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Charity Case Ch8:Pg1

>:) here we gooooooooooo

(sketchbooks will be out in a couple of days, tryna take it a bit easier after I overworked XD)

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Fake Fashion Brand Illustration- Process & hi-res

I really wanted to do some Proper rendering, like I used to do when I made adoptables, but my wrist got tired about halfway through (and it stopped being fun when I reached the vast expanse of jeans) 

I did really enjoy those little bear beads, though :P. You can see I gave up on the trainer/sneaker concept, I just couldn't pull it off in colour! It looked too bone like- instead of bear claws.

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Fake Fashion Brand Illustration

This was inspired by some fake fashion brand adopts I made YEARS ago: https://www.deviantart.com/malacandrax/art/Adopts-131-133-OPEN-2-3-REDUCED-698977742 

https://www.deviantart.com/malacandrax/art/Matcha-Melody-137-138-Flatsale...

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Small update and preview!

I know that the $1 tier has had some (old $3 tier) stuff this week, but I didn't want to leave $3+5 hanging, so here's some things that are coming soon! 

Pages will be starting again next week :D, and the sketchbooks will *probably* be around the 4th-5th, I have a big nsfw sketch comic I'm trying to finish that I'm excited to share! (I may delay it a bit depending on how it goes haha, I bit off way more than I can chew)

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Chapter 8+ 9 Clothes Concepts

PHEW....

so this time I think I'm *mostly* okay for backgrounds, I've basically concepted all the main locations now. However, there are a lot of small scenes that call for outfits ;P

I'm doing a lot of scripting edits this time around, so there's less to show for all my work, but hopefully I can get into thumbnails and sketching pages out soon :).

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Julien & Marnie- inked piece

This was supposed to be a sketch, but I really liked it so I inked over it!

$3 tier will get some more context for this soon ;P

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg50 process & high res

I really wanted to make sure poor Jul got some food this chapter, after showing so much *not* eating :S.

You can see my struggle to emulate Sylvia's elegant handwriting....it should be *far* nicer.

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg50 [+chapter break info]

I forgot to put this up yesterday, aah! (this is the tupperware poor Julie has been trying to get upstairs this whole scene haha)

As usual I'll be taking a chapter break to get everything figured out for the next chapter! The $3 tier will get some concepts, and the $1 tier will get a few of the older $3 tier concepts, and all tiers still get the monthly sketch content. (I actually also have a Marnie & Julie piece to share so that'll go up too :3)

I *think* I'll be taking two w...

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Charity Case page edits batch 2 (Major!)

Old pages are the latter pages! *grimace*

I've been SO unhappy with that needless supermarket tantrum for YEARS. I feel like it doesn't fit Juliens character at all!
The other changes are mostly to make the parent situation more consistent, now that I've actually written the university stuff in a canon flashback. I didn't really think it through very well back then and it showed!

Also re the first page...I don't know why I decided that the rules of renting should apply in fic...

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg49 process & high res

I  struggled with Marnies expression here, I'll be going into how she's feeling in the next chapter, but in the first version of this page she just looked *sad* which wasn't quite right.

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg49

Good talk.

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg48 process & high res

*sweating intensifies*

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg48

hooooooooooooo boi

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg47 process & high res

I forgot the colour here, sorry!

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg47

sure :>

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Sketchbook- June 2021

I spent at least 50% of my spare time making small clay animals this month, as birthday gifts (which is great, cheap gifts! but at what cost...) [heres one] 

The amount of times I accidentally squashed one part while working on another...

It's also a little shorter because I've got a couple of pages I havent included- as is explained at the end!

thank so much as always <...

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Rock Tier Sketches- June 2021

I keep feeling like I haven't made enough in the month- and then I put it together and there's loads XD

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Billie/Bertie video process

I found out that vimeo doesn't allow password protection on the uploads unless you pay for premium. I don't see any other way to embed it directly to patreon and keep it private, which means you have to download the attachment to watch it -_-. I'm extremely sorry!

(So I may never make a video again ahaha, it took hours to edit the sections where I put my pen down or got a drink and nothing happened, and actually somehow it ended up longer, so I've done something wrong but its too la...

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg46 process & high res

deeply regretting being lazy with this hallway design earlier, theres absolutely nothing to work with, so fancy lighting it is XD

also if I had paid attention, I woulda noticed that the window was supposed to be the opposite side, the top floor is different from the outside than the inside, oops!

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg46

oop


(I'll get the sketchbooks out next week, busy personal life this week u^u!

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg45 process & high res

good talk!!!!

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg45

I should have the next page out tomorrow! 

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg44 process & high res

I love getting to use that sliding colour effect >:3

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg44

I do this a lot when I get nervous O-O'

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg43 process & high res

This scene went through a re-write, on some advice from a friend! Its so hard to tell what's coming across from an outsider perspective ;P.

I also recorded the painting of this page- I'll try get that up soon!

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg43

sweating intensifies

Also one page twice a week won the poll, so I'll continue that way, see you later in the week for the next page :3!

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg42 process & high res

Its surprisingly hard to do nighttime scenes- you need to make it bright enough to see, but dark enough to feel like the characters probably can't see well!

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg42

:>

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Page release preferences

I know one page at a time can be agonising sometimes, so I wanted to ask what you prefer:

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Charity Case Ch7:Pg41 process & high res

Technically the blanket above that part of the bed isnt the starry one (thats on the other side), but I thought it would look cool!

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