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Valley of the Silk Sky: The Long Run - Chapter 13 - inks complete!
I have finished inking all the pages for chapter 13, and there are some Faces going on, I tell ya.
Next up: coloring all this mess. I will be discovering which of my markers have dried out, which paints are salvageable and which will need to be replaced/remixed from the ground up. But I did want to give a progress report so you're up to speed on the status of things!
Valley of the Silk Sky - The Long Run Chapter 13 pencils complete
Hello there. Hi. Yes. Ahem.
How are you?
I just finished penciling the final page of chapter 13 of the Long Run, that graphic novel I've been serializing for awhile.
It's been on hiatus while I worked on various other projects, bouncing from deadline to deadline, spending six months in physical therapy (while still hitting deadlines), and then having a burnout crash for what are probably obvious reasons if you read the first part of this paragraph.
ANYWAY.
I will now move on to inking these pages, and then coloring them, and then posting them for you to actually read at long last. But I wanted to let you know that VotSS is not abandoned, and shall resume ere long!
You may want to reread the previous 12 chapters to remind yourself what was going on. (I probably have to reread them myself, TBH.) You can do that from the archives of this tumblr blog if that suits you, or you can go to the website in my profile info (does Tumblr still suppress posts with links? I have no idea, but am erring on the side of caution).
But yes. Valley of the Silk Sky shall return in short order, and at long last!
Valley of the Silk Sky - The Long Run Chapter 13 pencils complete
Hello there. Hi. Yes. Ahem.
How are you?
I just finished penciling the final page of chapter 13 of the Long Run, that graphic novel I've been serializing for awhile.
It's been on hiatus while I worked on various other projects, bouncing from deadline to deadline, spending six months in physical therapy (while still hitting deadlines), and then having a burnout crash for what are probably obvious reasons if you read the first part of this paragraph.
ANYWAY.
I will now move on to inking these pages, and then coloring them, and then posting them for you to actually read at long last. But I wanted to let you know that VotSS is not abandoned, and shall resume ere long!
You may want to reread the previous 12 chapters to remind yourself what was going on. (I probably have to reread them myself, TBH.) You can do that from the archives of this tumblr blog if that suits you, or you can go to the website in my profile info (does Tumblr still suppress posts with links? I have no idea, but am erring on the side of caution).
But yes. Valley of the Silk Sky shall return in short order, and at long last!
Hi, remember this comic? I don’t blame you if not, I haven’t been able to work on it for awhile. The last time I penciled a page was in January 2022, and chapter 13 of Valley of the Silk Sky has sat at 75% penciled ever since.
In the intervening time I spent 6 months in physical therapy (two rounds, somewhat different issues, the bulk of it focused on getting my drawing arm in working order again). And so VotSS has sat on my cork board, those penciled pages staring at me every day, waiting for the will to work on it to return.
Well, it didn’t return, so I did what you sometimes have to do as a creative professional, and decided to pencil the next page anyway. I can’t make any promises as to when I will actually publish chapter 13. But I do still very much intend to finish this book, and I’m hoping knocking the rust off will help me get it running again. Onward!
Valley of the Silk Sky: The Long Run – Status Report
Believe it or not, I have not actually abandoned this comic. I know it SEEMS like I have, but I’m still penciling a page here and there as time permits. The trouble is that time hasn’t permitted nearly as much as I’d like.
2021 was an extremely difficult year, both for the obvious reasons and for personal, behind-the-scenes reasons. Trials on top of tribulations. You’ve very likely seen various memes going around, imploring artists to forgive themselves for not being as productive as they think they should be. So I know it’s not just me, but I wish I had new, finished pages to share all the same.
I’ve been posting work-in-progress images periodically, like the one in this post, over on my Patreon. WIP posts are typically for $1+ subscribers, but you can also follow my public Patreon posts for free. That’s a pretty decent way to get a notification when I actually start posting new pages. I’m about halfway through the pencils for Chapter 13, so I do expect to release SOMETHING this year, haha.
In the meantime, I’ve been doing a monthly comic strip for OUT FRONT Magazine, a queer rag based in Denver, Colorado. I started this gig in June of 2021, and have had a comic in each issue since then. You can access each issue online for free over on OUT FRONT’s website.
Cheers,
Dylan
Valley of the Silk Sky: “Extraction” - page 9
Thus concludes our thrilling tale of derring-do! If you'd like to read the whole thing in one place, the entirety of "Extraction" is to be found here.
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Valley of the Silk Sky: “Extraction” - page 8
The time has come to unleash the full power of SCIENCE
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Valley of the Silk Sky: “Extraction” - page 7
Hmm, could our protagonists have found a solution that involves a solution? I suppose we'll find out soon enough!
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Valley of the Silk Sky: “Extraction” - page 6
As I have mentioned before, one of the most important features of the Valley, at least as far as humans are concerned, is the high level of biodiversity that in turn enables the development of a great deal of medicinal technology. Anything that might dramatically alter a particular ecosystem could have major deleterious effects on access to medicinals, which means the humans have to be very careful regarding how their own actions impact the environment.
So when Razi says they can't kill the yonge because it's a keystone predator, what xe's getting at is that it's a species with a significant impact on the ecology despite a relatively small population size.
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Valley of the Silk Sky: “Extraction” - page 5
Razi would be the person bleeding out in the middle of the street after getting hit by a bus, rasping out xer dying words: "I had right of way."
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Valley of the Silk Sky: "Extraction" - page 4
Why yes, the creature our protagonists are currently fleeing from is indeed based partly on the star-nosed mole. This has less to do with wanting to incorporate mole-like characteristics per se, and more to do with making a dangerous animal look extremely ridiculous. Sort of like how a hippo is a killing machine but looks like, y'know, a hippo.
The yonge (for it is called a yonge) does have some mole features, most notably the predation of tasty critters it finds underground. Oops!
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Valley of the Silk Sky: "Extraction" - page 3
To be fair, Razi has not, in fact, gotten Hali killed even once. At least, not yet.
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Valley of the Silk Sky: "Extraction" - page 2
I'm sure I've talked about this before, but to recap: the Pocalo Valley is widely renowned for its advanced medical treatments for all sorts of conditions, including trans medicine. When Razi references hormone treatments, that's what xe's talking about.
Also, the last panel is referencing the Valley of the Silk Sky short story "Medicine; Run," though you don't need to have read it to follow the events in "Extraction."
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Valley of the Silk Sky: "Extraction" - page 1
As promised, the Valley of the Silk Sky short story "Extraction" begins today, and runs weekly for the next couple of months. This story originally appeared in black & white in the Monster Journey anthology, and is presented here in full color for the first time.
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Coming Soon: “Extraction”
Sorry for the long radio silence (you can just blame 2020 in general), but I will be posting new Valley of the Silk Sky comics soon!
I’m currently finishing up the colors on “Extraction,” a VotSS short story that originally appeared in black & white in the Monster Journey anthology a couple of years ago.
Now that the rights have reverted, I’ve been working on colorizing my original b&w art and prepping the comic for dispersal upon the web. I’m just about done with the pages (a few minor edits left), so I’m gonna start running the story next week. $1+ Patrons will see new pages on Mondays, starting January 11, while the general public will get ’em on Thursdays, starting on January 14.
See you next week!
Valley of the Silk Sky: "The Long Run" - page 114
Thus endeth Chapter 12! Gosh, what a pickle, eh? Gee whiz.
Chapter 13 is in the works, but it's early days. I had to design a new environment which required researching some Things, and then figuring out how to retrofit those Things to the technology available to the fine folks in the Valley.
All for an element in the background that is unlikely to garner much notice, ha ha. BUT IT WILL BE A FUNCTIONAL BACKGROUND THING, OKAY.
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Valley of the Silk Sky: "The Long Run" - page 113
Always be sure to apologize to a skeleton before rifling through xer books.
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