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Arby k
@arbyk.bsky.social
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Hey I'm Arby, 40+ yo, been working on comics underground 20+ years & like it this way. Resident of ABQ, NM! https://www.graylingcomic.net
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REFUSE SUBLIME pages 01-029 thru 01-031
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REFUSE SUBLIME page 01-029 REFUSE SUBLIME page 01-030 REFUSE SUBLIME page 01-031
October 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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simplie tables :)
September 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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it's a double spread day in my comic
August 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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visitors to the yard
August 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Can anyone help me re-find this artist? I have a bunch of tiny stickers from them. I lost track of their name during the great migration from birdsite. A Japanese artist who draws adorable orange cats in funny situations
July 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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From June, "pretend to be yourself"
Rae, Fern, and Lem
July 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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From February, "grit"
July 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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REFUSE SUBLIME has started updating. These are the first three pages. Updates resume next week Tues/Thurs/Saturday
June 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Working on using gouache to try & speed up the comics process

Combining the lineart and color layer would be a lot more efficient especially for distance shots
April 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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finished the last page of Grayling today. yayyyy
March 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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gotta do your time in the flesh pit
an incomprehensible body falls into lava. black and white
February 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Background paint is done
February 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Inking done on the next three pages.

( SNAKES )
February 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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GRAYLING DIGEST pages 10-112 to 10-114 | Fern and Lemojo wrap up a conversation about a potential confederation between them. Eke and Hy meet at the superfund site the next morning to fix Hy's Glowworm needle issue.

Updates resume next week on Tuesday, 2/11/25!

#webcomics
Grayling webcomic page 10-112. Lemojo talks about the moment when he was created. Grayling webcomic page 10-113. Fern and Lemojo wrap up their edifying conversation, Lemojo admitting their cooperation will probably be good for him. They settle down for the night since it's probably 2 am by now. Morning comes! Grayling webcomic page 10-114. Hy meets Eke at the superfund site. Instead of a weird little toad, Eke is a weird, tall elf today. Hy is in his underwear, held up in the air by void snakes, ready for the metaphysical surgery or whatever it is they are about to do.
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Finally got around to doing a color & body type sketch for Klyre
February 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I painted this background yesterday, the character color is next.
A WIP image of Grayling page 10-117. Hy (a guy who is partly a bunch of snakes) is talking to Eke, a twink from space.
January 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Cont'd.
I was really jamming on that tablet. My wife @minahoneybat.bsky.social uses it now, but I should probably get back to it sometime. It DOES let me draw digitally on the couch.
I was having so much trouble getting eyes and mouths right with the new tablet, I was going nuts trying to figure out why it didn't seem to work. The sketches look fine, but the action of the line is probably what I was bothered by Sketches I made to go along with issue 10 beginning, the Waazim stuff, and Viv/Darcy/Lem interactions. The yellow thing is a composition sketch for a scene in the long future.
January 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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A sketchbook from 12/2023.
Practicing a lot of Lyudmilas in this one. The notes in the lower right tell me I was testing a tablet here. I think it was the Huion screen tablet. I really like it but could never get out of my head about it. In the end I prefer to use a screenless tablet with a normal monitor & it's funny because that's so cheap now. I've gotten used to not having my hand in the way. :p Space Clown Suti. Well, sometimes clowns must do politics. They can't help it.
January 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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2023
Digital painting in orange and blue of my webcomic character Hy being naked like he often is. He got chopped up, that's his excuse. Digital painting of my webcomic characters Lem and Darcy dancing in bright green and red. Digital painting (red background, a green figure, a blue figure, & a yellow figure) of my webcomic characters Lem, Rae, and Cal. Cal is tormenting Rae, who is in turn tormenting Lem. A red & teal digital painting of a mutated, headless torso with multiple arms and legs. This is for some Lem stuff, I believe. But elementals also just do this.
January 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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2021-2022
My webcomic characters Cal [left] and Lem [right] in a bright purple and orange painting. Cal looks simpering and happy while Lem looks pissed and tired. This is a painting I did for some promotional images. My webcomic character Cal roughly painted in green & purple with the name of the comic, Grayling, in white to the right. A red/blue digital painting of my webcomic characters Lem and Cal. Lem has the high ground and Cal's worried about it. A painting of my webcomic characters, Suti, in green and white. I did this to warm up my Suti skills, since they were going to appear in the comic again in what turned out to be 2024? I can't remember now. :P
January 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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These are from fall 2021. I want to get back to painting like this.
My webcomic character Hy looking zooted in a red/purple/green/yellow digital painting. My webcomic character May. Her nose is a little too big in this one. But I do like how it came out. My webcomic character Fern looking worried in a digital pink and black painting. My webcomic characters Rae and Lem looking on with mixed horror and glee as something explodes to the lower left in a blue and orange digital painting.
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Okay.
Olly is a Grayling character who is very old (as in, I came up with him a long time ago) but hasn't featured yet. He's a halfling who was born in a clutch of land dragon eggs. His life is NOT GOOD for many years but Barlowe helps him out... Fern should meet him sometime in the next series. I will probably change his design again. He looks MOSTLY human, just slightly draconic. He isn't accepted by the dragons fully (they consign a lot of drudgery to him to make him earn the right to stay at the colony) and he doesn't have the social skills to run away to a human colony. Some Ells in there, probably to warm up on drawing her. Right now my Ellconcern is, I need to make her more distinct from Darcy in terms of her hair. Darcy's hair is like, a dark periwinkle sort of color, and Ell's is purple. Close enough it confuses folks and their faces are also sameish. Which means I must draw them both thousands of times lol As is probably obvious, I love drawing Rae laughing. I think I was still trying to firm up Lemojo's design at this point. He doesn't always have his lazy beard. I was going through some things thinking about rotating Rae's ears in the lower right. The comic is the characters talking about their favorite aspect of spring. Cal says, "The yelling frogs at night." I don't know why I was designing a deer boy, yet here he is. Hy work in the lower right with his sacrificed body parts marked out
January 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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These are from a 2/2021 sketchbook. Poses, faces, nailing down hair, that sort of thing

[reposted for fixing alt txt & images. Bluesky is killing me with this shit]
General warmups and thinking about how stupid Fern is. A Kezper doodle Some Fern and Rae stuff and Darcy. Hy laughing like He-man. The brothers are talking about killing Gollum right away. Only Rae would not have, because he relates to other monstrous people. Also, Darcy & Lem stuff. Lots of figure drawings, probably thinking about scenes and contrasting the appearances of characters, and group interactions generally. Also, fish men. And eyes
January 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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2020 is when I was doing a lot of design work on the Lem/Hy/Lemojo triad.
Digital sketch of my webcomic character Hy strung up. He doesn't like it, it's just how things turned out. Digital painting of my webcomic character Hy dealing with an evil tree that has a nasty mouth My webcomic characters Lem, Hy, & Lemojo, who are clones of each other, and have problems My webcomic character Lem! He's pissed!
January 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I finished another page so I guess I should post some art. Here are some 2020 Grayling-related paintings.
Digital painting of my webcomic character Fern. Digital painting of my webcomic characters: Kezper, Cal, and Hy. Kezper is a biomechanical monstrosity, and the other two are adult men who are taking care of Kezper. Portrait of my webcomic character Hy looking toasted. He's toasted because he was marinated in extreme radiation for thousands of years Portrait of my webcomic character Lem smiling in some rough wind.
January 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM