A big thank you to everyone who participated in the impromptu poll I held last week.
In light of the sudden rebrand and emphasis on having this platform turn into something more like an entertainment centre (r...
2023-10-16 08:16:33 +0000 UTC View Post
No, this isn't a spoiler for the (at the time of posting) upcoming video game, they put out press release material and everything, including 2023-10-16 06:18:21 +0000 UTC View Post
About three years ago, I scribbled out my interpretation of Fang, who was relatively obscure. There was a really cool 16-bit fan game based on Triple Trouble (the game the character first appeared in) that came out last year, and now, Fang has re-appeared in this recent (at the time of postin...
2023-10-14 10:50:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Meaning 'steadfast in devotion' (especially to a monarch).
So the latest addition to the human/non-human co-protagonists genre * this year was Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts, which (at the time of posting this) completed its 24-episode run in English, adapting the entire manga.
These two characters, Fenrir (the white wolf), and Nir (shortened from ...
2023-10-13 10:08:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Something that was said in an interesting video regarding the ever-changing nature of this platform made me think about this. So yeah... let me know. This is nothing too serious, more just sating some ...
2023-10-10 17:21:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your support here, and my apologies for the delay in dispensing the archive keys for this month. Just got a bit side-tracked given recent developments.
If you're new here, and you're wondering where most of my content is, I had a major overhaul back in February 2021, which you can read here --- back then, it was the right decision to make as it was really difficult na...
Hey, first new page since July!
I don’t know why I got so obsessed with being so obvious with that darn force field… But hey, no panic, no problems, right?
More to come; please bear with me.
Don’t forget, you can read the complete comic in all its entirety in the Poking Around Completely Collection (this was created before Patreon added the 2023-10-09 15:40:28 +0000 UTC View Post
So back in early September, on formerly-known-as-Twitter, I saw this post which I thought was kinda hot. And I drew the below as a kind of response (which the original artist acknowledged!)
So I guess you can think of this as the sequel? It started out as a formerly-known-as-Twitter draw...
2023-10-06 16:46:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Not to be confused with the mid-70s sports comedy, Bad News Bears.
The concept of this creature intrigued me, so here we are with my rendition. Admittedly leans way more heavily towards how this particular moon worked in the...
So as this platform suddenly underwent a user interface and logo/wordmark metamorphosis, so to has my address. That's the only change though. Still going to deliver the artwork and things you want to see and support.
It's going to take me a while to get used to how things will work on here...
I did what I could with the Tale of the Pokémomotarō Three.
No, really, The Tale of Momotarō is what the 2023-10-05 23:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
My apologies for being a few weeks late, but here I am, back home and ready to work again!
The holiday was... an experience, in both ways, but you're not here for that. Here's what happening this month:
Fret not, I have a lot of somethings to compensate for the latter. Anyway, ...
2023-10-05 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's my last day at home (and with access to my desktop and XP-15) so... see ya and thanks for the support 👋🏾
2023-07-27 09:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn't happy with how this one turned out, so I tried again. Yup, it's Joht again.
2023-07-27 05:38:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Seems I'm way more comfortable drawing big sharks than big dragons.
Undertow (the shark, named after a concurrent flow underneath the wake of a boat) is from one of those forgettable direct-to-home-video sequels. The walrus is Dash, the penguin is Tip -- the mandatory comic relief characters that the movies of the time ...
The date indicated shall be the final day my non-existent empire is active (I was watching Cleopatra at the time I drew this)
EDIT: Due to Patreon charging in arrears (meaning that August's payment will be paying for the content I produced in July), I've had to amend when I unpublish this Patreon. So now the final date will be 7th August 2023.
2023-07-23 15:04:04 +0000 UTC
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Just for now though as I'm away on holiday. Don't forget, you can catch up with all 161 parts (correct as of posting 15th July 2023) via the Poking Around Completely Collection or via the archives. Thank you again for your support.
2023-07-16 08:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
So recently (at the time of posting this, 11th July 2023), there was this one video I was watching whilst I working on the respective fates of SEGA (or SEGA-published-in-the-USA, correct as of 2023) intellectual properties. And that reminded me of this one obscure...
2023-07-11 17:16:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This would be Brutus from Brute Force, a 2003 sci-fi video game developed by the former Texas-based studio, Digital Anvil. It was their third and final production, but the first to be released on the original Xbox as the company was absorbed by Microsoft.
So the year is 2350, humanity has successfully spread out over the known galaxy and a predominantly human-led governmental o...
2023-07-11 05:50:16 +0000 UTC View Post
... unpublish my Patreon Creator page whilst I'm away on holiday. This means my Patreon account won't be publicly accessible for a while.
This isn't the same thing as me deleting it; I can re-launch my Patreon account when I'm back in September.
This is to prevent anyone from signing up and then later complain that I haven't given them the access keys to the archives, or updated my account; there's not much I can do online whilst I'm in Africa, you see.
And here’s the last page to be posted (though ironically, this was the very first page I completed back in April and had to be re-drawn several times as bits and pieces got added and subtracted. Typesetting was a major headache but …
Anyway, thank you so much to everybody who has supported this work – please look forward to the continuation in the Autumn. I shan’t be working on anymore pages for the time being.
But you can always catch up and read the past page...
2023-07-09 16:33:25 +0000 UTC View Post
And here’s the 2nd of the final 3 pages I’ve completed for this comic before I go away on holiday for the summer.
This part was half completed way back in the spring but I had to do all the preceding pages first. And then I had to revise this page as I finally got more comfortable with drawing the characters so they weren’t as ‘stiff’.
As always, you can read everything in full via the 2023-07-09 16:30:57 +0000 UTC View Post
And so we begin the first of the final 3 pages I’ve completed for this comic before I go away on holiday for the summer.
This part was half completed way back in the spring but was subsequently revised a fair bit. I felt there was too much of a jump between (what turned out to be) Part 158 and the more action-heavy stuff coming up.
Funnily enough, I had to alter a はじめ ‘Hajime’ (Begin!) as I learned it’s not the gyōji who starts th...
Phew, almost there. 2 of the 4 (or maybe now 5) pages I wanted to get done this month.
This page took a fair bit of re-editing and retooling from what I had originally planned but I did it; getting into Sanctuary helped massively. There are quite a few TL Notes as I couldn’t fit everything I wanted on this page. Still, thank you for reading as always. ...
2023-07-08 07:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post
... from when I received this in my inbox... well... I shall let the illustrations do the talking for me. If you can't read these, I'll save them as attachments for yo to download at full-size. Alternatively, I'll also provide a text-only document to read.
2023-07-06 11:50:09 +0000 UTC
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The fallout from March has arrived... hence Fallout Boy reference.
Patrons, please stand by; I'll resolve this tomorrow (Thursday 6th July 2023)
It’s done… it’s done… 😵😴
But yes, if I can bridge the next part with the pages I’d done back in May, that means four pages for this month. Please wish me the best of luck as these things aren’t the easiest to composite.
Thank you for supporting this and don’t forget, you can read the all 157 parts (correct at the time of posting) together in the Poking Aroun...
2023-07-05 10:15:53 +0000 UTC View Post
... and it shows.
So, the title of this one pretty much describes the premise, which makes sense as it began in 2016 as a series of self-published novels on Let's Become a Novelist (Japan's answer to 2023-07-04 06:42:54 +0000 UTC
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A bit of a last minute addendum to what I wrote on Saturday, given the sudden goings-on on the bluebird app which led to a knee-jerk reaction on my part. My bad. But yeah, please look forward to what's coming this month on here, and I'll do my best on the Discord side of things.
2023-07-03 12:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Yup, it’s Dantalion again; I drew him in April, no lie.
One of Dantalion’s quirks that I found cute is that he was really into fisticuffs and constantly had to hold himself in check so he didn’t engage too directly in a fight. The one time he did against one of this series’ protagoni...
2023-07-03 11:42:19 +0000 UTC View Post