The One That is Late

Well met, friends and enemies!

I hope you all had a wonderful pride month!

Things have been both hectic and unstable at my day job, so I don’t have much to report art-wise. I haven’t been able to reopen my shop, but I hope to do so some time over the summer - I may send out out a bonus newsletter to announce the opening if I do.

I did visit some friends in Boston in late May and tried to do some sketching while I was there. Here are a couple spreads from my travel sketchbook:

In more sketch news, I’m almost done with my (non-travel) sketchbook! If I knock out the last couple pages this month, I will have finished a sketchbook in a year for the first time in… maybe ever! It is a much smaller sketchbook than what I used to draw in, to be fair.

I want to do a sketchbook flip through video or scan the whole thing and make it available, but for now here are some of my favorite spreads:

(heads up for some artistic nudity below!)

Zine Fests

Reza and I tabled at Detroit Zine Fest and LICZ in March!

I wanted to give you another report on how both of them went from a numbers standpoint, but I actually haven’t had a free minute to crunch everything yet. So, that’ll have to wait, but I can say they were both very fun fests!

Latest Art

Painted this for the vgen art challenge, I’ve been considering vgen as a way to expand how I take commissions so entering their challenge is one way to get a hold of an artist code to be able to offer commissions there. We’ll see if this piece is successful in doing that!

Recent Faves

Some media recs from the last couple of months:

• Side Story: A great video game podcast from the Friends at the Table crew with fun commentary about new and upcoming releases.

• O, Human Star: A completed webcomic about a roboticist who wakes up after death in a robot body and has to come to terms with his past and the future he helped create. This one made me cry, I can’t believe I didn’t know about it while it was releasing.

• Type Help: A text-based mystery game about solving a strange series of murders that took place in the 1930s by reviewing files on an old computer. Played this over a couple of nights with a friend and had an absolute blast.

• Royal Affairs: An interactive fiction game about attending a boarding school for nobility and foiling political schemes on the side, by the same dev as one of my all time faves Honor Bound. Didn’t enjoy it as much as HB because I’m not big on YA, but it was still a fun time.

• To Be Hero X: An animated show that asks the questions “What if the key to being a super hero was having really good PR?” and “What if public perception impacted a hero’s powers?” Only watched the first 7 episodes and need to catch up, but I was enjoying the concept.

Fare well until September :^)