cool exciting things happening, dreamwidth gang edition :D

[kradeelav]

also doubles as the 'what has krad been up to this summer' post ~

* Gaze an Eagle Blind - Environment Design Assistant - For the past few weeks, been working with chira for the backgrounds of Gaze aka a black comedy action webcomic by Little Foolery. I've been a fan of LF's work for gosh, 15+ years now? and Gaze really was the perfect intersection of an extremely compelling story-project with teeth and real soul plus the chance to help out in some pretty uniquely synergetic ways! We'll save the announcement post for other socials for later but this collaboration has been a literal dream of mine for, not kidding, a decade plus. :D

* Like Fine Wine - guest artist - LFW is a creative anthology featuring older men and their significantly younger partners :3c run by some dear friends with an absolutely all-star contributor selection, it's a delicious mix of classy with real honest to goodness bite. the strip i have in mind is something i've been aching to do for a few months now too, and just -- going to be real good for the soul.

* "Summoner Support", a short Karel/Summoner Mark/Volke R18 fire emblem selfship comic for karel   :3 working unashamedly on FE selfship work in the last few months has been really healing, and everything about this strip was total guilty pleasure territory from the characters involved to the Vibes, to the meta-ing that has spun out from this ~ should actually be finishing this up pretty soon!

* Nazine II Spot Artist for idal_waves 's story - I've wanted to work with Idal on a creative project for years now and so, so glad we got to collaborate here. :D Idal went above and beyond writing his characters Petr and Bruno with both real historical nuance and incredible id, and he really let me go ham on some cool mid-century smoky-masculine art style here with the 3 pieces.

* in the background, ashes & ghost doujin shipping is going (most likely for the next month), actually packing the second large order right now in between writing this post; once these are out, 20/66 of the doujins are shipped. I'm going to save the retrospective/actual closure-celebration once when all of these are shipped and once when i figure out what itch.io is going to do with the payout since this is uh. An Ongoing Interesting Event, to put it mildly. :D;

... believe it or not there is Even More (non-art) Stuff happening behind the scenes lol, but that covers it for now; the back half of this year will most likely simply continuing to work on all of this ~

Comments

[karel]

Making a mental note of that webcomic, that looks SLICK, super awesome. What a cool project!!

And man, you know I'm already swooning over LFW, can not WAIT to see what comes out of that! Especially knowing you're in there, I'm like whoa, this is gonna be GOOD stuff.

I have a little teehee blush moment every time support comes up in public >///< like oh. hehe. that's me ♥ and man, it is just... the swoon I feel every time I look back at what you've sent

big eyes emoji at all of this tbh, why do I feel like I've got another physical order coming up, if it winds up getting a print version, of nazine? :3 add it to the stack with the others I've got with your work in 'em, and I am bouncing with anticipation over ashes & ghost landing in my hands. gdilf ♥♥♥

[kradeelav]

<3 <3

(all of 'little foolery's' work is sooo worth checking out! i think you in particular would love 'song of the bull rider' which is a novel by alex that chira did some illustrations for; absolutely metal frank-frazetta-meets-biblical-era badass fights and sick political intriuge with a nonbinary lead. - https://littlefooleryshop.com/products/song-of-the-bull-rider?variant=43109385339095 - been meaning to reread it ngl! )

and hehee you know i can't wait to drop your strip :3 every one of the ingredients is fun as hell and together.... ooOO. its the good stuff.

[vsitante]

So many projects :3 Congrats on getting into LFW!

Cannot access the "Ongoing Interesting Event" and now the Eric Andre "Let Me In" meme comes to mind LOL

[kradeelav]

(oops sorry i thought i already gave you access since we've known each other for a while now XD fixed!)

[vsitante]

lol no worries--happens to the best of us o/

[ellerean]

You know, I briefly considered throwing my hat in the ring for LFW when you first shared it, but I chickened out because I have yet to write related original fic. But I am very eagerly following!

[kradeelav]

<3 it's a lovely crew with lots of sweetness, class, *and* bite; something that feels needful and also something you'd enjoy :D