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November 2022 Sketchbook

The usual mishmash of studies and doodles. I’m back on that “sketching on yellow ocre” bullshit Winton Kidd infected me with, it is so much nicer on my poor eyeballs.

I recently started using Clip Studio Paint on iPad again now that I have a decent keyboard for it, debating whether I’m going to switch all the way or keep using Procreate or Infinite for my scratch work. CSP is wonderful but NOT friendly to use without a keyboard imo. But sometimes you just want a sketchbook in yo...

Becoming Molly Comic BTS

Hey fam! So as promised here’s a little more about the new coming-out comic I’m doing for OJST and a few detail shots. Above is a snippet from the page about the trip that finally cracked my egg all the way, featuring the fungus person who made it all possible. (The strain, believe it or not, was Jedi Mindfuck.)

These are the initial designs for young me, whom I referred to as Ego, and the ...

Becoming Molly Comic Sneak Peek

Doing a coming out comic for OJST! This is why I’ve been so quiet, haha. I’ve been prioritizing this because I needed a project to help me process all the difficult emotion coming out brought up. I actually signed the contract BEFORE my sister outed me and threw my life into more chaos for a while, so coming back to this and wrapping it up is helping me a lot.

The comic is an abridged retelling of the dream experiences I had as a tween of a girl that lived inside of my mind, the psi...

Motoko Sticker v2 WIP

I am eyes-deep in old commissions, but every now and then I have to play with something for myself or I go bananas. So I’ve been picking away at a “version 2” of the holographic Motoko Kusanagi sticker that sold out earlier this year. This is a very rough pass I did yesterday and I’m pretty pleased with the direction.

Boogiegirl Commission WIP

I am still figuring out how to ride the line between simplicity and detail. As a student I was drawn to complexity and slick rendering, looking up to people like Senna Diaz and Calm. But as I began to pursue erotic illustration as my career, I started prioritizing speed and efficiency - at first, just to make the time after my day job, at which I also focused on speed so as to (theoretically) avoid long hours. Of course, this just meant I got handed MORE work, meaning I worked long hours by d...

Commission WIP

Modifying the Timeline

Hey, fam! A little update on my “plans going forward” discussion from earlier. 

So, I came up for air today and opened my project tracker, removed the filters, and evaluated my remaining workload for the old commissions I took.

And immediately had to regulate a boatload of anxiety because I still have *Nineteen Full-Color, Detailed Commissions to Go.*

Heck.

So, here’s the thing. If I manage to find a job, part time or otherwise, tha...

October ‘22 Check-In

Hey fam! Time to catch y’all up on the goings-on in Mollyworld - how the month went, how I’m feeling about it, and what I hope to do next.

This month, I completed the Emotional Resilience Program. Thanks again to everyone who donated or commissioned me so that I could enroll and get this treatment - I cannot put into words how profoundly my life has changed as a result. Life is far from perfect, but I feel capable of facing it, even on the worst days, and that is a big change from h...

Miracle World Covers

I got to do some more covers for Dragon Cobolt this month! I had fun designing the characters and creating color palettes for each cover, leaving room for the designer to implement the type. I especially enjoyed drawing the Lich there, the prompt for her was more or less “Polly Geist, but a zombie” lol and that made me super happy. 

October ‘22 Sketchbook

Flash Sale Results

This was such a fun exercise! I’ve found a few ways of producing drawings with flat, simple color that still feel dimensional and fleshed out. Every drawing lately has afforded me the opportunity to push my boundaries in little ways, introduce detail or dimension without overworking, and I am pleased with the results. There is a sweet spot somewhere between methodical overworking and rushed production, a smooth and steady cadence that takes its time but doesn’t linger, and I have been cha...

September 2022 Sketchbook

The usual mishmash of studies and brain dumps done in-between commission work.

Talking of commissions, I’m making steady progress on the backlog. Many of them were either commercial or asked to be kept private, so apologies for not sharing them all, but there will be more share-able ones soon!

Bookmark Babe

I’ve started formatting some illustrations to be printed and laminated as bookmarks. While I was doing that, I got the notion to try some new process tricks I learned and bang out a piece right there on the template file. This cutie was the result!

Stoner Babe

I saw this t-shirt at Spencer’s like two months ago and thought “I could do better.”

That thought just marinated in my brain until last weekend, when I felt the burning need to draw something fun for myself. So in a medicated haze I banged this out in two sittings or so. And then I got a bee in my bonnet and started fucking with animating the smoke. That’s still a WIP, mind you, but I�...