Tony Cliff
@tangocharlie
Author/illustrator: the DELILAH DIRK series, LET'S GET SLEEPY, BUBBLE. Currently: an epic tale of 19th-century adventure, PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY( #PDAP ) 🎨 tonycliff.com ⚔️ delilahdirk.com ✨ “A.I.?” More like “I Ain’t.”
A fresh update to the DD4 Production Diary, featuring: - PRACTICAL DEFENCE nominated for a Harvey award! - @caitlinroseboyle.com 's FRANKIE book series, - MANY TINY HOUSES, - and I embarrass myself among civilians, talking about the job I ostensibly love doing. 👉👉 www.patreon.com/tonycliff/po...
Whoaaa just when I was starting to fall off, they pull me back in again
Also in this post (because video is the easiest way to demonstrate how it works), I shared The Mirror Trick, the old-fashioned way to "Image > Flip Horizontal". Drawing traditionally? Does something look off, but you can't tell exactly what? You need The Mirror Trick.
New DD4 / PRACTICAL DEFENCE PRODUCTION DIARY! Pencil art for Chapter Seven is finished, narrowly meeting the arbitrary deadline I set for myself! Plus, a veritable flotilla of recommendations, since everyone seems to be doing interesting things. Free as in beer! 👉 www.patreon.com/tonycliff/po...
For example! In real life, I would describe these roses as “oversaturated.” In the photo, they just look sort of… “red.” (This neighbour said, “that’ll be 29.95 for the photo,” in a way that made me not want to continue what I expected to be a friendly conversation about his nice roses.)
Like, there's a lot of hand-holding in Chapter Seven. Why? What does it mean? Do I know? Did I do it on purpose?
Oh whoops I accidentally made another post about PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY. This time: - Chapter Seven pencils. Look! - Thematic elements: are they on purpose? Do you know? Do *I* know? Honest answers only, please. Free free free free free 👉 www.patreon.com/tonycliff/po...
“FOMO and urgency!” Gross. No. (From a Patreon email titled “So what gets free members to upgrade?”)
Brought to you by "Chapter Six is Coloured And Posted And You Can Read It Now, So Let's Start Pencilling Chapter Seven."
I love a lot of the work people are doing in picture books these days, ESPECIALLY Julie Fogliano. This can’t possibly be an outlying opinion right? Everyone must love Fogliano right? Someone just agree with me please. (Below: from WHEN’S MY BIRTHDAY, illus Christian Robinson.)
Interesting: Patreon actually introduced a useful feature! Posts in "collections" now have a little box (in the bottom-right corner, here) that lets a user page through the posts. That makes it *slightly* easier to, say, read the comic I've been posting in chunks.
Went out last night to take a picture of these Met Gala-looking roses in our yard, turn around to find THIS ding dong frowning at me like, “um excuse me, what are you doing in my dining room.”
THE HORSE, A CREATURE OF BEAUTY “…perhaps more beautiful lines than any other living animal.”
Business owners: if you are feeling overwhelmed, I would recommend instead trying to sell something people want, instead of flooding your potential customers with an endless stream of valueless blather.
Follow me and I'll take you to the latest update for CHAPTER SIX of PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY ⚔️ 🏴☠️ ⚔️ …in which Katerina's best intentions are put to the test. www.patreon.com/posts/158696...
Tell you what, this is a big improvement over yesterday, when I splashed too much while I was cleaning the toilet, got something in my eye, and didn’t know whether I should worry more about it being Clorox or toilet water. #EisnerAwards
PRACTICAL DEFENCE has been nominated for a Will Eisner award three years in a row… Chapter Six is going up for Secret Readers right now ( www.patreon.com/tonycliff )… and it will be a book! Some day! I am working very hard, not smart, but I got myself into this and I'll get myself out.
Raised in around the world by her English diplomat Father and Greek artist mother, Alexandra Nichols is a young woman who imagines a vivid life of excitement for herself. But what happens when that vivid life comes roaring up on her shores, swords raised and teeth bared? www.delilahdirk.com/dd4/