So, how has the new year been treating you all?
I just looked at my art pile for December and it's a bit small so I'm adding a bit more before doing an update. At the very least finish all my Chrysalis ideas (3 design explorations, 1 clean and 1 lewd good princess Chrys, maybe one more scary lewd for good luck).
I plan on stream-coloring one Chrys this weekend, got the new exhaust-type cooler, want to run an endurance test with it.
CNY is on the 28th. As the muscle of the ...
2017-01-06 10:42:00 +0000 UTC
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In a typical TV tropes-esque 6-degrees, one thing led to another and I spent the last few hours reading what Keijo is all about. Ya know, that butt sumo anime / manga.
All because I had a wordplay stuck in my head: Kaiju Keijo
My gut-reaction idea was to reimagine Gypsy Danger and Knifehead's fight as butt sumo on an aircraft carrier's deck but after letting that sit for a while, I could do more, maybe better.
Thing is I'm not know...
2016-12-19 20:11:17 +0000 UTC
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I think I have time to take a few before the year is out.
What can I do ya for as we count down to 2017?
2016-12-19 09:58:42 +0000 UTC
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Here we go, my work files.
I've been thinking about adjusting the rewards. I suck at previews because I tend to very little, but what I do have a lot of, are scraps.
Finished, mostly-finished, various-stages-of-finished pieces from the cutting-room floor, to show my thought process and struggles with a little commentary on why they were junked. Stuff that will only exist here.
It's a more guaranteed reward I can give, on top of the monthly doodle
2016-12-17 22:05:28 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the mature / adult tier trials!
I've found it necessary to seperate content if I want to try attract more DA patrons, who may not be too keen on my freaky deaky.
I find a little T&A to be de-stressing, heck knows I need to de-stress more often. I dabble at least a few pieces a month, half dozen or more if I'm feeling frisky, so there are steady rewards here.
Any kind of r34 topics and suggestion boxing, I'll open them here, which should be accessible to CC tier.
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2016-12-17 21:50:47 +0000 UTC
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AAAH IT'S HERE!
After so many speedbumps and potholes, here're the high-res packs, second bit of October and November. This is also the first try of seperating G from NSFW, so for this tier is the squeaky clean stuff.
Who the best? You are, thanks for your patience and sticking it out.
I, who have the attention span of a dozen Dory's, have managed to complete a set. I'm chuffed, and I have characters I can put into stories and such. Maybe I'll get started on the CarniCor...
2016-12-17 21:33:45 +0000 UTC
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Rewards are still a go, just that in the whole month I was gone, I accumulated a lot of linearts to color. Exacerbated by a limited usage of max 5 hours per day then the rest of the day for laptop to cool and settle.
I literally cannot afford another hardware failure. I barely have $1 to my name now.
It's also been 15 months since I joined Patreon. It has a little up, waaaaay too many downs, still I float to the surface somehow thanks to all of you.
However I have not ma...
2016-12-08 21:35:58 +0000 UTC
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I'm a magnet for bad juju. Things keep breaking around me.
Here I am reporting to you from a cybercafe, one of the last few in town and are essentially e-sports training and recruiting centers. I'm wary of keyloggers and spyware but I have little choice else.
The good news is my laptop is fixed, it's at the shop now and had just withstood a whole-day dry run, it should be working fine now and will buy me another year.
The bad news is the second trip back to the tech center incurred...
2016-12-01 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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It'll be december in a few days. Apologies for still not being able to properly reward everyone.
It's sad to see patrons abandon a slightly tilting ship. I'm doing what i can with what i've got, short of commiting robbery. I take no pleasure in being so technologically... handicapped.
Anyway, back to making do with what i've got in materials. Awakened muscles i forgot i had, roused techniques i've not used in a long while. Here're some warmups, averaging around 5 hours each. W...
2016-11-27 16:51:34 +0000 UTC
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Old blue's dead on arrival, gone back to the repair centre for another once over. This may delay me even more, maybe well into december. On the plus side, that means a massive update pile.
I've dusted off the colored pencils, in the face of not having my scanner for a while, least i could do is prep some post-ready pieces. Plus, i've been up in the afternoon's most days, the sunlight's good for some old timey methods.
My take on a jackalopey toriel & a silly kindred idea i got while ...
2016-11-24 07:31:33 +0000 UTC
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Being techless left me a lot of time to think. Finally got my variable golem set out, the first & oldest entry on my to-do list.
Who's still bummed about the election? How about some other kind of bum? I have yet to see the democrat donkey logo anthro'd, so i went potato mode & done it & she's tentatively nicknamed Demkey (because Donkocrat, Donkemo or Donk-anything sound like STDs)
Currently pondering a coloring page set of Demkey cosplaying working-class jobs, because...
2016-11-21 13:27:11 +0000 UTC
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This is worrying, it's been over a week & still no word on repair status. Will have to call in the morning to check, hopefully techguy is just absentminded. If it's still being worked on, it'll bankrupt me, raising a $50 repair on my chip to swapping a brand new one at $70. Hopefully i get back to working condition before the month ends.
With this, zodihavoc is technically done, though I'm still throwing around some sheep ideas. There's an exorcist design I abandoned because I've alr...
2016-11-21 12:50:05 +0000 UTC
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the more feedback I get the clearer image I get, your thought is most appreciated.
ya know, I've been doing this freelance thing for over 10 years now. Through all that time I've never figured out what charge. Only recently did I work with a $10 an hour commission rate after hearing of american minimum wage at $15 an hour.
As for my patreon prices, I'm going with a 'cheeseburger' approach, where a pledge is a snack, based on american fastfood menus I can find online. A $2 pledge can get ...
2016-11-11 03:41:04 +0000 UTC
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Yep, as I feared. The old lappy's exhaust vent was stuffed & consequent heating broke my chipset. It's fixable by a specialist but that'd take a few weeks. With care the repair might last me another year. Then I gotta get a new one. Doesn't seem worthwhile to register a fresh win7 install until I move on to the next.
Until I get lappy back, gonna try update through here.
Crashed thrice, I can't do more than 2 attachments per post. Maybe tablet has low memory. Tablet also has atrociou...
2016-11-10 07:05:16 +0000 UTC
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so, anyone overwhelmed?
I write to you here instead of posting to my gallery journals because as backers, you get priority. I'm typing this on my broken Ruvo tablet with a mouse, a painfully slow low-tech method which I don't use lightly. It's a wonder patreon even loads on this.
I'm reduced to this because my Acer is at the tech shop for routine servicing & cleaning. It's been running hot for a while, yesterday early morning it began mysteriously shutting down on its own before it r...
2016-11-09 09:26:58 +0000 UTC
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You may notice that my coloring has slid down a simpler path. I struggle to find a coloring compromise that doesn't look too flat while not interfering too much with my inking details.
I get fidgety when I don't detail enough, like I've squandered the art time, yet I cannot deny colors, like milkshake, bring all the kids to the yard.
And yes, requests are open!
If you've got nothing specific in mind, then perhaps you'd like to suggest alternate costume ideas for my ...
2016-11-05 10:27:55 +0000 UTC
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Thank you everyone for your support, how was the holidays?
As the title suggests, this is one part of October's art stuff, I have a few more but I have to locate them first. It has been particularly damp and I've been hunting for moldy spots to clean and plugging up all the ants' scurry-holes.
Much of my stuff has been evacuated from my 10x10ft box of a room to the hall. Getting a head start on my new year's cleaning while making sure the air I breathe is not a spore orgy.
2016-11-05 10:08:49 +0000 UTC
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Bloodgrass Rovers is back in development and worldbuilding.
I am however stuck on how to present what is essentially chapter 1.
My first thought is to make it into a self-contained one-shot.
- A little backstory
- reveals a peaceful town, conflict's over, it's a happy ending
- introduce the oldest living member of the town, one of the two heroes
- The adventures are retellings stories to a younger generation aspiring to be heroes too.
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2016-10-26 19:35:52 +0000 UTC
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Exploring with inking and stylistics for Rovers.
This is also possibly the start of yet another utterly silly set, which I squarely blame Ash VS Evil Dead, that's airing now.
In AVSED the necronomicon has a silhouette image of Ash as the solution to deadite problems. I wonder if in other times of undead uprising, do they have their own Ashes? A chosen one with chiseled chin, cheesy one-liners and a chainsaw. I'm less excited about Egyptian Ash than I am about a chainsaw with ankh bla...
2016-10-19 11:57:07 +0000 UTC
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Well lookie, it's an actual preview post! Haven't done any of these in a while.
I've always wanted to work on my comic for a long time, what's been holding me back was the difficult task of worldbuilding. It's an after-Earth story, so I have to construct layers, origins, landmarks and history for the characters to stand on.
I also had to delve deeply into firearms mechanism. Otto the sheep has a shotgun based on the M1897 trenchgun, I've watched countless teardown videos but nothing ...
2016-10-11 15:11:47 +0000 UTC
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Since the rewards for you all are bigger file sizes, I have to compress the PSDs to make for faster uploading for me and downloading for you.
7zip on average has the tightest pack, I can smush a 70MB PSD into somewhere in the range of 20 - 25MB. Uploads per file have a hard limit of 100MB as far as I know, one of these days I might have a super large PSD and gotta find ways to shrink it to fit.
Question is, is it a format can you can easily open? I know as much that ZIPs are tr...
2016-10-04 18:24:04 +0000 UTC
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Up top, mistakes still have some use.
Holy crap that's a lot more files than last month. Hopefully this is not troublesome for all of you to download. I can host them in my Dropbox but as a basic user I got only 2 GB and I'd burn through it really quickly if I keep pace or do more. No muns to go pro subscription.
Maybe I update bi-monthly instead of one huge chunk? Now that I'm on CUF I'm less bothered by sub-unsub parasites.
Also new for this month an FLA file, I've ...
2016-10-04 06:34:56 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone, thank you for your support and welcome new patrons!
It's been a productive month from newfound quiet. There's no escaping the construction, there's probably another 3 years of that, but at least my nights are peaceful.
So peaceful I even found the focus to animate a little bit.
Looking ahead, besides finishing up my Zodihavoc set, I feel chillaxed enough that I want to do more lewds and pinups, hopefully that bothers no one. I'm so out of practice...
2016-10-04 06:12:17 +0000 UTC
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Here're are August's PSDs, and opening up for requests, what's the word out these days in movies and games? Besides Overwatch.
Crossover ideas, mayhaps?
(I sometimes wonder if I'm doing enough to justify this tier's existence, I don't draw as much as I feel obligated to though with Kitty's passing I may alleviate this, my PSDs teach nothing, I barely have enough time left over to do any prototyping from my Black Book.)
2016-09-04 10:06:09 +0000 UTC
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Thank you everyone for your support
(EDIT: I've activated Charge Upfront, which was unavailable to me as of June. As soon as I posted updates, I get 2 blank $10 accounts. I apologize for the inconvenience but I'm in no mood to live and let be. It's time to swat the buzzing fly.)
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First, there was a death in the family.
On September 3rd, between the time of 5:50...
2016-09-04 09:34:40 +0000 UTC
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This new size limit makes it difficult to pack my PSDs efficiently.
Here are my workfiles for July, if there's any problem opening them do let me know. I'm also considering packing future files in RAR that compacts it a little tighter.
For this month's request, got a few ways to go about it.
- What's going these days? I haven't been to the cinema since Warcraft and Zootopia.
- Hungry Ghost Festival starts this month, some call it the Asian...
2016-08-06 00:47:57 +0000 UTC
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Firstly, welcome new patrons and thank you for your support!
My attempt at a timely update was thwarted by not 1, not 2, but 4 failed mini USB cables. Affected no doubt by moisture levels in my room. Hopefully with the A/C finally cleaned out it'll hold for another year.
This is new, when did the filesize limit get cut down to 100MB? With better scraper protection and small upload filesize, I think it's better if I update fortnightly.
I've been playing catchup with ...
2016-08-06 00:12:44 +0000 UTC
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Starting from this month I'll be including PSDs (and FLAs when I finally get to animating), just felt like I wasn't rewarding enough. Guess I have to pull my boots up and color more often. I'm using PS CS5, I've ticked compatibility. If you can't open it I'll check settings and see what I can fix.
While the Pinup of the Month reward tier is far away, I'd like to start a few samples. For July's clubcard request, I'm looking for vintage and obscure cartoons and comic with furry/an...
2016-07-25 05:57:49 +0000 UTC
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(if this reads like I'm slurring, I am. Typing slowly. on anticongestants)
I return from the land of the sick, which may inadvertantly been a good thing. The long rest stuck in bed let me recharge and powered through some art in a week. I'm actually feeling kinda pumped.
Here's the super late June pack, which isn't much, so I added on what little I have for July. Few more days to go until the end of the month, plenty of time to get more arting done.
Also I would lik...
2016-07-25 05:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Before you all think I've gone and pickled my brains in too much rum, I'm serious, I want your pirates. If you're a content creator, it is guaranteed you got targeted by scrapers. If you haven't been getting any fishy denied pledges, it's only a matter of time.
Anyway, I'm doing something about my plunderer problems. They may have taken things from me but in return they gave something I can use: A character name.
I'm taking these names, giving them a little backstory a...
2016-06-28 18:08:30 +0000 UTC
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