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MI Stuff- Dom

This won't be in the comic I don't think (there might be an allusion in Ch 4) but, yeah, Mike's... roommate. Dom is a grad student at the same university where Mike was an adjunct professor for a whil...

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MI310 Preview/ Process notes

Just a little preview of tomorrow's update~ Colors are not final at all, more like me doing my thing trying to find the final balance.

Generally for "new" colors (like, I just made a scene chang...

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Thank you/ Shoptalk- The Spreadsheet of Madness

Just a mid-month thank you and general reminder that I sent out all of the $10+ Patron emails just now. Usually this gets done within the first week of the month... I wanted to thank you again for you...

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While I'm here

From early 2014, before I had launched/ relaunched anything lol.

(The other hard part of having a comic on hiatus, regardless of the reason, is that fans will get very angry if they see you work...

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TM Stuff- how to rewrite your entire goddamn chapter and not kill yourself

This is a post-mortem of Chapter 4, mostly a technical discussion on the difficulties of doing a complete rewrite spread out over the course of several years. It's probably going to be pretty long. I ...

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TM Stuff: Chapter 2 illustrations

Big versions under the download

These were some illustrations I've just been sitting on for a few years, I'm not sure I've shared them at larger size before. In lieu of a fresh wallpaper thi...

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TM Stuff: Worldbuilding/ History and People

Rightclick for readable version.

Since this background info is still fairly valid, no point in not sharing it! These were originally from a thing that I was going to do but then I did not do...

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Thank you for your support!

Hi everyone,

Happy March :] I am imposing on your inbox to say thank you so much for reading and supporting my work. Last month you funded 11/10 comic updates (extra comics, woo), and thanks to ...

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Meek Stuff- Chapter 5 preview

Just a small preview/ mockup of the next Meek chapter cover. Compositionally the general rule is to avoid centering stuff but... fuck it~

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MI Stuff- ...

Sometimes I think "I have the best readers," but then someone comments like this and it all goes down the drain

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February 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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TM Ch4: original thumbs (full PDF)

Here are the original "thumbnails" (they are not actually thumbnails) (they were blue/ mechanical pencil sketches on halves of 8x11 paper) for the chapter, done back in 2007. ALMOST TEN YEARS AGO, scr...

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SiH- development stuff

Something a little different... some turnarounds I did for a future reboot of Snowball (the first two issues of which, btw, were unlocked by Patrons and are available 2016-02-26 05:31:22 +0000 UTC View Post

TM Ch1 bonus comic

PDF to download is attached!

Whew! The past two days have been crazy... got sick, ran around like crazy trying to wrestle a new living place in our very competitive area (success), and most ...

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Happy depressing Valentines Day

iTried.jpg

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TM441 Preview

Still workin' on this, but here's a stealth mountain* for you

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MI Stuff- Development pt 2

Development pt 1 is here

Oh boy.


Well you can right click for a bigger version of this image. Let me just ...

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Thank you for your support!

Hi guys,

Just want to say thank you for your support in Jan (and all those other non-Jan months too)!


I'm going to start doing these check-ins addressed to all Patrons at the start of ...

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MI Stuff- Old wallpaper

I totally forgot about this, I drew it in early 2014 while getting in the mood to set the visual style. It was also pointless as a wallpaper since it was the first piece of "finished" MI art I had mad...

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Hi

It's newFriend (and me trying out some new brushes, haha). The "boomerang" part at the top of the crest is... inflatable? I'm trying to think of a similar structure in extant animals, but... aliens......

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January 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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TM437 Walkthrough/ shoptalk

Thought I'd do a little walkthrough of my typical process for scenes like this...




First step is to always get your head straight for what you want your colors/ panel to communica...

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TM Thumbnail Preview/ shoptalk

I don't even know how many times I've written and rewritten this chapter... I'm looking forward to sharing the PDF of the original version so you can see how much it has changed!

Here is the sor...

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Shoptalk- Brush organization in Photoshop

Sorry for posting so much! But thought I'd share a little mini-project I had from last week, which was to better manage my brush presets in Photoshop. Ever since I did this my life has been much less ...

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MI Stuff- Interlude 2 and other notes

WELL

Here's an assortment of stuff related to Interlude 2, some of it is from early 2014! So weird to think that was almost 2 years ago. And some of it is from late 2015, like, 2 days before I n...

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Smallish update/ TM435 Prev

Was gonna post a larger "wow it is 2016" sort of post, but that kind of deflated... I try to keep my personal life off the radar in the spirit of Nobody Likes A Whiner, but lately have been dealing wi...

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Dags Wallpaper .PSD

My giant horrible sloppy file attached for you guys, haha XD

Just an explanation of the process: I was using 2016-01-06 08:04:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Dagre Wallpaper~

Hi guys,

Here's the new wallpaper, all zipped up for you in a variety of sizes :] I've been brushing up (ha) on my brushes and wanted to try fur rendering; not sure if I'm quite where I want to be y...

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December 2015 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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MI Stuff- ??

One of the first sketches when I was imagining the new character's reveal. This is probably the character I have done the most iterations of in my life, ever. Originally the silhouette was supposed to...

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