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my college design professor tried to badmouth atla once and the whole class started yelling at him to shut up

well it’s been a fun month y’all but it’s also good seeing things slowly go back to normal. ;)

Officially launched my webcomic today! Subscribe or pledge on Patreon to get notified when I post pages and other cool extras :) I’m going to publish the rest of the prologue as fast as I can create it. 

You can also follow the comic on Facebook or DeviantArt. 

that sounds nice.

If I have to take a pic of a canvas I wait until the light is good outside and lay it on the sidewalk, then take a pic with my old SLR. Sometimes I still have to fix the image in Ps a little but mostly they're good.

Kamikaze by MBrainspaz

I meant to write a few paragraphs but this scene stopped me in my tracks. It's a story I've been writing for 11 years and will most likely never publish, so I don't feel too guilty. (Ironically the story is called 'Deadline'.) I mostly worked on this painting during lulls at work (there were a lot today) and whenever I was waiting for emails to load or some such (office internet suuuucks). I brought in a lot of the techniques I've recently learned from watching

Ahmed Aldoori

Valentina Remenar

SinixDesign

Go watch 'em, they're great.

This character isn't hugely important to the plot except as a backstory but if you're gonna give someone the face of a 50's movie star it seems silly not to show it. This moment is about .5 seconds before she dies, so that's ... fun. I used my namesake, Lauren Bacall, as a model. That woman had some amazing cheekbones.

“I know exactly who you are,” Sandra said, her shoulders heaving. She lifted her gaze. Her eyes were shining a brighter gold than August’s. Her pupils were glowing embers. “You won’t take anything else from me.”

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