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sorry, is stages of rot only available over peow? i know you do not have control over the shipping costs :/ but I'm from germany so the price would be more than double. Your work is incredibly beautiful and inspiring and i'd love to have a physical copy

I'm sorry I'm not much help here, I think your best bet is to check german independent bookstores & you're probably better equipped to search the german internet, or irl germany. if you speak a bit of french I believe the french edition (titled 'in-humus') is still in print, same title in spanish, it's 'disfacimento' in italian I think. 'all the problems in the world' in berlin have been selling the frog book but idk abt SOR

#logistics mess #an ask

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I do remember those magic knight people! Every once in a while I go back on your blog to try to track down those drawings because I like them and the concept in the description so much. I would love to hear more about them. Do you have a story planned out?

yeah, vaguely. so for the cosmology; there's this dystopian city I desperately need to draw a map of built above the fossilised remains of an ancient hell. the city mines the hell for 'hell-flesh', a semi-sentient magical substance that's kind of the physical container of the souls of the damned. I suppose this is like fantasy rare earths for fantasy compute or w/e. this has been going on for a while and the city is, kiruna-style, gradually falling down the pit. also as more of the hell is laid bare, semi-autonomous demonic creatures are let loose, maybe as a kind of immune response against human incursion.

(imagining this sort of thing + branching passages. but in the middle of an italian intra-feuding city-state w a population ca modern day singapore)

a kind of grid of bridges and fortresses has been built above the pit to protect the fancier, upper parts of the city from the decaying/descending bits below. the lower city is mostly miners etc & due to the fucked up mutagenic influence of living near a hell & touching hell stuff all day the people in the upper city treat them with suspicion. there's a 'join the US navy-army-whatever to get health insurance & education & basic human dignity' or like french foreign legion situation where by joining the elite magic army manning the little fortresses, ppl from the lower city can gain some access to the upper. in the reverse I guess for the upper city ppl it functions a bit like 'the wall' in asoiaf where criminals, noble bastards etc go to maybe redeem themselves or die horribly.

the fire magic used by the guards to fight demons etc is derived from the burning corpse of a god that is said to have been there since before the founding of the city (presumably the entity responsible for the hell situation in the first place). by swearing fealty to this dead(-ish) god one gets the ability to summon his divine flame but you forfeit your chance at an afterlife, or maybe you go to hell (no-one is quite sure). everyone kind of assumes once the body is fully burned the god will return/reincarnate (and either save or destroy the city, depending on who you ask).

the politics part; at its founding the city was part of some empire that has since collapsed (pretty recently). the city is dependent on trade to stay viable/fed and to appease the new warring states/mini-empires that have sprung up around it. the current ruler is a reclusive young queen & she has her favourite lord/advisor, an ageing academic who is sort of trying to liberalise the place or make it superficially less fashy. other lords dislike this & are working to either find her a proper king or hasten the return of some deity or other that will return the place to its former glory.

I guess the story? has this noble child bastard protagonist from a shady family* of word-mages who is sent to the 'centre' fortress & works her way up to become the apprentice of some hero-knight demon slayer guy with a possibly shady past (I think rn the name I have for the guy is Chaimé & idk if this is a good name? like the spanish jaime but w more e, & the tiny bastard is Myia I think). I imagine her being the sasuke to a happier, more popular girl who saves her from a demon (embarrassing) then is outed as a half-demon herself (she's the redhead in the drawings) & Myia warms up to her as she (demon girl) becomes increasingly isolated from the outside city (being supposedly dangerous or too powerful? I don't think Myia has much natural magic or w/e in her aside from being a nerd & very persistent).

sorry there's a lot here that would be SPOILERS if I ever actually made this into something coherent enough to be an actual comic ha ha. the knight/mentor guy gets dragged into a kind of fantasy 'business plot' & I guess part of that would be like, seeing to what extent he goes along with it & if he's actually a good person ha ha. + there's a bunch of other characters w stuff going on that I haven't figured out the looks of yet but. they're important in my head. the big bear-ish bf guy who gets sent on an expedition down the pit etc

* I have a distinct image of these people living hidden away in some gormenghast-style estate. they've habsburged themselves into being mostly deaf but the only ones around who can fully read/write the divine language that lets them do word-based magic & the other houses kind of have to put up w their weirdness. also scheming nobles in dune using sign language is 1 of my favourite things in the new film adaption & I like the idea of outsiders being forced to learn to sign (or else being cut-off from higher level magic) as some sort of power move? I don't think they involve themselves that much in politics since that's below them but are def part of the 'bring the gods back' thing, for better or worse. anyway after 'avas demon' (GUILTY PLEASURE I know it has such pretty colours but comes from such an unhinged part of the internet, will never stop apologising for this) started posting again I realised it had a character w the same look & vibe so will try and re-design protag girl to look more like this cute person I saw in a fashion post on IG

... let's see how this goes. came up w all this BS after some viz lady at comicon asked me if I wanted to make them a manga but it's grown from being too little to being too unwieldy to pitch. will see after I finish up my current projects. how much blood, swearing & genocide can a story have before it stops being YA. I think chainsaw man is sort of YA but dorohedoro isn't

#I started reading dorohedoro as a teen & I turned out OK #I mean I draw comics I live w my parents in the woods like a medieval peasant etc but that's no worse than the rest of society #these days #god this is a mess #16 yo me loved the bas-lag books #an ask #sorry abt grammar etc this is a lot of words

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going absolutely feral over this collection of items that washed up on Cornish beaches Lego Lost At Sea on twitter

#world ref #art inspo

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Viktor Zaretsky (Ukrainian 1925-90), Glowing Sky, 1988, Oil on canvas

#art inspo

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look at this good alien boy. couple more to come

The first of several stunning entries from the insurmountably great Linnea Sterte (aka @turndecassette2 ) for REFUGIUM - a burrowing pentaped, photosynthesizing from a safely half-buried position...

Take a look at the campaign here

#alien #sketch #sci-fi #shameless self promotion #simon-promotion technically

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these people

characters for some far-off possible future thing sort of developed from designs in the shortbox comic but different. magic knight ppl tasked with protecting a mining city that is in the process of excavating the ancient underground hell-space of some dead god idk. fighting demons & all that. will come up with more details if anyone wants that

#in case anyone remembers ha ha #I have no sense of time #also been busy w other things

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'this guy, from some months ago' update. will try and get back to these ppl everyone seemed excited abt them ha ha

#a guy #idk #doodles

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#oldies

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#art inspo

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for the befuddled neurologist in the tags. a diptych of too-big-to-scan flower drawings I did for a danish migraine scientist back in '18

#nature is up to some fractal shit I'm sorry #I'm just a honest observer #flowers #art #need to do more of these #but my desks tend to get too cluttered these days

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do you write the letters for your comics by hand or is it a font (or a font made from your handwriting)? it's such a cool letter style!

by hand for the english editions, w some translations I've had little typefaces made based on my handwriting

#an ask

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#doing a lil prologue #idk if the peow ppl will like it but I hope so ha ha #comics #fantasy #art

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I found and followed you because I saw world heist on shortbox comics fair and got it! The art style caught my eye. The depictions of darker themes didn't seem egregious to me.

Love your art and hope to see more of it!!

always working on more! Thanks for the input 💚

#an ask #not really but #for consistency

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btw since ppl here seem pretty responsive rn: Patrick of PEOW asks me abt reactions to 'world heist'. from what I remember people were pretty chill abt the weirder/darker elements of the comic (depiction not endorsement; I'm semi-OK w stealing from the rich I guess except from the 1 guy in bologna who stole my phone, not pro millenia-old gods marrying underage girls or having sex w golems made from the flesh of their non-consenting enemies) but I also realise half of all online discourse these days happens in discords I don't hang out in. anyway we're working on a print version so if you have complaints speak up now or forever hold your tongue

#jk please be nice to me #I'm somewhat happy with how this comic turned out #a thought

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what do you find most difficult and / or boring to draw right now? And what right now are you really excited to draw? :p

old ask, but a) the things I'm supposed to be drawing, for work money etc. and b) the things I'm not supposed to be drawing

#an ask

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A little announcement - the pre-launch page for REFUGIUM, the Griz Grobus sequel, is now live on kickstarter ! After heaps of work and coordination with @jordankwalkerart , @the_nazavr and many others, I'm excited to bring my latest book to you, the people of the internet! SIGN UP HERE to be first up when it launches: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grizgrobus/refugium-a-hardcover-graphic-novel?ref=clipboard-prelaunch

#internet friend simon is at it again #going into kickstarter mode he's going to hassle me in my dm:s #anyway this is a good comic

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hi! I love your work so much!! I recently bought stages of rot and its so good i bring it with me everywhere.

Can I ask how you got soo good at drawing faces? I love how grounded in reality and dimensional they look! your work is phenomenal !

used to draw a lot of people on the subway when I lived in stockholm, I think that helped? like take a sketchbook & sit down in some busy place if you live in a large-ish & somewhat diverse city. I'm trying to keep up this habit though lately it's been a lot of plants (because it's meditative) and buildings (something I need to practise more, always).

also, 'vintage anime/manga nose rendering' is an invaluable skill imo. like the shaded side area, or the thing say otomo or shirow does of shading or adding a lil 'blush' on the upper side of the nose. very useful

(schjerfbeck, the 'og'. exquisite nose shadow + blush, that stuff adds a lot when doing stylised/simplified faces)

#an ask #art advise #I feel like not a real nerd for not knowing who drew the gundam & lodoss promotional pieces in my defense I just woke up