What the shit is Studio Squid Ink?

 First and foremost it has nothing to do with actual squid ink. That would be messy. Just wanted to get that out of the way. So what do we actually do? Art mostly, comics. Who knows we might even get brave and try our hand at a game or two. Skies the limit when you’re creative.

 

Now lets make something clear, this studio was started by a couple of anime loving perverts. Literal on the couple part because we’ve been married since 2009 and together for so much longer than that. We draw many things from tasteful pin-ups to full out tentacle monster parties. Now if you’re not into that sort of thing that’s cool. We’re the last people who will judge you. So you have two options. Stay out of anything that’s labeled NSFW (not safe for work) and you’ll be fine. Or well you could just leave this page all together and wipe it from your memory. Either works!

 

So do we do anything SFW (safe for work)? Yes we do. Occasionally. It’s really hard scraping our brains out of the gutter. However when we do you can get things like tanks, faries, fantasy and sci-fi stuff. Even our original characters acting normal. Do we do fan art? It happens, but it’s not our main focus. Far from it. We prefer to tell our own stories.

 

So who run’s this nut house? Well it’s Nova and Alanna. Are those your real names? . . . This is the internet. No. But if you’d like to learn a little more about us anyway you can read our bios and see what we actually do around here.

 

 

  What’s our goal in all this? To tell stories, do a little bit of art, and maybe make you laugh. Sure some of our stories are down right silly and improbable. But the real world is hard enough and hopefully we can help you escape it, even if just for a brief moment.

NovaCaster
Hentai Wizard and other things

 NovaCaster – noun, plural noun Super Nova

  1. artist – the maker of all things pretty and sexy, and often pretty sexy

  2. spinner of ideas – conjuring ideas that can be turned into stories and better written by others

  3. pervert – maker of the fapables, refuses to get out of the gutter with some exceptions

  4. tech wizard – makes things work, turns it off and on again, and other techy stuff

 

 

Why NovaCaster? Magic is the shit and Nova in Diablo was a cool spell. It was the first name I used for my first Xbox online account and I just adopted it for a number of other things I did online.

 

What do I do around here? Mostly I draw and come up with a lot of ideas of things to do or draw. Then maybe I do a third of them. Third is probably being generous, but lets say a third. But with the addition of a wife I have gotten a lot more things done because she helps keep me on track. No really she has a taser and she’s not afraid to use it. The taser part is true.

 

I’m also the tech savant. Handy with computers, figuring out programs, and web lay out and other technical design elements. Originally I was a 3-D animation student and I grew up with computers from the days where floppy drives were the shit, 10MB was huge, 256kB memory was mind blowing, and a monster processor of 4.77MHz was out of this world.

 

 

When I’m not drawing or geeking out over all things computer I can be found rocking my brains out and throwing the horns. I can also be found flying through the mountains in my VW GTI, warhammering, collecting more plastic crack than I can actually build and paint, drinking good beer, and other good wholesome nerdy things.  

Alanna Harpsong
Obsessed with making Cthulhu cute

 Alanna Harpsong – noun, pural noun Alanni

  1. artist – draws pictures, inks pictures, colors pictures

    synonyms – hentai artist, doodle noodle, wrecker of childhood memories

    antonyms – angelic, innocent

  2. writer – comic scripts, other scripts, all the boring necessary stuff, comic lettering and word bubbles

  3. pervert – lurks in the dark shadowy places of the mind and loves it there, has some standards

  4. miscellaneous task monkey – all the other shit I do that has no specific title but is important somehow.

 

So how did I get my name? It comes from my days playing Final Fantasy 11. Alanna a name that I liked and one of my favorite characters from one of my favorite series of books. As I played more games and was unable to get just Alanna I came up with Harpsong. I was a bard in FFXI. It’s just kind of stuck ever since and became my online presence.

 

How did I get into doing this in the first place? Well I’ve always been creative. I’ve always found something creative to involve myself in. One day I saw a boy I liked and I drew pictures so he’d pay attention to me. He taught me to do things better. Then the silly sot married me and now we do this together. I do my fair share of art. I also a lot of the writing. I write things and my honey makes them into picture things like comics. I’ve also helped a lot to taking on some of the inking, base coloring and lettering. Then Kaho came along and offered to let us enslave her to do things so we could do more other things and it’s been beautiful.

 

 

What else do I do? Rock my brains out, cook tasty things, do forgotten things like sewing, nerd out and play table top war games, drive like a bat out of hell in the mountains, go to unique places and eat myself to death, read things, be enslaved for ear scratches by my cat and other stuff that I can’t recall at the moment.