I stayed up till 2:30 pacific time finishing this silly little gif so I’m making it today’s reader question and YOU CAN’T STOP ME.
Big props to Dave for helping me out on this HE HELPED ME OUT SO MUCH.
Here’s the .gif by itself!
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Self portrait involving my ridiculous winter wardrobe and unnecessary futzing around in Photoshop. Usually I have a furry ushanka and a big green scarf but I have temporarily misplaced those items.
2011 Summary of Art! All I am saying is I COULD have put TF2 or Pokemon fanart in like, any of these months. Oops. But 2011 was a year of me working my butt off despite all the fanart! If I wanted to make this a collage of “wow, holy crap woooww” I would just put Borogove cards in every one of these because Borogove was the game changer of 2011. I should be getting them soon I’m so excited!
I told myself I was done working on this for the day but then I went ahead and finished it! So here is the FINALIZED version of the sticker sheet. I will probably send this off to Sticker Robot next week!
Turns out adding color to stuff makes me like it a whole lot more!
GRYPHONS.
Gryphon sticker sheets! I haven’t decided what I want to go on the background (or if I want to keep it white) but this is what I have so far and now I’m going to do other things like eat pistachios and watch more Parks and Rec! It’s been a pretty chill Holiday Eve.
Ahhhh I love the Pygmy Gryphon, I hope they’re not sentient so I could keep one as a pet. <3
Also I’d honestly love to know more about Reverse Gryphons. Like, how they came to exist and why they’re looked upon as “silly”.
Most other gryphons think Reverse gryphons are ridiculous because what sort of gryphon doesn’t have wings? Or a beak? That is ridiculous. They are ridiculous. Some even think that reverse gryphons aren’t true gryphons, but are only called gryphons because they are half lion and half eagle and that’s pretty much the definition of gryphon. But a lot of gryphons are kinda super snobby, so take their opinion with a grain of salt.
I haven’t decided on what types of gryphons are sentient and what types (if any) aren’t. I’d think that the tiny little ones maybe aren’t? I don’t know. One of the hardest parts about Skin Deep is deciding what creatures are sentient and which ones are just animals. People always get mad when I say that something like a cockatrice is just an animal and no your character can’t be one if you want it to be intelligent. Maybe the super tiny critters aren’t intellig—nope that won’t work because Leah and David are both pretty tiny in their fullforms. HMMMMM.
This is my genius at work, dear followers. Aren’t you lucky to have a special sneak peek into my genius brain.
Gryphon sticker sheets! I haven’t decided what I want to go on the background (or if I want to keep it white) but this is what I have so far and now I’m going to do other things like eat pistachios and watch more Parks and Rec! It’s been a pretty chill Holiday Eve.
Today’s comic features Michelle’s stupid face! And Janis’s sad face.
Sfé helped me with the pacing with this page, convincing me to delete the last panel to help with the emotion. I didn’t have the heart to completely delete the panel because I liked the face Michelle made, so I made a screen cap and I am sharing it with y’all.
I got Manga Studio in the mail yesterday so I’ve spent all day fighting with it to try to learn how it works. And I think…I like it??? So far I’m way faster at Photoshop, but I’ve also been using Photoshop for like a decade, so I’m a little more familiar with it. I feel a lot like I’m trying to reinvent the wheel here, but the results I’m getting aren’t horrible for using the program only once?
I’m using a side-comic that I’ve had written up for forever as my guinea pig. I’m going to keep drawing this comic until I feel like I have FRIGGIN’ MASTERED MANGA STUDIO.
I am working on an Exchanges Character Guide oh boy oh boy! Progress post!
I said the last post with the satyrs was the last drawings for the book, but then I decided to add these three in, since they have just as many lines as Margot or Silas or Kiernan (that is, zero lines). These are characters made by Sfé Monster and they have a larger story that I will tell sometime. You can find them in the comic, it’s like a Where’s Waldo: Eastern Monsters Edition.
And I’m done with the Exchanges cast! Not bad considering I did the first one of these back in 2008.
Kiernan McCullough and Silas Mooreshead are two satyrs that are often seen running around the Liverpool Avalon. Silas is the drummer for the Boney Kings of Nowhere while Kiernan is just obnoxiously Irish at people. Kiernan’s usually responsible for keeping Silas out of trouble, but asking a satyr to make another satyr behave is like asking…something with no self-restraint to keep something else without self-restraint out of trouble.
Silas was created by Sheana!
Iris Ophis is a lamia that didn’t have any speaking parts in Exchanges, but she works at Brodies’ Bakery and can be seen hanging out with Rhonda and egging her on when she tries to flirt with Ike. She was created by Sheana Molloy and now I only have two characters left before I have drawn all the named characters in Exchanges! (with the exception of the Chinese Exchange Students, who were created by Sfé, but I plan to feature them more heavily in future comics and I would like to hold off on giving them a fancy drawing until I can draw them better!)
