Gracious Anthracite @anthracite@dragon.style

Today I was out walking
when I had a brief flash
and saw the people I was passing
as collections of cells gathered together into muscles
pulling against the bones that they grew for some cells to live inside
slithering against each other like a bucket of live eels

And it was kind of beautiful.

Is it #introduction time again? Sorta seems to be. I'd boost the old one but it's a little out of date.

Hi, I'm Peggy, and I run dragon.style. If "maintaining a Patreon to pay the hosting, putting off updating it for a year, and occasionally opening the place up for new users" qualifies as "running" it.

I am a trans lady who spends most of her time drawing complicated sci-fi comics and sort of earning a living doing that via Patreon.

Adobe Illustrator has been my main medium since 2000, it's a pretty unusual choice but it works for me.

I used to do burlesque, then pole dance, as a hobby and a way to stay fit. I miss it and should find something similar again.

You may know me from elsewhere as Egypt Urnash.

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Today I only got an hour and a half of art stuff done but I also spent a lot pondering a headache that lingered.

sometimes my SO gives voice to their worries through the form of a Very Worried Little Bear who has been committed to the Institute For Very Worried Little Bears

today I was asked for a butterfly net with which to catch a fresh escapee, so I drew this

I broke the iceberg simulator. There's a bunch of squiggly fractally bullshit extending under the surface here and it just sat like this saying it was 100% submerged for a minute or two.

I was planning on getting stoned and doing other things tonight but I ended up drawing Soror Fututum Stella as a Tarot card.

If I'd finished all the Arch-Dragons of the Directions before this, I would be able to call this image pretty much complete, as I would have been able to swipe the shield from the last one. But I only have three done. So... revisit this next month, I guess.

HOLY CRAP that bong was filthy.

I should write back about some commissions soon but right now I think I am gonna sit here and work on this ongoing Arch-Dragons Of The Directions thing. I got a playlist of bouncy desert music and a sunbeam, I'm good to work on Michael's dragonsona...

good mornangb

http://www.comicon.com/2021/03/02/webcomic-weekly-parallax-a-tale-of-two-perspectives/

It is not entirely flattering but the flaws it points out are EXACTLY the same ones we keep seeing when we look at it and think about what needs doing in edits. And that’s pretty heartening; we keep on worrying there are other problems we can’t see because we’re too close to it!

Ironically of course this pops up the very same day I upload some non-comics work to the Patreon. But ultimately that’s an attempt to get back in gear on the comic; commissions are fun but the logistics of pausing for client approval here and there tend to make them take more energy; personal work only has to please me and that makes it easier to ride a creative surge to a finished piece and then pick up something else. Like the comic.

SO apparently my YouTube account got locked down because someone flagged an old video for having horny content.

The video in question was me poking at "MacPlaymate", a horny game from the first days of the Mac. Which I think I had marked as private after it got deluged with comments when some gaming site posted it. I can't tell, it's deleted now.

I apparently now have one "warning" on my Youtube account and, you know what, fuck me ever thinking about putting any effort into posting anything on there ever again, because this was stressful and weird enough when I'm *not* depending on it for any portion of my income at all.

There is a meme going around Twitter of "mutuals, give me ref and I will do shitty drawings of your character" and Tired Horny Me is tempted to turn it into "mutuals, give me ref and a couple horny preferences and I will do shitty drawings of your character fucking one of mine"

but Tired Horny Me is also about to go to bed and she doesn't feel like it would be fair to make Tomorrow Me deal with her late night horny ideas first thing in the morning

So today I kinda sat around for a while without eating, or various reasons. When I realized this was part of why I had no energy to put into art, I sighed, and decided to use the last of my energy to go out to Theo's for a pizza.

But they were closed.

And I could just kind of *feel* my brain wanting to collapse into a stressed-out meltdown of some kind. Instead I just swore a little and went to Winn-Dixie and got some stuff, and took it home and had some dinner and now everything is not terrible forever. It was probably a good thing that I got some terrible frosting-covered cookies, I ate a few on the way home just to try and get my body to reset enough for me to not be swearing and hateful all the way home.

Brains.

The Exterior View

"It's all in your head; you just have no idea how big your head is." - Lon Milo Duquette

In certain magical operations that I have been doing regularly, it is useful to visualize yourself as bigger than the entire universe. So I did a drawing of Soror Fututum Stella to help me solidify this feeling....

Read the whole post: http://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2021/03/01/the-exterior-view/

I'm thinking of changing the focus of my Patreon from "Peggy draws comics" to "Peggy does art and comics".

If you have any opinions on this I'd love to hear them, especially if you're already a patron. https://www.patreon.com/posts/48194272

to be quite honest I expect that this account is Just Gone now and I really should put "unwind my email from gmail" on my to-do list again before some bot at google starts snooping the email that goes through it and is aghast at me being a furry pornographer

well good morning to you too google

first instinct: is this real or phishing? yes it seems to be real

second instinct: what, why is there no other email from youtube regarding this anywhere in my email client

third instinct: well I guess I'm free from spending any more time trying to make educational videos about my adobe illustrator process now, I really wasn't enjoying that

eraser

Twin is a sentient black hole. (She) would prefer not to eat you, but if (she) suddenly starts feeling very downhill from you, it is a good idea to be on your best behavior.

In (her) retirement (she) has developed a bit of a drinking habit.

(Today I read some discussion of MUDs and found myself thinking about the SF furry RP MUCK Puzzlebox, where Twin manifested a little after the turn of ...

Read the whole post: http://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2021/02/28/eraser/

sometimes I look at the front page of FA and there is a drawing on it that I can smell

I am never happy about this