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God Slayers - Page 100

Plus additional no text version!  Thank you so much!

This is a big milestone for me, and hopefully with many more pages to come!

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God Slayers - Page 100 - High Res

AAAAAAA, we did it!  Including a no-text version for you as well.  Thanks so much!

Many many more pages to come, but this is a big milestone for me.  :3

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Weekly Update - 58

The hell is even that crop, anyway... it's 58, right? idk.  Dem eyes.

Posting a Comic this week: Gods I was kinda hoping so, how is it already Monday again.

Posters: Probably not this month, lol

Drawing: celebratory page 100 image

Playing: Packing

Rambling:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, yeah no there's no way this ramble is going to even try to be insightful or though...

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Max Faces

I can always use more Max practice. This little cutie is the bane of my existence with how often I fail to nail his cuteness. There's this balance I'm trying to achieve that's like... mature adorable femboy, but he often either looks too young, too mature, too manly, or I just get it wrong entirely and he ends up looking... just... wrong.

I think these ones turned out okay-ish.

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Pardon Us!

In case anyone has missed the memo, decided to make this sketch so that everyone knows why art is gonna be lazy and late this month.

Gonna keep trying to maybe get out at least ONE page this month, but I dunno.  There's still so much to do.  >.<  Regular updates should resume normally in May.

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Sketch Suggestions!

Will this work?  I dunno!  Gonna feel this out for a bit and see how it does.  I want to keep posting weekly sketches and sometimes biweekly sketches on weeks when I can't put out a full comic page, but I don't always have good ideas for them, especially like now when we're busy moving.

The idea is for you, your friends, anyone really, to post your suggestions for sketches or art you want to see here in the comments.  I will read them, I will judge t...

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Weekly Update - 57

First and foremost let's welcome our newest Patron, Aiden Kimber!  Thank you so much for the support, it means a lot to me!

SO!!! it's April 5th all of a sudden, and we're moving this month.  All of a sudden it just got TOO REAL.  I've been saying that I kind of expected the last two weeks to be a hurricane of awful, and while we did some things to get ahead of it... it's here.  We're all of a sudden down to the last 2 weeks and there's just SO SO much packing to do ...

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Kiva has Muscles!

Real men don't wear hoodies!

or something, I dunno. Muscle practice. Made his arms too short. Damn.

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God Slayers - Page 99

We're on Chapter 7 now right?  I took down my wall of sticky notes and I'm becoming so confused.

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God Slayers - Page 99 - High Res

Shhhhh!

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Weekly Update - 56

HEY!  We like, JUST got the notice of our official move date this morning.  So I'll be checking out of this city in mid-late April and settling in to the new one just a little after my birthday.

Until then, gonna keep the updates going as long as I can, because I suspect I'll probably have to skip a week or two in there.  Also AGGGGHHHHH, this is page 99 and I still have NO IDEA what I should do for Page 100!  *deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.  Excitement aboun...

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Facesplosion

Lost track of time today. Here's a buncha warm-up sketches though from the past couple of weeks. Been really trying to work on my faces, more. I dunno. Drawing is hard!

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God Slayers - Page 98

Chapter 6 wound up being shorter than usual, but that's mostly because I divided up Chapter 5 so it wasn't stupidly long.  I tend to prefer my chapter breaks to happen every 15-20 pages or so.... but it's kind of one of those things where the numbers are all just made up and they don't really matter.  >.>

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God Slayers - Page 98 - High Res

For as much as I like to play around with colors, it was honestly kind of fun to do a more monochromatic piece with some specific highlights.

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Weekly Update - 55

We finally have a date for moving!  It's a tentative date, but that's still way better than a shrug and an IDK.

So we should be getting ready to do this whole crazy move thing approaching the end of April, which is only a couple of months later than I hoped, and one full month later than we thought.

So yay!  Exciting stuff.  We'll be moving just in time for my birthday.

Comic this Week?  Should be doable, I think...

Poster P...

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Casual Kiera

I wanted to draw a more casual image of Kiera just sitting and being cozy and enjoying some food. After all she's been through since the end of Chapter 4, it felt like she deserved some rest and relaxation!

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God Slayers - Page 97

Fun fact: I actually used a fair bit of blue in that last panel to make the greens and purples really pop out more.  Colors are so much fun!

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God Slayers - Page 97 - High Res

I am exceedingly pleased with how this page turned out... and that I managed to get it out this week, even though I spent like 80% of the time working on that last panel.

There are plenty of mistakes all throughout, but I'm very, very happy with this.  So I'm going to allow myself to enjoy it for now, and worry about correcting those mistakes on future pages.  :P

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Weekly Update - 54

I've decided that, since it's supposed to be a dark scene, characters eyes should probably glow a little brighter.  I dunno, maybe I need to look up some videos about photography and cinematography at night so I can get a better idea of what to do to make it clear to the reader that this is taking place in the darkness.  Most of them are crepuscular animals, so the darkness of night doesn't bother THEM all that much.

Also, yeah, it's kind of weird for Kiva's big pullover hoodi...

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Inner Strength

Sorry for drawing so many sketches of Riley lately... just... sometimes I feel like many of us could borrow from her strength sometimes.

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God Slayers - Page 96

Okay, seriously, what the heck is going on back there in that sky?  :P

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God Slayers - Page 96 - High Res

Okay, despite my qualms about how this scene has been going, I DO really love the dynamic between these two sometimes.

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Weekly Update - 53

I was hoping we'd be moved by now, but we're still waiting for the home builders to give us a damn date. We've been slowly filling a few boxes here and there but there's been no urgency because we still don't know when the hell we can move. I'm pretty sick of waiting by this point. It really is going to be the sort of thing where no matter how well we tried to plan, everything that needs doing is going to be crammed into a hectic two-week long nightmare period.

Comic on Wednesday? Yes!<...

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Riley Hands

Figured I could use some practice doing hands, but because it's Riley it turned into a full drawing because I love her so much.

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God Slayers - Page 95

His bark isn't worse than his bite, it's just way more painful.

Look, pretty sky.  I wonder why there's so many shooting stars tonight.

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God Slayers - Page 95 - High Res

There's a big wide universe going on out there while Kiva deals with his unwelcome guest.

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Weekly Update - 52

A full year of weekly updates?  Crazy.  Trying to structure these updates more so the important stuff is at the top, and the endless TLDR rambling is down below.  Let me know what you think.

Post this week:  Yes!

Art Progress:

Page 95 - Finishing up flats and shading today and tomorrow.

Kiera Poster - Flats and Shading

Max Poster - Ready for linework

Riley Poster - Somehow jumped ahead of the rest last week and just needs another shading...

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The Cute Off

This is a bit of a silly experiment, but I've been noticing lately that the more I draw Riley, the cuter Max seems to be getting. And I wasn't really sure why. Was it just an evolution of my style? Was I slowly unlocking mastery of the elements that make something look "cute" to me? Was it because I was drawing them too similarly? Or was it because of something else?

Riley is a challenge because a part of her visual design look is a bit creepy. She's meant to look cute... but also... a...

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Stargazing - High Res

It's still just a sketch, with all the lack-of-polish intact throughout, but I felt like a lot of details got lost in the scaled-down version. Felt like it deserved a high-res version.

I dunno, I really, really like this one.  :3

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Stargazing

They see different versions of the same sky.

This is instead of a comic post today.  There should be a new comic up next week, unless unforeseen circumstances occur.

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