UPDATE: Adding rough pages 15-20! I think I'll have another 12 after this -- How did this become such a long comic?? 😂 This is just a short little cave interstitial on the way to Pine's little hideaway. 🌲
Might not look like a lot but I was finally able to steal time to make some thumbnails to add another 9 pages onto the story. I thought it might be fun to play with darkness and wetness a bit more and have a brief interstitial in a cave hidden behind the waterfall that lead...
2021-06-10 20:20:47 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday, everyone! I'm kinda crunching on a freelance deadline so there's not been a lot of updates so far this month, apologies for that, I hate when I don't have updates for like a whole week. I should be freed up by the end of this week and have new roughs for Pine & Ivy.
I really enjoyed this suggestion-- I've always kinda liked the art direction for Apex-- and while I don't play it it's fun to look at how someone else has played with the same influences that I have. There...
2021-06-08 17:15:12 +0000 UTC
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For your enjoyment: a sketchy Shieldbreaker or two. :)
I know her mask is kinda part of her design but I like drawing faces soooo...Happy Wednesday!
2021-06-02 18:19:03 +0000 UTC
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06/22 I'm back drawing in Photoshop again to try to figure out what I need to do differently with my drawing brush in CSP to make it match better. I can't quite articulate why it just feels different, but my drawings just turn out a different way over there I can't quite explain.
Also during my trip to the art store the other day to pick up more fountain pen ink I saw they had all these old halftone and mezzotint acetate transfer sheets, so I bought a bunch of them so I can scan them an...
2021-06-02 18:17:16 +0000 UTC
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Happy June, everyone! Thank you all for supporting my work this month! Here's the ol recap--
I think I was feeling kind lost or restless this past month, a couple of more experimental things came out if it, like this computer lab piece.
And this goofy anime style test I did as a challenge from a friend. It's fun to pick apart how other styles work, but I definitely developed a lot of resp...
2021-06-02 17:41:58 +0000 UTC
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Thank you all for your support over the past month!
Here's this month's dropbox stuffs! I think I was feeling a little stuck this month overall, but I'm glad that the bulk of Ivy & Pine is colored at this point. I have been enjoying playing with different brushes and textures though this month as well. I included the bad anime aesthetic impression that I didn't share earlier this month because it turned out like an ugly coloring book. Turns out if you're going to use monowidth...
2021-06-02 17:22:42 +0000 UTC
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Happy Thursday!! I was thinking about Princess Daisy and her center part and since I see that hairstyle coming back into fashion these days, it occurred to me that she would be very well suited to being a 70s babe and I felt compelled to sketch it out. 🌼
I'm not entirely with my output for this month. It's been a little busier than usual in my freelance work and whenever that happens I crave more time drawings nsfw things as an outlet. If you have any suggestions for fanart I might b...
2021-05-27 17:09:29 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday! Y'all will indulge my experimental smut, right? 😅
I keep having this idea come back around about how you can kinda suggest a context or narrative without having to actually show an environment by leveraging extra surface-y details. Like pretending that you drew the thing on a computer lab worksheet, haha.
I worked in a computer lab while I was in art school and the experience was most often really boring and solitary because it just didn't get used that much...
2021-05-21 20:56:43 +0000 UTC
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05/27 Happy Thursday! I have been really craving some comfort drawing time so I drew Princess Daisy and some other nonsense. My friend @EvieTears and I were talking about anime and he challenged me to try to draw something in an anime style.
I of course was kinda brought up on anime, watching pokemon, dragonball, yugioh and card captors(akura). The anime influence is still very much in my work but I think it's ...
2021-05-21 20:50:18 +0000 UTC
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06/27/21-- Happy Sunday everyone! Three more pages up! :) Enjoy!
06/23 -- Well as a testament to how this month as gone here's where I'm at, finally adding new pages with WIP color fills😩. Other commitments had me scheduling everything where I could fit it in this last week of the month, whoof. I hope it doesn't appear too different but I'm adjusting my line brush a bit so it takes less pressure to get the kinds of lines I want in hopes that it make drawing a little easier on my hand...
2021-05-17 16:12:09 +0000 UTC
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Update: Scene Change WINS! Thanks for voting everyone!
So I think I could easily get an extra 12-14 pages with these two--we'll see how it works out but I've got some ideas. So here's the part I need your help with:
Either way I think Pine is in charge and Ivy's just along for the ride but the location could change how that plays out. What say ye?
In t...
2021-05-17 16:08:15 +0000 UTC
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Just wanted to say thank you all for ordering comics! Also I wanted to say that like with all new products, I already found a mistake 😳 One of the extra sketch pages in Spicy Elixir got repeated somehow. Luckily it's not in the story itself so we can pretend that if you have one of these you now have the ultra special limited edition version that's the rarest of the rare. 😅
To that point: If any of you have issues with your orders, the comics o...
2021-05-09 21:07:34 +0000 UTC
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Well it took long enough but I think it's done! I sorely underestimated all the weird little quirks it would take. I don't think gumroad necessarily is the ideal platform for selling physical merch but it's good enough for now! I'm including some extra photos that came of the whole process.
www.gumroad.com/wintonkidd
The comics are slightly different than the pdf versions because I have to make them end up at a round number of pages but not so many that I can't staple them togethe...
2021-05-05 23:13:22 +0000 UTC
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Well gang, we made it to May. Thank you all for your support through another crazy month. I hope you like the collection this time around! My finished works went up, there are more timelapses but less sketches. I was mostly focused on the Ivy & Pine pages it seems. I hope you enjoy the PSDs-- I'm including CSP files as well if you prefer to see those, although they don't include the post processing layers I am want to use.
I hope you enjoy and thank you again for your generous suppo...
2021-05-01 05:15:59 +0000 UTC
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Happy May, everyone! Thank you so much for supporting my work this month! How about that whole spring thing going on outside, huh? Blossoms everywhere.
Gold patrons: I'll be adding the dropbox rewards post in a bit so keep an eye up for it. And grab last month's reward if you didn't already! There's a few timelapses up in this month's collection actually. I gotta find a way to host them so I can share them easier. Patreon's kinda stingy...
2021-05-01 04:46:14 +0000 UTC
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I spent a lot of yesterday on the couch recouperating from my second dose of the pfizer vaccine but today I'm feeling just about back to normal! 🙏 Bizarre how fast it moves through you. Anyways, it's been a while since I celebrated any twitter landmarks with a Velma so here's one.
I started rewatching Kill La Kill again and felt a deep desire to do something cutesy and anime like. :) I also kinda love how Velma's glasses lenses are super blue, it's a very fun cartoony character ...
2021-04-29 17:56:58 +0000 UTC
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Happy Sunday all, hope you're having a lovely weekend! 🥃 Now there's a proper duo :)
2021-04-25 23:19:30 +0000 UTC
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Anyone else been sneezing? Happy Wednesday! <3
2021-04-14 17:01:49 +0000 UTC
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tl;dr -- I made this double sided Link & Zelda print because I'm procrastinating on getting physical comics on my store because (this is the embarrassing truth) trying new things is scary and hard, thanks for your patience though. I hope you like the drawings :)
For those of you that have read me typing away about my process, you'll have seen me go on about how much of it is weird mind games. I found this to be uniquely challenging on certain projects that involve doing things I've ...
2021-04-13 23:29:18 +0000 UTC
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04/20/21 - Happy wednesday! A little Pine scribblepaint, I'm still learning CSP so I went a little overboard with the *soft* brushes :) Also a little WIP Ivy & Pine page! :)
04/15/21 - Buncha more sketches that I've been doing in CSP as I try to figure it out. It's juuuuust different enough from PS to boggle my mind sometimes, but it's fun! Some Poppys, Ivys and a little painterly sketch!
04/10/21 - Happy Saturday everyone! I've been doing a lot of Pine sketches because I have...
2021-04-10 21:27:02 +0000 UTC
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05/13/21 Thank you all for your patience in dealing with the physical comics store project. Lesson learned. That's a whole thing and I should have anticipated the time it would soak up better but it also coincided with some freelance work that has been...testing my patience 😔 It feels so good to be back to drawing this with you all. It's wonderful to have some work feel like a bit of cozy solace from the rest of the world.
I've got three more pages for y'all! sporadically ...
2021-04-07 21:49:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! I've been working on pages for Ivy & Pine but they aren't quite there yet! I'll be sharing those very soon tho.
I spent some time in the sun this weekend and have been thinking about tanlines and how I really need to buy some sunscreen ever since.
2021-04-05 23:15:24 +0000 UTC
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Hello dearest Gold patrons! Here's the download link for all this month's stuff! Thank you SO MUCH for the support, it was a treat to be able to mix it up and paint some things based on your votes for fanart characters last month <3
This link will be live until the next one goes up after the 1st of next month so you got some time to grab it and peruse :)
https://www.dro...
2021-04-02 22:53:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello there, neighbors! Thanks for sticking with me for another month! Here's the monthly report! I'll be making the dropbox post for $5 patrons shortly! <3
I've been trying to make an effort to keep track of things, journal and such, about what I'm doing day to day, so this is my equivalent for the patreon. A buncha thumbnails of all the things that came out of this month.
An optimistic look at what Pine & Ivy might look like (I'm in denial that those hot shadow edge lines...
2021-04-02 22:46:30 +0000 UTC
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Hello friends, thank you very much for supporting the development phase of Ivy & Pine. I made this test page today that's kinda leap frogging off the look of Poppy & Oak.
I want to try to limit the number of colors I use but I'm also really digging this faint core shadow line which I'm hoping won't add too much time to the process because I love the sense of luminosity it adds. What do you think?
I can't think of anything more to say so I'll leave you with this age o...
2021-03-31 23:36:35 +0000 UTC
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Complete!! Thanks for your patience on this one! I decided to inject a little bit of George Petty fanart into it. It's not nearly so angular as a Petty pinup, but I've always loved how minimal his compositions are. Hope you enjoy! <3 W.
03/24 WIP update-- I decided to use the Red sketch from last month as a way to study the way of master animate titty painters, whose skills I covet greatly. Also just to admire Jen Zee's unbelievable abilities, what a rocks...
2021-03-24 22:29:38 +0000 UTC
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03/28/21 Update! I'm up to 14 pages of roughs. I think I'll ink this batch for a bit while I finesse the rest, I might need some of your input and contributions going beyond that point. :) I can only ever go so long just scribbling roughs before I want to start seeing this with clean lines and I think I've hit that point.
I'm describing Pine's personality to myself as kinda an assertive goofball. Hopefully I can help that come across more as I clean things up.
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2021-03-22 23:51:10 +0000 UTC
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I had a bunch of disconnected sketches, was kinda frustrated with how I hadn't been able to figure out a a satisfying composition for one Korra & Asami piece last month. So I decided to see how quickly I could cobble together a couple of drawings in sequence real quick out of all the pieces. Hope you enjoy. :)
I need to remember to do more fast and loose comics like this, they're pretty fun because I get to just chill out when I know I'm not trying to make anything perfect or elegan...
2021-03-18 21:27:50 +0000 UTC
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Wow, March was a lot more than I expected. I decided I just needed to spend some more time sketching Ivy to help familiarize myself with her design and get comfortable drawing her a bunch because that seems to always be an important part of the process.
Also I did this kinda printy-looking drawing today as I just really needed a quick hit of "i completed something" after spending the past two days getting my tax info all together.
Hope you're having a pleasant Thursday, all!...
2021-03-18 17:33:09 +0000 UTC
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I was playing New Super Mario 3D World and I noticed. This is not important at all, but I felt compelled to draw it, I hope you can understand.
<3 Winton
2021-03-09 06:03:11 +0000 UTC
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