I've got a lot of scanning and lettering to do, but all the pages of the first episode are inked! Read it here! starspanners.thecomicseries.com

It's important to share

I have such a good backstory idea for Jun that I want to yap about, but I want to keep her mysterious for a few episodes and not spoil it.

I can't tell if I'm exhausted or just depressed.

Ideal lifestyle

I think I'm getting the hang of this comic making thing.

Pages from my copy of the Star Fleet Technical manual- particularly the navigation section. It would be a mistake to publish a galactic map of my Star Spanners universe before I have explored much of it, but silly little things like this inspire me.

My comic making weapons. I put the colored tape on the pen caps so I can easily grab what I need. Blue drafting pencils are loaded with non photo plue lead. The other colors are 2H graphite in different sizes.

Feeling empty and lonely. But maybe someone, or something out there might feel the same youtu.be/9LyH6jTefU8?...

What kind of trouble have they gotten themselves into?

Little boats in crimbo baubles

I was doing good but I got so lonely this holiday weekend.

I want to go home. I am home... Oh no

If I survive the grocery store, I get to play Silksong and cuddle these cuties later.

oi

Me: "maybe tonight I will take it easy and start Silksong" Also me: *draws four whole ass comic pages and inks three of them* But I did download the game. That's gotta be progress.

So much drawing...

Hitting that discouraged stage when it all feels a bit pointless. I very much enjoy drawing these pages, but I'm I'm usually drawing in solitude besides MAYBE someone doing something unrelated at art day if they show up. I don't care about numbers and likes. I want art friends.

I just really like this page

I think I've made a pretty ship

I forgot tinkercad was a thing that lets me design spaceships at work

It's kind of hard not to compare your work with that of artists who influence you. My style sits somewhere between meticulous realism and silly cartoon. Instead of despairing I'm actively leaning into it as it reflects the tone subject matter: somewhere between hard science fiction and space fantasy

I wanted to build a model of the rover as a drawing reference but I didn't have time. I would have made a digital one too and traced it, but I don't have a permanent setup for my tablet and I can't be bothered. So perspective grids and tracing paper it is for now!

Feverishly dreaming up how the galactic space telegraph system (stellagraph) works in my Star Spanners universe works. I think there is apermanent network of micro wormholes large enough for protons/neutrons to pass through, giving you the 1s and 0s of a binary code.

I need to build a rudimentary model of the rover so I can draw it in perspective in the second panel on page 16

I didn't warm up before drawing this page. But it's a text heavy page, so no one will be looking too closely. And it's amazing how a few shadows and clean gutter lines can really sell it as a legit comic.

Too sick to comic this eveningggg. I have a backlog that will get me to the middle of december with a two a week upload schedule, but drawing pages is still a lot of fun right now.

Cancelled game con plans, so I'll stay home and drawwww

I hope I'm not getting sick. It would be very bad timing for the game con tomorrow.

I'm still getting to know these dorks but I unconditionally love them.

New page today! starspanners.thecomicseries.com

I was looking through an old camera roll and there are some good space photos I took. When everyone else was getting dates, I was peering into the void.

Very high kp index right now. I'm at work and there is a lot of light pollution here, whether there are clouds or not, but if you live in the north, you might see smth! Maybe I'll listen with my VLF later to see if the activity is kicking up any weird signals

Work is too overstimulating and I have such a sharp headache. Doing something intricate with my hands helps..

Investigating the apparently abandoned research station. Space explorers staring at something in amazing is one of my favorite motifs. What is the skipper of the Star Spanner looking at? You'll just have to subscribe to find out! starspanners.thecomicseries.com

My comic is live! I'm aiming to release a few pages each week until the end of the chapter

Power is out again which seems to happen a lot these days. But I can still draw by lantern light.

Found a friend at the library cw: bhug

God fuck please just enough of everything. I want to draw silly little comics and make silly little games, that's all

I joke about an animated series and a video game and action figures, but after I've written and drawn a few episodes and got a good handle on what the universe wants to be, I'll design a Star Spanners table top RPG.

On their way

@pinkchaospanda.bsky.social I only just finished chapter 1, but I feel like you would like these characters! comicfury.com/comicprofile...

I feel like I've drawn a lot mote than four pages. But I'm having a lot of fun so far! Although I never said it in as many words when a teacher asked me, I've always wanted to be a comic artist when I grew up. And a game designer.

Page three will be a proper introduction to the characters. I'm not sure where I will host the finished work yet. It will be free of course, because I hate everything about monetizing myself.

Pushing the art to the bleeds on page 2 as a power move. I also used some screen tone on the ship because I didn't know what else to put there. I want to use it sparringly 'cuz it's kind of expensive

Happy Halloween! To mark the one year anniversary of my game, it is now permanently pay as you want! #gameboy #retrogaming #gamedev #sologamedev #halloween #spooky denebola-interactive.itch.io/nocptern

Page 1 of ? I have about 15 pages thumbnailed out so far. The episode will be at least as many more. Lettering will be done digitally

Feeling bad, but writing a comic

Oh!

An attempt was made