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| Photo references for Detective Slate | Feb 28, 2017 9:32 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:A couple images I found when putting together Detective Slate's look: Bogart in The Big Sleep (top photo—just look at the curve on that hat brim!; The Big Sleep is an excellent movie, by the way—a bit late for the prohibition era theme of the area Selenis is in here, buuut who's counting), and this photo from 2/3rds of the way down this page, captioned "Two of the men who became widely known during prohibition days of the 1920s and early 1930s for their enforcement as members of the San Diego Police Vice Squad (sometimes called 'dry' squad) were detectives Mike Shea, left, with cleaver in hand, and Richard Chadwick. They pose here for a newspaper photograph in front of a truck loaded with confiscated 'alky' tins."
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| Or just lots of monocles | Feb 28, 2017 12:22 AM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Two whole eyes! And for page 1QQ! : D Guhh I think my next comic is gonna be about cyclops people. : P
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| Space suiting | Feb 25, 2017 8:57 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Sketch for a reader who's supporting the comic through the A* Patreon campaign : ) :
Thank you very much! ^_^
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| Time time time | Feb 24, 2017 2:59 AM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I need to spend more time drawing and a lot less time painting, I think (although maybe the less time painting is a pipe dream ; ). I also wish I could bring myself to paint Selenis as loosely as I did Mr. Slate there, at least once in a while!
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| Archive art auction--human-dragon flight! | Feb 23, 2017 12:45 AM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Wednesday means A* art archive sale auction time! I went flipping back through all the physical pages I still have left unsold from the past two episodes, to see if any impressed me in person as being ones you guys might particularly like—before we go delving back further into the remote depths of A*'s artwork past—and I came up with just three remaining candidates! Two are from this episode, but we just did one from this episode (page 20), so let's jump back to the fantasy theme of episode 29 for this week—page 72 of that episode, to be specific—for this watercolor painting of robo-dragon battle action, now up for auction on eBay at a special low price! This is the moment where the giant robo-dragon really seemed to seize the upper wing:
We've got a sweeping desert scene with towering cliffs! A roiling cloud of smoke, partially obscuring a distant mountain range! A dragon flexing its mighty wings, counterbalanced by its twisting tail! An electrically charged longsword tumbling through the air (above the tail)! And a cloak-enveloped adventurer (that would be Selenis : ) flying backwards through the air from the force of the powerful blow! Own the action! : D
(You can keep up with my little original art sales by keeping tabs on my ebay profile. : )
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| A* art show at 14 Carrot Cafe, Seattle! | Feb 21, 2017 11:53 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:There's a new A* art show here in Seattle! It's at the 14 Carrot Cafe, 2305 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle (map), and will run through mid-May—I think. : ) Anyway here are a couple photos I took after we got it all nailed into the wall:
Pacific wrens taking over the cafe! : D So if you wanted to have some carrot cake or hearty oatmeal with all the fixin's or any other sort of homey breakfast or lunch option, under the watchful eye of a wall of glossy, framed A* art prints for sale, the 14 Carrot is your place to go. : )
Thanks to the Carrot for putting up with a whole lot of A* yet again, and to my mom and dad for putting together the show for me—I pretty much just had to show up and put nails in the wall. Didn't even hammer my thumb once! Good deal. : D
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| A* art show incoming! | Feb 21, 2017 12:39 AM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Gonna be setting up a new A* art show at a familiar location here in Seattle tomorrow afternoon. All the details in my next update. : )
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| A different kind of space hair~~ | Feb 18, 2017 8:19 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's Selenis with an unusual hairdo in a sketch I got to send to a reader for supporting me through the A* Patreon campaign : D :
Thank you very much! : ) The support I get from readers through Patreon is a huge help to me in being able to make this comic! ^_^
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| Event Horizon Telescope hunts Sgr A* in April | Feb 16, 2017 10:16 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The BBC has a new article about the Event Horizon Telescope—actually a coordinated array of radio telescopes across four continents—in which they say the team is planning to make its first observations hoping to spot Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, from April 5th to 14th. But due to the massive amount of data that will have to be correlated to generate any kind of cohesive image of just what is lurking 26,000 light years away, through huge clouds of galactic dust, even if they do spot something, it won't be until the end of the year, or early 2018, that they'll have something to show to us anxious Sgr A* fans. Still, considering that I've been talking about the EHT since 2012, that's pretty much just around the corner! If it works. : o
Check out the article for many more details, a simulated image of what the team predicts the black hole will look like, and a diagram showing the various radio telescopes around the world that are participating in the search for Sgr A*!
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| My Selenis painting got crazy & u can buy it | Feb 15, 2017 10:39 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:For this week's special archive art sale, we go digging through the original watercolor paintings from an episode *other* than episode 29, the subject of all the previous weekly sales, and we arrive upon the distant shores of...the current episode, episode 30! : D Because I really think page 20 was one of the most successful paintings I've managed, and you should buy it! : D As I was painting it I grew dissatisfied with how the face was coming along, started blotting watercolor facial features out with white ink, repainting the features over the ink, blotting that back out, repainting over the ink/paint/ink, etc... In the end I pretty much repainted every part of the face at least once except I think maybe part of the side of the face on our left, so things like the mouth and nose were repainted from scratch with no preliminary drawing, and the remaining eye ended up with layers of various mixes of watercolor and ink and became the most limpid eye I've ever somehow made. Well before I rattle on more, the week-long auction starting at a special sale price is open for bids on eBay right now. : )
As part of the blotting and repainting I was smooshing white ink out across the right side of the background, which ended up making this sorta funky glow effect over there; and the whole side of the head on our right got so inky it stared developing this funky ridged texture that then held paint brushed over it in weird ways, which I kind of liked, so I went with that and let it get a little crazy over in the shadows on that side of the head. Also, painting the semi-abstract background behind all this was pretty fun, lots of watercolor layering to get down to shades of dark purple.
Well that's it, hopefully you will like it, but if you don't, you could always check out the *other* paintings I have for sale, all accessible through my eBay profile. Thanks for looking! : )
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| The googles do nothing, but those eyes... | Feb 14, 2017 10:28 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's an ink sketch I sent to a reader for supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : ) :
Thanks for your support, it makes a huge difference! : D
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| This came out pretty bright 8 o | Feb 13, 2017 10:44 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Well it's a Monday and here we are with a brand-new scene! In this one we'll meet the final major player in this episode's little drama.
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| I don't know but here's a sketch! | Feb 11, 2017 7:35 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Thanks to everyone helping me keep A* going by supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign! It makes a huge difference! : D Here's a sketch I sent to a reader for their support through Patreon:
Thank you very much for all your help! : ]]
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| The art of blogging | Feb 10, 2017 2:24 AM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I spent too long on this page so that's all the blogging we get today! ; )
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| Last ep. 29 A* art auction for a while! | Feb 08, 2017 9:32 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I have another piece of watercolor art from the archives to put on sale this week, and it's the last one from episode 29 that I think I'll be doing for a while, so get it while the getting is good if you're interested! This week's sale piece is the 16" x 6.75" painting behind A* episode 29, page 34, in which our heroine, cloak billowing dramatically, enters a high, icy mountain pass; the painting is now up for auction at a nice low starting price right here, and looks something like this:
We'll be delving to different depths—which is to say, episodes—in my stacks of A* art for upcoming auctions, starting next week!
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| Let's get messy and sketch! | Feb 07, 2017 9:38 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:If you enjoy A* and want to give me a hand making it, you can do that easily and automatically through my Patreon campaign—and even get yourself cool A* rewards in the process. Fer instance, here's a sketch I sent to a reader for their support:
Thank you very much! : D Your support means a lot to this lil' ol' webcomic. ^_^
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| When heck freezes over | Feb 06, 2017 11:42 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Well we finally had an actual bit of a snowstorm here in Seattle, starting right after the end of the Super Bowl. And my car's ignition froze or something. : o Hopefully this will magically fix itself once we defrost a bit!
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| Space necklace? | Feb 04, 2017 3:38 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's a sketch I sent to a reader for the support they've given the comic through my Patreon campaign:
It makes a really big difference! Thanks everyone for your support! : )
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| She's a spaa-aace wi-zard~~ | Feb 02, 2017 9:53 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Thanks to all of the 47 folks who are helping me make this comic by supporting it through my Patreon campaign! Here's a sketch I got to send to one of them:
Thank you very much! ^_^
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| A backhanded A* art sale from the archive! | Feb 01, 2017 11:54 PM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:It's Wednesday and I'm pulling out one of my favorite remaining original A* watercolor paintings from the archives to put on sale, right now, right here on eBay: it's the painting for episode 29, page 75, where Selenis, seemingly at the robo-dragon's mercy at the base of the castle wall in the desert, threw a bag of explosive arrowheads into the ro-beast's roasting jaws!
The auction ends in a week—thanks for checking it out! : ) And if you want to stay abreast of my various art sales, you can follow them all through my eBay profile.
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