Carey Pietsch

I’m so so proud of this project yall !!! Been working on this with an incredible team for over a year. My Art team KILLED this.

My goal was to create a book celebrating the diversity of love and I hope y’all love it!!

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I'm such a jumbled multi-program mess (thumbs on paper, pencils in procreate, inks in CSP, colors in PS) that it might be time for me to try doing CSP pencils just to cut it down a little bit! I do really appreciate that it's set up to Go Fast and I love its inking brush options

I enjoy penciling in procreate but I would LOVE it if it took under 20 minutes to import ~10 .psds one by one and actually start working. although I haven't updated the app in a little bit so maybe this one is on me, actually

Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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Tomorrow, a House Energy & Commerce subcommittee is voting on passing KOSA & several other age verification bills.

We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW

Call 202-224-3121

www.badinternetbills.com

panel from TAZGN1

same moment as recounted in TAZGN7

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this thread (in response to colin kaepernick's "make comics with AI" venture) is just spot on.

for extra context, great coverage from the beat and popverse last year:

www.comicsbeat.com/colin-kaeper...

www.thepopverse.com/comics-colin...

SAKANA Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.

yessss! I am always thinking about @madrupert.bsky.social 's super smart breakdown on how to sakana as a show-feet reminder www.sakana-comic.com/extra-comics...

in a comic originally made in december 2022, the author drags her metaphorical into a chair to continue working. gesturing to a dark window, she protests that she can't work after midnight!! rebuttal: IT'S FOUR P.M.

'tis the season

IT IS!! my sun lamp is doing its best but it's no substitute for the real thing

in a comic originally made in december 2022, the author drags her metaphorical into a chair to continue working. gesturing to a dark window, she protests that she can't work after midnight!! rebuttal: IT'S FOUR P.M.

'tis the season

this is a huge pet peeve of mine personally, too!! I think Hunger's Bite did a GREAT job of using shading as another tool in the coloring-as-emotional-tone toolset, I remember the horrible engine/furnace room especially being really effective bc it's such a strong contrast to other scenes

MICE is one of my very favorite indie comic cons!! If you can go you absolutely should!!

read my jrpg fantasy visual novel about kindness in the face of despair, religion as a tool of oppression, and the power of hot, evil women. (also there's a free demo 😊) gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov

Two years ago, Tam's best friend Iphi was the sole casualty of a freak tsunami. Now, Iphi’s back—impossibly alive with a newfound affinity for water—and threatening to upend the peace that Tam has built after the years of grieving … by… being a really fun person to hang out with?

Pencil drawings of black & white cats

Drawing our cats, who are evil but also very cute and sweet

This is what I heard back- they also said you’re welcome to DM them on insta if you have any more questions! Thanks again for letting me know!

thank you, I really appreciate the heads up! I'm not involved with running the fundraiser or the website, but I'll pass this along to the people in charge.

promo from Creature/Comfort musical instagram sharing their givebutter fundraiser

I'm excited to donate a romance novel-cover-style commission to help fundraise for Creature/Comfort! You can see it and bid at the auctions tab: givebutter.com/c/creatureco...

related to kayfabe-as-playing pretend: recently read The Grammar of Fantasy on @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social 's rec & it's a good book about this; you might like it if you haven't read it already! not a proscriptive how-to; good descriptive cataloging of ways kids play/ story ways to engage with them

yup! not actually related but the place we adopted them from recommended them as good playmates/ get along well and they were dead on right!

they are now ~7 months old and FINALLY free of eye problems and parasites and disgustingly smug about it. last photo taken seconds before they started to wrestle

a black and white drawing of a person laying on a bench with their feet up and a sign that says 2 feet ALT: a black and white drawing of a person laying on a bench with their feet up and a sign that says 2 feet

SmallBu is looking for a freelance BG artist for a new animated project!

-multi month job
-must have significant prior experience working professionally on animation/game BGs
-must have several examples available online portfolio
-no students

Link your portfolio of BG work here if ur interested!

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

The one about comic book page rates – again News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder

The one about comic book page rates – again. News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder

Id you havent been calling your representatives about KOSA and other bills, NOW is the time to start doing so

For graphic novels, especially adult genre fiction, it's incredibly helpful to review it online, talk about it, recommend it to a friend—adult fiction in the graphic novel space is difficult to place, and nothing convinces readers that they'll like a book more than the personal testimonial.

Hi everybody I'm making a new comic called God's Bastards and I would love to know your thoughts. You can read it for free rn on my Patreon! No membership needed. link below.

I didn't go to art school but I was so, so lucky to be able to take night/weekend classes at CCP & fleisher art memorial & life drawing studios around the city while working at my day job. philly has so many wonderful resources for developing skills across art mediums & trying new things! I miss it!

I went to college for psych & cogsci, got a job working in a research lab, and took several years to realize I was spending all my free time making comics, not working on grad-school-application-supporting papers. lol. went back to night school at community college philly to learn to draw & paint!