Carey Pietsch

Politicians crying that they're just "protecting the children" while doing the exact opposite is nothing new, but if this becomes law it could effectively end the careers of some of you favorite queer creators (including mine!)

re: upcoming book promo gauntlet: TAZGN7 is a real end-of-an-era book!! big finale!! end of a huge chapter of my professional work life!! I want to give it the best chance it has of reaching its readers, so I'm gonna be posting about it a LOT between now and 7/14. thank you for bearing with me!

arno the pizza troll burned his way soooo deep into my brain! silly immediate first association earworm whenever a pizza appears

aw, thank you, that means a lot! there is absolutely one panel with a corner cameo of everyone's favorite child soldiers on an AU adventure- I'll dig it up and post about it soon!

who's that pulling the wagon...? it's dodie. or possibly brodie.

gearing up for the TAZGN7 Promo Gauntlet by digging through all the other books to see what fun bg details nobody has mentioned noticing... please don't sue over the legally distinct beast of burden pulling Garfield's getaway wagon, honored Mr. Jim Davis

Lesbians of colour! If you are interested in working with me on a TTRPG project, please comment on the post below ⬇️

One of the crimes of AI has been the destruction of the beautiful "my nephew made this logo for me on his computer!" energy from all the hyper-local plumbers and taco shops. AI slop on white work vans is a crime against humanity.

:')

mosaic-filtered spoilered snippets from tazgn7 with various slightly menacing greeting-card-adjacent captions

working on some options for a possible preorder bonus treat for TAZGN7...! (spoilered) sneak peek

Free Patreon post! Talking about some tools I've been enjoying lately. www.patreon.com/posts/free-p...
(If you're a paid backer, you can also see my other new post with the full sketchbook pages that are excerpted here!)

Jae, thank you, that means a lot to me!!

preview of carey pietsch's portfolio on careydraws.com

I'm a lesbian illustrator and cartoonist who would love to get to do more TTRPG work! if you think my work might be a good fit for Bitter Annihilation, I'd be delighted to hear more about it. my portfolio is at www.careydraws.com/illustration !

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

we've got what experts call a 'big snarl of birds'

the best course I took on this was gesture drawing with Alex Woo! Working on gesture drawing was really helpful for me in figuring out which parts of the form were the most essential to the expressions and acting I wanted to focus on. I def rec gesture drawing practice & courses for this!

annoyingly broad question: if I were to teach a continuing education class in the field of comics/visual storytelling, is there a specific topic/focus that you'd like to see from me? I have a couple of dream classes but I'd love to hear if there's anything you have in mind!

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

“Discussion of gender is not sexualization… [nor making] books available to students that represent the diversity of their experiences. Such an interpretation says far more about the adults and the perspectives they’re applying to books than it does about the books or their intended audiences.”

hi! my work is more cartoony than realistic, but I've gotten to do a couple romance-flavor character comms and it's always a treat. If you think my work might be a good fit, I'd be happy to work together, but totally understand if not-- good luck finding an artist! www.careydraws.com/illustration

Hey artists! QRP with your sketch vs final!

omfg perfect thumbnail face

I've talked about this at launch events but I have a very limited amount of visual RAM so when I'm thinking about page and panel composition there is almost no room in there for anything else lmao. but it works!! if the big picture (overall composition) is solid you can figure out the rest later!!

Hey artists! QRP with your sketch vs final!

I got to read through Pistolheart Vol 1 in the process of working on designs for the new classes in Vol 2 and it looks like SO much fun to play! Excited for Vol 2 to be released soon 👀👀👀

Meat Eaters, Meredith McClaren, Oni Press Flip, Ngozi Ukazu, First Second Simplicity, Mattie Lubchansky, Pantheon Hunger's Bite, Taylor Robin, Union Square & Co Strange Bedfellows, Ariel Slamet Ries, HarperAlley

It's Hugo Award nomination time! I'm looking forward to sharing what a great spec fic landscape there is in comics/GNs right now.
If you're a Worldcon member, might I suggest this slate: @iniquitousfish.bsky.social @ngoziu.com @mattielubchansky.com @taylor-robin.bsky.social @arielries.bsky.social

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

Thank you! It was fun to try to come up with an angle/composition to increase the sense of drama for those two in particular, I'm glad to hear it worked for you!

greyscale spot illo of one kid on a bike chasing another who's running with a cat in her backpack. text reads 'no matter how fast she pedaled, she never could quite catch up.'

another greyscale spot illo peek! you can see them all at www.careydraws.com/illustration . I'd love to draw more of these! let me know if you'd like to work together 📩

greyscale spot illo of one kid on a bike chasing another who's running with a cat in her backpack. text reads 'no matter how fast she pedaled, she never could quite catch up.'

another greyscale spot illo peek! you can see them all at www.careydraws.com/illustration . I'd love to draw more of these! let me know if you'd like to work together 📩