I'd make another post like this. These are all drawings from the same project I'm thinking about lately.

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More Various Sketches

Hi again! I'm here with some sketches from the past month or so.

I forget if I named this character in the last post. This is Lia, Loic's daughter.

Lately, I've found it easier to get writing ideas down in messy comic sketches... It seems a lot more "real" when I can actually feel them...

CQ Retrospective (Chapter 3 - Part 2)

Welcome back, and thank you for waiting. 

I mentioned this in the last episode, but I didn't really have a solid foundation in my mind for how I wanted the colors in Rosemaster's lair to look, so they ended up a bit muddy.

2020-12-01 01:36:33 +0000 UTC View Post

CQ Retrospective (Chapter 3 - Part 1)

 Sorry for the wait! It's time for:

You know, I really don't care for this title page. A lot of story elements still hadn't been decided on by the time I drew it, and the composition isn't great. The big Nightmare Knight hand reaching down toward Cucumber might seem like a weird choice (because i...

Various Sketches

Hi everyone, and thanks for being here. I planned to do another CQ retrospective around now, but this month ended up being busier than I expected. I look forward to someday being able to share what I've been working on.

Since the end of the month is around the corner, I've decided to delay the retrospective a bit and post something else today. 

If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen my art of so...

CQ Retrospective (Interlude 2)

Welcome back!

Interlude 2 was significant for the first proper conversation between Parfait and the Nightmare Knight. In anticipation of that...

I made an attempt to really figure out the layout of Parfait's room, but... it didn't help much in the end. I wonder if there was a differ...

CQ Retrospective (Chapter 2 - Part 2)

 Welcome back! This one's going to be long!

The "Count Legato Arc" is one of the parts of CQ I get the most nostalgic for. I really had a ton of fun writing and drawing all of it. I'm not a true "theater person," but I have a lot of love and appreciation for the spectacle of theater, and I wanted...

CQ Retrospective (Chapter 2 - Part 1)

 As always, thank you for being here.  It is now time for:

Chapter 2

This chapter was a big turning point for CQ, and still the point at which I think the comic becomes "good," so I'm excited about this one.

I'm still pretty fond of Trebleopolis' overall palette....

CQ Retrospective (Interlude 1)

Welcome back! It's a short episode this time.

This break from the Nightmare Knight's "dark lord voice" is a little too early, I think, but I couldn't resist the joke. 

2020-06-23 13:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post

CQ Retrospective (Chapter 1 - Part 2)

Where were we? 

Oh yeah. Almond was making a bad decision.

I used to group together the middle and ring fingers into one Big Finger pretty often in my art, which led to people asking "how come this character only has four fingers?" every so often.

The shadows cast on everyone's faces m...