Collision, pages 1&2

Starting a new multi-page comic! It takes place in the Jurassic Park/World universe, and after the events of Fallen Kingdom.

I haven't drawn a lot of humans in works involving this fandom, but here's some humans as POV characters for a change. The characters are borrowed from a few of my original projects, and you may have seen them around. Though some of their stories involve various supernatural things, in this comic you can assume Ilon, April, Ari, and Evriela (left to right in the first panel of the second page) are just regular people.

I had fun combining digital art with inkbrushing again, haven't done much of that in a long time. There will be more of that for the rest of the comic, too, though it may not always be very obvious. Also some moving outside my comfort zone by drawing cars of all things.

I'll post all the pages to my site's dinoart section here, and each page separately to my deviantart gallery here. It's getting its own gallery folder at DA, not sure where I'd sort the pages otherwise. I'm also posting the pages to my Patreon some days ahead of posting the pages publicly, along with WIPs of future pages.

Updates will be about once a week, with 1-2 pages at a time.

Content warning in advance for canon-typical violence, including visible blood. Not on the first pages, but we'll get there.

Front page layout update

Featuring worried sharks.

The wait begins

I've started posting a new comic to my Jurassic World AU. It's a bit long, and I seem to have a lot to say about each panel (and I want to get to posting it already, though the last panels aren't quite finished yet), so I'm updating it a few panels at a time, rather than uploading it all at once. I'll post commentary on the updates here to avoid cluttering the comic's caption too much.

The comic is here at my site, and here at deviantart, and I'm also posting each update to my Patreon 3 days before making it public. Updates are every 3 days.

Update 1 is panels 1-3, and it's peeling pin feathers time! Someone's about to get her wings and tail fan unwrapped. And a few of the smaller contour feathers that have started appearing on her head and along her spine are ready and peeking out of their wax sheaths, too, since they don't take as long to grow as the big flight feathers do. Good to have someone to help preen open the ones she can't reach - and much safer than having her try to scratch at them herself, risking her accidentally hitting a pin feather that's still in development, as those are still connected to blood vessels and can bleed pretty badly if damaged.

Also, raptor ages. Blue is still quite young no matter how it seems to a yearling. There's not much canon on JP/W raptors' lifespan, but I guess there's also not much the humans know about that in-universe, with how the movies tend to kill off their raptors before they get anywhere near old age. They might be able to live pretty long, though it probably also varies depending on a bunch of things, including which version of JP/W raptor is in question. For what it's worth, there's flightless birds close to their size around today that can live to be as old as sixty (ostriches, that is, and that's in captivity, while in the wild their lifespan is closer to fourty years, but that's still four whole decades).

As for future updates, a content warning in advance: there will be one panel with some blood and gore in the context of carnivorous animals eating another animal they have hunted. Not excessively graphic, but still a bit gross, the kind I've already included elsewhere in my dino gallery. I'll mention it in the update note, and include a warning on the dinoart index page when the panel has been posted.

Blog necromancy

I've spent a long time away from this blog and used tumblr for what I originally had this for, but tumblr is... getting to be a bad place to stay at, so I think I'll start using this again as my blog-blog while my patreon remains my sketch blog.

I'll be moving here a bunch of posts I want to keep from tumblr (only posts I made, not reblogs) for the next... idk, couple of weeks? Eventually I'll delete my tumblr. If there's any posts I've made that you'd like to keep linking to or something, let me know. The art I'd posted there is still up at either my site, my deviantart, or both.

If you want to comment on any posts, no account is needed, and you can comment as anon, too.

Sorry that everything's a mess while the move is going on, I hope this will eventually become a more or less organized blog for site updates, life updates, photos, fandom meta, stuff like that.

Thank you for wanting to stay in touch, or to lurk around to see stuff I make, or for having done either during the time I've used a different blogging platform. Or if you don't, no hard feelings, that's life.

Now back to trying to make this place cozy for myself~