Father Eugene- God's Creatures (bugs cw) (Patreon)

Eugene is not fond of all creatures big and small, he must confess.

This came about from a discord chat:

This'un was done all traditional! It's not exactly practical, but it's exciting to make something real nevertheless. I'm gonna talk more about the markers I got when I upload a sketchbook post (I've been having so much fun) but! Essentially my friend Hari sent me some old copics to see if I liked them, and then I bought a big ohuhu set because I was very excited about the copics, but not excited about the price tag! haha.

cw for flies in a photo below, and also general discussion of a fly problem.

Coincidentally after that chat I was asked to fill in for church cleaning duty, haha. I don't attend but I like doing stuff for the community especially since they're all Getting On a Bit.

If you'll believe it that was how it looked after only a week! Every window was like this...and don't get me started on the window above the altar. I felt like I was in Amityville Horror. They were landing on places I'd already hoovered, and onto my cloth, the gall.
Honestly I hate to hoover them up, but at this scale it's really all I could do (They may look dead in the photo but...a lot are not). I did have to look up a tutorial on how to empty a henry hoover and I landed on a cutesy 'clean my henry hoover with me' cleaning aesthetic tiktok, not really the same vibes when it's probably 30 years old and full of live flies.

Back to the art! Here's my god-awful setup, my tiny table does not have enough room for my chaos.

Beyond the sketch/ink stages there's not much more to it besides fill in the colours, but! Below is some cursed knowledge (I wanted Eugene's hair to be a warmer brown so he has a pink under colour!)

Layered ontop with a 'fawn brown' (my favourite thing about traditional media is the colour names tbh.)

Thank you for the support! (Especially sugar tier, I know it's been a while since I've shared an early access comic, I appreciate your patience!)

Wip of the next comic!
Cliff is taking Eugene's rejection incredibly well, as we all knew he would :).