@jbshear
Hi! I’m a cartoonist from North Carolina. I’m making a comic called Inoscularum, a love story about healing the world with folk magic. I’ve also done some other comics, which you can read at the link below. www.jbshear.art/comics buttondown.com/jbshear
An in-progress panel of Nox warming his hands by the fireplace
I’m still getting the hang of drawing Nox, since “draw cute girls and cute animals” has kind of been my MO for my entire life, but here he is.
#inoscularum #wip
Thank you so much!! :)
Page 22 in progress
Almost… halfway… done… inking… this… chapter….!!!!!
#inoscularum #wip
Page 22 in progress
Almost… halfway… done… inking… this… chapter….!!!!!
#inoscularum #wip
“I’m concerned about safety since I don’t have a PO box” <— the lie of someone who’s afraid of bubble mailers
The real reason I don’t have an online shop is because while I’m old enough to know how to mail a letter, I’m young enough to be intimidated and confused by mailing anything larger or heavier than that
A postcard print of a gouache painting of a stone lantern in front of a house surrounded by a few small trees, rocks, and foliage. Two small black blobs with white eyes are peeking out from inside the lantern.
An art print of an acrylic painting of a tree trunk split down the middle into three pieces, surrounded by small rocks and a smattering of green weeds and other foliage. A small black blob with eyes and tiny hands is peering out over the inside edge of the trunk. Another identical black blob is further back behind the trunk, at the left side, crawling on the ground.
NEW LITTLE GUYS PRINTS IN MY SHOP 👀!!!
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#bsnm #artprints
depictions of the cosmic forces whose unity created the flow of energy from which demons are formed and that circulates in all beings across all dimensions/taking a break from my tablet to put actual pen on paper lol.
A two panel comic Panel 1- me face planting off of a skateboard Panel 2- me pointing to my mouth, where I’m missing a tooth
doof
A chaotic page of slasher bunny originals, with out of order panels and a bunch of sketches in the margins
Was looking at my Slasher Bunny originals the other day… I drew this one panel at a time, out of order, and assembled each page on the computer, which was a wild choice that I haven’t repeated since!
#slasherbunny #altcomics
-Ariadne with her hand on one hip, which I thought looked like “sparkle on! It’s Wednesday” so I wrote that beside her in the “font” I use for spells/sound effects in the comic -Ariadne reaching for an apple in a tree
Happy Wednesday
#inoscularum #sketchbook
A printed Slasher Bunny next to the original cover artwork
Reprinted a small batch of Slasher Bunny for Fluke later this month! I’ll draw Bun in the back of it as your favorite final girl :)
#slasherbunny #altcomics
The cover of “cowboy firefighter christmas kiss: a smokin’ hot cowboys novel,” which features a fairly modestly dressed cowboy firefighter
It’s also telling how incredibly chaste the covers of these romance novels are. Even the cover for Cowboy Firefighter Christmas Kiss: A Smokin’ Hot Cowboys Novel, which sounds like an experience of pure housewife id to me, is unbelievably tame.
According to my mommy erotica survey, the 3 sexiest jobs are
1- Cowboy
2- Firefighter
3- Cowboy Firefighter (and it’s Christmas)
In a shocking upset, “Scottish Laird” no longer makes the top 3. I think this data tells you everything you need to know about suburban America right now
I want to hurry up and finish chapter 1 of Inoscularum because I’m absolutely *cookiiiiiiing* on the chapter 2 script/ thumbnails! Aaaaaa
Don’t know why they keep making pokémons. They already made Charmander, who is perfect in every way
An anole hiding between “a scare of a dare” and “the minecraft essential handbook”
They’re also where lizards go when they get cold!
I think little free libraries must be where Nora Roberts books go when they die.
It’s jogging season again, which means I get to look at all the little free libraries on my route and see what kind of erotica moms are into
The drawing of Val in panel 3 is *chef’s kiss*!
Panel in pencil with a sort of stiff drawing
The same panel in ink with a less stiff drawing
Something I’ve learned while making the first Inoscularum is: don’t feel like you have to make all of your edits before you start inking a chapter! Sometimes you’ll look at a panel while you’re inking, go, “this could be more expressive,” and draw a new one. Idk, just believe in your future self!
Here’s the February newsletter! Beats the junk playin’ on the tv right now!
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Ariadne, a nun, nervously thinks “I’ve just let a m…man into my home!” Nox, the man she let into her home, looks around while saying to himself, “interesting place…”
Ariadne is the sort of person who does things first and thinks about them later.
#inoscularum #wip #altcomics
Ariadne leaning on a counter, Ariadne’s face, Ariadne dreaming about finding a giant squash, Ariadne’s walking with a mortar and pestle, and Ariadne crushing up some herbs in a mortar and pestle
Monday morning Ariadnes!
#inoscularum #sketchbook
Ariadne leaning on a counter, Ariadne’s face, Ariadne dreaming about finding a giant squash, Ariadne’s walking with a mortar and pestle, and Ariadne crushing up some herbs in a mortar and pestle
Monday morning Ariadnes!
#inoscularum #sketchbook
“Exhausted Ariadne holding novelty mug full of coffee” is another thing I’ve learned I love to draw
Aw wow, thanks so much! :)
Various doodles of Ariadne (a nun) and Nox (a historian). This week Ariadne’s coffee mug says “nun ya bsns.”
This week’s before work Ariadnes (now with added Nox!)
#inoscularum #sketchbook
She thinks… a LOT about them later! Perhaps even too much!
#inoscularum #wip