Concord retrospective

So Concord went its final bow.

No, it's not coming back, I don't think the character designs are that bad, they merely did not have time to breath in the direct market because it's brutal.

A productive conversation! It's perfectly acceptable to argue the other direction, I don't like Teo's design the most. (Too clean, corporate in art direction and intentless. Unlike the tongue-in-cheek way Going Under is. That has comedy and handling of repulsion in a positive aspect.)

I've brought my own linear Ingres\ Arthur L Guptil to it. Contrasting the iconoclasm with Teo with the By-the-book look with Gaz.

Even realism could work, I don't know though (thinking Witcher, Rembrandt Romantic style).

Mass-market entertainments is always tough, I don't know which salesmen who greenlit it. If it's the blame game, though, it's them. 🛋👉 No blame on the studio. 

The axiology is not whether it's entertaining or beautiful, its axiology is made by robots and marketing platforms. 🤖📊 The direct market is what it is, frustrating. No constructive criticism could change that.

This had an unceremonious end though, tsk tsk. So I'm trying to be charitable to studio.

Aokimadu from furaffinity shares his own insights.

Drew Leo's Biggies

 smutleo.straw.page (Website is gone now) There was a page here, still in xwitter, into the depths as it sinks or takes a new direction.

IT WAS ME! Me who was doing these doodles

Billy

It's not erotic I swear

Harvey

Abzu

Skai Doodle, thoughts day.

Doodle of Skai's birthday.

Leaving it here, Since these self-important days are merely that, something that feels important, yet it's now. The prospective customer wants a voice to be seen and resonated amongst the lands, that's the network of social interaction, of being seen such a special bean.

So it shall be repeated today, and tomorrow, even if it's the spur. The parasocial illusions will keep persisting when I know what only really matters is the response going back to my own tenure with this social media's tenure mattering the most.

These direct-action barometers exist, yet they only beep indiscriminately with mindlessness.

Huzzah.

Reverie reflections

A reverie Sketch of expressionism, it's not going to pay off. That's the point.

Before I started, I tested for abstract expressionism. It's something that's like poetry, free from categorization. Playing with marks as a means of anti representation.

Some dwindling relief or tingling sensation passes. A process of representation may be discovered and put into the workflow with this style test.

Curious exercise that can be done daily, for about 15 minutes, then left once a sunk cost.

This is the technique test pad. Which can lead to style testing for one to weave into something consistent later on.
 

2021. That's where I had the Gregor Murphy name initially. This attempt to rebel against representation was a conceptual monkey gym.

Does it matter that I give these marks meaning through contextualization. Or shall your interpretation carry the story? Best to leave what is said unsaid.

Play before industrial category can commence.

Anti-representation was the nurturer to take back the path.

Slice of Life Hourly Comics

I've never heard of the hourly comics before this day, it's only this time. Big world. So this time I'd make a slice of life in all of its glorious non-genre. I'ma slice of cake kind of guy, yet this feels like a challenge. At Feb 2, at:

7:00:

I wake up to my groggy self, it's another gym day. I can't remove myself from my gym schedule. Everybody is on Bluesky showing off their hourly comics. Whut?? Me? Do this in an evening? With reduced rendering and semiotics. I was already thinking of doing it, doing the math to what can be accomplished.

8:10 :

Overnight oats, thawed frozen raspberries and casein powder. Black coffee with creatine. Listening to a forbidden romance called Lolita. It's creepy and gut churning as I'm reaching the end of the chapters. I don't know if I turn my face to disgust yet fascination.

8:30:

Weather back to normal, it's passable.

10:30:

Romanian deadlifts at a corporate gym, for my back. I'm resensitizing my back with 97.5 kgs at a deficit. Followed by quad extensions, then leg lateral work at the machines. Humbert from the novel gets called out for his crimes, and it's something indescribable, I can't compartmentalize it. As I return to listen towards to soundtrack for UTOPIA, to let the feeling of creep over me to the remaining exercises.

11:00:

Time to move toward making notes on my smartphone, entering in blog-posts to edit. The coldness is calming as I switch on twitch on my phone and watch a pin-up artist Zhangku do fanart of Papa and Foxy.

11:40

Prepared a frozen yogurt mango in the freezer, Toffee popcorn and whipped cream on top. I enter with the shower with double entendres going on, so within the twitch Redeems and spam the bonk button to shush the streamer.

Shower time! Lavender shower gel is my favourite. More coffee.

12:20:

Time to read romantic tropes and it's origins within fairytales with the Beast and the Blonde, A chapter on stepmothers by Marina Warner. Wrote in my journal of my bullet points of what went well. 

1:20:

Work on my comic.
From NSFW of my reference sheets. With the residue of my bigger projects on my mind. It's this comic now, based on an impulse.

4:30: 

Dinner time, I dethawed chicken, with cheddar cheese. With guacamole pre-maid and salsa in the fridge. Half a bag of nachos.

5:00: 

I decide to talk with somebody special within this shared household. There was good news regarding a baby with a family member, I reciprocated by sharing some familial love back.

5:20:

Teeth brushing tip, the undergums need attending to. Inverteing the brush helps

Did this in the morning.

6:00

With the work, that's it, Time to work push head with minimal production values. Done. I'm publishing this thing at 10:56

11:00: 

After publishing this work. I commence myself at bed. This privilege and this sleep schedule will need work, I'm done, though. With thoughts going out like a light. I try to put out the thoughts of if this practice becoming a living, that's up to the market.

The pesky, finite resource, economics, everybody's talking about it again.

Thoughts drift, this is the sleep opportunity i can give. Can't work more hours.

12:00: Exhaustion Overwhelms.

The day afterwards, with the edit. I adjust my posting software to check for errors.

FP

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Postmodernism ceilings

Acknowledging the fourth wall the process ain't so spectacular as it once was, I warned myself.

I thought of doing postmodernism, meta narratives will be a good idea, not really.

A villain that happens to capture artists who do not give it any views/traction, capturing them into his collection may reveal a more self-deprecating side of me that won't do well for the brand image. That's a character that feels too deep in a literary rabbit hole.

Would it reveal a darker theme? It's already been explored. The thing is with meta narratives is that bad mistakes can be mis-acknowledged. "It's supposed to be bad, because the writer wrote it that way!"

Unless a better narrative can be woven together with the meta, then it ain't going to spread. It ain't going to get rid of the reality of the dreary steps to build traction anyhow. Another idea into the wind. Being more pretentious can be too much and ignores the entertainment.

Unless that slice of life is remarkable enough, then it's better to make it a slice if cake, like Alfred Hitchcock does.

Thumbnails/animatics, the part where you spot sunk clowns

I even use Play-Doh men to get the ideas down.

 I started classy with my work, working with thumbnails. It's okay to go clownish at this stage since it ain't going to be showing in the final art piece. No references are needed, it's to get the bad ideas out to sort through the good. With emotion and layout out of the way, progress can happen.

So to start, even without any reference is needed. The scene turning is harder to articulate than the drawing itself.

No inhibitions, just go through it.

Same thing that clean up artists do

@PrinceOfShroom on a twitter thread on low rates of Hazbin

Movies do it too, embrace to sunk clowns.

First commission/payola card for Illustration freelance

The allures of weaving a price, to summon the fictionalized narratives of placebo, to provide tension, and invoke the jump of the unknown of prospective buyers, yep that's me.

Yeah, I'm going into freelance business, towards a side gig.

Keeping my importance in sync with this necessity of a living, my budget is steady right now. This is another way though to help pay the gym and whey Bill's though.

It's going to have to be boundary, if any of the twitch streamers not going to give leverage, when my own tribe of Bara/OC collective, then it's only a matter of organization.

🌊 On the wave, bad or thin.

Going to have to get used to calls to action, such as this one. You can collaborate with me within the order form of my Terms of service there.

Edit: Fixed the ordering sheet, making it a smooth flow to make a direct response count.

Illustrator's Summery

Comparing to the end of the year, the artistic exploration past the twenties have been wondrous.

Now that I have it, I'm obsessed. I'm not gonna care if I'm going to get traction for doing what I love. I'll do the artless hackneyed work for the twitch advertisers if they want there traction for there core gamer demographic.

This commitment is here now, needing to be sated.
 

Marciy Marie, Cush Monty, revision

 The only AFAB design.

Am i designing a token supporter? I better not, unless I'm designing an MLM gay flick.

The barest minimum of what is takes for a character sheet, two three fourths of a view with only small standardization. This design can be 'off-model' for continuity purposes, with the theme.

Now for the style, meant for intermediates and advanced folks.

High rendered frisket, experience being; great for a one-off illustration, for a freelance storytelling project? Not so much.

Imagine the time making every panel an oil painting without being reductionistic. It all makes me respect cartooning more due to this. Love them colours.

Characters and style experiments

WOW! THE FIRST ART POST WITHOUT THAT SKETCHY THUMBNAIL! 

A moment in history.

I'm still working on the odd couple dynamic with Danny and George.

Could have added more detail to add immersion into the background, yet that's the dilemma of the cartoonist, to control the articulation of the detail.

Once named Vixona, with my own affinity of xs as the writer. Then I picked Vere, I picked through the name generator Locke. The name database and its names has its ways.

"Very Lucky?" Nah.

First my art post

Time to announce a new tag, a my art tag. Minimal words, reposts of my work and current work.

The character is a collection of all the gender dysmorphia I had, yet another snipped that I had worked with at the time.

2022 - 2023 to this current day.

With revisions to his current image and name.