Had been working on this one for a little while. I’d drawn the Gandalf right before my wrist issues last year and a lot of my personal drawing had been put on pause. A few months ago I felt good enough to come back to it, since I don’t normally colour art traditionally, it took a while but it’s DONE!
I’m really happy with how this turned out. I’m such a big LOTR fan so I had to do a crossover!
A page of Lupin face studies, mostly from part 2 episode 84 (which I recommend giving a watch)
Three shoutouts for my Private Collector gang, werewolf Jigen is always really fun and folks like my OCs enough to request them?! What a joy!
Every month that someone’s pledged to my Private Collector tier on Patreon, they get an inked request that appears in my monthly sketchbook. The request acts as mini commissions and folks can ask for their OCs, my OCs, or any kind of fanart.
Last Newsletter of the YEAR! Happy New Year everyone!
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Public December Art
I post something publicly every Friday (and sometimes extras) and these can be seen & shared on my various socials: tumblr, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog with sketches and thumbnails up early for patrons and then for free members 2 months later.
Webcomic Updates
Finished up another two page Lupin one-shot! Be sure to read both pages of “What Happened”.
I started keeping an HRT diary now that I’m on T. I just couldn’t stay away from autobio comics could I? I suppose this is a kind of spiritual successor to Gender Slices. There’s two pages up on Topaz Comics, and four on Patreon!
Read on Patreon | Read on Topaz Comics
The Private Collector tier on Patreon also got another “After All” page, a NSFW Jigen/Zenigata comic written by Michelle. If you wanna see Jigen and Zenigata smooch and more, this is the comic for you!
In lieu of The Curtain Falls pages this month I’ve been posting this paywall exclusive comic that I did for Oh Joy Sex Toy back in April. It’s a 5 page comic about my experience GMing for the first time. Four pages are up so far and the last will be up next week.
Read the comic on Patreon | Read it on Ko-Fi
December’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon & Kofi
I managed to get this sketchbook up just in time!
I also managed to finish my Lupin Advent Calendar art, all 24 days worth. It felt a lot like when I’d do inktober back in the day. I had a good time trying something new and doing just a lot of art this month. I hope y’all got to relax and enjoy the festive season.
New Years Resolutions
My new year’s resolutions for 2024 are turning out to be a lot more laid back than they have in previous years. I usually try and go all out, but after such a busy year I thought I’d go easy on myself.
Mottos
– Make stuff because YOU like it (INDULGENT)
– Take time to work on improving (QUALITY)
– Don’t compare yourself to the wide internet (SELF CARE)
– Let yourself be uncomfortable (MISOPHONIA)
– Use things that make you happy (JOY)
Comics
– Finish a comic
– Start a comic
– Print a book
– Contribute to a zine/anthology
– Take a personal art month
Personal
– Bird watching, and reading up on each bird after I spot them
– Daily wrist strengtheners and stretches
– Journal daily
– Go for more walks
– Bind a book
Other things
– Not much, the holidays were good but extremely busy!
– I bought a new tiny phone that I’m excited to use when it comes in
– I’m working full time at my current contract job, which has been a blast so far!
– I’m now a part of the Adult Artists Webring. Check it out, there’s some real great artists there!
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That’s a whole year of newsletters! How’re these feeling to y’all? Are they helpful in spite of current social media?
Lots of comics this year, it was a wild ride getting so much done (wedding, TCAF, Dead City printed, OJST, and a new job?!)
Really pleased with where my art’s been going, so onward and upward to 2024!
The last 9 Advent Calendar drawings I did based on prompts posted over at lupiniii.club and what a fun event that was! It felt a lot like when I’d do inktober every year, which I do kinda miss. So many I’ll do another Advent Calendar for 2024!
Secret Santa gift for mystsaphyr.me this year! My spouse gave me the idea for the piece, and I’m real pleased with how it turned out.
Had this idea for a while and I’m real pleased with how it turned out! Inspired by a chapter cover for the Lupin III Y Manga.
More prompt drawings for the advent calendar event over at lupiniii.club – where each day a piece of fanart or fic is revealed, along with a prompt! These have been a lot of fun to do up every day!
Some manga studies I did over the summer of a comic I really enjoy “Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou”. It’s about a robot girl who runs a cafe during a sort of quiet apocalypse. It’s a bit older (1994) and is a little bit gay. I absolutely love the art style, the pacing and how slow it is. I highly recommend checking it out if you can. There’s four OVA episodes for it over on youtube. The first two were fantastic but the second two were done in 2006 and weren’t as good.
Manga studies are such a nice way to look at my favourite comics in a different way. How are they panelled? How does the artist pace the story? How do they use B&W to it’s limit?
I’ve done manga studies before in this public post of Monkey Punch studies, or for Grab Bag Patrons I posted a whole sketchbook of studies!
