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Salary Cat Sketches - February

Here's the sketches for February! If you'd like a sketch, you just have to pledge $5 or more a month. Once your pledge is processed for that month, send me a message with what you'd like to see for your sketch. Sketches won't stack up, so make sure you get your request in for that month. 

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February Update

Hey folks, just letting you all know I had a bit of a family crisis last week, and today I'm wrestling with a stomach flu. I'll have patron sketches ready asap, and more Blur Witch pages very soon. Thanks for sticking with me.

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Pencils - Page 24

Hey folks! So Ill be working on pencils for probably most of February. The thing is, pencilled pages don't photograph very well. I want to have you all along for the making of Blur Witch. Let me know if these pages are still worth uploading, and if they aren't I'll figure out something different to show yall. Thanks so much!

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Blur Witch Page 23

Page 23! Gotta start pencilling the other half. Just wanted to thank yall for supporting me through this thing! It's my most ambitious comic yet, and I'm so happy to be finally finishing it.

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Blur Witch Page 22

Ghost!!! First ghost sighting, and a reveal of Reagan's Degaussing baton! Degaussing wands look kinda plain in real life, but they're so cool! They emit electromagnetic waves to fix computer monitors. I used to love using the degaussing function on school computer monitors. Such a loud sound, and you'd effect monitors close to you too!

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Blur Witch Page 21

I got a cold! Sorry I missed a page yesterday. Just finished this one right before my bed time. Next page is actiony! I'm excited to show yall!

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Blur Witch Page 20

Panel 1 is a doozey. All the panels are doozeys but 1 especially! I didnt like the way I was drawing trees so I went back to the early pages, where trees were thicker and had a shaded edge. Some trees are too dang thin lately!

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Blur Witch Page 19 (wip)

Page 19, mostly. I might not have the energy to finish it after work tonight, but I wanted to show yall something at least. I rececently bought a white Posca paint pen. Its such a good pen, and its a blast to use! Its how I drew the white on black fencing, and its handy for little mistakes. I highly reccomend it for other traditional artists! Apparently it can draw on fabric and stone as well, though Ive only tested paper.

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New Patron Tier

Hey yall! Hope everyone is emjoyimg Blur Witch. And for those who got a Christmas Reagan last year, I hope you enjoyed your sketch! I wanted to let you all know I'm rolling out an official sketch tier, "Salary Cat." For $5 a month I'll draw you a black and white ink sketch. I'll photograph the sketches and email thrm to you. (Or send them through Patreon. I think I can do that!) I think this'll be a fun tier, and for everyone else I hope you're enjoying the daily Blur Witch updates. Once I h...

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Blur Witch Page 18

Hope you like wire fences! Junebug isn't being terribly sensitive to the subject of her investigation. Similar to that youtuber jerk who recently went to the suicide forest in Japan. It stinks! Ghost hunting tends to glamorize tragedy and death. Not all the time, but it's a fine line.

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Blur Witch Page 17

Cars! I havent drawn a whole lotta cars before this. It's fun though! Also expirementing with the "blur" effect to replace speed lines.

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Blur Witch Page 16

I worked at a Panera Bread for almost a year. Not a lotta fun, but at least the second one I worked at didnt have a drive thru. Now PB kinda pops up in my work time to time.

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Blur Witch Page 15

Reagan is gay! And Bread Bread isn't a fun place to work.

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Blur Witch Page 14

Oh Reagan lives in my apartment btw. But reimagined as a one room studio, in Vermont.

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Blur Witch Page 13

Surreal that I'm this far in... Thanks again for all your support! By the way, Junebug has her own twitter! @JunebugSpookems. Her tweets are real time, and before the events of Blur Witch. Follow it for fictional LPs and Stream "screen caps" and eventually tie ins to the main plot of Blur Witch!

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Blur Witch Page 12

Page 12! I meant to draw a clixk sound effect on the bottom left panel. Ill fix it in post! Button pressing noises are an aesthetic cornerstone of Blur Witch.

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Blur Witch Page 11

Reagan's morning walk.

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Blur Witch Page 10

Junebug!!! Your favorite ghost hunter and youtuber e-celeb.

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Blur Witch Page 9

So the inspiration for Blur Witch was signal jamming technology. I drove into a Dunkin Donuts drive thru, and my car radio got staticy. It got me thinking about cell phone jammers in schools, and I did research on portable signal jammers, degaussing wands, and this kid who made a handheld emp device. Very cool stuff! It made me want to incorporate these gadgets into a story, so Blur Witch was born!

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Blur Witch Page 8

Meagan suggested I show how Reagan's gear works, so I made this sequence. Dont worry this is the last 1st person gear montage page!

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Blur Witch page 7

Page 7. Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia inspired me to show music with shapes instead of word balloons or music notes. I love that book, and her work!

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Blur Witch Page 6

Blur witch page, title card and we get to see Reagan's morning routine.

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Blur Witch Page 5

Page 5! Still gotta finish panel one, but I wanted to show yall before I went to work.

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Blur Witch Page 4

Number 4! I honestly didn't research smudge sticks all that much. I just think they're super cool! And like every shop in Salem sells them. Run down to dunkin donuts get a coffee and a smudge stick.

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Blur Witch page 3

Page 3. The haunted artifact is in sight!

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Blur Witch page 2

Page 2. Poor Reagan!!

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Blur Witch Page 1

I'm inking it finally! It's been a while since I've started Blur Witch, so long in fact I was afraid to ink it at all. Art can be very paralyzing! Aah. Anyhoo, Ill post pages here as I complete them. Hope yall had a happy New Year!

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Postcards for patrons!

Here's the card design! Just a reminder that Im sending one to all my patrons. If you'd like one please message me with your address and what you'd like me to draw for you. Patreon messages or twitter DMs work. Also, if you're not comfortable recieving mail I can still do a sketch for you! Just let me know. Thanks again to everyone!

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Patreon Update and Free Sketches

Hey folks! I want to say thank you so much for your supported. More than anything, it means so much to me that there are people out there who enjoy the work I put out there. Patreon recently bumped the cost to the patrons. That stinks, and I understand if you have to change or remove your pledge as a result. I want to thank you all for supporting me as long as you have, so I'd like to send you folks a thank you! I want to send all my patrons a postcard with a personalized sketch! If you would ...

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Blur witch pencils 5-7

Heres a few more pages of Blur Witch I recently finished! Thanks for sticking with me and supporting the Patreon. October was wild, but I hope yall have been enjoying the ink drawings I've been posting to @declanmccomics l...

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