Megazone23

Bodysuit 23 #833

Fun fact: The original storyboard I drew for this page was 11 panels long, which showed what's going on here and the aftermath. Cooper shot it down due to it being too crammed and certain details getting lost and confusing. I do want to try and start fitting more panels onto the pages from hereon, though. I'll be experimenting with that more in the future as I try to figure out a good sweet spot so that the pain of going down to one update a week is lessened. Visited the vet on Saturday! It wen...

Bodysuit 23 #832

The cat, who frequently likes to go outside and visit her boyfriend, has brought fleas into the apartment. So I'm dealing with that at the moment. It's kind of a pain, but I guess it's partially my fault for more or less becoming her owner despite her feral status to the point 90% of her time was spent staying inside. Also didn't help that her boyfriend, who's straight up feral, would sometimes walk into my apartment when I left the patio door open and scope out the place. I'm sure he brought i...

Doris Bunny Suit

Little warmup drawing I did a few days back.

Bodysuit 23 #831

All the medical bills are starting to hit unless surprise ones come about 3 months from now. But I'm feeling this won't be the case. I ultimately DID get a bill from that heart specialist after all! Guess it was too good to be true to be actually free! After insurance, they all came to $792.06. Once I fill out the paperwork at work so as to get 70% of that back I should get back roughly $554.44, resulting in a ticket price of $237.62. Add the $130ish I have to pay out of pocket for the trans cl...

Bodysuit 23 #830

Kinda crammed a lot on this page. Wound up needing to rearrange some of the dialogue so as to make it flow better. In other news, I'm really leaning on keeping Bodysuit 23 one update a week. It sucks ass in terms of getting through these long ass chapters I've been doing, but not rushing to get pages done I feel have been very beneficial. I can take my time experimenting and scrapping things if need be without the feeling of absolute dread of falling behind. Spend more time cleaning things up a...

Bodysuit 23 #829

I continue my ditching of the old panel layouts for this newer one! When I got done with the inking yesterday, I looked at it and went "Wow, Bodysuit 23 actually feels like a legit comic now!" Sure, it always was, but it feels like it has taken a massive step in improvement! Or the very least it feels that way to me. What do y'all think? Had my televisit with the transgender clinic's doctor on Friday. My blood work looked great according to her, with my hormone levels in a good spot. I also had...

Bodysuit 23 #828

Hello, hello! How've y'all been? I went to the doctor's office on Friday and got blood work done, then walked across the street via a sky bridge and got an x-ray done on my chest. Then Saturday I went to the transgender clinic and got another round of blood work done! I get a call from the clinic on Friday to go over the numbers, then a call early next week to go over the results from the doctor's office, and THEN I'm off to see a heart specialist on Monday the next week! Whew! Since scaling b...

Bodysuit 23 #827

I think I'm finally figuring out which brushes I like the most to do those old anime effect backgrounds. Its taken a bit, but I'm reaching the point now where I don't have to spend as long with experimenting as before. However, I am trying to collect screenshots/photos of ones I come across so that I can use for reference later. I also want to step up my paneling game for Bodysuit 23. I've been getting better and doing more interesting stuff over on Kat, but B23's still been rather boring. Coo...

Bodysuit 23 #826

Salutations! How have y'all been? I hope things have been swell for you! I've been doing moderately okay. Since the shit storm that was last week I've been trying to take things slower and easier. On top of cutting back on comic work at this time, I've been slowing down my pace on my walks and the like, and generally trying to relax when possible, even though it results in me bumming around and not actually doing much. "Oh! I'll play some games or watch anime!" - me this past weekend who did ve...

Scaling back to 1 update a week for the next month(ish)

Long story short if you want skip it: I'm over worked, I'm sick, and I finally broke down yesterday and cried. I can't keep it up right now.

For the longer story, keep on reading. Just note that whatever is written here I am not in the mood to really get into it on Discord and such. I plan to make dinner and try to relax before returning to work tomorrow. So if you reach out to me and such and I ignore you, don't take it personal.

Drawing both Bodysuit 23 and...

Bodysuit 23 #825

Drawing these kids have been a blast. What wasn't a blast was having to redo parts of the roughs on the last three panels. Not sure how I managed it, but I deleted the rough body layer, leaving me with just their hair floating about. I did not realize it until I had gone too far and did a a bunch of additional work, only to zoom out and go "Aw fuck." I ctrl z'd as fast as possible, except I ran out of undos and the layer was still clear. Since I had already done it it didn't take that long to re...

Bodysuit 23 #824

It's time for another episode of "Megazone's back on their bullshit again!" Coming to you multiple times a week! I like how the kids turned out. Some wound up being better than others IMO, but as a whole I think there's a nice diverse group of little bastards who are gonna ruin your day by pelting you with snowballs. They're gonna be much more entertaining to read compared to my original idea of mostly generic kids. My goal is that by the time the story progresses on without them, you'll feel li...

I Did Fuck All

While I technically did a few hours of work fixing a few panels and some prep work for Kat and Bodysuit 23, I went into the weekend with the idea of relaxing. On Saturday I wound up spending the entire day playing Ys VI, something I've been meaning to play for years now to complete the trilogy of VI/Felghana/Origins. While it wasn't as tight as the later entries due to being first in that particular format, it was still a lot of fun! And it being a 10-12ish hour game your first time meant I was ...

Son Goku

Bodysuit 23 #823

It was a trap all along!!! Originally I intended for a significantly larger group of kids, mostly minimal detail looking/copy paste/plane looking. But as I got started doing the roughs, I figured "Why don't I make it a smaller group but instead give them all unique looking designs?" So that's what I did! Give them all a bit of personality and have them dress up to goof off on a snow day. For adults, snow days in Texas are god awful with trying to commute to work and go about your day. But kids? ...

Bodysuit 23 #822

I have gone back to blender to create a 3D render to help with the comic, after Cooper brought up the lackluster effort I did in the storyboard. Spent a good chunk on Friday creating these shapes while constantly googling blender tutorials. I fucking hate how they give you video tutorials first before text tutorials. I don't want to watch a 3 minute video to find a shortcut! Just write it down so I can read it in 5 seconds and get on with things! Next weekend I plan to take a break from comic wo...

Bodysuit 23 #821

JAPANESE CARTOON CORNER: 'Tis Time For "Torture," Princess is an absolutely adorable show. Sure, it's literally the same joke over and over again several times an episode, every episode, but the reactions are so cute! I love how it depicts the demon realm as basically modern Japan, and the Demon Lord adoring his daughter, with him attending her elementary school sports day. It's a great and comfy show. Watching Akiba Maid Wars, which has been a fun ride. Painting maid cafes as some yakuza-esque ...

Bodysuit 23 #820

This weekend was one of those weekends where I spent the vast majority of the time either napping or laying in bed trying to nap as I didn't want to get up and work. After running errands on Saturday and grabbing lunch I climbed into bed and proceeded to stay there until about noon today. Then today I got up, ate lunch, went back to bed and napped until 5 PM when I forced myself up and started working for the next 5+ hours. There's some stuff I didn't get quite finished as I'm not sure how want ...

Bodysuit 23 #819

Bodysuit 23 #818

It's the start of a brand new chapter! Is the cover foreshadowing something?! WHO KNOWS!!! Bought a couple games on Friday night, them being The Making of Karateka and Pseudoregalia. Karateka was a game I played from time to time on my family's old Apple ][, with its monochrome green screen monitor. I was never very good at it, but nevertheless I enjoyed it. I could never get past level 2. The documentary was a very cool insight into the process of its development, including various prototypes a...

Daphne

Tonight was not my night with drawing hands. I spent like a good half hour on the rough stage on this tonight, completely incapable of getting the hands right. I finally settled with something, but good lord was it painful! I forgot if I mentioned it here, but just in case I'll mention it again: after the apartment getting flooded and my mattress got wet, I opted to get a new mattress since mine was old. I ordered one off of Amazon, with delivery expected on the end of January. End of january c...

$40 Tier Drawing December

They REALLY/REALLY wanted Miranda to do FTM suiting, with her being inebriated. So here it is! I had tentative plans to maybe hang out with a friend on Saturday, in a "I might be up for it but not sure" as my friend put it. Ultimately we did not get together, so instead I stayed home and did little. I bought that Mega Man humble bundle that has almost the entire franchise on steam outside of those battle network games I don't care about and spent a few minutes fucking around trying a few of th...

$40 Tier Drawing January 2024

While I was taking a dump today a revelation came upon me: why wasn't I using these between chapter break pinups as a means of doing those $40 tier drawings that I'm behind on?! SO BOOM! I DID EXACTLY THAT! Description I was given was "cute smol office elf girl with the big round glasses maybe a cute hat like this too, dunno probably a light skin tone." I think she came out alright! I imagine she's that coworker who gets all up on your ass for doing something wrong and chiding you over it. And e...

Doris Pinup

Drew this at 5 am this morning and just now wrapping up coloring. I was sleep deprived so I figured I'd just draw some zipper exposed Doris. Yesterday I went to my parents house where I did a combination of changing the temperature gauge in my car with my dad, along with celebrate my dad's and my sister's birthdays. They're relatively close, so easier to do them together, which is something I do with my brother as well. In my old bedroom that has sorta become the play room for the nieces and ne...

Elaine x f-Kevin Bodysuit

It's a sequel to that old pinup I did of Elaine wearing a Kevin bodysuit and dressed up as an office lady! It's the start of a new month, which means I'll have money again once Patreon pays out on the 5th! Thank all of you so much for supporting me and my work! For this month, I decided to finally import Takehiko Ito's "Take Out!" art book along with volumes 1-5 of Future-Retro Hero Story for reference material. Whenever I do warmups or doodle, I like to look at some old manga/anime to better s...

Pinup: Kevin x Cocoa

Found a Daiso near me yesterday, so I wound up buying like $58 worth of junk food. Excessive, I know. I only ever go to Daiso like once or twice a year, so when I do I buy a bunch and consume it all within 3-4 days because I'm a pig. Most of the stuff I get is wasabi flavored chips as I love the spiciness. Sometimes I get candy too, but decided not to this time around. Usually when I do I get those chocolate covered gummies. They're great. Also got these clear noodles with mushrooms that turned ...

Bodysuit 23 #817

Seriously, it's such a pisser to finally get things going again only to wrap up the chapter and immediately go to a break just after taking a week off! Well, week off from the comic but definitely not a week off where I was relaxing! But still. Sorry about all that! End of last week I took my PC to a Micro Center to get a diagnostic check before USAA was willing to pay out for the damages to the PC. While they waited, however, they went ahead and paid me for all the other damages, so I was able ...

Doris Mask Pull

After not having drawn much the past few days, I wanted to be productive and get something done for you guys, what with it being about a week since I uploaded anything. I'm also trying to get used to a new drawing set up that I have! While buying parts for my new computer, I got the idea of buying a 8bitdo micro controller to use as a small device for shortcut keys. However, they didn't have any at Micro Center. I was talking with one of the employees as we pondered on alternatives like a micro ...

Busted Hot Water Pipe/Comic Delays

Whew! I can finally post on here!

On Tuesday when I came home from work, the hot water pipe in my bathroom burst, flooding my apartment and damaging stuff, including my PC. My entire apartment was like a sauna with hot water covering the entire floor. I have since then put a claim with my insurance and gone through the process of buying a new computer. Because of all this, I've been too preoccupied with cleaning/recovering from the burst hot water pipe and comic work has been put on the...

Bodysuit 23 #816

So originally I was gonna do this whole huge chunk before I took a break with this chapter... I CHANGED MY MIND! Gonna take a two week break after the page after this because despite taking those two weeks before for Hell Week, I was still ultra busy so I never got a real break! As I was storyboarding I looked at where I was with the chapter currently, which is page 26 (27 later this week), and felt now's a good time to pause. Thankfully I got the next huge chunk of the chapter already written, ...