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Black Friday Sale!

11/16/2020

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The year has flown by as we've adjusted, or tried to adjust, to life in quarantine. Holidays have come and went but THE holiday season is coming up on us quicker than you would think. With Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday on the horizon I will be having a 20% off sale on commissions and products. If you're checking out from the store, make sure you type in the coupon code "BLACKFRIDAY20" to get your 20% off. If you are ordering a commission, a PayPal invoice will be sent to you with the original price detailed and the 20% discount added. 

Support Black artists this Black Friday weekend. 
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Keeping Sane in Quarantine

3/30/2020

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The past month has been a rough one for everyone. The threat of the coronavirus isn't something that should be taken lightly though while quarantined we find ourselves missing the things we once took for granted. Having the option to go out wherever we wanted, being around large groups of people, being able to eat in at our favorite restaurants. 

While it is sad, being quarantined has given us the chance to take up new hobbies and to give us the chance to work on projects. Personally, I have taken up animating once again. A few short sequences here and there to get the juices flowing once more but it is something that I have really enjoyed. 

Both animations were done using two different methods. The first one, we'll call our little blob friend Gnocchi, was done utilizing frame by frame animation. Each frame was drawn individually.  As with it being the first, it is a little choppy and had some continuity issues, but it was a fun test. 

The second was done utilizing key frames. As the background was a static image, the easiest part was to adjust the positioning of the orb and the opacity of the the glow for each key frame. 

I look forward to doing more experiments with animation, even as just a way to see some ideas come to life beyond art. 

I hope everyone of you stay safe and exercise caution during this time. 
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New Prices

2/4/2020

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January has come and gone now, though all of it feels as if January was a year all by itself. 

So for the sake of our sanity, I'll make this very brief:

Commission prices have been raised! A small raise in some categories and a slightly larger raise in others.

That is it, that's the announcement! 

For now at least.
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Happy New Year: A Look Back Over the Decade

1/1/2020

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It’s a new year, it’s a new decade! A lot of interesting things have happened in the past decade but I want to focus on my growth over the years. The best way to illustrate how I’ve grown is to compare pages from StepSisters. StepSisters in it’s entirety has been going on for 8 years going on 9. It has grown and evolved much like myself over the course of its years. Since its humble beginning back in 2011, it has been through four separate incarnations. Some of which never made it past the first chapter.

As it grew, the original concept of the story has stayed the same but the characters, the events they experienced and the outcome of the story itself has changed. The details and execution was always changing because the story grew as I grew and learned new methods of storytelling. I also grew out of the habit of centering a sole Black character in lands where Black people weren’t visible to having an already inclusive setting for the story.

And of course my art has grown by leaps and bounds. The picture on the right is from the very first incarnation of StepSisters. In 2011, my first foray into digital art and I believe that all of this was before I even acquired my first tablet. There were so many things that I was still learning and so many things that I never even thought of attempting. This version made it to two chapters. Like the other versions soon to come after it, I stopped because the story and the art weren’t progressing in the fashion that I was hoping it would. The disconnect between what I wanted it to be and what my skill set allowed me to put out was so great that I felt that the only thing I could possibly do was to stop and go back to the drawing board.

The versions between the first and the current incarnation have been through the same process. I would start it but feel as if the story, and my art, were not there yet. And as such, they would all get scrapped. However, during the down time between versions the development on it never stopped. I immersed myself in fiction and comics that closely represented the styles I wanted for StepSisters: the tone, the pace of the story, the different ways I could explore the characters that were true to their respective personalities. Every version was a new experiment that implemented the new information I had exposed myself to.

However, it wasn’t until I had started working on this version of StepSisters, which was published back in July of 2017, that I felt like it was how I envisioned it to be way back when I was still a young girl starting high school. The next image is a page from Chapter 3 (2019) and compared to the first page you can clearly see how despite the changed implemented, the key components of the story have survived the chopping block. As Mariya and Sara (formerly Seira) have always been enemies/rivals/what-have-you, Sara’s introduction to the story has always been formatted to clearly state to the audience that she was in fact an antagonist. So a preliminary showdown before we get into the heavy hitting parts of the story to establish this connection was always intended to be in the slot where it is.
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Store Updates and More!

11/11/2019

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Hi loves! Hope you guys are doing well, just a few updates for you guys. 

The store has been updated with a couple of NEW products, with more prints intended to be made available later throughout the month. Along with new prints, StepSisters is now in its fourth chapter and updates every Sunday at around 12 pm EST. If you haven't started the series you can catch it from the beginning on either Tapas or Webtoons. 
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Order "Black Joy" Here
Featured to the left is one of the new products available in store titled "Black Joy". The shirt is a tri-blend of fabrics (50% polyester/25% combed ring-spun cotton/25% rayon), with 40 singles thread weight. It's comfortable and durable, lightweight, with a contemporary fit (in other words it fits slim. The shirt is $27 USD, not including shipping and handling fees. 

Featured to the right is where you can preorder of Issue #2 of StepSisters. The preorder for the book is $15 USD, not including shipping and handling fees.
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Preorder Issue #2 Here

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Store News

12/21/2018

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Hello everyone! 

I'm going to make this brief. The storefront I primarily use, TicTail, decided a couple of months ago that it would be merging with Shopify as of April 2019. So, starting next January I will be shifting the primary storefront over to Storenvy. It is the same as TicTail, probably with a little more customization options and features, so it everything will still be the same. 

Anyways, see you guys then! 
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    Currently a resident of North Carolina, Jacinda Aytch (pronounced 'H') is a graphic designer and illustrator that is currently working on her own series, StepSisters, as well as a myriad of personal, exploratory illustrations. 

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