Hope y’all are having a good summer!
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Public July Art
I try and post fun public art every Fridays, usually fanart! I post them over on tumblr, mastodon, cohost, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog with sketches and thumbnails up early for patrons and VIP members!
Webcomic Updates
No Darumakas this month, instead I posted a 3 page Lupin one-shot based on a scene from Porco Rosso. If you want early access to pages, sketches and thumbs check out my Patreon or my VIP Blog.
Another HRT diary comic went up! These pages do go up early on Patreon and my VIP Blog, then up 2 months later for free on Topaz Comics.
Read from the beginning | Read the latest page
After All wrapped up for Private Collector members, and what a doozy that comic was! It’s a NSFW Jigen/Zeni comic that Max wrote and I am so pleased with it! Go read the entire thing, and later this year I’ll be posting a PDF on my itchio and a printed version on our shop.
Read it on Patreon | Read on my VIP Blog
July’s Sketchbook
This month’s sketchbook is up for the Grab Bag tier on Patreon and my VIP Blog
Swim On 10: Blue Planet
The final volume of Swim On goes live on Friday @ 12pmEST
Check out the Swim On site on Friday to get the newest and final volume of my shark charity zine. This last volume features 149 illustrations by 134 artists, the biggest volume to date and I am so proud of it! It was a really big job this year so that’s taken up quite a bit of my time, but I hope you’ll support it when it’s out – all proceeds go towards finfree.org
Grab that and all the previous volumes here
Other things
Still working hard on my NDA video game contract and we’re nearing the end! Might be working on it into September, but I am so stoked to eventually finally tell you about all this secret art I’ve been doing. My art director is so incredible, Shel Kahn so go check our their work as well! The whole team is doing such a great job. I’ve been thinking of doing a slight career shift into video games proper after this and then do personal comics on the side – we will see!
I’ll be away for a week in August without internet and I am so ready to be away from social media for that time. Posts might be staggered a bit during that time since only some sites have schedule options/I only have so much time in a day to do art and make posts.
I’m hoping to do no freelance work from October to December to slowly catchup on all the personal work I so desperately want to do so just know the posts are coming!
Hey if you’re a comic artist go join the Cartoonist Coop that I’m on some committees for; including the Nib and Ink Fest, and webdesign!
If you’re a Lupin fan, also check out the Lupin Forum I’m hosting weekly art prompts over there, so come draw with us!
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What a busy year so far but I was so determined to get my newsletter done and up on time! Tune in at the end of August for the next newsletter.
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!
