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idletry: end of april update

i definitely did NOT finish the script by the end of april, lol. the problem that's been plaguing me for years is that the part of my brain that usually writes (and has ideas for the most part) wil...

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catharsis, page 28

originally the karen was supposed to disintegrate, but the chat was not a fan of the concept when i pitched it like a month in advance to test the waters about less realistic slapstick gags.

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catharsis, page 27

[pinching my brow] this could have been one page. if they weren't so small this karen would have only taken 1 page... these comic sizes are rough sometimes. the shortstack kind of page is great for...

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FaD strip: heart-to-art, part 2 (+ full comic)

i'm tired, so i can't write up a huge commentary for the second part. this took forever, but it was a breath of fresh air to return to drake and xyr One Wish after working with the protagonist of i...

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print comics and workflow

hi. context: i thought of a new comic from combining two old ideas i'd been kicking around in my head for a while called idletry last week. since bringing it up again and combining the ideas, work ...

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catharsis, page 26

oh man. somebody remind me to put a moving background character in there at some point... sorry, i can't really do substantial commentary this time. i haven't gotten a good amount of sleep in 2 day...

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catharsis, page 25

this page was ROUGH. have some scrapped sketches:

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time lapse: folie a dupe "stay"

so, i tooled around with making "speedpaints" of some VODs. it's kind of a pain, but fairly mindless. mostly, it's waiting for things to download and upload and process.

the biggest PitA abou...

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FaD strip: stay

i really, really wanted to draw this and pushed it out on my day off (some of it the two days beforehand). the smear effects seemed like they would be really fun to draw, and the section where the ...

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next 3 months of comics schedule

hi again. aaaaalmost forgot to make this poll.
i can either keep updating catharsis once per week and do you still think about it once per week, or i can move to trying to update catharsis twice...

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catharsis, page 24

initially, the last 2 panels weren't in this page. this scene's transitional dialogue is a little weird.
i asked the stream for their opinion on comedy which clearly defied the laws of physics o...

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catharsis, page 23

well! the good thing about running out of my buffer is that i can actually remember the commentary i had about pages.

you can see this entire scene will be a nightmare because of the level of...

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music: music box 1, cheater's box

made this a while ago. a lot of this came out really awkward - all of the parts sound completely fine on their own, but they just don't harmonize well. it looked like it would based on the shape of...

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FaD strip: self-expression

here's the thing i worked on yesterday instead of what i was supposed to because it was my birthday!
i've been reading a lot of old folie a dupe strips while contemplating heart-to-art's content...

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music: "crystals and pianos"

hi. as i've been working on learning new skills for this project, i've started learning cursory knowledge about music - things like "what a pad is" or "how to use a DAW." i'll be up-front and say i...

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catharsis, page 22

sorry for the late upload today -- last night i had a stomachache which for reasons beyond my comprehension evolved into a magnitude 8 headache, which i couldn't really get to subside until like 1 ...

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FaD strip: heart-to-art [part 1/2]

this folie a dupe strip is a bit less conventional than usual.
on some level, i wish that i'd not done the effects to the edges of the panels; the comic would have been completely finished by no...

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catharsis, page 21

page 23 has been taking centuries because it is VERY detailed, and i've also been distracted by an intense desire to work on a folie a dupe strip (currently all the way drawn, needs special colorin...

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catharsis, page 20

once again, i can't type much since some nerve in my shoulder is flipping out... i have a doctor's appointment to get a physical therapy referral and xray referral again on the 3rd, but for now... ...

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catharsis, page 19

EDIT: as suggested, swapped the palettes, so the alt palette is now the "official" palette :)

okay so, i've been dealing with a lot of health issues with my dog, so the commentary on this pa...

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catharsis, page 18

okay, cool, all the little building blocks are set up - there's still some stuff, but i think the end of this scene provides the most basic foundation of the story. we've introduced the core charac...

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catharsis, page 17

here we go - some important stuff about charlotte and a big ol' lie from felix to impress her. the cracks in the Smile Panel were a little challenging to do, but the folie a dupe strip i drew a whi...

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catharsis, page 16

finally!!!!!! we finally get something substantial about charlotte that isn't a sounding board for felix!!! we did it girls!!!

we have another eyes-only glance from her here, this time a once...

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catharsis, page 15

i really struggled with that last panel, particularly because the page was thumbnailed, and pushing the eyes and mouth wasn't as easy on a larger scale, with eye whites surrounding the pupils... View Post

catharsis, page 14

i think this is the page where i definitively started using thumbnails pretty consistently - they seemed like a good way to remove some of the mental burden while sketching. unfortunately, i don't ...

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january 2023

i'm gonna mostly let this comic do the work for me here.
mostly, my art went in a direction i really didn't like in 2022, And in 2024 i'm gonna be turning 30, so i will be having my regularly sc...

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catharsis, page 13

i promise you, the sketch is virtually identical to the lines for this page, lmao. all i have for you is this tiny pair of thumbnails to figure out the perspective i wanted in the last panel.

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work schedule until march 2023

hey everybody, i've obviously not been able to keep up with my schedule or drawing for update images, but i'm still around, working on stuff. i mentioned before that the two-updates-per-week schedu...

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catharsis, page 12

okay. my hand hurts less, but i'd like to still not push it. it doesn't hurt after an hour of drawing, but it can feel very tense after like. four. which is not ideal. just assume the rest of decem...

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catharsis, page 11

okay, this week is still getting only one update - my hand still hurts so much that i can only draw for a few hours most days, and my sister's dog just had emergency surgery a few days ago... even ...

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