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10 May

NEW #WEBCOMIC COMING June 14: Agonicomic.com A gothic horror mystery about confronting your past, identity, and the repercussions of the cycle of violence on a small and large scale. #comics #horrorcomics #art #ocsky

Hey! So if you've been following along you'll know I did some interior art for @scyllapublishing.bsky.social newest sapphic anthology coming out in just under a week - so I thought it might be fun to show some interior art 'counting down' the days and my thought process going through drawing them:

My first go was to push/explore the sketch underneath further, which I did genuinely like a whole lot more - BUT as I was drawing this, I was coming up with another variation and idea that felt stronger composition wise:

so I wasn't too surprised when this was chosen, and outside of feedback on the composition the editors and I had finally gotten to a really good spot for this story.

another Scylla Publishing overview and this time we're looking at Aurora by Lyss Buchthal. This was a very different experience from other pieces in that I had a strong idea of what I wanted to show for the section, but I really didn't consider the space or the execution as well as I thought I had:

@amberbladejones.bsky.social

I kept it as an option to show, but given how much this moment this #queerstory is referencing stuck with me, I really wanted to do it justice. So I explored further.

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Eyecager Sketchbook

Thanks for everyone who came up to me at LBX about the tutorial zine I made these for. Gonna redo it while using it as an opportunity to do vis dev for my project Mythic and kind of 2 and 1 it!

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agonicomic.comChapter Two – Page Five: Don't Look - A God Of No Importance

New page of AGONI up now! Chapter Two – Page Five: agonicomic.com/comic/chapte... Or from beginning: agonicomic.com Small reminder this is the first of 2/3 1 page updates, after which we should be back to business as usual! #webcomic #ocsky #queercomics #horror #mythology

Im feeling the fear and hunger spirit again. I should actually reopen a try the gauntlet again lol.

The biggest problem with being a fear and hunger fan is im impatient and bad at videogames.

I think between that and the VERY heavy solid black on the other work, we can see why the burger was chosen. Sometimes there’s just a clear winner and that clear winner is also really satisfying to draw to the point where you talk to your mum and say 'I drew a really good burger’ like you’re five.

You did draw a good burger tho.

I’ve not spoken much about it but I really wanted to hit that balance between ‘enough visual for you to get the vibe/interest in the story i’ve been enjoying for months’ & 'spoil everything in one go’, which means balancing between showing the big event before you enjoy or showing nothing at all.

And I think with Harzie Gets a Date this is where it’s the most obvious in the initial options. With these I wanted a core element with one feeling more 'literal’ and the other (still a part of the scene) a little more evocative - a pool of blood, bitten food, meat tidied up etc; .

The personal fave of mine for this one was chosen, but with the feedback of putting the arms closer together for composition purposes - which made a lot more sense. Where it made sense I added in some solid blocks of shadow, without having it be heavy in one spot for emphasizing the #gothic horror

Harzie Gets a Date by @DorisVSutherland.bsky.social was another story I did for Scylla publishing’s upcoming anthology “Who am I” and this was another one where I wanted to be careful about what I draw.

You did draw a good burger tho.

@georgepotter.bsky.social

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George Potter 🔶

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

agonicomic.comChapter Two – Page Five: Don't Look - A God Of No Importance

Another update today! 'Blood and Hysteria' by Cat MacKenna was a great story, but challenging to illustrate. Ironically, the prose conjured loads of ideas and visuals - but none suitable for the interior art/dimensions. So I came up with three options two of which i'm showing here:

forms.gleA Tapas X Itch.io BundleWe've heard the news that Tapas is shutting down on March 31st, 2027 and I want to setup an Itch.io bundle to help support the artists affected by this. If you have a comic on Tapas, this bundle is f...

(The 3rd one is lost to time, mostly because it was a spider that creeped people out, so nuked completely). After reading through the story a few times, I decided to lean on some stronger shape languages and the gothic horror of it all, tension & softer, rounder shapes contrasting with harsh lines.

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Jey Pawlik 🏳️‍⚧️

@jpawlik.com

Just under a week left to submit your Tapas comic to this Itch bundle!

Jey Pawlik 🏳️‍⚧️@jpawlik.com

Hey are you a comic artist on Tapas? Are you frustrated with the news? Publish your Tapas comic on Itch.io (either partially or in full, even just 1 chapter) and submit it to the Tapas X Itch.io bundle form here by Oct 30th 11:59pmEST forms.gle/QhQaJ4cXvXKT... #Tapas

The well was well-loved! But after review, the #frog was asked to be added in after all, which I think we can agree makes sense once you saw the art itself. I gave three options with a level of action from the frog and number 2 was chosen.

Aaaand that's how we got here! Some small changes in inking phase - mostly around the frog mouth to make the tongue flick more believable. Actually inking this all up was a lot of fun, good shapes and textures for inking.

I actually started with a very rough 'normal' old well based on reference, but moved away from the more realistic symmetry and pushed the shapes to be curvy, wonky and delightfully handmade, leaning into the #fairytale look and feel and just making it waaaay more interesting to look at.

With the second option I also leaned into a less clean and even look, but was actually much more realistic, looking at older medieval and roman coins which often had lost to age what little symmetry they had. I added some ‘wetness’ as well here, hinting at the sliminess of the action.

Continuing the thread here! Annie and the Frog by @lyndsayegilbert.bsky.social was the first one pitched to me, and I was pretty excited to kick off on it. #fairytales #sapphicart #wlw

abc.net.auHow Brendan Nugent went from plant scientist to alleged attackerOnce known as a passionate environmentalist, neighbours and family say Brendan Nugent became increasingly isolated in the years before Monday's alleged attack.

We first talked about not using the frog directly, so I looked at other key parts of the story that had stuck themselves in my mind’s eye: the well, and the coin. Even at the ‘1st cut’ stage with both options I wanted the look and feel to be rough, uneven and possibly even a lil’ grimy.

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Revy but spoopy

@catgirlfingies.quest

If he wasn't white, he would be called a terrorist. This happens over and over again. We learn the stories of abusive men and how they're "so nice and one of the good ones" and then they go and murder and harm women. Am tired of hearing excuses for their actions.

Max G@maximgrosky.bsky.social

"There are many untreated patients out there, some of whom, a small percentage of whom, when they're not well, can be quite dangerous." So, Nugent is NOT, a "terrorist", after all! #australia #ausgov #auspolitics #politicalviolence #mentalhealth #ndis #helenhaines www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Can everyone online stop talking about You Can See Everything until me and my sister see it when it opens where i live next month please and thank you

circularonline.co.ukMEPs back simplified EPR rules for small businessesThe European Parliament has voted to change the rules on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for small businesses.

I was talking about it with a friend and he counted me talking about her various crimes as spoilers and somehow thats very funny to me

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adonis (and cait)

@cait.bsky.social

this is the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life

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Oni

@onidraws.bsky.social

PPWR NEWS The European Parliament voted in favor to remove the EPR regulation for small businesses! Meaning you won't need to pay an authorized representative for each country you're shipping to! There's still several steps so it can be fully implemented! www.circularonline.co.uk/news/meps-ba...

youtube.comAlexsandrea KagachiCreating ghoulish crafts in my haunted home 🎃

youtube.com/@alexsandrea... Im not a big craft youtuber but i really live for her vids. Esp with the puppets

@dirkgrundy.stringtheorycomic.com

Youtube watcher. Im not a youtuber at all

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Tom Ewing

@tomewing.bsky.social

Checked out that new album you like lads

2000AD Randomizer@2000adrandom.bsky.social

Massimo Belardinelli

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Dirk Grundy, Sewer Clown

new page new page, hey y'all like webcomics about shit heads

stringtheorycomic.comChapter 9, Page 34Manslaughter is fine if you didn’t mean to :3 he’s just a little birthday boy :3

In short: more focus on core visual rather than a full scene draw, and no frame due to the amount of space. BUT the first idea of the 3-legged deer was good and I was on the whole, on the right track!

So the next step was the line work, using this one to check desired line thickness, and went with the thicker line. Which we had as foundation for the rest of the following #art.

A Home God Sewn of Fur and Bristle by Bryn Hammond was the first story I worked on, and was deeply enjoyable. Because it was the first one I illustrated, it was the one I was the most experimental with style-wise, (tho I did go down a bit of a rabbit hole with the clothing research too).