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Chapter 9 / Page 18 pencils
WAHH, we got so distracted sharing new interior Chapter 6 pages during the kickstarter, I stopped sharing early pencil pages! Here's Page 18, which is being posted TOMORROW! Chiaki is heeerreee ~As always, this page was thumbnailed by Ananth with models in CSP and handed off to me.I'm excited to start sharing the next scene! It's probably the single most difficult to color scene of my entire career? Slogging through it has absolutely made me want to give up on color entirely haha, I miss working in black and white :,)Hope you're...
EARLY COMIC: BBR Ch. 9 pg. 17 & 18
Here's some large versions of this week's comics! And we have special guest appearance!Looks like it's time for a scene transition, but to where~ ~ ~ ~
EARLY COMIC: BBR Ch. 9 pg. 15 & 16
This week's comics!!! π₯° Loving this vacation into Cameron's brainAlso we got in our one pg-13 f-bomb lol
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The KS ends tomorrow!!
Tomorrow is Halloween!!!!! Happy Halloween everyone!!!! πππI've been juggling a lot of work lately so it was admittedly nice to hunker down and just draw a big fun Halloween illustration! Originally we were talking about having Percy & Leeds be Frankenstein & Frankenstein's monster (we weren't sold on which would be which yet, Leeds in a lab coat sounds fun)... but honestly, the comic is called BARBAROUS, shouldn't they both be monsters?? Right?????ALSO, if you were interested in backing the BARBAROUS Chapter 6 Kickstar...
New BARBAROUS 6 interior art: Fortuna
The BARBAROUS Chapter 6 Kickstarter ends in TWO DAYS, on HALLOWEEN!!! πβ¨In celebration, I wanted to show off some more interior art I did just for this collection!This was the final large illustration I did for the book. We didn't want to change the placement of the spreads (a spread being a set of two facing pages), so this illustration of Fortuna needed to stretch across 2 pages -- hence her long lion tail trailing behind into the right-hand page. In print I think it will look both eye-caching and also be a nice moment to relax the e...
BARBAROUS Chapter 6 cover: process & design!
HELLO!!! The BARBAROUS CH.6 Collection Kickstarter ends in THREE DAYS!!! AAA π₯In celebration, I wanted to do a writeup on a the cover design process and share it with everyone! (Note: jsyk, this isn't the final book design! I'm sharing a cover without finalized trade dress, back text etc..)We decided early on we wanted to try to do something slightly different with the trade dress, since Ch.6 marks the beginning of a new season and a new story arc. So now the BARBAROUS logo is sitting vertical up the left side and isn't stacked i...
EARLY COMIC: BBR Ch. 9 pg. 13 & 14
This week's pages!!!! Everyone's taking a fun relaxing vacation in Cameron's brain π₯°
BARBAROUS ch6: Percy's instagram
WAAHHH the BARBAROUS chapter 6 kickstarter has only one week left!!!!!! If we hit the next goal, everyone will get to vote on what to make me draw for a new print lolIn celebration, I wanted to share the biggest new piece of art I did for the collection (other than the cover!)For the new book collection, we wanted to add a two-page spread to insert a quiet beat right after Cameron sees Percy's new selfie. Here's that page to remind you:You get to scroll down in Percy's old photo feed, from Cameron's POV, reminding him what he mi...
EARLY COMIC: BBR Ch. 9 pg. 11 & 12
Cameron got put into baby jail U___U (Also, Cecilia is the commissioner of said baby jail)
Matchbook sticker progress: Winter
I loooove drawing Winter! She was based a tiny bit on the Doll from Bloodborne so I like to give her slightly uncanny valley long limbs.She shows up for like 1 second in Chapter 6, so I get to draw a sticker of her for the Chapter 6 kickstarter ohohohohohooI was messing around with the kiss cut design and wound up giving her some cute Clamp wings -- I figure if someone doesn't want that detail on their sticker, they can do a little negative space surgery with scissors.
EARLY COMIC: BBR Ch. 9 pg. 9 & 10
How nice, his head is perfectly palmable π₯°
The BARBAROUS Chapter 6 Kickstarter is LIVE!!!
Hi everyone! We're so excited to finally be bringing you the BARBAROUS Chapter 6 collection!We're printing it at the same large format (our Leeds-sized Editions) so it sits nicely with the rest of your BARBAROUS books!The book will have a beautiful wraparound cover featuring brand new art-- and speaking of new art, itβll also have extra interior art exclusive to print! We'll also have stickers, prints and more!And if you're new to BARBAROUS,you'll be able to get the previous books as Kickstarter add-ons as well!If you need...
EARLY COMIC: BBR Ch. 9 pg. 7 & 8
HAPPY EARLY UPDATE!! Today is Ananth's birthday!!!!π₯THE BOYS ARE FIGHTINGπ₯
The BARBAROUS Chapter 6 Kickstarter is coming in October!
BARBAROUS CHAPTER 6 KICKSTARTER PROJECT PAGEYou can click "Notify me on Launch" to get informed as soon as the project goes live!We're so excited to be bringing you the next Leeds-Sized Edition in our BARBAROUS series! This time we are collecting Chapter 6. The book is going to have a beautiful wraparound cover, and the interior will feature some new art expanding a few story moments! The project will also have stickers, prints and more on offer! If you're interested, go ahead and follow the project by clicking through to the pr...
EARLY COMIC: BBR Ch. 9 pg. 5 & 6
OHOHO finally back to the present! Look who finally met face to face! π
BARBAROUS character profiles
For [upcoming project] we wanted to remind readers who all these people are, since we've accumulated a lot of characters in Barbarous! The front of manga collections always have cute "who are these people" pages, and we wanted to emulate that... but for some reason I can't just allow us to reuse old character art from earlier comics pages, I have to draw something COMPLETELY NEW RIGHT THIS SECONDI wanted to share these with you since I think they came out pretty cute... also when they're reproduced they'll probably be pr...
EARLY COMIC: BBR Ch. 9 pg. 3 & 4
OH! It's the family dog! She's so normal!I'm going to start posting a full-week's early updates over here, I figure it's more fun for both you guys and easier for me! Just as a heads up, some of these pages are not technically final - we'll sometimes do last-minute language tweaks before posting publicly, so you get a window into our chaotic work arrangement lol
EARLY COMIC: BBR Ch. 9 pg. 2
Page 2!!!! The flashback continues ~If Cameron's room is upstairs, then whose room is this....
EARLY COMIC: BBR Ch. 9 pg. 1
We JUST got home from SPX and I ran to my computer to post this! Here's a flashback with everyone's* favorite guy! π*my
Chapter 9 / Page 17 pencils
In celebration of the Chapter 9 cover being released, here's the rest of the scene that inspired it!And then Chiaki had to come and ruin the moment. U__U Very rude.Once again, Ananth and I are going to be at SPX in Bethesda, MD this weekend! If you're around come say hi!! We'll be at Table W-82 right up at the front!Hopefully see you then! π
BARBAROUS CH 9: COVER
SHH MY SHOW'S STARTING
CHAPTER 8 BUMPER Pg. 4: the end!
~CAMERON YOU'RE RUINING YOUR LIFE~THAT'S IT FOR THE CHAPTER 8 BUMPER!!! Chapter 9 starts THURSDAY!!!!!
SPX debut: print/stickers
It hasn't been a secret that I've been wanting to make a Barbarous figurine for YEARS! A few weeks ago we picked up a Peach Riot blindbox and it rekindled that desire to make a really cute fashion figurine. I WANT A PERCY FIGURINE (also a Leeds one lbr)Anyway, if I can't have a Percy figurine I might as well make a fake menu for Percy Blindboxes, where I can design as many cute outfits as I want. There's a mix of outfits from past chapters, (including one upcoming outfit from chapter 9, feel free to guess which one it is!), as w...
CHAPTER 8 BUMPER Pg. 3
OH, she's a little scary ~(Cameron likes that)ONE MORE PAGE AND THEN WE START CHAPTER 9 PROPER!!
CHAPTER 8 BUMPER Pg. 2
Cameron and Hyewon did actually have a pretty compatible relationship until Cameron threw a bomb into it U___Uoh well, she can do better~
BARBAROUS IS CONTINUING! TOMORROW!
Sorry for the sudden drop! We were intending to start the chapter much earlier in the month but we were so preoccupied with Rook's health issues, it got pushed back a bit.On that note, thank you so much to everyone for your kindness in response to our last post. I really appreciated reading your messages, and it means so much to us that Rook will continue to be remembered. β€οΈI want to make certain our patrons continue to get early peeks at all our comics before they're put up publicly, so here's Ananth's thumbnail and my pen...
CHAPTER 8 BUMPER Pg. 1
Ahhh omigosh it's starting!!! This page is going up TOMORROW!β¨We've got a flashback!β¨Hey, remember those flowers? It's been a minute, they're here (a bit fresher in the flashback though) :)
Long Live Rook!
Heads up for talk about animal death.Man, this is tough to share. Rook had been in very slow decline since March. It's the same thing that happens to every cat once they become old enough; his kidneys started failing.His condition rapidly deteriorated over the course of the past month, and we were advised to say goodbye to him a few days ago. He'd turned 20 this year.Rook was my first pet who was truly mine, and Ananth's first pet at all. His adoption was one of the first things we did when we arrived in NYC. We went to a shelter wi...
Chapter 9 / Page 16 pencils
I realized this has been labeled as "pencils only" but I somehow also started sharing inks as well for the past several pages without realizing it. I hope there are no complaints! I'm gonna keep doing it!Anyway, we're making our own fun! I hope you are also having a good time!! Cameron's subconscious is going ham and we're all on the tour bus :)
Chapter 9 / Page 15 pencils
Still in Cameron's brain! HMM, this scene looks familiar, where have I seen it before? (it was in chapter 6, pg. 2)It was really fun and funny to draw all these featureless blob people, Cameron's brain just doesn't care enough to fill in their details. Who are they? Where's Albermarle? (who's now his superior at work!) Eh!I think this one was tossed back and forth between myself and Ananth (I can usually only ever tell based on who did the thumbnail face drawings). I LOVE that Percy in the audience in panel 1 lol
