I’m sad to miss out on Monsterpalooza this year, (I don’t get many chances to pal around with my west coast art buddies) but I’ll try to be there in spirit. To that end, here’s an Oni lady I did during a slow day at work.
‘Sexy’ monster girls are fun and all, but MONSTER monster girls are where it’s at.
All Patreon donors who’ve created custom characters get a short comic of their character at the end of the year. Timur is @darklordreasonable‘s Luhabra cartographer, charting the vast Mahhatad desert, and finding all sorts of weird things.
One more Patron comic is still underway, and if you wanna add a Serpent Song character to the canon (and get monthly loot) consider becoming a Patreon donor! Every little bit helps. Patreon.com/ECTmonster
I’m slowly recovering from my recent burn-out little by little, thanks everyone for sticking around <3
a couple sloppy inks of Stheno, belonging to @ectmonster one of my favorite creature designers around these parts. bottom one penciled by @gachimushi
These rule!!! Also her standing on a cactus and not giving a fuck is remarkably accurate!
I’ve been almost completely absent on tumblr for a couple months now, and there’s a lot of reasons for this. I’ll attempt to explain the main ones.
1: I find it hard to post on Tumblr after such a vast majority of people have vanished off of it. It used to be my main social media outlet for my work, now that’s no longer the case.
2: Perhaps the most significant reason: I’m just not drawing. I’ve had to come to terms with the reality that I’m suffering from a bad case of burn-out, and in the process of “taking some time off” I managed to forget how to do almost everything. I used to be pretty prolific, but nothing crazy, I took plenty of breaks. Now I’m finding myself unable to scribble on a page for more than a few minutes before feeling utterly empty.
This burn-out has continued to haunt me, but only recently have I been willing to fully acknowledge its existence. It’s one thing to ‘not feel like drawing’, but it’s another thing entirely to FEEL like drawing, but find I’m completely unable to.
The comic? Completely stalled. Personal work? Non-existent. Every time I try to change it up or try something new, it fizzles out and dies.
I’ve got an audience of people, I’ve got wonderful artist friends, some of whom are very successful and whose acknowledgement was a dream come true. Problem is, I have less and less to show them every day, and I’m not sure what exactly is draining my life away.
I wish there was some positive note I could end this on, but the reality is that I’m not doing great and currently have no idea why.
I appreciate everyone sticking around, and here’s hoping that things work out.
<3
Since my 8 year old version of Photoshop finally went kaput, I suppose I’ll be restricted to good ol’ traditional media for the holidays (time permitting).
That said, Happy Holidays errybody. <3
archcanni asked:
Doing good, but just got a new part time job that’s kept me from updating as much. Holiday retail’s been pretty draining as usual. Hopefully as I get used to it I’ll eventually get back in the groove. Thanks :>
Serpent Song: ch3 pg13
A villain arrives. Stheno might be a monster by nature, but Darumi’s a professional.
Added these new pages to SerpentSong.com, and after getting a more stable financial situation, I think I can start doing them regularly again.
If you wanna see these early, and get your own character added to the story, consider donating to the ol’ Patreon.
<3
My boi Venom still on the brain. At one point he hitches a ride in a Chihuahua host, but sadly we don’t actually see him bond to it. I thought I’d doodle what that might look like, and now I definitely want one.
Good news: Venom was a ton of fun.
There’s only one Marvel movie I was earnestly looking forward to, and it was this one. My boy Tom Hardy did a damn fine job.
I wouldn’t say it’s perfect, but it did pretty much everything I was hoping it would. Plenty of symbiote, plenty of Hardy. The nice mixture of chocolate and peanut butter I needed this week.
Shirts and stickers (among other things) of the first 3 Witch characters are now up on my Redbubble store HERE!!!!
There are 3 more on the way, and I hope to keep doing fun cute designs of these gals and their spooky friends.
