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Open heart surgery

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I've finally finished the pilot chapter for the comic I'm starting!

Thank you very much for reading - I hope you enjoyed, and I hope I got you to look forward to more. More will come, and you will find it here on this blog when it does! There will also be additional side material sprinkled throughout between releases. I'm planning on setting up a more official distribution platform later, but if you want to receive updates without checking this blog, you can send an email (any email) to cascadeupdate@gmail.com and new updates will be sent directly to you!

I've got a couple years worth of material plotted out, and work is underway on the next installment. This is meant to serve as a hook for the story, an intro to the protagonist, and a sort of technical proof-of-concept for the marriage of my graphite work with digital editing. In addition, it's a small slice of what you can expect from the story going forward: a primarily character-driven drama with elements of horror and a heavy focus on fantastical ecology.

If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, feel free to share!

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been playing elden ring and nightreign recently, made my tarnished guy look like Alan

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DOT FASHION

I've been working on this one for a while, thought it was because I got super distracted before finishing it. I enjoyed putting little oddly specific references in it. Some more details below the break.

I've had the idea to do this since literally before I finished designing Dot the first time, just took me a while to sit down and do it. This one got super delayed due to a lot of life stuff, so I'm glad it's out now so I can do other things creatively without feeling bad.

On to the more fun stuff. I kind of wanted to lean into the fact that Dot is from an alternate version of the 60s, so I leaned into some of the intricate fashion of the times, as well as a bit of 50s / 70s influence creeping in.

And also, oddly specific musical references.

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The artificial infantry have become eccentric with age, it seems. Some of the support walkers appear to take great joy in wielding arms with their forward manipulators — much like their human peers — and refuse modification, despite mounted guns being much more effective weapons…

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hawk moth (tuah)

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Cooling system

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The squiggly lines are dancing to a waltz, how lovely

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professional hugger

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BIG SHOT

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Colony crew bug

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..and so she left, ready to take her shot.

My take on Carol, belonging to @birdsandrobots because she gave me big Risk of Rain energy.

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I love being in a chaos cult, I sure hope a psyker doesn’t make my head explode

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talkative adventurer

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anomaly hunters

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I re-designed one of my OCs hope you like her