{"id":3551,"date":"2026-05-28T11:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/vipblog\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:41:49","slug":"ojst-behind-the-scenes-i-got-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/vipblog\/ojst-behind-the-scenes-i-got-married\/","title":{"rendered":"OJST Behind the Scenes: I Got Married!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A behind the scenes for you all on this fine Thursday now that I\u2019ve made all my deadlines for my freelance work, I\u2019m going to catch up on Patreon posts!<\/p>\n

Like I mentioned in a previous BTS, I was signed on to the Disney Cursed Caf\u00e9 game July 2023 but I still had three comics left in my contract with OJST and didn\u2019t want to leave them hanging suddenly. So I just did both at the same time\u2026<\/p>\n

While also having gotten married a month prior to all this dropping?!<\/p>\n

2023 was a wild year!<\/p>\n

The art director for the Disney game actually reached out to me in January 2023 but I had to tell them I wouldn\u2019t be available until July, until after my wedding. Wedding stuff was in full swing, I was doing TCAF and releasing a new book in April (The Dead City Omnibus), and I just couldn\u2019t start a new job during all that. Luckily, the game team wanted me still, so they waited. Then in July I started working on the game part-time, along with doing OJST comics, but I couldn\u2019t keep that up. So this was my last OJST comic before moving full time to the Cursed Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

But more on THIS comic, I honestly never thought I\u2019d get married nor did it really ever interest me. It all felt so performative when I was younger (the thought of marrying a man really put me off, hmmmmm everything kind of makes sense now). I really wanted to share those sentiments along with how I felt during my wedding.<\/p>\n

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I designed my first (and maybe only) enamel pins as wedding favours to give to the guests. Which are also up for sale if you’re interested<\/a>~<\/p>\n

Ours was a small wedding, just with close friends and family and even still it was quite a lot of work. I think we did a pretty darn good job because people are still talking about how much they enjoyed it!<\/p>\n

And yes, I did cry during it.<\/p>\n

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I don’t think I ever actually shared any wedding photos online, but gosh looking through them again I’m just so happy we did this.<\/p>\n

Because I wasn’t sure if this would be my very last OJST I wanted to make it really special. IN FULL COLOUR ahhhhhhh. It’s not secret to say, but I don’t like colouring. I prefer greyscale or halftones any day of the week, so colouring a comic is always an endeavour for me. But I was determined! Even while working on the Disney game, I wanted this comic to be good and beautiful.<\/p>\n

This was when I started experimenting with more textured brushes for colouring, I ended up using some from this set<\/a> for this comic, before eventually moving on to make my own later.<\/p>\n

Thanks for joining me on this wedding journey, Max and I will be celebrating our 3 year wedding anniversary in a week too, so this was well timed~<\/p>\n

<\/span>Click to reveal sketches and thumbs<\/div>
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