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I messed up what month Artfight was and got someone's gem OC done too soon to make it a valid attack 🫣😂 It is a JULY event not June

She turned out so cute that I still want the OP to have her. So I present to you Lapis Lazuli 6XK "Kay" #6111970! I love her design too much to not make her look confident and proud as well! I'll just take another OC for when artfight ACTUALLY begins 🤧

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I would have posted this last week but I had to do some last edits. It's been a little bit since I posted hasn't it? Work is a lot more pressing and depressing than I thought it would be. I've upped my drafts for my Experimental Steven and Lost Steven AUs but had to sacrifice on digital work.

It at least gave me the chance to improve this comic and look at how I make them a little differently. These are the first 5 pages and I have a few more I am working on.

Read it on Tapas

Well well well, Steven.

First

Next (Temple Wrecked Pt 3)

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Trying out character color blocks again. This or white-line the words? Let me know what you like more! I went all out with the character designs more here but I'm going to have fun making the next comic I have planned!

Read it on Tapas

Well well well, Steven.

First

Next (TBA)

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I cannot believe I forgot to post this here. I uploaded it on Tapas at least!

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going to see if i can do the background on the road 🤞🤞

I missed Mermay 😭🥲

I know I really dropped the ball and got super far behind on this and on my comic but I've been getting ready for a family reunion and this was something that fell behind because of it. Now I'm in the final stretch for both! I will be gone up until the 11th and really really want to have this done before then. Wish me luck!!

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I missed Mermay 😭🥲

I know I really dropped the ball and got super far behind on this and on my comic but I've been getting ready for a family reunion and this was something that fell behind because of it. Now I'm in the final stretch for both! I will be gone up until the 11th and really really want to have this done before then. Wish me luck!!

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another sneak peek! Lineart is almost all done! colors, words and fine tuning is left!

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Streaming the making of the next chapter now!

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I would have posted this last week but I had to do some last edits. It's been a little bit since I posted hasn't it? Work is a lot more pressing and depressing than I thought it would be. I've upped my drafts for my Experimental Steven and Lost Steven AUs but had to sacrifice on digital work.

It at least gave me the chance to improve this comic and look at how I make them a little differently. These are the first 5 pages and I have a few more I am working on.

Read it on Tapas

Well well well, Steven.

First

Next (Temple Wrecked Pt 3)

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I made a blog for this other AU. I thought I'd be making my art faster than I have been so I went all-out when drawing the drafts 😅

I hope you'll check it out!

AU intro and FAQ

*if you still have questions, please send them in! I'll make a proper FAQ in time*

What is this?

Experimental Steven is an AU where Steven finds an unfortunate truth about his origin because he met someone special a few years too early. I plan to use the #xsau for ease of finding everything related to Experimental Steven and have a website I am still working on where everything will be all in one place and interactive (basically I had a fun idea and wanted to do it no matter what haha)

What's unique about it?

I think the most unique part of it was the fact that it is intended to be a sequel AU.

What is a sequel AU?

It just means this is a SUAU that follows the life of Steven placed AFTER and in the same universe as /another/ AU of mine called Pink Diamond Diaries. I've already made some sneak peek posts and included him in one of the animations for that story.

What is Pink Diamond Diaries?

PDD follows the visual (and soon to be audio diaries) of Pink Diamond. It follows her interactions with homeworld and the diamonds and her centuries of research and childishness and punishments that polished her into the gem she became. Her inner thoughts and her truths.

Why is it important to THIS story?

It gives reason to Steven's actions, a depth about the universe and a chance to express what I think Pink's motivator could have been. I don't think she was so short-sighted on her reasoning for faking her shattering and I think she internalized a lot of stuff that canon never got to or could address. I also wanted to show you all what Steven sees in the diary entries without huge intermissions when making this AU, so having them on their own dedicated space is much more convenient.

What are you wanting out of this AU?

I want to tell a story of Steven where not all relationships flourish and not all people can be made of love. Anger can hold on to us and make us lash out to those we love but we can always find a way back into the sweet and kind souls we used to be. Just because we came from something negative doesn't mean we are bad. I have had this story in my head for years and because I've been slacking on PDD I've been saving this but I need to bring it out now.

You said years. How long has this been a draft?

I came up with all of my AU's roughly around the same time in 2020. But focusing primarily on Fallen Petal AU pushed this back, then work interrupted and right now I work a high-energy long hours job and am going to school part time and this leaves me only so much time to work on this project digitally. I'm working on it in pen/paper to flesh out the story and improve my old drafts. It's slow going, but process is being made and I hope that I tell an interesting story.

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⭐ FLASH SALE!

For the final 12 hours of preorders we are having a flash sale on our physical items! The discount is already applied so all you need to do is check out and help us reach our final stretch goals! (more info)

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💎 PREVIEW

Our next preview is our very first sets of spot arts to accompany our two previously shared fanfics today by artist @fallenpetalau / @raspberry-radiation !

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omg I can't wait. I soooo need that shaker charm

💎 MERCH REVEAL

Since we hit the sales amount as promised our 2nd stretch goal early reveal: a White Diamond shaker charm by artist Camiliero (linktree)! We are now only 35 orders away from unlocking it for our Court & Authority bundles for free!

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guess who finally figured out transform masks! Here's a WIP

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sneak peek! Also super proud of how this came out so far!

After I finish this next test, I'm going to start coloring the first 4 pages! I'm going to try smaller page batches. I've also been working on my other AUs and school so I've been a bit held up!

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I'm so excited for this zine!

💎 COVER REVEALS

To finish off the reveals: our covers! "The Great Diamond Authority" is our physical main zine cover by artist @thechekhov and "Facets" is our digital-only sidezine cover by artist @alazuli! Preorders open TOMORROW on the 25th!

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Work doodles! Let me know what you want to see more of!

also a sneak into my color picking struggles 🫣