Sometimes you leave the city and stay in the great outdoors. In the city I can’t have my windows open at night at ALL because of honking cars, sirens, people yelling, etc.
Shoutout requests from my wonderful Private Collector tier on Patreon! I still haven’t played Disco Elysium and I should. I’m also so glad y’all like my Jigens and Zenigatas so much!
It’s also the beginning of the month which is the best time to join us over on Patreon if you’ve been thinking about it! You can get requests like this, my entire archive of either SFW ($5) or NSFW ($10) art, comics and over 100 sketchbook PDFS?! WOW!
My good friend Amiel taught me how to fish this summer and this was my first time throwing a line out! It was very exciting, even if the line didn’t actually go anywhere.
I got the hang of throwing the line eventually.
WHOA! What happened to February? It happened so fast! Even still, I have some art and comic updates for y’all this month~
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Latest Public Arts
All Friday public art is crossposted to tumblr, mastodon, pillowfort, bluesky, and jpawlik.com/blog and TWO months early for all Patrons — which also include sketches and thumbs with almost every piece, if that’s something you may be interested in 👀
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Webcomic Updates
February’s Oh Joy Sex Toy comic was an Hourly Comics Day Special all about what goes in to selling sexy comics at conventions!
Three more pages are up from my “Ins and Outs of Webcomics”! Learn what all you need to make and start your own webcomic.
Read from the beginning | Read the latest page | Buy the zine | Read ahead on Patreon
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Patreon Updates
This month’s sketchbook is up over on Patreon!
This month’s sketchbook is here!
Another busy month but I had a really great time drawing some silly doodles about my most recent Skyrim playthrough. I played Skyrim a LOT when it came out back in 2011 and during a heavy freelance month I felt the pull to start a new character.
Highlights this month: silly Lupin doodles, website design concepts and ideas, Darumaka, reaction to the Pokemon Direct, and as always some really great shoutouts from the Private Collector folks!
Did you know I do post a sketchbook PDF at the end of every month? AND you get access to the entire Sketchbook PDF collection archive if you’re a $5 and up member?!
More on Patreon this month:
- Do You Have an Instagram? – 1
- NSFW Jan & Isabelle Doggystyle
- Sketchbook Shoutouts – 75
- Treasures of Time – 31
- OJST Behind the Scenes: Libido
- Wizard Hat
- Do You Have an Instagram – 2
- Treasures of Time – 32
- Lupin, Let’s Learn English
- Do You Have an Instagram – 3
- Treasures of Time – 33
- Old Concept Art Book – 6
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March Schedule
- $1 members get Patreon early access posts on Tuesdays and Fridays
- $5 members get Patreon posts on Wednesdays and my Sketchbook PDF at the end of the month
- $10 members get Patreon posts every other Thursday (or more) & a shoutout request every month
- Free comics are posted every Tuesday on Topaz Comics
- Free illustrations are posted every Friday on my art blog and most social media sites (links above in the “latest public art” section)
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Website Updates!
Topaz Comics has been needing an update for a looooong time and I’m just starting to work on it and think of new ideas to update the site with.
Things I want to do: make better use of the sidebar, make the front page library more mobile friendly, compile and make a nice archive page for each comic, finish up links and extra pages!
Something I’m also playing with is adding “Thanks to our Patrons” list to our About & Links page, where I’ll list $5 members by their usernames, but give $10 members the option for a personalized icon on the site that they can then also go use wherever they want (not commercially)
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Cool Comic Recommendation
Shaderunners by Lin Darrow & Alex Assan
Another friend’s comic that I love dearly. Shaderunners follows the story of a world where the colour has been pulled from it and are exclusively used by the elites of an alternate-reality’s 1920’s New York.
It’s got quite a backlog if you’re looking for something long to read and it’s still updating too~
Oh, did you know I did a guest comic for it too, back in the day?
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Other Things
I was working on some children’s book freelance work, which has been different but very rewarding to work on!
I’m working on a side-OJST comic for the upcoming pledge drive in June so be on the look out for that. I’m still trying to decide what it’ll be about.
Commissions are still up in the air, but I’ll let everyone know when they’re back up!
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Let’s make some more art in March!
A silly joke in the group chat that I desperately needed to draw!
Y’know I was a big dino kid growing up, and still absolutely love dinosaurs but I get so anxious drawing them due to “accuracy”. I love them but not as much as folks who REALLY love them.
I feel like Laios in Delicious in Dungeon about dragons:
So I always go to the zoo for my birthday every year, and every time we must go see the wonderful Golden Lion Tamarins!
I think I just like little animals with orange bodies and blue faces.
Something may be on the horizon with this design so keep your eyes out!
My hourlies that I made and posted for Oh Joy Sex Toy!
This comic is slightly NSFW, click through to read it (18+only)
This is officially my TENTH YEAR drawing an hourly comics day comic!!
Four more Patron shout requests, with an OC and a bunch of Jigens and ships. I’m so glad everyone likes my Jigen so much!
Hey also it’s the beginning of the month which is the best time to join the Patreon if you’ve been considering it! You get goodies like this, my entire archive of either SFW or NSFW art and comics, and some fun stuff for free members~
https://itch.io/b/3495/the-cartoonist-co-op-spicy-comics-bundle
“Featuring both new and returning artists, this is our biggest nsfw bundle yet with 30 titles for just $30! Boasting a cavalcade of supernatural lovers (werewolves, vampires, elves, and more!), horny human antics, encounters of both the queer and straight kind, you’re sure to find something that’s just your cup of tea (or something that expands your horizons!).”
– Coop Spicy Bundle
And if you’re a fan of mine and Max’s spicy work, we’ve got (technically) THREE stories in this bundle! Hey, if you grab this and decide you reeeaally like them my Private Collector tier on Patreon has all these, as well as years of NSFW art and comics.
