August 10 Update

Last week I talked about the balance between making progress and spending time on update posts, so this week I thought I'd give a sort of visual scattershot of things I've been working on recently. Most of my work is not artist management, but it's less time-consuming and more visually dynamic to show some pictures than to type up a bunch about my work.

So, without further ado, here are four WIP images!

First up, Kali and I continue to work on assets for Slave Rehabilitator. This set is figuring out some expressions for Kyuble, everyone's favorite tentacle friend. It's good to move these along in the background so that, ideally, when I have more free time in my schedule I'll be able to begin production.

Next, I hope Annikath won't mind me sharing one of our rough sketches! The characters are just outlines because TLS orgies can include an absurd number of bodies, and the work gets multiplied when we sometimes consider multiple angles or approaches to a scene. This lets us test out basic ideas before Annikath goes to the hard work of fully rendering the scene.

DStP continues to chug along in the background, though some of the artists are more reliable than others. The background artist sent me the next WIP for World 5, which is mostly fine but needed a couple modifications before he can move on to finishing the details. These are just rough blocks of color to represent the objects that will be fully drawn later.

And finally, I was so distracted by the TLS postgame that I failed to realize that I actually hadn't commissioned a cover for the newest TWC book (which just finished posting). The artist and I went back and forth on details in uncolored WIPs before getting to this, so in theory they will quietly work on it for a week or two before delivering the colored version. After it will need lettering and such, but hopefully the release process won't have undue delays.

Okay, I hope this has been entertaining. Hopefully next week I will finally get a bit of a break, and if so I might take some time to finish up that longer text post. See you then!