And here they all are! Looking very spiffy! Like I said in the last post, it's been literal years since I've drawn some of these characters, and I remembered some a little better than others! I'm working myself back into that Smooth Sakana Spirit, but there will still be a few bumps in the road a...
2023-06-05 16:24:30 +0000 UTC View Post
IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING. Maybe like 8-10 years?? Since I've update the Sakana website cast page. BUT THE WAIT WILL SOON BE OVER because here we are, nearly every single named character that I could remember. Do you remember them all? I don't blame you if you don't it's been years si...
2023-06-03 22:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyyyy, you're probably sick of seeing these 8 pages at this point, but GOOD NEWS: they're totally finished and I can move on now! I just wanted to collect them again in a new post for easy viewing, including pages 1-3 which were finished this week.
These 8 pages are basically the int...
2023-06-01 21:32:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh my god, this file almost destroyed my 5+ year old laptop. 500 dpi, textured tones, probably way too many layers...it took 3 minutes to save sometimes. This might be the only two-page spread in the comic (and certainly the most background heavy) so I'm hoping the rest of the pages will be a lit...
2023-05-25 22:20:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody! In case you didn't see on Twitter, my partner just got laid off out of nowhere! So we've both been busting ass to get new work done this past week, and for me that means nailing down the final style for RR Chapter 2 and starting to finish pages!
As I mentioned in my las...
2023-05-22 13:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody!
Since RR Chapter 2 is going to be grayscale rather than color, I wanted to find a way to push my b&w work a little further to make up for it. I've always been a little allergic to photoshop brushes, but I finally sat myself down and figured some stuff out!
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Is Yuudai in a terrible mood or a great mood? Who can tell!
I think at this point I've well and truly gotten back into the swing of things, so hopefully the pacing will feel a little more natural from here on out! We gotta know what happened on that Tachibana family dinner date!! ...
2023-05-03 19:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post
HE'S BACK. Forgive me if this first chapter seems a little minute by minute in the pacing, I'm really just trying to get back into the groove! I've been trying to include detailed backgrounds in these first few pages as a way to remember and practice what the stall/market looks like.
There he is! The little man! Andy isn't used to being around so many small aliens that he is NOT actively trying to intimidate. But his face just looks like that, he can't help it u_u.
Story elements always take on a life of their own on the page, despite how much planning I do ahead ...
2023-04-18 18:13:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I put together a mockup of what I'd like to shoot for with the SAKANA site revamp! My main goal was to add more COLOR to the page, which, I know, sounds a little counterintuitive for a black and white comic, but that was one of my challenges. I picked a generally warm tan-orange-red theme to lay ...
2023-04-13 15:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post
March was such a whirlwind of a month that I didn't have any time to make a new sticker! I've done new wizards and fish recently, so I decided to take another crack at those little veggie babies I drew a while ago. Here's an onion! Or I guess an Allium, since it has the flower. I think I got bett...
2023-04-12 00:05:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's pages 1-3 (3 with text now!) in their rough stage. The captions are more or less a recap of the Chapter 1 intro with some new information added!
Once again this is going to be a background heavy comic, even though it's supposed to be about sexy alien antics, I JUST CAN'T HELP M...
2023-04-07 20:52:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh hey! Character development??
I'm switching gears to RR pages now, and because they take longer to make than Sakana pages, I'll be posting rough versions of each page and then final versions later.
Unlike Sakana, which has a fairly simple traditional thumbnail --> pencil --> i...
2023-04-05 17:04:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry I forgot to scan the pencils for this one!
I only had 3 thumbnails to start with, but honestly I'm just relieved that I was able to pick a scene to start chapter 25 and jump back in. It feels like tearing off a very old bandaid!
You may or may not be able to tell, but I switched...
2023-04-03 20:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Well...I really had it in my head that, as the years wore on without new Sakana pages, it would get harder and harder to ever go back. But lo and behold THE BODY REMEMBERS. I guess, EVEN ALMOST 4 YEARS LATER, it's harder than I thought to forget something you've already done 600 times lol. <...
2023-03-31 19:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
More good news: Robber/Robert Chapter 2 is also underway! The thumbnails are basically unreadable at this point, so I won't subject you to them, but here's proof that they're happening:
Andy ...
2023-03-24 20:23:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, my patient, patient friends. It's finally time.
Though my feelings towards the comic have naturally changed over time (I started it when I was 20 and I'm turning 34 this year lol) and I took a huge break from it (the second one, I might add! I took 2 years off in the mid 2010s to mak...
2023-03-24 19:55:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Aside from the stress-planning, the OTHER reason I'm able to get back to RR and Sakana this year is because THE GRAPHIC NOVEL I MADE WITH NGOZI IS BASICALLY DONE. 🎉🎉🎉
It's called BUNT!, and it already has it's own listing on a few different bookselling sites! (even though I'm credi...
2023-03-24 18:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
HEY EVERYBODY. Thanks for your patience this month while I was bodied over and over again by conventions, craft fairs, trips to my parents' house, and FINALLY bad news from Gannon's job that's thrown the rest of the year into question! Nothing has happened yet but boy are we both suffering with a...
2023-03-24 14:55:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! I just wanted to do a little check in and let you know that more updates are on the way in the second half of March! I was at ECCC in the beginning of the month and then had to travel to my parents' house for a few days to pick up little Gizmo (my dog, in case you're new here!) whi...
2023-03-14 14:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post
AND THAT'S IT. Just a silly little comic I wanted to make after finishing some big, long-term projects! I hope you guys enjoyed it, and I'd love to launch into some new short comics asap. I've always been a big-scope writer (for better or OFTEN for worse lol) so having so many ideas for little sn...
2023-03-10 13:38:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm leaving for Emerald City Comic Con early tomorrow morning, so I thought I'd post these pages a day early to close out the month of February!
And the pencils:
2023-02-28 21:13:31 +0000 UTC
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SURPRISE! He's orange now! I thought the original greeny-blue was a little too close to the coelacanth sticker, so I took a hard left turn and wound up with this!
I won't have him in time for ECCC (which is in like...three days aaaa) but I'm hoping to send it off to the printer soon a...
2023-02-27 23:09:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Nothing can stop this barn party!
Really the goal of this comic has been to put all my favorite things to draw in one short story. And that includes TREES. LOTS OF TREES.
And the pencils!
2023-02-22 22:01:52 +0000 UTC
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This one is turning out to be a little more challenging than I though, but I think I'm finally making some headway! I wanted to bring the coloring more in line with the coelacanth and sunfish stickers I've already made, which meant bringing in hard black shadows. Like this:
2023-02-22 21:23:38 +0000 UTC
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Just doodling some cute looks! I think I should probably do another round that are more cheesecake-y sci-fi 👽💦
Also! Hello to all my new Patrons! You can expect some more x - rated content in my next post 😇👍
2023-02-21 20:57:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Unfortunately, it's become pretty obvious to me that I won't be able to get the Wizard Barn Party comic toned and printed in time for ECCC, so I took a little break today to work on February's winning sticker design: the Bobtail Squid! This little round baby won the poll by a landslide lol. ...
2023-02-17 21:37:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, he wasn't kidding! :V
Also, finally making headway on rendering for these pages! Maybe someday I'd like to (possibly hire someone to) fully color this comic, but for now I think I'm getting good returns on grayscale! Here's page 15!
2023-02-16 01:07:39 +0000 UTC
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Oh no! Conflict! OWL CONFLICT!
In case you need a refresher, Owl Wizard was the one who set up the date in the first place!
And here are the pencils:
2023-02-09 01:49:25 +0000 UTC
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Ok so I was ONE DAY off when I'd hoped to have this done by Tuesday, BUT, it's done now and off to the printer! I also decided to make a sticker of them on the rocket because I have /a sticker problem/. I've also included some in-progress cover shots for your consideration.
FURTHERMOR...
2023-02-08 23:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post