Abrian Curington
@abrian
Visual Storyteller and Cartographer, making curious comics for quiet nerds since 2007. Serious tea drinker. Kind of a silly. Currently working on the serialized graphic novel Janus in Tartarus. Links to everywhere:
UGH, my Content Manager (read: me) uploaded the wrong scene to the public comic page! I should fire her (again, me). Read the proper scene here: www.bluecatco.com/janus/episod...
Great mail day! This lil guy arrived safely from @jessesteahouse.bsky.social
Your monthly Janus in Tartarus update has arrived! In which there is subterranean travel and weird physics. Read here: www.bluecatco.com/janus/episod...
Rolling my sleeves up and tackling the rough lettering pass for about 200 pages of comics. What else is happening in the world this weekend?
Project test video! Just watched the Odyssey adaptation and want to explore more of the ancient world? Janus in Tartarus has you covered! Read here: bluecatco.com/janus
Introducing your next favorite nerd project: An Illustrated Card Database of Oz! More here: www.patreon.com/AbrianC/post...
Case study #5,789 of why artists don't have to make anything up because nature is already awesome. Just look at this dude!
Clang clang! Hot, fresh comics! Your monthly Janus in Tartarus update! Get your hot, fresh comics in full here: www.bluecatco.com/janus/episod... In which we visit the surface.
Making my way through, jotting down things to change or ideas to add to strengthen the end but who wrote this?? Did I write this??
Doing The Big Graphic Novel Readthrough using my @supernote.com and a trusty horizontal notepad. Let the edits begin!
Oh man... It's finally happening! The illustrated Oz Database layout is finally coming together! They will be devised as Notched Edge cards (saying it the other way just seems grammatically mysterious to me), which can be used as an analog search system.
We, as a society, need to bring back "darkle." @merriam-webster.com is doing The Good Work, as always.
Even though I've drawn a character a billion times, I don't always nail portraits on the first try! Trying to get a few reference pages in today, thinking about jobs, edge-notched cards and drawer organization. And you?
I JUST realized that this is a Button, and I can switched from Advanced (which uses AI to "help") back to Classic and it functions SO MUCH BETTER. I cannot stress how much better classic is. "Advanced" does not translate over LINE BREAKS
In case you missed it, the next installment of Janus in Tartarus is ready for reading! In which there might be a panic attack: www.bluecatco.com/janus/episod...
Today on Patreon: What's next now that the comic is roughed out?? Featuring: - What are roughs? - New character sheets - OZ MAP NEWS Read here: www.patreon.com/posts/starti...
Guess who's going into the weekend with a FULLY ROUGHED OUT GRAPHIC NOVELLLL 🎉🎉🎉 Oh, sorry, that was a hard question... IT'S ME!
I just found the Patreon sitemap and I feel like I've unlocked a superpower.
On the light table this weekend: Just a gal and a divine being that resembles her future self making their way through this crazy world together 😂
Painting a Gundam because I'm almost down with the latest batch of comic pencils and I need more screws in order to put up shelves, long story, anyway, I'm very proud of the brackish blue I mixed for the cape.
It's apparently #WebComicDay! In this, the Digital Era, it seems that one has to be burdened with the powers of an old god, then banished to the Infernal Pit of Tartarus and form a rag-tag rebellion to learn what's really important in life... Kids these days. Janus in Tartarus: bluecatco.com/janus
This is my fourth time failing. One of them involved an AI dolphin with two tails. I was supposed to decide if it would like the thing in the picture which was... candy? A spinning orb? Anyway, now I'm looking at AI bedroom sets I guess.
Me: UFF. I don't feel like cooking lunch tomorrow. Brain: ...you know what we could do? Me: Don't. Brain: We could hand-roll some gluten free udon noodles. SIGH
Candid of me still being smug (until I count the number of pages I get to rough and letter)