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I Need Your Help! (Volume #1)

I have a dilemma and I need your help solving it.

Part of why Volume #1 is taking me so long is because I want to update the older pages according to a set of specific rules that I use for pretty much every page past Chapter 4. Volume #1 is going to include Chapters 1-4 (most likely, pending publisher approval yada yada), so there's unfortunately a lot of work to be done there.

These are the rules I'm using:

• Updating resolution to fit page dimensions
• Updating ...
  2023-02-23 19:06:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Weekly Update - 155

Is it Monday again already? No, it's actually Tuesday now.

I was going to post this yesterday but I had to take my husband to the hospital, because he hasn't been feeling well lately and it's affecting his chest, which is not the sort of thing that's okay to ignore.

He seems healthy, and the doctors ruled out anything serious, thankfully, but anyway, yeah! Any time any form of hospital is involved, it's just not a fun weekend.

I didn't make any progress on Volume #1 last wee...

Akira - Character Sheet Reward

This is the second character sheet I ever drew for a Patron, and the original was still pretty messy so I had promised to redo it.

This is Akira, a character that belongs to Robyn, who's been a loyal patron of ours for a very long time. I love this character's design, honestly, she's always fun to draw.

Note: Character Sheets are a reward I'm no longer offering to new Patrons, I'm simply clearing out the queue of promised ones.

6 left!

Scott - Character Sheet Reward

Included the original version so you could see why, exactly, two patrons are getting a v2 of their original character sheet reward. When first I started this whole thing, I wasn't expecting to go full-color with it and try to make them look all clean and nice, so Scott and Robyn's character sheets aren't quite up to par with the others I've done.

This was, I believe, the very first one I ever did, and I think I've improved a little bit since then. I also updated the backdrop, which is w...

Weekly Update - 154

Sad Riley sketch! Why's she sad? It happens.

So alrighty! Let's start on this Volume #1 and Character Sheet sprint!

Still kinda thinking about how I want to structure this, since I don't really want to go on a multiple-month hiatus from regular comics, but I also have to get this work done and get this book out!

So I think the goal for now will be to try and do 2 character sheets a week, and then in-between those I intend to work on Volume 1 page remasters.

There's 3 M...

Weekly Update - 153

This is more or less how I feel lately.  ^^^

I've finally finished Chapter 9 of Kiva's story, and I can put off what I've been dreading for so long no longer.

I have EIGHT (I'm pretty sure) character sheets to deliver as I promised, and I have ~3.5 chapters worth of comic pages to update for print.

I don't want to go on a full hiatus while working on these things though, so I am going to be trying to stream a bit on Discord and drawing more sketches too while...

Tail Tug

A silly image for you today. :3

I feel like someone planted this sketch idea in my head many many months ago, but I forget exactly who it was, sorry!

God Slayers - Page 166

And thus we conclude Chapter 9!

What will happen in Chapter 10? Who knows!

Well, I know, but I'm not telling. You'll have to wait.

God Slayers - Page 166 - High Res

This is in ULTRA high-res because I had to make the canvas a little bigger to fit all the stuff in there. So you get a few hundred extra pixels on each side!

Weekly Update - 152

What's this? A hint of background, perhaps? The very bane of my existence?

Yup.

Comic this week? Yes! My plan is to get it done at any cost. It's pretty far along so far but backgrounds for me are so painfully slow.

Drawing: Page 166 (End of Chapter 9!)

Playing: WoW and anything else to kill the time before AoW 4.

Reading: Mistborn

Ramble:

This will be the last time I...

Poledancing Practice

Based on a suggestion by Nelren, Max is practicing his pole-dancing! Except, there's a slight problem...

Bonus aftermath sketch. Perhaps an alt-reality where Kiva owns the club?

God Slayers - Page 165

Instant regret?

(Edit: Typo)

God Slayers - Page 165 - High Res

Kiva's finally reached the end of someone's patience, it seems.

(Edit: Typo)

Weekly Update - 151

Normally I would include a preview of this week's comic, but... it's a moment I've been building up to all year and I'm not sure what part of it I can crop to avoid spoilers, so... have a Riley sketch instead!

I'm TRYING to make this new schedule a habit. I'm trying to be more consistent. I'm trying to improve my workflow and make more time for drawing and writing... all the while it WON'T. STOP. SNOWING.

As a result, I've spent an unprecedented amount of time outdoors th...

Kiva - Full Res

This is that extra special thing I promised this week. I liked this panel so much I blew it up and fully rendered it out.

Hope you like it too!

God Slayers - Page 164

Thanks for reading.

God Slayers - Page 164 - High Res

Four years after writing this page it still makes me chuckle a little bit.  Hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.

Weekly Update - 150

150? Weh!

Comic this week? Yes! We're currently being buried under >2 feet of snow, with possibly more coming, so I might as well draw.

Drawing: Page 164 and something special and secret thing shh!

Playing: WoW, Baulder's Gate 3 (All this talk about WotC recently has given me an intense craving for D&D, while I begin looking for alternative systems to D&D) >.>

Reading: Mistborn? Is it ...

God Slayers - Page 163

Frenz no more.

God Slayers - Page 163 - High Res

Frenz no more?

Patreon Rewards Rekajigger

Alrighty, just wanted to make an official announcement to go along with the changes I've been promising to make to the Patreon Reward Tier structure for some time now.

If you are a Squatter or Scavenger. No changes.

You still have Early Access to the most recent 5 pages, as always, and Scavengers still have access to High Res versions of each page. I honestly don't see this ever changing. It's kind of the whole point of this Patreon.

For the...