busting my ass trying to do as many comms as possible while staying 7-8 comics ahead of schedule in some attempt to both survive financially + have any time to do things that aren't comics or commissions (but are still unpaid work) this year. at least i get better with every drawing

i love the moment when people realize achilles color scheme is black and blue and then look at me reproachfully, realizing theyve been the victim of a bad visual pun this whole entire time

anyway. forget all that. i bet whatever non-pattycake shit that goes down between toons in that universe is crazy. roger and jessica were probably getting out the jackhammers and anvils on each other. no that’s too obvious it was more insane than that for sure

heartwarming! this dumbass still does perspective grids the old fashioned way

richard williams animation makes me feel a bit ashamed like yeah i could never love my characters enough to put them on 1s for the length of a feature film

good every single time

Tonight, my #HelloFromHaloHead dreams are coming true. #TomodachiLife

anyway i need the audiobooks to stay sane right now because i am, regretfully, coloring foliage again.

revisiting some diana wynne jones books in audiobook lately. as someone with little interest in writing family dynamics i really notice when someone is great at it. i love her fervor for both the good and bad therein. she writes startlingly natural family abuse so deftly despite the fantasy settings

saw someone post their fake chapter titles for their comic and laughed because i also do that in my head. there's achillesquest, boys' night, no one expects the money laundering arc, chloe's terrible horrible no good very bad day, and some others that i shall keep to myself

sometimes i feel so worried about cheating space/shapes/angles even though THAT'S WHAT CARTOONS ARE FOR that i go watch disney scenes and find their cheats until i feel better. shot 1 bambi you could NOT take 4-5 steps backwards and fall in the water there is no room!!! (extremely happy about this)

having to make another fucking drawing of a tree

this is the wettest picture anyone has ever drawn

always find it funny when people say you can tell what an artist is really interested in by what they render the most or whatever. idk im not INTERESTED in drapery (or trees or glass or water or whatever) i just have an inexplicable demon inside of me that forces me to do this

btw, one of the best things about watching the film adaptation of Annihilation was it led me to this video. i think all consumers of media should watch this video. you don't have to have watched Annihilation to get the message i think though it does contain spoilers www.youtube.com/watch?v=URo6...

anyway too much keeps happening to distract me from the books i’m trying to read. very close to decimating Authority. in lieu of anything smart i’d like to say that the govt-appointed spy director of the Southern Reach having a cat named El Chorizo that he calls Chorry Chorrykins is gap moe of him

i think a good full time job for me would be if some mysterious entity paid me to draw chloe and clair like those classic CLAMP illustrations all day

editorializing on my thumbnails lately

as someone who loves animation with all my heart, enough to pursue the borderline crazy choice of making it my career: i’m actually pretty sick of everyone always acting like the final form of any idea should be animation. sometimes a comic or prose or illustration series is already in its best form

all i want is to live in enough peace to make art and for everyone else to live in enough peace to enjoy art

fucked up and gave myself an accidental gnarly steam burn right after midnight so great 1st bday present to me from me

had this on my comic playlist as a chloe clair song but now that im doing this mars pepper scene i feel like it could be that too... it's so fun to find songs where lyrics are flexible enough to fit a lot of situations while still being pointed enough to resonate youtu.be/ai75GHqbn64?...

im so glad it's her arc because i love her so much

i love my big beautiful brain and i love thinking with it. i wish i could take it out for a second and give it a little kiss right on the squishy pink noodle

this was in my 2023 sketch file and idk what it means

the leg situation is

mar

tiny thumbail for 487 in my sketchbook lol

pony baseball

from when i was trying to decide how to draw rained-on stuff

it's time to get traditional media pilled again. it's time to touch paper

you are like a little insect

bruce :(

urfbounds

random urge

from the ol file margins

chloe's leg situation if you couldn't figure it out

delusions of grandeur