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Proportion tutorial supplement worksheet!

PHEW here it is

This tutorial worksheet comes with 14 pages of stuff! Why so much? because the worksheet images took up a lot of space~ 

This worksheet covers the info in the Proportion T...

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TM Stuff- blue eyes~

Many readers have noticed that some of the Pasori characters in The Meek have blue eyes! I've made a little compilation above to show the variety we've seen in this chapter so far.

It's true, ...

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MI407 Comp and Notes

full page here: http://www.marecomic.com/comic/ch4-page-7/

Any scene that has a mystery person knocking on a door r...

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Sticker giveaway contest~~

Yeah it's time for a Patreon giveaway contest I think!

To enter: simply leave a comment on any new post I make this month, starting from today's tutorial post! I'll be picking winne...

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Proportion Tutorial!

Tutorial worksheet? grab it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/proportion-8599257

This is that tutorial I wa...

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TM532 preview

Crawling the plot forward another page, haha... Luca is very weird around his kids (and other people, but especially his kids).

BTW, thank you to everyone who is stopping by to say hi at the con! It...

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Secret ECCC sticker! and how to get one~

Hi guys!

As you might have heard, I'm going to ECCC and will be at TABLE K-6. I'm going to be bringing a some of these exclusive Kalla stickers for ~Patrons only~ , and you...

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MI406 preview~

It's been a while since the last MI page! I really like this page tho and am not sure when it's going up yet, so let's just sneak you guys a peek for now~ 

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TM531- comp and notes

A note on the car: it's a tread car~ I love treads, haha. I wish all cars had them, just cuz they look cool. IRL the cost of treads and fixing small moving elements can outweigh their ability to trave...

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TM530 notes

Instead of the comp for the page itself, a look at some pages I compressed into the final. A lot of this chapter is almost a direct redraw of the thumbnailed chapter, because I felt the writing was ve...

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TM Stuff- Ch2 bonus comic pdf

 PDF to download is attached! 

This was the comic that was supposed to go with the Ch2 printed version of [the past]. WELL, that didn't really happen. I think there's 100 copies of that fl...

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How many times can I redraw this image

Current tally is 4x... The first cover in the original style of the comic, then the redo cover to make it suitable for printing, then the updated redo cover for the book version, and now this...

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MI404- notes

No comp today, because I liked this panel too much~ 

This panel is at its actual size, for those people who have asked me how large I work (the answer: very large).

LEVi/ Thrip is ove...

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General update~

Hi guys!

Just a general news post, since I haven't had one for a while...

Worldbuilding Shingworks tutorial worksheet~

FINALLY. 11 Pages of supplement material this month to go with the worldbuilding tutorial (https://www.patreon.com/posts/802...

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MI Stuff- how to draw Thrip

sorry this is really stupid

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TM529- comp and notes

Since my shame of my process was exposed in 528, here's another lazy tip from me to you, this time irt patterns~

There are some patterns that show up frequently in some pages, things like wallpapers...

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Which comic should get the extra update this week?

I'm back on track with 3x updates a week, but also really invested in both comics at the moment :0 There's a Mare Internum update today and a Meek update going up tomorrow... which comic should get th...

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MI403- comp and notes

A bit different this time, decided to do a layer dissection so you guys can see all the bullshit that is required to color a page, haha

This looks like a ton of layers, but it really boils down to l...

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Worldbuilding tutorial!

Supplement for $10+ Patrons is up now: https://www.patreon.com/posts/8067117

It's tutorial time again!<...

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TM528- comp and notes

I decided to do the bad thing and show you what my pages look like under the bubbles. I AM SO LAZY I'm sorry, this is why I never show the art without bubbles, lol. Every page, man. When I had to do t...

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TM527- comp and notes

Damn I'm updating so much lately! Can't tell if it's a renewed energy or just a sense of the pendulum swinging down HAHA gotta get those pages out while the internet is still legal

I mentioned in th...

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TM Stuff- these dudes

First note, I've opened up the legacy bonus materials and bonus comic for Chapter 1 to all $2 Patrons, so hav...

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MI402- comp and notes

Boy howdy I am not that great at designing caves... gave it my best shot though.

Earlier this month I got to go on vacation for the first time in a very, very long while. Got to take lots of lava re...

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TM526- comp and notes

The sketch page (second one) this time instead of inks...  initial sketches are difficult to look at due to scribbliness XD

Was sort of interesting reading the comments on Suda on the last page...

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TM525- comp and notes

Hi guys! I was away on vacation for the past week, and decided to do zero work for that entire time. I haven't had a real no-work day in about 3.5 years, so it was nice. Thanks for your patience while...

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TM524- comp and notes

Beach day~~

You can see how much I suck on some pages, haha, this is a good example. I inked the whole thing then realized I forgot the ledger and had to add it back in. I also tried some text in th...

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TM Stuff- people being assholes

I've been working on the next page for way too long and I'm still not done, so let's have some fake racists to distract from the irl racists for a few mins

The Carissi are pretty out there, both geo...

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MIStuff- Kalla refsheet

More Kalla stuff! I'm sorry, haha, I'll be posting more non-MI stuff soon, I just have been sort of heads down on this stuff for a collaboration I'm doing with another artist. But this was a refsheet ...

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MI401- comp and notes

Today's update: MI401 

A new thing I'm going to be doing for relevant pages is post a comparison of the sketch...

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