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Mastafran
🦝 I’m a cartoonist who likes to draw animals with swords! | Pixel Artist and Animator for the indie game, Blackmask.⚔️

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Posted by Mastafran - June 1st, 2020


In general things aren’t as eventful due to the virus situation, but I’m doing my best to stay busy and to be positive.


Right now, I’m working on a set of stickers inspired by this bread cat art I made a long while ago. A few more cats and I’ll have a worthwhile sticker pack.

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I’m plugging away at some new tutorials and rewriting old ones to be faster paced and less redundant. Currently, I’m writing a new version of my process making Incident at the Game Store including my coloring process that wasn’t elaborated upon from my original articles. I’m also working on a tutorial article about using references for character design. This is a preview of the characters and influences to make my wolf character in the center.


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People have even suggested to me to make tutorial videos but I have no idea what I could actually teach about that isn’t already taught by a more experienced artist. The most I can do is believe in my research and pass off what I know and answer questions during my artstreams.



My next comic is still being pecked at when I have the time. Every time I get back to writing my comic, I find myself looking up new writing techniques to shorten or cut my comic down to the bare essentials to stick to the core premise of it and not smash you in the face with stupid lore or irrelevant details.


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I badly want to get deeper to it, because I keep thinking of ideas and the only thing I like sketching and not organizing them into an actual plot. I know I’m supposed to keep it short and to not get elaborate, but I still want to do better than my previous comics. My baby steps forward are still better than sticking around and imagining my next course of action.


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Posted by Mastafran - April 29th, 2020


I rarely blog anywhere beside my own website, but I figured I might as well be active at more places so here's what I've been up to lately.


Recently, I got a new job as a school bus driver but, by the time I finished my training and got my license, the virus situation got worse and schools closed, so I've still been at my current job at FedEx dealing with the new rush of work.I still make art and update my art on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook with more of my finished work on here, DeviantArt and Artstation and I've been working on small commissions as well as a larger children's book project.


I'm doing more art streaming again working to maintain a consistent schedule. I just have trouble figuring out what the heck to draw or do during streams; mainly just winging it with whatever art project I'm allowed to show or answering art questions my chat poses. But if you want to commission me or want to have a tutorial about something specific for art stream, let me know.


In between the projects, I try to keep my hope and sanity by writing and rewriting a new comic series and other scripts while teaching myself how to write and figure out what I want out of my stories. I'll admit that I'm way more interested in drawing concept art than actually writing anything. It's a bunch of trial and error, and I'm doing my best to not get frustrated with the process.


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Posted by Mastafran - December 31st, 2019


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After a year of struggle and hassle, I finally finished arranging my page files for Incident at the Game Store, so now I can send them off to KaBlam make print proofs!


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