Just wanted to share a sketch vs final. I make a seven page comic just to practice drawing trees, rain, and applying half tones in a way I liked. I got really excited to print this, but the results were humbling. I have yet to solve the moire issue and, as it was just a test, I might never come back to it.

I started out wanting to make a new icon that had The Monitor, which I usually use to represent myself these days, and Bun-E03, as a representative of my art, upstaging things as usual. But it got me thinking.

For a long, long time, I avoided having a representation of myself interact with my characters because... it was taboo? weird? cringe? fuck if I know, taking 3 minutes to interrogate it earlier I couldn't think of a clear reason why.

But the characters I create are just as much a part of me as anything else. Bun-E03 was designed to be a representation of my art, but that art is me, you know? Just like The Monitor, a busted-up machine that keeps on kicking, is me. It's me all the way down, baby.

This started out as a quick little idea for an icon, but I wanna expand on it, take my time with it, make it something that I can be proud of.

(And also I've been featuring The Monitor and Bun-E03 on streams together since late 2022 so that seal was already broken anyways)

Happy Burger Day! 🍔