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Nov. 12th, 2022 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavFALKE is officially open for pre-orders :D
$16 USD, print + digital comic drawn by urs truly and written byjdwrites , buy here on https://jdriley.itch.io/falke
this one was a beast but pretty satisfying to finally have out there!
i think it's actually my biggest project *completed* since iron crown, possibly eclipsing iron crown b/c that webcomic -while over 200 pages- was never technically finished (oh the curse of webcomics...).
thought i had a whole dreamwidth post written up about why I did this (in the event of getting cancelled by folks on twitter actually lol), can't find it anymore (and it honestly doesn't matter). the essence is that it took me a good year or so of thinking on it (JD was a true saint with patience with the very temperamental artist that I am) - before deciding that yes, this is something that I would like to be a part of, and to stick with it to the bitter end. below is a thread I made on twitter first that neatly summarizes my feelings towards Art like this:
"tasteful", like squick as a word, is one of those I've always felt is underutilized. there is a great deal of Art that fits the "legal" and "necessary" check-boxes, but do not with tastefulness. Cronenberg's movies, lolisho, any and all naziexploitation, etc.
there have been whole books, courses, fields, written about "what is tasteful art". I'm not here for any of that. I didn't live decades as a fundamentalist to not see how taste so often = morality, acceptable art.
there is a time and place for heartwarming, nuanced, kind art. there is a time and a place for art that is a sledgehammer to the skull and delights in the gorey mess. (there is also a time and a place for works that do both). tasteless art is holy, in its own way.
beyond that angle, this was a doozy to draw on a technical level. rewarding, but a doozy!
comics always require a higher level of endurance, and this was not an emotionally light comic to work on between the surgeries, not to mention my inking style changed half a dozen times in the middle of it, several due to my eyesight itself changing the style. it finally clicked when I re-discovered one of kyle t webster's inking brushes that had a lovely texture if you used the wide thick angle (you really see it in the glove in the promo image above), so it complimented the thin inking lines with that texture but had coherency throughout due to using just that brush and a narrow palette of greys. really was forced to level up a few times in the creation of this through a few months, but I do feel the results of those and think that these pages will age a lot better than some of IC's earliest pages.
a lot of my other thoughts that I'd normally put here on the characters and creating them along with JD are in the "extras" section of the comic... and honestly, there's not a lot of other thoughts. think I'm still in the 'drained but satisfied' phase, heh.
$16 USD, print + digital comic drawn by urs truly and written by
jdwrites , buy here on https://jdriley.itch.io/falkethis one was a beast but pretty satisfying to finally have out there!
i think it's actually my biggest project *completed* since iron crown, possibly eclipsing iron crown b/c that webcomic -while over 200 pages- was never technically finished (oh the curse of webcomics...).
thought i had a whole dreamwidth post written up about why I did this (in the event of getting cancelled by folks on twitter actually lol), can't find it anymore (and it honestly doesn't matter). the essence is that it took me a good year or so of thinking on it (JD was a true saint with patience with the very temperamental artist that I am) - before deciding that yes, this is something that I would like to be a part of, and to stick with it to the bitter end. below is a thread I made on twitter first that neatly summarizes my feelings towards Art like this:
"tasteful", like squick as a word, is one of those I've always felt is underutilized. there is a great deal of Art that fits the "legal" and "necessary" check-boxes, but do not with tastefulness. Cronenberg's movies, lolisho, any and all naziexploitation, etc.
there have been whole books, courses, fields, written about "what is tasteful art". I'm not here for any of that. I didn't live decades as a fundamentalist to not see how taste so often = morality, acceptable art.
there is a time and place for heartwarming, nuanced, kind art. there is a time and a place for art that is a sledgehammer to the skull and delights in the gorey mess. (there is also a time and a place for works that do both). tasteless art is holy, in its own way.
beyond that angle, this was a doozy to draw on a technical level. rewarding, but a doozy!
comics always require a higher level of endurance, and this was not an emotionally light comic to work on between the surgeries, not to mention my inking style changed half a dozen times in the middle of it, several due to my eyesight itself changing the style. it finally clicked when I re-discovered one of kyle t webster's inking brushes that had a lovely texture if you used the wide thick angle (you really see it in the glove in the promo image above), so it complimented the thin inking lines with that texture but had coherency throughout due to using just that brush and a narrow palette of greys. really was forced to level up a few times in the creation of this through a few months, but I do feel the results of those and think that these pages will age a lot better than some of IC's earliest pages.
a lot of my other thoughts that I'd normally put here on the characters and creating them along with JD are in the "extras" section of the comic... and honestly, there's not a lot of other thoughts. think I'm still in the 'drained but satisfied' phase, heh.
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Date: 2022-11-13 09:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-21 10:01 pm (UTC)thank you so much. means a lot especially from you. :) I look up to you a lot for freely going places with your art that makes me all tingly in the toes ~ here's to more of it on both of our ends.
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Date: 2022-11-14 03:44 am (UTC)Also, "tasteless art is holy, in its own way." is the God's honest truth and I want this etched into my eyeballs so I remember it forever.
You two did so fuckin' amazing on Falke, it's an absolutely sexy experience to read. Congratulations on sticking it out, it was worth it to add to the proud canon of nazisploitation art.
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Date: 2022-11-30 12:30 am (UTC)that's a good point about looking for another term that doesn't place a value judgement on media, that's similar to 'not for everyone' but less of a mouthful. some terms are just so loaded by specific groups that, man, sometimes you have to sit there and go 'okay, how are you really using that word because i do not think it means the same way you're using it' to a rando lol
(thanks so much on the kind words with falke, too ;a; as mentioned in there, could not have done it without you and the gang. )
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Date: 2022-11-15 01:11 am (UTC):eyes emote: I missed out on the gunplay zine so I'm really really hoping to get my hands on this one! I think I have to wait to order 'til I get paid Friday, but I'm HYPE. Preview graphic looks SO AWESOME :D
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Date: 2022-11-15 04:35 pm (UTC)(also i'd be more than happy to send you a pdf of the gunplay zine, if you want ... can stick it on a mediafire link temporarily for ya :> )
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