Aliza Layne

Hello! The old Demon Street website was lost in an accident while offboarding from my former digital publisher. Please do not visit it. When I can, I will get a new DS website up or append an in-browser reader for DS to my current website at alizalayne.com. In the meantime, here is a zip file with a

edit: Please find the page attached for download. Despite uploading this file at the exact size patron tells us to use, it still looks like this right now, but the downloadable version is quite big and nice. Hello all, I have directly moved from working on Beetle and the Chimera Carnival to the unti

Text is not final! This is going to be the first page of Beetle and the Chimera Carnival so that readers will be able to remember everything they need to know and if someone hasn't read the first book they won't be too confused. There's also brand-new information about magic here that will be import

Hi all, thanks for the support! Before I start talking about this project, I want to make sure everyone is aware of the BEETLE CAMEO COLLECTION POST! If you would like to have a CREATURE CAMEO in BOOK 2 OF THE BEETLE SERIES please respond to that post before DECEMBER 31ST. I'm sharing the first few

As a thank-you for your support while I've been working on Beetle and the Chimera Carnival, I am adding "cameo creatures" representing my patrons to one of the backmatter pages of the book. You can request your creature using the form above. You don't have to be logged into google to use the form. T

Thank you for your support! I had the chance to make a video that was not going up on my publisher’s youtube channel, so I wanted to include all current patrons in the credits. Some kids who have sent me their fanart had trouble drawing Kat, so I wanted to make this video for them. how to draw Kat H

Designing and color styling for book 2’s climax. Many of the pages I’ve finished to color ahead of time are very big spoilers, so I’m excited to show this! The dragon parade balloons are super fun to design.

a small recording of my process inking this page can be found here.

Note: This essay was written for an instructional writing anthology that unfortunately could not move forward so its organizer could focus on their health. I am excited to share this unpublished work as a blog post with all of you! This is an essay about writing and drawing places that feel alive. A

Hey all! A lot of this month was spent preparing for my first ever indoor in-person event with real live kids, which was both an interview/book signing and a class about comics I taught at my local library. I’ve included some slides of my only assignment for that class. It went really well! The kids

Working on the title drop for Beetle 2 today! Thank you for another month of support and happy pride month! As for Demon Street, I’ve had to focus in on Beetle recently as we’ve had a lot of intense medical situations with my family lately & I needed to go get a part time job. Still, if you’re waiti

Lots of thought went into Beetle's room and how she would live in it, I wanted it to be idealized without it being unrealistically big for their small house. It's the room of a kid who isn't rich but IS doted on by her grandma, and who has made a few additions to the room herself. She has lots of st

Hello all! This is a public post, the first of several behind-the-scenes peeks into how I think through designing rooms in a character-first way. The rest will be patron-only. Text retyped below for ease of reading: __ I wanted Penny's room to have a unique setup that suited their talents: they can

One of many locations I've designed for BEETLE AND THE CHIMERA CARNIVAL: Kat's Parents' home. Thank you all for your support this year. That this book is happening at all is due in large part to your generosity.

It's a new month! Another finished early panel from a moment in book 2 I'm VERY excited about, as well as the concept art that I started with for this costume. There's a lot more of this to come. I asked my publisher last book if it was ok for me to post early content to patreon and they never answe

Available as a print: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/alizalayne/freak-of-nature/ And more details on twitter: https://twitter.com/alizabees/status/1461385645558013957?s=21 Process for “Freak of Nature” (YouTube)

We're announcing BEETLE AND THE HOLLOWBONES BOOKS 2 AND 3 this Saturday, the DAY BEFORE HALLOWEEN! You're the first to know in the entire world. Shh! <3

Something I'm in the middle of making for promo. I never formally learned animation so I'm fiddling around and teaching myself. I really appreciate everyone who joined me last month after I linked the patreon in the demon street author's notes. I'm comfortable talking about it a little more here in

more visdev for an upcoming project

Hello all! Since coming up with these characters I’ve been wanting to do something more with them, and I finally decided that an illustration was the right thing with maybe a short bit of prose to accompany it. So this is the work in progress version of that illustration!

Another small piece of the behind the scenes work that I'm doing! You'll NEVER guess ;)

Character design sheet for an unannounced project. Look forward to seeing a lot more of her...!

this was the original watercolor script in my sketchbook for the Beetle and the Hollowbones climax. This was back before I changed Kat’s design to have hair. I would love to do a book in watercolor and pencil someday but it would take so long!

I'm branching out, or maybe just going back to my roots from before I was a webcomic artist. This version is a patreon exclusive, although I'll be trying to find a home for this story at a magazine or in an anthology in time. Cat Queen is a fairytale-horror for adults only, and is pretty different t

Hey there! This is a little process video of a recent illustration, it has some fun stuff in it, I add or discard various elements as I think about how the final piece will look. pumpkin paint (YouTube)

Hi everybody! I'm doing a big beetle push this october, and I'd love to have your help! Have you ever been in a thrift store and found just, the weirdest thing you've ever seen? Look at Demon & Souls Lamp. I saw this in real life. I loved seeing this. Anyway! I want to make some original Beetle & th

I was pleased to be able to get out into nature with my roommate and traded off taking halloween costume photos for each other. These are mine! Eventually they'll go up on social media for book promo, again probably a little closer to halloween, but you get them now. I'm really pleased with the impl

Hey all! I'm gonna be doing a lot of Beetle and the Hollowbones promo in October featuring a lot of original art. Since I'm making most of it ahead of time, Goblin month comes early for patrons! More forthcoming!

Hi everybody! Thanks for being so patient lately, especially those who are waiting for demon street updates! In the past little while I've been writing a 16-page tabletop roleplaying game from the world of BEETLE AND THE HOLLOWBONES, my book that's coming out in stores in less than a month! I made t

A few little doodles and character concepts for if I took Rootshade Nest farther into YA, which is what I'd do if I were to make something longer with the concept!

As always, independent comics projects are available to patrons at full resolution for free forever! This is the rootshade nest, a comic about the aftermath of a magical adventure.

I drew this after I watched phantom with a friend and then completely forgot about it until now. ALSO! I added more prints to inprnt and I have a 25% off code for you: ZJHFBYT

hello all! thank you to those who came to my stream on friday, i had fun! these prompts were really good!

[EDIT] Please visit twitch.tv/alizabees at 6 pm est on december 6th if you’d like to make a request and have a chat!! I am so excited to get to the requests you’ve sent me so far! Hello all! As a thank you for bearing with me during this crunch time finishing beetle and the hollowbones, I'm going to

Please check out the attached full res file of the cover, it's big and pretty and i want you to have it! SO!! here's the book that's been kicking my ass, as some of you might have seen on my social media already today and recently. Now you can preorder it!! Here's the link, you can read the synopsis

Hi all! I’m still not allowed to post stuff from Beetle and the Hollowbones but i wanted to update you about where it is and what my schedule has been like lately, because honestly patreon has been a massive windfall during crunch. I’m going to be real with you on this one, I’ve been in book crunch

this won't be useful to everyone, but it might be fun for some of you to play with a few of the custom brushes I've made, this is kind of a mishmash selection, all of things I couldn't find elsewhere, and then the inker is just a stab at making a really good inker. these brushes will only work for c

Hello all, happy... summer?? I have another anthology comic for you to read for free, a short n sweet original folk tale originally published in the valor II: wands anthology. I'll probably release this online and for free on my website at some point, but you get it first. Thanks as always for being

Hello all! I'm setting up an INPRNT store for non-demon street work (demon street prints are still at the hivemill store!) and I have a code for you guys if you'd like either of these prints! I'll put up some other new stuff in the future too, and release patreon-exclusive discount codes periodicall

some character design fun that I’m not sure when i’ll be able to finish.. sun dragon and moon princess

Hey all! Thanks for your patience with me! Here is something I have learned, that is pretty easy to figure out when you think about it: writing and drawing two painted books simultaneously while doing freelance is really hard and it means you have to work constantly. Who'd a thought it! Anyway, soon

Hi everybody! Since I've been making and serially releasing one big linear story for 6 years, it stands to reason that people would need to go back and reread everything to understand what is happening if they fall off. I see people in the comments all the time helping and reminding each other of pa

you can see a copy of this post on the demon street website, but I wanted to upload the full resolution of the image here as well as reposting the thank-you message for after I take this image down to preserve my archive. Here it is as written on demonstreet.co: Hi everyone! here's something to cele

Going Home is a 10 page short comic originally published in the second Beyond anthology. It's a 10 page short romantic fantasy thriller. Fay and Alma have managed to evade the pack of fairies hunting them for years, long enough to grow old and get married. But now they've been captured, and if they

Going Home is a 10 page short comic about a changeling trying to escape the faerie mob. you can expect it on january 1st, which is the soonest I'm legally allowed to post it. I wrote GH for the anthology Beyond 2 and it is the first of three anthologies that I was accidentally in at almost the exact

Here's some research for some of the plants that will appear in Beetle and the Hollowbones! I don't want to forget what I'm seeing around me right now, all the different plants that make the fall feel like fall. After the very wet summer we had, a lot of trees are covered in pale green lichen under

happy halloween month!! I am hard at work on layouts for my graphic novel, and it's the perfect time for it! I love filling this world with life, and part of that is coming up with character wardrobes. Finding a way to meet kid fashion with goblin halloween vibes is really exciting. ALSO! I am going

in case you're not aware, matelotage is an ongoing sci-fi erotica series that I'm putting out on slipshine, a subscription-only erotic comics site. this is the cover for the next chapter! I'd really like to make a print book of these comics available to purchase in the future!!

visual development for my upcoming book, Beetle and the Hollowbones.