Hello everyone. My apologies for not being very active recently. I've been dealing with some very personal matters that made drawing a tertiary concern. (Sorry to vague-post, but I try to keep my socials exclusively as sources of spicy entertainment -- not a personal blog.)
Anyways, I'll try to get back in the saddle soon. As always, I appreciate all of your patience and understanding 🫶 thank you
@2099Joe22749 understood 😋👍 I will post a price sheet and contact info for commissions once I am ready to start accepting them. Which will most likely be 3 or so months from now.
And I might as well share an even older unfinished comic of various various OCs! Please forgive my cringe rough draft dialogue🙈too. If the progression is confusing, don't worry; there's 2x as many missing pages as are shown but they truly barely qualify as sketches lol. Basic story was about two fresh and bright-eyed "ladies of the night" getting that rent money when — on their way home from a very lucrative first day on the job — they cross paths with certain someone🦓and, after letting naivety and greed get the better of them, become another just another statistic.
@fairyequalfood You can do it!😤Makes the time off feel all the more enjoyable when you don't have unfinished projects hanging over your head.
(But nothing wrong with knowing your limits and taking care of yourself either! 🖤🩶)
@2099Joe22749 Flattered you'd ask!🥰I am not doing any comms at the moment, but I will be some time shortly after I finish the conclusion to "Exit Interview". I will make a post about it when I'm all set up🫡
@Ferdd427963 Learning how to get out of my own way/head has been a bumpy and frustrating journey, but the past couple years in particular have felt like I've been (finally) getting better at dealing with that😤
No worries! It's not an uncommon request😂 All good!
Firstly, thank you!🥰I have a number of projects like this that — while at the time — were too ambitious for me to handle, but can always be reused/revised later if I had the desire. My frustrating need for perfectionism, overly convoluted rendering process and bad habit of making projects bigger and bigger as I'm working on them is why I started trying to figure out a "simpler" style for comics compared to how I handle my stand alone illustrations.
tl;dr: Still ironing out some things in my workflow, but I'd like to go back and finish old projects at some point if possible!
Secondly (if I'm understanding you correctly - my apologies if not!😅), I'm not looking to get involved in any kind of RP (but thanks<3)
Talk about a blast from the past🤯as I'm diving back in to finishing the last stretch of "Exit Interview" I was going through my sketches and found — what was originally going to be — Natalya's comic...from 4 years ago! And good lord was I in over my head! I had a minimum of 9 pages planned for this (each of these pics containing 3 pages).😅a little overly ambitious lol. Anywho, thought I'd share this unedited look into how goofy and chaotic my brainstorming process can be.
📢 Artists! How to protect yourself with invoices &
What to do if you get a PayPal chargeback 🧵
Do you write "commission" in your invoice?
There's actually something much better...
@KakiraIrjath You're too sweet!🥰
There's so many amazing and skilled artists out there — it makes working on and posting my own content a little daunting at times😵💫 But so many people, like yourself, have been so kind and encouraging that can't help but want to keep chugging along!
🥳ta-da!~🎇
Holy frick did this push me to my limit lmao😤glad I reached a point to finally be satisfied with this sucker and call it done, but man was it a struggle🫠
Anywho~ hope it was worth the wait (might do a quick edit with some brief dialogue & onomatopoeia, but no promises). Then it's back to finishing Natalya's comic🙀
Awww thank you~😊
I can't help but obsess over every tiny detail, even though I know 90% of people won't even notice (not that I blame them haha)
"Hmmm, I say, is that floor reflection on the champagne glass in proper 2-point perspective?!🔎🤨" (protip: it probably isn't🥺)
True! The last (well technically "1st", I messed up the post order 😅) is also the same gal in the top with her hands pushing out, just redrawn a bit. I love the entire spectrum of the prey-pred dynamic, but try to show everyone's favorite a bit of love in one piece or another.
This one certainly contains more willing than not (a little ambiguity is fun), and even the prey that seems nervous/having second thoughts still wriggled down that pred-pipe with the others😜
And here's another (very) abridged look into my process (so far), just in case anyone was interested!
I know I make so much extra work for myself by constantly changing the linework while also having shading/light/flats thrown into the mix, but it's just how my dumb brain works! 🦓���🔨
There's even more chaos in the base file (not all that interesting or pretty to look at for you guys though) not including all the other gesture/pose work I lost in the original😭. Still have a whole background to add too.
Happy New Year everyone!🎉 This wasn't exactly how I planned to do this😅(when is it ever?) but I wanted to make a little something special to celebrate reaching 1k followers. Was hoping to have this sucker all finished by New Years and to make it my last piece of 2025 but a corrupted save file decided that wasn't happening😒(luckily I had an older version backed up). Anyways, still cranking away at this, but hope to have it done in the next week or two — then it's back to the comic pages!