holleringelk

[Writing] "NOLA Underbelly" Dauphine Coven #1

Margaret

"The Specialists" [warm up sketch]

Technology!

Cello presets are the most trash. They will never be good. 

My moderate meltdowns involve drawing more dumb shit until the real shit. Enjoy. 

"Extra Protein" Remastered

This heatwave is killing me if you've noticed a downturn in my activity, but pushing through! 

A simple rework of one of my favorites from 2021. It's going up on reddit this morning if you'd like to help it along. I'm linking some stuff for folks in its comments. 

New patrons, thank you so, so much for joining! Once I work out a schedule where I'm able to produce things more consistently despite the heat, you'll be enjoying all kinds of nonsense from me very soon. <...

May script (Fall Comic) "Titans"

I very rarely share the scripts with anyone before the sketches happen, so this won't be a common thing, I assure you. But I thought y'all might get a kick out of this back and forth that I may bring to life in November before we start seeing what I'm developing for October, that being "The Hunt."

Nibbly Ellie Counterpart

I've heard you all, and there will indeed be an ab themed sticker batch.

'Think I could get a ride to the Insectarium?

I gotta bone to pick with a butterfly. 

Still getting my ducks in a row, thanks for y'all's patience! I'll be back to comics in July. <3

MERCH DROP FINALLY HERE

HolleringElk.redbubble.com

I've been working around the clock to make sure everybody is happy before the end of this month, and navigating shifting platforms and comic plans, so upper tier patrons, I'm coming! Y'all will be getting a ton of these from a different vendor. Apologies for delay. 

As for everyone else, and if you are upper tier and want your hands on these now, all of these designs were carefully improved and modified for this brand new Redbubble shop. I've used t...

Okay, one more stupid thing.

Vivian the silly, clueless northerner trying to avoid the daytime heat for cardio. 

Seriously though, it is fucking bad in New Orleans right now. Pray for us. 

One of the scrapped spez hot takes had a panel of Elk's appearance from the very "beginning."

She was hopeful, ambitious, and critically naive.

Also! I'm in a little rut, which usually happens around this time of the month, so bear with me. I've been on kind of a shitpost spree as some of you have already seen. It will be back to business very soon!

"The Hunt" Character Sketches 2

Y'all, this tablet has completely changed the game.

After spending all day yesterday troubleshooting some major issues with Photoshop unrelated to the iMac and tablet, things finally started to flow nicely. I was previously only able to draw like this traditionally, and I am thrilled I finally have a device that replicates that format near perfectly. I have some stuff to polish for now, but here's more on those warm-up chatacter sketches. Now with Eli.

"The Hunt" is slated to begi...

"The Hunt" Character Sketches

I've just spent the last 15-16 hours familiarizing myself with the new tablet and it wasn't until a few hours ago it finally started to click, lol. Cast sketches of the horror comic planned for October while I figure out what my plan is for the remainder of June. 

Adobe stock used for ref, which I will be using a lot of for this comic to keep my models consistent. 

It's a new era, folks.

Previous tablet: First generation (8 years) XP-Pen Artist 22HD with a glass screen.

Upgrade: Current XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro with a tactile surface

Gonna be a hell of learning curve, y'all.

General Update

There will be a two day break before y'all will start seeing me go into overdrive. I'm finally replacing my 8-year-old first gen XP-Pen Artist 22 with a brand new XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro, an absolute BEAST of a graphic tablet. It arrives tomorrow afternoon, and after a short period of adjusting to new equipment, my plan is to absolutely eviscerate a certain someone in what should be one of my finest meta comics.

During this time before July I am also intending to finally wrap my remainin...

"The Smooch" Complete

The return of Vivian's crazy fucking hands and caterpillar eyebrows.

Also, these two definitely move up to savagely beating each other up for kicks. 

Assist me in being completely obnoxious tomorrow.

It would a real shame if this "comic" took the top spot on reddit. Goes up at 6am CST. 

I've already made a statement on my status with things there, no intention to leave, but the u/spez comic is well underway, and I'd like for it to be known I'm not on okay terms with the admins on blackout day. It'll be fun!

Also the newest Pride drawl should be unveiled to y'all in the next few hours. <3 Thanks a ton, everybody. 

"The Great Enshittification" Sketch #1

It's happening. 

"The Smooch" Lines WIP and General Update

I've just jumped onto Patreon and I am blown away by how many folks have joined in the last 24 hours. Where did you all come from? Holy crap, thanks so much for the support! It will be worth your while and dollars. 

Some may noticed recently that I'm on a hell of a campaign to broaden my presence online, and it is massively stressful. Like always, I am behind on merch, benefits, and commissions following the absolute shitshow of announcements, app shutdowns, and CEO drama happenin...

SCANDAL!

It's Pride month I have to draw sappiest, gayest shit possible. Hold, please. 

"Lush" [Complete]

I love just drawing the stuff around people's houses.

We've missed you, Viv.

In all of your uncomfortable, cantankerous, rugged glory. 

"Lush" (Sketch)

I've been trying to think of something short and sweet to release this month in case my commissions and prints eat up most of June and this is a goddamn homerun.   

I CANNOT WAIT to attempt recreating a Rothko.    

I won't make y'all sit through the process of this one because I'm juggling like 6 other things, but it'll slap.

[NSFW] Ellie Castello Post TS Pin-up

100% Patreon Exclusive   

Tasteful(?) and minimal, practically sacrilegious. I hope my 4th instar larvae are okay with the eggs and the worms getting to view this as well! These lovely folks went out of their way coming here to help push the 12 pm 300 pledges goal for a public post of this, though I'm not confident that will be met. Next time! And perhaps a much better drawing to celebrate.

Newcomers, thank y'all all so much for joining and I have many big things planned...

Expression Practice Sketches

Struggling a bit today, so some zany content for you. 

The Gift

I drew this lil thing pre-TS, I don't know why I forgot to share it with y'all, haha. More updates on the way today! 

"Voice of Reason" Warm up sketch

"Love Letter" panel prints now in progress.

I'll be taking time in June on top of remaining commissions to spruce up these four panels to match in quality to be printed and sent to Sphynx Moths and Pupae. 

1. Bywater Creole Cottage from "The Airbnb"

2. Canal Street Walgreens from "The Incident"

3. Bourbon Street Velluto Bar & Lounge from "Discreet"

4. New Orleans Skyline from "Thrill Seeker"

They will only be made available to patrons. After upper tiers have them, I'll make them available to purch...

Thank you guys so much!

New patrons, thank you so, so much for joining!!! I sincerely hope you will enjoy what we get up to here. Y'all are superstars, and long term patrons, y'all are angels for hanging on throughout "Thrill Seeker." It will not be the last HE blockbuster style comic, but I do need to take the time to handle business for my upper tier patrons, my clients, and plan out a few unusual new comics. It looks like I have quite a few messages to address as well. Y'all will hear from me soon, ❤❤❤
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