early update for you guys! This one took longer than I hoped, mostly because there's... a lot of characters interacting here.
I took some pictures of this one as I was drawing it, so I can make a process post in a few days about how this one came to life. Would you be interested in that? Let me know!
2019-08-14 01:34:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the color version of the latest page! Enjoy!
2019-08-08 03:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the delay on this, and I haven't gotten it colored yet! I'll get that finished soon, but I wanted all of y'all with the early access tier to see this before anyone else!
I'm trying to catch up on comic stuff, but life sure likes to get in the way, doesn't it?
Anyway, enjoy this page, and I can always share more of the inks without colors if you guys want to see it!
2019-08-07 02:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew, this one's finally done!
I had to wait on getting this one finished because last week we spent the whole weekend cleaning the entire old apartment. That being said, we're officially out of the old place! There's still a lot to do, like unpacking and getting furniture, but we're finally able to just settle down in the new place at our own speed. Honestly, it's a relief.
We still don't know who the thief is, but I'd like to introduce you to Dia! She likes to break throug...
2019-07-28 23:55:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I needed to challenge myself and see if I could get an illustration made, since I’ve been feeling like I’ve been in a bit of an artistic rut lately. I’m actually pretty happy with how this turned out. I’d like to get this made into a print, hopefully with some gold leafing on it (where the light streams on top are and the chains on the bottom are). Let me know what you think!
This illustration was made in Procreate for iPad, mostly with one of the default dry brushes....
2019-07-28 17:39:54 +0000 UTC View Post
page!
who could this mysterious small figure be in the background??? WHO???
2019-07-18 03:47:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! New page! amazing!
I don't have a whole lot to say about this page other than I'm still working on moving, so updates will still be spotty. Summer's kind of in full swing, which is always busy.
Hope y'all are going good! I'll try and update a little more, so let me know in the comments what kind of content you'd like to see!
2019-07-11 23:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post
My spouse and I are still working on moving into our new place, so things are a little rough right now, but I found a little time to finish up the first page of the chapter.
Enjoy!
2019-06-20 04:29:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all! It's been a while, but since the last time I posted, I got married and went on a honeymoon! That's a lot of stuff! And now I'm going to be moving! More stuff!
Honestly? It's too much stuff. I digress.
This was a picture I made for the Webcomic Almanac, which went on sale a few weeks ago to raise money for charity! The sales are all done now, but I provided a drawing for it.
Updates will resume soonish, but they're going to be spotty for a while.
I was hoping that this month I’d be able to get a little more done than the single cover page, but getting stuff prepped for the wedding and moving has been making my life extremely busy!
I spent some time the last few weeks just doing a spread of character doodles. Sometimes it’s just nice to draw something without any expectations around it. Some of my favorite things to draw are expressions, so this spread was all about letting myself draw a variety of expressions!!
Also:...
2019-05-21 22:31:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This cover went a lot faster than I thought it would.
I'm still pretty busy with all that "life" junk, but I'll be trying to finish one or two more pages before I start uploading them for public viewing.
Technically I haven't even finished thumbnailing the chapter since it's so big, but I'll be finishing that soon enough.
Thanks for sticking through the wait! I'm excited to start up this next chapter. :)
2019-05-06 01:44:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! It’s been a long month of apartment hunting, wedding planning, and comic thumbnailing. I wanted to start up the next chapter soonish, but it might be a bit still. I thought I’d share the chapter cover pencils.
One thing I started to do for chapter covers is make them more like a full spread so the cover can extend to the front and back. (The left side would be the back of the cover!!) This illustration might not make it into its own book, because after this I may compi...
2019-05-04 21:03:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! I was thinking about stuff I could show you guys since I'm on a little break this month, and I thought I'd share some of the concept art for Robert Wagonthorpe from chapter one of Ingress!
Robert is a character that was made almost entirely during a long car ride back home, when I started thinking about what I wanted to make a comic about. He was a character pretty much meant to introduce the audience to the world, and to introduce the audience to Toivo.
Here's some of th...
2019-04-03 02:33:42 +0000 UTC View Post
When working on characters, I like to do a page headshot sketches to get a sense of how the character emotes and moves. It helps me understand how to draw them, and it gets me used to how their face moves with certain expressions.
This is Derik! I won't say too much about him, but he'll be showing up in the comic eventually. He's honestly one of my favorites to draw.
This was sketched with ballpoint pen, inked with a refillable ink pen (sorry, i don't know the brand), and th...
2019-03-24 20:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
WOO! The chapter is complete! Here's a splash page of Aidan walking wistfully away in the dappled sunlight!
With this page, that's the end of chapter 3.
On that note, I will be taking a short break between chapter 3 and chapter 4. Some of that is so I can recharge my batteries, but also so I can prep the next chapter well and so I can actually take care of some pretty big life events coming up. My goal is to start updating again in about 4 weeks, but that's not a for sure...
2019-03-20 03:38:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the delay on this page, guys! I've... been extraordinarily busy. This chapter is about wrapped up, there's just one more page for this one and then I'll be taking a bit of a break. I'll update more on that later!
In the meantime, please enjoy this old man leaving a house.
2019-03-12 04:39:22 +0000 UTC View PostYou may have seen me posting about Discord a little bit ago, so this is where I extend the offer to all of you at the $5 per month tier!
All Apprentice Wizards are given access to the private discord chat. This chat includes being able to talk about the early updates that go up before the public sees them, and currently has the freedom to talk about whatever you want.
If there's demand for it, I can also make a channel for a private q&a chat where you can just ask... wh...
Hey y'all. I know some of you probably use discord for chatting purposes, so I thought I'd invite you to come chat in the Ingress Adventuring Company Server!
That being said, I'm also going to start up a private chat for people who are $5 patrons. I'll be making a separate post for those Patrons in a little bit.
go here to join the server: https://t.co/hIyApttczR
2019-02-24 00:09:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's an early update for you guys!!
I put myself through, like... a lot of personal grief because I do all my lettering by hand. This entire page I just kept saying, "Shut up, Aidan!" He did not shut up.
2019-02-23 21:37:29 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 22nd is Toivo's birthday, so to celebrate it, I decided to share some art from before the comic launched!
I created Toivo as a character for a few years before the comic started, so there's quite a few iterations of him through the years.
Toivo's current iteration materialized in late 2015. He's had lots of different hairstyles, but the basic combination of glasses + thick eyebrows + lanky figure has always been the same. He used to have a few more scars, but I simplified...
2019-02-22 18:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, we get a scene change. All of the mugs were made by Rosemary! Good job, Rosemary.
2019-02-16 23:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m thinking of doing a process post when the next page posts for $5 patrons but please look at this panel in the meantime. I love this mug.
2019-02-12 03:54:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Early update for this page!!
enjoy old sock man angrily standing over a goop puddle.
2019-02-10 15:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Just working on the next comic page. Don’t mind me.
2019-02-06 03:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post
here he goes, old man with a bucket of water, melting that big bad wicked witch of the west.
2019-02-03 22:01:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This page took longer than I thought it would! I ended up changing the layout of it as I was drawing it, so it meant I had to add in a bunch of extra stuff to the page. Weird, huh?
Anyway, Aidan is here and he's making things better.
2019-01-31 03:29:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm a bit late on this page, but it was a pretty big one. I'll try to get the next page up soon!
2019-01-24 03:58:50 +0000 UTC View Post
