HELLO FOLKS!
A PROGRESS REPORT. I apologize for not posting one sooner, but I moved and basically had a three week period where my entire life was in boxes. 8^) This post is filled with spoilers, so beware.
And Without FURTHER ADO
Moving & Deadlines. I moved! I'm super thrilled to have an studio with a door that closes!! Just last month, I was working mere feet away from my kitchen, in my living room, in corner that wasn't very well lit. No...
2019-06-03 23:57:15 +0000 UTC
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Updates & Openings. Check, Please! Updated with Comic 4.10 – “Coach I”. PLEASE READ IT IT'S THE FIRST UPDATE I'VE DONE IN SEVERAL MONTHS. In addition to the update, a little bird told me that the Check, Please! online store will be re-open this first week of June. And finally, if you haven't heard—2019-06-03 16:45:36 +0000 UTC
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Header Image: A scan from the notebook in which I planned Year 3. On the right is a very neat outline for the episodes that year--and on the left is where I created new plot points, ideas, pieces of dialogue to flesh out the year.
An example of the type of wackadoo scatterbrain outline I make before moving on to thumbnails. For Comi...
2019-06-02 21:19:25 +0000 UTC
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2019-05-29 21:24:32 +0000 UTC
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Hi! I'm doing a private livestream over on PICARTO! This will not be recorded, but I will 100% share the fruits of the artistic labor via an upcoming progress report.
And by the way--I'm in the process of moving while trying to hit another boo...
2019-05-16 23:17:01 +0000 UTC
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✩ LIVESTREAM: I felt like I owed you guys a few more hours of streaming this month! (Since I'll be super disappearing in a week to move.) This evening at 6PM CST, I'll be inking a comic where Bitty plays hockey and also gets smushed a bit by very rude opponents. HERE ON PICARTO.
✩ Spoilers Ahoy. I've saved more spoilery imag...
2019-05-06 18:30:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! I'll be inking some of the last comics of Check, Please over on Picarto. u_u!! Spoilers, I'm drawing the credits. Are you excited for cute vignette-y photography of your favorite hockey folks? 🏒
2019-05-05 21:45:27 +0000 UTC
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A quick 'un!
1. At the end of April I tabled at Anime Boston and got to be a visiting lecturer at The Center for Cartoon Studies. It was fun! (Especially driving through New Hampshire and Vermont, desperately hoping to see a moose.) I really enjoy lecturing and sharing my thoughts and hope I continue to improve my pedagogical skills. My talk was basically a case study of my first Kickstarter and my thoughts on sustainable creative careers. I'm also movi...
2019-05-01 00:34:18 +0000 UTC
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I had to learn how to use Audacity for this!!
In this micropod, I'll be talking--albeit somewhat vaguely--about a comic that is still long in the works: a softball story by me and Madeline Rupert. (Follower her on Twitter & Tumblr & ...
2019-04-30 23:55:10 +0000 UTC
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☆ This week! I finished drawing Check Please? That is, I finished the roughs--the pencils--and all I have left to do is ink, letter, and color.I'll still be working on Check Please for MONTHS, and doing Check Please related art for YEARS. (Kickstarters, blog posts, promo material, making merchandise.) But the main comic! I have a few more months of working on it!
☆ ANIME BOSTON
2019-04-09 17:32:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! I'll be streaming today at 5PM CST. I'm currently inking Bitty....uh, graduating??? YEAH.
But guess what--I'm actually streaming right now! Please join me as I get this linework done.
Thanks!
2019-04-07 20:45:44 +0000 UTC
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Monthly Livestreams!!
PRIVATE PATREON LIVESTREAM – Sunday the 7th @ 5PM C...
2019-04-01 15:42:54 +0000 UTC
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Hey!! If you read these--how have you been enjoying them? Do you also use the Discord? Please let me know what you think about these progress + happening posts!
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Don't mind me or my scrawling thumbnails for the last pages of Check Please:
And last but not least: I got initial colors back from my flatter!
2019-04-01 15:42:12 +0000 UTC
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Day & Weekes, the best supernatural romantic historical naval fiction series that doesn't exist! I've made an unnecessarily long outline about Day & Weekes that you can read here, but what is this in a nutshell? Why have I played around with this informal project for so long??? And ...
2019-03-30 18:55:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! OKAY THIS WEEK:
I came back from Emerald City Comic Con 2019! It was FUN TO SEE ARTIST FRIENDS. (Artist alley at ECCC is set up so that everyone you know is a few tables away. It's GREAT.) I enjoy posting tons of Instagram stories while working conventions, including capturing this LIVE BABY JACK FROM THE Y3 KS. (I also shared this on Twitter.)
2019-03-24 23:07:34 +0000 UTC
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HEY FOLKS,
I hope you're ready for another behind-the-scenes update featuring gratuitous Whiskey. (🥃) Boy, do I love drawing that hockey-playing, Samwell-loving (he loves Samwell), cool-hair-cut-having KID.
🚨SPOILERS ahead. 🚨 All of these pages are from one comic! Hmm!!!
First, please look at my thumbnail for this page. The most satisfying thing about drawing thumbnails is knowing that w...
2019-03-11 21:07:49 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! I'll be streaming for the next TWO HOURS. Right here on Picarto. Part of the stream (which will review everything I've drawn) will be recorded, while the rest will NOT be saved.
See ya there, loyal patrons!
2019-03-09 18:02:05 +0000 UTC
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We Open With A Baby Bitty:
And now that I've got your attention.
Hey guys! This week I've been....you guessed it....working on comics at the end of Year Four. What a surprise!!! I'm actually have a ton of fun, because these comics are quite crucial and quite exciting. EXPLOSIVE.
Above: a small Eric Bittle. A Dicky, if you will....
2019-03-03 22:28:20 +0000 UTC
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On the chopping block: Discussing that Check Please: Year Three cliffhanger: 3.26 - Post. I talk about the "reverse ripple effect" framing device used in this episode, why character reaction is so important, and how much I enjoyed drawing that. Last. Panel!
I hope you guys enjoy this VERY FIRST MICROPOD!!
2019-03-01 22:25:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey Patrons! Not to sound like a broken record, but I'm just drawing Check Please pages. This is my life. My entire life. I fully accept and enjoy it, actually.
☆ Streams This Month: Public! Private! This month I’ll be doing one recorded Picarto stream for patrons on Saturday the 9th @ Noon. If you miss out on that one, don’t worry! I also plan on doing one (at least!) public stream on Twitch. I look forward to haunting the Discord chat d...
2019-03-01 20:33:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! I was gone for a trip and down with a cold this week, but did my best to get pages inked and reaaadddy to go.
Where Am I Currently? I'm a broken record BUT: Until May, I'm churning out pages. Pages!!! Inking!! Penciling!!! Drawing endless Bittys!! Right now, I'm inking Comic 4.20. That is, the 20TH COMIC OF YEAR FOUR. It's going to be a continued marathon until I'm done inking all of these comics.
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2019-02-24 22:15:48 +0000 UTC
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News
Hey guys, as I described here, I'm holding off on updating until I meet my publishing deadline. 😩 The GOOD news is that after I finish drawing Check, Please!: Year Four?? Updates will be so much more consistent!! And the other good news is that I'm still sharing a ton of things with patrons. Scroll down for what I worked on this week!
No stream this weekend!
2019-02-14 19:01:49 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! I'll be recording my very first ever "PODCAST" (can I put more quotation marks around that) and I need something to talk about! Please vote on a topic and ask questions below.
2019-02-14 18:16:48 +0000 UTC
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Livestreaming Right now!
Hey folks--I'm livestreaming right now on Picarto. Excitedly drawing a LOT of hockey and emotions during this stream.
Progress
I'm drawing pencils and inks!! THE FINISH LINE IS IN SIGHT. By the end of February, I'll hopefully be done with inking
4.18 - the stakes of playoffs is HIGH
4.19 - the froze...
2019-02-09 17:59:52 +0000 UTC
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A Summary! TL;DR! What's going on!:
- $1+ tier: thank you!
- $3+ tier: one recorded stream this month
- $3+ tier: one recorded micro-podcast this month (???)
- $5+ tier: getting an email with behind-the-scenes info weekly
- $5+ tier: access to a dang RAD Discord
2019-02-01 21:26:31 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! A summary of the things I've shared over the last few days. I'm trying something new where I'm taking Discord messages and cross-posting them to Patreon as a blog post. (SO YOU DON'T NEED A DISCORD!!) I'm only posting the MOST important messages, so don't worry about an information overload. If you have any feedback on this, let me know!
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2019-01-31 21:34:45 +0000 UTC
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Hi folks!! As I work on revamping this Patreon, I want to test drive new features!
So thusly, if you are a $5 patron, you should now be able to access A BRAND NEW DISCORD SERVER. (Huzzah!🎉). If you have questions about receiving your Discord role, check out this support post here...
2019-01-29 21:59:17 +0000 UTC
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I started this Patreon back in 2015.That is to say: I started this Patreon back in graduate school, back before the Check Please: Year Two Kickstarter, back before getting published…and back when Check Please was my only project. I'm now out of school, I’m traveling more, I'm doing more conventions/signings/festivals, working on brand new projects, and collaborating with a publisher, manager, and art assistants. So a LOT has...
2019-01-23 19:43:53 +0000 UTC
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Warm up sketching of Star Titan (looking dashing), Parse (looking chill), and Lardo (looking vaguely lop-sided). (And a small angry Nick Rose.)
This Past Week
This past week was busy! There was a WEBINAR with the fellow Morris Award Finalists' I went to a high school to talk about Check Please, I spent hours chipping away at thumbnails, and I even went to the den...
2019-01-19 02:18:24 +0000 UTC
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