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A sample piece I did showing the different kinds of commissions I'm offering.
Ink, inkwash, two tone, full colour!
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Horizon-broadening.
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MLD phallo graft scar reference sketches.
This was done using myself as a reference. There's a photo of the (healed) scar under the cut. I had the graft in November 2023 with Djordjevic, stage two of four.
Forty three staples on the graft site, plus fifteen in my right leg from the vein hookup. Top surgery was August 2014 (Meltzer). Twelve years on testosterone.
Smashed bass (the one from the cover of London Calling) tattoo by my friend Ev Jones.
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Wait a minute is Louis British? You mentioned a Manchester accent
Louis is from Hyde, just outside Manchester.
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hi! this isn't specifically a newoldrare ask, though it is about them, too. i just wanted to tell you that i really really admire your art; there's so much palpable affection in it. i love the weight your art has, if it makes sense? things like hugs, kisses, people holding each other, i feel like you're very good at making it look real. sorry if it seems like a weird thing to point out, it's just something i'm always fascinated by in other people's art. anyway, i love your art of louis and neil a lot. i remember they have a cat(s?), are there any anecdotes you can share about it? the life of a cat owner is never dull, after all.
Thank you! I pay a lot of attention to interaction, I'm glad people notice!
After phallo, Louis has to sleep with a plastic mixing bowl over his crotch because i2 weighs eighteen pounds and really wants to sit on him.
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Postcard dump. Some old, some newer. I use these to try new techniques and experiment. Sometimes I send them to people or sell them at cons.
The cat, Malcolm, belongs to the fine people at Federal Color and was done with their Optimist inks when I did alpha testing for them last year. They're a great new maker of shellac ink, well worth trying out. I might do a more in-depth review of them because I've got a lot to say about ink (and the review I did for them was much more technical).
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Do Neil and Louis like to travel, do they have a favourite destination?
Louis would like to see a big cacti, a tumbleweed, and an armadillo in real life.
Neil likes anywhere with a beach/water.
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I absolutely adore your work! What's your process been like for writing NewOldRare and developing Neil and Louis? Your art and character writing feel so genuine and realistic to me, so I'm really curious how you go about it!
Thank you! I've always been obsessed with character-driven stories and interaction, so I guess this is the result of years of practice and observation, and dismantling stories that do and don't work to see why.
Unfortunately, there isn't a clear way to explain it. It's one of those "you know when you get it right" things, requiring an eye developed over a long time. I will redraw things if I don't feel like I've captured the nuance I wanted to, and a few months later I'll look at it and see where I could have done better. Same with writing. I'm obsessed with pacing and page design, I had a moment of "that's how I think about it too" when Will Eisner described comic panels like music.
The technical approach is I make notes about stories I want to write, then I expand that into outlines, then scripts, then thumbnails, then I draw the comics and colour them and finalise the dialogue. At every stage I'm asking myself if it feels right, if I'm getting across what I want to. That's not to say there aren't surprises and things don't develop organically, but every stage is an attempt to solve as many problems as I can before the next stage. My thumbnails are quite detailed because it makes pencils easier, and I spend a while on them.
I have total aphantasia so I am operating off feeling rather than any mental images. I have no idea how it works and no idea why I pursue this when I'm missing what many visual artists describe as a crucial component. I just do it and I have better things to do (art) than wonder about something I can't change. I don't think it's made me a better or worse artist, though I think it has given me different ways of approaching/developing things. But also, literally everything about you makes your work different to everyone else's work.
You need to care. If your character is into music, listen to that music. If they have an old car that keeps breaking down, read up on common problems for that model. If they work as a film projectionist, watch a training film about using the machine. The characters care about things, have things in their lives that matter, have skills and interests and challenges. If I don't care enough to understand them, why should anyone reading it care, and also why am I writing it if I don't care?
So I do, and in caring I understand them better. This helps me develop characters/story but it also gives me so much more to write/draw. Understanding how things work and how they are done from a physical standpoint makes writing/drawing them easier too. The more you put into your head, the more you can get out later. I'll do way less for a 12 page short than for a 300 page graphic novel, obviously. Pick your battles, a little can go a long way.
They tell artists to collect visual references - solid advice - but you should collect substance too. If you pay attention, you will hear and see things you could never in a million years make up.
I find online socialising difficult, so I go out regularly and talk to people, or just hang around and observe. Chatting with strangers mostly involves listening to them. No one in gay spaces is interested in flirting with me (I'm rather homely and queer men assume I'm straight) but I think an audience is just as appealing sometimes, and maybe even harder to find. You'd be amazed what people will tell you if you're genuinely interested and listening. I once spent forty minutes at a sci-fi con talking to a guy who'd recently gotten into fisting. While I have zero personal desire to partake in that activity (and he had no interest in being fisted by me), I'm engaged, I'm invested, I'm asking questions, spare no detail.
I collect behavior and movement and the ways people interact too. Reading stories on reddit or whatever is one thing, but the words might not be as interesting as the way they're standing, the way their hands move, the way they respond. A guy in a bar once literally humped my leg like a dog because he felt I wasn't paying enough attention to him. I would never think of that as a response to that situation, but he did, and he followed through. Fortunately my friend had just tried to drunkenly sit down and missed the chair, otherwise I would never hear the end of it.
I see the leghumper around sometimes, he's got a boyfriend and avoids making eye contact with me, thank god.
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I found this scan of a picture I drew in 11th grade in 2004 with knockoff microns. I think it was 12x24", pretty sure I gave it to one of my teachers. I didn't start drawing until around 2001, I actually hated drawing when I was a kid.
I do not feel like I have progressed enough for how old I am, but a lot of my adult life has been kind of crap and unstable, and for a long time I wasn't able to draw. I should be a better artist. I will become one if it kills me.
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I have a lunchbox full of these and am always doing more.
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Hi! I adore your art! 💙
What made Louis fall in love with Neil and viceversa? Could you please share any of the little inconsequential things they like about each other?
I hope you have a wonderful day.
Thank you! I just finished writing a script concerning the first part of your question. I have quite a few scripts and thumbnailed scripts to draw.
Small things they like about each other?
Neil likes Louis's hands. Louis likes Neil's chest hair.
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I've a NewOldRare Question! Do Neil and Louis have a favorite date spot?
They like going to see bands together.
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I finally made a proper website because I'm opposed to people needing to make an account just to look at my work. I also want to post more pornography on the internet.
I would rather peel and eat a subway rat like a banana than use twitter/tiktok/discord/etc. I would rather go back to myspace. I would rather meet outside the Stone Pony in Asbury Park and sit on the beach.
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From one of my favourite books.
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dunno if the ask box is still open, i just saw the post. what does mealtime mean to them/their relationship with food? What's their favourite foods?
Neil is partial to banana pancakes and Louis likes any form of dough wrapped around filling (bao, perogi, dumpling, etc), but they're both kinda lazy and will live on sandwiches and raw fruit or make a pot of something and eat it for days. The one who's really interested in cooking is i2.
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