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raaaa i did it the intro strip for #StarsLightOurPath is done! I gotta let it rest for a bit, then i can do some spot fixes / edits. but ... aaaaa

unfortunately right now tech company leaders *want* their people to use AI. if you don't wanna, they're making you do it. most job listings for engineering jobs want you to be using LLMs to write code. it fucking blows but the noisy bsky dev guy isn't in the minority 😞

Dude they're real.... A digital drawing of my OCs Aaliyah and Lance. On the left is Aaliyah, she is smiling at the viewer and holding a take out frappuccino in her left hand. She is wearing a white T shirt, a tan apron, light blue pants, and her hair is in dark brown and pink box braids. On the right is Lance, he is looking at the viewer with a neutral expression and holding a mug in one hand and a pitcher in the other. He is wearing a black, long sleeve turtle neck, gray pants, a tan apron, and has light brown hair in a ponytail. They are set against a green and orange background with stars

Barista time ☕✨

I was working on some updated art for character profiles and got a bit carried away

[ #ocs #ocsky #bsad ]

A skilled knight is in the middle of destroying you with her deadliest guitar riff 🎸🔥 Prepare your elixirs

Bard Knight 02🛡️
‘Tis a Critical Hit! 🎸

as a previous enjoyer of Firefly, I'd be delighted for whatever "more" looks like

as a person who's been alive and on the Internet in all the intervening years I... am... concerned...

OPEN CALL! We want your comics and prose!

We are launching a new zine later this year called ZENESIS, featuring comics, prose, articles and more covering Mecha, Sci-fi and Space-Fantasy genres.

Deadline is the end of March.

THANKS ALSO HI I HAVENT SEEN YOU IN FOREVE

i think your art has an elegance? a smoothness. it feels kinda dreamy in a way. it makes me think of film in a way - the kind of arty film where you can tell the director had an emotional stake in the thing and wanted you to really *feel* what they were feeling.

Everyone who tried to draw around me and started drawing LOVED it at the beginning because of their QUICK IMPROVEMENT. Then quit when they hit The Wall™️.

But it's when you hit The Wall™️ that you NEED to push through with practice!! And you gotta do it for yourself, because it's ALWAYS worth it! 😤

I've learned so much just in the past few days of pulling pieces together for this, holy hell. seriously, there's no better teacher for this than just doing it. There's still so much more to learn too ✍️

the shapes are shaping

those "poorly drawn cartoon pfps" are keeping your stupid site alive

today i'm fixing all my problems with krita, at last. tracked down the cause of a crash, learned about file layers, it's all looking up

A sketchy comic panel featuring some trees and stone ruins in the background. the silhouettes of two characters are small in the frame, far in the grass between trees. Sky says: "I don't think there's anything left here... Where d'ya think we should head next?" Ruko replies "hmm. Maybe Hookspur? There's an old Foundry and some Ruins there with good pickins. or... so I've heard"

This was my first "test panel"

some strips will feature sweeping backgrounds and simplified character silhouettes, though I do intend to do a lot more character art than backgrounds

I wanted to test out the workflow and see how it felt to find resources, do a quick pass on ink, color, and dialogue

commute fits

yeeeeeep ... I didn't take the time to look in to it but the fact there was ONE article from a source I've never heard of (whose name sounds super generic), AND it was a "sources say..." was setting off a ton of alarms for me

A comic page with 4 panels: The first panel depicts a woman, Celdervinn, leaning against a pillar, her arms crossed looking sleepy, over-viewing a square where people are clashing and practicing their sword-play. In the distance far off, between the gate towers, stand two silhouettes entering the square. The second panel shows Mihoko carrying a bag of belongings while being guided through the gates by a knight. The third panel shows Miho and the knight making their way through the square, passing by squires practicing. The fourth panel shows Miho passing by Cel, paying her no mind. Cel, on the other hand is eyeing her suspiciously. There's a narrating bubble which reads "From the moment we met.".

Welcome to the Academy of Mélusine - the most prestigious Knight Academy in the Kingdom.

This little 4 page teaser took me a month to make (🫣), I hope you enjoy it! I'm aiming to publish my comic some time this summer.
Stay tuned for the next pages, I'll post them the following days!

#KnightsAU

A sketchy comic panel featuring some trees and stone ruins in the background. the silhouettes of two characters are small in the frame, far in the grass between trees. Sky says: "I don't think there's anything left here... Where d'ya think we should head next?" Ruko replies "hmm. Maybe Hookspur? There's an old Foundry and some Ruins there with good pickins. or... so I've heard"

This was my first "test panel"

some strips will feature sweeping backgrounds and simplified character silhouettes, though I do intend to do a lot more character art than backgrounds

I wanted to test out the workflow and see how it felt to find resources, do a quick pass on ink, color, and dialogue

a sketch of a character torso. She's some sort of scalie/draconic creature. she's wearing a cloak with fur around the neck. In her outstretched palm is a swirling magical light and she's uttering something in an unknown language.

some of my early planning sketches of our protagonists:

Ruko (she/her) is a mage from ????. She's laid-back, occasionally whimsical. Says she's never been this way before, but always seems to know where to go and who to talk to.

sketch of a character bust. they're a human with blue/purple medium-length hair. they have goggles on their head, a bandanna around their neck, and big work gloves

some of my early planning sketches of our protagonists:

Sky (they/them) was an airship mechanics apprentice before getting dragged into the salvage corps. They've never left home before and now they're experiencing the whole wide world, with equal parts dread and excitement

It's a learning project for me and it'll release on an "as its made" basis, but the first strip will be out next week, with more soon :)

I'll also share a bit of behind the scenes/ development stuff here in a little bit

graphic of a starry sky, some silhouettes of two travellers at the bottom. In the middle are the words "Stars Light Our Path", with a graphic blue glowy constellation between the words

#webcomic project i'm cooking up:

#StarsLightOurPath is a warm fantasy journey following scavengers Sky and Ruko as they travel through strange forests, windswept ruins (perhaps some haunted boneyards as well), reclaiming old tech and magic to clear their debts and get a chance to start new lives.

alright i'm nearing readiness on my project so i'm just gonna like, announce/share some stuff

Start your webcomic, do a page whenever you have the time and eventually before you know it you'll have hundereds of pages finished

A purple haired elf knight wails on her guitar,, I hope you’re ready to be destroyed 🎸🎸🎸 Prepare yourself for more of my bard warriors 😁💕

Bard Knight 01 🛡️
Dost thou shred? 🎸

sketchpage including some vague gestures, the face of a woman with a scar, a purple-ish cat head, a foreshortened arm and hand, and some misc shapes

a sketch page with some smudgy shapes, a little computer screen robot with legs and a smiley face, a pink knight with a cape, some arm/hand poses, a little smiling guy, and another unfinished knight

I dropped some sketches the other day as an offering on other sites, forgot to share them here :)

#art #sketch #artistonbsky

*vibrates* things are happeninggg i'm doing the thing

do you think that people quoting this with "YEAH i only peaked at 35!" know that they're missing the point or not?

😓 thanks i was about to perish but these colors have reinvigorated me

i feel some investors know what's up and are just trying to get all they can before things explode... but a lot of them are true believers, slurping up the hype fumes, seeing the potential dollar signs if it all works out magic. if it doesn't, to them, "oh well, bad bet" and jump on the next thing