Today's warmup is an #aswang, a sort of Filipino vampire umbrella term for a whole host of monsters. I dont know why, when I was drawing this, memories of rejection and disappointment were floating in my head. Maybe it's projection.
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. #monster #vampire #creepy #sadness #clipstudio #huion #rejection #depressed #ghost

Full speed ahead on comics for the rest of August! A slow start to warmup, but we've got momentum now! #comics #huiontablet #clipstudiopaint #graphicnovel #kidlitart #makecomics

Website graphics overhauled! Thought it'd be nice to make something more organic looking for my homepage. #kidlit #kidlitart

More website graphics for an upcoming rehaul of Tintinpantpja.com

I'm slowly overhauling my website graphics! Tintinpantoja.com is gonna get a new look soon.

So. Adventures in #watercolor. After almost 15 years of not touching them, I'm attempting to watercolor again..sorry all I can draw right now is anime style faces! Paint is #ShinhanPWC. Clockwise, from top left: Arches hot pressed, Indian handmaid paper, Magnani Toscana ( rough) and Arches cold pressed. All 100% cotton.

THOUGHTS:

Watercolor is super aggravating! You have to glaze slowly and wait for layers to dry. Ugh. I wanna just buy a crapload of Copics and be done with it!

That being said, I really love the Indian handmaid paper! It's so much more forgiving to a noob like me because you can blend and lift and scrub till your heart's content. I think I'll have a sketchbook made of it from @alunsinahandboundbooks, who were kind enough to send me a small sample.
The next best were Magnani and Arches cold pressed, which were tough but didnt beat me up. But the Arches hot pressed is too unforgiving! It's so hard to blend and lift! I was so frustrated. It also doesnt help that I'm very indecisive color wise. There's little room for error.
So to summarize, impatience and indecision don't make for a good water coloring experience!!!
#shinhan #arches

Fan Art for @rainbowrowell's Carry On, before I learned about Baz's widow's peak, haha. Oh well, warmup because I'm in love with them. #carryOn #snowbaz #simonsnow #bazpitch #watford #clipstudiopaint #huion

Trying my hand at wayercolor...yep, not sure what's happening..#watercolor #shinhanwatercolor #victorian

Shadow. Attempting to try different coloring and sketching styles. #prince #halo #characterillustration

From an upcoming project, a postapocaltpric world. #dystopia #postapocalipse #comics #clipstudiopaint #huion #clipstudio

It's Thriller Night at the old folks' home! From UNPLUGGED and UNPOPULAR, published by @onipress, written by @mat.heagerty and colored by @itsmikesartstuff #kidlit #Graphicnovel #middlegrade #kidscomics #comic #thriller #zombies #ONIpress

Had to! #STONEHEART ship from fictional Tv show #Demonheart from @britta_lundin 's SHIP IT. No idea if I got the characters right, dont quote me on their appearances. My favorite character is def. Rico. Cute book, a few wtf moments, but fun! #ya #fanart #shipit #kidlit #bl #slash

Trying to tap back into my shoujo manga roots. #wip #illustration #shoujo #shoujomanga #pontianak

Book ARCS of Unplugged and Unpopular by @mat.heagerty and @itsmikesartstuff. . @onipress #onipress #kidlit #middlegrade #graphicnovel #aliens #unpluggedandunpopular
Photo credit: @heagertymat #comics #comicart #ya

I keep trying to change my art to be less dependent on line work, but my brain won't cooperate! This warmup went beyond its allotted time, haha! It's a design for Odile Von Rothbart from my Last Wild Swan story. Definitely looking at Howl's Moving Castle for this. Oh no, I wanna watch Howl again! #odile #odilevonrothbart #swanlake #raptor #sorceress #clipstudiopaint #huion

Tine for coloring flats! This is the stage where I lay flat colors and decide what colors form the base of the comic! #kidlit #graphicnovel #comics #clipstudiopaint #clipstudio #coloringcomics

More info on Unplugged and Unpopular, now available to preorder from Comic Odyssey! A children's scifi adventure! Just pm tell the store you want a copy. PREORDERS ARE IMPORTANT FOR rating the comics and gauging its success, so please consider preordering it!
#middlegrade #onipress #graphicnovel #kidlit #kidsbooks #aliens @onipress @mat.heagerty @itsmikesartstuff

I just remembered! I really still want to make short stories about my gay superhero sidekick son, Kid Kupid, who's hopelessly in (unrequited) love with his mentor. I'm not so good at coming up with short stories, though. Not yet, anyway! #queerwebcomic #lgbt #boyslove #bl #superheroes #romancecomics #romance #sidekick

Dug up a page from an unfinished Kid Kupid story! I really want to continue it with a writer. It's the story of a teen gay sidekick in unrequited love with his mentor. #superhero #sidekick #gay #queercomic #bl #lgbt #boyslove

Been watching Call My Agent on Netflix. Fun show. #dixpourcent #callmyagent #Netflix ugh today is so blahhhhhhh. I need a change of environment.

Unplugged and Unpopular Coming October 2019!

Tintin Pantoja January 29, 2019

Oni Press’s fall catalog is out and one of my books is on it! Check out this article from The Hollywood Reporter with a quick blurb from writer Mat Heagerty. More news as the release date draws closer.

Mat Heagerty on words and story

Mike Amante on colors

Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou on Letters

Robin Herrera as general editress and boss lady