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Sun Sprain Guest Artist - Frances Tsounis (Vemrill)

One scene in Sun Sprain follows Beat over a few years of being alone, and to help give some exposition I decided to share  a few journal entries they would've made over the months of vagabonding around the pacific northwest. I've always been all for doing my comics 100% on my own, but I thought I'd branch out and take on the assistance of my soulful & skilled friend Frances Tsounis (@Vemrill on most socials). Frances is an astounding force of nature when it comes to looser, sketchier...

🐕Nintendogs Zine Early Read

Pointy ear edition cuz floppy edition had a couple weird scans <3

Pointy ear edition was made on a copy of the original earless version, which ended up becoming floppy ear edition. The colors on this version are slightly off from the original markers I used. 

Whole thing drafted, inked, and finalized in 3-4 days. 

🐕 Zine in the works

I got accepted into the ANW artist's alley in January, so I'm working on stuff for my table, including a zine called "I'm your Nintendog and I'm still okay". A little nostalgic romp 💕 I have a guest artist for Sun Sprain working on a couple asides for the next set of pages right now so I'm working on this to keep myself sharp.

The dog has no ears because I'm making a "floppy ear edition" and "pointy ear edition". Readers can pick the nintendog they remember growing up with.

I...

🌦️👟🌤️Sun Sprain Release Promo

December 21st!!!!! Thank you all for your support. I haven't made a comic in over 2 years so the fact a few of you have been so trusting and generous and faithful in me has seriously done so much. I appreciate you all immensely. Whether you're around for years more or just a little longer, I hope you enjoy all the time here that you can!

On the solstice, I'll upload the first chapter on Patreon for early reading. You bunch will be the first to read Sun Sprain!!!
I'm not sure how lon...

Promo wip 🌞

Going to write the end of chapter 1 tonight and come up with a release date. I'll reveal it this weekend. Probably releasing chapter 1 sometime in December to play it safe. I'm really nervous about this but I think it's time to announce @_@ wish me luck! 

Opening scene for Sun Sprain is finished!

Milestone reached tonight! Hooray!!!! 25 pages make up the first scene in the book, and all have been finished, reviewed, and given their finishing touches. I wasn't even fully sure I'd get this far, but I'm so happy to be here. These next few scenes will (hopefully) take a much faster time to produce as I'll be using some different mediums. We can only wait and see.
The next part takes place in the story's "present", so we'll finally get to see Beat with his sun sprain affliction! I've be...

Page 1, Cameo...

Page 1 of Sun Sprain is an interior shot of a college house party, so I figured I'd add some loose reference to a few familiar faces from another comic concept of mine... DeAndre, Benji, and Kath from Thrift Island :^} I try to avoid easter eggs in my comics but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to draw some of my faves in a pretty inconspicuous setting!

Complex page layout progress

This page was made in several sessions over about a month. I just finished it up now so I might end up tweaking a few things later (always save your layer files!) if I'm unhappy with them, but overall I'm calling it done!! I was having trouble getting Beat and Brad downstairs without a lot of panels, so I opted for this larger layout. I'm so glad I stuck to it!

1 - General sketch, different colors for different areas/depths to help the lines make sense to me. Blue - upstairs, previous ...

Page wip - The Cooler

I'm enjoying this page and I have a feeling some of the detail is gonna get blupped out when I start adding the lighting/shading, so I figured I'd share a little lights-on peek with you! Those layers... do I know what's going on? Barely

Late nite workin + TH upload tomorrow

Pushing through it! Page 18 and 19 (adding an intro page to clarify/establish setting). Sometime tomorrow I'll do another Toyhouse upload, so look forward to that! I've also been putting together playlists for both Beat and Brad that I think I'll add to their profiles in case you want some more music >:^] 

15 pages finished + lil preview

here's a little taste for you all u.u pages 11-13 (full digital)

☀️Cut page sketches

Evening :^] Full-steam-aheading this scene right now, if I'm unhappy with how something's going I just toss it and try again. Here's some sketches / lineart from a few pages that I've scrapped for tweaked versions.

Sun Sprain release concept / wip page

Hey there! I'm working on this page at the moment and want to talk a bit about some ideas for how I'll be releasing this story.

If I'm being realistic, I can't finish this comic in the way I want and still have it out before 2023. I think instead it might be easier on me (and maybe more fun to read?) if I release it in parts. Here's my basic run-down:

Finishing a large scene with maybe 3-4 sub-scenes in it would mean a release. The rest would follow:
1. First sub-scene to Patr...

☀️Sun Sprain Minicomic - The Cockerel

Just somethin small :^] <3 I had an idea that while Beat was vagabondin' around, he stayed in one town a lot longer than he typically would... maybe it was the scenery that appealed to him, or maybe it was the hottie boy java stop that would offer him food n water. We'll never know for sure...

☀️Page wippage

Chugging through this beginning scene. Mixing up some media with this one, going full-digital for a couple of pages until these two come out into the sunshine. Using the shaded scenery as an excuse to make doing lines a little easier x_x
I'm working on a release date for this, not sure what it is yet. Fingies crossed, you'll be the first to know :^]c

Toyhouse upload on Monday

💕 🌞 see u then

Page Wip :^}

Wanted to share this behemoth in progress x_x still coloring, then coloring the lines, adding text, fine-tuning a few things, and adding another panel above the first in that empty gap.

You a fan of these progression shots? I'd love to share them a little more often if they pique your interest!

Drawing stream now!

https://www.instagram.com/studioscheppen/

Gonna be live for a few hours probably!

Sun Sprain drawing stream this Saturday

Saturday 5/21 at 5:30 pm I'll be streaming the inking of a Sun Sprain page set on my Instagram! :^} come on by if you'd like to hang out and watch! 💕 🌞 🏃

QnA Video + Speedpaint

I thought yesterday was Saturday oops... well! It's here now! Enjoy :^D 

Song at the end from this album: https://oberhofer.bandcamp.com/album/sincerity-power-false-love-self-love-teacup-corruption-of-self-love-10-11pm-101119-12-57am-101219

QnA video coming this weekend

Here's somethin to hold you over :^} 

☀️The first pages

Not of Sun Sprain, but the first two in Sun Sprain that I've finished! I'm happy with the technique of digital to traditional to digital, but I can see other pages being done in other ways. Time will tell where the extent of mixed media goes in this book.

I won't be spoiling too many pages, I just figured the first two would be a special occasion worth sharing :^}

☀🏃 Illustration process

So it begins! Starting with a scene just after the very first few pages (still figuring out the dialogue, which really bases the pictures in a scene for me).

I'm trying a different strategy of illustration for Sun Sprain - while with other books I've done full digital, full traditional, or trad sketching + digital lines/color, this time I'm flipping things around.

I'm sketching the pages digitally, printing out the sketches, taping them to mixed media paper, and illustrating th...

Sun Sprain's draft is done 😏

A little editing and then its time... TO DRAW!!!!!!!

Comic Q&A (leave ur questions!)

I wanna answer some questions you have about my comics or comic ocs! Anything goes :^} ask as many as you'd like 🌟 I'll share my answers in another post

☀👟 Bradisms spread

Afternoon! Spent some time after work today doodling some thoughts of Brad.

I was able to get a ton of materials for illustration a while ago thanks to all of you! Lots of page tests and more comic-lookin things will be showing up!

☀️🌊It's Happening!

HOORAY! After ages of working and drafting, I'm happy to announce that Sun Sprain and The Sea Beast in Henry MacArthur are arriving free-to-read on my website in 2022 / 2023!!!

Thank you to the bottom of my heart for being here and enjoying my stories, I can't wait to see what you all think of them! :^D

I also released huge updates to Kelda's Cove today, so definitely drop by Toyhouse if you haven't already. Lots and lots of fun stuff, including the huge release (finally) of the ...

Mega upload coming Monday

I appreciate your loads of patience! I'm getting prepared for a huge art upload (and some more fun things) to my comic toyhouse on the 28th. I hope it'll be fun for you all to see! :^}

🌊👟 Preview galore

Still on that sea serpent / gay people in the sun shit!!! I just thought you'd like to see a few more teeny lil things to hold you over till I'm finished >:^}c

Sea Beast Update preview

hey there! I mentioned new things were on their way - my health issues that sparked earlier  this month really hindered things, but I hope it'll be worth the wait!

The video above is a lullaby whistled from James MacArthur to Henry when he was a lil baby. I've been making lots of concept art and lore for this story, and I'm very eager to share it. I'm gonna workshop it for a few more weeks to make up for my lost time but it'll come to Toyhouse (and here) after I'm done. Thanks agai...