nuclear waste aerobics

Lately I’ve been covering all my stuff with random cute stickers like a sixth grader because artist’s alleys have a wide selection of them and I can’t resist. Gahhh now I kinda want to make my own stickers too

I was thinking action poses or somesuch so the characters would seem to “live” on the surface you put them. Maybe they’re fighting other stickers, idk… These silhouettes would be difficult to cut into shape though. I guess chibi art was invented for the purpose but I think it looks kinda wrong with my characters

Character heads could be nice and simple but I’d probably like them better stuffed inside a rectangle or some other shape.

Another idea were panels from the comic (with blank bubbles you can fill in yourself??), or tiny pieces of artwork

I don’t know, what do you think?

Wow so many votes for young Jon’s hair! Thanks guys!

There were several people suggesting a bald/buzzcut style aaaand it certainly looks really thuggish, I like it :D Dirty hippie hair is more versatile though; I could use it to hide his face or whip it around or tie it in a ponytail…

A few people suggested me to change his clothes but I can’t get rid of the uniform coat. Some kind of shirt under it could make a difference though

I’ll keep looking at my options; you’ll see my final decision in a short flashback sequence in chapter 4 :)

Trying to design a hairdo for a slightly younger Jon and it’s impossible to figure out auuugh. He used to be even more of an evil jackass back in the day so the hair should reflect it somewhat, but messier styles just make him look like an embarrassing scene kid… and the more dignified styles make him look too old. I just can’t win

I should draw a body type switcharoo, I thought. It’ll be fun, I thought.

Trying to stay awake. Doodling silly things helps

I don’t know if there’s a canonical weight limit to 3DMG but I’ve heard discussion about it

I have till the end of this month to finish part four if I plan to have it printed for Tracon. A couple months ago I was still confident I could do it, but… this is taking longer than expected. Damn thing always takes longer than expected (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ every time

Even though I’m drawing full steam every day, I’d need to start rushing like a mofo if I wanted to meet that deadline… and nope, rushing is not an option. This chapter is too cool for that kinda treatment. I’ve rushed my comics in the past and it’s just such a big regret later

TL;DR: Phantomland 4 won’t make it to Tracon. Sorry for the letdown! :( I’m not too happy with the decision either; I was really excited about showing off a new comic there

But the good news is that me and leppu will have a table at Fanfest (5.-6.10.) which is one month later! So I hope I’ll have a shiny new thing to sell you fresh off the printers by then!

Sorry for the lack of posts, I plan to finish chapter 4 by September which means I’ll spend the rest of my summer drawing all day erry day

This chapter’s gonna be pretty long! I hope I won’t have to cut anything out. You can tell I’m worried about page count when my layouts get this crowded ;;;