Nomax

Conway Character Portrait - Samuel

And we've got the second character done! 4 more to go of the main ones (and then of course all the secondary ones).
The 10$ tier people had a say in who to do next, and it was a pretty clear vote for Samuel. Who in the process became a maned wolf instead of the german shepherd that I actually planned. Not quite sure why my brain went maned wolf, but by the time I realized my mistake I already was committed on the face and everything, sooooo. Samuel's a maned wolf now!

But yeah, prob...

Early Bird - Juksusdi

What is this? A commission?! We still do these?!

Made for gmRader of the character Juksusdi from the cartoon Inage'i, a children's animated show in cherokee language and about their culture and all that.
He's one of the three main characters in it, though of course younger in the show, and much more stylized. So we wanted to give basically a young adult interpretation in my style and here we are!

Overall a very fun commission. I always love it when a commission leaves some ro...

Conway art preview

Next character in the works. Samuel was voted on, so Samuel it'll be this month.

Honestly rather happy because the design was the one I was most happy with in the sketch phase. So hopefully it'll be a great one when all is said and done. I think Rajeeyah will end up getting adjusted after this one. as I think I'll find my footing for how I want them to look more firmly with this month's character. And looking back at her I'm just not quite sure she's where I wanted her to be. Anyway, e...

Rajeeyah - 10$ tier

Hey everyone.    

Hope you are all doing well? We've got a bit of an early pack here, I'll be leaving for Nordic fuzzcon tomorrow morning, only returning late on the 27th, so February, because of the con, and just it's typical shortness is a bit of a compromised month.

I did already mention in the 5$ pack, and it is even more of a quandry here.
Ideally I don't want to spoil or reveal future content for Conway if possible, and that includes these character mod...

Conway Character -2$ tier

Hey everyone.

Hope you are all doing well? We've got a bit of an early pack here, I'll be leaving for Nordic fuzzcon tomorrow morning, only returning late on the 27th, so February because of the con, and just it's typical shortness is a bit of a compromised month.

So to not leave you entirely empty-handed as I'm still getting back into the rhythm and having to figure out how to best balance these perks for Patreon, I figured I'd chuck you to the files for the Conway character p...

Rajeeyah - 5$ tier

Hey everyone.  

Hope you are all doing well? We've got a bit of an early pack here, I'll be leaving for Nordic fuzzcon tomorrow morning, only returning late on the 27th, so February, because of the con, and just it's typical shortness is a bit of a compromised month.

I've also wondered how to best show off the characters for the VN in these packs, because of course the clothed version that I've shown isn't the only one that is done yet, but it is the only one to be present ...

March character illustration vote

Hey hey, another little thing related to the Conway game. New for the 10 bucks tier is some voting power here and there, and so let's start with this one.
(Even though nobody really joined in the 10 bucks tier since the game release, so there is a very real chance that this isn't really super interesting to any of you. :D )

But, yeah, I do want to get one of these character Illustrations done each month, so to prepare for March I'll toss up the vote already for which one of these to...

WIP - lil wolf guy

Figured another WIP is probably a fun idea. This is the sketch for a current commission. Probably won't actually get to finish it in february because of Nordic Fuzzcon coming up, but this is going to be one of the next upcoming things once he's finished.

Enjooooy

Conway Character Portrait - Rajeeyah

And we have the first proper artwork for a character in the game.

Rajeeyah (Pronounced more like Ra-jyah )

The oldest character of the bunch (not her age, but how long the character existed), even before Nomax came to be, though the two were close.
She really was the catalyst for wanting to dip into more thorough storytelling moreso than Nomax himself. But then I just enjoyed painting that dumb painted dog a whole lot and she fell victim to the usual not enough time thing.<...

January sketch

And we've finally got the vote sketch for january. This time i actually managed to remember to take a bunch of progress shots.

All in all a bit of a picture of two halves. I knew it'd be a picture more complex than the one i did before, which were mostly portraits or pretty simple landscapes.
So a full body picture on a pretty small canvas, that also is rather rough, making it tough to really get in there and detail it was always a bit of a reach.

I figured especially the h...

Conway Sneak Peek

I gotta figure out a better name for that...Can't just have these posts be titled that every time. But we'll see...

Anyway, with the dust settled of the initial release I figured it's time for a sneak peek for what the future brings with the upcoming public release down the line.
Honestly, first one will be pretty small with just a release for android devices!

Some people were asking, I knew it was possible, but during the release I just didn't want to deal with the added wor...

Conway for Android?! Conway for Android!

Hey everyone!

Honestly, this is a bit of a stop-gap update. Since this tier and above are for early releases, but the initial release came out simultaneously, I am in a situation where I have to pad things out a bit. The dreaded filler arc!

I could have probably included this one into the initial release, but when doing the compiling for Android it threw up a message of needing additional SDKs aaaaaaand I just didn't want to deal with that at the time. :')
Mind you, RenPy mak...

Character Placeholders -10$ tier

Hey hey,

Hope you are all doing well?
Alright, didn't really do too much art, so I don't have much when it comes to nifty PSD files.

I didn't treat them with too much care tbh, so I don't have everything. Samuel's psd file for example is just missing because I saved another one over it by accident...
Torres is just one single layer that i bashed together quickly. Don't plan for him to have a big part, just as a filler "not quite faceless crew" so he and Konrad really were...

Some repeats - 2$ tier

Hey hey,

with the VN being the publically released project there isn't much else to put into this pack. But to not have you sitting entirely empty-handed here I've chucked in the two paintings I used for the thumbnail and main menu art.
And hey, if you're one of the newer peeps then you might not have seen these ones when they were released. :)

And of course, I also gotta get the print coupon your way. So for 10% off of my prints, use: H4P3EXB
Usable on anything here : <...

Character placeholders - 5$ tier

Hey hey,

Hope you are all doing well?
Alright, so didn't really do too much art, so I don't have much process related stuff here, but i did toss in the Conway character placeholders. Traditional sketches for those that had them.
And sometimes early version/alternative versions.

I didn't treat them with too much care tbh, so I don't have everything. The initial version of Julian for example is just gone because erased the head in the photoshop file and then saved over the ...

The promised chatty post! Let's talk for a moment.

Hey everyone.

As promised yesterday I wanted to take the time and sit down to talk a little bit about the next steps as we advance with the VN project now on the scene.

What it means for you as someone who already subbed, what my plans are for it, and all that good stuff. Basically some housekeeping!

What will change?

Honestly? Most likely not a whole lot? I even realized that myself today as I restructured the Patreon tiers earlier.
Basically, if...

Conway v.01 ( Public Release )

Phew!

My friends of the sun, 

it is done! Well, "done" in the sense that it is the very first release in what (if it all goes well) will probably be a multi-year project.

You had the super duper rough version a few weeks ago, and this is that, plus a bunch extra.
It includes the entire first day, perhaps not fully polished to perfection, as I'm sure it might get tweaked as things go along, but touched up enough to where I can at least say I did my ...

Arthur & Julian redesign

Didn't like their initial quick placeholder designs, so they got some reworking done!

Feeling them much more now which is good. Certainly a good base to build from which is all I need em to be currently.

Hopefully within the next 2 or 3 days well, + sunday as my day off) I should have the first proper release done.

Hope you enjoy them!

Commissions are open.

Hey hey, forgot to make it an early one i just realized. Been so long since i had commissions open that it escaped my mind.

But yes you can fill stuff out here: https://forms.gle/ghvCpuHbxgrhviUT6

It's a pretty limited opening, only taking on 2 or 3 simple painting but if you want to grab one then do of course feel free to chuck your idea in.
I'll keep it open longer for you all since i forgot to do ...

Mishmash of stuff! - 5$ tier

With this being an experimental month and you already getting the oil paintings as they happen, you got the VN a few days ago as well sooooo. I can't really magic much else out of my hat as at some point the hours of the day run out.

But we did get some stuff in here. One oil painting that i didn't upload yet, one painting from last year that i thought i would finish but potentially it'll just remain unfinished forever? We'll see... i like it, but time..

And then we also got ini...

Oil painting - 2$ tier

Hey you all, with this being a bit of an experimental month i didn't really have anything publically released that i could give you in high res. So instead here, take this offering of one of the oil paintings that i've done in my experimentation with them.

Unfinished painting - 10 $ tier

With this being an experimental month and you already getting the oil paintings as they happen, you got the VN a few days ago as well sooooo. I can't really magic much else out of my hat as at some point the hours of the day run out.

But, with the unfinished picture from last i was able to at least chuck that PSD file in here for now to not leave you all completely empty handed for this one.

I hope you'll enjoy it!

Unnamed Visual Novel Project!

Hey everyone!
Initially I wanted to wait a little bit longer with this but i think it might actually be a good time to put this out here, both to get some initial impressions, and give me some time to adjust course for the remaining 11 days of my January break.

So yeah! This is SUPER early. The earliest of early.
The whole visual part is basically non-existent yet aside from placeholders, and length clocks in at a little under 6k words i think (hard to measure wi...

Oil painting #8 - Rabbits (alt. title "Bnuuys" to annoy Furlop!)

And another one, this one felt like a big swing in the other direction of actually knowing what i'm doing (kinda).
Note to self, less paint is more. So many videos i've watched (less about the painting process and more just the logistics behind it, with stuff like my safflower oil brush dip etc.) mention to always use a decent amount of paint...and yet what they don't mention is how quickly it becomes a bloody mess! This one was the exact opposite as mentioned by Richard Schmid (who i am ...

Vide Feedback & More unpacking videos!

Hey hey everyone, bringing you a feedback video which mostly is about lighting and just generally a bit compositional thinking when having a full scene for a character.

Alongside that we also have some more unpacking for oil painting supplies. This proooooobably is the last unpacking video for the forseeable future. Aside from a small signature brush that i foolishly forgot to just include into this order i think i have about everything i need to take care of quality of life stuff and ...

Oil Painting #7

Another somewhat quicker one. Didn't have too much time that day so kept things pretty simple all in all.
I did initially want to fade it out to the bare linen both top and and bottom and use the linen as the area where the water becomes less reflective and darker, but didn't work out and didn't really feel like filling out the top then. Sooooo, only top remains unpainted!

Feel i am at the point where i got the initial hurdle done of just being dumb and knowing nothing, going in wi...

Oil painting #6

Switching things up a bit to a landscape.  It turned out a bit dark and a bit too saturated honestly. The lit trees i'm decently happy with, but the blues are just a bit too blue and could have done with some toning down.

It is pretty easy to fall in that trap given all the tube colours are just very saturated by default and while i very rarely use straight tube colours they still end up very saturated even when mixed. So will keep in mind to make a deliberate effort to tone down...

Oil Painting - 5$ tier

Hey everyone!

Hope you had a good start to the year, got to eat some tasty stuff, relax a bit so that hopefully everyone's at least somewhat ready for 2023...if one ever can be.

With my january being very much filled with secondary projects it's a bit tricky to fill these packs tbh, so you'll just get another oil painting like you did all the other days i guess.
Not crazy happy with this one. I painted it once, scrubbed the face, tried the face again, then scrubbed the whol...

Studio tour - 10$ tier

Hey everyone!
Hope you had a good start to the year, got to eat some tasty stuff, relax a bit so that hopefully everyone's at least somewhat ready for 2023...if one ever can be.

With my january being very much filled with secondary projects it's a bit tricky to fill these packs tbh. For this one i got a studio tour video, just going through how i set up my oil painting space, which hopefully should be a fun little thing. I mean sorta fun i guess. I have a weird thing where i just ...

Sleeping In - 2$ tier

Hey everyone!

Hope you had a good start to the year, got to eat some tasty stuff, relax a bit so that hopefully everyone's at least somewhat ready for 2023...if one ever can be.

With my january being very much filled with secondary projects it's a bit tricky to fill these packs tbh, I still got the Sleeping in picture for the first one that was released in early january, but we'll have to see what we do for pack #2.
But that isn't your problem i guess and i'll just have to h...