As I do my best to dig my way out of the hole of brain fog and backlog that the last month of insomnia and vet-visits has put me in, things are happening! While I cannot be there myself, my eminent Juno Walker collaborator will be at MCM London at the end of the month, selling a bunch of his own things - as well as print-cop...
2023-10-12 14:38:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you all for your patience and kindness during the Sick Cat Babysitting Month this has turned into.
Moses had to go back to the vet earlier this week and re-do the surgery a second time, since the infection/swelling came back. This time, he came back with more drainage tubes, painkillers, anti-bacterial gel AND antibiotic pills, and has been incredibly patient about the whole thing...
Hey all. I very much hoped to get some good work done this week, but the universe conspired against me. On Sunday evening, we noticed that Moses had an odd swelling on the side of his face, and he had surgery done on Monday morning to take care of it.
He's spent the week with stitches and a drainage-tube sticking out of his face, which he had taken out on Thursday, and we're now waiting...
The boy
has escaped his cage
YES
the boy is home!
I had hopes of having a substantial update on the monster chef design - and much of it IS sketched out, awaiting inks and colours - but after being delayed by international banking shenanigans (dear IRS tax forms: please be easier to comprehend for foreigners), I got the news that our newest baby was ready to be picked up!
You are a god of small things, risen from the dust in which you were born. In your little corner of divinity, you have grown deep roots and flourished. Little prayers have been answered, unremarkable things have been made miracle. Through trial and tribulation, you have climbed out of obscurity. Your name, once whispered by only a few, is now spoken by many. 2023-07-30 15:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post
You are cordially invited to attend Queen Titania's revelry in the Court of Faerie. Dress in your brightest finery, and wear your dancing shoes - and be sure to trust no one.
A Fae Caper is a hidden role game in which you and your friends take on the roles of guests at the feast of Queen Titania - during which a dastardly thief strikes, stealing aw...
Dandelion Drifters Guild - my Mock Up Jam entry - is not finished! I ran out of time to make a menu screen or a title screen, but I'm happy with the things I did make!
To quote the Itchio description:
This is an age of adventure, where brave souls band tog...
For once, February 1st did not find me making comics-thumbnails! ... it found me doing the very high-action, intense activity of thinking and reading a lot.
But I managed to make it through, despite my wonky hand - and it was, as always, a fun experience. I hope it's as fun to read as it is to make! Hectic as Hourly Comics are to make, they're also a pretty goot exercise in summarising ...
This very wordy post might be a bit too inside baseball for those of you who do not come here for ttrpg-related things - but hopefully you will find it worth your time anyway. And if you've only ever played one particular ttrpg, perhaps you'll find one of the others I discuss in this post of interest of you - I'll be posting links to stuff at the end. I might do some general recommendation post...
2023-01-21 20:05:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you all for the questions!
They are answered here in chronological order, and I've done my best with both the serious and silly ones. This was fun, and I might do it again - hopefully at a point where I'm no longer feeling like garbage, and maybe social media isn't burning li...
Hello everyone! I hope you're doing well.
I had my appointment with the orthopedic clinic, and received mixed news. The good news is - it's not carpal tunnel syndrome! My doctor bent my wrist into improbable positions, and seemed very surprised that I experienced no discomfort - confusing doctors is a fun side-bonus when you have hypermobility - but confirmed that since my fingers did n...
In between sorting out a bunch of other stuff, I spent some time this week scribbling the surly teenager I will be playing in an upcoming Kids on Bikes game. Her name is Beatris, and she cannot stand her part-time job as a guide at the local sawmill museum - but work is work, and she could recite the guided tour spiel in her sleep by now. Putting together her outfit meant spending a LOT of time...
2022-10-31 17:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The Ghosthunt expansion swaps the familiar surroundings of home for stranger hunting grounds. Your Creatures inhabit abandoned, dusty places time forgot - and the Facilitator embodies a new threat: that of the bright lights and cameras of an intrepid ghosthunting crew.
At eight pages, Ghosthunt doubles the number of player options, provi...
2022-10-24 16:07:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there, everyone! I'm still segueing out of the brainfog ditch I always fall into after I've wrapped up a big project, but while I'm busy sorting my braincells out, the release day for Ghosthunt, our expansion to Something Is Wrong With This House, is getting closer!
We'll be releasi...
Hello folks. I had hoped to be returning with a big of game-design progress, but unfortunately, it's been kind of a heavy week around here. We had to say goodbye to our elderly cat, and it's left me kind of off-kilter. I keep wandering into rooms expecting to find her there.
I have done som...
Hey everyone - I hope you are having a pleasant May!
I've been on a pretty strict no-drawing-and-no-lengthy-typing rest for the past week, trying to let my hand recover. It's helped, but unfortunately, I'm still not okay. It seems to be a combination of mild carpal tunnel symptoms, and an inflamation of the joint in my thumb triggered by over-work, as best as I can guess. Unfortunately,...
Hey everyone! I have my nose to the thumbnailing grindstone again this week, chipping away at C4C idea #2 - but while that is happening, my friend Meghan is crowdfunding the printing of her game, One Particular Harbor!
And if she reaches her stretchgoal, a certain someone is going to be making the cover illustration!
(me, I'm talking about me)
So if that sounds like a fun...
Hello, everyone!
January sure went *swoosh*, didn't it? I've been hard at work on the graphic novel pitches, which has meant a LOT of sitting around, drinking tea and staring blankly into space while the ideas happen - but I am making very good progress! I'm a few thumbnails away from having the first draft of a complete thumbnail-script for the Lanval comic done!
But right now,...
Happy end-of-year, everyone. I hope your holidays were pleasant and restful if you have been celebrating.
We're in the final days of 2021.
It's been a long, strange, sometimes very tough year.
Violent attempted coups, boats stuck sideways in the Suez Canal, two brand new variants of everyone's least favourite respiratory virus have rolled across the globe, every industry...
You have called this House home for years, haunting its darkest corners. This place is yours. Its dead air, the creaking floor boards, the peeling wallpaper. But now the for-sale sign in the front yard is gone and the doors have been thrown open; the curtains pulled down to let the light in, the rooms filled with the furniture...
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You have called this House home for years, haunting its darkest corners. This place is yours. Its dead air, the creaking floor boards, the peeling wallpaper. But now the for-sale sign in the front yard is gone and the doors have been thrown open; the curtains pulled down to let the light in, the rooms filled with the furniture and &...
2021-10-26 17:58:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy end of Swordtember, everyone - I drew you some pictures. Thank you to everyone who voted, this was a LOT of fun to work on.
I think the shadow piece ended up being my favourite - I have a big old soft spot for people with dragon-horns and big swords - but I'm really happy with how these turned out. I've learned a thing or two lately, and while I'm still refining those skills, it's...
Against the backdrop of the Grand Union Railroad’s steel-bound, coal-hearted expansion into the west, the small and haunted town of Hallow becomes the unexpected battleground of a showdown between relentless modernity and the bloodsoaked past, between the real and the less-than-real, between people and the things that were here before them.
It is 1867, and the time of reckoning has...
Hello everyone!
Your girl here got her second dose of vaccine today, and I will be taking things pretty slowly for the next few days, just in case. Last time I only got a sore arm that lasted for 48 hours or so, and was fine - and so far, this time seems similar, but you never know. And in a few weeks when the vaccine's settled in properly, I might even dare to leave the house on occasi...
Hey everyone! I hope you're doing well.
I had fully intended to do two things this week: a sketchpost on Monday and the last page of chapter 10 of Grassblades on Tuesday. Unfortunately, I managed to over-extend one of the muscles in my forearm over the weekend, which left me with numb fingertips and aching knuckles on my drawing hand and an arm that was sore from shoulder to wrist.
...
It's done! The re-draws and dialogue edits on old pages of Grassblades are all done and uploaded!
Which means now is an excellent time to read through the archive, as the redraws/edits affect both pages in chapter 5 and in chapter 10! The PDFs available to the highest-tier patrons will be edited and re-uploaded with th...
Hi everyone!
It's been a weird, stressful week, and I hope you're taking care of yourselves. I've had to take some time away from the internet to keep myself level.
I've been hard at work on several of my bigger projects (those Grassblades-pages are coming along!), and have been venting excess stress by tinkering with this picture of Ivala from our Teens in Space campaign, hangi...
At least, she's done! You voted for me drawing a witch and her familiar, and here she is! It took me a little while - both due to real life deciding to be particularly awful during January and February, and due to the fact that a little voice in my head said "hey what if you did an illustration that looks kind of like a tarot card for this??" and I heard myself go "what a good idea". >.> ...
2021-02-10 17:14:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone.
I ended my last post of 2020 with the words "May 2021 be a kinder year than the last, to all of us."
A little over a week into 2021, that wish seems almost farcical. I began the year with a sudden night of complete insomnia, and have slept poorly most nights since. The US went through a fascist coup-attempt whose aftershocks are still playing out, and will for some t...
It is the last day of a long, weird, often terrible year.
The passage of time has felt strange and elastic this year; it's like we stretched March out never-ending until it was thin enough to see through. And then we blinked, and October, November and December had all passed in a flash. It feels as though I have done a hundred things - and at the same time like I have gotten absolutely ...