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[jeypawlik]

OKAY! SO for the last 2 and a half years I was brought on as the character artist for this game and today it's OUT on your platform of choice!

Here's the trailer~

It feels so good to have it out in the world! Shoutout to my art director @shelandsorcery who is SUCH a joy to work with, along with the whole @bloomdigital team!

We're all so proud of this game and I hope y'all enjoy it because I had a great time drawing these characters.

[jeypawlik]

A Stance

Took a social media break over the weekend and worked out some thoughts. I’ve decided I’m not going to let this whole situation stop me from creating.

[jeypawlik]

I just want you to know that the way you draw top surgery scars is so insanely affirming to me! The little bit of skin that overlaps and sticks out like a triangle (honestly I’m doing a bad job describing it, but can’t include pics here) right near the sides and underarm area? That’s SO AMAZING AND REALISTIC! Like Paul Bunyan in the comic you drew for the Transfixed anthology!

Like most top surgery rep is draw with the skin falling flat, but when you draw it, it looks like the way it is on actual real bodies.

It’s very beautiful! You highlight the natural way trans bodies look after surgery and make it beautiful and sexy, so I hope you’re proud of that as an artist!

Oh gosh! Thank you so much for this lovely lovely ask! This really made my day.

After top surgery, like most folks, I spent a long time looking at my own chest and falling in love with it. The weird wrinkles around the scars, the puffiness of the scars in some parts but not on others, and my dog ears.

Dog ears are caused when the skin around your sides is stitched back together. A LOT of folks get them, but aren't always ready for them because they're often not featured at all in trans art.

I want so badly to show genuine bodies in my work. I want to show the wrinkles, the imperfections and the dog ears because that's what I have. That's how I look, and I want other people to see themselves in art!

[ID: Crop from several of Jey's comics: Paul Bunyan, Transman a short story in the Transfixed Anthology, Alola Darumaka, and Jey themself in their Oh Joy Sex Toy comic, featuring people with top surgery that include scars, wrinkles and dog ears. /end ID]

[jeypawlik]

TRANS COMICS

Let me thread you up some TRANS COMICS I've worked on over the years!

Gender Slices is my autobio comic that I started in 2016 which became a graphic novel upon it's completion. I'm currently doing a small HRT Diary follow up!

Pages are up for free at: topazcomics.com/genderslices/vol1

I have oh so many comics about trans joy over on ohjoysextoy.com/category/jeypawlik and I am so grateful to Oh Joy Sex Toy for giving me so much space to autobio about being trans!

My one page comic for the "When I Was Me" anthology. A moment between myself and one of my niblings at the cottage. He was quite pleased when I'd told him I did a comic about us! www.quindriepress.com/books/p/wiwm

My first big anthology was "We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology" (that won a 2019 Ignatz) I'd written this during the limbo period between names and waiting for my new birth certificate.

Given & Taken is a short fancomic written by @octokracken and might still be one of my favourite comics we've done together.

It's "Jigen is trans and Lupin finds out" the comic.

It's for sale as a PDF or physical copy https://topazcomics.com/shop/product-tag/given-taken/

Trans media is important and if you can't find them from the big corps, remember there's always indie folks who're doing the good work! Representation is out there!

I'm cookin' up some stuff over on Patreon, and my work is ALWAYS going to be queer!

[jeypawlik]

Writing my RSS talk (which you can watch a recording of at youtu.be/fJpu9tuLb8k btw~) and going through some readers I tried back in 2022 really inspired me to give Ukagaka Ghosts a more thorough try.

I did enjoy playing around with it back in 2022 but deleted it because I'm so weak for getting absolutely obsessed with things like this. I couldn't let myself fall down that rabbit hole at the time. Here's a quick Darumaka one I made today as I test things out.

Basically Ukagaka Ghosts are desktop buddies, not unlike Shimejii if you ever made with those. Ukagakas, however, do more than just walk around and get picked up -- they have calendars, can remind you of events, remind you to drink water, and give you RSS updates!

I may finally dive into it and replace Feedly with a desktop buddy of Darumaka. We'll see! It did take me a hot minute to figure out how to input an RSS feed--but it's just drag and drop?! It's so easy! Drag the RSS link to your buddy and you're done. OHNO!

The dangerous part comes from: Oh no I want to write all this fun code! Oh no I want to draw all these Darumaka poses! Oh no I can give her clothing? Oh no I can also give her plugins? Oh no it can also be a music player? Oh no I can make custom speech bubbles?

Anyway, maybe I've convinced you to look into Ukagaka Ghosts. There's a LOT of resources on them, what they are, and how to make them ukagakadreamteam.com/wiki/home ashido.com/ukagaka/

@ukagakadreamteam

[jeypawlik]

Happy Fountain Pen Day!

My souvenir goal for Japan was to buy myself a really nice fancy pen and I succeeded! This is a Sailor Profit 1911 21k with a zoom nib, it's kind of like a fude and the nib is really neat. And if you want to learn about fountain pens, maybe check out the zine I did with my good pal thesandlorde - https://topazcomics.com/shop/product/fountainpenpdf/  [Image ID: Photo of a Sailor Profit 1911, 21k fountain pen with it's cap on and sitting on top of a test page. Another photo showing the pen uncapped and the top of the zoom nib. A third photo, a close-up of the side of the zoom nib showing off it's shape. /end ID]

[jeypawlik]

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

This was such a hard question to answer, I feel like I get inspiration from almost everything!!

I went to a local art gallery today and while I enjoy looking at paintings and the craftsmanship that goes into paintings (I've never been a strong painter), they don't inspire me artistically as much as other media (or I guess in this case, mediums) do.

I love the work of Kent Monkman. I like looking at it and being pulled in by every little detail in his enormous pieces, and I'm so happy that he can paint and I don't have to!

[jeypawlik]

I got this wonderful reply from @futicovii on this drawing I did of the gang as kids/teens and I needed more space than a simple tumblr reply to, well, reply!

I drew that piece back in 2019 so a lot has changed about my headcanons since, especially after Lupin Zero came out.

My headcanon ages for them right now: Lupin: 38 Jigen: 38 Goemon: 29 Fujiko: 41 Zenigata: 43

There was a movie or tv special where Zenigata had said he'd been chasing Lupin for 20 years and I really latched on to that, thinking well if say Lupin was 18 when Zenigata was first assigned to his case then Lupin's in his late 30s now. I'm completely content that Zenigata wasn't in Zero and I really love the idea that there's been some time between Zero and Zenigata.

Goemon's always going to be the youngest of the group to me, so my drawings of him as a child will always be small and cute!

I'm still drawing a lot of Lupin and posting art weekly here for free! And while I can't usually take free requests, here's a really quick sketch of Lupin II holding babyArsène for ya!

I'll draw Niisei but I probably won't ever draw any other parents, that just doesn't interest me. But I did really like Lupin II in Zero! He was really fun!

Thank you for your kind words, it's comments like this that really keep me going and making fun art!