Icy's Derp Blog

I dunno, I just work here.

[icymasamune]

So Tumblr

If you don’t follow my kink blog you may be unaware that I am leaving tumblr. At least closing my galleries down here. I assume if you are more about shadowlark and my safe illustrations this won’t bother you any. But I will be gutting my work from this site and moving it entirely to other locations.

I may still hold onto tumbles for notifications, but honestly I think I am just about done here. I have always felt that even my most cartoonish and fantasy adventure subjects have adult themes- so I always mark my stuff as adult only. I feel that my use of graphic violence should be considered more sensitive than silly fetish art. And I have a lot of thoughts about their inconsistency about what they deem sensitive material.

A better way of saying it is that Tumblr, as an organization, is not a platform I trust or want to be associated with. They have always been inconsistent and unreliable; I am not surprised they would throw away a user base that helped bloat their numbers once they didn’t need them anymore, and while I found the platform convenient to use - It’s the potential to reach people that made it worth it. So my safe for work material will not be hosted here either. Nor will I be putting Shadowlark on this platform like I had intended; I will still be working on a new idea for how to host that comic, and I will update with text to notify of projects. But if you want to stay up to date with me it’s going to be mostly through twitter or patreon, or even DA.

[icymasamune]

There was a chunk of stuff I didn’t get around to answering and a lot about the growth drive: first off thank you guys so much for your continued support. The sequence will continue on twitter and I’ll be posting the final results on my Demonesu galleries.

The fact that Candice, Naomi, and especially Barria wound up getting a lot of positive attention and response went a long way toward rebuilding my self-esteem and motivation to draw and create again. I don’t recognize Tumblr as the reason I got motivated to do the Nexus comics, return to Demonesu and enjoy drawing again - it may have facilitated finding a positive influence, but it wasn’t the cause. And I hope those of you who have helped me find my spark again will drop by the other locations from time to time as well.

Thanks everyone.

Except Tumblr. You sit back down I don’t owe you jack.

[icymasamune]

I’m going to plug the patreon while things are questionable on tumblr. I post art archives every month, do polls for patreon illustrations, post thumbnails and previews for comic progress, and post extras like line art coloring books, high res versions of work I have done, and babble about things I am working on.

https://www.patreon.com/Icymasamune

[zalistak]

the pals….

PJ belongs to @roguerinzler

[icymasamune]

Art dump is up on patreon and the poll ends tonight for Spetember!

https://www.patreon.com/Icymasamune

[icymasamune]

Reminder slash self promotion that submissions for patreon poll for Aug deadline is this Sunday! All second tier patrons get to submit options for the patreon poll for the month~! 

https://www.patreon.com/Icymasamune

[icymasamune]

I'm taking submissions for the August Patron Reward poll starting today! Remember to get them in by the 19th to have enough time to vote for it before the end of the month. July's winner was Meushi; which is coming once I finish up commissions~! 

https://www.patreon.com/Icymasamune 

[icymasamune]

Tomorrow is the last day to turn in submissions for the Patron Poll~! Just a reminder that all second tier patrons get to submit for the poll which will start on Monday

https://www.patreon.com/Icymasamune

[icymasamune]

Have you ever wished “golly I sure wish Icy had more time to draw absurd boobs and shadowlark”. Me too! and here is how you can help with that!

All patrons get to see comics a week early and vote on patron rewards each month.  Any support is greatly appreciated always. And a special thank you to all the people who are already patreons.

If you can’t afford it no sweat! Any signal boost is a big help too and everything I finish will still get posted online for everyone, patrons just get to see it early.

[thecommonchick]

[zackisontumblr]

cowch

[willmuzzi]

apologies @icymasamune and @idolmonkeh

[willmuzzi]

hot day

[icymasamune]

Took a break from work today to draw something for myself: something to use for a Spring Icon.

[willmuzzi]

Sayama is an irreconcilable creature

[icymasamune]

10/10 cute face.

[akidoodles]

http://threadbound.smackjeeves.com/

Here it is!  The cover and first page are live!

Thanks to everyone who’s been a big help on this, I really appreciate it!

I hope that you enjoy the comic!  Next update is on August 11th!

(if you want more updates or just some fun stuff, please check out my patreon at http://www.patreon.com/akidoodles )

[icymasamune]

And she's off!

[icymasamune]

With this one we are going to play a game: the first person who can name all of the characters depicted in order will win.. a doodle of any of their own characters they want. In order to be fair, my friends who talk to me on a daily basis can't participate: that would just be really exclusionary to anyone else that wants a shot at it.

One of the characters (an odd number from the left) is a very obscure Shadowlark reference. That character does not have to be named for the first prize and is worth a doodle all on it's own. Anyone can win on that one due to it being incredibly difficult even if you know me.

direct link image due to tumblr limitations:

http://i58.tinypic.com/29mn887.png