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For anyone just tuning in, Black Magic is a long form urban fantasy webcomic about a high school senior from Virginia named Ella who finds herself trapped between rebel fighters and her family's dark past. Dropped suddenly into a messy underground sorcerer war that spans two continents she'll have to walk a dangerous path to keep herself and all the people she loves on both sides alive. She hopes she figures out who she really is along the way. It's a story with heaps of found family, dragons, monsters, dangerous cults, adventure, betrayal, and rainbow magic. There's black magic too, since you were wondering. I couldn't call it Rainbow Magic. That would be silly.

Black Magic will always be free to read. Right now it's on Webtoon and the Black Magic website. On youtube I've got videos showing my process for every page. Sometimes (rarely) I stream on Twitch. This comic is exclusively supported by wonderful patrons on Patreon. The goal is $500 monthly to quit my part time video game illustration work and dedicate more time to the comic. Right now I also work full time as a web admin, but that's just so I can afford groceries and the backyard shed I live in.

on this day in 2020—

deeply irritated with all my writing and art this morning but I had a weird chat with myself in the woods that went something like,

"So you're not good enough. So what? You're gonna give it up? And do what, be a vegetable?"

"Hah, no."

"Then suffer."

#artist problems #writer problems #you're gonna suffer but you're gonna be happy about it

armouries

gonna start putting bb!orufrey into some daily studies to make them more fun!

loveistrueblue

I don’t know if I’m ever going to become “an artist” in the way I wanted when I was a kid. I always wanted it to be my career, and the older I get, and the more barely living above poverty weighs on me, the harder it is to invest the time and energy it takes to nurture those skills where I can make them a tangible full-time “career,” when I am spread so thin between two jobs and a babysitting side hustle. Not even counting how much AI is taking over the two creative passions I have, to a point where many people in my life have basically told me I’m going to be replaced and there’s not going to be value in this anymore and I just need to be logical. It’s just really devastating to me. I’ve always wanted to be a writer, be a designer, be an ARTIST. The older I get, the more I think these things are gonna die with me. I don’t know. I know this is so doomy and gloomy, but I live in Appalachia, man. Poverty is all around me. All my friends are creative, beautiful, brilliant GENIUSES and I watch their jobs snuff the light from their eyes and they sit and cry to me that they’re not creative anymore and I want to WEEP, because they ARE, that creativity and light is being SQUASHED!!!!

Idk. Thoughts for the evening. Idk. We lose too much to poverty. :( it’s not fair.