Doing What I Can

Staying busy with my art stuff for the last few weeks. I’m doing what I can to pack my days with activity and take my mind of things. I feel good when I’m focused on a project that I care about.

I did some “Brand Synergy” and renamed my web domain from “ryanfrancisart.com” to “mastafran.com.” Since my username on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, Artstation, and Newgrounds gets me more search results of my art than my actual birth name, I’ll just use it for my general “brand.” It’s still the same site and if I set up my redirects right, the old site name should redirect to the new names. If there are any problems, feel free to message me.

I edited together a progress video of our game tentatively called “Cole Blackmask and the Scrolls of Soleon” or just “Blackmask” It’s a Game Boy styled action-platformer about a raccoon merchant adventuring an outlandish animal world for ancient magic scrolls of cataclysmic power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mual9nuoCd0&t=4s

This is actually older footage melded together but I wanted to have a bigger elevator pitch video to show off to people. There’s still so much to do before we have enough for a playable demo. The music isn’t even ours because it’s from Final Fantasy Legend 2, so the music stuff isn’t squared away yet.

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What I’ve Been Up To: Sketching and Video Editing

I’m keeping my head above water with my commissions and other art, but I feel slightly more accomplished in the past few weeks as I’ve been learning to make edit videos like my chat with Bryant Bell. We talk about art, conventions, and life stuff so if you have an hour or time, please give it a listen.

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What I’ve Been Up To: Game and Art Progress

I’m okay but getting a burned out of my stuff. I’ve been slowly attempting to move away from my Twitter and Instagram, trying to keep my sanity with actual galleries sites like here. I’m doing my best to stream as frequently as I can on my Twitch Channel so follow me to catch me working on art stuff commissions!

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What I’ve Been Up To: Project Blackmask

If you’ve been following my art and this blog before 2020, you know that I draw a lot of anthropomorphic animal characters. These animals were ideas for characters and world for a webcomic idea that I was thinking about for the past nine years.

Cole the Weapon Seller

It would’ve been the ongoing adventures of a plucky adventure merchant named Cole Blackmask as travels to strange lands, questing for loot to sell, battling powerful warriors and mystical forces who reside all over this funny animal world.

Cole Jacket Poses
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Journey June: The Pizza Man

I was having trouble with figuring out what the heck to do with my art, so I decided to participate in Journey June on a comic called: The Pizza Man! Per it’s rules, It was completely improvised and I had no real story planned besides whatever daily prompts tell me.

You can read the entire comic here!

My comic for this art challenge is called, The Pizza Man: The story of a simple pizza delivery driver, who must drive through insane obstacles to complete his order on time.

Click to learn more about Journey June!

Click to learn more about Journey June!

What I’ve Been Up To: Busy, Busy!

I’ve been drawing small stuff to pay my bills, fill my portfolio, and staying busy. Despite, constantly feeling like I’m behind on everything I’m getting the things expected of me done.

Progress is being made working on the Illustrations on Flawless Extra-Ordinary Superheroes, knocking out a larger illustration and pushing forward to the next few ones.

Flawless Extra-Ordinary Super HeroesS.T.E.A.M. Intro
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Chuggin Along

Pardon all of the sudden changes to my website if you’ve been following me on here. I’m never satisfied with a theme because many of them have little quirks and oversights that I never account for like being incompatible for mobile, or not displaying my comics correctly.

In general things aren’t as eventful due to the virus situation, but I’m doing my best to stay busy and to be positive. Right now, I’m working on a set of stickers inspired by this bread cat art I made a long while ago. A few more cats and I’ll have a worthwhile sticker pack.

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My Comics on Etsy

Today would’ve been the weekend that I would be tabling at Anime Central but due to all conventions being cancelled for the year, I’ve decided to run my convention exclusive deals on my Etsy store!

I now have a current ongoing deal where you purchase both the print copies of Shirley’s Day and Incident at the Game Store, and you get an art print of your choosing absolutely free!