BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA was a new type of personal project for me that I'm still very fond of. You can read it for free in this thread: bsky.app/profile/oliv... or pick up the PDF here: oliveoilcorp.itch.io/ballad-for-b...

just checked something and damn. it's so obvious i work in all dark mode and mostly at night lmao. this is fine

BUT LOVE IS ALWAYS SELFISH, a dark sapphic comic with high school drama & vampire thrills is out! Queen bee Annalyn Park has the school in her thrall, so why does this social butterfly stick to her dour roommate Maxine? 🩸 kmbrlei.itch.io/but-love-is-...

if you like dark sapphic stories, vampire thrills, or that weird icky feeling when you have no idea what the hell the popular girl wants from you...maybe we'll find out just how selfish love can get 🫀 #bliascomic

Get your pencils out & planners open because BUT LOVE IS ALWAYS SELFISH is releasing on Feb 7th! 🩸 One humid summer at St. Maria's Catholic School for Girls, loner Maxine is drawn into the orbit of new queen bee, Annalyn Park...

a little teaser illus for But Love Is Always Selfish, a dark sapphic comic about two roommates from opposite ends of the social food chain and a sweltering summer of chilling omens 🌕🦇⚰️ #bliascomic

tomorrow... 👀 #bliascomic

Fierce on the ice and somehow fiercer in real life, Lydia Chen is the main character of my sapphic figure skating graphic novel! #ocsky #figureskating #yuri

Not comics but I finished this sweater yesterday! so excited to wear this around :DDD

tomorrow... 👀 #bliascomic

some style experiments/studies of fancy desserts

been trying to learn anatomy and damn the forearm has got like a million muscles

in 2 days! #bliascomic

in 2 days! #bliascomic

in 3 days! #bliascomic

some style experiments/studies of fancy desserts

Dealing with some minor health scares this week and totally forgot to post about the new pages that went up on Monday!! Forgive me for being a bad self promoter ✌️ www.patreon.com/posts/149728...

in 3 days! #bliascomic

the documentary has me thinking about this movie again and i think if i could do the impossible of accomplishing anything near to this in my life i'd promptly expire

A documentary about Shingo Yamashita & "Cosmic Princess Kaguya!" has quietly been released (NHK World). On particular interest: when CG, previz & motion capture can help 2D. >> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

hello did you see my new blog. this could be you

i forgot the hashtag....

Get your pencils out & planners open because BUT LOVE IS ALWAYS SELFISH is releasing on Feb 7th! 🩸 One humid summer at St. Maria's Catholic School for Girls, loner Maxine is drawn into the orbit of new queen bee, Annalyn Park...

january sketch bucket up for patrons! some silly BLIAS doodles & new project stuff 🍬 www.patreon.com/posts/sketch...

If anyone else wants to interview me about Just Between Us please let me talk to you about my paneling and page composition for hours...

another teaser illus for my Catholic summer school gay vampire comic🩸 #bliascomic

Reminding everyone, PLEASE, DO NOT sub to your favorite content creators through phone apps as it not only charges you more, it also takes a higher % from us AND to top it all off blocks the money from being received for 30 fucking days for some goddamned reason.

another teaser illus for my Catholic summer school gay vampire comic🩸 #bliascomic

new pokemiku song 🥺 the middle school vocaloid fan in me stays winning

An older work from 2024, sort of an anti-autobio comic [1/3]

fair enough! But Love Is Always Selfish sits between a psychological and romance tone. It draws visual inspo from vanitas paintings and is named after a Carmilla quote and i put a huge cow skull on the back cover. in conclusion...doomed yuri ✅

the yuri + vocaloid combo of cosmic princess kaguya is making me crazy

Nobody does it the same way, so you have to build your own practice. Hardly anywhere pays you enough to take any lip from anybody, so do exactly what you want. If you’re an artist, start measuring projects in lengths of time out of your life to orient your priorities. Do your stretches.

Day job. Health insurance through your employer. Savings account. Do not quit whatever job you have, schedule around it.

i hate doing nothing when i could be doing something, so i'll be doing a charity stream all day today to benefit the Women's Foundation of Minnesota - read more about their immigrant rapid response fund here: www.wfmn.org/funds/immigr... see you at 4:30PM ET ✨ www.twitch.tv/mellana

I've been watching what's happening in Minneapolis and I don't know what to say. Two American citizens killed by ICE in three weeks. Countless more who are not citizens. People afraid to leave their homes. For those of us not living in Minnesota, are some things we can actually do:

the blog part will be free for anyone to read, but patrons will have early access by 2 weeks! as a starter, i've brought back my OT&L cover design breakdown from 2021, which is January's free entry!

jan's crocodile bucket blog post is public now! in which there is a broader and more generally useful version of this topic but i ramble about the niche-est version of it www.patreon.com/posts/crocod...

hi!! we want to get you guys your books!!!

New sample page of my sapphic graphic novel about two competitive figure skaters, Just Between Us! #yuri #figureskating

january sketch bucket up for patrons! some silly BLIAS doodles & new project stuff 🍬 www.patreon.com/posts/sketch...

hi!! we want to get you guys your books!!!

if you backed G*Vol 2 for a physical tier, please check your inboxes for a fulfillment survey from Easyship! If there are any issues, please shoot us an email ASAP www.kickstarter.com/projects/gli...

saw a post about growing up w female mangaka and thinking about how my all-time fave mangakas r easily majority women, like the ratio isn't even close. i'm not even a big shojo reader

Also crucially we get paid when libraries buy our books! There is nothing to be sorry about ever in borrowing a fave author’s books from a library! It is one of the few “everybody wins” situations in life!

Flying Saucer Video is back with Disc 4!! Pages will be going up a month early on patreon, 3 a week every monday 🛸 Thank you for reading, I hope you like this chapter!!! www.patreon.com/posts/flying...

Begging people to watch Ikoku Nikki

the skills that go into creativity are trade/labor skills. the same metrics that you learn carpentry or cooking apply to drawing or singing or acting. anyone can learn them. anyone can gain experience with them. everyone should be paid for them.

it's getting older day