September 2023 - February 2025 Postcards Shipped!

Finally, after spending hours in front of a spreadsheet to track benefits, battling my printer for dominance, wiping out all ink on local store shelves, crunching the numbers and realizing it would take me weeks to print these postcards at a healthy capacity for my machine, taking the L and outsourcing the prints, running out of stamps, cleaning out the local grocery store of their stamps, not being able to get any international stamps at the post office and having to buy them online... I've finally got postcards shipped for all patrons from September of 2023 through February this year! I suppose this is a lesson to myself to not let so much time pass me by, haha.

If you have postcards on the way and they get lost, damaged, etc. let me know and I'd be happy to send new ones! Postcards are only shipped to patrons with a valid mailing address. If you don't have an address listed but are eligible for postcards from this or previous rounds, be sure to update your info and send me a message. Or, you're welcome to download these images yourself to print at home! Or use as a desktop background, etc. etc. As a final note, all paid patrons can see this post, but only Bronze Rank or higher were eligible to have them shipped.

Now, some notes for each postcard!

September 2023 - A pretty basic one, the back cover for Dungeons & Damages without the text!

October 2023 - Canon style Malachi and Rune aren't real, canon style Malachi and Rune can't hurt you... This one is based on the Vulpix and Shinx menu screen in PMD: Explorers of Sky! With Bidoof tastefully removed, of course.

November 2023 - This one doubled as a revisited Redbubble clock design! It was fun rendering out a piece featuring Dialga again after going so long without.

December 2023 - The 9th anniversary piece, without text! As context for those who missed it, this features both iterations of Rune drawn in the opposite style of their comic.

January 2024 - Whoaaaa, some traditional art again! I haven't done that for a postcard since 2022. This one was drawn with ballpoint pen and crayons, and then touched up in post for some minor color correction.

February 2024 - I once again asked my partner's sibling for postcard design ideas, and one such prompt was "pixel art"! I usually do my pixel art in aseprite or MS Paint, but this time I used a non-aliased brush in CSP.

March 2024 - The map for Inigo's Mysterious Dungeons campaign! The aptly named "Fire Continent". This was included in the print edition of the Special Episode, but I thought it'd be fun to have a print that isn't trapped in binding.

April 2024 - Another prompt from my partner's sibling was "shoujo". Naturally I combined this with a suggestion from a friend that I should do a piece featuring Rune and Dielle in the famous Vocaloid Magnet yuri pose. I'm sure my partner's sibling would prefer I continue the clown series for an April postcard, but this was too good to pass up.

May 2024 - Wowie, another sibling prompt! This one was based on the superflat art style movement. One thing that stuck with me after reading up on it was the idea that it acknowledges consumerism using cutesy designs and eye-catching colors and- most notably to me- repetitive themes. For this illustration I thought it'd be interesting to use the Time Gears, the main logo for the Explorers series, as the eye catch, as they cascade down to nearly swallow our protagonist. Something something, on borrowed time :)

June 2024 - Yet another prompt! This one was ukiyo-e, or Japanese wood block prints. This one has such a wide range of style that it was difficult to settle on any one particular thing- some artists go all in on a lot of detail, while some have hardly any at all. Hopefully this study does well enough in conveying the style?

July 2024 - The prompt for this one was "neon"- which I immediately knew would be an issue for a printer. The way ink and pigment work irl is that you can only get as bright as your base inks- there's no way to make them any brighter, and they'll only desaturate if you mix them at all. So I knew right away what my three options were for the neon colors: cyan, magenta, and yellow... the three primary ink colors. I thought it'd also look neat with that sort of pop art style, and this was the result!

August 2024 - The Monster House Marathon poster from August this past year, without text! I'm looking forward to reupping OBT's buffer soon so I can do another one of these eventually...

September 2024 - Whoa... two traditional art pieces in one year? This one is an acrylic piece I did as part of a little outdoor painting session with my mom. The sun in this was added by dipping a flowering dandelion into paint and stamping it on there. I think it ended up kinda cute!

October 2024 - Another Nothing Gold themed postcard! This one features a character we won't meet until Chapter 2, and I loooove her design. Not so much her chair though, that's definitely gonna be simplified in the comic lol

November 2024 - And a postcard featuring the art from the cover of Book 2 without text! I think this is my favorite cover of any of the books so far haha

December 2024 - And following with the theme from the previous December, a postcard featuring the 10th anniversary art without text! It was fun drawing pre-reboot OBT's team again in the reflection. I actually used a gradient map preset in CSP so they wouldn't just be black and white, but coincidentally the mapping matched the team's canon palettes nearly exactly! Right down to shiny Kodali.

January 2025 - A little paper cutout style featuring Eilwyn! I miss them a lot, I'm looking forward to seeing them again........ someday

February 2025 - Featuring OBT's most popular couple! You'd think a February postcard would cash in on the pinks and yellows and purples of Valentine's day, right? Well. Yeah. That was my original plan. But my printer station has 2 spares of each color, except for black and photo black. Of which I have 6-8 cartridges of each. I'm tired of them taking up space, so I made a postcard that would use them up, since the February cards are the only ones I didn't outsource prints for (my printer can handle the average monthly load for postcards quite easily, it just can't catch up on 500 prints all at once haha)