shallowskin Strip #4
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And So, the shallowskin Website is Live!
There's almost nothing on it yet, but it exists now!
Hopefully there will be a comic up on Monday! Because if not, something unexpected has gone horrifically wrong.
why was formatting this so much more confusing than the first time I did this process like seven years ago
2021-06-12 04:30:37 +0000 UTC View Postshallowskin Strip #3
Edit: Alright, now in color, thanks for your patience.
2021-06-12 03:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
shallowskin - Strip #1
"This comic will be B/W"
So, uh, that was a fucking lie
2021-06-07 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Tweaking the Schedule - M/W/F
So I logged in today going "oh boy, time to post Tuesday's WIPtide update" before checking my calendar and realizing that today is NOT Tuesday and that I did not post a sketch on Monday, and it got me thinking: you know what, while I've still got the benefit of being in pre-launch to work with, it might be a good idea to START with a M/W/F schedule and then work UP to full weekdays once I've got a rhythm established.
So, The Shallows tier is still starting updates on 6/7 and the public ...
2021-05-26 13:32:20 +0000 UTC View Post
shallowskin Strip #9 - Sketch
Sorry this didn't go up yesterday, I got my second vaccine dose and all I want to do is sleep lmao
2021-05-21 18:37:41 +0000 UTC View Post
shallowskin Strip #4 - Sketch
Browne will very occasionally cast faerie magic using simplified Scots Gaelic, which certainly has the potential to translate extremely poorly but is also probably the only way I can motivate myself to actually learn the language lol
"Air falbh, luaithre!" translates to "away, ashes!"
2021-05-13 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Postshallowskin Strip #3 - Sketch
You can kind of tell this was technically the "real" first strip scripted (it's a big establishing shot that introduces both characters), but I ended up liking the fire gag as a cold open more.
2021-05-12 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Postshallowskin Strip #2 - Sketch
I went back and forth several times on how much of Browne's Scottish accent I wanted to write out in text before I settled on keeping just the "cannae"s and "dinnae"s to inform that it's there without being exhausting for everyone. Walt Kelly, I am not.
2021-05-11 07:15:30 +0000 UTC View Postshallowskin Strip #1 - Sketch
If you're reading this, then you're a WIPtide patron, so wow, that really means a lot, especially this early on (assuming you're seeing this as it goes up and not going back through the archive). The formatting is still placeholder and liable to change, so if the "slightly too-right-skewing subtitle text" is bothering you as much as it is me right now, don't worry, that'll get fixed for the final.
Additional notes: I felt it was important to drop a hard swear right in strip one just to ...
2021-05-10 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostNew shallowskin Tiers are Now Live
Hello everyone! I've been doing a lot of work trying to get the shallowskin website ready for next month's formal launch on June 11th, but more importantly, the Patreon monthly tiers are now available to select.
They currently come in two flavors, a basic $2 early access tier called The Shallows, which gets you each finished strip a week before it goes up for the public, and a special $10 tier called WIPtide, that gets you dialogue-complete ske...
2021-05-05 18:30:20 +0000 UTC View Post"shallowskin" Series Annoucement; Relaunching This Patreon Next Month
I will be formally launching a new webcomic in June, called shallowskin, and as Poppy is no longer updating, starting in May, this patreon will be rebranded to reflect my new series. I will be unlocking all Poppy posts and keeping them up as a public archive.
shallowskin will be a 4-panel B/W strip that will be updating every weekday, centering around the duo of Merril (the selkie) and Browne (the brownie). Compared to Poppy, it will be...
2021-04-02 16:51:32 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate on the Indefinite Hiatus
I'm no longer in a healthy state of mind to work on Poppy, and pretty obviously haven't been for the past few years, so I'm closing the book for the foreseeable future. I was really expecting to at least be able to finish my last batch of owed pages, even if only to spite people who told me I couldn't, but a full year later of attempting to chip away at it, I've found that I can't even manage that. I'm sorry.
As always, anyone who wants a full refund for any of the unposted pages is ent...
2019-12-07 08:23:26 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Updates + Future plans (No, Poppy Ain't Cancelled)
Hey everyone. It's... been a while, huh? So, full disclosure, it's still going to be a little bit until new pages resume, at least in any capacity I can promise to maintain consistently. I've been pretty busy with commissions and other ventures these past couple of months, and I'm sorry I let things get so backlogged with owed pages. I still intend to get those pages up, and I still intend to make the next five pages following them free of charge as apology, but if anyone wants to just go ahe...
2019-02-07 09:42:43 +0000 UTC View PostSketch Sunday - YELL FORME
For when you absolutely have to yell at your idiot co-workers from across the entire facility.
If you're a sufficiently magical witch, the limits of one's anatomy become more like a friendly suggestion, and no one abuses this more than Lila Moon.
2018-11-26 00:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostSketch Sunday - Crodilus Panzer
The big scary crocodile rebel in a big scary mechanical life-support suit who's been mentioned here or there since early on in the series.
Who is he really? Why does he need that armor? What sort of bad blood do he and Poppy share?
Perhaps we shall find out someday.
2018-11-19 00:33:26 +0000 UTC View PostSketch Sunday: Spirit Blades
"We asked two witches of different skill levels to make a blade out of magic and these were the results"
A "spirit blade" is any magical construct that's refined and sharpened enough to cleanly cut through a target. Maintaining even basic magical constructs without the use of a soul patch is considered advanced magic by conventional witches, and achieving that level of sharpness can take years of practice.
Witches who learned beyond the Veil, however, are typically not conventional...
2018-11-04 14:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostWorldbuilding Wednesday: The Seven D*vas
The Seven D*vas were a groups of heroines who definitively brought an end to the rampage of a titanic dragon designated Genocide Beast III, an event 35 years before the present day in Poppy.
Rose Rani
Petunia's mother and ascending heiress to the Rani Armaments Company, she not only used her family's wealth and resources to bolster military might, but she also personall...
2018-09-26 22:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostSketch Sunday - Ms. Rufus
Ms. Rufus was conceived as a character way too late for me to figure out how to naturally insert her into Poppy and Kit's relationship while still fitting plot events to come and I regret it more and more each day
2018-09-17 03:44:21 +0000 UTC View Post