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sketchbook (april 2022)
Hello and thank you for being here, as always. Also...it's May! Please forgive me for this late post.I've been going pretty hard on my project in development lately, but 99% of that energy went into writing instead of drawing this month. I was finally able to share a coherent outline of the first chapter with some friends, so it feels more real than ever before. But there's still an incredible amount of work to be done.I'll let th...
sketchbook (march 2022)
Hi again, and thank you for being here. I can't believe this year is three months in already... Here are some sketches of my characters from recently!See you next time!
sketchbook (february 2022)
Hello, and thanks for joining me again. I hope you've been well. Here are some sketches from recently:I'm fussing with this costume again! I know! I know it's fruitless at this point!! Don't shame me!!!This last one is a drawing of Lia in her Tales of Eternia-inspired original outfit from when I was 13 or so. I remembered it for some reason.That's all for now. See you next time!
sketchbook (december 2021)
Hi there!Thanks for joining me again. We're already at the end of the year... Here are some sketches from this month (mostly characters from that one project of mine, as usual).Oh, yeah. I watched a playthrough of Final Fantasy 4 recently. Rydia has a really memorable design.See you next time!
sketchbook (november 2021)
Happy Halloween...! Oh, it's November already.Thank you for being here, as always. Here are some sketches from recently!This one ended up on Twitter last month after I colored it.I've been fussing with this character design. I think it's coming together finally.See you next time!
sketchbook (october 2021) & tier reshuffling
Hi there! If you didn't see the announcement in my previous post, my schedule is changing pretty drastically due to a new job, so I won't have much time for Patreon posts for a while. After this month, sketchbook posts will be for $5 patrons only, and the $1 tier will revert to its original form of "tip jar." If you'd like to adjust or cancel your pledge in light of this, please do so before the end of the month! And, of cours...
dr concept art
Hi!Once again, it's been a very busy month for me! Long story short, I started a new job! One I'm very excited about! But! It won't leave me much time for other projects, so... Starting next month, the $1 tier will revert to a tip jar, and sketch posts will continue to be uploaded for $5 patrons. (There will be one more $1 sketch post before I make the change.)As for today's post... Since Deltarune Chapter 2 released earlier this ...
flower language comic wip
Hi again! Thanks for being here, as always.The CQ retrospective series is over, as you know, and I haven't really settled on anything to replace it...! But at least until I do, I'd like to post monthly updates on whatever project I'm working on, with insights about my process and approach here and there. This post will be the first of those!If you've been following my sketchbook posts, you're probably familiar with the fantasy...
sketchbook (august 2021)
Hi! I've been busy with work things, so this month really got away from me. Here are some sketches, mostly character explorations for the usual project.See you next time!
CQ Retrospective (Chapter 5 - Final!)
Here we are! The actual end! Let's do it!The overlay is a bit phoned in on this page, and I feel it works against the composition, especially in that first frame. Also, I'm not sure if I meant for Obsidian's speech bubbles to be missing tails here, but it's probably okay in this case because it's easy to tell who's talking regardless.The overlay disappears when Quakemaster is weakened by the rain, and the colors become muc...
sketchbook (july 2021)
Howdy! Thanks for being here, as always.I don't have very many sketches from this month, it turns out...or at least not sketches I can show, for various reasons. Here's what I can show, mostly from my still-developing project:This one was on Twitter. It's a redraw of a picture from last year, which was itself a redraw of a picture from much earlier. As "unproductive" as it may feel to redraw the same art multiple times, it'...
Cucumber Quest Retrospective (Chapter 5 - Part 1)
Welcome back, and thanks for being here. This is it...the final episode! Well, not quite, but we're almost there.Since Chapter 5 is the most recent chapter of Cucumber Quest, this retrospective might provide a more up-to-date look at my comic process... But it was still 2+ years ago, and I was suffering from extreme burnout at the time, so I wouldn't say it's my best work. It is what it is, I guess!Let's do it!I went for a simpler...
CQ Retrospective (Interlude 4 - Part 2)
Welcome back! It's the end of Interlude 4.I've mentioned before that for a long time, I was resistant to using pure white and black in my painting. Eventually, I got over this, and then I made up for lost time. I think this scene has a really good "morning light" feeling.I feel like this must be the lightest the Nightmare Knight has ever been depicted in the comic. Even his speech bubble is darker than him here, but that's for...
sketchbook (may 2021)
Hi! I hope you had a good May. Here are some sketches from this month.This I posted on Twitter. It's not "finished," but I wanted to share some process shots anyway:This was the initial sketch. The idea is there, but the anatomy was pretty rough.I gave Ysme a different costume here, but I thought her legs were still a bit stiff, so I changed them in the "final."An excerpt of a rough comic I made to sort out some worldbuilding ...
sketchbook (apr 2021)
Hi again! Here are some sketches from recently.I'm playing FF5 lately and really enjoying it.And more from the thing I'm developing.See you next time!
CQ Retrospective (Interlude 4 - Part 1)
Hi again! I hope you've been well this month. This one will be a two-parter.Interlude 4This interlude was the first that didn't cut immediately from Cucumber to Caketown Castle, instead following Besty down the bathtub drain to an unknown location.This was a reference to the Carrot/NK scene from Chapter 3, so I copied the color palette pretty much exactly. I still wanted it to seem like "Steve" was just what Besty called the Night...
sketchbook (mar 2021)
I hope you've been well. Here's a roundup of some art you may have seen already, then a few new sketches from recently. 98% of the space in my brain has been occupied by the same project lately, so I think this post will be completely that.I cut this up into sections for Twitter, but here's what the whole file looked like. (Bigger version here.) I've never been great at keeping my characters on model, but I'm trying to make th...
CQ Retrospective (Chapter 4)
Howdy! Let's get started.Chapter 4 began mid-2016, after I'd taken a few months off to publish a completely different comic. Naturally, readjusting was a little tough, and I struggled through the first few scenes...but I think it resolved into something I can still be proud of.This may have been the earliest point it was mentioned that Peridot wasn't actually from the Crystal Kingdom. This had been in my mind for a while, though origi...
sketchbook (feb 2021)
Hi everyone, and thanks for being here, as always. Once again, I've collected some sketches to show you. A couple of them are reposts from Twitter, but lately I've been thinking the convenience of having all of my recent sketches gathered together in one place is nice.I recently imported my Photoshop brushes to CSP after, uh... 2 years of not having done that. I got by without them just fine, but I really regret putting it off for so long...
CQ Retrospective (Interlude 3)
Welcome back! Let's get into it.I can't seem to find any preliminary sketches for Almond and Peridot's dresses here, so I think I just made them up on the spot, maybe because I was short on time. I think it would have been cute if Peridot's hair had been pinned up. Also, I wish the values on this page were better! That bottom left panel is really washed out.This too! I think that since it was meant to be a "bright" scene, ...
sketchbook (dec-jan 20-21)
Happy New Year, and thanks for being here, as always. I've been sketching a lot more these days, so I thought I'd make another post like this. These are all drawings from the same project I'm thinking about lately.I tried to create Ysme in the LINE avatar maker that was going around lately, and she ended up having to wear a hoodie, which I thought was cute.It would be nice to make a comic about these two... I'm thinking about it.T...
More Various Sketches
Hi again! I'm here with some sketches from the past month or so.I forget if I named this character in the last post. This is Lia, Loic's daughter.Lately, I've found it easier to get writing ideas down in messy comic sketches... It seems a lot more "real" when I can actually feel them out as images. I guess I'm a visual person.And some other stuff:I'm still feeling out Loic's costume, but I think I've made a lot...
CQ Retrospective (Chapter 3 - Part 2)
Welcome back, and thank you for waiting.I mentioned this in the last episode, but I didn't really have a solid foundation in my mind for how I wanted the colors in Rosemaster's lair to look, so they ended up a bit muddy.This real significance of this scene is Rosemaster being a mean mom and a nice mom back to back. Also, this is one of my favorite outfits of hers.I think I wanted to avoid making Rosemaster's visual style too "grap...
CQ Retrospective (Chapter 3 - Part 1)
Sorry for the wait! It's time for:You know, I really don't care for this title page. A lot of story elements still hadn't been decided on by the time I drew it, and the composition isn't great. The big Nightmare Knight hand reaching down toward Cucumber might seem like a weird choice (because it is,) but it was a choice I made based on a thing that didn't actually end up happening in the final version of the story. More on tha...
Various Sketches
Hi everyone, and thanks for being here. I planned to do another CQ retrospective around now, but this month ended up being busier than I expected. I look forward to someday being able to share what I've been working on.Since the end of the month is around the corner, I've decided to delay the retrospective a bit and post something else today.If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen my art of some characters from another...well, I he...
CQ Retrospective (Interlude 2)
Welcome back!Interlude 2 was significant for the first proper conversation between Parfait and the Nightmare Knight. In anticipation of that...I made an attempt to really figure out the layout of Parfait's room, but... it didn't help much in the end. I wonder if there was a different solution to the problem of fitting them in the same room together.We never see that much of the top floor, but I like her little painting area.Earlier, I sai...
CQ Retrospective (Chapter 2 - Part 2)
Welcome back! This one's going to be long!The "Count Legato Arc" is one of the parts of CQ I get the most nostalgic for. I really had a ton of fun writing and drawing all of it. I'm not a true "theater person," but I have a lot of love and appreciation for the spectacle of theater, and I wanted to convey that here. Also, I like haunted house levels.I mentioned this briefly in the last episode, but the black margins in this...
CQ Retrospective (Chapter 2 - Part 1)
As always, thank you for being here. It is now time for:Chapter 2This chapter was a big turning point for CQ, and still the point at which I think the comic becomes "good," so I'm excited about this one.I'm still pretty fond of Trebleopolis' overall palette. It's a bit less gaudy than I remember.I included this bit because I wanted to establish that Almond would be carrying the Dream Sword from here on instead of Cucumber....
CQ Retrospective (Interlude 1)
Welcome back! It's a short episode this time.This break from the Nightmare Knight's "dark lord voice" is a little too early, I think, but I couldn't resist the joke.We see a fair bit of the Caketown Castle throne room in these interludes, so I regret that it's a bit plain looking. I wish I had incorporated more of the dessert theming you see outside... maybe Cordelia renovated after she took over.It's probably a given ...
CQ Retrospective (Chapter 1 - Part 2)
Where were we?Oh yeah. Almond was making a bad decision.I used to group together the middle and ring fingers into one Big Finger pretty often in my art, which led to people asking "how come this character only has four fingers?" every so often.The shadows cast on everyone's faces may not exactly line up with the light source and the bars of the cell, but as long as the idea is there, I find that it doesn't really matter.Originally...
