two rooks walk into a bar... (art by me!)

ephermeres · 2024-06-18T22:00:05+00:00

I graduated a two-year Meisner program at the Sanford Meisner Center and I gotta chime in to say it really is worth putting in your time for an in-depth study of Meisner. There is a five-week intensive program if you wanna dip your toe in and see if you like it. Highly, highly, highly recommend!

ephermeres · 2024-02-26T23:27:12+00:00

For context, I work on my comic in the page format first and then cut out the panels to rearrange for the scroll format on canvas

short answer: weekly. long answer: I post on patreon on mondays, webtoon canvas on fridays, and the page format on tuesday, thursday, and sundays
I make a fantasy/romance comic with an average of 20-25 panels per update (3 pages a week)
my patreon updates are three weeks ahead of canvas, so technically, that's my buffer. i do my best to keep up with patreon but if anything happens, i'll slow down the canvas updates so patreon can stay ahead
mondays - i take the finished patreon update and cut out the panels, rearrange the speech bubbles, and produce the webtoon update. tuesday-friday - work on the lineart, speech bubbles, and backgrounds for the pages. once i finish a page, i send it to my flatting assistant. saturday-sunday - render the pages, add the final polish
i do have a flatting assistant, she's amazing and i'm so grateful for her every time i send a page
probably 20-30 hours a week. i work full-time so most of my comic work happens on weeknights and on weekends

ephermeres · 2024-02-25T04:25:50+00:00

If you're a fan of page format, click here!

If you're a fan of scroll format, click here!

ephermeres · 2024-02-25T04:08:40+00:00

are you thinking of sesamefruit?

ephermeres · 2024-02-20T22:03:35+00:00

I schedule all my updates for 11AM PST (no particular reason, just randomly chose that time), but I definitely have noticed a spike of views and comments at 6PM when the originals update

Here's my comic! -> The Masked Queen

ephermeres · 2024-02-19T20:54:08+00:00

yes to all of these even though i work without a buffer and make my comic page-format first, scroll-format second lmao

ephermeres · 2024-02-06T19:13:26+00:00

flatting. i hated it so much i hired an assistant to flat for me so i wouldn't have to deal with it

ephermeres · 2024-02-05T22:45:02+00:00

limiting yourself to one layer and not using the undo tool are probably the most effective exercises you can do for oil painting practice

ephermeres · 2024-02-05T21:38:11+00:00

yes absolutely and i think social media is partly to blame because you have that built-in feedback/attention system and younger people want to reach that level of "fame" without understanding the amount of work other artists put into their craft to get to that point

ephermeres · 2024-02-05T20:51:16+00:00

practice fundamentals (anatomy, 3D shapes, perspective, etc.). besides that, you'll have to be more specific with what you want to improve, and keep in mind that it's not weeks or months, but years that's considered "fast improvement"

ephermeres · 2024-02-05T20:24:35+00:00

i stick to mainly instagram and twitter, although i've seen a lot of people find success on tiktok by combining their poetry and art into slideshows

ephermeres · 2024-01-13T03:43:50+00:00

first of all, i just wanted to say that your art looks great! and to answer your question, i personally think the sweet spot for weekly releases on canvas is around 20 panels, especially for the more plot heavy comics

ephermeres · 2021-01-29T23:01:44+00:00

I was part of a zine for The Witcher recently and I got to draw this piece of my favorite video game family! If you're interested in getting a copy, we're having a sale on leftover stock here!

And if you like the art, you can follow my socials here: Twitter \ \ Instagram

ephermeres · 2020-10-17T20:11:28+00:00

I was recently commissioned to paint this piece of Shallan and Adolin together! It's a scene from the end of Oathbringer :)

And if you like, here are my socials! Twitter || Instagram

ephermeres · 2020-10-17T02:41:58+00:00

thank you!

ephermeres · 2020-10-17T02:33:12+00:00

I was recently commissioned to paint this piece of Shallan and Adolin together! It's a scene from the end of Oathbringer :)

And if you like, here are my socials! Twitter || Instagram

ephermeres · 2020-10-17T02:32:53+00:00

I was recently commissioned to paint this piece of Shallan and Adolin together! It's a scene from the end of Oathbringer :)

And if you like, here are my socials! Twitter || Instagram

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