dirchansky @dirchansky@mastodon.social

My webcomic 🔥HERE WE ARE🔥 is...here

Ch 1.➡️ http://dirchansky.com/hwa/01

1st arc is about dudes in their 20s dealing with love confessions💞

Hope y'all enjoy!

#HWAcomic

A few people have asked me how the game dev is going and it feels like forever ago, but the game was released <30d ago.

COME FOR A DRINK
https://dirchansky.itch.io/come-for-a-drink
Free-to-play visual novel feat. wushu, glasses, older men, animals, etc.! Pretty wholesome and created in 2mo for #yaoijam

Unlike most comic artists, I move on quickly to new projects 😅but this proj involved a lot of amazing ppl, so I hope you check out the game to see their work!!

#renpy #visualnovel #gamedev #game

Sketching OCs

Drawing really different things today 😂😂😂😂

HOW DO PPL DRAW BEEFCAKE?! Meaty pecs?!? a character trait that is beyond my drawing abilities

Draft to inks for #HWAcomic chapter 4 http://dirchansky.com/hwa/04 😎

#makingComics #webcomics #webcomic #comic #comics

rolling out an org-wide strategy on Monday and it's full of these drawings (very professional)

Troublesome cat

I use 20+ y old watercolours fr grade school

I don’t like toning+colouring

Idk why I bother drawing ppl when I am happiest drawing deformed animals

Every artist and person is problematic if you want it to be

Valuation of most 2d art in society is busted

I have mixed feelings abt comics w/ diff cover +interior artists b/c it feels like false advertising, but also happy that it expands the # of opps for artists overall

I care more about storytelling than technical visuals

THIS IS MY APPLE 🍎

#HWAcomic #makingComics

I love Rakuda (camel)
https://www.aranziaronzo.com/caravan/diary
http://caravan.aranzi.jp

also this panda puppet squad
http://www.pakupaku-studio.com/sitemap.html

Plushie blogs...so good...

new perennials 🌿👀 I haven’t really done outdoor gardening on my own before so we’ll see what happens...! Includes:

Bronze beauty bungleweed
Orchid frost deadnettle
Firewitch pinks
Early sunrise tickseed
Palace purple coral bells
Snowcap shasta daisy
Sunny border blue speedwell
Dragon’s blood stonecrop

(Also all of these common names sound really fun)

#Houseplant tour 🌱

I also bought some perennials for my terrace (couldn’t find nasturtiums though 😭) I used to have 60+ different types of plants but now I’m closer to 40 🍃

Reading longform comic and prose fiction and am in awe that I know so many skilled people who create such great stories, worlds, and characters. Political tension! Character development! A fictional yet believable setting!

I still struggle, I'm impatient! I want to make + post things ASAP! I stick with what I know or what I can research quickly. I want to get things out faster. Perhaps this is my iterative designer mentality...always make stuff, fail fast. So many pros/cons to either extreme

After almost a year, the terrace outside of my window is finally accessible...but it's dirty and decrepit and IDK if I have the energy to clean it up...! BUT I would love to get some nasturtiums (I love their rounder leaf shape) in pots outside...

I've given up on planting veg to eat b/c of bug infestations

A lot of popular artists are getting criticized for things by loud and raging populace... I'm sad that they've become targets even though, ultimately, the influence of visual artists in our society is pretty small compared to other types of celebrities.

More and more people are going to retreat to non-public channels of social media. Almost like we're going back to how things were in the 90s.

At times like this I'm glad to be unknown and living in my masto cave...

English #tamagotchi in colour...is finally available... 🤩https://youtu.be/V3GWrAJ9P-8

Sometimes I change comic panels and scenes to increase my opportunities to draw animals ✔️

#HWAcomic #makingComics

Good friends

I barely did anything at #TCAF but I'm still so tired...! Lack of sleep and extra socialization is catching up to me