“Stardust” | #31 – July 30, 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.

“Angel Island Dracaena” | #28 – September 7, 2023

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Fri Sep 7th, 2023

I went on a hike to Angel Island recently. It was the first time I’ve been there. You take a ferry to the island, which makes it feel like a special little trip.

We took our time during the hike, which turned out to be very fun, because I didn’t know there would be additional sites to see other than general wilderness. There were plenty of those, as well, to be sure – such as this giant version of what, to me, resembled a huge specimen of the “Dracaena” plant we have in our kitchen!

I had no prior knowledge of this plant before, and because we had just started Pikmin 4 around this time, I could not help relating to the starting parts of the game. When your little alien astronaut friend exclaims, “The plants on this planet are huge!” While you, as the player, cannot help thinking how silly these aliens are – how they are unaware by how they are the tiny ones!

More rambling about the hike and plants in the full post: