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It’s Fall. Grab your pumpkin tinted shades and sit down for some Good Shit.
First off, thanks to this month’s Producers:
Last week I spent some time with some of my family for my 30th birthday. We stayed in Oceanside, with trips to Cape Lookout, Sand Lake, and Astoria:
(my dad, making a great JOJO pose. where's the stand?)
Oceanside is built into the hillside. Looks nice, no?
The noteworthy Astor Building.
I ultimately decided to finish this drawing for this month’s Patreon illustration:
TOP BUG
My friend Nation tipped me off to this book on Pennsylvania German Pow Wow, which has been a reignited interest of mine:
This was started thanks to a post by Apparition Books in Washington. Looks like they have a lot of interesting books on a regular basis!
One of my great-grandmothers was a practitioner based in Berks County, which has drawn me to learn more about it. I like to keep in mind that a lot of these practices were done to help formalize a desired outcome - be it the health of a sick relative or prosperity in general.
heart. is making decent progress, though I don’t want to spoil anything more at the moment. Inking starts in November, so expect to see some more in the months to come.
I also want to formally announce that I have the comics background assistance of @abartoart this time around; her work drives me to polish mine. Allison mentioned posting some of the stuff soon, so keep her on your radar!
I’ll be returning to a weekly post schedule with updates next week.
I hope you’re hanging in there; have a Happy Halloween!