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Wilfrith and Grwn - Roughs: Page 1

When writing the script for Wilfrith and Grwn, I wanted to use Wilfrith reminiscing about his past as a framing device, so I started with him waiting out the rain in a cave to give him tim...

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Wilfrith and Grwn Character Art (Naked)

And here the guys are without their clothes on. I’ve gone through this character-design-to-pages cycle enough times already to know how essential it is to have a clear map of where their body hai...

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Wilfrith and Grwn Character Art

To introduce Wilfrith and Grwn, here’s some high resolution character art:

(Wilfr...

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Housekeeping, 2024

I've been working behind the scenes for the past couple of months to align the work I've been doing with my Patreon goals—namely, to reduce the friction between myself and the platform so I can p...

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Announcing: Wilfrith and Grwn

Hey everyone! For the past couple of months I've been working on the next big thing, and I wanted to share it with you all first. The next comic I’m going to be working on is a 60+ page ...

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"Ferrochrome" - xii.1-2

I've been weighing the pros and cons of just how uh Utena I've wanted to make this scene since the original concept and I guess we'll find out if it swerves after this opening spread.

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"Ferrochrome" - xi.3-4

Continuing from the previous pages, this chapter of the comic-within-a-comic is read off of a shady scans site. I've got it so the pages will scroll up and down a little as the reader turns the pag...

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"Ferrochrome" - x.1-2

After some pandemic-exacerbated burnout for this project, I'm back with a bunch of progress. This page really deeply psyched me out--not entirely sure why in retrospect (the nature of burnout)--but...

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"Ferrochrome" - viii.01

Back with more pages and a new chapter! This chapter is kind of a big turning point in the story, so I was excited to make the images in my head more concrete. I've also been investing a lot of tim...

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"Ferrochrome" - vii.8

The imagination takes over near the end.

This was a much harder page to compose than I expected ...

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"Ferrochrome" - vii.6

I kinda went on autopilot drawing the butt hair here. But... that was to be expected wasn't it?

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"Ferrochrome" - vii.1-2

The lads finally go on a date IRL! I guess all I really gotta say is that they're super cute and I wish them the best.

2021-03-23 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

"Ferrochrome" - vi.1-2

I love, but struggle to draw Will's sister. Getting to invent a fictional Eureka street corner (Eureka has no hills in reality) was a lot of fun. Of course then I covered it all in art and speech b...

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Alpha Flag - Hotel 18

6 of 6!

And that's (finally) the end of the Hotel chapter. Things are not looking great for our heroes!

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Alpha Flag 10th Anniversary

On January 21st, 2011, Renee and I uploaded the first Alpha Flag cover to the internet. I spent a large portion of 2020 nervously eyeing my work calendar and stressing about not having enough time ...

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Making Enamel Pins - Ogre

So back in January, in my optimism, I thought it would be a great time to finally make some enamel pins again. Between a pandemic, economic downturns, and some highly justified civil unrest, it's b...

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"Ferrochrome" - v.2

Another super difficult page for me to cram everything into. Lots of very specific ideas going here, drawingwise, compositional and diagrammatical. I'm about 80% happy with this. There'll definitel...

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"Ferrochrome" - v.1

Back to Ferrochrome! Part 4! You can see that I still used the name Fried Earth here--homage to the original title. This cover will also ultimately be the only place where you see...

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"Ferrochrome" - iv.1

My writer self gave me the unenviable task of having to show both the exterior of this  club as well as all sorts of texting between two characters. It makes for a good opening page of the cha...

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"Ferrochrome" - iii.1

I've always loved spreads where you can see the entire interior of a space, so I decided to do one for where the protagonist of our book works to open the third chapter.

2020-05-04 16:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post

"Ferrochrome" - ii.1

So here we are at the first issue of Ferrochrome, the indie comic-within-a-comic that this graphic novel gets its placeholder name from. The original title of the graphic novel (named afte...

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"Ferrochrome" - i.1

I'll be running through the drawing process of this graphic novel from start to finish as I draw it, starting now with the rough pages that I've already drawn so far.

The early few pages of t...

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Asterion - iv. Finishes

“He carries on walking, it’s very dark. Footsteps echo back, different. He doesn’t notice. 
SFX, clop clop clop
kaclop kaclop kaclop kaclop ...

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Inktober XXVIII-XXXI

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XXVIII. Hugo, "Ferrochrome" (2021?)


XXIX. Koharu, 2018-11-01 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Inktober XXV-XXVII

XXV. Victor, Alpha Flag (2011 - )


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Inktober XXII-XXIV

XXII. Neel, Downpour (2014)


XXIII. Jim, O-Type Hypergiant (2015)

2018-10-24 23:43:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Inktober XIX-XXI

XIX. Володи́мир, Untitled SF (2012 - )


XX. Wilfrith, 2018-10-23 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Inktober XVI-XVIII

XIII. "Her", Alpha Flag (2011 - )


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Inktober XIII-XV

XIII. Philip Félix Sunil IV, SOIL (2011)

2018-10-19 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Inktober X-XII

X. Jean, Untitled SF: a self-contained ecosystem (2012)

2018-10-17 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post