Got super awesome critique for the kiss panel redraw. 🥰 Prepare to have your socks knocked off by the most awkward kiss panel ever!!!

It's been a couple days since the horrible commission shit happened, and my body is still recovering from the stress 🫠 Even with all the self care, I still feel very sickly. C'mon, body. I know we're getting older but can you bounce back, please?

If you ever wanted to throw $5 at me to see a badly drawn sketch of my characters smooching, boy! Now is your moment! 🤣 ko-fi.com/i/IQ5Q61W6J8Q #comics #webcomics #manga #kuroshouri

I said this on my last appearance on @keepingitgeekly.bsky.social that when you cancel that streaming service out of spite you should divvy up that money amongst some indie artists. REALLY stick it to the Man.

THEY'RE SHUTTING OFF OUR ELECTRICITY IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS. it's in the negatives here, and we'll have NO HEAT as well. i start a new job this week, but it won't pay in time. please, PLEASE consider sharing this post, i have comms open and can do 2D art, 3D models, animation, you name it!! (1/2)

Most of the main cast doesn’t. Kijo definitely does. And while he hadn’t really considered it before, Hisaki sure feels like a bad person as of the current arc….

My cat peed on my desk chair. So now that has to be cleaned and dried for a few hours. I have been saved from the kiss panel for now, but at WHAT COST?!

Today's the day...I gotta start redrawing this page of KS. 🥲 19 years later and I am still no better at drawing kisses...hahaha...😭😭😭

Rest assured that if we talk, there is a non-zero chance of me cranking up the OCD and anxiety and obsessing about it all day. Doesn't matter if it was a totally harmless interaction. 😅 Been having it happen since this morning and I am still frightened that I offended somebody or something. 😭

A new remake page is up! In which my hair senses started tingling again, lol. ko-fi.com/i/IM4M21W4XDY #comics #webcomics #manga #kuroshouri #oc #ocsky

My laptop is eight kinds of failing 😩I need a new one. Thankfully not this second, but still would be good to get one this year. I hope the conventions are good to me again... ;w;

Some thumbnails are up! They're boring thumbnails, mind you, but they're still thumbnails!!! ko-fi.com/i/IX8X71W4GGS #comics #webcomics #manga #kuroshouri

Day 195 of posting art ‘til my hand is healed. It’s my boy! I like seeing him smile, even if it has been years since he was with Kuroi and putting on his sad face. 😭I just still feel bad about what we put him through! #oc #ocsky #kuroshouri

Me: I wanna work on chapter 71!! I haven't done it in over 2 weeks and it will heal me!! *It's a boring part of the chapter* Me: UGH NEVER MIND (I am doing it anyway 😭)

I have seen so many good art programs get released and then eventually die and get pulled from the internet. It's why I have my collection of vintage manga programs - I'M PARANOID. It's also why I have both a perpetual license and sub to CSP...one day that program won't exist anymore D: D:

The human characters are just that - humans. They can be killed just as easily as any other human, regardless of how strong Kakon or Hisaki have gotten. Haru is about the same.

I dreamt that they were playing the first Pokemon movie in theaters again... and on top of that, they got all the bands back together that were in it and had a live performance of the songs, too. ....it was pretty awesome lol

It's my birthday! 🥳 I'd love it if you could share around my stock photos and resources! 34% with code: BDAY34 ✨ ko-fi.com/sambeawesome... ⭐ vgen.co/sambeawesome...

I am feeling very insecure about my linework lately. I feel like there's not enough variance in the thickness of the lines. ;.; I dunno if I'm being paranoid or if there's a real problem, though...

Yeah, Kijo did. And it's how the comic's plot starts!

Self care comic-making begins >.< And Yasha looks so pretty on this page, it makes me a little happier ;w; ko-fi.com/i/IO5O01W2OZ0 #comics #webcomics #manga #kuroshouri #oc #ocsky

Just diving headfirst back into my webcomic. Fuck responsibilities. This is healing me and I'm not gonna work on anything else until the coping method does its thing. ;w;

Update on this: the person in question offered a full apology, took down the slop and understands that there will be no more art for them. I am still terribly hurt, even though I appreciate all that. I will be taking a break from them for a while...

After what happened last night, honestly, I'm diving into personal art and I ain't coming back out for a while. I have convention art to make, and another person was asking about a commission, but nope. I'm only doing what makes me happy right now. 🤬

Since it apparently needs to be fucking said: Anyone who commissions me does NOT have the right to modify the artwork NOR do they have the right to run it through AI. I am LIVID 🤬

Ugh...depression or not, I gotta finish that sticker before the weekend is over... It just sucks because, when I'm like this, I genuinely can't tell if my art is good or not. And I've been known to push out absolute crap and not know until months afterward...

When I'm dealing with the bipolar depression, I have to do a very specific coping method: comic work, but not NEW comic work. Thing is, I draw like shit when I'm sad, so new pages are not happening. But work helps me, so I fix up old pages for print. This is what I did today.

Day 194 of posting art ‘til my hand is healed. This is not a happy picture. Drew this during the height of “anime isn’t real art” crap on DA and hated it immediately. I don’t mind drawing realistically, but anime style is what makes me happy, dammit! #oc #ocsky #kuroshouri

Just staring at that blank canvas and can't bring myself to draw anything. 🥲

I'm at high risk for another bipolar episode after that stressful commission and honestly. Times like this just make me laugh that the people reviewing my disability case were trying so hard to say I'm fine. "Bipolar people work all the time," they said. Dude, I had an episode from comic-making. 😐

ICYMI!

Okay!! Just gotta make 1 sticker today and then I can work on comics. 🥲 Do it for the comics, Kiki!!

Digital Artists, share (one of) your first digital artworks and year vs. now 2005 - 2026. Same character. 🥰

I finished a page. I'll be going at a much slower pace for a while, but it's nice to get a page done here and there. 😌 ko-fi.com/i/IS6S71VY87C #comics #webcomics #manga #kuroshouri #oc #ocsky

Working with a reward system for myself now. If I finish some convention prep, I get to work on the comic a little. Since I finished my Gecqua sticker, I got to ink a panel from the comic! Yaaay! Unfortunately, now I must go and do the next sticker...sigh...

omgggggg they're here and they're even cuter in person!!! 😭😭😭Hisaki and Yasha plushillows by @bhcrafts.bsky.social !! We can hug our OCs now, what a wonderful purchase ;w; Thank you Nikki!! 🥰

Vitalism updated today! 💉 read the latest pages here: vitalism.the-comic.org OR you can read four weeks ahead on patreon for $3 and up: www.patreon.com/bhfic new readers start here!: vitalism.the-comic.org/comics/first/ #webcomic #ocsky

Kuro Shouri update! MORE MURDER! Read: kuroshouri.com Support: ko-fi.com/kikirini #comics #webcomics #manga #kuroshouri #oc #ocsky

I gotta stop letting family members take advantage of me for art. 😔 I was not properly compensated for that rush commission. Even though it caused me huge amounts of stress. I don't believe they did it to be mean or to be cheap, but they still did it.

I gotta make some designs over this weekend and then send them off to be made into keychains on Monday...and since I'm doing that, I figure I treat myself and get this made, too. It needs to go on my wall, next to the Hisaki & Yasha one! 🥰 (If you asked me for one, don't worry, I'm getting you one!)

Comics as a medium deserve way more respect.

Say a thought about comics: Start your comic now. Resist restarting it, too. And while you're at it, maybe don't start with your long epic; keep it to shorts for a while and get some finished work under your belt.

Grayscale/Black & White comics rock and deserve more love

Aw, heck. The Bravely Default remake is on Steam now, too. This is like the 5th game I want to buy from Square Enix, but the company went full ai >.< They don't get my money anymore!

RUSH COMMISSION DONE!!!!! Wasn't sure if I should post it since it is not my usual style, but god dammit I worked myself to the point of stress and dizziness over it. I will share! >.< And y'know what, it's replacing crappy ai slop so that's cool. #art #commission

Day 193 of posting art ‘til my hand is healed. A funny little minicomic I drew in high school. I still have it! And Yasha still hates the cold! Me too, Yasha, cold weather is the worst! #oc #ocsky #kuroshouri

So Ko-Fi has confirmed they're not bringing back the search/marketplace feature. All discovery has to be done on your own, which super sucks. For any fans of Ko-Fi creators, now more than ever, word of mouth would really help! It's free to do and can make a big difference for those creators.

⚠️ Trinity Saga: Unchained ⚠️ New Update 🤜✨ trinitysaga.carrd.co [ #art #digitalart #oc #ocsky #trinitysaga #webcomic ]

Got a good night's sleep and I am ready to finish that rush commission and start speedrunning stickers. I am determined to finish my work as soon as possible, if only because I'm so close to finishing volume 3!!!

I gotta make 11 stickers before the end of April. Fuuuuck 🥲