6 sketch pages and 2 WIPs (Patreon)

August's printshop 15% discount code: CPQO22X - valid Aug 1-31.

Bunch of sketchbook pages! Expression practice, GUN, notes on Shar's weird rabbit skull dimensions, figure practice and whatever else I draw when I'm in town waiting for appointments and such.

Comic work is chugging along steadily - still lettering and adjusting some digital inks where the artwork needed to be resized to make room for dialog. Generally just raging myself up for the big push on the final chapter's inks.

Also been making some new character reference sheets, which I'm posting an in-progress peek of here. If you're following my Twitch streams or are in the Discord (https://discord.gg/fnmsGhah) you've seen me posting some of these in the paywall room.

These will mostly be for the website to accompany the book launch, but also for my own internal use. A problem I encountered as I've gotten further into the book is "design drift", where some aspect of a recurring character slightly changes many pages until there's a glaringly noticeable inconsistency. An example would be something like a specific gear pouch, buckle, birthmark, clothing patch etc. that's normally on one side, but gets drawn on the wrong side ONCE without realizing it, and then it happens again. It's not a HUGE problem, but it can snowball over time if unchecked.

Getting a little personal for a minute here, but I deal with memory problems that require me to keep a pretty in depth journal of everything I did/need to do. I thought I wouldn't need to do this with my comic due to looking at it every day, but realized the hard way after having to correct a couple dozen pages that I needed a reference bible for Wyit, Rek and Shar's various outfit layers. Besides, I needed to replace the old refs from 2018-19.