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New page! Continuation of the Same Problems.

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I wrote a one-page RPG for Possum Creek Games' Jam in Silence, which just kicked off yesterday. The theme of the game jam is "games involving silence," and I've been kicking around an idea that was exactly that. It's heavily inspired by a scene from a LARP a couple years back that I... didn't participate in, exactly? Or didn't realize I was participating in until it was already too late.

It's free! Written for three players who are comfortable with gm-less RP (though could pretty easily extend to a few more). Recommended for anyone looking to fuck themselves up about death, finality, and what counts as 'playing' a game.

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New page of Tailslide!

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I forgot one so I am adding it, along with two additional cat pictures as penance

sharing every drawing of Orange the Cat [larp npc] [lives with a cranky immortal teenager who can possess things. thinks that's normal] [utterly spoiled] that exists on my ipad to celebrate the ~1 month-iversary of two cats living in my house now.

extremely serious animals

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sharing every drawing of Orange the Cat [larp npc] [lives with a cranky immortal teenager who can possess things. thinks that's normal] [utterly spoiled] that exists on my ipad to celebrate the ~1 month-iversary of two cats living in my house now.

extremely serious animals

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New page! As always all driving behavior depicted should be taken as 1) realism and 2) explicitly endorsed by the author.

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New page of Tailslide, posted today because I have made myself very busy for the rest of the week! Learning a lot about drawing speedlines out of sheer necessity.

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Ooo, I have the stuff to put this one together! Currently updating sparsely but lovingly - longer description + links are in the pinned post on my blog if you're interested!

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For anyone curious, now that it's Revealed, these are some early sketches and references for K's car and its engine. I looked at a TON of photos of racing and plane engines to get ideas for something that looked engine-y, but was visibly not totally normal, and reflected K's building aesthetic. I also spent some time cartoonifying the car to match him and his style. For K's devices, I draw a lot on the cafe racer motorcycle aesthetic and all it's Exposed Tubes, crossed with a general inclination towards "things that look a little more like rockets than they really should." The roll cage thing come from looking at race car engines - I wanted something that had a different silhouette before and after transforming, but still "looked fast" even with all the modifications. Plus everything had to be comic-friendly (i.e. have enough recognizable shapes to look relatively consistent even when I need to fudge the perspective). It's definitely shifted/simplified some in the actual pages, and will probably continue to, but I've been happy with how it transferred.

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New page of Tailslide! Very proud of this one, both the transformation and the effect of the shading in the cutouts.

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New page! This is making me wonder a lot of things about how 3D animation does smoke/dust effects.

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New page! The chapters of Tailslide don't have titles, but if they did chapter 4's working title would be "Kestrel's no-good very bad day."

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New page! Kestrel is allowed to curse now I guess because I couldn't think of any other dialogue that had the effect I wanted.

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Hello! I’ve had a lot of life and grad school things going on, and haven’t been making new pages for a while. The time commitment was getting away from me, but I also have really (REALLY) missed drawing them. So for a bit, to see how it goes, I’m gonna try doing pages on a... I probably can't promise totally weekly, but at least more regular basis in this sorta-grayscale form.* I will with high confidence go back and make them full color eventually (it is taking all my willpower not to try and color these Right Now, honestly.) But I think decoupling that from the rest of the page-making timeline will help with how my life and free time are playing out at this moment

In the meantime, here is a playlist of car chase songs to accompany the car chase vibes:

(stuff under the break is just like, drawing craft feelings and some speculation on why exactly coloring was making things tough, that is longwinded but that I find interesting to think about)

*Coloring was becoming the big time-sink in making new pages, and my anxiety about it was becoming a deterrent from drawing them. I think both because I was really pushing myself to get better at it, and because I let myself get into some bad habits. As the coloring gets more complex, I’ve learned, it gets easier to kick the can down the road on Big Decisions about composition, legibility, that kind of thing? So I was increasingly going into the coloring stage with “problems” I hadn’t figured out how to fix at any previous stage. I learned a lot that way, but it was taking a LOT of energy, and more and more of the effort was getting dumped on that last stage as my standards got higher. The goal here is both to short-circuit that habit, and to practice getting pages into a state where doing the coloring is easier.**

** Also, this kind of half-colored state, with just a few values and “plot necessary” colors, is… honestly something I should’ve been doing anyway? It’s a stage I put pages that are “hard” to color through, (though often later in the drawing process than I should) and is a useful reference for making decisions once I hit the “anything is possible, what the heck do I do” hurdle. I often skip it because it feels like useless work if no one’s gonna see it, but it’s a kind of planning I probably don’t do enough.*** ***Idk why this post has put me into my ‘nested footnotes’ writing mode. Thanks for sticking with me on this footnote journey.

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I dunno why this week it was suddenly time to draw Altmann's inquisition squad outfit but that's just how things went down.

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also this one i started weeks ago to cope with having to get a haircut

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Still working on coloring this week's page, but I was in a mood to draw up some notes and doodles.