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Hey, hey! I made a new set of paper figures! This set is samurai & co. from just before Tokugawa wrapped up all that warring states business.
Free pdf to print your own here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/february-paper-17389931
Hello, shipmates! This month’s paper figure set features famous pirate ships in scale to each other. Stage mock battles or decorate your bookshelf! Free printable PDF: https://www.patreon.com/posts/december-paper-16065467
Celebrate the chilly weather with the chilly reception that northern English tribes gave to Roman rule! This month’s FREE paper figure set PDF is available for download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/november-paper-15619732
Adorn your bookshelf/spice up your fourth grade social studies diorama project/enliven your RPG game/make you glad you don’t live nineteen hundred years ago
My Patreon paper figure set this (last) month is
so here y’go! Some of these are from folk tales, some are a mishmash of stories that I’d heard growing up so I combined ‘em and laid names on ‘em, some are a hybrid of folk tales and the creations of rural pulp writer Manly Wade Wellman, who wrote horror yarns from the twenties through the eighties, some are native myths from the region that still hold sway with the locals. This is the kind of stuff I’ve got in my backyard out here in Kentucky.
If you’re inclined, you can download these as a free printable PDF, and cut your own cards, either to keep flat or stand up. Here’s where you get ‘it (bottom of the post):
Happy Hillbilly Halloween!
I wanted to bring a little replica of that Notre Dame Charlemagne statue home from Paris as a gift for my folks, but so far as I could tell, no one made them (you could get little Cathedrals & Eiffel Towers a-plenty, though). So I did a bunch of sketches from different angles with the intention of making my own, kind of. This is my first attempt at a three-dimensional watercolor drawing, with the individual components painted flat and affixed to heavy black foam, and put together like a model.
It was a good learning experience; I’ve found that you can’t do precision cuts on thick foam board, which means that tiny-scale stuff like this doesn’t really fly. But rigidity is important, so it can’t just be heavy paper/card. I’m going to try a big shadowbox thing for my HeroesCon auction piece, but am going to do some material testing beforehand, notably to see if I can reliably affix my painting paper to the soft open-cell craft foam as a backing, which might take the cutting a little tighter. It may not take the glue at all, or its flexibility might allow it to more easily peel, but if I can use foam board for joints and smaller backing on the craft foam, it might work. We’ll see.
Anyway, here’s a 3D watercolor of a famous statue of Charlemagne, from whom we’re descended (probably most if not all European descent folks are, but we’ve got the line-of-birth records for the family, which is pretty fun to go through).
We were low on arrows, so I traded a drawing of a zen warrior monk archer for a new set. Just finished!
Cleaning out my filing cabinet, I found this handout that I made for my mini-comics class. Hope it’s helpful! Remember, it ain’t only for comics. Self-publish short stories, collections of drawings or sketches, or blank for journals/sketchbooks, etc.
(Reblogging because I’m doing a talk for teen writers tomorrow and sending them to tumblr is a lot more cost efficient than printing up a ton of handouts)
This paper figure set goes out to all the English majors. EXPATS & ARTISTS OF THE 1920S! Download/print for free:
You can cut ‘em out and play with 'em, put 'em on your bookshelf, etc (Feel free to share with folks who you think might like it).
On February 16 in 1741, Ben Franklin started putting out an original content monthly magazine, ushering in a new era of publishing and creating a new arena into which chumps like me could find outlet for their output. Thanks, Ben!
Thanks to my Patreon patrons, I’m finally able to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while: a monthly historical paper figure set. At the end of each month, I put up three choices for subject, and patrons can vote on their choice. For February, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was the winner, so here’s the first set. You can download it for free, print it out on cardstock, and make your own toys, decorations, or gaming pieces. I’ve written up a longer post about this set, with a lot of process stuff. Take a look, and download the print file here, too:
