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August Tutorial and Supplement are up!

August Tutorial and Supplement are up!

You can get the tutorial here and the supplement here. The supplement this month has a bunch of questions to challenge the effectiveness of your face a...

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Aug Shingworks Tutorial support worksheet

Aug Shingworks Tutorial support worksheet

HERE IT IS

it goes with this tutorial

I was late with this by several days so by way of apology, I've reinstated the May supplement, you can grab that here if you haven't gotten it already

my brain is melting in my head so ...

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Clean Up Your Acting Tutorial

Clean Up Your Acting Tutorial

The new tutorial for August!

Supplement worksheet is here for $10+ Patrons this month!

Phew! This tutorial took forever. I decided the past few tutorials were too text-heavy, so I tried to make this one more image-ful :]

T...

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MI345 Preview/ small news

MI345 Preview/ small news

Just a small gif preview of the next page in progress~

The tutorial will be up tomorrow! I am mega burned out and I just took another look at what I have, and I think it needs one more round of editing. Since it's the end of the month, please let me know if you are in the situation of having dropped down from the $10+ level; definitely want to ma...

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MI340 Preview

MI340 Preview

These lovely colors are ~definitely~ final

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MI Stuff- Major anatomy/ crests

MI Stuff- Major anatomy/ crests

One of these wacky posts XD For a refresher on Majors, see this post. This post probably has some info that could be construed as a spoiler, but only in hind-sight. So unless you don't want any background info at all unless it comes up in the comic, you can read sa...

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MI339 Preview

MI339 Preview

Yea buddy~ lets have a preview

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Little schedule update

Hi guys,

Just wanted to say sorry for the lack of comic updates, I've been busy with the Kickstarter for sure but a lot of my focus has also been on my SO; his father was recently in a very bad car accident. Unfortunately after a few stressful weeks in the ICU, he passed away tonight, and obviously my largest priority has shifted to supporting my...

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TM Stuff- refpocalypse

TM Stuff- refpocalypse

One of the many things I didn't expect to have to do for the KS; put together ref sheets. It took such a long time T__T I art directed a game for a while, and a large part of my job was providing reference and directions to my overseas team of artists; it makes things go a lot smoother when you are able to be very specific about the details. In thi...

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Meek V1 Kickstarter!

Meek V1 Kickstarter!

View the Meek Volume 1 Kickstarter here~

Hi all! You've probably seen me talking about this everywhere already but, the Meek V1 Kickstarter is live! Not only that, but it's fully funded :U Everything happened very fast. That means thes...

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July 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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The Tide minicomic

The Tide minicomic

This was the first polished Meek comic I ever drew, even before Chapter 1. I was still pretty novice at making "real" comics... prior to that, I had only made the Snowball comics to sell for a dollar each at APE 2007, haha. APE 2008, also in October, was coming up, and I wanted to try my hand at something more stylistically similar to what I was ai...

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July Shingworks Tutorial is now up! plus secret

July Shingworks Tutorial is now up! plus secret

Hello!

The gigantic July Tutorial and July Supplemental Worksheet are both available now! You probably know I love researching and integrating research into my comics, and I was ...

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July Shingworks Tutorial support worksheet

July Shingworks Tutorial support worksheet

Here you go! 11 Pages of supplement material this month to go with this month's tutorial.  I think it's growing every month XD Enjoy the value. A bunch of example problems, practical applications and some reflection at the end to help you figure out ...

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Researching for Comics tutorial

Researching for Comics tutorial

The 11-page supplement worksheet that goes along with this month's tutorial is available at the link for this month!

The new tutorial for July is here~ This month's topic is about researching for comics. A lot of my readers enjoy that I ...

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update/ TM Stuff- Cover sketch

update/ TM Stuff- Cover sketch

HI

Been a bit absent, but working very hard. Kickstarters, tutoring, building a website, finishing a side comic, maintenance work, indoors termite swarm, and bad health on my end... Then this weekend my boyfriend's father was in a car accident and broke his neck, so. Yeah. Real Life. Sometimes it feels like each month is more difficult tha...

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Streaming soon

Streaming soon

https://picarto.tv/shingworks

Will probably start in about 5ish? minutes? (aiming for noon:15 PST)

Taking a break from work to stream different work for a few hours, then a break for work and then back to work! golly

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TM Stuff- deSadars

TM Stuff- deSadars

Oh god I drew this picture in 2008 help

I've been kind of flippant in the Meek site posts but, I like this chapter a lot. I like the dynamic between the kids, and their shitty dad.


The deSadar name itself is a concession to modern times; Luca's actual surname is Sadr, and pronounced far more gutturally like most Basori is. A la...

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ITS THAT TIME AGAIN

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN

https://picarto.tv/shingworks

Yeah it's a holiday but work don't stop for holidays


No audio or anything just casual chat and otherwise pure unadulterated Meek update work stream ~ will probably go for an hour or two, until I'm forced to go to lunch


Note:...

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MI prev 333-337

MI prev 333-337

[right click image to make larger/readable]

Well, 333 did go up this month, but here are the other planned pages


When I type a script, I only ever do it in Notepad. It's the worst format ever because my computer tends to crash, and Notepad is so basic that I can't undo more than once and lose chunks of writing every time, haha. ...

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TM Prev 511-516

TM Prev 511-516

[you can right click the image for a larger/ more readable version]

Hello!


Thank you again for your support in June. I got hit hard last month with a ton of work and life/ health Stuff that I don't normally deal with... The long and short of it was I realized I wouldn't be able to do everything I needed to do, and have to push all o...

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June 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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June Shingworks tutorial is up!

June Shingworks tutorial is up!

Hi guys,

The June tutorial is available now, as well as all of the supplement material that goes along with it. This was a fun but also challenging tutorial to make, since I ...

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June Shingworks Tutorial support worksheet and .psd file~

June Shingworks Tutorial support worksheet and .psd file~

Another doozy :] These are the support worksheets that go along with

this month's tutorial 


9 pages of content this time, only 8 shown above because damn it I just want a nice even preview. The .psd is also attached, apologies in advance for all the...

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Writing for Webcomics tutorial

Writing for Webcomics tutorial

Supplementary worksheets for this tutorial are here

Well... this one was a doozy XD I have never done a tutorial about writing before... I tried to make this as specific to webcomics as possible while making it as general to genre or style as I cou...

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Little update~

Little update~

Sorry for being so offline this month, I've been working like crazy but can't really show much of it yet... art above is a little preview for a comic I'm finishing up now for the Elements anthology coming soon to KS. The book has a strong red/ fire/ passion theme, so what cho...

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June wallpaper- First Contact

June wallpaper- First Contact

One of these days something pretty will happen in The Meek and someone will request a non-MI wallpaper, haha. UNTIL THEN have some robots and aliens

Attached .zip has a variety of sizes; let me know if yours is not represented and I'll make something happen

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Mid-month icon dump~

Mid-month icon dump~

Some icons from the last batch of commissions and we-made-a-comics-baby patron gifts~ If you've been pledging at the $10+ level for 9 months by this June, you should have received your email on how to get your complimentary icon from me yesterday. Public support thanks will be up by the next comic update(s)... Thanks again for your support <3 View Post

MI Stuff- LEVi

MI Stuff- LEVi

THE LEVSTER

LEVi is a levitating imager! Developed by the extreme robotics company Ascension Drive, this robot who captures images and geological data in places that would otherwise be inaccessible by humans. Previous versions of LEVi have been utilized on Earth in mostly volcanic, extreme cold, and extreme depth environments. Despite all of this...

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Thank you for your support in May~

Thank you for your support in May~

hello happy June

Look at this mess. All of this was funded by Patrons in May, holy moley. Thank you to my commissioners, for the last round of commissions I'll be taking here for a while. Some of you had been commissioning me since I first launched this Patreon 10 months ago, and it means a LOT to me <3

Now to news:


FIRST: ...

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