Comic Studies: Ryoko Kui

Sketchpage of studies based on Ryoko Kui's art from Dungeon Meshi, showing character body types.

Sketchpage of thumbnail studies from Delicious in Dungeon, there's 16 thumbnails total. Sketchpage of studies of panels from Delicious in Dungeon focusing on backgrounds. Studies from Delicious in Dungeon focusing on character expressions. Full page layout study of a page from Delicious in Dungeon, making note of how wide the gutters are and how big the font is.

 

Some Ryoko Kui studies from 2021 that I wanted to post now that the manga has wrapped up. Delicious in Dungeon holds a real special place in my heart, and while I haven’t done much/any fanart of it, I have done manga studies!

I’ve done manga studies before in this public post of Monkey Punch studies & one of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou or for Grab Bag tier folks I posted a whole sketchbook of studies!

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August 2024 Newsletter

Rectangular image with the text “2024 Updates, August Edition” over top of an illustration of Jigen and Mash from Lupin the Third. The text “jpawlik.com/blog and patreon.com/jpawlik” is at the bottom of the image.

Wrapping up the summer with another newsletter!

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Public August Art

I try and post fun public art every Fridays, usually fanart! I post them over on tumblr, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog with sketches and thumbnails up early for patrons and VIP members!

Webcomic Updates

Something a bit different, Max and I were invited to this anthology back in 2021 Queer Compassion in 15 Comics and now that the book is out, we’re finally able to share what we did for it! We’re both very proud of it.

Our comic was 8 pages so I’ll be scheduling one per week on Tuesdays to give us a bit of a buffer so we can get some new Darumaka comics ready for y’all!

Three pages are up so far to read for free! If you want early access to pages, sketches and thumbs check out my Patreon or my VIP Blog.

Read from the beginning

For Patrons and VIP members, I just finished posting all 5 pages of the comic Max and I did for the Mon Marie zine. It’s not quite NSFW but has implications and is a bit more mature. I also popped our extra copies up in the Topaz Shop if you’re interested.

Read it on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog

August’s Sketchbook

This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon and my VIP Blog

A mixture of digital and traditional pages this time around due to being without my physical sketchbook for a minute. Lots of concept art in this one, a bunch of silly doodles, studies and of course some great shoutout requests!

Swim On

Swim On 10 is still for sale, and this last volume features 149 illustrations by 134 artists. All proceeds go towards finfree.org

Grab that and all the previous volumes here

Other things

Still working away on my NDA game project and should be wrapping up in September. I have really enjoyed my time working on a video game so I may pursue more of this work going forward!

I bought an old 1994 Pentax film camera and have been having such a good time getting into photography as a hobby. I’ve been wanting a hobby that I can’t monetize and that doesn’t involve drawing in any way. There’s a local camera club near me so I may also join that soon. Maybe I’ll post some photos online too!

My goal after September is to really dive back in to personal work for the remainder of the year. I have so much I want to work on but just don’t have the time yet!

If you’re a Lupin fan, also check out the Lupin Forum I’m hosting weekly art prompts over there, so come draw with us!

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Join me again at the end of September for my next newsletter!

Updates

Jigen/Mash 1969

Square drawing made to look like a black and white film photograph. A young Jigen is arm in arm with a young Mash, from the Lupin the third tv special Hemingway Papers, the two of them are wearing army uniforms and smiling for the camera, they have their hands up in peace signs. Jigen is wearing a helmet that covers his eyes but does not have a beard. Mash is wearing a higher ranking uniform than Jigen and has his hair in a mullet style, with just a few moustache hairs on his upper lip.

I’d rewatched Hemingway Papers earlier this year and really wanted to draw a young Jigen and Mash. I have oh so many headcanons for them.

I’ve got a bunch of these old photo style illustrations in my backlog and I’m thinking I’ll post them on my Patreon/VIP Blog once The Curtain Falls is over, then collect them all into a zine!

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Sketchbook Shoutouts – 47

Image with three different black and white inked drawings on it. The first shows a waist up drawing of Regis from Witcher 3, he has his hands together and leaning on a table while looking to the right with a big toothy smile under the drawing reads “shoutout for Claire”. The second is Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with two of his three fingers up like a peace sign and he’s smiling while looking to the left under the drawing reads “shoutout for Kal”. The third is a person’s original character, who’s wearing a navy uniform and hat with his arms up in a shrug but his expression is a big grin and his eyes closed like he didn’t do anything wrong, text under the drawing reads “shoutout for Rocket”.

Three shoutout requests to start off the month, I had fun figuring out how to draw some guys I’ve never drawn before!

Shoutouts are for my Private Collector gang on Patreon & my VIP Blog! I draw them traditionally in my sketchbook and folks get one every month.

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New Tablet Sketches

Sketch page with five head shot doodles on it. The top left corner reads “New tablet get! It does this weird thing on a specific spot on the screen. Samsung had no idea what to do, it happened after an exchange and on the floor models! Boo! Hopefully it’ll sort itself out.” On the right side of the page, there’s a coloured doodle of Darumaka running with her hands up and a big smile on her face. Beside that is a portrait sketch of Lupin looking to the right smiling. Below that is a smaller portrait of Jigen looking flustered. At the bottom of the page shows two original character sketches, the first one is of Sten, coloured, he’s a big muscular man with a thick jaw and eyelashes, he’s got long pink hair pulled back into a bun and he looks concerned. Next to him is another original character, Salvator, who’s not coloured in, and he’s smiling while looking to the right, he’s a skinny man with long black messy hair also pulled back into a bun but his bangs hang over his eyes. He’s wearing fancy jewellery.

This one is from last year and I’d forgotten to post it. I got a new Samsung tablet last August for drawing on the go, so here’s some test doodles with Darumaka, Lupins and two OCs!

I really like the Samsung Galaxy Tabs as an ipad alternative. I use Clipstudio on it and use it as my primary inking device! I had some issues with it in the beginning but those sorted themselves out, it seems like it was a magnet problem so I don’t keep the pen magnetized to the back of the tablet anymore.

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