This won't be in the comic I don't think (there might be an allusion in Ch 4) but, yeah, Mike's... roommate. Dom is a grad student at the same university where Mike was an adjunct professor for a while. Mike is horrifically embarrassed to be seen with him, not just because of the 10+ year age difference but because Dom partakes in the liberal ar...
2016-03-16 07:40:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a little preview of tomorrow's update~ Colors are not final at all, more like me doing my thing trying to find the final balance.
Generally for "new" colors (like, I just made a scene change) I will make an image in my head that I can't exactly match irl, but I will generally have enough info to know when I'm off. Then I will do a hellis...
2016-03-15 07:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a mid-month thank you and general reminder that I sent out all of the $10+ Patron emails just now. Usually this gets done within the first week of the month... I wanted to thank you again for your patience this month as I have been spending a good 3-4 hours a day since March 1st doing the move and some necessary physical renovations to the pla...
2016-03-13 21:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
From early 2014, before I had launched/ relaunched anything lol.
(The other hard part of having a comic on hiatus, regardless of the reason, is that fans will get very angry if they see you working on anything else. You would not believe how many angry emails I got every week, reminding me of what an asshole I was, ay yi yi)
This is a post-mortem of Chapter 4, mostly a technical discussion on the difficulties of doing a complete rewrite spread out over the course of several years. It's probably going to be pretty long. I will also be straight-up explaining the plot points, which some people may not like since it is a bit of a direct approach, but if you don't mind it t...
2016-03-13 08:19:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Big versions under the download
These were some illustrations I've just been sitting on for a few years, I'm not sure I've shared them at larger size before. In lieu of a fresh wallpaper this month (I am in a heavy time crunch due to recent move/ renovations and trying to focus on updating), I'm sharing these high-res images instead. I st...
2016-03-10 19:26:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Rightclick for readable version.
Since this background info is still fairly valid, no point in not sharing it! These were originally from a thing that I was going to do but then I did not do. The same info is in the Meekipedia but it's easier to read here, I think.
Gonna post some unused Chapter 2 illustrations in a second....
2016-03-10 19:19:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
Happy March :] I am imposing on your inbox to say thank you so much for reading and supporting my work. Last month you funded 11/10 comic updates (extra comics, woo), and thanks to hitting the next milestone, I'll be aiming for 13/12 for this one (though 14 would be nicer)!
What do we have in store for Patrons this ...
2016-03-03 17:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a small preview/ mockup of the next Meek chapter cover. Compositionally the general rule is to avoid centering stuff but... fuck it~
2016-03-02 06:54:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes I think "I have the best readers," but then someone comments like this and it all goes down the drain
2016-03-01 08:23:39 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-03-01 07:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are the original "thumbnails" (they are not actually thumbnails) (they were blue/ mechanical pencil sketches on halves of 8x11 paper) for the chapter, done back in 2007. ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO, scream. This was one of my least favorite chapters, which I realized pretty much halfway through. I hated the new characters in this chapter, I hated the...
2016-02-29 20:30:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Something a little different... some turnarounds I did for a future reboot of Snowball (the first two issues of which, btw, were unlocked by Patrons and are available here (v1) and here (v2). 2 ...
2016-02-26 05:31:22 +0000 UTC View Post
PDF to download is attached!
Whew! The past two days have been crazy... got sick, ran around like crazy trying to wrestle a new living place in our very competitive area (success), and most importantly, completely forgot to upload this yesterday so I am doing it now hahaaasdlkfa;
Anyway, this was part of the bonus material in an...
2016-02-23 19:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Still workin' on this, but here's a stealth mountain* for you
2016-02-14 09:17:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh boy.
Well you can right click for a bigger version of this image. Let me just say, this is probably the most difficult character design I have ever done in my life, and it's coupled with one of the larger rewrites I've ever done...
2016-02-10 05:12:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys,
Just want to say thank you for your support in Jan (and all those other non-Jan months too)!
I'm going to start doing these check-ins addressed to all Patrons at the start of the month, just to keep you informed and also to share commissions! Since I keep forgetting to do that most months. Posted above are some commissions ...
2016-02-06 08:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I totally forgot about this, I drew it in early 2014 while getting in the mood to set the visual style. It was also pointless as a wallpaper since it was the first piece of "finished" MI art I had made, and it had no context to anyone but me XD I'm amused to see that Mike hadn't lost his eyebrows yet, haha... anyways, I still kinda like it.
2016-02-06 02:14:15 +0000 UTC View Post
It's newFriend (and me trying out some new brushes, haha). The "boomerang" part at the top of the crest is... inflatable? I'm trying to think of a similar structure in extant animals, but... aliens... haha. Anyway, it's a social signal, in the way that our facial expressions are to other humans. Fully engorged usually means interest, attentiveness,...
2016-02-04 18:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-01-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Thought I'd do a little walkthrough of my typical process for scenes like this...
First step is to always get your head straight for what you want your colors/ panel to communicate. This will depend on a lot of stuff, such as personal style, your comic's defined style (for example I don't use things like speedlines or emotiona...
2016-01-22 03:02:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't even know how many times I've written and rewritten this chapter... I'm looking forward to sharing the PDF of the original version so you can see how much it has changed!
Here is the sort of stuff I think about when I'm doing my thumbnails (a subject I will never shut up about since it is the most important part of the process)
2016-01-18 07:24:17 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for posting so much! But thought I'd share a little mini-project I had from last week, which was to better manage my brush presets in Photoshop. Ever since I did this my life has been much less stressful, haha...
If you're like me, you're picking up brushes from all around the internet (one of my favorite sources is Eyecager's curated f...
2016-01-12 03:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post
WELL
Here's an assortment of stuff related to Interlude 2, some of it is from early 2014! So weird to think that was almost 2 years ago. And some of it is from late 2015, like, 2 days before I needed to draw it in the comic lol. Some stuff:
Was gonna post a larger "wow it is 2016" sort of post, but that kind of deflated... I try to keep my personal life off the radar in the spirit of Nobody Likes A Whiner, but lately have been dealing with some side effects from a new pill I'm taking (to replace the infamous one that gave me lupus for 2 months). Seems like every time I try to correct ...
2016-01-11 08:39:31 +0000 UTC View Post
My giant horrible sloppy file attached for you guys, haha XD
Just an explanation of the process: I was using this tutorial as a base for my fur rendering, and some other notes I rea...
2016-01-06 08:04:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys,
Here's the new wallpaper, all zipped up for you in a variety of sizes :] I've been brushing up (ha) on my brushes and wanted to try fur rendering; not sure if I'm quite where I want to be yet, but it's definitely better than I was doing before.
And, as usual, 2016-01-06 07:59:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you so much for the support this month!
2015-12-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the first sketches when I was imagining the new character's reveal. This is probably the character I have done the most iterations of in my life, ever. Originally the silhouette was supposed to pull itself out of a series of jammed-together rocks like a tooth falling out of a mouth, but over the course of a year and a half that scene was rew...
2015-12-21 21:58:19 +0000 UTC View Post