I Want To Make A New Year's Resolution To Stream Art Stuff Every Thursday Afternoon.

I officially have two finished webcomic pages now! I’m pretty happy about this development.

Also, my attempt at playing Passpartout was pretty fun, although I was sad that my favorite doodle of them all didn’t sell in the game. Oh well.

I’ve been working on my current rebranding from weliad to Dandy Rebel, and other than the first letter, I think I have the general draft of how I want the first part of the logo ready to go.

Also, I swear that these aren’t the final colors. I just wanted to fiddle with them because I usually use turquoise as the color I draft things in, so I figured that it’d be fun to make an orange and turquoise halftone during the process, before I do proper inking, make a vector version of the file, etc.

I’m always baffled when a throw away doodle of mine pops up somewhere else on the internet.

This time, a quick 5-10 minute meme speedpaint challenge I drew came up on Google. I spent the last five minutes laughing. I can’t believe that it spread past the one thread it was meant for.

The first panel is almost done! That said, aiming to the hatching look vaguely like medieval woodcuts is not as easy as I was hoping it would be, so it seems like this might be another one of those time-sink pages. :/

I have learned that watching Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure all over again when you already know the exact flow of the story yields some interesting tidbits—particularly, bits of dialogue and animation are really beautiful examples of foreshadowing, and I’m just like “Ah! That’s so cool!”

Unfortunately, me and my spoiler hound attitude has screwed up one of my roommates. The other one is new to Jojo, and I have to reign in the first roommate so that the second one isn’t spoiled when he doesn’t want to be, and it’s weird to be vaguely told “well, I got used to you being ok with spoilers!”, and it’s like...

...ay, even spoiler hounds gotta have manners around others who aren’t.

I felt like my headphone cords draped around my head would make a neat aesthetic. I was right. Also, I like my face.

I came up with this a while ago while I was passively listening to a design professor that I’ve had in the past.

Specifically, it started out as a cell-phone doodle, because I have a tendency of pulling up a memo app and doodling whenever I’m upset for some reason. From there, I actually decided to make it in Illustrator, because I could.

I finally decided to finish it today. Also, considering that Age of Ultron is fresh in my memory by a week or so, and Bruce Banner is great, I went with Hulk-inspired colors.

I’m more or less satisfied with this, but this ultimately demonstrated a huge problem in graphic design. Specifically, when you find a really good font, but you have to either pay money or contact someone to use it for commercial use.

I say this because the left one is completely freeware fonts (Milkshake + Ostrich Sans), but the right one uses Blacksword, which is only free for personal use. I COULD do my own handlettering, but that’s time consuming on my end, and I want to turn this into a card ASAP...so in terms of my time, that’s not an option.

I’m kinda sad that I can’t commercially use the right one at this time. At least I have a cute corgi in a bowtie staring at me to reassure me that it’s all gonna be ok.

(And for the record, I am aware that you cannot actually give alcohol to doggos. Truffles had no wine, and the wine is only there as a photoshoot prop. My roommate drank the wine later. Truffles got to have a couple of crackers, though.)

The Instagram version of this is so much better, btw. Here is this thing in its non-pixelated glory.

So, I started my Twitch stream on a newer page and the like—although I still need to do a few tweaks to a previous comic page.

Unrelated; I was really sad to find out that Odile van der Stap/jumei passed away recently; I really loved her work when I was on DeviantArt years and years ago, and it was really shocking learn this when I wanted to mention an artist I really liked in context of a specific thing in the Twitch stream.

That said, I’ve found that I don’t handle learning that people have passed away, period.