Moss Piglet (December 2025): Inventions

Moss Piglet (December 2025):
Invention

Hey, hey, it's another cartoon/comic strip-based post about a submission I made a little bit ago to "Moss Piglet", a small art magazine out of Kenosha, Wisconsin I've been contributing to the past few years.  They use a monthly theme for it's publication and this time it was "Invention", and what better Invention than a Time Machine?

I figured, since I had this cartoon taking place on December 31, 2025, it would be a good one to use for the last day of the year.  Also, if I was visited by my future self, it would probably happen in about that way.

Since it is the end of the 2025, I do want to take a few moments to sincerely thank everyone who has stopped by to gawk and rubber-neck at my modest Blog.  It is much appreciated!

I'm not sure what happened this year, but the numbers on my Blog really took off by a factor of 10x-20x.  Not that anything else seems to have changed--just a case of "Line go up" on a graph--but it is still interesting and somewhat flattering, if real.  Although, for all I know, it's probably just AI Bots scraping all the Internetz for art to steal.  Who knows?  I'll be posting regardless and Generative AI can go to H-E-Double Hockeysticks, as can the rich dickheads trying to push it down our throats ala foie gras.

Speaking of posts, this year I've done the most posts--69 (Nice!).  And, for next year, hopefully there will be more.  I did sort of like running with a theme a couple times, and will probably do that again.

Anyhoo, THANK YOU to all my friends, enemies, and everyone else who has stopped by to gawk.  Out with the old year and in with the New Year!  Here's to hoping everyone has a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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For those of you interested, here's the link to the Homepage for "Moss Piglet": https://www.krazines.com/

You can also view previous issues online at: https://www.krazines.com/archives.html  If you're able, subscribe and tell 'em John D. sent you!  There isn't a discount with it or anything, but it will give the illusion that I have friends and know people and such. 😉 

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Done digitally in Clip Studio Paint.

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Merry Sithmas 2025 - Darth Maul

MERRY SITHMAS
Darth Maul

Merry Sithmas!  I hope everyone is well and has/had/will have a great Holiday Season (whatever you do or don't believe)!  Rather than do up a more obscure Sith character (cannon or non-cannon, who knows?), I figured I'd dust of Darth Maul again with his Christmas Tree lights for horns.

Sure, last year I was hoping to perhaps do up a "Real" animated video for Sithmas and while I did do up a better animated .gif, it is not quite the true, smooth animation I had in mind.  Oh, well, next year, for sure!  Probably...

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Alas, I don't have a Work in Progress, but here's a single image .jpeg rather than the Animate .GIF for no apparent reason at all...

I did up the Darth Maul and Winter Scene digital painting in Rebelle, leaving the Christmas Tree Bulbs/Horns on his head to be done in Photoshop, along with the snow and the type for "Merry Sithmas".

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Done digitally in Rebelle and some in Photoshop (with the animated .GIF produced in Photoshop).

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Merry Sithmas 2025 - General Grievous

MERRY SITHMAS
General Grievous

Hey, hey, it's time for a Sithmas Card!  This time it's not a "True" Sith, but someone adjacent to Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus, as well as killing a number of Jedi, as well.  So, we'll call it close enough!

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital pencils, done in Clip Studio Paint.  It is a 2,00px x 2,791px document at 300dpi.

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STEP TWO:  And here are the digital inks.  They were mostly done with a 15pt digital brush.

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STEP THREE:  Here are the colors, done in a variety of layers under the inked layer before the animation lights were applied.  For the animation, three images were imported into Photoshop in the Timeline, and exported as an animated .GIF.

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Done digitally in Clip Studio Paint (with the animated .GIF produced in Photoshop).

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