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Bayleigh Underwood | Comic gremlin| She/They | Trans 🏳️‍⚧️ | email: [email protected] | http://Ko-fi.com/iceghost | portfolio: http://iceghostart.com (I made a new account cause the old one had too many followers and it was giving me anxiety attacks)
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Every artist I know is really struggling right now. Financially, emotionally, their confidence, in general. If you like an artist's work, support them any way you can. Buying their stuff or subscribing to their Patreon is great, but words of encouragement are also incredibly helpful.

Would mean so much if you enjoy what I do, if you wanna spit a little pledge into my Patreon: www.patreon.com/only_jaws

Lil break ink

This is so fucking real. I'm broke, behind on commissions, and so depressed I can barely drag myself to my day job, where I'm happy but making just above minimum wage. I can barely draw for how hopeless and despondent I feel. Every kindness helps.

American comic book artist explains that American comic book deadlines are painstaking and grueling and unattainable over long periods of time. Replies start talking about shonen jump. Okay so you know nothing about the comics industries in *two* countries

Soooooooooo so so so so not normal pilled about them : ' ) Emery belongs to my love @happylildamsel.bsky.social Mikhail belongs to me [ #WIP ]

Adachi and Shimamura is VERY slow but it does have some very fun dialogue. Its paced out super well. There’s a really fun flow back and forth all the time

Did an #art study based on the wonderful art of @iceghost.bsky.social , a fellow 🏳️‍⚧️ trans🏳️‍⚧️ artist who's style I've been taking a liking to as of late! It's very crude but I wanted to get pen on paper before I get into anything detailed, since her work is pretty nuanced. Huge fan of your work :DD

Jack Kirby, forty-nine years ago:

Skateboard story character I needed to get out of my head part 6. Last one.

Adachi and Shimamura is VERY slow but it does have some very fun dialogue. Its paced out super well. There’s a really fun flow back and forth all the time

Reworked the ending of Chapter 3 to feel a bit less abrupt, and added a "stinger" at the end. It was a bit hard to write something that maybe gets people to ask more questions, but idk! We also get to see more of Mr. Felix's world, and that his intentions are complicated... ko-fi.com/i/IV7V61AYFUN

The greatest appeal of working from home is the blessing of the lunch break shower

Art progress is rarely linear and as a fantastic example of this, I figured out 5 days ago that i have a webcam and can make my own reference photos for whatever i want!! Haha

Some fun examples

look at all these miniscule kids

Random video game thing: i feel like RPGs dont often facilitate your character going on an arc. Like many of then work to define your character but not if theyve changed. Theres not often a “look i was an asshole 20rl hours ago” Haha. Tho i know this could easily be a black hole of time to do.

Random comic tip #486. Practice drawing your characters really small. Youll be doing a LOT of that haha

It was real easy to tell when my adhd meds kicked in this morning cause i went on a 30 minute spiel about how cool oysters are haha (theyre really cool)

HELLO HELLO thank you for all of the love on my shop reopening! 🥳💕 I'm currently packing orders but there was an issue with one of my packing supplies so there will be a slight delay with sending orders out!! Sorry for the delay and I really appreciate your patience!! 🙇

I still love mimics. They're just lil guys who like hiding.

Avatar is kind of an interesting play on the Great Man theory of history. Like yeah they save the world sometimes but also anytime they fuck up it has potential global repercussions. I bet having the state of the world rest on a single random person would suck haha

btw for me the distinction here is around the fact that psychosis is literally a medical term. you can find it in my chart. it's something that applies to me the same way autistic applies to other people. you also see that people DO think psychosis = evil and cruelty! so it's not JUST linguistics

One weird positive about games where you can select your character’s gender but the devs definitely planed the game out as if you were a dude is that its very easy to be a huge lesbian haha (Playing Rise of the Ronin)

i will never be the person to say that changing people's lingo is the first or most important focus. there are i think always other more material things that are more necessary and impactful. that said, it's just so fucking easy lmao, like come on

Ahead of the RETURN OF BLADE MAIDENS tomorrow--starting our 5th story, DEAD IN THE WATER--now is a perfect time to catch up and read the entire series, check out this thread for details on our cast and tales and read at www.blademaidens.com

Protests are taking place all over the country tonight against cuts to vital federal services. Here in Washington, people are marching to SpaceX’s offices demanding Musk be ousted from the government.

what's the old saying, punks are nice people pretending to be mean and hippies are bad people pretending to be nice

Trying this out again for fun maybe

this is why i always tell people: if you want to do comics, you have to love drawing for the sake of it, not the topic or the content. because it's going to be mostly really annoying shit like this

Drawing my OC holding a phone up to their ear: drawing is bullshit actually