A welcome palate cleanser after a week of painting nothing but comic backgrounds. I should definitely do these more often.
Wyatt is one of those "You know, you will probably never get to use this in the story, why are you even making it--- what do you mean 'fun'" moments for my brain. No ma...
2022-12-01 14:50:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I spent 6 years at the Institute for Communication Studies and Journalism. I... may have emerged slightly damaged from that experience, but it did leave me with a surprising skill of being able to create somewhat convincing fake newspaper clippings.
This whole thing started as me creating j...
2022-11-09 23:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post![[Timelapse] Smile and Dagger](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/5/wv/bh/a4542c-019e8530-0554-7f78-bef2-c6e9200f5c40.jpg)
When I was about to archive this piece, I was surprised to discover that I seem to had recorded pretty much all of its creation, despite not being allowed to stream it or share it publicly at the time.
Not that it's terribly uncommon for me; I do it for a lot of the paintings overall,...
2022-10-25 00:13:31 +0000 UTC View Post
"A gladium, then? What will you do without a warband?"
"The same thing I would do with one. Kill Flame Legion. Kill them however I can."
Si...
2022-10-24 23:41:14 +0000 UTC View Post![[Comic] From Howl to Silence](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/7/sb/dg/a4542c-019e8530-059b-7adc-a1dd-f394587fbb36.jpg)
"Scald this, we need to wait for backup! Come back, soldier! Howl! That's a bloody order!"
Fall so far sure is a busy time of year, but I'm glad I was finally able to squeeze in finishing of this thing, and this time it's actually on time for the Tyrian Halloween!
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2022-10-18 15:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post![[Timelapse] Calefaction](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/2/tt/ad/a4542c-019e8530-05dd-7748-85a3-2673e1906e6f.jpg)
This was pretty easy to put together, as it was completed over just a few recent streams. Still took some cleaning up as my system has this nasty habit of randomly drawing unsolicited overlays, but I think I managed to edit out most of them.
Original runtime was about 18 hours. Give or take...
2022-08-22 11:12:40 +0000 UTC View Post
"Keep it up like this, you'll turn them into quaggan."
Koruscar turned to his brother who was still lounging in the gently rocking boat. "You said you were asleep."
"Someone has to keep an eye out for you." The dark-fu... 2022-08-21 10:03:26 +0000 UTC View Post
![[Comic] Barbed Fallacy](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/9/sc/fu/a4542c-019e8530-0617-7d3a-ae74-d2d45ea6a2d7.jpg)
This was supposed to be a quick one-off palate dumb joke of a cleanser after the whole Frostbound layoff.
Well. That was neither quick nor palate-cleansing.
And it is based on a true story,...
2022-08-06 14:12:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Patreon finally enabled its fancy new interface for me, and I have some catching up to do!
When I picked up FFXIV shortly before Shadowbringers, I only did so because hrotghar seemed pretty cool and I was drawn in by the FFXV collab event. I ended up sticking around for... reasons that some...
2022-08-06 13:53:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I meant to post these before May was over, and then I woke up one day and it was June. (Really, who is it that has the audacity to keep changing days while I sleep?)
Here's some painting progress I made during May's art streams. First is a follow up to 2022-06-04 11:50:51 +0000 UTC View Post
So, as you may have gathered if you talked with me in the past year about anything Guild-Wars-related, I really like Icebrood Saga. It was not without blemishes or a bit of "what the hell were you thinking" in some places, but when all was said and done, I was left with a very tight, very emotion...
2022-05-11 14:27:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I finished these, and then I completely forgot to post the patron versions outside of the Discord server. Terribly sorry!
Here's my "latest" batch from character designs for a project I started poking around in my spare time midway through last year. I managed to finish the designs sketched...
2022-05-02 11:42:32 +0000 UTC View Post![[Timelapse] Bright Blaze](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/1/qf/st/a4542c-019e8530-0713-7099-b530-e7a1a817f07e.jpg)
I am happy to report I managed to collect the timelapse for the recent painting. I apologize for occassional odd skips here and there, this one was put together from a lot of very short sessions rather than few longer ones.
This painting is a bit cursed, since it went through several photos...
2022-03-24 10:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The male's voice grew from a spiteful hiss into a roar powerful enough to match the firestorm he had at his beck and call.
"Do you think us too weak to fight? Too meek to defend our own? You thought you made us fangless? We chose to play nice. We bowed for your
As I've said a few times before, 2022 should see the return of some of some familiar faces. While Semper Fidelis has been somewhat hibernating and I didn't get to publish any new finished stories for quite a while, I spent the past year chipping away at it until a solid foundation of a book with ...
2022-01-18 00:56:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Our lives and minds are made out of stories. Just close your eyes, and you can become anything. The errant knight or the wandering gladium. The divine or the accursed. The boy saved from the gallows, the sundered shepherd. The dreamer, the realist or the broken spirit. You can don th... 2021-12-27 09:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post
So, you guys want me to make more comics. All fine and dandy, except they take a heck of a long time (especially since I moved to a scene-by-scene/chapter-by-chapter scenario instead of page-by-page) and during all that time of waiting, you probably accumulate questions. Questions like: "Am I sec...
2021-11-06 16:17:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Cobwebs and ghosts are about to go out of style in the next few hours (making this very obviously a "this was supposed to be done during Halloween" thing, but my health kind of disagreed on that matter), so no better time than now for me to start picking them up and giving them another use. It pr...
2021-11-01 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all, hi, everyone who joined this Patreon for charr comics! I am very happy to have you and I'm already working on the next two short stories from the Legions.
But that's by far not my only project.
2021-10-02 12:11:54 +0000 UTC
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All was quiet in Drizzlewood coast.
Gone was the constant roar of engines and thrumming of charr copters. Speakers droning Stormsounder's recruitment propaganda all the months past were shattered and silenced. Marching orders, clashing weapons, scream... 2021-09-16 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, guys! So, since Summer's over, I can finally crawl out of the burrow long enough to share stuff.
Icebrood Saga was honestly an absolute blast, and I was surprised to find out how much the characters gripped me this time around (and it was, by far, not because most of them were charr). A...
2021-09-02 00:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post![[Progresswork] Unbroken](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/2/ox/po/a4542c-019e8530-0b42-770c-a6d8-47d64781f812.jpg)
As I forgot to post this along with the painting, I may as well use the comic as an excuse and do it now. Those two things have more in common than one may think. So here's the breakdown of Unbroken, an illust...
2021-06-15 10:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post![[Comic] Pain Response](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/5/yy/dg/a4542c-019e8530-0bbf-7ab0-bb9c-62b6bde38a85.jpg)
PAIN RESPONSE; Trait: Major, Training: Acrobatics
Gain regeneration and remove damaging conditions when struck while below the health threshold.
Well... that took a forever and a half.
I know the Almorra comic is officially the first one I showed to...
2021-06-12 13:01:42 +0000 UTC View Post
"Sit. No, stop it. No! There. Sit and stay sitting! Would you-- Argh, the bloody cows have more discipline than you two!"
Having to spend most of the past few weeks drawing various kinds of backgrounds left its mark, and my brain was demanding a bit of a palate cl...
2021-06-01 09:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post
So, after spending half an eternity answering the question of "do you have an online gallery somewhere?" with a manly and decisive "...mneeeh..." and pondering the options between lackluster online platforms, the buggery that is managing my own website, and just dodging the question altogether li...
2021-05-21 09:24:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Slowly, panel by panel, this thing has been inching towards completion. It's measly six pages, but this thing has kind of pushed me to a limit.
One of the unexpected side effects of my mental shattering last fall was discovering that I cannot draw backgrounds anymore to save my life, at lea...
2021-05-21 08:33:33 +0000 UTC View Post
"I know not what his name was. Mother called him Rajat, that is all she told. This... this is not the image I had in my mind."
Since my comics have been stuck on the background phase for quite some time now, I had to do something besides writing to feel like I'm a...
2021-03-26 22:28:40 +0000 UTC View Post
In another part of my "what even is my specialization" random series of "how did I do"s, I thought you could find it interesting if I showed you the process of making a title for a book, or a graphic novel in this case.
I'm by no means an expert and it's always a lot of trial and error, so ...
2021-03-03 18:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post
So, that could have gone better.
I wanted to dive headfirst into warmup sketching and planned to use FebROARy as a springboard. Wellp, talk about springing too hard, because before the first Feb week was up, I went nose-down due to my spine tableflipping the rest of the body and storming ou...
2021-03-02 13:33:51 +0000 UTC View Post