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Stream tomorrow~

Sorry I had to postpone it! Meek update going up in an hour or two instead... didn't expect this page to take 20+ hours but here we are T__T

Anyhow, stream tomorrow instead, and as a placeholder her...

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News and shitposting

News:

  • Stream tomorrow? probably? I've been inking backgrounds for like a whole day and want to die but I'm nearly done with this page, so I can finally get to streaming the next page~ I'm thin...

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Networking Tutorial supplement worksheet!

What's this for? oh yeah the Networking Tutorial
https://www.patreon.com/posts/11836736

This one's a biggie... 17 pa...

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Networking tutorial!

ICYMI: A giveaway contest for all $5+ Patrons (that's you) going on rn, just comment before the month is...

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Preview double header

Two pages in various stages of completion~

The Mare page is half colored, so will probably have that page up tomorrow and a Meek post on Friday. 

Now that I'm looking at it I hate some of...

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Contest time! And, first dibs at the book store~

Look at this cutie... it's a limited edition pin from the Meek V1 Kickstarter~

This 1.5-inch Peaceful Mocheril can be yours via our normal contest route: any $5+ Patron can leave a comment on a...

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TM535- Notes and Comp

Today's comparison- 2007 vs 2017~

I haven't been deviating too much from the 2007 version because I still agree with a lot of the choices I made at the time. But, I changed the architecture of the f...

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MI419- Comp and notes

LEVi... he sits on weapons because he doesn't care. He also probably doesn't mind being walked around as long as he gets to talk to someone.

We've made it back to the area that is shown on the chapt...

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Thanks for hanging around!

Just wanted to say thank you all for being part of my Patreon! and that there will be a few (good!) changes coming up soon.

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VanCAF summary post

Hello~

You know, I always talk about going to cons, but never about what happened there? Some of you might be convention attendees, convention exhibitors or (like me for the last few years) just peo...

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VanCAF this weekend! In Vancouver! Canada!

I'm in freaking Canada 

Anyways, I'm at VanCAF this whole weekend peddling some books and stuff along with a lot ...

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VanCAF Patreon-only Stickers :]

I have some stickers in very low supply! A new design, even, so you'll have a choice XD If you're at VanCAF, just come up and say the magic phrase Keep Mars Red to get your sticker an...

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MI Stuff- Rebekah Egunsola

Rebekah ("Bex") Egunsola has always been a quiet but determined woman, slightly awkward but completely committed to her goals. Despite an outwardly friendly exterior, she privately grapples with feeli...

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Art for the Lazy support worksheet~

PDF is attached!

Took a while to get this up, sorry about that! Decided to reformat the style to incorporate a bunch of discrete exercises instead of the more open-ended questions I usually do, just...

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MI Stuff- the Hermit (and other poems)

I like integrating imagery from poems into the comic... when I'm in an unhealthy mood I tend to fixate on things, and I like to memorize poetry as a way to make the fixation at least a little bit posi...

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MI414- process animation

Just an animation of this page as it was completed~

The most important phase of the process is probably the very last step, where you add stupid little hilights and adjust the darkness or lightness ...

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Art for the Lazy tutorial!

Another big boy~

This is a meta tutorial, not really about any of the subjects the tutorial covers (perspective, color, objects of people), but more about how to think about those subjects in order ...

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SVCC! PDF comics! and other updates

Hi guys!!

I like making monthly news updates at arbitrary times of the month. 21st? yeah sure why not. Anyways, onto some news:

Note for any Patrons at SVCC today...

Please come by booth EEH53 and say howdy! I won't have any new Patron stickers for this convention, but I do have that secret Kalla sticker with me and I'd love to give you one and be able to thank yo...

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The Important Things (PDF comic)

I'm sorry about the lack of swift updates recently, it's been a little rough being a one-person customer service rep, warehouse manager, post office employee, comic artist, freelancer, biz developer, ...

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MI411-comp and notes and news

Thrip asks so many questions!!! it's a plot point, but I mostly made it because I like writing annoying characters :D

I'm going to hijack my own post a bit and whisper at you that, if you're support...

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Legschilla Resists

A tiny Legschilla mini to kick off the week! The minis are very small, the size of 1/8th of a sheet of paper, and chronicle the awkward life of our favorite half-man half-chinchilla. Check out the Leg...

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TM Stuff- Hyla deSadar

The small princess~

Hyla is a good girl, but sort of under the radar for the adults who have other things to worry about at the moment. She likes animals and secretly would like to be an animal doct...

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MI410 Lineart and Notes

I lowered the opacity of the bg artificially in the lineart up there to pop out the new guys

Someone asked how I do character designs... mostly I just have a bunch of random thematic designs squirre...

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March giveaway contest winners!!

 Happy Monday! 

I have our winners for the March contest :] I was originally gonna choose 5 but I've randomly picked 7 winners from the pool of eligible commenters from last month. The win...

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TM Stuff- Ulyer deRisma

This is still my favorite drawing of him so I'ma use it

[keeping the following spoiler-free for the plot, but does contain some bg info that may or may not be in the main comic]

This is the Em...

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MI Stuff- dev file

Haha, so, this is extremely cringey stuff, but it's also my first serious drafting attempt. I guess this could be seen as a gestural sketch in that focuses on emotional impact and direction over draft...

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TM433 Preview

I'm just gonna throw this up now since I doubt I'll be finished tonight. Check those amazing background placeholders *shift* *drag* Normally I draw in the background before flatting but I've been taki...

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Vote on the next Patreon Tutorial!

What it sounds like~ I've got some great topic suggestions from Tym, Heidi, Arianna and Sue included here! There's also two other options from me, one of which is an updated version of a classic tutor...

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Happy April!

April Fools, it's still March! I'm so good at this

Anyways, just a general news post for you guys, since it's been a while...

  • The Proportion Tutorial is finally complete! I just posted t...

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