Category: Original Characters

Various OCs I’ve designed over the years, some for projects and some for fun!
Tags: All Original WorksJP, Mikael, Ulf, Bronze, Daven, Leif, Diana, Salvator, Vasilios

Sketchbook Shoutouts 63 & 64

Four black and white illustrations on one image, all done traditionally. "Shoutout for TLC" of Cryptid from Jey and Max's forthcoming comic Cryptid Likes Beer, where he's sitting at a bar with some mozzarella sticks and a flight of four different beers excitedly. "Shoutout for Rett" where Jigen in a trench coat is writing something in a notebook and looking over his shoulder at Zenigata in the background who's chatting away. "Shoutout for Toby" Lupin and Zenigata on vacation together, wearing vacation outfits and sharing a fancy milkshake. "Shoutout for Peggy" Zenigata excitedly opening his wallet which has many photos of his daughter, who's also beside him and shocked by the baby photos.

Four black and white illustrations on one image, all done traditionally. "Shoutout for Jonnie" Jigen wearing a cowboy outfit and smoking, he's smiling and tipping his hat up with a finger. "Shoutout for Richard" where an older Lupin is getting a kiss on the cheek from Jigen, their designs are both from Jey's fancomic "The Curtain Falls". "Shoutout for Peggy" where Jigen is laying in the grass with his hands behind his head and smiling down at Goemon who's napping on Jigen's stomach. "Shoutout for TLC" of their original characters, both holding pride flags in their mouths and smiling at one another.

Eight shoutout requests from my Private Collectors on https://patreon.com/jpawlik and https://jpawlik.com/vipblog some real fun ones this time! Some very good Jigen ships this time. Did you know I like drawing Jigen???!

Hey and it’s the beginning of the month, now’s the best time to sign up and get these requests every month plus a huge archive of art and comics, there’s a SFW tier and a NSFW tier~

I also have these shoutouts available as a one-time purchase over on Ko-Fi if that’s more your jam!

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Pride OCs 2025

Character lineup for "Dead City". "JP Rybakov" is a fat man of colour with shaggy black hair and a thick beard, he's wearing a blue polo shirt and jeans with grey socks. The pride flag beside him is the progress flag. "Mikael Berg" is a thinner white man with red hair pulled back in a headband, he's wearing a big sweatshirt, pink sweatpants and thick tube socks. The pride flag beside him is the bi flag.
I wanted to post these throughout the month but was way too busy, so here’s a special Pride bundle of Pride characters from the webcomics I’ve worked on and am starting to work on!
Dead City – Mikael and JP, you know them, you love them, and if you don’t you can go read the finished webcomic about their zombie apocalypse meet-cute!
Alola Darumaka – Daven and Leif (and their partners) also available to read for free right now although it’s not complete yet, and while queerness isn’t part of the story, I still wanted to showcase their identities! A silly low-stakes 4-koma comic about Darumaka.
The Curse Eater – The pilot chapter just wrapped up which you can read for free here. Max and I are still building the world for this, so parts are still up in the air and nothing is really set in stone. HOWEVER, like all our other stories, it’ll be queer!
Clitrina Cosmos – A sexy webcomic coming to a Patreon (mine) near you by Max and I. It’s going to be silly, fun, sexy, and of course unapologetically gay! Private Collector members can already see some concept art for this~
In Search Of Analogue Days – I really wanted to announce my next big solo project during pride and here we are! ISO will be a public, free to read webcomic (with pages up early for Patrons) about an older trans woman who’s lost sight of her passion for photography and finds herself in film. Keep your eyes out, okay?
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The Curse Eater – Designs

Character sheet for Salvator Ozmen and Vasilios Rotulus from The Curse Eater. Salvator is a smarmy looking slender man with long black hair pulled back into a low pony tail, he's a person of colour with vitiligo which is more prominent on his left side. Salvator is wearing a headband and a bandana, a big gold necklace, a black high collared under shirt with a light coloured simple jacket on top. He's wearing a blue sash that goes over his jacket which holds a leather pouch, a short sword, and a large gold belt. He's got simple brown pants and high black boots. Vasilios is a dignified fat man of colour with straight grey hair that frames his face and ends around his chin. He's wearing a conical hat that has a symbol on the front that looks like a wizard hat logo. His outfit consists of a short fancy cape that wraps around his shoulders, a pink tunic that ends above his knees, gloves, a sash that goes around his waist, poofy purple pants and lighter purple tights underneath. His shoes are slip-ons that curl up at the toe.

Same art as the previous image but in halftones. Same art as the previous images but in solid greyscale.

The final designs I went with for The Curse Eater pilot chapter. These boys have been through a lot of changes over the last few years and I’m really happy with where they’ve ended up so far.

Wanted to post this in place of a comic after the pilot chapter finished up, because I wanted folks to see them in colour and their full outfits.

 

Go read the whole pilot chapter that’s available for FREE right now!

Want to see the sketches and thumbs for The Curse Eater? They’re up on Patreon for just a $1 a month!

 

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Sketchbook Shoutouts 61 & 62

Four black and white illustrations on one image, all done traditionally. "Shoutout for Jonnie" of Chilchuck from Delicious in Dungeon with his arms crossed and looking to the left as he's presumably saying something. "Shoutout for Max" of Darumaka wearing a sailor outfit looking out to the sea while on a ship. "Shoutout for TLC" of their original characters, both in a romantic embrace and one kissing the other on the cheek while the other smiles brightly. "Shoutout for Peggy" of Bilbo teaching a young Frodo how to write, there are papers in front of them on a table.

Four black and white illustrations on one image, all done traditionally. "Shoutout for Jonnie" of Lucky Luke with a piece of grass in his mouth, he's smiling and pushing his hat up with his thumb. "Shoutout for Rett" of Marcille from Delicious in Dungeon as she has a spoon of soup in her mouth, her ears down with a resigned expression, a sparkly speech bubble beside her reads "It's Delicious". "Shoutout for Peggy" of their Dungeons and Dragons character, a cowboy tiefling with a crow familiar. "Shoutout for TLC" of their original characters, two older men smiling with one giving the other a kiss on the cheek.

Eight shoutout requests from my Private Collectors on https://patreon.com/jpawlik and https://jpawlik.com/vipblog which were a lot of fun to do! I love Delicious in Dungeon with ALL MY HEART but I don’t do any fanart for it, so this was nice.

Hey and it’s the beginning of the month, now’s the best time to sign up and get these requests every month plus a huge archive of art and comics, there’s a SFW tier and a NSFW tier~

I also have these shoutouts available as a one-time purchase over on Ko-Fi if that’s more your jam!

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Webcomic Day

Promo image, with the Topaz Comics logo at the top in browns and warm gold tones. Under it reads "Queer comics by a queer duo" and the link topazcomics.com below that are four floating heads with comic titles logos above them. The first is Mikael and JP from Dead City, the second is Jey from Gender Slices, the third is Darumaka from Alola Darumaka, and the last is Jigen from our one-shots.

Happy Webcomic Day!

I’ll be posting throughout the day on social media, but for you here’s the big full post.

Want to read some queer comics written and drawn by some queer folks for free?! I’m Jey Pawlik, and with my spouse Max Parker, we’ve got hundreds of pages in our archive, like the post-apocalyptic gay romance Dead City, the nonbinary autobio series Gender Slices, a 4-koma comedy comic about Darumaka and Lupin III fancomics.

Start reading on Topaz Comics

Or see sketches, thumbnails, and pages 2 months early on Patreon

The Alola Darumaka Process

Comic page split into four quadrants showing the sketch, inks, colours, and halftone effects on an Alola Darumaka page. The comic itself is four panels done in black line art with four shades of dusty pink. Panel one shows Darumaka sitting and doodling on a piece of paper with an Alolan Meowth napping behind her, Darumaka is humming with a little music note beside her. Panel two, Darumaka is still drawing and another Meowth has appeared behind her and is napping. Panel three, Darumaka has her hands up saying "Hey!" as a Meowth lays down in front of her and on her drawing. Panel four, Darumaka still with her hands up looks angrier saying "Gah!" as she is now surrounded by Meowths napping around her, heat lines coming off her body which just gathers more Meowths to her.

Here’s my process for Alola Darumaka using the ScreentonesCast template showing my traditional sketch, digital inks, colours, and halftone effects.

 

Dead City

The book cover "Dead City", drawn with choppy black line art and coloured with greens, blacks and yellows, showing Mikael and JP kneeling next to one another holding their own backpack straps with a dark Toronto skyline behind them as the sun sets. The bottom reads "Michelle Parker and Jey Pawlik"Comic page done in thick black ink and one solid 50% grey tone. Panel one, Mikael is walking over to the couch and JP asks "Are you okay?" and Mikael responds "Yeah?". Panel two, Mikael has sat down on the couch, wine glass in hand. JP asks "Are you drunk?", and Mikael replies "YESS!" Panel three shows a medium close up of JP saying "Isn't that a bad idea with all the zombies around?" Panel four is a close up of Mikael's drunk but smiling face, he says "You didn't mind last time" a bit seductively. Panel five is a similar shot but a close up of JP's face saying "But-- we should still be careful." Panel six pulls out and shows both boys on the couch together. Mikael saying "It's been ages since we saw one and they're all slow and clumsy now." JP says "Now?" Panel seven shows just Mikael from the waist up holding his wine glass saying "Right, you weren't out at the beginning."

Comic page done in thick black ink and one solid 50% grey tone. Panel one, a flashback to Mikael hunkered down in his dark messy apartment as the TV is the only source of light and narration reads “There used to be a lot and they were fast and violent.” Panel two, present day Mikael and he’s happily saying “But since they’re dead they rot, right?”. Panel three, flashback again to Mikael out in a dark warehouse where he’s searching through boxes. Narration reads “One time I was out looking for food” the sentence is left hanging over panel four, which shows a scared Mikael looking over his shoulder and the sound effect “Wok!” above his head.Comic page done in thick black ink and one solid 50% grey tone. Panel one, a continuation of the previous page’s flashback where Mikael is face to face with a zombie who’s decomposing and slowly meanering passed him, not noticing him at all. The narration reads “and one walked right past me! It didn’t have any eyes.” Panel two, back to the present showing Mikael lounging on the couch with JP next to him. JP asks “So the ones now are all rotted?” and Mikael smiles saying “Right!” Panel three, a close up of JP pouring himself a glass of wine on the coffee table in front of the couch while he says “Alright.”

Dead City is a completed post-apocalypse gay romance comic that focuses more on survival and human connection than the zombie aspect of the genre. Written by Max, this was our first comic project that we started in 2013 and finished in 2020! It’s still available to read online, but a newer fancy version was made into a book last year.

https://topazcomics.com/deadcity/welcome

https://topazcomics.com/shop

 

The Curtain Falls Process

My Patreon exclusive comic “The Curtain Falls”, a 50 page Lupin III comic about Lupin in his 60s and coming to terms that nothing lasts forever. The comic is wrapping up THIS WEEK with printing and a digital PDF on the horizon, so I wanted to promo that today as well! Sign up on Patreon to read the whole comic!

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Sketchbook Shoutouts 59 & 60

Four black and white illustrations on one image. "Shoutout for Amiel" showing Lupin blocking his face from Jigen taking a photo of him, Lupin says "Hey! Stop." and Jigen replies with a smile "I model for you though!" there's a little 'clk' sound effect from the shutter. "Shoutout for Khiari" of Taichi and Izzy from Digimon Adventure, the two are blushing and sitting shoulder to shoulder. "Shoutout for Peggy" Varian from the Tangled tv series giving Rayla from The Dragon Prince a kiss on her hand as she blushes. "Shoutout 'to my Ari'" of two original characters belonging to the request asker, a boy with short cropped light hair gives a kiss to another boy, whom is wearing big circular glasses and has short dark hair. There's hearts coming from above their heads.

Four black and white illustrations on one image. "Shoutout for TLC" shows Zenigata with his arm around Jigen's shoulder and giving him a kiss on the cheek, Jigen is blushing and smiling. "Shoutout for Rett" showing Jigen and Zenigata at a movie theatre, Jigen is grinning while his hand is in the popcorn bucket, and Zenigata is tearing up while clutching his hat. "Shoutout for Max" of our OCs Tan and Bronze dancing together, both men are in their 50s, Tan is shorter and has short hair with rectangular glasses while Bronze is tall and built with short wavy hair and a trim beard. "Shoutout for Jonnie" of Kent and Dean from the Iron Giant, Kent is blushing and smiling while Dean leans over Kent's shoulder from behind while grabbing his tie and grinning.

Some shoutout requests from my Private Collectors on https://patreon.com/jpawlik and https://jpawlik.com/vipblog with some real fun ones, lots of Jigen/Zeni which I am not complaining about!

Hey and it’s the beginning of the month, now’s the best time to sign up and get these requests every month plus a huge archive of art and comics, there’s a SFW tier and a NSFW tier~

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Sketchbook Shoutouts 57 & 58

Four black and white illustrations on one image. "Shoutout for Rocket" of their two original characters, one with long poofy hair looking excited and determined with their fists up, the other wearing a navy officer uniform and looking over lovingly with hearts floating about. "Shoutout for Peggy" of Jigen from the live action movie, but drawn in my semi-cartoony style, he's sitting and having hot pot with a very pleased Oto. "Shoutout for TLC" of Ulf, my own OC, wearing a Santa outfit and holding a big bag of presents over his shoulder, he's looking at the view winking with his tongue sticking out. "Shoutout for Peggy" of their DnD character who's looking grumpy, holding up a small scythe, he's got pointed ears and horns while wearing a cowboy hat with a cloak of raven feathers.

Four black and white illustrations on one image, each illustration is contained in a rectangular panel. "Shoutout for Peggy, happy birthday" shows a young Jigen sitting at a desk with his eyes closed and day dreaming about a young smiling Lupin. "Shoutout for Bridget" two anthropomorphic dogs play in a band together, one in the foreground on an electric guitar and the other in the back rocking out on some drums. "Shoutout for TLC" where their original character, Gunter, is looking gruffly at the viewer with his hand to his mouth holding a cigarette. "Shoutout for Max" a shoulder up shot of Alex from Stardew Valley with his arm behind his head in a nervous gesture as he says "This is cool! Thanks." while blushing and smiling.

Another batch of shoutout requests from my Private Collectors on https://patreon.com/jpawlik and https://jpawlik.com/vipblog – Last year I changed up how I did shoutouts so now they’re all the same size!

Hey and it’s the beginning of the month, now’s the best time to sign up and get these requests every month plus a huge archive of art, comics and porn~

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Old Request Stream Art

Sketches of various characters in red pencil, most from the shoulders up: Darumaka, a chicken, a chicken wearing armor, Stevonnie, Darumaka and Snom, Luffy, Hercules, the main character from Never Satisfied, Shrek, Utena.

Sketches of various characters in red pencil, most from the shoulders up: Jigen, a character I forget, Ed from Cowboy Bebop, a fluffy velociraptor, three wolf moon, Sokka from Avatar, Zenigata, and Tai from Digimon. Sketches of various characters in red pencil, most from the shoulders up: Dimitri from Dead City, Esper from Pokemon wearing a school uniform, Mikael and JP as Sailor Scouts, Isabelle from Touchdown, Darumaka, Mikael and JP as cats. Text reads "twitch.tv/jeypawlik" Sketches of various characters in red pencil, most from the shoulders up: Mikael and JP from Dead City, a possom, a zombie, a fox, Croque from Animal Crossing, JP wearing Mikael's pocket dress, a cat, JP with short hair, and Del from Animal Crossing.

Spent some time recently cleaning up my computer files and came across these that I never posted. These were from my 2020 art request stream after finishing both Dead City and Gender Slices!

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