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Mother: First Page Redraws

I am the first to admit that I have a bad habit of redrawing pages. In Rabbit Hole alone, my "redrawn"-folder has 30 pages.. oops (though some of them are minor changes). 

While I agree that redraws are usually the deathbell for a webcomic, that really isn't the case for me. I am always confident that the redraws I do, make me more invested in the comic. Not less! That is the case here too. I felt really unsatisfied with the pages I'd made, and didn't feel any drive to work on them...

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Rabbit Hole - 191

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Mother: New Style Concepts

In my general update I mentioned the new style for Mother. Here are the concepts I created while looking for the style I wanted to use! 

I use these as a guide when creating the comic. Overall I really enjoy this style, and its way way WAY more streamlined than the previous style I used. That style had like 6 different brushes and complicated textures added to the characters... what was I thinking! 

Now its just one brush for the characters, one brush for the background....

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2023 General Update

We are six months into the year but hey..

Wanted to write a little update about how my comics are doing! How I'm doing. All that stuff!

THE ME STUFF

2023 has been rough for me! I wanted it to be the year of comics and drawing for me, but that didn't end up happening in the first half. I'm only now getting properly into it again!

It was a combination of a lot of things, struggling to balance making comics & my job. Health stuff. And the big one, cru...

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Rabbit Hole - 190

The place!! 

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Pop Culture Meme

I showed you the preview, here's the end result! 

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Animation Meme Preview!

SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT!

I've been on an video making rampage, hah! Suddenly it's all I want to do. It's really grabbed my focus, so I wanted to share a little sneak peek for my next video.

The character in the video is owned by my dear friend Noro 

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Rabbit Hole - 189

Oh we know this place! 

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Rabbit Hole 187-188

Couple more pages left! The final page count is 193. 

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Rabbit Hole - 186

OooOO what could it be?

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Rabbit Hole - 185

Oooo so close to the end of the comic

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Rabbit Hole - 184

Happy bunnies! 

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Rabbit Hole - 183

GASP.

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Rabbit Hole - 182

Ten pages to go!

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Mother Sneak Peek (End of the Year Meme!)

Blank: https://www.deviantart.com/songdogx/art/End-Of-Year-Comic-Meme-865089449

(I asked SD for permission to post their meme format on Patreon!)

I wanted to use this lovely meme as a little sneak peek of my next comic, Mother! I have the first 9 pages done, so I showed panels & events quite freely because they aren't big spoilers.

I can't wait to share this ...

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Rabbit Hole - 181

Happy holidays, everyone! 

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Rabbit Hole - 180

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Rabbit Hole - 179

Oh brother.

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Rabbit Hole 177-178

Where did the month go again!! I would've uploaded 3 pages, but page 179 still needs a bit of work so I'll upload it later.

Here we go, finally getting some insight about brother's motivations. 

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Rabbit Hole - 176-177

Sorry I wasn't able to upload last month! These are that months share, I'll upload two more this month. 

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Rabbit Hole - 175

I wasn't happy with how many pages I uploaded this month, so here's a second upload for today! 

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Rabbit Hole - 174

Ahh can't believe the comic is almost over.

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Rabbit Hole - 173

Stressed out brother getting a lil aggressive

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Rabbit Hole - 172

Brother is having a lil turmoil.

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Mother - Character studies

(might be a working comic title)

Today I decided to tackle some character studies for my next comic! I've already done couple pages of it (some of them you've seen here already!), but when I opened my files to continue the work, i just wasn't happy. The characters just look clunky and the silhouette is pretty bad (check image 2). My regular art style is pretty cartoony, so i definitely struggle with more serious and loose works.   

I have done some style tests and char...

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Rabbit Hole - 171

Here's ya page! Long time no see, brother

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Rabbit Hole - 170

Sorry it's been so long! I wanted to change the speech bubbles in the last panel to black to make it more clear  that a flashback has started, but ugh, it's been holding this page hostage so I'll just post it!!

Ofc its a very fast change but I've been sick so many times this month, and I'm extremely mentally drained because there are 500 things to get done. AHH. Don't wanna whine and complain but just wanted to let you know why it's taken so long. I'll upload a second page before ...

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Rabbit Hole - 169

:(

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Rabbit Hole old page remakes!

Dangit, I wanted to upload this yesterday but a migraine got to me.

In preparation for (hopefully!) printing Rabbit Hole, I'm remaking older pages! I know lots of people consider this wasted time, and feel that its okay for comics to reflect your growth as an artist. I completely agree! BUT I also want to look at the pages and not keep thinking "damn those ears are small, gah i don't like that dialogue".

Remaking RH pages is something I've done for the whole time I've been dra...

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Rabbit Hole 168

Well well well

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