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Rockabetty
@rockabetty.bsky.social
Webcomic artist and coder. Read my webcomic "Ikon: Eternal Life For A Living" at https://ikon.cfw.me - it's a historical crime fantasy about art smugglers trying to pay off mob, medical, and metaphysical debts
dear past self

why the hell did you name all your assets "comic-backgrounds-1", "comic-backgrounds-2", did you not think you would have, I don't know, multiple backgrounds

what am i to do here

open 5000 files like stewie guessing a phone number?
111, 111, 1111 - damn
111, 111, 1112 - damn!!
March 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I enjoy any page that Yuri's shit-eating grin makes it onto

taggin'
@beefsen.bsky.social
@spelledeg.bsky.social
@sev-wildfang.bsky.social
@deliriummacabre.bsky.social
@grape-ape.bsky.social
What are your favorite pages you've made in 2024?

#artshare #comics #webcomics #art
December 19, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Look at this content and comfy baby
#cats #cute
December 18, 2024 at 7:50 AM
My friends' #cat is ready for dinner
December 18, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Here's a process peek, this is how my
#webcomic is written and edited, I have a TEAM

a team I don't pay

chief costume designer @beefsen.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 7:15 PM
New page of my #urbanfantasy #webcomic today, featuring my adorable wrench-wench, Lada, look at her pretty face.

Ikon is about a counterfeiter resorting to art smuggling to pay off mafia debts only to get entangled into an occult underworld. Check it out at ikon.cfw.me
December 17, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Oh my God in Canada they sold Ladas but they called them DENNIS there is a type of car in Canada literally named DENNIS just, just Dennis and it's the VAZ 2107
December 13, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Okay so I'm researching for my webcomic and by that I just mean "looking for photo refs of a lada samara" which is a car and #TIL they sold soviet cars in Australia in the 80s???? and people ... just bought them? In Australia???? What??

also look at this commerical
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMdv...
1987 Lada Samara Commercial
YouTube video by TheCarArchives
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Look at this lovely art @he-xie.bsky.social drew for me of Nik/Azariah

#digitalart
December 11, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Check out this total QT

Today I updated Ikon and you can read the newest page at ikon.cfw.me where awkward eye contact is made with a lady who might or might not be a witch

we should weigh her

#webcomics #indiecomics #urbanfantasy #magicalrealism #historicalfiction #digitalart
December 9, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Reposted by Rockabetty
December 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Yuri's stupid expressions are usually my favorite part of the pages I draw

#digitalart #webcomics #indiecomics
December 8, 2024 at 10:20 PM
more #webcomic #digitalart #wips
I was using the phone scene in Mean Girls as reference for how she's holding that phone
December 8, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Reposted by Rockabetty
Cold night on Lake Titicaca wip
December 8, 2024 at 6:42 PM
IDK about your creative process but I rarely know what the actual dialog is until the last second. The script is vibes, motives and gists. In the meantime I subject my friends to WIPs with stupid shit like this

#webcomics #digitalart #artprocess #wips
December 8, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Here's another #wip - this page was a collab with Guy Percinn who writes Arkin Blade (arkinbladecomic.cfw.me) - he did the panels/staging but I didn't give him dialog, just a high level concept and instructions to allocate space for dialog. He gave me this sparkling gem

#webcomics #digitalart
December 8, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Ah wait, I LIED, apparently I took more time than that

*not actual dialog
December 8, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Fun to peek at peoples' processes and WIPs. I once took a screen shot every 10 minutes for a panel, check it out. I should do this again to figure out how much time to budget on stuff. Anyway, looks like this panel took an hour.

#digitalart #art #wips #webcomics #indiecomics
December 8, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Imagine a burger from a place that uses those disappointing flat Whataburger buns but actually passes health inspection and can prove it came from the kitchen without being tampered with. And you can't eat it until you squeeze on some magic secret sauce the burger joint personalized to you.
trying to explain atproto to an american: imagine if all your burgers were cryptographically signed via a self-balancing merkle tree
December 8, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Reposted by Rockabetty
Fearne🌿
#art
December 6, 2024 at 11:09 AM
3 things that inspired my #webcomic:
- The opening scene in Khabinsky's 'Admiral'
- JC Leyendecker's exuberant brush strokes (and beautiful men)
- An interview in Comrade Criminal with an international art smuggler who just wanted to be a humble dentist :(
December 6, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Your soul gets shoved into a crow when you die in my #webcomic inspired by Balto-Slavic paganism.

You are now birb. You remember some of your old life but you have no thumbs and an insatiable desire for shiny things. How do you feel?

To me the gift of flight is not worth not having thumbs
December 6, 2024 at 4:22 PM
I shut down my Patreon a hot minute ago but I did have one so BINGO.
December 6, 2024 at 3:45 AM
This panel is from a scrapped version of Ikon I wrote in ~2014. Looking at it with my current monitor, it seems I didn't realize perspective lines are still in the drawing! But it's a nifty look.

This drawing aged well, do you have some old art you still like?

#digitalart #webcomics #indiecomics
December 6, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Here's a panel of the page I'll be putting out Monday. You happen to have any WIPs or sneak peeks on you? Show 'em to meeeee.

#indiecomics #webcomics #digitalart #urbanfantasy
December 6, 2024 at 2:02 AM