Beginner G/t fluff artist, occasionally with some darker themes sprinkled in. I hope you have a nice time here! Native resolution downloads: https://www.deviantart.com/justinxaviergt
A birthday gift for my lovely little friend @the-littlest-lily, featuring her characters Salt & Pepper! Drawing these two has been a loooooong time coming!
Emily's journey comes to a close, with a new friend and a new perspective on the world. A far cry from those initial hours of terror. Whether this is the beginning of a long-distance friendship or a new life altogether, either way, the future looks bright.
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Thank you all for joining Emily and Adrian on this short adventure. When I started drawing this series over a year ago, I never expected it to take nearly as long as it did, but I'm happy with how it turned out! As of today, I am officially taking a break from regular comics. I'll still probably make single drawings from time to time, and a couple old comics will be remastered eventually, but I'm taking this time to focus my efforts towards something bigger. Stay tuned!
Just a tiny girl leaning off a coffee mug, drawn back in my short-lived two-tone hard shading phase. I remember I originally shared this with my friends not realizing I'd given her two right feet. That was pretty funny.
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My apologies for being so unbelievably slow making the final installment of An Ocean Away. A lot of crazy things have happened in the past few weeks and I haven't had a lot of motivation. It'll probably still be another week or two, so you can have this little lady in the meantime!
Welp it's snowin and I didn't have work today sooooooo I made a pt 2 :)
I kinda want to continue from here but also no idea what else to go for, we shall see
This was the last thing I drew before starting to post. Her arm is a little short because I wanted it to look like it was pointing diagonally back and it didn't really work, but I like it anyway. The butterfly is a Western Pygmy Blue, the smallest butterfly in the world.
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A lot of stuff has been going on recently on my end which has limited my time to work on An Ocean Away (what else is new lol), so I figure it's time for another one of these!
A collaboration with @emijkoxy for our wonderful friend @chiisanakurisu's birthday! Sewing as a tiny is fun, but hard work. Sometimes a gentle hand needs to swoop in and give her a comfy little break.
Noelle was signing “communication” so she would probably say something like “I’d like to communicate with you in sign language” or “this is what I would communicate as it’s my language”
Noelle’s first language is British sign language. So of course she would love to chat with her friends in sign language as communication in verbal English is very hard for her 😭😓 So she would hope her new friend, Maple would be willing to learn new language to chat with Noelle!
Noelle belongs to me. Maple belongs to @justinxaviergt
Also please check his g/t comics out, they are very amazing and so cute! ☺️
Morning finally arrives, and with it, a triumph over fear and a new beginning.
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Good LORD did I ever underestimate the time this would take. Sorry about that. I'm very satisfied with the result though, and I'm so happy to finally have this chapter of Max and Maple's story complete. This won't be the last we see of them, but it may be a while before their return. In the meantime, look forward to the conclusion of An Ocean Away! Coming... sometime.
This strip's namesake is...
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This entire album is absolutely fantastic, and what an incredible way to start it off. To be honest, despite being raised on this band, I'd never listened to any albums start to finish until a couple years ago, so my appreciation for this song is much newer than for what I grew up with. Needless to say, as soon as I remembered the title while thinking about Mountain Melodies, I knew exactly what to do.
I hope everyone's had a happy holiday season and a refreshing start to the year. I bring to you a novel of an update, if you're interested to read on!
Where I’ve been
I am hanging in there~ I did get a few questions about what I've been up to, so I'll just be transparent for a little bit. Unfortunately for the latter half of last year my health has sorta fallen into shambles. It took a bunch of different doctor appointments and we haven’t quite figured it all out, but it seems I developed hormonal imbalances, a stress induced ulcer, and it must have done a number on my immune system because I think I counted 11 different and various infections in the past 3 months alone (hell I'm sick even as I'm typing this). All with the normal life stressors/taking care of my family. It's been a lot! And it took quite the toll on my mental health. Some of it is still ongoing, and I've always been pretty prone to health issues so I don't know if it'll ever truly be over. But I've been on treatments that have been helpful with some of it, I still have some procedures/tests upcoming, and I'm just going to keep trucking along best I can.
I certainly needed that posting break! And I'm sure I'll eventually need to take more breaks in the future depending on how life goes. One thing I'll compliment myself on - I'm pretty good at being proactive about taking care of myself, so rest assured that if I'm posting again, it's not at the expense of my own health. 😊 I made the most of my hiatus and feel ready to come back and start creating more! I think at this point it will do me some good.
I also do want to take a moment to focus on the happy moments I've had. I'm deeply grateful for my amazing partner who has been the best support I could ask for. And I don't know where I'd be without my wonderful friends who keep me sane. I even got to meet a couple of sizey friends in person for the first time ever recently and it was amazing!
I never truly stopped creating, as much as I was taking it easy. Some of it is more personal, but some of it I’d be happy to share publicly. So without further ado, here's what's coming up project wise!
Creative plans
First off is something that has already posted, back at Halloween! It's another audio RP collab with Shardro where I provided the script. I love writing these for him, he's amazing at bringing them to life 😊
And then coming up very VERY soon I’ll be starting up Salt & Pepper again~ With another rather special installment before returning to the usual short and sweet stuff (I feel like it's been so long since I've done one of those, since I spent so much time on the Q&A!) The plan is to resume my every-other-week schedule, as much as I'm able.
I also had 2 big projects in my own life while I was gone that were sizey and I'd like to share. They're unlike anything I've made before, I just love exploring new mediums with size 🥰
Speaking of new mediums! Something else I've started working on is teaming up with @foreverlurk to help translate/create English subtitles for the recent French TV show Les Chapardeurs (The Borrowers) and for the Japanese 2004 Minami Kun no Koibito. I used to do translation work as part of my job, it's a bit of a dream come true to be able to now do it for a sizey project! No guarantees on the timing for this, we're both working on it just as we find the time so it'll probably take months. But they're both great G/t shows, and I'd love more people to be able to see them!
Next, something I haven't really talked about on Tumblr - during the break I spent some time revisiting my ongoing written series called Out of their Element. I haven't talked about it here because it contains some NSFW scenes and I'd like to keep this blog pretty SFW focused. But it's not just pure smut or anything, it's much more focused on its characters/story, so if you're 18+ and are interested in seeing my writing, it's currently on my DeviantArt. I'm also planning to post it to my Ao3 account next month, if you'd like to follow it in "real time" as I post it throughout the year. I haven't progressed in a while for various reason but am really hoping I might be able to finish the series by the end of the year. Wish me luck!!
And then the last thing I've worked on for Tumblr specifically... finally working on a Master Post! I'll put it up soon - a general one for all my projects and also a master list specifically for Salt & Pepper comics. This has been looming over me since I've started Tumblr so I feel happy to finally get that done.
And that's all I've got for now! I’d love to try out other things too, like recording some of the audio RP scripts I've written for myself, making more maxiatures to help me feel tiny, or finally learning how to use Procreate Dreams and dabble in animation… My list of aspirations is neverending 😋 But I'm going to take things slow, and I'm more dedicated to S+P and OotE right now. I will see where my inspiration takes me and what life has in store.
Thanks for sticking by me guys 💖 I'm excited to be back!!
PS Apologies for the plug… but with all of the medical bills continuing to pile up, I wanted to drop the link to my Ko-Fi here, just in case there's anyone out there who’s enjoyed what I make and wants to leave a tip. https://ko-fi.com/littlestlily No pressure whatsoever though, times are tough and please take care of yourselves first! 😊
Hey everyone! Just figured I should put something out to bridge this ever-widening gap. This was my second drawing of Maple, experimenting with two-tone shading without blending. She kinda has spaghetti arms, but I liked how this turned out much more than the first one! Also the debut of her yellow flower shirt and slippers, though I did change the shirt to be long-sleeved later. I love my little outfits.
Merry Christmas everyone!!! I hope you're all having a wonderful time. There are a couple things I need to quickly announce here. Firstly, the next Mountain Melodies strip is coming along rather slowly, given Christmas and other family circumstances, and I hope to have it finished sometime in January.
More importantly, it will be the last in the series for some time. After I finish Mountain Melodies 16 and the finale of An Ocean Away, I will be taking a short break from comics, probably for 2-4 months. It's been a very fun time, but writing two comics at once on top of other small projects has just not been sustainable, and I need time to re-orient myself. I'll probably still make singles here and there though. I hope when I return, I'll be energized and ready to make plenty more g/t goodness for you all!
At the edge of a city park, Felix and Noelle share a sweet, peaceful little moment together.
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This is a Secret Santa gift for, as fate would have it, my friend @emijkoxy, featuring her characters Felix and Noelle! What are the odds of that? I had a lot of fun drawing these two!
