Big Progress Report--Coloring!

In case you missed it--Comic 4.11 is here on Patreon! 

What's going on in my life right now? Since, Check Please Book 2 is due to my publisher in a few weeks, I'm churning out colors for the entire comic. So most of this post will be spoilers.

BUT FIRST. To answer some Questions. 

Nursey's Tattoo...Tattoos in General?

Q: Do u happen to have a full drawing of his tattoo?
A: Listen, it could quite possibly be that I have a loose concept of what it is, and don't want to be beholden to making it exactly correct when said tattoo is supposed to be shown on-panel...But it's kinda like:  

Q: What would jack get a tattoo of if he ever got a tattoo?
A: a picture of baby jack as a tramp stamp

photo drawn and imagined by Madeline Rupert 

ALA AUCTION

The American Library Association's annual conference is coming up, and I'm making a piece for their action!

Step One: Come Up With Concept. "Bitty, the protagonist of Check, Please!, reads a book on a tablet while listening to the audiobook"

Step Two: Thumbnails. I'm leaning toward C? Bitty has interesting body language and I can see the final piece pretty clearly.  Plus, I can show that he's reading a ton of recipe books, etc.  

First Attempt: 

Inking: 

Finished!    

🚨🚨 Spoilers Below 🚨🚨

Merry Candlenights

Hops and Louis played Destiny 2 for 9 hours straight before playing super smash bros ultimate until hops' thumb started twitching uncontrollably.  tldr they played video games and didn't sleep. (And probably watched like all of boruto at the same time.) (And had a laptop open where Bully Skyped in.)

Jack & Bitty Being Cute

Someone who is a fan of Bitty's vlog but knows nothing about hockey seeing Jack wearing an authentic BITTLE jersey
Someone: wow did you buy that??
Jack: no
end of conversation jack walks away  

A Fight

A Resolution?

nobody:
absolutely no one:
me: listen Coach loves his son he really does he wants Bitty to succeed and he's happy Bitty has found someone in this crazy world who complements him and yes it's true coach is a mess but

A Hit

(These screencaps were from the monthly livestream!)    

And Parse  

BITTY'LL FIGHT YA

AND MISCELLANEOUS!  (I told you this was a huge post! 

 Ransom & Holster got new jobs???  

And that's it! I'll be at ALA this weekend, so get ready for a bit of radio silence. I'll try to log into Discord to say hello!