Ah, then the swelling started, and Fox never slowed… Wolf tried to reason, but all of Wolf’s encouragement and advice had made a glutton more relentless than Wolf could’ve ever meant… Later, he’d look back in laugh - but in the moment, he was helpless before the wave of heft…

[i]Revamp of Starflab - Page 43[/

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Sometimes, we could all use a trip down memory lane, can’t we? Writing about this commission now is digging up an awful lot on my end, mostly good, thankfully.

This was commissioned by Kezzajam , who asked for something I hadn’t really done before - after seeing some newer art I’d done of Starfox, he asked if I could revamp a select couple of scenes from my old comic, Starflab.

For those of you who don’t know, Starflab is a sequence I started back in 2019, one that eventually grew into a comic, released in March of 2020 - it’s by far the largest project I’ve ever worked on, coming to a whopping 57 pages in total. In a lot of ways, it’s the comic that made both my account, and my art career, what it is today. The thing that put me on the map, if you catch what I mean.

I’d put off uploading this for a good while, largely because I wasn’t fully sure what I wanted to put in the description. This comic was the culmination of my first big sequence and collaborative effort (a big thank you again to ChoiceD for the writing on the original, was great working with him, another thing that made it so memorable), and the culmination of all the art tricks I’d learned up to that point - line variation, stomach shapes, expressions, sound effects, backgrounds, new lighting effects… There’s an awful lot that went into it. While I’d certainly do things differently if I took a shot at this today - as evidenced by the Revamp itself, of course - the original holds a very special place in my heart.

In some ways, I think I looked at this comic as the high of my art, something that I was always trying to live up to, and try to beat. It was a source of both inspiration and anxiety, if I’m being honest. But, as I examine both this new sequence, and the original, I find myself filled with a deep satisfaction, both with the artist I was then, and the artist I am now. I’m not even sure I’d say I’ve grown as an artist - I’ve certainly improved in some technical aspects, but I often find myself wistful for the pure, unbridled passion that overtook me when working on the original Starflab.

I’m not sure whether or not I’ll be able to replicate that furious passion again - I certainly hope so, but I’m not sure - but this revamp shows me that it’s okay either way. Somewhere, deep down, I feel like I’ve proven something to myself. I’m very happy with how this turned out, just as I’m happy with the original. I think, finally, I can say that I’ve lived up to that wonderful old Starflab comic though, at least in my own heart.

Thank you to anyone who listened to the sappy musings of an artist struck with sudden sentimentality. I sincerely hope you enjoy this new sequence, and for those of you that read the original, thank you for sticking around all this time. And, of course, a huge thank you to Kezzajam for commissioning me on this. Was an absolute blast.

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 Kezzajam - Commissioner