Duskbirds – A side-project sketch-comic by Landylachs

“Food Poisoning”

Posted on January 6, 2025

MON JAN 6th, 2025

I believe this was partially based on when I had a small bout of food poisoning last September – but mainly based on how it reminded me of the two or three times in my life when I had severe food poisoning. I remember the first time I had it, it was remarkable how it really felt like I was dying – even when I obviously knew I was not. But knowing you are not about to die doesn’t make that intense pain any less excruciating.

I changed my desk setup recently and have been looking for ways to practice the new setup – this page was originally drawn back in early October, and was 95% completed, but I hadn’t gone back and added that 5% polish step. Testing the desk setup was a good excuse to do so, and I was glad to have the excuse to finish this page – as I had honestly forgotten I’d drawn it, but I remember I did like it back when I drew most of it in October.

One of my aims this year is to finish more projects, instead of having the mountain of in-progress work continue to climb all around me – so here’s to hoping this is a harbinger for more finished pages this year. :)

“Staring Into Space”

Posted on January 6, 2025

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Fri JAN 3rd, 2025

In retrospect, maybe I should have titled this page “Mindfulness” haha.

Happy New Year! Though I started a bunch of new projects since the last Duskbirds page that have been occupying my time, I have many idle ideas for this project written down that I’d like to see as pages sometime. This is one of them, which I managed to finish up shortly after the new year.

I really liked the style of the previously finished page (Duskbirds #31, “Stardust”). I’m going to aim to have pages going forward have that style/aesthetic. This page was started a while after that one, and was partly me trying to remember the workflow I used. I think I’ve mostly figured out a good workflow for it now, though this one still looks a little less consistent that I’d like – but that should improve with practice!

I should probably put all the various WIP’s of the Duskbirds pages I have drafted and not yet finished on Patreon or Ko-fi – I haven’t managed to do that in a while simply because of the time involved, and other things have been taking priority. If there’s demand for it I’ll consider being more consistent with those, otherwise I will probably have to prioritize other tasks, at least for now!

“Stardust”

Posted on July 31, 2024

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Tue Jul 30th, 2024

Idle thought from the other day I managed to pen down. The alternative title I was playing with was “Starcatcher,” which is fitting for Elsium. Let me know if you like one over the other!

Hello again! It’s been a while since the previous page. I’ve been playing around with non-Duskbirds comic pages during this time I haven’t been updating Duskbirds. I haven’t shown any publicly yet, but it’s been unexpectedly satisfying to see characters I usually do illustrations of in a different medium through comics. I hope to bring one or two projects to a presentable state in the near future!

Duskbirds will also continue as time and ideas allow. : )

This is one of the comics I initially drafted in my physical sketchbook. I tried posting the thumbnails up on Patreon along with some of my thought process (also available on Ko-fi), – but the thumbs for this page will be patron/member-exclusive, because frankly I often find my early dialogue drafts rather embarrassing, haha.