I’d been asked to draw what kind of monsters Goemon and Fujiko would be and I cannot imagine Fujiko as anything other than a vampire.
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A gift for my very good friend @thesandlord who had top surgery on October 2nd!
A quick cigarette kiss to practice toning traditionally.
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Public September Art
Here’s some public illustrations that I posted this month! I try to post something publicly every Friday – and all patrons get to see these a whole month early, which include any sketches and thumbs related! All of these can be seen & shared on my various socials: tumblr, twitter, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog!
OJST: I Got Married
In June, after 10 years of being together, Michelle and I got married! It was a pretty small event but way more work than either of us expected, but I couldn’t be happier with the end result.
Other big news is I’ll be stepping away from doing monthly comics on Oh Joy Sex Toy for a little while as I got offered a really cool contract for a video game! I can’t talk about who it’s for or what it is yet but I’ll be back with one-off comics at some point after I learn the ropes with this new gig. Thank you so much for all your support in having me on as a semi-permanent guest artist for two whole years! A big thank you for Matthew and Erika offering me the role, it was a dream come true to work so closely with people I’ve looked up to for 10 years! And of course, thanks to Ziggy for helping edit my comics, and Hien for being such a great co-worker. Ahhhh, but I’m sure I’ll be back!
Webcomic Updates
I’ve been posting more of my 7 page comic “Loom” once a week until it’s complete. This is a silent comic written by Clark Moreau for the Twisting Time Anthology. I’m so incredibly proud of the research and backgrounds I did for this comic and the last page will go up on October 3rd.
The Grab Bag tier on Patreon got another page of my Lupin III fancomic “The Curtain Falls”, a comic about Lupin in his 60s. Pages go up when I finish them!
The Private Collector tier on Patreon also got another “After All” page, a NSFW Jigen/Zenigata comic written by Michelle. We’re getting to the sexy bits now!
September’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is HERE for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon
September’s sketchbook is here! A 25 page pdf this time with sketches from a work life drawing session, some studies of the Nausicaa manga, and lots of Lupin in cute gay little outfits! It was a fashion kind of month. And as always some very fun shoutout requests, thanks to the Private Collector gang!
Other things
– I’ll be opening commissions in October once again, but Patrons get 1 week first dibs on the 2 slots.
– I’ve got a bluesky account now, and I’ll be posting my art there as well as all my other places. I still like tumblr the best for now.
– Speaking of bluesky, I made some feeds for it! A network-wide Lupin III feed, my own general art feed, and another for my own Lupin art. Feel free to give those a follow!
– I got covid and it really sucked, but I ended up reading quite a lot of the manga “What Did You Eat Yesterday”, which I’ve been collecting for quite a while. I highly recommend giving it a read!
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I think that about wraps it up for this month. Tune in at the end of October for the next newsletter. How’s this newsletter working? Does it work? Would you rather see things differently? It’s fun to figure out a new way to get info to folks.
Did a request stream not too long ago (before Tears of the Kingdom came out). Everyone requested some really fun drawings! I especially like Mikael wearing Elton John sunglasses. We also tried to parse Ganondorf’s hair in TOTK.
More testing brushes on some fun fanart. I really liked Moriarty and his gang in Sherlock Hound, big Lupin gang vibes!
Had this idea back in December. It was originally about Lupin with a black eye, but then then the finale of Zero came out and I liked Lupin’s dad way more than I ever expected! So Jigen’s dad became the jerk of this story instead. My intention for “family” here is “we’re married” and not “we’re brothers”.
Update:
Ohmygosh @rants-about-opm wrote a fic based on this comic and it’s so extremely cute and on point! They really got what I was going for and expanded this 3 panel comic into something really sweet.
Finished watching the blu-ray copy I grabbed of Sherlock Hound. I’d never watched it before so I took a gamble on it but wow was it good! Highly recommend the Japanese version!
Holmes and Watson were really cute so naturally I had to draw them. Check in next week for some Moriarty.
Two versions because I’ve been playing with tones again and it’s fun to try out multiple styles on my public pieces.
I like it when people use shoutouts as birthday messages to their friends, it’s so incredibly cute?!
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Read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48424786
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