August comes to a close and so does the summer and possibly my super busy days are over and done!
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Public August Art
This month’s public art! I try my darndest to post something publicly every Friday – and all patrons get to see these like a month early! All of these can be seen & shared on my various socials: tumblr, twitter, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog!
OJST: B.J Dildo 2.0
This month’s OJST is a review for a toy that was graciously sent to me to try out! This is a NSFW review and includes depictions of dildos, nudity, and sexual content. I was super excited to try this one out and while it wasn’t exactly how I’d imagined it, it was still a pretty swell toy to use. I’d seen so many good reviews on this toy from other trans and nonbinary folks, but I’m starting to think I’m the outlier here.
Swim On Vol. 9 is live!
My 9th Swim On went up earlier this month and you can grab it for $1+ over at https://topazcomics.com/swimon/downloads/
All proceeds this and all previous volumes makes goes directly to finfree.org and the conservation of sharks!
Webcomic Updates
I’ve been posting 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.
$1+ patrons got 1 month early webcomic updates, currently they’re getting the comic Michelle and I did for “Between Heists” a Lupin fanzine.
After All, the JigZeni NSFW comic for $10 patrons, will start back up again starting September 14th. The Curtain Falls will also be back on September 13th for $5+ patrons!
August’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is HERE for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon
August’s sketchbook is here! 22 pages this time with mostly for fun doodles and sketches with some sketches I’d really like to clean up and tone down the line. Also some really good shoutout requests from $10 tier folks, thank you for your requests I always really enjoy doing those! Columbo was quite fun to draw. A little sneak peak as well for another Lupin zine Michelle and I will be in~
Other things
– I’m going to see about opening commissions again in October, I just have to catch up on my personal projects first.
– 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.
– NDA work is going well, busy juggling two jobs at once but I’m really enjoying it.
– I’ve been playing a lot of Tears of the Kingdom in my down time and what a wonderful, dumb game!
– I finished reading all of the Nausicaa manga and while it was really impressive and Miyazaki has great panelling and pacing I do like the movie more. The manga is a bit pretentious, fairly gory and a bit of a bummer. I still think I’ll do a comic study on it however, so look out for that next month.
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I think that about wraps it up for this month. Tune in at the end of September 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.
Some JigenZero doodles I really liked and wanted to add some colour to. I really liked his multicoloured turtlenecks.
I changed how I’m toning these since they’re traditional and I kinda dig hatching them.
These requests are available for $10 patrons and $10 kofi commissions
I’ve said this every month of 2023 so far but what a busy month!
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Swim On 9 goes live on Friday, August 4th, 2023 @ 12pmEST!!
It’s my 9th year doing Swim On and I just finished putting the PDF together this week. It looks awesome! I’ll be sure to make a full on post about it on August 4th too, but you’ll be able to grab it for $1+ over at https://topazcomics.com/swimon/downloads/
I started a new job!
At the beginning of the month I did an art test for a big NDA project and I’ve been working on that since. It’s really fun and I can’t wait to tell everyone about it once it’s done, but currently I am sworn to secrecy legally.
July Art
Some recent public art that’s up for all to see! All of these can be seen & shared on my various socials: tumblr, twitter, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort and jpawlik.com/blog!
Webcomic Updates
A 3 page Lupin Zero comic went up this month over on Topaz Comics. I had a lot of fun writing this one and using TrueGrit’s Halftone Machine on it. Start on page 1 here!
$1+ patrons got 1 month early webcomic updates with the completion of a 7 page short done for the Twisting Time Anthology last year.
A new page of After All These Years is up for the Private Collector tier! It’s a NSFW Jigen/Zenigata comic that I’m doing with Michelle and it’s getting to the hot and sexy part now, a perfect time to catch up!
A new page of The Curtain Falls is also up this month for the Grab Bag tier, we’re starting the second arc now so also a very good time to pop in and catch up! The Curtain Falls is a 50 page Lupin fancomic about Lupin in his 60s and dealing with the fact that everything needs to come to an end at some point.
July’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is HERE for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon
July was such a busy month but I still managed to get a 21 page sketchbook PDF out and posted!
This month was all about fun doodles, not much concept art or full pieces, but really letting loose and silly with it! Lots of Makas; Makas doing fun things, Makas dresses as Link and Zelda, Makas keeping a diary.
Commissions
Are closed for now, I’ll be sure to let everyone know when they open up again.
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I think that about wraps it up for this month. Tune in at the end of August for the next newsletter, I look forward to sharing more art and comics with you all!
Commission for RocketUpDuck on tumblr of their two OCs Holly and Pan.
Update: oops, I forgot to edit this to say my comms are closed until further notice! I’ll be sure to post about it when they’re open again!
When people request my own OCs it makes me so so happy, Ulf has many hats but I wanted to put in a Dead City callback!
These requests are available for $10 patrons and $10 kofi commissions
So long pride month, but here’s some art & updates!
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I got MARRIED!
So the biggest news is that Michelle and I got MARRIED on June 4th! It absolutely perfect, it was small, low stress, intimate and wonderful! Our suits turned out so great, my dark green one and Michelle’s charcoal grey. We also made pins as wedding favours and they turned out so good! I’ve popped the leftovers up for sale over on our online shop.
Then we went up north for our honeymoon and it was such a good time away from the internet and the hustle and bustle of the city. We saw a family of minks, a hummingbird 6″ away from Michelle’s face, a muskrat, and a BALD EAGLE (those are extremely uncommon up here in Canada). I took lots of photos with a film camera so I just have to get those developed.
June Art
Here’s the last few public pieces I’ve posted since the last newsletter. All of these can be seen & shared on my various socials: tumblr, twitter, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort and jpawlik.com/blog!
My Instagram account was permanently disabled
I’m beyond furious right now. Coming back from my honeymoon to find my ig account suspended for “automated behaviour”. The only thing I’ve ever used in conjunction with ig is their meta business suite to schedule posts and stories.
So I appealed.
Two days later they just straight up permanently disabled my account. Great! Cool. I didn’t get to talk with a person at all.
I really disliked ig. Posting on it was really difficult as a desktop user. Changing the aspect ratio of my art was hard. BUT I’d been building up that following for 10 years and now all that work just POOF! Gone in an automated instant.
I’m sad I won’t be able to tell the folks that followed me over there what happened or where else they can follow me. Hopefully we’ll meet again.
I won’t be making a new instagram, but will be trying to go on without another social media account to look after.
June’s Oh Joy Sex Toy Comic “Character Customization”
Read it here! Let me tell you about my realisation that I could change anything I wanted about myself; it really did feel like I’d unlocked character customization! Who’da thunk it, that buying a little pair of boxers could really shift my entire view on what I could change about myself. This was also back in 2013 when, for a young 22-year-old AFAB person, it felt a lot less socially acceptable to wear boxers. I’m so glad I took the plunge and levelled up!
There won’t be an Oh Joy Sex Toy Comic from me in July but I’ll be back the first Tuesday of August.
Alola Darumaka Updates
Read the latest Alola Darumaka pages starting here! Three new pages went up this month and we completed a 3 page arc about Galar Darumaka, who everyone has been asking to see! If you’re new you can start reading here: Alola Darumaka is a free to read 4-koma comedy comic about Darumaka and her partner Daven who’ve moved to Alola from Unova. Hijinks happen but it’s all in good fun!
Shop Updates
The shop is back up now that we’re back from our honeymoon and now has the two hard enamel pins we gave away at our wedding! These are my very first pin designs and I hope to make some more cool enamel pins in the future (maybeeee about a certain thief).
Get The Writer pin here, and The Artist pin here for $15CAD each!
June’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is HERE for $5+ members on Patreon & Kofi
June’s sketchbook is here! A 23 page PDF this month with lots of comic studies, diary entries of my honeymoon, wildlife we saw, and just generally some good fun art! It was nice to be off for a month and I did less drawing than I expected but really relaxed.
Commissions
Are closed for now, I’ll be sure to let everyone know when they open up again.
June Hiatus Comic Updates
Since I was away and without internet for most of this month, I posted up some anthology comics for Patrons in place of Alola Darumaka, The Curtain Falls, and my NSFW tier.
The $1 tier is getting a 7 page comic I did for “Twisting Time”, written by Clark Moreau. The story is that of a time weaver dealing with all the grief of the world.
The $5 tier got a 3 page comic for an old gay man anthology that never came to be. The comic Michelle and I did was called “Train Dads” and it’ll likely stay as a Patron-only comic.
The $10 tier is getting a 7 page comic Michelle and I did for the “Nectar” anthology (which was nominated for a Lammy). An artist summons a muse for a life drawing session, but some of the poses are much harder to hold than others.
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I think that about wraps it up for this month. Tune in at the end of July for the next newsletter, I look forward to sharing more art and comics with you all!
