Erin Ptah 💕さんのイラストまとめ

Links again! This time with guest art (posted on the sites w/credit):

✨ But I'm A Cat Person
https://t.co/7LATp9SLgO

🌹 Leif & Thorn
https://t.co/JEMjmZ6x8E

🐕 Latest Kickstarter fundraiser
https://t.co/ivAFFq0Xji

💚 Support the artist!
https://t.co/uWTWHr2Dru

Always looking to get better at drawing action scenes, and different kinds of environments.

The comics mostly have a standard palette, which is good for churning out strips on schedule, but I'd love to branch out to more cool color/lighting effects in the bonus art.

A8 Proud of the characters, the feelings, the jokes, and the way I keep getting better at this art thing. (Attached: character designs from 2010-2011, revisited in 2017.)

Also pretty happy w/my ability to keep 2 comics updating on a reasonable schedule. (Leif & Thorn is daily!)

(Note: the world of Leif & Thorn does have other issues! Just not *those* issues. Cultural prejudice and economic injustice are, uh, let's just say recurring themes.)

(...and there's a canon coffeeshop AU that does have Pride parades, if I feel a burning need to draw one.)

I'll draw non-canon cast portraits with the flag colors, but in-universe, their identities don't need defending. Nobody could imagine attacking them.

Both kinds of stories are important. There are readers who need both of them -- sometimes at the same time.

Leif & Thorn, meanwhile, is almost full-on idealized fantasy.

Relationships in all gender configurations are unremarkable! Dysphoria is a medical condition like any other, to be covered by insurance while respecting your pronouns! Gender roles in general barely exist!

Self-discovery isn't a big theme here, so I'll skip to A6/7.

But I'm A Cat Person has real-world levels of homophobia+transphobia. It's a constant background stress to the magical conflicts. They cope by finding & supporting each other! #relatable

Leif & Thorn takes place in a fantasy world with imaginary cultures! So why would their ideas about gender/sexuality work in the same way?

...Most of them are queer and/or trans by modern USian standards. It's just, in-universe, they don't draw the same lines between categories.

A2 I came out to the internet during my very first webcomic, heh. (https://t.co/tzU1tHxDEq to peruse that early 2000's energy)

And they've all stretched my artistic muscles, gotten me to research new things, and connected me (or kept me in touch with!) cool people.

A1 Main goal: to tell the stories I want to tell, in a fulfilling way. So, indulging in tropes I love...and, uh, subverting tropes that make me mad.

Secondary, long-term goal: financial self-sufficiency. (This set of art is all Patreon rewards! https://t.co/uWTWHr2Dru)