3D Background Models Preview

Hey hey! Back from another long disappearance! Busy busy, as usual.

I'm still working on my upcoming "Austin & Jennifer" comic book, and at this point in time I have a complete rough cut of the whole book which can be read from start to finish. Before I start the final line art, there were some background shots I roughly sketched in that definitely has to be fixed for the final line art.

Instead of guessing the perspective of those shots while drawing, I went ahead and took up learning the basics of Blender, a free 3D modeling program, and created basic models of the different environments featured in the comic.

I made a list of all the different environments, and just a few days ago I finally finished going through the entire list!

With that, I wanted to show off a preview of the end results:

Sure, there's no colors and lighting here, but the main purpose is to have a 3D set so that I can angle the camera view to my liking, snap a screenshot, and trace over said screenshot to get the perfect perspective of whatever shots I have in the comic.

Blender was a bit of a learning curve, but that curve wasn't too steep since I had taken classes on Maya, another 3D modeling program, some years ago, so it more of a matter of "translating" my knowledge of the Maya program with Blender.

There's still so much about Blender (and 3D modeling in general) that I'd like to learn more about and put into practice some day. If I ever get back into making animations and learn the grease pencil tool in Blender, I can probably make some killer-looking 2D animations!

My previous post mentioned that I was hoping for a 2026 release, but that's not gonna happen. I'm not gonna make any promises as to when the comic will be released since it's difficult to juggle between a dead-end job, GE classes, and just living a life overall.

I'm going to wait until I have enough progress to guesstimate a release window.

And with that, back I go into the unknown!

National Comic Book Day Preview

Hello hello! Back from the dead with a cool thing to show off!

It recently came to my attention that today, September 25th, 2025, is National Comic Book Day! And it just so happens that I'm working on a comic book! Can you believe it?

My last post (which was about a year ago, ouch) mentioned this fact, and it still holds true. I was hoping it would have been done by this year, but oh well. Stuff happens.

I'm aiming for a 2026 release, so stay tuned!

Anyways! Here's a work-in-progress preview of my upcoming comic book! Of course, everything is still in the rough phase and the art is subject to change.

Click through them for a larger view of each page.

No Halloween Art 2024

Important announcement from Mandy and Sally

No Halloween art this year unfortunately, but you can always go back and re-read the Halloween comic which is available to read and download on the blog! Just mosey on over to the "Neat Links" section in the top right sidebar and you'll find it!

The updated download now includes four additional bonus pages that were exclusive to the physical version of the comic! These pages have behind-the-scenes sketches and a look into how most of the pages were drawn up from roughs to final line art!

As Mandy said, I've been working on a new comic lately at a snail's pace, which means I didn't have time to get around to making some sort of Halloween art as I usually do every year.

In the meantime, go re-read that comic and hope you all have a Happy Halloween!

Yes, I'm Still Alive!

It's been a while (I seem to always say this whenever it's been awhile)

It's been a slog of a year; I've been slaving away at my IQ-lowering job and sketching out my usual circle of characters over and over while working on newer characters and stories with nothing worth posting on the usual Internet pages.

I really hate to use the term "comfort characters," but I think I can't deny it anymore: I definitely have a gang of characters that I just love doodling the hell out of.

Maybe it's no secret that some of the characters of "Propinquity" have been my main source of comfort characters, and then some characters from "Class of 2422" were included, and then some from "Austin & Jennifer."

Speaking of which! Check this out!

I finally started roughing out the first comic book episode of "Austin& Jennifer!"

Of course, I have more than just the cover roughed out at this moment in time.

Maybe it's way too early to show this off since I just started roughing things out, but it's been too long since I updated any of my online pages since I had nothing to present.

...well, I did want to introduce a new story/character on my main online pages (since I've been hyped over this new idea over the past year), but for now, you can see this new character in action in a storyboard I completed very recently for my portfolio site located under the lunch lady board. Consider it a premature reveal for Trevor Centauri; a proper one will be out in the later future.

But hey! New comic book! I've never been satisfied with how I debuted "Austin & Jennifer" in the past, but I really hope this comic book finally does them justice! Again, maybe it's too early to say this, but I'm planning a three (maybe five?) episode run of "Austin & Jennifer."