Der-shing Helmer

May 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

MI332 preview

Decided to work on commissions most of today so the page will be up tomorrow~ here's your preview though, everyone who's been waiting to see the oft-mentioned robot may be getting their wish soon

May Shingworks Tutorial worksheet preview~

Hi guys!

I hope you are enjoying the new tutorial. To go with it, I made a 6-page support worksheet to help you easily understand and test your knowledge of the tutorial stuff. The worksheet also comes with a .psd file with example images pre-loaded for you so you can get through the core material in a very fast and directed way :]

I've attached an example .pdf of the worksheet to this post so you can g...

May Shingworks Tutorial support worksheet and .psd file~

Hi guys~

The $10+ tier doesn't get a lot of posts specifically for them... UNTIL NOW. I've added a new reward to this tier, which is access to the full worksheet and associated .psd file which corresponds to the tutoring material for the month. Those are attached to this post! For anyone who wants to, you can now test your knowledge of the material from this month's tutorial and try out some methods on your own t...

Streaming for a bit

Streaming here: https://picarto.tv/shingworks

Going to be up for an hour or so inking this page! Gonna try to head down work it w/o music or audio, but feel free to stop by.

New tutorial is up! And some more goodies and news

Hi guys, the

gigantic new tutorial is up for all $5 Patrons

! Check it out!

This month, all $5+ Patrons will ALSO receive a test page of a new reward, which you can find a preview of here!.

One thing I really love about teaching is the assessment phase, where you can see if your students actually understood the c...

Coloring with Masks tutorial

After 200 of your votes were gathered, there was an even split between a mask coloring tutorial and a tutorial about comic page proportion! I figure coloring is probably more useful to the general artist, so I'm starting off with this topic. As I wrapped this tutorial up I realized there was room for a lot more nuance, so it will likely lead to an Advanced Mask Coloring tutorial in the future.

FURTHERMORE, you can catch a preview of the brand new support material worksheet 2016-05-26 19:50:20 +0000 UTC View Post

MI 330 Preview

Sigh, can't finish tonight as expected thanks to a massive migraine T__T Best laid plans, etc. The page will be up tomorrow morning. in the meantime you can see where I'm leaving it tonight, and I'll have it up for you soon

Also, the tutorial is going up tomorrow! Been chipping away at it after hours for the past week so that is another thing to look forward to :]

Mid-month thank you~

Just saying thanks :] And to let you know that all the support pages have been updated with the $10 Patrons from April. Also above are some of the 9-month complimentary/ gift icons and the commission icons from April and May! I am not kidding when I say that you guys are cute as hell.

By the way, Patreon is now offering a new system wherein new patrons are charged immediately, and can access their rewards right away... I have not updated my own settings yet, however. I have a ton of s...

MI Stuff- MI324 Wallpaper

Hi guys~ I got a request for wallapers of this Mare panel, so here you go~

The attached .zip file includes some classic screen sizes but let me know if you'd like any additional sizes and I can update the file. Enjoy!

MI Stuff- Alien morphology/ stereotypes (spoilery maybe)

With relative sizes

Maybe this is spoilery, if you care about what gender or age Kallakore is. Either way you're reading this so it's probably too late, haha. Don't worry, it doesn't affect the plot. To be honest it probably won't even show up in the comic at all given all my editing down, but you can read about it~

There are three sexes

• Major female: these are females who can produce other major females as well as males. Heavier bodies to accommodate the rigors of...
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Random- Sam and co

I'm up late looking through the Misc subfolder in my Comics file...

This is just a minor side thing of mine that I've never done anything with. It's a kid's story (written at a kid's level, anyhow) about 3 friends. The yellow one is Sally (I put a character named Sally into my comics whenever possible), she runs fast but sometimes brags about it too much. Big Legs is a spider who has big legs that she is self-conscious about. And Shy Sam is a very exuberant and outgoing friend, bu...

Thank you for your support!! and tutorial voting

HI GUYS

It's May. We did it, we survived the cruelest month without being mauled by animals, pat on the back for everyone. If you ordered a reward from me last month, or are in a $10+ tier I'll be emailing you later today~

FIRST. Tutorial voting: vote for topics here

This is a serious tier! I really value ...

TM Stuff- Tanks very much

They got an upgrade~

Originally I had gone with a Mark IV because... I like rhombuses... but then many years passed and I refined the plot a bit and settled on the classic Mathilda II instead. Some people noted in the map post that there seems to be some corollary in this story to "real life" places, and now there's this fairly specific vehicle (and some stuff in Chapter 3 which has probably been forgotten about but you can go find it again if you want). Anyway you like theorizing and I li...

April 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

TM Stuff- Rana deSadar

Rana is the eldest daughter of Emperor Luca deSadar and the late Phe deSadar.

The Emperor doesn't have the best relationship with his children, partially due to having bigger day-to-day priorities in his life, and partially due to not really knowing how to (or wanting) to talk to them. He often treats them like a line item to be managed rather than individuals, but with Rana this lack of intimacy is a little more pronounced; in Pasori culture, it's considered an auspicious sign for you...

TM Stuff- deJersi Map

A view of a world map of The Meek (with some handy annotation). Making this available to all Patrons because you guys have all suffered enough, lol... I'm working on a less crappy version of this, because I made this one circa 2008 and my computer at the time couldn't handle me zooming in and out so much to add in things like important roads or whatnot, so I was forced to keep it simpler than I wanted. Now it's the future though and I zoom as much as I want, so there. I'll put that up here for y...

TM Stuff- Ramkr Castle

I deeply resent that I had to draw this so up it goes, haha.

Chapter 2 of TM took place at Souther Palace (not a typo, it's named after a dude named Souther), which is located along the coast of the lower Territories. In Chapter 5 we're traveling further North to Ramkr, the area where this former fortress is located. Unlike Souther it is pretty far inland and a ways away from towns/ settlements, the reason for which you can probably suss from the picture (or wait 3 pages). The buildin...

Mid-April Madness

WOW, says Kallakore, that teal is my favorite partycolor~ 

Goodness, what's that circly thing? Well, that's the first long-term Patron bonus! If you've been a Patron at the $10+ level for 9 continuous months, you get a complimentary icon from me :] This applies to all the upcoming Patrons too... so if you're at 8 months, you'll be getting a special email in May, and so on. If you are in the 9+ month tier, you will have some instructions on how to get your icon in your monthly ema...

Art test

Remembered I was gonna post this... a little art test I did last month for a job that I ended up being unable to take, buuutttt I really wanted to, haha! It is hard to say no sometimes, especially to science edu content, which is a great love of mine. I didn't sign a NDA so I'm guessing/ hoping it's ok to share in the relative privacy of Patreon.

Art is mine, text is by the awesome Ali Wilgus

TM504 Preview

Eh, since I'm here~

This is what my basicass flats look like (minus that ho Tesca in the back who has not been flatted yet). Full page will be up tomorrow afternoon

MI Stuff- Development pt 3

Development pt 1 is here

Development pt 2 is here

This development discussion is going to center around the WORST character design process I've ever had, haha. That would be Kalla.

So, part of designing characters is to make them both insta...

MI316 Preview

What it is! and thrip has come along for the ride.

The page will be up sometime tomorrow but probably late, so I thought a preview would be nice for now.

Thank you for your support!!

IT'S APRIL

we did it team

The above image is a little recap of the art that February patrons supported in March... that's 12 pages of comics!! in addition to tutoring, commissions, sketches, page previews and the following bonus content posts:

• TM: Ch2 thumbnail pdf

• TM: 2016-04-07 17:33:09 +0000 UTC View Post

TM Ch2: original thumbs (full PDF)

Since Chapter 5 is the next chapter in the deSadar arc, thought it would be nice to put up the sketches of Ch2 here for you guys to look at.

Since it's been a while, I'd recc going through and rereading Ch2 if you want to be super up to speed with Ch5 content (or, you can look at this version, which is very similar to the final one). The only differences between this Ch2 and the one on the site is I toned do...

March 2016 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

MI Stuff- Kallakore/ What's in a name

I was amused to hear some of the translations of Kallakore in other languages

• Greek: "beautiful maiden"
  
• Swedish: "chill that runs down the spine"

I like choosing names because there's usually one really good one that mashes a lot of stuff ...

MI314 Preview

An important page... jk they are all important.

It's a funny week for me, starting Chapter 5 on The Meek. I had a very bad period, during the hiatus, where getting back to where I'd previously been re: comics seemed like an impossibility. During this time I started writing MI as a way to vent the most negative feelings of depression I was in. I've mentioned this before, but MI is mostly a story about depression, and panel 2 here is pretty good summation of how it feels, for me at leas...

MI313 Preview

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Chapter 5 Cover .psd file

The covers are always a big deal artwise, since they carry a lot of weight in setting the tone in the chapter... I spend a lot of time on them and try to push myself to do an especially good job.

Attached is a shrunk-down version of my original .psd file with all of my preliminary sketching, and all of my painting. The guideline that goes off-screen is my vanishing point, which I filled outwards from using Lazy Nezumi. Pretty much all of the colors were set from the tiny thumbnail sketch I...