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Home(bound) For The Holidays (Public Version)

Happy Holidays!

Here is the public version of this year’s (surprise) holiday post that I was trying to have up for Christmas but botched & only finished just earlier today. While there’s a short vignette & accompanying dialogue in the full piece, I thought I’d include a fun little progression chart to update the previous one. 

In case you’re only just joining us, this is an impromptu follow up to a sequence from last year. So you’re able to see Amanda’s la...

Home(bound) For The Holidays.

So another year in the books.
This time around? For the holidays? Travel has become such a chore that honestly, it’s not really much of a reasonable option.

Not that Amanda truly minds.

After all, she’s put in the effort the last handful of years. And while she’ll miss seeing the smiling, happy faces of the extended family she’s grown to love & can no longer believe she was once so nervous to first meet, each year had still somehow gotten just a wee bit tougher for ...

Home(bound) For The Holidays WIP

The holidays are always a good time to check back in with folks

Nitwit Pt. 3

Finally finished this one. Part of the problem was that I lost the layered version of the last two so I was worried about matching the line Art & style. Liked the idea of her trying to maintain her balance like her center of gravity didn’t change. That’s why her feet are still (attempting to be) closer together.

I see two more parts for this, but I have other things to finish first.

Light Christmas

Wanted to finish this earlier this week, but this week was a shitshow. Thank god I’ll have some time to decompress & focus on projects over the holidays.

I intended to have the bags but since they were covering valuable real estate, there’s a bag less version with truncated version of the dialogue.

Timelapse included in full & shorter versions. Marked AI because I didn’t want to draw a mall background, only to crank the bloom anyway.

Light Christmas WIP Preview

Was hoping to finish this the night I posted it but it took a while to finish.
Here’s a public preview along with the original preview.

Seasonal (But Not Necessarily Holiday) Fanart Poll

So I put a thing up asking for suggestions, & while I got some pretty interesting ones, only a couple people ended up getting back to me. Admittedly, I added a few. Originally I was only going to add Kimberly, just because I liked her design. But I only got six suggestions, & of those (while I know Celeste is good & Ace Attorney is a fan favorite) I have never played any of the games other folks suggested from. And I don’t know what Mon Musume is. So I was in kind of a weird pre...

Say It WIP Public Version

This is a public version of the last post. I saved this out about halfway through when I completed the color flatting.

Because “December” I tried going with something Christmas colored, but now I realize she kind of looks like the jolly green giant.

I think I might try to do more accompanying public posts that are works in progress with the new year coming out, so this is a dry run.

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Say It

As we get closer to the end of this year (yikes), I had this idea of two friends not seeing each other for the better part of it, only for one of them to put on a great deal of weight. But also, said friend is strangely, a little excited about it & talking about it? Flaunting it even? Despite the fact that usually that kind of conversation is typically conducted in very hushed tones & euphemisms, she’s proud, almost a little giddy about her transformation. And why not? ...

Um… Redundant Much?

Quick variant on this quickie from a little ago. Haven’t done a cream scenario in a minute. I like the idea, the dense, heaviness of filling with something like that, but it’s hard to get across visually from just looking stuffed & round. 

Anyway I thought in a moment of shock, she lowkey does the Austin Powers “Allow myself… to introduce… myself” by saying ”filling” twice, & whosever doing this to her being the smarmiest reddit nerd, & ignoring her bewi...

Thickening Up for Winter

Usually, I’ll warn folks about darker tones before they get invested in a story. Here, I’m going to warn you that the following is the opposite.

What follows is intended to be a continuation of above in what’s supposed to be more of a sweet, supportive interaction between the subject of the image above & her loosely defined partner. Aside from her concerns of further gaining & a brief allusion to doing so mutually, it’s mostly a just conversation between a couple of rela...

Pumpkin Til’ You… Nah, I’m done with this naming convention

Figured I’d squeeze out one last Pumpkin variant too.

I liked the idea of Melanie sitting on the couch after a big meal, suddenly experiencing some kind of adverse swelling scenario, & beyond asking if the pie was made any differently (& I’ll leave it up to you whether or not her host is messing with her), being entirely nonplused about the whole situation, since she is such a seasoned vet with this kind of thing. Even if this is probably her first time ever as a pumpkin spe...

Cobble Til’ You Gobble

A quick blueberry variant of that last Melanie piece for Thanksgiving. 

She’s having one of her blueberry episodes, at the gathering of someone she’s a bit more familiar with this time it seems. But this time around, the berry juice is coming quick & fast. She might have to bother her host. However, her host seems to have their own ideas… 

Just a quickie. Might do a more autumn themed variant too while I’m at it, but I want to draw something vs color & di...

Gobble Til’ You Wobble

Thanks for bearing with me until I was able to finish it entirely! I’m thankful for your patience this Thanksgiving!

I really wanted to do a Melanie piece & thought the holiday was a prime opportunity. The premise was that this year, she wasn’t going out to visit family. Instead, she was invited to one of her client’s Friendsgiving celebrations. In the lead up, she spent so much time questioning whether such a thing was proper in a professional capacity, that she didn’t real...

Ticking Timebomb

I don’t know what it is, but I’m a sucker for tighter shots of someone inflated. Or here, I guess in the process of being getting berrified. I mostly wanted to try it from a lower angle but also have it so you can still see the consternation on her face. I started this a bit ago but didn’t finish it until after work today as a bit of a warm up. Juicy & non juicy versions available, even though she’s still technically in the process of ripening up.

Also, a new animation app r...

Need a Squeeze

Is there anything worse than knowing you’re going to be fully ripe, scheduling your juicing room appointment well in advance, calling in all sorts of favors, struggling to get there, squeezing in through the double doors, only to get there & find they’re overbooked?

It’s not that she wants to be a ‘Karen,’ but this is ridiculous. And she is in no shape to wait very long!

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Some variants on 2023-11-18 08:20:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Nit 3 WIP Preview

Sorry for the hold up.

Unexpectedly, key players at my dayjob left simultaneously at a point where I thought I finally found some equilibrium at the place & the past few weeks have been chaos. On top of that, I’ve been fighting off something upper respiratory that’s been zapping my energy. I’ve tested & it’s not the big C but it’s been annoyingly persistent for like a week & half on/off.

All this to say, I haven’t had a LOT of time to work on things & i...

Happy Halloween 2023

Getting it in under the wire because what was supposed to be a quiet night at home turned into a whole thing that… well… wasn’t.

As promised, here is the Velma from that poll. I planned on doing more with her & adding some variants but those will have to be over the next few days I guess. I enjoy her somewhat ambivalent attitude towards this here predicament.

Timelapse included but it’s pretty simple. Now I’m secondguessing it for being way too simple. Don’t worry,...

“I- I- NEED it.”

I couldn’t figure out if this poor PSL addict is pleading with her friends who’ve tried to cut her off, employees at the shop after being rolled in (somehow), or upon ultimately reaching “the facility.” 

Either way? She’s found herself a bit indisposed, but still desperately craves that pumpkin spice. And she’ll do every thing she can to get some…

Which means whining. In her condition, all she has left is whining.

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Comic’s still happening but th...

Nitwit Pt. 2

Wow, her tune changed very quickly.
That belt is a little too durable!

Nitwit Pt. 1

Still deep in pumpkin season but I felt in the mood for something a bit more berry flavored. 

So here’s a part one to a short little sequence involving an older, spunkier rehash of everyone’s favorite character.

She’ll find out why everyone’s staring soon enough…

“I Want To Bel- Loon”

Sorry. For the title, I was trying to make a pun off the poster in Mulder’s office.

Pulled a fast one on you. I showed you the Halloween WIP I started, but oh, what’s this? A spooky swollen Scully out of nowhere? For spooky season?

Ok, well maybe it’s not completely out of nowhere. Anyway the original sketch for the other piece I did, posted with the little vignette Bound to be Round, came from a rough sketch I had originally intended to turn into Dana Scully after she came ...

Spoopy WIP

Poll closed last night & I already started warming up with it prior to working more on the Pumpkin Spice comic. But I posted this on twitter, so figured why not here too?

Bellflower Extract 3

I alluded to these in yesterday’s post.

From the start of writing Bellflower, I did start sketching the characters but never quite got the best results. But when I was experimenting with AI, I did attempt to throw in some of the character descriptions & was actually really impressed with what I got. The goal was to make them as realistic as I could, while also not basing their appearances too much on any one person. Now it’s a little hard to dial in things like weight so things ...

Bellflower Extract 2

So you know how I said I kept writing & rewriting sections of the last two chapters? Here are some of the bits & bobs I had saved as reference points. Attempts & alternate versions of things that kept leading to dead ends. Most of these were just situational in that I didn’t entirely know exactly how to stage them all meeting up & getting food. While some of it is in here, I didn’t save much of the trial & error dialogue portions of the actual conversation because I wa...

Halloween Fanart Poll

The past two years, I did a piece that was basically someone dressed as a fictional character inflating at a Halloween party. I asked for suggestions on twitter.

I was hoping to move away from video game characters, but I got a ton for just Resident Evil alone. I'm not even a huge fan, more of a Street Fighter guy myself.  But a poll's a poll.

I'm leaving the last option as a write-in. While I won't count the write-in poll itself, be sure to leave a comment below, & I w...

Burger Butt

I’ve been focusing on both writing & comics lately but I felt bad because I wasn’t sharing any new content since both of those things take longer to produce. So this was a warmup sketch I started that I ended up finishing to have something to show for. I like how I inadvertently gave her character design an almost burger like aesthetic with her shape & colors in a way. The arms & upper body feel a little goofy but like I said, this was just a sketch.

Initially, I had sta...

Spice Up Your Life - Week 2, Page 1

The whittling down has begun. ‘Try & stay strong, Katelyn,’ I say, facetiously.

This page was DENSE. It ended up taking forever. But we’re still rolling…

Tagging this ‘AI’ because I didn’t want to waste more time trying to draw a suburban not-Starbucks.

Spice Up Your Life - Week 2 Page 1 Preview

No, Katelyn!

You said ‘Just One!’

What are you doing ‘IN’ the coffee shop?!

Choices Were Made…

As promised, here’s part three of that comic with the girl with the curly hair & insatiable appetite. Pretty happy with how it turned out, with only a few issues. Since it’s a lot of dialogue, I have some dialogue free options, but also an all-in-one with the previous two parts.

Next up, focusing in on the next page of the Pumpkin Spice comic. It’s pretty far along but I need to concentrate.