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♦ Misery With Attitude ♦ Keyframes WiP ♦

I've been writing like crazy, so not much art happened this week, but we finally have linework for this vid done! I've switched up one of the scenes, one with the leaves, for one of my favorite scenes in the first trilogy. It's a longer situation by the very end of the second book where Rick hits rock bottom and waltzes around the graveyard with a bottle of vodka before he starts screaming at Loretta's grave (it's just as depressing as it sounds, but it leads to him asking for help so I count...

♦ Summer Is Not for the Weak ♦

You guys I am struggling catching internet so badly it's not even funny arr, I'm currently freezing outside in the darkness because, if I move an inch away in any given direction, I will no longer have a single line of signal hahahh

I love that there is no internet here in the mountains but I also hate it for the sake of the posts :,D I'm gonna post a bunch of stuff while I'm here, though. I've focused more on writing yesterday and I've gotten a BUNCH of it done, so I'm thinking of maa...

♦ Rick References ♦ 2022 Remastered ♦

Alright SO

I'm leaving for the mountains tomorrow (I'm so happy I could scream. Y'all I wanna move to our little cabin in the woods forever, I cannot wait haha), so I've been catching up with job things to get at least a week of JUST Rick work while I'm roaming the forests of Croatia haha

I have only managed to get a bunch of writing down this week, so it isn't THAT much, but it's something. I'll definitely be animating a bunch while I'm in the mountains and I'm planning to fini...

♦ Liar ♦ Long Speedpaint ♦

Long version of the boys!! I hope you enjoy 'em! <3

the struggle I always go through whenever I draw Rick is crazy too hahahha i draw him like every day and have been for nearly 20 years but man, that guy's hard to get right lol

♦ Liar ♦ Short Speedpaint ♦

Patreon randomly shut down for us here on balkan over the noon it seems haha so I'm posting these things now <3 It was so much fun working on these two illustrations!! At first, I really didn't even intend to render them out, they were supposed to be just flat drawings, but I'm so glad I did <3

Hope everyone's having a great week so far!! I'm likely going to be off to the mountains later this week, so I'll try to maybe schedule some posts in advance since my network is super unst...

♦ Kendle's Last Hit ♦

TRIGGER WARNING - Discussion of road accidents and near-death experiences

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I usually post very little about book III events on public socials since a lot of it is... well, this. It's very depressing for one, and it's kind of a culmination of basically everything that's been happening since book I, and there has been a LOT of drama T.T

Book III starts right after Rick's road accident, which seemingly happens really out of the ...

♦ Grimport Menace Animated♦

Promised some time ago I'd post a little animated version of this, so here it is <3 Since it was supposed to be a website background, it has the whole fade in and fade out animations, but I think it works as a cool wallpaper thingie, I still like it a lot!

♦ Misery With Attitude ♦ Rough sketch WiP ♦

So I don't really know how much of this is gonna be understandable through a sketch, but let me walk you through my vision hahah I promise it makes sense (I hope)

So the idea is to kinda make this quick edit-type animation with very fast transitions that focuses on Rick living his regular home life and his secret nightlife, and how chaotic those two can get when mixed up. It's not supposed to be as serious as the other ones (tbh it exists mostly because I want to draw random book scene...

♦ A Welcome Message for Members ♦

Just in case anyone doesn't see my welcome DMs I send to everyone that joins any of the tiers, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BECOMING A PART OF OUR LITTLE GRIMPORT FAMILY!! <3 <3

Your support means the world to me and helps this project out immensely. I seriously would not be able to do this project as a part of my day job if there wasn't for you guys. It would take me so much longer to commission proper voice actors, to even think about professional book editing, or to even just spend t...

♦ Liar ♦

Here's the finished thingie!! Honestly one of my favorite illustrations I ever did of these two, I really hope you guys like them too <3 We'll have the speedpaints up when these go up next Sunday!

Sorry for a bit of a slower week, I'm basically working on a new animation and trying to get the sketches to some kind of presentable level so you can actually see what's going on haha. I've had it sketched Friday night, but man it looked legitimately atrocious and only barely served use fo...

♦ Grimport Menace ♦

Hii!! I wanted to wish a warm welcome to all our new patreon members, I'm so happy to have you guys here! <3

So, I'm a bit busy this week, catching up with work and trying to survive the atrocity that is Croatian heat (it's not even that bad lmao, I'm just a winter birdie and own no AC unit D,: ), so it'll be a few days before I start a new animation, BUT, I wanted to give you some goodies in the mean time!

This was actually the first version of the background for the Grimpor...

♦ Today Is All We Have, Dove ♦ Process Renders ♦

Process renders from the recent animation!! Thank you all SO MUCH for all of your support and for making this possible <3 I don't have a lot of dreams, let alone big dreams (I suppose I'm scared of failing far too much), but making these original book scenes has been something that pretty much shaped my entire life. Quite literally I wouldn't be an artist or this person if there wasn't for that, so I really cannot thank you all for helping me make this a reality <3

♦ Today Is All We Have, Dove ♦ Animation Breakdown ♦

Teaching is not my strong suit but hopefully you guys will at least find this entertaining HAHA

I really do want to thank you all once again for being here. I seriously cannot explain how huge this little silly animation is to me and how much it means to me that I was able to commission such a good voice actor to voice Rick. I really wouldn't be here without your help, so know that you'll all always have a little piece of baby Fosc's heart <3

♦ Today Is All We Have, Dove ♦ Stills Preview ♦

Jeesh okay, super sorry to everyone waiting for my DM responses (i'll be back with ya soon). I've been in focus mode to get this animation done for tomorrow and by some miracle I actually managed to do it HAHA

I've basically gotten all the inbetweens, colors and effects down within like 5 days for a 19 sec animation which doesn't sound like a lot, but trust my aching wrists, it very much is :,D

I absolutely love it though. I see some mistakes still, it can always be better, but I ...

♦ Sketchpages II ♦

I'm speeding through that animation bro, my hand is BURNING, so today I offer you some more sketchpages <3

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It's Rick's dad Rostya practice page mostly, but I've also added Rick bcuz I love him and every post needs to have him haha

Here you can also see Viktor (the bottom left guy)! He's not on the official Grimport site characters list since he technically doesn't appear in the books by face (yet... I'm thinking of maybe ...

♦ Today Is All We Have, Dove ♦ Keyframes ♦

Alright, the hardest part - done!! We'll be speeding through this thingie this next week hahaha

I'm gonna be working on some backgrounds for this tomorrow. Not sure if I'll post much about that as I don't really think that'll be waay too interesting, but we'll see!

♦ Frenemies ♦

Technically, this will be a patreon only post in digital form haha, but it will also be slightly modified for a small print that'll be available in the shop once it opens!

I've officially done nearly everything for the shop now, I'm just waiting for my extra ink to arrive and I need to animate the promo, so I'm not sure when we'll open yet, but we're getting close. I'm just happy I can kinda focus on art again haha

I'm nearly done with the keyframes linework for that lipsync anima...

♦ Black Rose ♦

Well, WELL, if it isn't the consequences of our actions!! - Is what I would say if Rick didn't look so absolutely miserable in that second pic T.T I seriously can't help feeling bad for him man, but he got his ass served back to him for a good reason. Also they're so young on that first drawing, it makes me sob whenever I think about it and see how much years demolished them UGH

I gave you guys one of these paragraphs before, but since I was going through a bit of a writer's block a fe...

♦ Candle Light ♦ Long Speedpaint ♦

Full speedpaint of Rick's face from the most recent work! Going back to animating tomorrow, so I'll hopefully have a full keyframed video for you guys soon!

♦ Candle Light ♦ Short Speedpaint ♦

Today I offer you the process of how I rendered Rick's face (his specifically because, like I mentioned before, I changed FJ so many times and didn't record the one that ended up in the final :,D)

I really love the softness of the light here, it's really one of those portraits I'm fairly proud of <3 It's been very relaxing to work on and I'm hoping to paint more of these dark atmospheric pieces in the future hehe

♦ Stickers update ♦

AIGHT I finally printed the little thingies and I love them so much!! This is only a really brief preview, I'm gonna do more official posts about them later on when I get all the packaging materials and start preparing the shop but man, I said there won't be many at first, but oh there is a lot 😭💗 I also didn't do close ups of these but I have SOO many little FJ and Rick stickers alongside these that I think are so adorable UGH, I cannot wait to show them all.

Anyway, I'm going t...

♦ Candle Light ♦

Early access to next week's illustration! It's one I've finished last summer, so it's been sitting around for almost a year because I wasn't exactly too happy with how FJ's face was turning out. I ended up deleting him specifically and redrawing him entirely, and I'm still not 100% satisfied, but it's still some of the best lighting work I've managed to do, so it's very dear to me <3

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Short lore drop but when FJ had his amnesia e...

♦Today Is All We Have, Dove ♦ Rough Sketch♦

New animation, sketched entirely!! Longer than other lipsyncs I've done so me's excited, and I hope you guys don't mind how incredibly hideous my sketches are :,D

Fun fact, but I've never been able to keep sketchbooks for whatever reason. I guess it has to do with my specific breed of personality errors, I just can't leave things unfinished and, thus, I just never learned how to sketch real pretty like other artist can, which I'm kinda sad about. I'm trying to get better at it though, ...

♦ Drive to Dolour - WiP ♦

“You need to get yourself to a better place…” he said, trying to calm Rick's tremors. “Not for me, not for Maggie, or for anyone else. You need to get help before this desperate need to prove that you deserve to be miserable turns you into a person you won't recognize anymore. If it hasn’t already.”

... said by FJ to Rick a few days after a particularly bad fight they've had which BroKE MY LiTTle HEart bRo

This is the part of the book I'm currently...

♦ Red Birds ♦ Long Speedpaint ♦

Long speedpaint for my Grimport Residents <3 Not a super fun fact, but this was supposed to be a simple tote bag design at first which obviously it ended up not being haha but the thought was there for a brief moment :,D

Watch me struggle with Rick's face for a million hours. Istg I've been drawing this man every day for 15+ years and I still struggle getting his face the way I want it to be more often than I should haha

I do LOVE Rick's fluffy coats. He's usually not wearing t...

♦ Red Birds ♦ Short Speedpaint ♦

Short speedpaint of one of my favorite little works <3 Their designs just speak to me on a different level when I put them together, they are soo much fun to draw!!

I'm currently working on a new animation, probably will focus on it more intensely these following few days, but I've also started a few new illustrations that focus directly on the actual book scenes. As much fun as I have drawing these more abstract character showcases, I do need to work on my atmospheres, on my color w...

♦Today Is All We Have, Dove - Shot 1 - Rough Sketch♦

Promised it yesterday but ended up redoing the whole thing, so I'm here today :,D

But Rick's voice reveal??! <3 <3 He's voiced by Doofguy as I've mentioned, I've commissioned him some months ago to do a few of these short little scenes from the books, so I'm hoping you guys are gonna like him too! I think he's just such a perfect match, he nailed the subtle accent Rick has, and aahh, I'm just super pleased with his work

Anyway, this is an extremely rough sketch. Usually I ...

♦ Big Guy and Little Dove ♦

Sorry ya'll, I'm currently in the middle of editing book 2 of the Kostrov Traces which is the book where these two fight just way too much (for valid reasons which makes it worse) so you'll have to accept my offering of them when they're actually sweet to each other T.T I love these sad old men too much man

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I talked a lot about their relationship online and the easiest term I've always found to describe them was queerplatonic partn...

♦ Kostrov Shenanigans ♦

A bunch of random drawings that were originally made to be stickers and site files but probably won't be stickers since they're a bit complicated and not very sticker-ish hahah but I still like them a lot, so I'm turning them into a little post for this Sunday instead <3

I have just finished the merch, ordered my samples, ordered the papers, etc etc, so I think everything should pretty much be set purchase-wise from my side. Gonna focus on more full illustrations next, alongside tha...

♦ More Random Designs ♦

I've been asked to post more linework WiPs, so here they are <3 ofc not colored yet and Rick doesn't have his scars, will get on that right away before some IRL job work and then the audio editing!

I really wanted to do a sticker for Rick and his crows, so that's what this is mostly for haha, plus Rick and FJ as birds because I love playing with shapes and designs