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Jelly Strings, 9”x12”, brown, black and white pencil on toned paper

Sneaking a late bit of SumMER in with another piece of the Merchestra! JellyStrings, of course! Featuring moon jellies, crystal jellyfish and sort of an amalgam of amakuza jellies in the dress…

And of course I only just now realized that if I’d had this being played cello-style, I could have called it a “jello”. Maybe next time. XD

And now for something completely different! More concept art for @Cellarius2084 - but this time, we have the low-tech side of the Cellarius universe. These are members of the so-called “Rattlers” faction, the luddite anti-tech, anti-AI resistance. I’m not sure what’s more fun to mess with, super-futuristic-high-tech stuff, or duct-tape-grit-and-spit stuff! :D

If you’re into playing in a big collaborative sci-fi sandbox using blockchain technology, you can get involved, too! Check out the project alpha at cellarius.network or live at @Comic_Con!

Hey hey! Top secret projects have finally been spoiled! Last year I wrangled a bunch of concept art for @Cellarius2084, a new collaborative sci-fi platform that uses blockchain to empower fans and creators. This was an absolute blast, there were a ton of different futuristic factions to explore, from super-high-tech to totally dystopian. I’ll be posting some of the stuff I did for this over the next few weeks. For now, here’s the super-evolved artificial humanoid, Homotranscendus!

If you’re into playing in a big crazy futuristic sandbox, you can get involved, too! Check out the project at cellarius.network or live at @Comic_Con!

More WIP sneak peeks… I DO have a batch of Ink Imps in the works, they’re just taking forever to emerge… Mostly because of things like this kind of insanity: “Just a few fun, simple imps… with elaborate tentacular lace… Drawn with hundreds of tiny dots… SIMPLE!” XD

The Wayward Queen is not dead yet! I’ve been trying to build up a bit of a buffer before I start posting comic pages again, to avoid the constant frantic mad dash that updates had become… Ideally I’d like to have at least five pages ready to post and five more in progress; currently there are six pages in a good state of progress, so hopefully updates will resume soon! Sneak peek of random panels in progress, minus all the spoilerific bits…

So in between client stuff that I can’t show yet, I’ve been slowly poking at some more overcomplicated mer things… The next one involves jellyfishies! (Sneak peek!)

Okay, I officially declare it to be sumMER! Let’s celebrate with the Sensational Undersea Sounds of the Magnificent Merchestra! Bring on the musical mer-things! We open with a chorus of spiny seahorns… (Spiny Seahorse, with tooty snoots…)

Ahaha… Well, I started some mermay pieces, but they somehow morphed from “quick sketches” to elaborate finished drawings with multiple iterations, so they’ll probably end up in June at this rate. I had a bunch planned that I still want to do, so, um, how about we declare #SumMer? :D Here’s a sneak peek!

“Music of the Elementals: Flaming Fiddler”
For Month of Love : Red and/or Yellow
Watercolor and ink on cold-press paper, 9x12

The element of fire, the demonic fiddler, the wild music that nobody can resist…

…I really feel like I ought to do this series in oils at some point. I keep trying to do things in watercolor that would probably work better in oils. (As I continue the ongoing saga of “Watercolor: I have no clue”, in this installment “I should probably buy some more different colors”…)

“Music of the Elementals: Voice of the Void”
For Month of Love : Black
Watercolor and ink on hot-press paper, 5x7

So I’m sort of unofficially playing along with the Month of Love this year… This year’s prompts are five colors, and I thought it would be fun to try a set of five images. “Elementals” was one idea that appealed… So was “music”… So the logical conclusion was, “Music of the Elementals.” Best of both worlds.

I’m using the ancient set of five “elements” found in Indian, mid-eastern, and ancient Greek lore: Void/Space, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.

The five colors also happen to fit the “five elements” of Chinese lore, but the western element set had some visual opportunities I really wanted to play with… So I’m sort of borrowing a bit of both, plus a side order of the later European addition of “Elementals”: Gnomes, Sylphs, Salamanders, and Ondines. There is no elemental specified for “void”, but I guess that could be seraphim/demon or something of that ilk.

This piece is also subtitled “Watercolor: I have no clue” and “Why didn’t I use salt”… :P