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2015 monster stickers art summary

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my 2015 art summary is of the years monthly monster stickers I made and mailed out to people that contributed $5 to my patreon. it was fun making all these weird silly designs. January... I guess had no stickers... I didn't remember that. I discovered a lot about myself and what I find visually attractive  and what kinds of things I use as an artistic crutch. certain shapes kept showing up, certain colors, certain themes so many eyes and toothy mouths. haha I'm excited to see what comes oozing out of my brain in 2016 SO EXCITED!  https://www.patreon.com/smars

Myth of Eustro chapter 11 update/preview

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I just pulled the last line on Eustro chapter 11,  the sketch work is aaaaall done, now it's on to the "inks" and color.  I wanted this to come out before the end of the year, but realistically I can see this coming out around January 1st or 2nd. I had a really good idea for this chapter but I think I'm going to save it for chapter 12, depending on how people vote. hee hee. I actually need to do a test or two to make sure it will work without messing up the .swf file format i use. I'm also slowly working towards moving away from the .swf format. it does mean a lot of things will change in the future about the immediacy by which these comics can be received and read, but meh... life changes and goes on. hopefully in a positive progressive nature. sitting in place and doing one thing your whole artistic life isn't healthy.  I'll explain all that in the coming year.  yay! in the mean time,  I've also attached a little scree

monthly wallpaper 1215

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So, I really liked the new star wars movie. a lot. saw it opening night. look... the original is literally my favorite movie EVER. I was 7 when I first saw it. and it changed my world. which was very small back then as you can imagine. haha force awakens, was a different star wars, but still very star wars. it made me feel a million times less angst ridden than the prequels did. anyhoo, you can tell how much I liked it because I did fan art of it. I rarely do fan art. it's a whole long thing I'd rather not bore you trying to describe my stupid reasoning. The original version of this was supposed to be Jeph and Ami dressed as Finn and Rey with Sankofah painted hastily as BB8,  but it just didn't come together so I went with a straight forward fanart. LOVE COMICS? LOVE MONSTERS? Smars Patreon -- https://www.patreon.com/smars  $1 comics packs (including development work and thumbnails), wallpapers, and additional art $5 Four, excl

The End...

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...of stickerpunch.com I've decided to close up shop at the sticker & postcard store I had set up. no body ever bought anything from there, and not even people who bought stickers and postcards at my table at conventions. I'm not sure why? maybe it's just less fun to buy them online than when standing in front of a table where they can hold them in their hand before buying them? I have no clue if there was an actual disconnect or if no one really cared. hard to say. all I do know is, it costs me 20 bucks a month to maintain and I don't have 20 to spare. my hope was that I could balance it out with monthly sales paying for the bigcartel hosting buuuuut... that didn't happen. at all. I made one sale in two years. that's just sad. thanks Nick. you're the best. I even made the prices low enough that I thought they would be appealing. maybe people thought the prices were reflective of the quality? but not everything that's expensiv

Goblyn chapter 57

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    PREVIOUS    ♦     NEXT  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   I don't really have a lot to say about this chapter.  it's the open gate leading to a much bigger yard full of... things. horrible and wonderful, things. on another note, I'm both excited and nervous, because I'm going to see Force Awakens tonight. I... I just hope it's a good movie. I purposely had myself on a media black out since October. I only ever saw that very first teaser trailer they released waaaaay back. I was on the fence because I'm not a big fan of JJ Abrams. (he seems really pretentious) but after seeing that teaser trailer I decided to go see it. I like that it's going to have practical effects. I'm just really burnt out on CG. hollywood has really driven that into the ground. okay.  well, thanks for reading. enjoy!  

AMIDS Transmit 03: Love Lies And Little Girl Lost

    A.M.I.D.S. is the Allied Museum Intern Disclosure Society, boosting our signal and getting out the truth to the world of Ephon about what's really going on behind the closed doors of the Grande Museum of the United Commonwealth. (GMUC) In this episode we discuss the mystery of the vanished Goblin princess. Goblin culture, history, and just Goblin stuff in general. music by: Cryochamber cryochamber.bandcamp.com/

Goblyn chapter 56

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    PREVIOUS    ♦     NEXT  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   okay... I did some super Smars magic and booted up my 10 year old desktop and was able to hook up the tablet directly to it. it worked, but I was only able to use Photoshop 5 because it's so old it can't handle anything more current. ha ha I forgot that I had done all the line work for this chapter which means all I really had to do was put in the sepia tones and a few effects stuff. I kinda' hate the effects stuff in this chapter because PS 5 is so nerf'd.  this is the second time I've used PS5 on Goblyn... the last time was during chapters 6 - 8 that was so freaking long ago y'all! so much has changed, and yet so much is still the same. I hope y'all enjoy! thanks for being so patient with all this chaos.  

AMIDS Transmission 02: Grenna Gardener

A.M.I.D.S. is the Allied Museum Intern Disclosure Society, boosting our signal and getting out the truth to the world of Ephon about what's really going on behind the closed doors of the Grande Museum of the United Commonwealth. (GMUC) this episode, we talk about the Impabla Empire 's inclusion in the UC and the possibility that documents found in the Directors office might point to a story told to me by my grandmother when I was a kid.  music by: Randal Collier-Ford/Cryochamber https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/

AMIDS Transmission 01: Shard Sham

A.M.I.D.S. is the Allied Museum Intern Disclosure Society, boosting our signal and getting out the truth to the world of Ephon about what's really going on behind the closed doors of the Grande Museum of the United Commonwealth. (GMUC)  eustro.com   music by: Randal Collier-Ford/Cryochamber cryochamber.bandcamp.com/

A.M.I.D.S. transmissions. it's a pawdcasss

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A.M.I.D.S. is the Allied Museum Intern Disclosure Society, boosting our signal and getting out the truth to the world of Ephon about what's really going on behind the closed doors of the Grande Museum of the United Commonwealth. (GMUC) hosted by Tibbsy... * Tibbsy might be unfamiliar to you if you're not on the Nightmare Hunter tier, where I send out monthly monster sticker packs. He's a character I recently started role playing as, in the notes that go along with the packages. (the former and official director is away at the moment, so the interns are running the place.) But this should maybe catch you up and hopefully be fun.* I'm treating this as a supplementary or complementary piece to the Myth of Eustro comics. the events in this transmission won't always directly reflect what's going on in Eustro, but they're definitely going on at the same time somewhere else in the world.   I plan on doing these every week, mostly on Saturdays unless som

Myth of Eustro Chapter Ten

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PREVIOUS    ♦     NEXT   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   it seriously bothers me how long it took for me to get through this chapter.  2 months?  that shouldn't have happened. sorry... and thanks for your patience! you're super great! BECOME A NIGHTMARE HUNTER  JOIN The Smars Patreon   comics, stickers, exclusive art & more  info @ www.patreon.com/smars ------------- tools used: Yiynova msp19u Photoshop CC Flash 8