 Today is the LAST DAY to request one of my Inktober originals! Patrons can visit the post at the link below and complete the poll to receive a free illustration in the mail before the holidays!
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As a reminder, the Inktober 2018 Giveaway ends at the beginning of December! If you're a Patron and fill out the poll on my website before then, you can receive free original art from my Inktober 2018 challenge. The rules for the giveaway and the link to the poll are available to Patrons here. Don't delay! Get you some free illustrations! Rock on, guys, and never stop drawing.  Greetings and salutations! Happy Thanksgiving! I have a big announcement regarding The Letters of the Devil II, but I’ll get to that. If you need to read any one thing, please scroll until you see the giant question mark. Without any further ado, let’s begin! Released this Week #ThankYouPatrons Day! Video CosPain #71: Always Use Protection (Hi-Res Patron Version) CosPain #72: Happy Thanksgiving 2018! #ThankYouPatrons Day This past Monday was #ThankYouPatrons Day, and Patreon asked its creators to make something special for our Patrons. My contribution was a timelapse illustration! I hope to do these more often, potentially as a perk for a future Patreon tier. Inktober 2018  The Patron poll (available here) is still running, and only a couple of the original sketches have been claimed! If you are a Patron by the start of December, you get to select which illustration you want to receive. You can also select backup options. Higher level Patrons will be given priority, but these will otherwise be given out on a first-come-first-served basis. Commissions  Commissions are still open! Be they original characters, fanart, or whatever, I can accommodate your needs! My official commission page is through Fiverr, but if you don’t want to go through that site or want to ask for something more specific, just reach out through my Contact page and let me know what you’d like. Upcoming Events SPACE 2019: April 28-29, 2019, Columbus, OH 3 Rivers Comicon 2019: May 18-19, 2019, Pittsburgh, PA If you know of any events that are accepting artists, let me know! The Letters of the Devil (NOT the big news) A smaller announcement, but The Letters of the Devil is now available on Kindle! It’s normally $14.99, but if you buy a physical copy of the book, you can also get the digital copy for only $2.99! And now, the big news ... The Letters of the Devil II  There’s a quote attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: “A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”
It is with that philosophy in mind that I’ve made an important determination: I’m delaying the production of The Letters of the Devil II. I was very reluctant to make this decision. I hate pushing deadlines back. Perfectionism is the enemy of progress, and I have seen numerous creators who can’t put out work on a consistent basis because they obsess over minutiae, working extremely hard without actually producing a finished product. In this case, however, the inescapable truth is that this script wasn’t ready to be declared a final draft. There’s good meat, but a few of the characters are underdeveloped, and I have decided that fleshing them out and expanding the story is worth a short delay. I want to be extremely clear that the project is still alive, and I plan to have it completed before the end of 2019. My goal is to fix the script issues and delay production by only a few months. Fortunately, most of the pencils I’ve already completed were on pages that won’t need to change or will only require minor adjustments. As soon as I have revised deadlines, I will let you all know. Your interest and support in my work mean the world to me, and you deserve good quality content in return. Thank you for your patience as I get my script back on track. Wrap-Up And now, I have Thanksgiving duties to take care of, in addition to a script to revise. If you want to support my work further, please visit my online store. I also have Patreon and Ko-Fi accounts if those are more your speed. Rock on, guys, and never stop drawing. As part of #ThankYouPatrons Day, I made a special video for the people that support my work and keep be honest.
Want to become a patron? Visit www.Patreon.com/BWHComics and join the fun! Image from CosPain, a weebcomic about cosplay and convention craziness. www.CosPainComic.com Music: Deadly Roulette Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  Greetings and salutations! With the holiday season starting, it’s time for the end-of-the-year push! Without any further ado, let’s begin! Released this Week CosPain #69: CosTable (Hi-Res Patron Version) CosPain #70: Home Economics COMMISSIONS OPEN!  With the holiday season fast approaching, I have decided to open up commissions! I specialize in watercolor and RPG character art, but I’m open to whatever you’d be interested in. My official commission page is through Fiverr, but if you don’t want to go through that site or want to ask for something more specific, just reach out through my Contact page and let me know what you’d like. Inktober 2018  I have made a decision about my Inktober sketches. They were a lot of fun to make, and I have scans of all of them that I may use to make a little zine. What I’ve decided to do, therefore, is to give the originals to my Patrons! Here’s how it’s going to work: I’ve created a Patron poll here. If you are a Patron by the start of December, you get to select which illustration you want. You can also select backup options. Higher level Patrons will be given priority, but these will otherwise be given out on a first-come-first-served basis. SPACE Prize 2018! It was recently announced that the first CosPain minicollection has been nominated for the SPACE Price in Minicomics! It is an honor to even be nominated. If you are one of the exhibitors at this past SPACE, then your support would be appreciated! If you are a fellow nominee, then please contact me. I have been trying to arrange an exchange so we can all see each others' work more easily. Upcoming Events SPACE 2019: April 28-29, 2019, Columbus, OH 3 Rivers Comicon 2019: May 18-19, 2019, Pittsburgh, PA If you know of any events that are accepting artists, let me know! The Letters of the Devil  I’m on track for now, but I’ve decided to rewrite a couple scenes this week. It may set my pencils back, but I’ll try to make up the difference.
Wrap-Up Got a lot of writing, a lot of drawing, a lot of work to do! Thanks for the break, guys, but time to get back to it. If you want to support my work further, please visit my online store. I also have Patreon and Ko-Fi accounts if those are more your speed. Rock on, guys, and never stop drawing.  Greetings and salutations! Happy Halloween! I delayed my newsletter so I could release it on this, my favorite holiday. Without any further ado, let’s begin! Released this Week CosPain #67: Out in the Open CosPain #68: The Other Side (Hi-Res Patron Version) CosPain #68: The Other Side (Hi-Res Patron Version) CosPain #69: CosTable Illustration of the Week It’s Rottin’  I don’t know how to justify my enjoyment of the works of Gordon Ramsay. Something about the staged “reality” television of him yelling at inept restaurant and hotel owners is cathartic. If he ever appeared in a movie like this, I would watch the HELL out of it. Inktober 2018  I DID IT! 31 illustrations in 31 days! Here are the last of them! Inktober #22: EXPENSIVE Inktober #23: MUDDY Inktober #24: CHOP (NSFW) Inktober #25: PRICKLY Inktober #26: STRETCH Inktober #27: THUNDER Inktober #28: GIFT Inktober #29: DOUBLE Inktober #30: JOLT (NSFW) Inktober #31: SLICE (NSFW) Upcoming Events SPACE 2019: April 28-29, 2019, Columbus, OH 3 Rivers Comicon 2019: May 18-19, 2019, Pittsburgh, PA If you know of any events that are accepting artists, let me know! The Letters of the Devil  Work was slow this week, but I’m almost a third of the way through the pencils! So that’s something!
Never Go Home So no surprise here, since I warned you it was coming, but Never Go Home did not get finished. I apologize for the delay, but I would rather it be late and good than on time and mediocre. I still definitely want to finish it, and my revised goal is to complete it by the end of November. Stay tuned for more updates! Wrap-Up And now, off to enjoy Halloween! Stay safe, and have yourselves a spooktacular time! If you want to support my work further, please visit my online store. I also have Patreon and Ko-Fi accounts if those are more your speed. Rock on, guys, and never stop drawing.  Greetings and salutations! Amazingly, still sick, but I’ve been keeping up regardless. Without any further ado, let’s begin! Released this Week CosPain #66: Con Moms (Patrons only) CosPain #67: Out in the Open Illustration of the Week Never Go Home Character Art  I hit some script issues with Never Go Home, so I don’t have much to say beyond the fact that I think it’ll be later than I was hoping. I wanted to give you something concrete, though, so have some character designs as my weekly illustration! Inktober 2018 This is the best I’ve done so far at an Inktober challenge! Enjoy this week’s art! Inktober #14: CLOCK (NSFW) Inktober #15: WEAK Inktober #16: ANGULAR Inktober #17: SWOLLEN (NSFW) Inktober #18: BOTTLE Inktober #19: SCORCHED (NSFW) Inktober #20: BREAKABLE Inktober #21: DRAIN (NSFW) Upcoming Events SPACE 2019: April 28-29, 2019 3 Rivers Comicon 2019: May 18-19, 2019 If you know of any events that are accepting artists, let me know! The Letters of the Devil  I’m a little confused, to be honest. I just counted twice, and I have 56 pages completed. I thought I had 57. Oh well, it’s one page.
Wrap-Up When next you hear from me, Halloween shall be upon us! If you want to support my work further, please visit my online store. I also have Patreon and Ko-Fi accounts if those are more your speed. Rock on, guys, and never stop drawing.  I will be returning to 3 Rivers Comicon 2019! I will be tabling with fellow artist and friend Kelci Crawford. Hope to see you in Pittsburgh, PA on May 18-19!
 I will be returning to SPACE 2019! SPACE 2018 was one of my more successful shows this past year, and I had a really great time. I’m looking forward to coming back. See you in Columbus, OH on April 28-29!
 Greetings and salutations! Some decent work updates, despite my bout of con crud. Without any further ado, let’s begin! Released this Week CosPain #65: John Hancock (Patrons only) CosPain #66: Con Moms Illustration of the Week D&D Concept Art: Death  Inktober 2018 Inktober marches on! I’ve kept up so far. Enjoy this week’s art! Inktober #8: STAR Inktober #9: PRECIOUS Inktober #10: FLOWING Inktober #11: CRUEL Inktober #12: WHALE Inktober #13: GUARDED Upcoming Events I have a couple cons for next year that I’m finalizing my arrangements with. I should be able to announce them by the next newsletter. If you know of any events that are accepting artists, let me know! Experimental Offerings For a while now, I’ve been looking for new things to offer my lovely Patrons, especially once higher reward tiers are revealed. Over the next couple of months, I intend to start testing out a few of my proposed ideas. These tests will not be exclusive to Patrons, as I need as much feedback as I can get. Some of the tests I plan to roll out are: 1. Art Streams. Using a streaming service, I would regularly walk viewers through the live creation of a CosPain strip. Sometimes I would be working solo, while other times I would be bringing on a guest to talk about comics, cosplay, and anything else relevant to the strip. 2. RPG Podcasts. I am in a roleplaying group that meets online every week for a game, and we have discussed recording our game sessions for online distribution. I have been working on a new campaign setting that I hope to be able to roll out in the not-too-distant future, and I would be very interested in streaming it or posting an edited recording of it. 3. AMAs. I don’t know how often I would practically be able to do these, but I would love to have a stream where you can ask me questions directly. You get these newsletters from me every week, but I’d love the opportunity to talk to you guys and get to know you more. I will give you plenty of advance warning once I have dates for these experimental offerings. The Letters of the Devil  For the month of October, I’ve decided to drop my penciled pages per week to 10 to allow me to work on Never Go Home. More on that soon.
Wrap-Up Nothing quite like a successful week after having been sick! If you want to support my work further, please visit my online store. I also have Patreon and Ko-Fi accounts if those are more your speed. Rock on, guys, and never stop drawing. |
AuthorBen Wright-Heuman hails from Richmond, VA. He received his MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2016. He currently lives in New Albany, OH. Archives
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