#process work

More fishes!

I would have liked to do something for terrible comic day, but a stubborn migraine put the kibosh on that, so instead have something vaguely in the spirit of it. I tend to prefer to only post clean, finished work and this is decidedly not that.

This is an unfinished comic I started back in October that I unfortunately stalled out on while it was still in the roughs/planning stage. I was a little disappointed that during the post-Araj conversation you have with Astarion, you only got to choose one question to ask before the conversation moved on, and I wanted to try and combine a few of them into a single back and forth (I also originally just wanted to set up a joke and then it grew legs and ran off in a totally different direction😭)

No idea if I'll ever end up finishing this! I'd like to, it's just a question of whether I'll actually get around to it. Only time will tell.

If anyone's interested, I've also included an alternate, scrapped version of page 9 under the cut and some Ember Lore/rambling about what I was going for with this comic that probably doesn't come across properly thanks to where it cuts off

Some of my process work for the 8-page comic I illustrated in the PIT OF EDEN Babylonian-horror anthology.

Though I always do my final inks traditionally, lately I've been going back and forth on digital vs traditional for my earlier stages, when I was working on Pit of Eden last summer I was really feeling digital for my thumbnails and pencils.

The adult characters' dialogue was also digital font while the child's text was hand-written by me—written on tracing paper and edited back in digitally later.

How the veggie sausage is made for #WebcomicDay. I have a weird process built entirely around trying to preserve my watercolor textures with severe layer limitations. (This was one of my few files that still had background flats in it!) Enjoy??

Read Fairmeadow!

I consider the finished scarf to be my best work, and I’m glad I took the time to complete so much preparatory work before beginning the final.

Thank you to my friend Rob (@faultyfabulism on Insta) for commissioning me! He requested I draw Ranni the witch from Elden Ring eating a burrito. I didn't know which version of the line art was better, so I included both. I've also included some process work.

I've never played Elden Ring, so I'm unfamiliar with both the game and its characters, so this was a little challenging for me. (Although, I know enough to know that there are probably no burritos in the game universe, lol)

Whenever I'm tasked with drawing someone else's OC, or their favorite character, I tend to want to make sure that the design is as accurate as possible. Some leeway can be taken when you draw things chibi-like (chibi-ly?), but it's important to stick to the original design.

I am currently trying to put together a collection of work to showcase when I do open up commissions. I suppose they are "open" in the sense that I'm willing to take on new work even now, but I wanted to make an actual announcement post I can refer back to.