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Dreamstorm, Chapter 1, Scene 1

Writing begins!

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“Say again?” Jahir said, but the flush of rising pleasure made it clear he’d heard Vasiht’h clearly. It was that flush that inspired Vasiht’h t...

Three Kings Day Sale, 2017

Many years ago, when I used to do all my own prints, I used to run a sale to celebrate the procession of the three wisemen to Bethlehem. Three Kings Day is my parents’ culture’s gifting holid...

Merry Christmas, Patrons

Thank you for your support this year. Whatever holiday you celebrate (even if it's just "I have some time off and I need rest"), I hope it restores you and prepares you for the coming year.

I was go...

Nochebuena

:)

Brass Dragon Cuddle

Just a quick doodle that I liked because the dragon looks so doglike. 'Dis mah humanoid, I lurv him'

Kids Are Amazing

Like, literally, sometimes I think 'how does this work' and I walk through the steps and I'm like 'what. how does a person happen I can't even'. 

But yes, she finished Portal. I guess at ten ye...

More Smol Dragonchild

Because adorable tiny Chatcaava are even cuter in Peter Pan collar-dresses.

Also, jumping Flitzbes.

All the Princes' Game Characters

...when you can't even fit your entire cast on one page...

Test Layout

I am slowly finding and hiring artists to redo the art for my older books, and I found someone I want to do the landscapes for the Kherishdar novels. Which... required me to know just how much landsca...

One and a Half Hour Meeting

...at Day Hobby (seriously, the week before Christmas?). So I did pages and pages of ink sketches, and eventually got onto this notion of an adventuring party. This was Page 1, with Dwarf fighter, Elf...

To Live (With Nuance)

“Your language has too much nuance.”

This complaint wins me a sardonic look from Haraa, who is sitting on the windowseat with her books spread over her lap. But that’s fine. I can handle sardo...

Assets

Anastasia asked what I was using and how, so here's a screenshot!

I'm animating in Clip Studio (because that's what I got!).

So what I did was... draw two head positions, three eye positions, ...

Animation Experimentation Resumes

So I have returned to educating myself on how animation works, and in particular re-using assets so you don't have to continually re-draw them. That way you can just draw the mouth twice and the eyes ...

Who Like Ice Cream (we dooooo)

Lots of sketching last night while chatting with people about where the Peltedverse is going next. Most of which comprises spoilers I'm not sure you all want to see! But this one is harmless (and was ...

Patreon Rolls Back Fee Changes

...so that's the good news.

The not-so-good news is that they still have a problem to solve and they're not sure how to do it. They don't tell us what that problem is in their post, but I can't help...

Three Sentences in Ai-Naidari

We've gone from 'I'd like to know some words' to 'I'd like to see some sentences' to 'I'd like to hear this spoken' over on the chat, so... obediently, here I am. Three sentences in Ai-Naidari:

&nbs...

First Fire of the Season

I know, shocker! It actually got into the 40s yesterday, so I brought the candelabra out of the fireplace and shoved the fireplace grate back in place. And then drove off to buy wood so I could get th...

Stay in Contact!

I can see people starting to leave, and I'm totally good with that. I don't blame you for jumping ship... I'm discussing options now with folks on the Discord chat about where to go now, if this doesn...

PATREON STAHP

So Patreon just rammed through a change in how fees are handled without consulting its userbase at large, and it is genuinely awful, and their response to creator outrage is not encouraging.

In the ...

Closer Look at the Scriptliner

It's actually a lot easier to handle that you'd assume from the length of the hairs.

So, about Patreon's fee change: yes, it's awful. The number of creators howling outra...

Mother Mary

With scriptliner.

The Queen with Baby

Doodle while on the van in Ireland. It was challenging to work on the van, even though the windows were enormous, because there was almost no sun... the light was always diffuse, and it made everythin...

Brand Management

It's been a while since we've had a business post, so I thought I'd let you into my brain for a bit, and the roughly $15,000 I'm probably going to end up spending incrementally over the next few years...

More Ai-Naidari

Rabbit wanted to write some of the aphorisms from the chapbook, which... required me to translate them. Or more accurately, required me to see how inadequate my current grammar is when I tried 2017-11-30 18:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post