Sometimes I like to doodle heads at 3/4 angles and play with different head shapes. I decided if I was going to do that, I might as well do it in a way that some people might find fun and useful, so I made a set of head bases for you to play with.

Feel free to add facial features, hair, bodies, clothes, or accessories, or to use them as inspiration for your own character designs if you feel like it. I just ask that you put a link to this post in the description and credit me for the bases.

​If you prefer a layered .psd file, click the file below to download it.

To support me as an artist and storyteller, be the first to see completed projects, and get exclusive access to works in progress, support me for $1/month or more on Patreon.

​Valentine's Day kind of snuck up on me, so here I am, late at night, with a cat on my lap and a quick, cute Valentine's Day card for you to customize and send to someone special in your life.

Happy Valentine's Day!

​Happy holidays!

If you have any last-minute greetings you want to send out, hopefully this blank Christmas card will come in handy. I left the right-hand side empty so you can write or type a message onto it.

Sorry I didn't get this done earlier; I had a lot of pre-holiday stuff to take care of. But hey, even if you don't use it this year, it'll still be here next year. :) 

It's interesting to contrast this picture with the fireplace card I recently drew in pencil crayon, and to see what a difference it makes when I'm using a medium I'm more familiar with. Night and day!

P.S. Do you ever wonder why we always say "Merry Christmas", as opposed to any other synonym of "happy", and why we never seem to apply the word "merry" to any other holiday? Random thought for the day. :P
 

DeviantArt is hosting an event in which artists send in physical cards, and DA delivers them to patients in hospitals.

If you want to share some holiday cheer with hospitalized patients this year, and earn a one-month Core membership on DeviantArt, you can get the details of the project here.

Here are the card designs I've made so far:
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​Will you be participating this year?

As you probably know, I’m currently working on building an income through my Patreon channel so I can spend more time creating stories and art instead of doing other things to support myself.
 
That being the case, I’d love to know what you’d want to see if you were supporting me on Patreon.

Even if you don’t have the money or desire to become a patron, your feedback will still help me get an idea of what people are interested in, so I'd appreciate it very much if you could take a minute to give me your opinion.

If you want to know what I'm already offering, you can see a list of the available rewards in the right-hand sidebar of this page.

Thank you so much for your help! I really appreciate it.

    
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For those of you who've been reading my Undertale webcomic, Just Cause, or who are thinking of getting into it in the near future, I have some exciting news:

I've gotten enough of the prose version written that I think I've filled in most or all of the possible plot holes, so starting in May, I plan to start releasing parts of the fanfiction to patrons pledging $3 and up on my Patreon.

That means after each comic update, my patrons will get to see a sneak peek of the next scene, weeks before the corresponding comic page comes out.

The whole prose version of the story will be released to the general public once it's complete. I'd do it earlier, but this tale's gotten so intricate that I want to get the whole thing written before I set it loose on the open web, just in case there's still something I've missed.

I've also decided to make the work-in-progress previews of the comic available to ALL my patrons, not just the $10 tier and up.

​I wanted to make my most popular story more accessible to people with tighter budgets, so hopefully this helps.

I've seen a few people doing open collaborations, and I thought it would be fun to do one of my own.
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For those who don't know, and open collab is where one artist creates part of a picture - usually the lineart - and invites others to do the rest and share the results. This could include color, shading, backgrounds, or all of the above.

I deliberately left the face off of this one, because I like how ambiguous the pose is. Is Mettaton jumping? Fighting? Posing for the camera? Inviting a dance partner to come join him? Sleeping? Dead? You decide!

If you choose to participate, please:

1. Add your name or URL to the credits on the image

2. Don't remove my URL from the credits

3. Send me a link to the completed picture, so I can show your work to my watchers and followers!

If you want to have the color, background and lineart in separate layers, you can use the .psd file I've attached below.

I look forward to seeing what you create. :)

Great news! I'm now open for art commissions, and discounts on those commissions have been added to my Patreon rewards!

$10 Patrons will get a $3 discount on 1 art commission per month.

$25 Patrons will get a $10 discount on 1 art commission per month. 

$45 Patrons will get a $30 discount on 1 art commission per month!

If you have a character in your head that you long to see on a real-life screen, or if you'd love to see an existing fictional character in a specific pose or situation, please send me a note or email describing what you want.

To get the details, just check out the chart below. If you have any questions after reading the chart, please don't hesitate to contact me!

I recently received a special announcement from another writer: a fellow blogger of A Writer's Path, Ryan Lanz, has announced the launch of his new initiative: A Writer’s Path Writers Club.

After looking at the writing market for years, he noticed a need for a Writers Club of this kind.

​Sure, there are Facebook groups, writers groups, etc., but those are usually just gatherings of writers, and they lack some very important features that many authors need.

Ryan wanted to create a club whose sole purpose is to solve headaches for writers. Here are some of the headaches he's looking to solve:
 

• It’s hard to find reviewers for my book
  
  
• Writing-related service providers (editors, book cover designers, etc.) are expensive
  
  
• I don’t know if my writing is good enough and I need feedback
  
  
• I need more promotion for my book
  
  
• I don’t know if my blurb or summary is good enough
  
  
• Not enough readers know my book exists
  
  
• I don’t know enough about what other successful authors have done to be successful
  
  
• I don’t know if my book cover encourages readers to purchase it

 
The club also offers some fun activities for writers, such as giveaways and contests.
 
Here’s the full list of benefits that are available in the Writers Club:
 

• Discounts from writer-related service providers, such as editors, book cover designers, proofreading services, ghostwriters, social media marketing, book advertising, template design, audio book narration, and more.
  
  
• Contests and giveaways for free services and books.
  
  
• 2 free book promotion posts on A Writer's Path blog every year (example here). Every post generates a social media shout-out of your book to Ryan's Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Tumblr, and Google+ account (total of 12,900 followers). He'll set reminders for himself to notify you when your next post is ready.
  
  
• Exclusive articles not seen on the A Writer's Path blog.
  
  
• Access to free blurb coaching.
  
  
• "Book of the Month" lottery. The winner gets their book featured for a month on the A Writer's Path blog in a tab along the top of every page/post. They'll also get a promotional post featuring their book, summary, cover, and purchase links, which is sent to all 25,000+ subscribers. There is one drawing per month.
  
  
• Help to find you reviewers and critique partners (optional).
  
  
• A free copy of his eBook, The Idea Factory: 1,000 Story Ideas & Writing Prompts to Find Your Next Bestseller. ($2.99 value)
  
  
• Free critique of your book summaries and book covers (optional).
  
  
• Insider tips from published authors in short, bite-sized articles.
  
  
• Links to free books that are normally offered at full price.
  
  
• Opportunities to show off your book to the other members.
  
  
• Exclusive author interviews.

 
Feel free to check out the A Writer's Path Writers Club here.

I was working on the latest page of Just Cause, and Undyne had a fantasy about a battle between flowery princess swordswomen.

​Of course, knowing my tendencies, you had to know I wasn't about to just make a small, simple panel for that. No, if I'm going to draw a flowery princess sword fight, it's going to be a full print-sized beast.

 
​There's a slightly bigger version on my DeviantArt account, if you want to see it.

In the process of working on this for a week, I discovered that realistic plate armor is far more complex than I'd ever realized. SO MANY joints, seams, and fortune cookie-like elbow guards that I never knew existed.

Also, the excuse some costume designers use for dressing their female characters in basically lingerie (she needs to be able to move freely!) is apparently BS; well-crafted armor has a better range of motion than its wearer.

​Furthermore, boobplate ('breastplates' that cup the wearer's boobs and accentuate their shape) is asking to get stabbed by your own armor. Hence the lack of noticeable boobs on these ladies.

Speaking of stuff I learned while creating these outfits: I sought inspiration for the dresses by looking up the cultural meanings of different types of flowers, and choosing ones that fit the image of their personalities and backstories that I have in my mind.

The lady on the left is a disgraced princess who was discarded by the royal family while their country was at war. Despite being rejected by her family, she continues to care about her people, and is determined to protect them, even if it means putting herself on the front lines.

Her flowers and their meanings are:

Coriander: Hidden worth.

Black-eyed Susan: Justice.

Anemone: Forsaken.

The acrobatic warrioress on the right is the beloved daughter of a protective family, and was told to stay away from the battle despite her outstanding skill, strength and agility. But when she saw soldiers limping home from the conflict, and heard of the devastation that her kingdom's villages had endured, she couldn't bear to sit in safety while they suffered.

Her flowers and their meanings are:

Wallflower: Faithfulness in adversity.

Heliotrope: Eternal love.

Dog rose: Pleasure, pain, healing, secret love.

And so, the two princesses met on the battlefield. Neither knew who the other was, or how much bravery and love for their people they shared, or what they would come to mean to each other as they fought each other to a draw over and over again.

Neither of them expected that the more they learned about each other, the less they would feel like enemies, and the more they'd realize they were kindred souls.

By the way, in case you're wondering why they're not wearing helmets, there are two very good reasons for that.

One is because this is Undyne's fantasy, and she's the type to whip off her helmet right before a battle.

And the other is so you can recognize their faces when they kiss in the next panel. Because Undyne fantasizes about forbidden romance, too.

I'll add shading and a background in the future, but for now, I've been working on this all week, and am feeling a bit burned out on the project. And I don't want to keep people waiting for the next page for too long.

Also, I'd love to get your feedback on what kind of background you'd like for this. Who knows - maybe I'll make a few versions with different backgrounds and corresponding shading, if enough people are interested.

In the meantime, if you want to support me as an artist and storyteller, and to get advance access to completed art and exclusive access to works in progress, please consider supporting me on Patreon.