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Casual Confessions

Comic page in greyscale. A beautiful ballroom with a giant crowd mingles and dances around a large decorative egg. Lupin and Jigen are wearing tuxedos and are ballroom dancing together. Jigen looks at the prize, then at Lupin who's smiling. Jigen asks "What?" in a serious way.

Lupin smiles sweetly and replies "This is nice." Jigen looks confused and asks "The... job?" Lupin says "No, dancing with you." Jigen takes his hand off Lupin's shoulder and sweats nervously while exclaiming "HAH! What?! But 'm terrible at dancin'. I got two left feet." The room around them and Lupin pulls Jigen closer while saying "Still, doesn't it just feel right?" We close in on the two faces, just inches apart. Jigen's face is red as he says "Lupin... what're you getting at here?" Lupin looks at Jigen calmly and replies "I'm saying I like being with you." Which makes Jigen even more flustered and says "Are you seriously doin' this now? During a job?" Lupin just laughs at this and says "But doesn't that make it more exciting?" Lupin leans in for a kiss. Jigen stops him midway saying "Listen." Lupin's expression immediately fades and he's thrown into a dark state as Jigen says "If I kiss you here and now--" but the darkness subsides and Jigen continues "I won't be able to stop. So let's do this after. Okay?" Lupin laughs with a tear in his eye and Jigen smiles along with him. The camera zooms out to see the two smiling together in the crowd of people, Lupin replying "You got it!"
This one was written and drawn by me as I try and dip my toes slowly into writing comics. I tried sketching the first two pages traditionally but I’ve noticed my anatomy and compositions are way cleaner/better if I sketch digitally. Also trying out a new way of toning a comic, unsure if I like it yet or not, but these one-shot quick comics are real nice for testing out things without committing to a whole 300 pg comic! What do y’all think?

Also y’all can see these comics like 2 months early on my Patreon if that’s your jam – all comics come with sketches and thumbnails!

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Lupin One-shot: Steak & Wine

This was a comic I did for the Lupin zine “Gunpowder and Perfume”. This was one of the first comics I actually tried really hard to write properly by myself.
I’m not really a writer. I’ve been drawing comics with Michelle for over six years and that works super well for me!
I know I did Gender Slices myself but I don’t really count that as ‘writing’. It was messy and drawn more on the fly. Most of the time I wouldn’t even thumbnail it.
So this comic that I did last year was my first proper attempt at writing something myself. 
This was also before my style changed and before I really got a good handle on these characters, but I’m really proud of it regardless! 
I do have my bigger Lupin comic that I’ve been working on that I’ve written and I’m working on the art for it now so I hope y’all are excited for that one ’cause I think my writing has really improved lately.
Sometimes all it takes is a little practice!
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