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Barbarous is back! Thanks for reading!
Video: drawing the holiday illo (3)
THE FINAL PART OF THE HOLIDAY ILLO!!! We got enough feedback from folks wanting to see a Leeds companion drawing to the Percy drawing that I did this super late on Christmas Eve before leaving to see my family hahahaI HOPE EVERYONE ENJOYED IT 😂
Video: drawing the holiday illo (2)
More procreate videos! It was fun trying to figure out how Percy would wear a sweater that's easily 5+ sizes too big for her heehueheeI realized she was wearing huge slouchy socks in the previous illo so I made a version where she was wearing them, for the sake of continuity.
Video: drawing the holiday illo (1)
I keep forgetting I can export videos from procreate! I've been doing a lot of work on the ipad lately so I'll be sharing videos for a bit!Here's part 1 (of 3) of the holiday sweater illustrations. I'm really happy people enjoyed this extremely stupid joke from me and Ananth hahaha
Yuko's Favorite Books of 2019
HELLO HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! My computer logged itself out of patreon over the holiday and since I spent my holiday recuperating after a surgery I didn't look up the password again until today ha haWelcome to my Favorite Read (audio) Books of 2019! I listen to audiobooks while I work and tend to burn through them semi-quickly. In 2018 and 2019 I got into digital library loans through the Libby app, I highly recommend it! Most of these were gotten for free through the library, with a few exceptions.My favorite books I read of 2019 were Bad Blood...
Happy Holidays!
Early update. We're off for the holidays! Back in 2020, see you then! And thank you so much for all of your support in 2019!Onwards!
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workin' on chapter 5!
HEY it's hard to find panels that aren't potential spoilers for this chapter! Here's a mysterious shot from POSSIBLY CHAPTER 5 OR MAYBE SOMETHING ELSE, NO ONE KNOWS
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Early update!
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Early update!
Cintiq Companion doodle
Yesterday a friend let me play around with his old Cintiq Companion ... in the end I don't think I don't think I enjoyed it enough to replace my iPad drawing setup, but I did have a fun time drawing Rook!
Building the Page: Ch 5 / Pg. 8
HI WE'RE BACK!! I'm going to keep skipping around in this chapter! Because this is the last chapter in the first story arc, a lot of the most interesting things about the background intent of some pages would make reading the incoming rest of the chapter less fun, imo. I might go back into earlier chapters and talk about older pages I like, who knows, the future is a mystery ~✨I REALLY LIKE DRAWING BABY PERCY!! I hope we do more flashbacks in the future, ha ha. I enjoy drawing kids in general and don't get a lot of chances to do i...
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Early update!
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Early update! Things are getting wild...
NEXT WEEK SNEAK PEEK (& black friday sale!)
Since we're not updating this week, I wanted to give all patrons a sneak peek of the next page! :X SHHHHALSO, 🔥WE'RE RUNNING A BLACK FRIDAY SALE AT THE JOHNNY WANDER SHOP!!!🔥 A lot of our books (and other goods!) are on PRETTY SIGNIFICANT DISCOUNT, TODAY ONLY!!!Finally, a holiday heads up: there's NO "BUILDING THE PAGE" essay this week for upper patrons! I'm skipping talking about the Pg. 5-6 spread, so I'll let the story move on a bit before I dig back in. There'll be a new write-up next Friday!
Small early update.
Small early update. Thank you for a successful kickstarter! Barbarous will resume after the American Thanksgiving holiday-- thanks for your patience! And keep an eye out for some sales coming up.
Building the Page: Ch 5 / Pg. 4
I was already 90% done with writing this one and then patreon completely deleted it while I was inserting a link so this one might be a little shorter than usual simply because I'm leaving for an appointment soon and I'm running short on time hahaHELLO AND WELCOME TO HALE'S MAGIC SHOWChapter 5 / Page 4 is the first time we get to see 1.) writ magic being used 2.) a huge spell being implemented properly on-screen, so we wanted to make it FLASHY!!!! We knew from the beginning we wanted writ magic to be extremely finite - and what'...
Patron Appreciation Day!!!
Yesterday was Patron Appreciation Day??? I had no idea!Hey y'all, thank you so much for your patronage! This patreon helps us enormously, and we appreciate every one of you for your generosity!I put together a wallpaper of the opening spread of the new Barbarous collection for y'all ... I don't often put higher resolution shots of art up online except in patron wallpapers. (There's also two days in the Chapter 3 Kickstarter if you want to pick up the collection this'll be in!)Thanks again, hope you're all doing well! ❤...
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Early update!The BARBAROUS Chapter 3 Kickstarter ends in TWO DAYS! AHHH! You can back it here.
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Early update!The BARBAROUS Chapter 3 Kickstarter ends in 4 DAYS! We're sweating! You can back it here.
Building the Page: Ch 5 / Pg. 3
On to page 3!!!!This whole scene continued to be a challenge to do hahaha - the opening scene of Chapter 5 moves really quickly but I wanted to make sure the audience had a strong sense of environment, power dynamic, and character emotion.I wanted really badly for the middle environmental shot (panel 4) to have a top-down camera angle to let the characters breathe more in an open environment - but there were some problems with a shot like that in a page like this! First, this was a page with 6 panels, so I couldn't really give a panel like ...
BARBAROUS Chapter 5 Pages 6-7
Pages 6 and 7 go up as a spread! Also, the Barbarous Chapter 3 Kickstarter is ongoing!
Barbarous Chapter 5 Page 5
Early update! And the Barbarous Chapter 3 Kickstarter is still on!
Patreon-only Wallpapers: Chapter 5 cover!
Attached are the wallpapers for the Chapter 5 cover! IMO this one translated really nicely into wallpaper-format.If anyone has a request for anything to be made into a wallpaper I'll do my best to dig out a high res! 🌟
Building the Page: Ch 5 / Pg. 2
Attached are the thumbnail / pencil / ink / color cues / written color notes that I handed off to Jones for final colors! You can see the final version of Page 2 here.Page 2 had to do a LOT OF HEAVY LIFTING with environmental storytelling. This chapter went through an incredible number of rewrites, and the opening scene had the MOST rewrites of everything. This chapter is the longest yet (spoilers: this chapter is the longest yet) so with this scene we wanted to cut out as much fat as possible and start out in the middle of the action.We tried ...
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Early update!We're also currently kickstarting Barbarous Chapter 3! You can take a look here.
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Early update!We're also currently kickstarting Barbarous Chapter 3! You can take a look here:
Building the Page: Ch 5 / Pg. 1
WOAAA between the last chapter and the new chapter Patreon started allowing PHOTOSETS!!!!! This is huge, finally I can just dump all page stages into a single post, I'm so happy!!!! 😭I want to try and do this kind of writeup every week - if not for every page, the pages I find most interesting? I'm sharing this first post with ALL PATRONS, but going forward I'll stick these in the $5+ tiers.WHEW jumping into Chapter 5!!!! Attached are the thumbnail / pencil / ink / color notes version that I handed off to Jones for final colors! ...





























