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Chapter 5.28

And here's Rosemary, with another bright idea. :)

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Chapter 5.27

phew... so many stairs to draw in this one.

I'm hoping to catch up on my pages soon, since I have a lot of little projects I need to wrap up, and summer seems like it's going to be fairly busy for me.

Enjoy!

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Chapter 5.26

nerd fight

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Chapter 5.25

Well, it's been a very exciting few weeks for me, actually. I'll make an actual blog post about this a little later, but I've decided to take the move to be a freelance designer and illustrator.

What that means for patreon is I'll probably be spending a little more time figuring out what I can do here to create a fun space for all of you! Keep an eye out for that! I'll probably be refreshing how this patreon is organized-- but don't worry, I'm not taking anything away!

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Chapter 5.24

just a nice casual conversation about blood magic :)

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Chapter 5.23

wow forbidden magic, who could have seen that coming

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Chapter 5.22

This one is late because I had an extremely busy week! But I got vaccinated! Yay!

Anyway, go get your vaccinations when you're able!

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Chapter 5.21

Serule cares more about any random villager than Toivo.

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Chapter 5.20

The only people on this page who are acting age appropriate are Rosemary and Rocky.

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Chapter 5.19

the cake was destroyed in chapter 2

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Chapter 5.18

Say hello to Serule! Just so you know, Serule is non-binary and should be referred to with they/them pronouns. I wasn't sure it was going to be entirely obvious in the coming pages, so I thought I'd mention it here.

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Chapter 5.17

Things get tense... 

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Chapter 5.16

Howdy! Here's a comic page.

I'm hoping I can figure out how I want to color these pages soon. I'm not entirely happy with how they're going lately.

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Chapter 5.15

I was pretty bogged down with weather and personal commitments this past week, so this page ended up being late as a result. Thanks for your patience!

That said, I've been trying to do some more things to push coloring a little bit more, so hopefully it shows? Let me know! 

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Chapter 5.14

a totally normal conversation with no problems whatsoever.

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Chapter 5.13

Here's some EXPOSITION! Love that juicy, juicy exposition.

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Chapter 5.12

now we're back to the gang! rocky is here. that's all that's important.

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Chapter 5.11

and so ends Aidan's tale...

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Chapter 5.10

Derik that crafty lad! That little trickster!! How silly of him to just do that.

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Chapter 5.09

more stories about Derik! :) what a nice man.

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Mall AU

I have no idea if I've posted this before here, but I tend to keep alternate universe drawings close to home. I'm going to try post more of them!

This one is a little older, so I haven't drawn anything new for this AU, but the concept behind this one is it's a universe where Toivo works at Hot Topic as a shift lead and Aidan works at Claire's as a manager around 2006 or something. Aidan is the least charismatic guy to work at Claire's and he has to deal with moms all day, and Toivo gets...

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Orange Lightning

I’ve been enjoying my vacation for the last few days, meaning I haven’t been doing much of drawing or comic stuff. But I do have to make some thumbnails for Tapas, so I pulled this together really quick as a potential thumbnail.

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Chapter 5.08

Now we get some stories from Aidan. Seems cheerful.

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Chapter 5.07

here we can see some ~*emotions*~.

And now we're a good month ahead of the public updates! Yay! I'd love to be able to get a little farther ahead even for Patreon, just so we can have a good buffer for all y'all!

At this pace I'm going to have to start scripting and thumbnailing the next chapter now, rather than in a few months... Oops.

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Chapter 5.06

I've been trying to improve my coloring lately, so you'll probably notice some little experiments in the next pages as I try and figure out something that works for me. 

Anyway, enjoy the page!

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Behind the scenes - pencils

This is a preview of the pencils for upcoming chapter 5 page 7, and I thought what happened here was interesting!

In my process I use thumbnails to rough out my chapter, basically planning the entire chapter out ahead of time. Usually these end up being pretty close to how the layouts of the final pages look, but sometimes, like here, I decide to change it.

I realized the page itself was really heavy on headshots. The specific panel in the thumbnail (on the left) was basically a r...

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Chapter 5.05

Aidan gets angry

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Chapter 5.04

I've been trying to figure out a new pen for lettering. I think I like this pen better than some of my other ones, but it's a little thick, which makes it harder to read? So I need to adjust how I write. :/

The search continues, unless I just start lettering with an old fashioned dip pen.

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Chapter 5.03

Toivo speaks with his hands.

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Chapter 5.02

Aidan's style of healing is pulling tall men down to his height and then slapping their foreheads.

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