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This year's Christmas Card!! (Textless version under the cut)

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Aphantos - Chapter 1 (20-27)

All five chapters will be free to read when they're done, but if you'd like, please Buy me a Kofi!

1-9 10-19 Chapter 2

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Aphantos - Chapter 1 ( Pages 1-9)

All five chapters will be free to read when they're done, but if you'd like, please Buy me a Kofi!

10-19 20-27 Chapter 2

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Aphantos - Chapter 1 (Pages 10-19)

All five chapters will be free to read when they're done, but if you'd like, please Buy me a Kofi!

1-9 20-27 Chapter 2

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Aphantos - Chapter 1 (20-27)

All five chapters will be free to read when they're done, but if you'd like, please Buy me a Kofi!

1-9 10-19 Chapter 2

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Aphantos - Chapter 1 (Pages 10-19)

All five chapters will be free to read when they're done, but if you'd like, please Buy me a Kofi!

1-9 20-27 Chapter 2

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Aphantos - Chapter 1 ( Pages 1-9)

All five chapters will be free to read when they're done, but if you'd like, please Buy me a Kofi!

10-19 20-27 Chapter 2

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So, the way I said 11 months ago that this was coming in 2024????

Well, it was only just not a lie!!

Chapter 1 is coming this week! 2 next month and, rsi permitting, 3 in early 2025!

A comic book about being sad and feeling defeated? It's more likely than you think

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To add, the big project I teased last year is still ongoing. I promise an update soon it's just real life got in the way

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A bit more elaborate than usual, a painting of my friend at her pithi ceremony last week:

(Click for higher quality)

Kofi

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Art challenge where you have to finish what you're making

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Unreachable

Wandering mind, full of creation

Meandering lines, lost in elation 

Each stroke, I broke a little inside

Each fate, I hate. My will defied

I painted this in Feb 2022 about what it's like to be an artist with repetitive strain injury. In 2008, When I was 18, I made my first comic titled 1000 Words, it was about an artist helping a little girl with a broken family similar to my own. It received such positive feedback that I changed my Environmental Science major at UCBerkeley to Art major. Ever since then, my goal has been to tell stories with my art. Stories that are important to me. My next comic, Knite, was about a boy who wants to put the stars back into the polluted skies of China, my homeland. The comic after that, Fisheye Placebo, is a cyberpunk story about living in the age of technology, about fighting censorship and propaganda.

Unfortunately, I never got to finish Knite nor Fisheye Placebo. By the time I was 24, I was drawing day and night with no regards to my health. Not only did I get repetitive strain injury in my drawing hand, but my entire health suffered. My roommates had to rush me to the ER after fainting one night. I remember looking at my swollen right hand, my fingers like sausages, not even able to hold a pen, and just cry.

I've gone to the doctors and physical therapists. One told me I have Lupus (I do not), and another told me to put ice on it. More recently, I met a friend who happens to an amazing physical therapist and he was able to help me regain a lot of use of my hand. At my worst, I could only draw an hour a week, but now I am able to draw 2 hours a day. My hand is unlikely to fully heal, but I'm so grateful to regain what I have.

To my fellow artists who suffers the same, please know you're not alone. I can't promise that it'll get better, and it's cliche to say don't give up, but I want to keep hoping that no matter what the world throws at us, we will continue to make art.

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A drawing of mine for sale on redbubble!

This is a little frog and the link is to a lily mouse pad. It's available on a range of other items and as a print!

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A drawing of mine for sale on redbubble!

It's a take on Turoń, a traditional polish character - my favourite cryptid!

The link is to a phone case. It's available on a range of other items and as a print!

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A drawing of mine for sale on redbubble!

This is a bat - yes, it's supposed to be a bat - and the link is to coasters. It's available on a range of other items and as a print!

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A drawing of mine for sale on redbubble!

This is an anteater and the link is to a hoodie. It's available on a range of other items and as a print!

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A drawing of mine for sale on redbubble!

This is a little field mouse and the link is to a pillow. It's available on a range of other items and as a print!