Hey everyone,
The Luminary Lark-Mirror, my 52-page full color comic about pinball crimes in ‘60s America is now available for purchase on the Shortbox Comica Fair website for the entirety of October.
I will be posting the comic in full for my $5+ tier patrons after October is over, though any traffic thru the Shortbo...
2025-10-02 11:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
Just wanted to compile some of the art exploration and thoughts that lead up to the final designs of the key characters in The Luminary Lark-Mirror (my soon-to-be-released comic, coming this October). Madge was the only design I felt I nailed on my first try, the others flipped-flopped relentlessly in my mind until the very last moment they had to go on the page (poor Frank, he probably lost the most weight in the process).
Madge
Our tight-lipped, e...
2025-09-09 06:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone,
A big milestone for me, I've just finished and submitted my first every full-length comic, The Luminary Lark-Mirror for Shortbox Comics Fair 2025. I will be waiting until October 1st when the fair launches to present the comic for free here for my $5+ patrons, who have access to all my PDFs. It will be 52 pages of full-color craziness, 9 GPB on the website, and I'm so excited for you to read what I've been toiling away on for the last 6-8 months.
In the me...
2025-08-02 02:17:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
To my surprise, I actually hadn't done up a post for this piece yet detailing its process, so here it is now (better late than never)!
This was an illustration commissioned by the studio Fine Feathered Friends for their vampire-themed visual novel Drăculești, centered around one of their dateable characters, "Cez". Cez, as described to me, was a vampire of two forms, a feminine "flapper" form and a masculine "demon" form, and my only directio...
2025-07-01 04:21:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
This is a work-in-progress! Please view at your own discretion. I will likely go back and clean/edit as I go along, but I just wanted to update everyone on the progress on my 52-page comic so far. The full comic in all its glory will be available at around October for purchase Shortbox Comics Fair, but those on my PDF tier will get the whole thing in advance. Likely that this is the most I'll be showing on all tiers as a little preview. I'm very excited to keep worki...
2025-03-31 12:45:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't quite remember if I've announced it here yet, but in case you weren't in the know: I am participating in the 2025 Shortbox Online Comics Fair with a fully realized take on my prior comic idea: The Luminary Lark Mirror. Much of the story has been changed since then, but I'm so glad I've gotten the opportunity to make something substantial out of all my twisted ideas about pinball and self-destruction.
More is detailed in the script I've written, available to view here: 2025-03-03 13:37:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone,
As of today, I will be consolidating my two request tiers (Civet Sojourner and Oud Upholder) into one tier. It will cost 25 USD to subscribe to that tier, the same price as Oud Upholder, but this only applies to new members so current members inhabiting that tier will need not worry about the price increase. I decided to make this change to better reflect my time investment in these requests, I hope everyone will find this small change agreeable.
Thank you everyon...
2025-02-24 09:15:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve been slacking a bit on these since Tết came around, but I still plan on doing these sketch pages weekly and posting them in full here. This week’s selection was Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) dir. Jan Švankmajer, and Belle de Jour (1976). I enjoyed both these films greatly, had no idea that one of my all-time favorite music videos (Scissor Sisters’ Invisible Light) heavily referenced the latter. I’ve also got to check out more of Švankmajer’s work, if the rest of his reper...
2025-02-19 08:07:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve challenged myself this year, as an attempt to whack away at my ever-growing film watchlist, to watch two films a week. Doodling characters and scenes as they appear help me to stay focused and kill two birds in one stone - I especially like to observe the faces of extras and side characters from older, low-budget films. It helps to keep my mental libraries fresh.
Attached are my studies from Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1971), a genre-defying movie that films a film crew while...
2025-01-17 16:35:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas, everyone.
I've finally finished this little book in time for the holiday season, just a 48-page love letter to the Transformers filled with illustrations and poetry by me. Patrons in the $15+ tiers will have access to this PDF booklet (along with all my other PDFs, past and future) for free. Above also is a bit of an extra preview of what you can expect to see inside.
2024-12-26 15:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a commissioned cover for Baffling, an online speculative flash fiction magazine, based off of one of the stories in that month's issue (April 2025). The story is about a man who forms a strange, metaphysical, questionably romantic relationship with his new pet goldfish. Keep an eye out when it's released, I enjoyed reading it quite a bit.
2024-12-19 03:44:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I really do hope I get to see a Salome production live one day, it's always been a very high item on my bucket list. For now I have to settle for watching nearly every available adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play set to Strauss, or rather adaptations based off his revolutionary reimagining of Salome (the biblical figure) who used to not even have a name nor any agency in her tragic tale....
2024-11-09 10:14:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This was my recent client-commissioned cover illustration for the yet unpublished Asian-centered cyberpunk anthology Neon Requiem. Quite proud of how this turned out! It's quite a busy piece with a lot of elements, so I pushed myself to fall back on detail in some key places (the shadowed area at the top with the police officers). I was very eager to provide a very Vietnamese take on a genre typically dominated by a Western or Japanese perspective.
Out of all the thumbnails I came up wi...
2024-10-27 14:36:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
Thanks so much for your patience, it is with all your guys' support I am able to present to you my 94-page sketchbook documenting lesser-seen work from 2021-2024. Everything from chicken-scratch Tijuana bible fare to fully colored character designs and style studies. Plus some of my commentary! I hope you find it enlightening or at the very least entertaining.
It is currently available to my $15+ patrons for free (along with my other PDFs) or you can purchase it on...
2024-10-16 08:13:54 +0000 UTC View PostAlright guys, I'm at a bit of a crossroads here. I'm currently putting together a 2021-2024 sketchbook (that will be free for you guys at the $5+ tier), but I'm wondering if it would be smarter to separate my TFormers doodles from the rest into its own sketchbook because how it's looking, that content takes up about 30% of the general sketchbook's volume. I know not all of you are TF fans and some of you are JUST here for the TF stuff, so I thought to maybe start a poll on what would be a mor...
2024-09-30 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
I'm starting to take my financing a little more seriously and have decided I want to devote more attention and time to feeding this Patreon while also introducing a milestone rewards system. Since Patreon decided to remove its Goals features, I'll be keeping track of the progress here.
Currently we are sitting at $175/mo.
🕊️$200/mo
*Casper's Monthly Scratchbook (sketchbook) PDF unlocked
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Some doodles I did after work.
Thoughts:
The Painted Lady / Malcolmina (The Monarch): Based on Queen Taramis’ costume design from the Conan the Destroyer movie (and other 80s She-Ra type sci-fantasy villainesses). High drama, like you can already imagine that she’s descending upon a stage rigged up to harnesses and strings. The cords that form her antennae is her real, braided hair, sculpted in a meticulous way to withstand stunt entrances and running from danger.
Dr. Bo...
2024-06-09 08:40:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
Recently I was honored to work on a large, collaborative tarot card deck with more than 60 other artists, all revolving around a Stained Glass theming. The conceit was that we were all to design one unique card to contribute to the deck, either adhering fully to replicating a stained-glass panel or to include stained glass elements into the piece. It was a challenge to simulate such a rigid physical medium in the endlessly iterative medium of digital art, one that really...
2024-04-10 03:07:48 +0000 UTC View PostI was recently tapped to participate in a Gaza relief charity zine with a “detectives and thieves” theme, titled Catch Me If You Can. At first, I wanted to go all out on an original concept but ended up turning to fanart of Beatrice and Battler from Umineko instead (I somewhat came to regret this). I thought it would be fun to share some of my discarded ideas here.
2024-02-28 03:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi all! It's Casper.
I know it's been quite some time since my last newsletter, a lot has happened since then. I got a part-time job at a furniture design company. I adopted two beautiful kitties, Dagmar and Brutus. I sort of halfway-made a comic, but then I got caught up doing donation sketches for Cartoonist Cooperative in their E-Sims for Gaza initiative (which you should definitely check out)! Through it all, I thank you all sincerely from the bottom of my heart, it's with you...
2023-12-13 09:34:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I love roleplaying games. The promise of a roleplaying game is simple: no matter what you are or who you choose to be in this story, you have a right to participate. Obviously, a video game cannot account for the full breadth of player creativity like a GM could in a pen and paper campaign, but within its set parameters it should seek to embolden it, encourage the player to see past the limits of their own creativity in the best of cases.
This article is divided into two parts, the firs...
2023-09-26 12:31:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the very first development art log of a personal comic project I've been slowly chipping away at since late last year. This is practically the first time I've spoken about it to anyone in depth, so to be frank, writing this post has been a little nerve-wracking!
Inspired by the mythically surreal pinball raids of the 1940s in America, in which pinball was outlawed in a couple states and systematically destroyed on the streets *public execution-style*, The Luminary Lark Mi...
2023-06-14 09:20:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I love Vietnamese surf rock from the '70s, produced mostly in the South while atrocity after atrocity was being enacted on home soil. It's a peek into the lives of the Vietnamese middle class privileged enough to seek distraction from senseless violence, a perspective distinctly missing from international portrayals of the war. I (should) welcome any new perspectives on principle. When all your life you've seen yourself as either a faceless monster or a nameless victim, any new addition to th...
2023-04-21 10:25:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This month marks the first month of Patreon requests for patrons on my $15+ tiers, so I thought I'd add something extra and use it as a opportunity to demonstrate a bit about how I typically go through my color process. It's really quite simple, and practically the only part of art-making at this point in my life that I've gotten down to a formula.
Images shown above:
1) Drawing of Impactor with base color, AKA the traditional way of going about a digital drawing
*at this p...
2023-03-06 05:19:35 +0000 UTC View PostHi, everyone. Happy New Year! Let’s start off this issue with a resolution.
My resolution this year is to make significant progress on a comic script I’ve been writing in my free time called The Luminary Lark Mirror. I plan to share process work as I go along to this Patreon, and I’m hoping it will help me hold myself accountable while also keeping the whole project fairly under wraps and available to a limited audience. The story is still finding its own footing and what...
2023-01-15 09:16:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, what a fun project this was. I mean, when a client comes to you and asks you: "would you like to illustrate the booklet for a tabletop game about beating the mental snot out of an opponent with all manner of trickery and fantastical rug-pulling"? That's how I know I've built up a great reputation.
All the characters I designed for these tiny illustrations (the booklet is A5 sized) were based on chess pieces (Queen, Knight, Pawn, Bishop, Rook...). Whether they were "white" or "black"...
2022-11-18 09:14:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all.
Well, I finally bit the bullet and faced the music of what all freelancers must at some part of their careers: the dire, pressing need for a consistent solution to paying the bills. As much as I've loved sharing my work and process freely in the past, reality has come storming through my castle gates with its riotous demands: I MUST EAT! I MUST LIVE!
Melodrama aside, this platform is perhaps just what the doctor ordered as a way for me to comfortably share my ...
2022-11-18 07:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post