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Behind-The-Scenes of Red Lantern

So, this is overdue.  Took me WAY too long, hopefully it's clear why, there's like a ton of tiny details.  As usual, all my fault.  I got carried away.

For anyone confused, this was the Polled Image from last month - Behind the Scenes of the Red Lantern shoot.  In this modern AU, there are a few things of note.  Honestly I have put FAR TOO MUCH thought into this, like way more than I am comfortable admitting.  But here's a snippet of some of the juicy detai...

Changes to the Merchandise Tiers Coming Up

Hey all.  So, my Merchandise tiers have been needing an overhaul for a LONG time.  The book tier gets same-y, since I've only got a dozen or so art books and comics.  The print tier is pretty good as-is, but I need to streamline my mail-out process more (apologies to those of you who've patiently put up with my delays all this time).

I have some basic plans that I'm hoping you'll all like.  Here's the skinny.  Starting in June -

FULL RES TIER ($25 Tier) - ...

May Poll

Some months I pretty much know which way a poll is gonna go.  All the same, I gotta keep throwing a few of my personal kinks on the list.  Some day. . . some day. . . .

Booty Continued

Yeah I dunno, this one's just coming along quickly.

For y'know.  Reasons.

WIP #2

Haha, oh no.

This rough sketch is making me feel some kinda way.

WIP for the Grayson Solo piece that will be going out to folks backing Illicit Alliance with booty bags.  This's the one, I think.

Illicit Alliance Booty Bags - First Pick

So, this is happening.  I'll be finishing up 'Illicit Alliance', the short story I began here on Patreon that, as it turns out, has another 2/3 left to tell.  In the end I believe it will end up being around an 80k word novel.  I'll be finishing it this summer while I also work on the final Illustrations for Kindred.

Rather than doing a Kickstarter or anything like that for what's ultimately going to be a small project, I decided to do this - Booty Bags for folks interest...

April FULL RES Image

April DOUBLE RES Images

'Dangerous Men' Chapters 1-2

The aggressive negotiation commences!

This is a side story for Red Lantern, featuring Luther Denholme and Finnegan Ambrose. It is set before the events of Kindred, back when Finn was dueling in Amuresca. Despite joking to the contrary, all of the characters in this are of legal consenting age.

Story contains swearing, drinking, frank discussions of violence and death, homophobia, you know, all the regular content you've come to expect.

I have been doing Live Readings for the...

Katie Dodd Fanart Commish

Fanart Commish for a Patron

Fallen Family WIP

Another Kindred Illustration WIP for the second book

Admiral Grayson Reed & Entourage

This is a WIP for an interior Kindred Illustration. First meeting with Grayson Reed and his entourage.  The Wanted poster is a placeholder, obviously : P

Kayla Voss Character Sheet

Commission for a Patron!  Fetching Vixen, eh?

I swear none of these Poll Options are jokes

I wouldn't do that to you guys ; )

Deadly Men Chapter 1 (Short Story)

At long last!  The fabled Luther/Finnegan Short Story, chronicling the first time their paths crossed. 

It goes without saying, but the standard warnings apply to this one - Violence, Death, Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll.  Okay, actually just alcohol.  But still.  Period-appropriate levels of Homophobia, and two aggressive disaster bois flirting in ways I would not recommend to healthy individuals.

There will be four chapters of this one, posting over the...

Grant WIP

New coloring style I'm trying out, with wet edges

Leatherbear - FULL RES

Full Res version of this image <3

Leatherbear

When Tulimak in leather won the poll last month I carefully considered how I'd do a canonically-accurate leather piece for him.

. . . and then I was like.  Why bother?  Modern leather is super hot.  I wanna do him in modern leather. 

So I did.  Storytime's over!

This is the FULL RESOLUTION image for this month, so hop on there now if you want a printable version of the file ; )

Red Lantern BTS (Modern AU) WIP1

Since it seems ALL BUT CERTAIN that this is the image that'll win the poll this month, I figured I'd share the WIP for this I had drawn up in a late-night fugue state awhile back.  It's where I got the idea for this, it isn't new.  That being said, I never would've finished it without all this support from the poll, so thanks for making my fever dream a reality!

Right now, just got Modern! Luther and Grayson there, perusing their social media while on a shoot. Luther's shootin...

Double Res Images Feb/March

MAJORLY spaced on putting out double res images last month. . . not sure why.  I had a few nice ones lined up.  So *DOUBLE* DOUBLE Res images this month.  Found some beautiful old portraits here, I hope you enjoy them : )

March Polled Images

Some of these aren't adult, strictly.  I make the rules!

. . . but you guys still get to vote, so.  In the end, I guess not : P

'The Duelist' WIP

WIP for a story image coming this month ; )

Feb/March FULL RES Images

Just like the title says!

Scars We Choose

This is actually Feb's Story/Polled Image, but being as it was a short month, I'm still catching up.  All good now!

A few disclaimers about this one. Please read!

- This story features Finnegan Ambrose and Tulimak Tawnahowac from 'Kindred'. If you're on this tier, you have access to Kindred. It's a full novel (2 actually) set in the Red Lantern universe, but it's standalone. You don't need to know the series. If that sounded like a pitch for you to read the novel, it was : P ...

Sun Glow

Another Patreon Commission upgrade!  This one came out so cute

Patreon Commissions Continued!

I'll be posting a bunch of these this month.  Catching up on my Patreon Commission work.  I upgraded one of these to a colored piece, color is not usual on my Patreon Commission tier, just to be clear.

February Poll

Guess what made a come-back!

. . . if you guessed Leather Tuli, you'd be right.

Illicit Alliance - FULL Short Story (Up to 32k)

This is the final, edited posting of 'Illicit Alliance', a short story about Luther Denholme and Grayson Reed's first meeting, and misadventure.  It features a new female character by the name of 'Lotus', a Pirate Hunter Tigress from the Huudari lands.

This story is 18+ rated for cussin', sex, drinkin' and druggin', violence, and general debauched tomfoolery.  That being said, it's a lighter mood than most of my really heavy stuff.

I may continue this short story into a ...

WIPs, WIPs, WIPs

A bounty of WIPs!

Illicit Alliance. . . Novel?

So, I'd like to float this idea here, first.  I am doing a final edit on 'Illicit Alliance' tonight, decided I'd take a little extra time to really re-read the entire thing before I post it (and I'm glad I did, I found an array of things I wanted to clean up and fix).  Since Patreon's uploader crapped out on me at the end of the month anyway, I figured eh. . . what's a few more days.

Here's the thing.  It's over 30k words as-is.  It's far too long to put in a compila...