One scene in Sun Sprain follows Beat over a few years of being alone, and to help give some exposition I decided to share a few journal entries they would've made over the months of vagabonding around the pacific northwest. I've always been all for doing my comics 100% on my own, but I thou...
2022-10-13 04:01:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Pointy ear edition cuz floppy edition had a couple weird scans <3
Pointy ear edition was made on a copy of the original earless version, which ended up becoming floppy ear edition. The colors on this version are slightly off from the original markers I used.
Whole thing draft...
2022-10-12 02:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I got accepted into the ANW artist's alley in January, so I'm working on stuff for my table, including a zine called "I'm your Nintendog and I'm still okay". A little nostalgic romp 💕 I have a guest artist for Sun Sprain working on a couple asides for the next set of pages right now so I'm wor...
2022-10-10 15:23:17 +0000 UTC View Post
December 21st!!!!! Thank you all for your support. I haven't made a comic in over 2 years so the fact a few of you have been so trusting and generous and faithful in me has seriously done so much. I appreciate you all immensely. Whether you're around for years more or just a little longer, I hope...
2022-10-09 18:55:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Going to write the end of chapter 1 tonight and come up with a release date. I'll reveal it this weekend. Probably releasing chapter 1 sometime in December to play it safe. I'm really nervous about this but I think it's time to announce @_@ wish me luck!
2022-10-08 21:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Milestone reached tonight! Hooray!!!! 25 pages make up the first scene in the book, and all have been finished, reviewed, and given their finishing touches. I wasn't even fully sure I'd get this far, but I'm so happy to be here. These next few scenes will (hopefully) take a much faster time to pr...
2022-09-28 05:25:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Page 1 of Sun Sprain is an interior shot of a college house party, so I figured I'd add some loose reference to a few familiar faces from another comic concept of mine... DeAndre, Benji, and Kath from Thrift Island :^} I try to avoid easter eggs in my comics but I couldn't pass up the opportunity...
2022-09-26 04:17:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This page was made in several sessions over about a month. I just finished it up now so I might end up tweaking a few things later (always save your layer files!) if I'm unhappy with them, but overall I'm calling it done!! I was having trouble getting Beat and Brad downstairs without a lot of pan...
2022-09-19 03:44:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm enjoying this page and I have a feeling some of the detail is gonna get blupped out when I start adding the lighting/shading, so I figured I'd share a little lights-on peek with you! Those layers... do I know what's going on? Barely
2022-09-15 02:59:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Pushing through it! Page 18 and 19 (adding an intro page to clarify/establish setting). Sometime tomorrow I'll do another Toyhouse upload, so look forward to that! I've also been putting together playlists for both Beat and Brad that I think I'll add to their profiles in case you want some more m...
2022-08-31 05:21:17 +0000 UTC View Post
here's a little taste for you all u.u pages 11-13 (full digital)
2022-08-16 03:48:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Evening :^] Full-steam-aheading this scene right now, if I'm unhappy with how something's going I just toss it and try again. Here's some sketches / lineart from a few pages that I've scrapped for tweaked versions.
2022-08-04 05:32:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there! I'm working on this page at the moment and want to talk a bit about some ideas for how I'll be releasing this story.
If I'm being realistic, I can't finish this comic in the way I want and still have it out before 2023. I think instead it might be easier on me (and maybe more fun...
2022-08-02 03:49:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Just somethin small :^] <3 I had an idea that while Beat was vagabondin' around, he stayed in one town a lot longer than he typically would... maybe it was the scenery that appealed to him, or maybe it was the hottie boy java stop that would offer him food n water. We'll never know for sure......
2022-07-26 19:19:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Chugging through this beginning scene. Mixing up some media with this one, going full-digital for a couple of pages until these two come out into the sunshine. Using the shaded scenery as an excuse to make doing lines a little easier x_x
I'm working on a release date for this, not sure what it...
Wanted to share this behemoth in progress x_x still coloring, then coloring the lines, adding text, fine-tuning a few things, and adding another panel above the first in that empty gap.
You a fan of these progression shots? I'd love to share them a little more often if they pique your inter...
2022-05-31 04:52:03 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.instagram.com/studioscheppen/
Gonna be live for a few hours probably!
2022-05-22 00:28:26 +0000 UTC View PostSaturday 5/21 at 5:30 pm I'll be streaming the inking of a Sun Sprain page set on my Instagram! :^} come on by if you'd like to hang out and watch! 💕 🌞 🏃
2022-05-20 04:03:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought yesterday was Saturday oops... well! It's here now! Enjoy :^D
Song at the end from this album: 2022-04-26 01:39:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's somethin to hold you over :^}
2022-04-22 17:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Not of Sun Sprain, but the first two in Sun Sprain that I've finished! I'm happy with the technique of digital to traditional to digital, but I can see other pages being done in other ways. Time will tell where the extent of mixed media goes in this book.
I won't be spoili...
2022-04-01 16:24:40 +0000 UTC View Post
So it begins! Starting with a scene just after the very first few pages (still figuring out the dialogue, which really bases the pictures in a scene for me).
I'm trying a different strategy of illustration for Sun Sprain - while with other books I've done full digital, full traditional, o...
A little editing and then its time... TO DRAW!!!!!!!
2022-03-16 18:24:16 +0000 UTC View PostI wanna answer some questions you have about my comics or comic ocs! Anything goes :^} ask as many as you'd like 🌟 I'll share my answers in another post
2022-03-12 19:01:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Afternoon! Spent some time after work today doodling some thoughts of Brad.
I was able to get a ton of materials for illustration a while ago thanks to all of you! Lots of page tests and more comic-lookin things will be showing up!
HOORAY! After ages of working and drafting, I'm happy to announce that Sun Sprain and The Sea Beast in Henry MacArthur are arriving free-to-read on my website in 2022 / 2023!!!
Thank you to the bottom of my heart for being here and enjoying my stories, I can't wait to see what you all thin...
I appreciate your loads of patience! I'm getting prepared for a huge art upload (and some more fun things) to my comic toyhouse on the 28th. I hope it'll be fun for you all to see! :^}
2022-02-27 03:59:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Still on that sea serpent / gay people in the sun shit!!! I just thought you'd like to see a few more teeny lil things to hold you over till I'm finished >:^}c
2022-02-03 04:25:49 +0000 UTC View Post
hey there! I mentioned new things were on their way - my health issues that sparked earlier this month really hindered things, but I hope it'll be worth the wait!
The video above is a lullaby whistled from James MacArthur to Henry when he was a lil baby. I've been making lots of conce...
2022-01-30 20:15:38 +0000 UTC View Post