In 2023 I inherited my mother-in-law’s old mini DSLR, gave it a real good clean and replaced the swollen battery. Since then I’ve been having a real fun time with it! It’s so small and easy to pop in my bag and the zoom on this lil’ guy is so incredibly good.
These photos were my first foray back into photo editing. I haven’t done any proper photography since college (2008-2012) so go easy on me. I’m still re-learning how to do it.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5, Edited in Photoshop October 2023, Toronto
That concludes my borrowing of Amiel’s Samsung Slim Zoom camera for the 2023 summer and mine and Max’s first mini honeymoon after our wedding!
Samsung Slim Zoom, Fujifilm 400 August 2023, Georgian Bay & Toronto
More summer sunsets, creatures and me figuring out what the Bulb function does on a film camera!
Samsung Slim Zoom, Fujifilm 400 August 2023, Georgian Bay
Eight shoutout requests from my Private Collectors on https://patreon.com/jpawlik and https://jpawlik.com/vipblog
Hey and it’s the beginning of the month, now’s the best time to sign up and get these requests every month plus a huge archive of art and comics, there’s a SFW tier and a NSFW tier~
I also have these shoutouts available as a one-time purchase over on Ko-Fi if that’s more your jam!
Hey everyone, hope you had a good July and your summer isn’t too hot so far.
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An Announcement for August!!
I got a new contract and I’ll be hard at work getting settled on that so I’m taking a break my online store and from posting Tuesday comics both publicly and on Patreon during August. Excited to share new stuff with y’all in September though!
In the mean time I AM still posting:
– Tuesdays I’ve got some Photography Corner posts scheduled for free, but they’ll only be on my blog for now
– Wednesdays I’m posting my Lupin photo series “Treasures of Time” involving the daily life of the gang for $5 Grab Bag members
– Every other Thursday NSFW art where I’ve got a commission and some more OJST behind the scenes for August $10 Private Collectors
– Fun Friday art, for August I put together a few talks and tutorials that I’d never posted in written form so get ready to LEARN for $1+ Early Access members
– $10 shoutout requests! Every month Private Collectors get an inked drawing that’s featured in my monthly sketchbook.
– $5 monthly sketchbook. Every month Grab Bag members get a scanned copy of my sketchbook from that month. Lots of silly exploration doodles and concept art!
These will all be posted over on my Patreon so go check that out plus my enormous backlog of both SFW and NSFW art and comics~
Latest Public Arts
I post public art every Friday! Everything is also crossposted to tumblr, mastodon, pillowfort, bluesky, SheezyArt and jpawlik.com/blog and up over a month early for all Patrons and VIP members which also include sketches and thumbs with almost every piece.
Webcomic Updates
This month, Max and I posted up our 4 page comic from the Ladies of Lupin zine that came out a few months back. This was a fun exploration on a young gay Fujiko and Lady Ginko from Part 1. It’s all done and posted so go forth and read it!
Grab Bag folks got a 5 page mini series within my HRT Diary comics! These will be going up in September on Topaz Comics for public readers buuuuut you can read ahead right now if you’re antsy!
Read on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog
Not really a webcomic but I want to tell y’all about my “Treasures of Time” series that I’m posting over on Patreon and my VIP blog. The series is a large set of black and white photographs depicting the gang’s every day life. It’s been really fun to work on and will just be for Grab Bag members for now until I make enough to make it into a zine. I hope you’ll check it out, photos go up every Wednesday!
July’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon and my VIP Blog
It was another busy month but I managed to get almost 30 pages done for the first time in a loooong time. I’ve got a lot of things on the go in this one: lots of redesigning old OCs, silly doodles, Cartoonist Coop work, TTRPG concepts, and going through some old sketchbooks to redraw some really old but fun designs and pitches. Plus of course, shoutout requests from my Private Collector folks!
Also on my old sketchbook hunt I came across a folder of 34 sketchbooks from 2015 to 2019 that I completely forgot about and have never posted. Would folks be interested in seeing those?
August Schedule
Like I said, August is going to be weird but hopefully I’ll get back into a real schedule in September!
Jigen: Before and After Zine
A new Lupin zine is available for preorders both physically and digitally.
50 Pages of art of Lupin III’s Jigen Daisuke collected for a community charity zine. All profits will be sent to Transgender Law Center. Preorder, books planned to ship before August ends.
Max and I have a 6 page comic in this zine and I cannot wait for you to read it!
I also got to design the keychain for the zine.
Itch.io
As of writing this on July 31st: Itch.io has delisted all NSFW media from the searches due to the request of payment processors. I hold strong in my support of NSFW content and I highly recommend you contact Mastercard, Visa, Paypal and Stripe to tell them your displeasure in the situation.
There’s lots of resources out there right now on how to fight back and I highly recommend you do, even if NSFW media isn’t your jam censorship helps no one. Please check out https://yellat.money/ for a list of phone numbers, petitions, and other ways to help.
I don’t know what the future of NSFW art is going to look like, but if anything does happen my newsletter is the best place to follow where my work is. I’ll always have my own websites to fall back on, but payment processing sucks and I can’t sell digital NSFW PDFs without my itch.io right now because my own online store runs on Stripe. So if anyone has any reasonably priced alternatives please do let me know.
Cool Comic Recommendation
I only recently got caught up on this comic after it had been on my “to read” list for quite a while and what an absolute delight! The art is absolutely fantastic and I deeply enjoy a good fantasy tale.
Fairmeadow is about an orcish warrior Goma who after being quite injured in a war stumbles upon “Fairmeadow”, a commune of peaceful folk. Goma struggles in this new environment but maybe her walls begin to come down as she gets to know these new friends. Read and find out! This comic is still updating so be sure to add it to your RSS reader.
Other Things
The Topaz Comics Shop will be closed for physical shop orders until August 25th, but you can still buy PDFs!
Commissions will be closed for all of August as well, I’ll see about re-opening in September but that’s not a guarantee depending on my work load.
Dead City is the THIRD book in the Tales of Toronto featured book list on the Toronto Public Library. How cool is that?!
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I hope y’all have a good summer everyone and I’ll chat with you again at the end of August! Thank you for your support.
Some more cottage life photography with a bunch of creatures we spotted like the heron, bald eagle, loons and muskrat!
Samsung Slim Zoom, Fujifilm 400 August 2023, Georgian Bay
April’s lupiniii.club prompts!
Prompts were: Goemon has a heist idea but it’s not very good, Fujiko and Jigen go antiquing, Fujiko enjoying a fancy champagne, spring is in the air
I’m not doing my “Things I finished” series this year, but if there’s something that really speaks to me I’ll draw a thing for it, like for Ōoku: The Inner Chambers and In Stars And Time! Two pieces of media I just couldn’t put down I was so pulled in to both of them and experienced so many emotions — I highly recommend both!
When I went with family to see the solar eclipse last year at the Royal Botanical Gardens it was a bird extravaganza!
Some doodle redraws from Another Page because Jigen makes some choice faces in that movie!
Edit: if you saw this piece already, no you didn’t! that was an uploading accident.
