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  Pencils shmencils! Off tomorrow!Jun 30, 2022 12:47 AM PDT | url
 
Pencils for the next A* page are done, painting tomor— Oh! Almost forgot, I'm taking tomorrow off, it's time for my pilgrimage across town to the dentist. Painting _Friday_!
 
In not-directly-related pencils, here's a sketch I got to send to a reader for their support of the comic through my Patreon campaign : ):
 

 
Huge-o-gravy thanks to everyone helping me with the comic, you ARE making A* possible!! ^ _^
 
 
 
 
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  Hurrah!Jun 28, 2022 10:55 PM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:Got a page done! ^ _^
 
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
 
 
 
 
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  Eraser says readyJun 28, 2022 12:31 AM PDT | url
 
I've fought with the pencils for the next page long enough, tomorrow I'll paint 'em! That'll show 'em, hah. ; )
 
 
 
 
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  Off a handle?Jun 25, 2022 12:40 AM PDT | url
 
Added 2 new A* pages:I don't know if I quite had a handle on things this week. Back to the drawing board next week.
 
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
 
 
 
 
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  Pencils are go-goJun 23, 2022 9:17 PM PDT | url
 
Pencils for the next A* page are done, painting tomorrow!
 
 
 
 
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  Pencils? CheckJun 21, 2022 9:47 PM PDT | url
 
Pencils for the next A* page are worked up, painting 'um tomorrow!
 
 
 
 
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  Sketches are fuun (+Monday holiday)Jun 18, 2022 1:13 AM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:
 
^ Pencil sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. : )) Many thanks to everyone supporting the comic!!
 
I'm off Monday for the Juneteenth holiday!
 
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
 
 
 
 
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  Inking (not really) dangerouslyJun 16, 2022 11:25 PM PDT | url
 
Here's an ink sketch I got to send to a reader for supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign : ) :
 

 
Huge thanks to everyone supporting the comic!! : D
 
Pencils for the next A* page are done; painting tomorrow!
 
 
 
 
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  These take some twistsJun 16, 2022 2:04 AM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:Let's be weird together. = o
 
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
 
 
 
 
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  Tomorrow, we paint!Jun 15, 2022 12:41 AM PDT | url
 
I'm going to stop redrawing the pencils [Update: nope, redrew them again, this time from a different angle : P], and come back and paint what's there tomorrow. ; )
 
 
 
 
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  Not upside-downJun 13, 2022 11:19 PM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:I'd drawn this up to be posted with the head upside-down, as if she were peering into view beyond the top of Selenis' head as Selenis lies floating on the water, but then I couldn't stand to make the face that hard to see so here it is right-side(?) up instead. : P
 
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
 
 
 
 
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  Pencils pencils burning brightJun 10, 2022 11:43 PM PDT | url
 
Pencils for the next A* page are "done," painting or something on Monday!
 
 
 
 
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  Check checkJun 10, 2022 1:28 AM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:Another page done, whew! : )
 
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
 
 
 
 
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  Short, declarative sentencesJun 08, 2022 11:40 PM PDT | url
 
Pencils done! Tomorrow, I paint!
 
 
 
 
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  Hey more waterJun 07, 2022 11:39 PM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:It's done, let's start another one tomorrow. : )
 
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
 
 
 
 
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  In proggyJun 06, 2022 11:37 PM PDT | url
 
Pencils for the next A* page are done—such as they are—a bit watery shall we say; painting 'em tomorrow!
 
 
 
 
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  But is it awkward, or forced (perspective)?Jun 04, 2022 12:33 AM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:It's weird! Well, this is normal.
 
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
 
 
 
 
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  Pencil progressJun 03, 2022 1:41 AM PDT | url
 
Pencils for the next A* page are done, painting tomorrow!
 
 
 
 
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  John Romero's "Apple Time Warp" podcastJun 02, 2022 2:28 AM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:John Romero, of id Software and Doom fame, got his start in games programming on the Apple II, and he has a long-running Apple II podcast: in Apple Time Warp, he holds sometimes slightly awkward (he's one of those people with incredibly detailed day-by-day recall of dates and events from his life, and he tends to pepper his guests with a tidal wave of Apple II factoids connected to whatever they're discussing) interviews with famed Apple II game programmers, often getting quite technical and excited about specific programming tricks they used to get their games running on that early consumer computer.
 
He's only interviewed 7 people since the first in 2016—after a 2013 pilot episode ^_^—but guests include such luminaries as Jordan Mechner, programmer of Karateka and Prince of Persia, and Nasir Gebelli, whose fast, 3D Apple II shooting games got him a gig contracting for Square, for whom he programmed the first three Final Fantasy games on the NES, and Secret of Mana on the SNES (Gebelli famously composed his programs in his head, then typed them directly into a mini-compiler in assembly language).
 
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
 
 
 
 
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