[youabandonedthem]

hey @ottiliere i ilke your dirk au i hope is ok that i put some of my headcanons into it. in my comic slick gets dragged to the psych ward so i thought a crossover where they meet would be awesome.  if you keep reading here is some of my speculation on what they could do together

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[i17iskillingmylife]

Lynn's aware of Cams self harm tendencies, and as far as I can tell he's about used to the sight of it peeking out his sleeves by now, but I'm curious how he reacted to it initially and how he found out

I cant tell if Cam bothered to hide them much, maybe before the Change happened he might have? At least from his mother? It doesn't seem too big a deal to cam but I guess I can't say for sure

Not related but I also wonder when they first shared a cigarette together too

[ottiliere]

im so so so excited with the new direction the grief complex has taken

I was also excited that we got to meet another girl character, besides Lynn's mother

I love how you draw faith, she kind of resembles Lynn tho I may be looking too much into it. Maybe all mormons just look similar

I also admittedly had a sort of Lynn moment myself during this snippet of phase 4. Like, cam what did you do?

i liked the worm cam...and his fixation(?) with his camera

Glad to hear it, we are too, now that we've got to the fun parts. Grief has always had a pretty small scope and initially the cast was limited to family & psuedofamily; Faith is the only major exception. My colleague knows more about her than I do, though. She's really something at this point, you'll see.

They do look similar, don't they? I wonder if that was on purpose. As it happens, Lynn only briefly converted to Mormonism for his ex-fiance, whereas Faith is biologically Mormon (though she's been hoping to change that). Cam provokes that reaction in people frequently, but really this is one of his least concerning milestones. They split the cost of the abortion and no one found out! No real harm done. She's got too much self-respect not to be mad at him about it, though.

He likes his camera! It's a Sony Cyber-shot DSCP93A, and it cost him about $300-350 in 2006 usd (or $490-570ish in 2026 usd!). Lori never gave him an allowance, he saved up for that with after school teen wagie moneys. Glad you noticed it's back. We're coming up on tying a lot of initial threads back off, and then the story will progress forward a little before it ends.

[ottiliere]

Phases 1 - 3 are now available in traditional webcomic format on my website! If you're unable or unsure how to download and open a free pdf file, you can now read my comic for the first time!

[i17iskillingmylife]

hang out and chat with this darling here hi res, in browser, oh my gawd

[ottiliere]

Phases 1 - 3 are now available in traditional webcomic format on my website! If you're unable or unsure how to download and open a free pdf file, you can now read my comic for the first time!

[ottiliere]

First batch of pages of Phase 4 are available now on my web page in high resolution here, generously, for you. Let me know what you think.

If you haven't read before, head here first.

[i17iskillingmylife]

read if you dislike me personally, or if you don't

[i17iskillingmylife]

its formatted like a regular webcomic now you guys is everyone happy with me now? is there going to be a party are all my friends invited i want confetti cake and streamers

[ottiliere]

First batch of pages of Phase 4 are available now on my web page in high resolution here, generously, for you. Let me know what you think.

If you haven't read before, head here first.

[ottiliere]

i love green dark bruised eye shadow cam

I love long haired wet faced soppy liquid Lynn

Are there any more sketches or doodles of Lynn with his new hair? It's such an interesting detail, I think about it a lot whenever I reread tgc. Made me feel like he spent an eternity in that house which I guess technically he did

Lint

I don't think actually have a ton of images of him with new hair that I can show you yet! He's still got a lot of growing up to do. Here's a test "hair descent" that I didn't end up following from a file last edited on 23 NOV 2023:

I do have this from some tests for one of the next chapter's color palettes... don't know how I feel about it yet but it is what it is. maybe I'll make him more purple...

Regardless, I am very happy you reread our book. It certainly means a lot!

[futurama]

no lynn. this is my pot pie

[futurama]

i saw them in a dream once!

[i17iskillingmylife]

dont even BOTHER acting like you care cuz i know. you. dont.

[ottiliere]

the rendering for cams skin has been so gorgeous lately in your paintings. Not that im saying he isn't cutieful normally. He's glowing these days, tho

Why thank you. I've been trying out something new, but I've got ulterior motives for it, so I can't say much more than that. So many people think he's cute! I can't believe it.

[ottiliere]

[ottiliere]

Ten people you'd like to know better

Last song: White Witch by Kleenex Girl Wonder

Favourite colour(s):

and mint green which is a more recent favorability

Currently watching: White Lotus which I am watching due to Mike White's involvement since Chuck & Buck is one of my favorite movies so I was curious. It is entertaining me adequately I just finished the first season

Currently reading: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

Current obsession: eloy marion

Currently working on: my picture book

Last Google search: purple poogle

Tagged by: @i17iskillingmylife

i wil tag my friends @futurama and @robothell dane stole everyone else I would've tagged but @uothc @ewb @radialseychellisation you can reply to mine if you want...

[i17iskillingmylife]

closeups of your best friend available now. not that you care...

[ottiliere]

what media most inspired tgc? OR just u in general. everything you make speaks to me…

From the "visual art" standpoint, my artistic inspiration is mainly psychonauts/its concept art by Scott Campbell. I am genuinely struggling to think of other visual examples that I actively think of when I am drawing the book... I might return to this ask and add onto it later if any other mental contributors wind up coming to me. Stylistically homestuck/Hussie taught me the joys of lineless art so for that I suppose he is partially to credit.

For the most part I just sort of "do it" and am mainly inspired by the written part of the work from my collaborator, the conversations we have about the book, and the pictures I've already drawn. I might've had a different answer for you a year or two ago when I was thinking more about this kind of thing! But at this point the designs of cam/Lynn/etc. are clear enough to me that their genetic traces are all but forgotten...

i17 answer - Flagstaff and the time i spent living there are the most prominent influences on Grief specifically. second thing that comes to mind is stupid sad acousticish #teen indie movie music (Carissa's Wierd, that one Sebadoh song, Broken Social Scene, Soviet Science Fair & similar bodies). not sure why. maybe it translates, a little, at certain points. maybe not.

more generally lucy & i feed off each other a lot and my friends are a constant well of blah blah blah you know i love you guys. in general observing and participating in life is the best way to give yourself/your work substance. im frustrated by how bad a lot of writing is (esp. in the places i hang out) and maybe i want to have a positive influence on that.

for sculptures and dolls and other physical mediums i don't really have specific visions i just try to make a toy i personally would want to play with/look at.

it all speaks to you! that sounds scary. hope it talks nice

[i17iskillingmylife]

hallo,, I was just going through the uploaded boards on tgc

I noticed that originally Markus's face was in frame around phase one with a distinctly blank look to him, though obviously later on he becomes an entirely faceless character

I'm very intrigued by whatever process happened to land on that decision, i think it succeeds in making him as a presence more ominous(?) or distanced, maybe.

you're a scamp and i know it, this was sent to me before we'd mentioned to anyone that the boards were even up. you're doing a little creeping is what you are doing. that's fine.

we initially planned for more drawn visuals on markus and his ilk, and all but one of these were removed. parents are by and large otherworldly, so for consistency and accuracy they're only to be shown "as they are perceived". that means my sculptures and puppets and whatever.

this drawing i think we also discussed and foreclosed on specifically out of concern that it was "too petscop"

[ottiliere]

additional concept markus and markus created when tgc was sitll going to be a webcomic: