Well now, I assume at least 2/3 of existing copies of DAGGER DAGGER are out in the world already, so it'd be cool to show off the way the original pages actually look, all bundled together! As I've mentioned before, the whole comic (minus two pages of the dream sequence drawn by Doomov) was drawn on a stack of IKEA packing paper, which was actually used in packaging of my current Alex de...
2021-05-03 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
ANOTHER Zaku?!!
Yes.
Because it's the best fucking Mobile Suit Design ;)
Also, weirdly enough, my method of designating all the main grey tones before doing any significant inking work is more resembling of my digital work routine (where I usually go heavy on screentones). It makes my brain think about major shapes in a slightly different way, and I think it really helps with mak...
2021-04-30 09:30:31 +0000 UTC View Post
(with a few smaller scribbles from Slavic Nihilism)
ALMOST done with my mail runs for thisa thing, phewh!
2021-04-29 20:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post
All right, let's kick off the First Knife / Pr*t*ct*r (Potential) Sequel (no working title yet) Official Development Blog with some regular concept art "drops" (blegh, sorry, sorry). Some of those you've already seen here, some are completely new, but all are incredibly lovely, and the characters depicted are to die for ;)
We've been writing the dang thing for more than a year now - and the process is so interesting and involving that ...
2021-04-28 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Immensely satisfied with this little project - so much so that I even got brave enough to ask for a full drawing of mech in it! (I usually avoid doing proper machine designs like fire). And wait till you see some art from other collaborators from the rulebook, good lord! <3
Our next ⊃∪∩⪽ post went public for everyone 30 minutes ago! Here's the link.
Any notifications about it in your e-mail inboxes this time around, or still nah? (not about this post! THE OTHER one!)
Aw hell yes! I was so happy to draw this old geezer again in a callback to his very first scene from Protector/First Knife #1!
Also, right before starting inks on this piece I've been mulling over this great thread about rain in comics, so it ended up being a great exercise in that, too - not just an exercise in nostalgia:
2021-04-21 16:46:20 +0000 UTC
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A small and pleasant (albeit bittersweet) highlight of my 2020: I was asked to do some test designs for characters from my favorite short story by Aleksey Tolstoy ("The Family of the Vourdalak"). Even though the project went nowhere for me personally, I was extremely thrilled to return to my favorite Slavic vampire, Old Man Gorcha - who appeared as a warlock in my own short comic "Malice" from Slavic Nihilism #1:
2021-04-21 12:01:02 +0000 UTC
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(Turns out I'm actually counting number of pages, not the number of characters! And we are very close to sweet page number 32 to close the first book on ;))
Also, still trying to solve the early access debacle -_- Maybe I just need to set up separate posts notifying other patrons about ⊃∪∩⪽ entries on the same date/time those entries finally go public?
2021-04-20 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAwrigh, I'm setting up my next ⊃∪∩⪽ post to go live this week, and I need to be absolutely sure if the patreon early access option works or not T___T In my basic idea, the post should first go out only for Zine Perpetuator tier patrons, and then, 5-7 days later, is should become available not only to other patrons, but to the non-patreon public, too - with the one condition that active patrons SHOULD still get not...
2021-04-19 07:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This is like character creation screen for the game!
UPDATE - btw, did anyone get an e-mail about this Zine Perpetuator post earlier today? It was scheduled to go public 5 days after being published excursively for $15 tier, and Patreon was supposed to automatically notify patrons...
2021-04-15 15:20:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya!
As promised, the blessed cast of Zine Perpetuators is getting this post earlier; then, on Thursday, this post will go publick for everyone in the whole wide world.
If you're not a patron and seeing this post: welcome! Hop in on any tier starting from the very basic $1 to get access to the previous 24 pieces of Dune art, or jump on $15 tier to get early access to everything Dune-related AND have one random original ...
2021-04-10 10:37:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Posting the recent Sazabi Gundam, finally scanned and screentoned + all the mobile suits from before in one post! This is the shit, right? ;)
Also, I'm gonna experiment with public post for a little while, especially for the period when my twitter is blocked (fucking AGAIN >_< Congratulations to all the NFT rats who mass-reported my account, I guess). Drawings of my ...
2021-04-10 09:49:06 +0000 UTC View Post
“The Lieutenant stepped out from the line
As he lassoed his thorax with twine, thinking
I'm stronger and braver,
I'll earn the King's favor, and
One day all he has will be mine!”
2021-04-08 14:53:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Can’t really tell you much of anything new (not because of secrecy, but rather lack of any active developments); I just love sketching stuff for this comic, no matter what.
A lot of this stuff is my interpretation of little memories and vignettes from Hard to be a God movie. I really, really want my work to feel like it + Haul’s bedroom from the Moving Castle (a very modest ambition, I know!)
2021-04-05 16:36:20 +0000 UTC
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Still in Novosibirsk, drawing a ton of things. Sleeping 8-9 hours and walking 20000 steps a day. Even meeting some people here and there! Would you look at this chonky happy vaccinated fella!
Also, here’s my TCJ column about cancerous peril of Cryptoart. Writing it felt like exorcising demons both from myself and from our small art community. This March was probably the worst fucking month to be in e...
2021-04-02 06:34:16 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Adding scanned/toned version ^__^
Original post:
I’m out here stranded in Novosibirsk clearing my head and trying to heal my soul from the terrible wounds from our anti-NFT jihаd, so I can’t scan the drawing yet. But I’m sure you will still get a oick out of this post on a nice lazy Sunday! ;)
2021-03-28 03:44:45 +0000 UTC
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Aaaaand here's another video with similar portfolio - this time dedicated to First Knife/Protector.
Honorable mentions:
1. Some Simon Roy drawings to keep company to my pages :3
2. The only panel from our initial Protector pitch I have left. A collector - and a patron here ;) - bought...
2021-03-24 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the last batches! If you're waiting for your zines and you don't get your tracking code from Gumroad this week, then you most definitely should expect to get it in the beginning of next month (once I get back from our annual Novosibirsk trip). Have only about 20 orders left to ship, but sadly, I can't make it to the post office before the trip.
Anyway, so many fun characters here! <3 My favorite anime bullshit, Baby Shin Godzilla, Ostap Bender, third "best" cop from Disco Elys...
2021-03-23 19:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in 2017, I started doing my "big" comic pages on smaller sheets of paper (A4 size instead of my usual A3). I've experimented with going "smol" before in my left field works like Slavic Nihilism (mostly for the sake of mobility when working on facultative projects), but here my examination was mostly motivated by a huge package of screentones I've just bough from Japan that were simply too small for bigger paper. I was also hoping to save me some time by slacking o...
2021-03-18 08:36:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh yes! I can finally give you that sweet, sweet $3 stuff, haha!
Here are first 5 pages of "Congregation", my one-shot story for Slavic Nihilism #4. No English translation for now, but at least you could feast ye' eyes on it!
This comic is sorta my take on Kōji Shiraishi's comedic style of horror found footage; in it, I do a fake regional TV program from 90's Russia - and channel some of that good Orthodox Eschatology whil...
2021-03-15 11:22:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, art collectors! Here's a folder for you if you're interested in buying some art from me directly (mostly the works I find pointless to try and sell through ComiconArt).
FINALLY getting back to my bullshit, so I can finish my story for Slavic Nihilism #4, phew!
And right off the bat, here I'm drawing favorite architecture object of my cute little Novosibirsk childhood. The Novosibirsk TV Tower! Spent most of my life just 7 minutes of walking away from it:
Before I dive into drawing dozens of sketches for my second print run of Magnum Opossum (FINALLY! I GOT IT!), here are few more previously not seen sketches from first print run and Slavic Nihilism!
2021-03-05 17:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya! Here's something more comics-related for you $3+ patrons - a thing that is actually going to be published in print by a comic publisher!
I'm not gonna color it myself, and I'm very curious to see how it all turns out in the end. It's been a goddamn while since I did any covers -_-
(Original art of this is, once again, for sail!)
Shifting from mostly digital stuff on this project to the traditional media, mostly because I wanted to experiment with screentones conversion a little more. I'll show you the results later, but for now - feats your eyes on the untouched original!
(The original is up for sale, btw! Hit me up if you dig it and want to know more ;))
Finishing this piece, at last (and beans, I forgot to take photos in the very beginning -_-) But I'm very happy with how this thing ended up.
Jen Zee's character art in Hades (and in Pyre, and even earlier Supergiant's games) really speaks to me; we use very different techniques, and in a way, their dynamic...
2021-02-26 13:55:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Went really hard on this one, hehehe.
2021-02-26 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
