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!
Got a neat brush and wanted to try it out on a Lupin doodle, I don’t think stippling is my thing but it’s fun to play around with!
Some little LupinZero doodles that I didn’t think I’d turn in to anything more polished but wanted to post nonetheless!
I sketched these sometime after I hurt my wrist to get back into drawing again, and I liked them a lot. This is normally how sketchy my sketchbook looks if I know I won’t clean something up.
Some really fun shoutout requests this time! Y’all have such good requests
These requests are available for $10 patrons and $10 kofi commissions
May came and went so quickly, I can’t believe it!
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May Art
I realised I didn’t have a public art section in my newsletters?! Time to fix that. Here’s all the art I posted this month. All of these can be seen & shared on my various socials: tumblr, twitter, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort and instagram (which might be too many but I’m hoping to weed them down at some point in the future), and of course every piece is on this blog as well!
May’s Oh Joy Sex Toy Comic “Libido”
Read it here! Being a person is tough and sometimes it can feel like my sex drive is just all over the place. So I wanted to tell the story of my libido for those who may relate to those fluctuating temperatures. You’re not alone!
For $10 patrons, I posted a behind the scenes about my OJST comic “Growing Up Without Sex-Ed”. This includes sketches, thumbnails, my script and an indepth look at my history with sex-ed.
Alola Darumaka & Fanart Comics
Read the latest Alola Darumaka page here! Went on a bit of a Darumaka hiatus this month to post some fanart comics instead. If you’re new you can start reading here: Alola Darumaka it’s 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!
The other comics posted this month were my comic for the “When I Was Me” anthology, a Lupin Eggnog recipe comic for the “Lupin’s Gourmet World” zine, and a secret Valentines comic in a discord I’m a part of. You can read those starting here!
Shop Updates
The Topaz Comics shop will be closed from June 7th to June 18th. It’ll be open again on June 19th with a Pride sale! I’ll be sure to update everyone with information on that closer to the date.
Dead City does have a PDF version now if you want to see the remastered complete story you can grab that, or the physical book, here!
May’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is HERE for $5 members on Patreon & Kofi
I’ve been real busy with planning but here’s the biggest sketchbook I’ve done in quite a while! It’s got lots and lots of Lupin comic concepts including fresh fullbody designs for The Curtain Falls, some AU ideas. Then there’s some OC work for potential comics, and some client design work. A concept art kinda month!
The Curtain Falls
Page 25 and 26 of my Lupin III fancomic “The Curtain Falls” are up. Halfway through now and Lupin is faced with something he just wasn’t prepared for. The Curtain Falls is a Lupin III fancomic about Lupin in his 60s coming to terms with the fact that nothing lasts forever.
Commissions
Are closed for now, I’ll be sure to let everyone know when they open up again.
NSFW Art
For my $10 Private Collector patron tier, two new pages of “After All These Years”, the Jigen/Zenigata comic Michelle and I have been working on together. My $10 tier has a huge backlog of lewd art spanning a few years now, but if you can’t make it onto Patreon you can grab the PDF versions on my itchio after I collect enough pieces to make a PDF. Patreon and Itchio are the only places I’ll be posting 18+ work.
June Hiatus
I’ll be away for some of June because Michelle and I are getting MARRIED on June 4th! So I’m scheduling up a bunch of art and comics ahead of time and here’s what June will look like. I’m thinking the calendar is pretty handy so I may try and post another for July – we’ll see. For the mean time, I hope you’ll enjoy some anthology comics! I’m hoping to use this time to get a buffer worked on too!
I have been so busy with planning a wedding I haven’t had a lot of time to do fun art, so I’m really looking forward to some time off!
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This year has been just non-stop for me, so hopefully June will be a nice rest month. I’ll have another newsletter for you at the end of June!
Drew these a few months ago but wanted to post them anyway, especially after Lupin Zero. I picture Zenigata not being a perfect kid, coming from a shitty household and not being able to get good grades. He believes in justice but as a kid he can’t do anything about it. My own version of young Jigen is a bit different than Lupin Zero’s, I like both anywho!
A secret valentines comic for SeaFoamPanda based on a scene from Part 2, episode 99 which I highly recommend watching.
A piece of gift art for chiK who helped us North American Lupin fans get our hands on a really cool Japanese fanzine. Here’s a Goemon drinking a fruity cocktail as thanks!
I had a vision and needed to draw it. Big “do I look like I have money” energy. Trying out a new brush with this one, I kinda like it so far! Maybe I’ll try switching between this one and my regular one.
