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Fun new things this week!

I’m really thrilled to have my books available through kochab-comic.com distro now! Check them out if you’re a comic shop looking to buy self-published books wholesale, or a reader looking to pick up a bunch of great indie comics at once. 

And my main webcomic site is ad free now! 🌌✨ kochab-comic.com (the tumblr archive is also always still around!)

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long distance feelings

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Wylde Pak is out now! I'm really thrilled that some of the design ideas from my early vis dev made it into the final show 🌸

this project was so fun to be a small part of! I really love finding little lived-in details that show how a place has been cared for, and the team let me go nuts with that - I took a lot of walks around my own hilly neighborhood for inspiration.

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my endpaper illustrations for the Illumicrate editions of Song of the Lioness ✨

one of my favourite childhood series, it was such a dream to work on these!!

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I’ve been really thrilled to be part of the Fionna & Cake s2 team this year, and to be part of the anniversary exhibition! It’s amazing to be around so much talent, and be part of a series that's been an inspiration for years.

These will be at at the Adventure Time 15th Anniversary Exhibition at Gallery Nucleus today - 6/15!

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there's so many amazing indie comics on sale here, highly recommend snagging a few things while you can!! ✨

(my books are also on discount this month, in my own shop! 🌱 sarahwebb.site/store)

Hiveworks needs to move books NOW so if you've been thinking about grabbing a copy of Tigress Queen or the Kickstarter edition of Persephone please act fast!

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thinking of you

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Question: on the page where Kye is asking what a burn feels like, the Guide seems to have a hand imprint around one hand. Is it just a design or on their first meeting did Kye take the Guide's outstretched hand and accidently burn them?

you got it! it's her fault

she worries about continuing this bad habit in fact 😔

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happy spring equinox!

a fresh blanket of snow ❄️

I had a fever last week, and I kept dreaming about snow while sleeping under my white comforter all day

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webcomic Mikus ! comic links under the cut

Puffer and Clarissa (pufferandclarissa.com) by @jamesnelsonart

Overlord of Ravenfell (m.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ov...) by @ravenfell

Phantomarine (www.phantomarine.com) by @phantomarine

Kochab (www.kochab-comic.com) by @erysium

Brothers (brotherswebcomic.com) by @breenheath

Yokoka's Quest (yokokasquest.com) by @clefdesoll

Black Sunshine (blacksunshinecomic.com) by @jasmine0simone

Ghost Junk Sickness (www.ghostjunksickness.com) by @studiocartridge

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ECCC later this week!! 🌞🌻 this is the longest show I've tabled at, so I'm a little nervous - please come say hello if you're around!!

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a cover for Jandy Nelson's When the World Tips Over, for Rainbow Crate Book Box! 🌸

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a fresh blanket of snow ❄️

I had a fever last week, and I kept dreaming about snow while sleeping under my white comforter all day

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A quiet morning/epilogue illustration, for the kickstarter  🥰❄️

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I’m having a little valentines sale for my queer romance comic! 💞

14% off until Feb 14th :~)  ($30 instead of $35)

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“The Nymph caught the Dryad in her arms.”

(inspired by H.R. Millar’s print of this scene, from The New World Fairy Book <3)

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1 & 2 - Thank you for the interest!! Finally got it up in the shop as a February treat <3

(let me know if there’s any download issues, I’ve tested it but this is the first digital purchase option I’ve done!)

3 - Thank you for the book recs!! Excited to check both of these out :]

4 - Thank you so much!! I’ve been treasuring this message for a few months :’) ♡ Good luck with your own art and writing!!

5  - Thank you for the sweet message and all the thought you’ve put into these questions! I wish I had a more thoughtful answer, but in large part the architecture is what I was most inspired by when I started the comic, what felt like the right shape and color language for a fire spirit, and since my initial idea for Kye was for her to be an Ifrit, designing her mental world with inspiration from the same areas that mythology comes from felt right. But I’d much rather let the comic speak for itself, than limit your thoughts on it to my intentions! 

I work in Photoshop 90% of the time, with an Intuos or Huion or XpPen tablet! To color the lineart I just use the ‘lock transparent pixels’ layer tool, or a clipping mask layer referencing the line layer. My line color choices are usually similar to a shadow color, maybe a bit more saturated, or shifted a little warmer or cooler. Honestly I think my backgrounds are pretty overcrowded, but I think just drawing a lot of them, and doing photo or life studies, is the best way to find the right balance of interpreting detail for yourself. :)