Friction (Emergency Comms)
@frictioncomic
@xetialpha.bsky.social (my partner/co-author) 🏳️⚧️he/him
Proof of life as I'm lining things. Should be posting this chapter.... before October? These last two years have been horrible and I'm being ground down into a human stump at work.
I needed a way to upload a higher quality version of this attack. #artfight2026 #artfight #teamcomedy For @loztneighbor.bsky.social / www.instagram.com/LoztNeighbor/
This time I'm making a (small) animation... The first frame is looking good so far. #artfight2026 #teamcomedy #artfight #WIP
I'm already really happy with this attack's sketch. It's got so much sass. #artfight2026 #artfight #teamcomedy #WIP
Another comic from #artfight2026 #teamcomedy User is HoboGoboh (characterhub.com/profile/Hobo...)
I'm being nice and uploading one of my attacks without the cheese that makes the file hugenormous @xndgoat.bsky.social #artfight2026 #teamcomedy
I'm already at 4 attacks. It's my day off so I'm trying to capitalize. #artfight2026 #artfight Come attack me: artfight.net/~CherryRedTy...
Thoughts on my profile thingy? I may do a more serious one if this one isn't functional. #artfight2026 #artfight #ocsky
I made this to practice making silly little lyric vids. This is proof of concept for future ideas. Lyrics in the POV of Rex targeted at Dianne. Song is Untrend by Posavant.
Rex. 👇 I wanted to male a tumblr sexyman but trans. He has no eyebrow hair. Hard to tell from my art tho.
I tried. Wanted to practice rendering for #artfight as well as add to Keith's ref. I like this better than my current chapter 2 cover so I might use this when I print. Seth is still the better renderer/bg artist. I am counting the days until I have him back to work on the comic. #comicsart #ocsky
This is taking forever 😭 But I only get 2 days a week with 2+ hours of consecutive draw time.
Hhhh I'm gonna try to render something more complicated. Wish me luck ig.... 🙃
Practicing portraits/rendering for #artfight I wanna try to do some cool shit this year. Idk what. artfight.net/~CherryRedTy...
Now that I can draw better I updated Bia's goth fit. Her old goth art predates a lot of her other ref art and looked crust asf.
I finally designed Rex's tattoos (and his T-D but I'm not posting that on bsky🤫) I wanted it done for AF. Based off a tatt design my friend Kai helped me with.
If someone traced that photo as their base sketch and didn't tell AF staff how tf would they even know? Are they gonna start making their *checks notes* "unpaid volunteers" take a course to detect the photo tracing of little wooden dummies.
My partner got a good pic today. Shes in this cave thing we 3D printed for her because its close to her basking bulb. Idk if shes chunky??? She has a new clean up crew- the mealworm beetles. No diary cows cuz someone warned me they get aggressive. Tho she might be eating some of her beetles.
Sorry for the rant. My partner makes 3D models which made me realize: he has multiple 3D models (he went to college for this shit) and #artfight wouldn't let him use it. There is so much to say on this topic it's wild. Models: @xetialpha.bsky.social 💍💕
Exhibit D: How the fuck is anyone gonna know if an artist is tracing something like primitives, skeletons, or pose mannequins? Genuinely. A lot of really talented artist use 3D primitives in their workflow. Is it cheating to use an unaccredited basic-ass cube to solve for head perspective in CSP?
SOMETIMES its more obvious art is traced when it's something stolen/reused. But something like a photo I TOOK is not going to be so easy. Exhibit C: My physical Keith ref I use for the comic. Ignore how shitty the photo is I'm doing this all half assed. See alt text for context.
AFs rule about photo/model tracing is gonna be extremely hard to enforce 🧵 Exhibit A: Ena Writer (@ena97) / Head by Bingo (Acon) acon-fmeda7grh3byerbe.a02.azurefd.net/product/rwOv... Exhibit B: Greg Land. He's traced others without permission and he traces himself. Sometimes you really cant tell.
Kebin I took a Kevin from one of my pages Im working on and shittily colored him in so I could have some updated (improved) ref for #artfight #artfight2026. In his older art his faces look ROUGH due to inexperience with drawing sunken in faces. #ocsky
Working on ref for #artfight2026 #ocsky Plus I need art of Keith's EXACT build. He's always wearing knee cover. Unless he is showering at home. The tasteful tentacle covering his bits can be removed since it's on its own layer.