JAKE WYATT (ON THE INTERNET) @jakewyattonline - Tumblr Blog

Still on my art rehab journey. I like these pencils, but cannot remember how to use... ink... I think I'm gonna warm up the pens on something a little simpler before I confront this thing again.

robot companions

some capes i drew for a project in development

A Necropolis layout from last year. I still work on Necropolis here and there, but anytime I start to pick up the thread, to find my way, the job pulls me out again. The struggle of making television has demanded almost all of my time since July 2020.

Getting to make cartoons with so many talented people has been a huge, all-consuming privilege. It's taken me five years on the job just to get my legs under me, just to begin to feel that I know what I'm doing. It's taken everything I have just to keep my head above water, to get something resembling our crew's talent and effort and intention onto the screen. For that entire half-decade I have longed to make comics, to write stories for myself, to draw for myself. But there was always something that needed doing.

Recently I've realized that denying that part of myself, telling it to wait its turn through one more script revision, one more review, one more retake, one more episode, one more season--it's taken a toll that I can no longer afford to pay. I don't think I can keep going unless I take some time to write and draw and explore outside of the studio production system. As we fight through post on the third season of My Adventures With Superman and start writing the first season of Lantern, I'm looking for ways to work and lead that will get me some of that time back--and my teams are really coming through for me.

But even if I can find that time, I still need to decide how to spend it, and where to put the things I make. I need a place away from the urgency and deadlines and pressure of the studio. Tumblr has always had the best community, is where I've always been the most comfortable, so I'm gonna start here. I will cross-post some of what I do here to other, more hellish parts of the internet, but this is going to be home for a while.

I hope that those of you who never left don't mind me coming back. I hope that those of you who've nested here in the meantime don't mind some new-type Oldtype showing up. I just want a place to be myself, instead of another dusty piece of production equipment.

Thanks,

Jake

i miss making little drawings and posting them to the internet

Hi tumblr!

I'm selling these three pieces at the Art For Maui charity show tomorrow at @gallerynucleus. All proceeds go to The Maui Strong Fund.

I'm selling the first/only My Adventures With Superman production art I've ever sold, as well as a Necropolis baseball piece and some Mob Psycho fanart.

3PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, 2023

GALLERY NUCLEUS

210 E Main St, Alhambra, CA 91801

Art For Maui Charity Show

#artformaui #maui strong

comickergirl

I guess I just need to accept that I am physically incapable of drawing regular ol' Trigun fanart. XD

jakewyattonline

This is the correct answer, actually

necropoliscomic

Necropolis

Chapter Three

Page Twenty-Six

NOTICE: As I mentioned in the last post, updates will continue, but will be irregular through September 2020. I’m taking on a new, full-time position that’s overlapping with some of my existing freelance projects, and the combined workload doesn’t leave me enough time to reliably update the comic.

Thanks for your patience.

-Jake

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Necropolis

Chapter Three

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jakewyattonline

Still goin

toffany

Black is beautiful

My goal is always to show black beauty, the the everyday, the normal, the special. The black beauty that you could see and access just in yourself, in the mirror, every day. The black beauty that doesn’t need to break itself or change or alter. I wanted black beauty to know you have everything you need right in front of you. You.

I have always focused my art on celebrating that self love. Today, I see black bodies who love their kin folk so much they would risk their lives to protest and protect the life of any black soul who could be endangered now and in the future to police brutality and the deep racism of this country.

I searched myself for these words, and wanted my kin folk to know: I see you. I’ve always seen you, and I’ve long made it my life mission to make sure others see you as I do. Beautiful, and worth living.