The Meed's chant here is taken from a Mansi fairytale, because God damn, does it sound like "this is the water and this is the well", oooohhhh. I have no talent for words, but at least I have good sources!
And what do we have here?
It's the upper half for Slavic Nihilism #3 cover by my beautiful dude ANTON BOOGAI!
2019-09-09 18:17:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey!Look, it's David from one of my favorite movies of the last decade, The Guest!
I'm usually very not-so-sure about drawing real people - anything close to portraits, really - but this time, out of huge list of different options my dear patron gave me for this piece I still felt an urge to try and capture David's incredible Bugs Bunny energy.
Check out some of my initial sketch...
2019-09-01 10:47:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Two of my favorite boys are here!
Thanks to my Patrons for asking me to draw multiple 100 Bullets characters ^____^ Another one is coming soon!
Aaaaaaand we're back! With more translation frustration.
Sometimes... Well, say, you're writing a comic for an anthology called SLAVIC Nihilism. And you're trying to put as much SLAVIC stuff in it as possible! It's your mission, right? So, in your Russian script, you write in something goofy, like "надёжа-государь" - an expression very viral in Russian language (in many ways thanks to 2019-08-28 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I was so, so so right to find some time for Alita this summer! First run is just marvellous, and I will wear on my sleeve the influence of it on my current robot-body-horror stage of work.
2019-08-27 16:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everybody! Trying to get some Slavic Nihilism content back to your feed ASAP!
The current plan is:
1) Getting back to publishing regular strips next week
2) Opening preorders for print copies of #3 in about 3 weeks
3) Having this monster done and printed before the end of September because we're going to have my favorite comics festival here in Saint Petersburg and I'll just die if the book doesn't make it in time for it.
Fingers crossed for everything wor...
2019-08-15 07:41:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I just love this little page right here! Look at it!
Also: a small cameo of the best designed hand tool/weapon from the last 20 years of videogames. This weird swirl is half of 2017's Prey charm!
Mooore patron commissions! Super exciting about everything we have here <3
Sadly, this time I don't have any videos or process shots (just "before" and "after" for mister Konstantine). Constrained and awkward conditions of shooting a process video has been causing me way too much anxiety lately.
But anyway, look at this fucking bike! Akira is truly the only possible reason for me to draw such a boring thing - and try to do it entertainingly!
2019-08-03 18:03:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
I've just finished another issue of my current book (only one issue left to go, babeeeeh!) and I am very happy with the result. Next I need to finish some Patreon commissions (FINALLY) - and, most importantly, I'm gonna try to get my Slavic Nihilism mojo back. Feel incredibly shitty about another unsolicited hiatus -____-
Also, here's a veeeeery chill lynx!
A very short Monster Hunter-ish comic I did with Grant McLaughlin.
2019-07-24 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A few days ago I was talking with my buddy Gleb Melnikov (who not only colors his own stuff very often, but also E N J O Y S doing it) about coloring our own comics. Of course, Gleb works for Boom! with Roman Titov now, but never in my life have I met another comic artist so enthusiastic about coloring his own pages and willing to do so :...
2019-07-22 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This book is - hopefully - very close not only to its completion, but to official announcement, too. I'm doing Stalinism on issues 4 and 5 (out of 5) while the other guys are killing it on colors and covers. I desperately want to talk about this book, and at least I can do it for a little while here!
As I'm sure I've already mentioned here before, during my 7 Deadly Sins run I began inking some pages on sheets of A4 paper instead of A3. It was ...
2019-07-20 10:52:47 +0000 UTC View Post
That's it! That's the whole post. I'm just too proud of this page to not show it off immediately, haha :D
2019-07-12 14:15:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a non-Patreon commission from a while back! This person was kind enough to sponsor me drawing one of my favorite movie characters, Female Prisoner Scorpion (specifically, her version from the third film, Beast Stable).
I don't have a video, but here are few process shots:
2019-07-09 16:47:08 +0000 UTC
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Hell, boy, did I have a ton of pleasure from working on this piece! Thanks to my Patrons for being the best clients possible ^___^
And here's the original page I was stealing from:
In other news:
1. Souls Love #2 will be printed in a week or two!
2. My new print guys now have GOLDEN paint for their shiny risograph, so I'm seriously considering printing the next F*R*I*E*N*D*S (working title :D) micro-zine in black and gold. Getting excited just thinking about it!
3. Stuck with Slavic Nihilism ...
2019-06-25 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Yay, we're moving with our commissions list, finally! The heat in Saint Petersburg has been unbearable recently, and on top of that, my lightbox produces a lot of fucking heat by itself, so I've avoided drawing commissions (for which I also wanted to capture some process videos) for far too long. Sorry everybody!
Anyway, here's Boomer from Michel Fiffe's COPRA. I love this series so much and I really hope I'm the first to make the stupid Monste...
2019-06-24 17:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I really wanted to talk about a page of this comic as a whole at some point, so here we go!
First things first - I gotta admit ( and I've probably already did before!) - first chapter of this story was basically improvised and figured out as it went, webcomic-style. I was just drawing tons of panel sketches on special little cards and then using some of the cards to construct the story flow, moving cards around, grouping them into 3 panels strips and then 3 strips pages. The di...
2019-06-07 20:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Without further ado, here's the new SoulsLove zine for my beloved Seqientialists and other higher-ups!
Please enjoy it (and consider getting the future print copy through my store or PrintLover tier ;))
Having tons of fun here, trying to put myself into the right mood to draw some real-ass nature. Really want to channel some Toppi and make it a tad more exciting and fun than my usual "ROCKS AND STONES EEEEVERYWHERE" stuff.
P.S. Aaaand the sneakiest of all the peeks - our coming attraction!
I jus...
2019-06-05 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm about to release the second FromSoftware zine digitally and open preorders for physical copies in my store (which will hopefully fund the print ASAP), and you could check out some pages from it right now! Got a character from each of the games below, except for Demon's Souls - I've never played it and don't want to pretend that I did.
And hey, if you're $5+ patron - brace yourself for the full pdf coming your way in about a week ;)
Al...
2019-06-02 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't believe this "Jason Wordie" guy. How can he make this stuff SO good?!
2019-05-31 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
THE MERGING IS OVER (and this month is almost over, too!) - I'm finally done with editing my 2-4 years old pages from the first issue of this future book. Now I only need to finish issues #4 and #5 ASAP and AGAP (as good...) and hold my fingers crossed for success of the book. We're putting so much stuff into it, hnghhhh!
2019-05-29 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
OOOFFF--
Finally, delivering something new to our comics library! Brian Funk Kickstarted this first issue back in 2015. The series is sadly on an indefinite hiatus now, with me not being able to continue drawing it and the next possible artist (who was actually our brilliant boy Vlad Legostaev) having his own scheduling issue. Also, last year we had our par...
2019-05-21 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Damn, I just can't stop being sick, exhausted with travel, depressingly obsessed with starting shit on Twitter or worried about my wife Katia's decent Birthday activities and rest! Everything is such a clustefuck here and now, but at least I finally have spare money to deal with some health issues. Maybe mental health comes next, haha!
Anyway, yes, back to our Nihilism...
2019-05-20 09:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The 7 Deadly Sins, Issue 6, pages 26, 27 and 28.
God, it's been 14 months already, and this sequence still makes me tremble. I think it was the very last batch of pages from the final issue, and I managed to finish them in time for my self-imposed deadline. That day I inked around 5 pages total - 3 in just one sitting for this video - and then with the speed of wind ran to a nearby bar. This labour (and the bigger streak of pencilling and inking from...
2019-05-07 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy end of the month, ya'll!
Don't laugh!
This is an actual drawing of a hare from an old Russian manuscript!
Finishing my old sketchbook with more coffee break drawings - and this time it's a series of good RPG games companions! (Yep, I'm working on this at the same time with Souls Love vol.2)
Many good characters in this series. Like, for example, this bucket guy from Final Fantasy IX:
Or my favorite religious fanatic and terrorist from Pillars of ...
2019-04-29 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost done with the edits.
Almost!
Doing this stuff is almost like fixing an old puzzle you already tried to solve once. Like, I AM that puzzle, and at least with the second attempt I can start making sense. This might sound rough - and I actually know ...
2019-04-24 13:14:03 +0000 UTC View Post
NOW WE'RE TALKING!
I mean literally.
Finally some actual dialogue lines!
(Not too many lines yet, haha!)
I wonder if in the future you'll be able to distinguish panels traditionally drawn in my notebook from some others that I inked digitally. With a more systematic approach to script and layouts, I gotta wreck chaos is some way!
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