#FallingFridayTime: The dialogue here isn't keeping with the festive season, so for now, I'm just calling this panel: The Threat! I hope you all have a great time over the holidays! #threat #badguys #comics #indie #crime #sorryitsnotfestive

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It's #FallingFridayTime again already! Here's "Where do ya think you're going?!?" all coloured up. Do you have any fun plans for the weekend? I'm going to watch Spider-Man:into the Spider-Verse again for the second time! #comics #indie #artist #uk #fantasyart #lovemyjob #storytelling

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"Underwater Characters" illustration for SciFiNow magazine. #disney #pokemon #pokemongo #spongebob #futurama #zoidberg #hellboy #abesapien #ursula #ariel #swimming #underwater #scifi #scifinowmagazine #cartoon #magikarp

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#FallingFridayTime: Things are getting tense! Tursk gets angry! #comics #fantasy #indie #fantasy #argument #lovemyjob #infighting

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#FallingFridayTime: "Hey! Where do ya think you're going?!" #comics #indie #fantasy #caughtout #distracted

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An original by @tinatouli at @adobe #creativemeetup #london

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#FallingFridayTime "Anger issues". Wild-Eye Pete gets to the point! #comics #indie #creatorowned #project #fantasy #threat #friday

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#FallingFridayTime: Caught out- coloured! #fantasy #indie #comics #badguy #scythe #wildeyepete

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Y'know that feeling when your email has stopped working because you've been incorrectly flagged for spam and then your graphics tablet stops working and you recognise the words "absent" and "dead"? Today has been hard work.

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#FallingFridayTime: "Hold on..." all coloured up. #indie #comics #fantasy #adventure #falling

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#FallingFridayTime: "Give us all of your money and stuff!" Wild-Eye Pete gets nasty! #comics #indie #digitalart #threat #ukartist #photoshopcc #adobe #wacom

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#FallingFridayTime Wild-Eye Pete, not the smartest bandit around... #comics #indie #digitalart #photoshop #wacom #workinprogress #badguy #fantasyart

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A few people asked to see what replaced my faithful old Cintiq, so here it is: the #Wacom Cintiq Pro 24! It is SO lovely to use. Between this and @adobe Photoshop CC 2019, I'm now in #digitalart heaven! #drawing #illustration #design #graphicstablet #creativecloud

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Normally, I don't make a big deal of hardware changes, but this old warhorse, the Cintiq 21UX (the original model!) has been nothing less than heroic. It's been on pretty much every weekday, and many weekends, since March 2008! If you've enjoyed any of my work in the last 10 years, chances are it was made with this classic machine. When I originally bought it it cost more than my car did, and it felt like an enormous financial risk as I was just starting out in the business, but this investment paid for itself countless times over. Thank you, old friend. I'll always remember you fondly. #wacom #digitalart #nostalgia #hero #art #upgrade #thankyou

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What's this? #wacom #newdelivery #excitement #digitalart

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#FallingFridayTime: "Umm...what?" Paniro, getting confused by some inconsistency from the Wild-Eye Pete gang! #rough #sketch #comics #indie #incredulous #harpoon #cape

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#FallingFridayTime: The face of concern. #comics #indie #fantasy #warrior #escalation #concern

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I'm having a monochrome day.

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#FallingFridayTime: Taking a moment. Arisaema surveys the remnants of Whisper's Reach. #comics #widescreen #panel #dead #indie #story #fantasy #mystery

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#FallingFridayTime: time-saving trick! In comics, you're going to be drawing and colouring certain things repeatedly, so why not borrow a trick from video game artists and make some of these elements into smart objects that you can use repeatedly? #worksmarternotharder #assets #videogames #comics #advice #protip #trees #stones

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#fallingFridayTime: Reactions. One of the reasons I've always wanted to draw comics is that you can show the emotional beats between characters. My favourite moments in film and TV are often the reactions the actors have to each other. The small glances or emotional leakage that tells more than their dialogue does. From one panel to the next you can tell your audience multiple things at once, which is something I look forward to doing a lot. #comics #indie #reaction #emotion #acting

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Super Hamlet 64: a spoken word show about video games and Shakespeare! Poster design for @eddydaylia #nonbinary #physicaltheatre #lecoq#spokenword #poetry #ukulele #hamlet#superhamlet64 #videogame #theatre#projectionmapping #retrogaming #artrix #theatreshopclevedon #undertale #norwich #nottingham #bromsgrove#swindon #bath #clevedon #oxford#croydon

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It's #FallingFridayTime! This is a reminder to all artists that reference is your friend. #comics #development #sketches #fallingcomic #workinprogress #photo #reference #goodpractice

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#FallingFridayTime! Designing a character's signature weapon always takes a bit of consideration, however, when the item is also magical in nature, it requires even more thought. As I've mentioned before, magic in Falling is going to be used infrequently, and it's not going to be commonplace. There's always some kind of cost involved, in part to stop magic becoming a simple plot solving device. I find it infuriating in a story when a power or item is used just in one circumstance and then ignored in situations where it would solve another problem because it's not what the plot needs at the time. If you apply limitations to powers then there's a good reason they can't solve everything. In Falling, certain items are spirit-bound. Once an item has been 'claimed' by someone, with a little of their own blood, it will respond to the owner alone, until they die. This means that you can't just have a character borrow a magic ability by taking it for 5 minutes, and also that each character is taking a large risk by spirit-bonding to an item, because the power may be desirable to others. It can make them a target. Arisaema, being one of the major players in Falling was a natural fit for a magic weapon. She didn't become one of the most renowned warriors by hiding away from risk. She's a skilled fighter, a celebrity with a sense of showmanship, and moves with both precision and style, so a sword made perfect sense for her. Arisaema's sword, named "Balance", looks impressive in it's resting state, but when Arisaema wields it, Balance's magic unlocks creating a significantly more intimidating weapon, that drains the strength of anyone harmed by it, and transfers that energy to Arisaema. Fun fact: Arisaema's distinctive white hair was an unexpected side-effect caused by Balance! The first time she used Balance to slay an enemy, their energy returned to Arisaema, healing her wounds and permanently giving her a white mane! Magic changes people in a number of ways!

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#FallingFridayTime this week is pages 8 & 9 in full. Now you can see everything in order, showing the tension build before the attack! Next week: For a change of pace, some concept design. patreon.com/posts/20680485

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#FallingFridayTime: Searching It completely slipped by me that I haven't shared this panel from Page 9 yet! This takes place before the attack happens, where Arisaema and Sann are looking through the village of Whisper's Reach, trying to work out how a whole town ends up dead. Well, *almost* the whole town, as we now know! Part of the fun of drawing scenes for me is setting the mood. Between the sickly-green sky, the twisted thorns and the off-balance trees and imposing mountains, you don't even need to see the pile of bodies to know this is a bad place to be.

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Because it's my birthday today, #FallingFridayTime this week is a throwback to the first ever public image I shared for #Falling! This looks so weird to me now, because all of the characters have developed so much that this doesn't represent them properly anymore! #comics #indie #changeisgood

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It's #FallingFridayTime (I'm hoping this hashtag works better as my other posts get lost amongst a sea of Instagram posts when I just use #FallingFriday. More sketches from page 10, and as you can see, Arisaema has the situation under control. #shutdown #sword #fight #fantasy #dead #comics #fallingcomic

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#fallingcomic work in progress, Arisaema has spotted her attacker. What's her next move? #comics #fantasy #indie #artistsoninstagram

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#elephant sketches. #animal #art

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#FallingFriday time for an #action scene! What's the scariest situation you've ever been in? #danger #badomens #mystery #lookout #artistsoninstagram #fantasy #comics #indie #patreon

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#throwbackthursday #tbt to a #collaboration with @thomas_scholes 12(!) years ago, back when I was still writing out my full signature and he was going by the name "idiot apathy"! It's safe to say we've both come on a bit since then! #conceptart #thegoodolddays

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#FallingFriday: Okay, he's definitely not dead, but something's not quite right. (In fairness, I don't look much different in the mornings.) What is this guy's story? #redeyes #morningperson #mystery #comics You can support me at patreon.com/davidcousens

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I designed the poster for the upcoming #popup #folk #orchestra in #Swindon. It's always fun to work with @buswellmusic. #entertainment #performance

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#tbt #throwbackthursday to a commission I painted of #MissMosh for @digital_arts. @officiallymosh #photoshoot #fetish #model #latex #digitalart #magazine

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When one of your all-time art heroes unexpectedly responds to your artistic tribute to them...awesome. 😁

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#FallingFriday art #reveal: pages 6 & 7 in full. Looks like Paniro and Nushi are in trouble... #comic #comicart #artist #trouble #fantasy

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This week's #throwbackthursday is my illustration of #Death from the #sandman #vertigo #comics. Chris Bachalo (@ShadeX6) is a huge inspiration to me and many other artists. #thetimeofyourlife #thehighcostofliving

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Another #maysketchaday post. This time I made a tiled stone pattern which I will definitely be using again in the future. Thanks again to @thomas_scholes & @jef_schnabadue for the idea!

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Inspired by the #maysketchaday work of my good friend @thomas_scholes & @jef_schnabadue I've started to work smarter & start drawing frequently used assets &a combining them to make scenes quickly. It's good fun!

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#fallingFriday this week is a partial reveal of the entire comic spread to give you the size of the #impact #crater that's just been discovered...the final two panels will@be revealed next week!

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Bonus #FallingFriday image: a close up of the unrevealed panel from page 4! #lookatthat #oohshiny #explosion #bandits

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It's #fallingFriday time: here is all of pages 4 and 5! Please can you support me make this at https://ift.tt/2dYIAmX Even the smallest donation helps out. Thanks. #patreon #comics #indie #selfpublished

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This week's #FallingFriday - Nushi has definitely found something... #calmbeforethestorm #lifeabouttochange #mystery #fantasy you can support me at https://ift.tt/2dYIAmX

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Instagram is cropping this (obviously!) so you're best viewing this week's #FallingFriday over at https://ift.tt/2dYIAmX #comic #page #reveal

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This week's #FallingFriday : I'm loving drawing poor Paniro already! #traveller #chase #realisation #comics

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It's #FallingFriday and Nushi is on the move! #dog #running #red #comics #indie You can support me at https://ift.tt/2dYIAmX

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#throwbackthursday #tbt #illustration this week: #cyberbots by #capcom games. #fullmetalmadness #videogames #fighting

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It's a lovely thing when the image you draw has the exact expression you're after. More work for #GeminiComic @livingmachinesinitiative #argument

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This week's #FallingFriday is the first panel from page 5, where Paniro and his oversized dog Nushi notice something #magical! #mystery #calltoaction #supportmeonpatreon

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