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Pet Emergency (he's okay!)

As some of you may have heard, we ALMOST lost our 8 month old puppy Atlas to a GI Obstruction two nights ago.  He got out of surgery yesterday and came home with us, and is triaging at home.  I have not had time to edit and clean up the writing and polled images from this month, since this hit at EXACTLY the end of the month, when I'm generally pushing to get everything done on time (and let's be honest, I'm usually late anyway)

I'd appreciate a little extra patience from you ...

WIPs

A few Commissions I've been working on this month, and a rough for an adult piece I'm working on featuring some of those Royal Guardsmen ; )

DOUBLE Res Images for this month

'Shared Passion' FULL RES

This is one of my favorite pieces this year, I love it so much, I thought I'd drop a Full Res version for this past month.  Hope you enjoy!

Grab Bags Available!

Grab Bags are BACK, BABY!  Now with a BOOK!
This batch is a smidge more at $50 (cuz book), but still a helluva deal.  $50 gets you -
A shirt in your size (S-4XL)
An 18+ Book or Comic
2 Big Stickers
Four 5x7 Prints
Two Small Matted Prints
One Bandana

All goodies are random pulls, except for the 5x7 prints, those you'll get the ones pictured.
* IF YOU GOT A BAG IN THE LAST BATCH and want a different T-Shirt, please just let me know when you email me, i...

Captain's Cabin (Red Lantern 3 snippet)

Believe it or not, because I am an utter fool, this isn't even an entire page spread.  It's a single panel.  I'll . . . at least make it a big panel.

Anyway.  It's not coming up until like, page 25, but since it features one of the backgrounds I did in advance, I figured I'd finish it.  Luther's daddy energy is strong in this one.

Red Lantern - Sacrifice - Pages 1-2

FINALLY!

Please download the pages below on the attachment, Patreon resizes its posts. 

Book 3 of the Red Lantern series commences!  I'll be posting 2-3 pages a month here on Patreon, and nowhere else for awhile.  Consider this the beta stage, since things will get fine-tuned and tweaked as I go.  I'm so, so excited and relieved to finally have the freedom and time to get back to this project.  I hope you all enjoy it <3

Red Lantern - Sacrifice Page 1-2 Spread Last WIP

This is it, the very last one.  I promise XP

This beast is finally nearly at the finish line.

Coffin Scene

Going petal to the metal on Illicit Alliance interior illustrations, since I'll be finishing the novel soon

Red Lantern - Sacrifice WIPs

A few more update works in progress!  Pages 1-2, I'm shooting to have posted this week, or early next.  As you can see (it's the second image there) it's a little. . . INVOLVED.  Past the two page spread, the pages following this should come fast and easy.  We've always tried to blow it out of the water on the first few pages and I wasn't about to drop that tradition just because I'm going solo on this volume.

FULL RES Image from last month

Double Res Images from last month

Again, little tardy on these.  Wanted to finish the last one, I wanted to put out all color images this month : )

Shared Passion

Finished at long last!

You're Terrible At This

The infamously messy and terrible B J from 'Between Wind and Water', and the poll winner from last month

(VERY LATE) Image Poll

Still time to vote!  Don't worry, you can still vote on this one in September.

To catch us up, I will be doing the TOP TWO winners of this Poll!  Thank you everyone who stuck with me through August and the big move.  I fell behind in a lot of areas of work since my life was pretty much dismantled for the whole month. This was a big big move, three work rooms, an external work shed, all of our actual living stuff obviously, our computers and our whole printing/matting/fram...

Luther, Grayson, Johannes

WIP of an upcoming scene in Red Lantern - Sacrifice

This entire volume takes place over the course of a little more than one day, so I'm locked into these outfits.  Let's hope I don't come to regret it XP

Red Lantern pages in progress!

Working on Red Lantern - Sacrifice pages, finally!  Pages will be premiering right here, and only here for a while at least, on the $5 tier and up

Assistance for something really really DUMB is needed.

I recently lost my old hard drive, and with it my font files.  Can anyone out there identify the font I was previously using for Red Lantern?  I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it.  

'Stay With Me' WIPs

Since the B J image is the one that won for this month, I'm relegating this image to the Menagerie list.  But I can still post WIPs here!

Between Wind and Water - FULL Story

Here it is!  The FULL Dubiously Canon Grayson/Luther story.  It's been a hell of a good time writing this one, and I really hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it <3

I stated this before, but it's worth reiterating - 'Dubiously Canon' stories are meant to be a canonically-fitting as possible while still being something you can either remove or include from the canon at your pleasure.  This one is no exception.  I did my very best to fit it i...

Black Flag Watch at Morning

If you know, you know.

'Between Wind and Water' Part 1&2

The Dubiously Canon Luther/Grayson story continues!

This is a little more than 2/3, there is a final, third installment to come!

'Between Wind and Water' Part 1

Where to begin. I guess I'll start with the part that matters, in case you want to skip my exposition and just get to the story. Understandable, really.

This is the Grayson/Luther Dubiously Canon story.

There, if that's all you needed to know, you're gtg. But if you're curious how this came about, continue reading. Over the last few months I have fallen behind on obligations both here and elsewhere, I've had a number of clearance sales trying to get the house ready to move, and I'...

June's Image Poll

I am brain-poisoned and if it's your fault you know who you are.

This is all I want to draw this month and feeding the beast is keeping me writing Illicit Alliance at a furious pace, which needs to happen, so.

Any or all of these will probably also involve alcohol. I don't know if that counts as a 'kink' or a lifestyle for Grayson.

*EDIT* I guess I should've been more clear about this, but I figured most people would know. 'Helping Hand' refers to sexytimes too, just a HJ sc...

'Shared Passion' WIPs

Excerpt from 'Illicit Alliance' -

From here we could see the finger-lakes of rice patties and little farms carved into the terrain, the fields of red and green that stretched beyond- poppies, all of them- until they abutted against the glittering shoreline and red-rooved manor homes of the Rohkash clan. And further still, moored in the marina, the behemoth galleons we’d come here to find. As well as many, many other beautiful ships, large and small.

I glanced briefly at my canin...

Illicit Alliance Update - 20k NEW content!

This is a huge chunk, so I can't really call it a 'chapter'.  Realistically it's going to be broken down into several chapters when this manuscript eventually becomes a novel. But it's a LOT. This will fully catch up the Full Story tier and then some, and it's some of the most important scenes in the novel, arguably, so I'd really love peoples' opinions on it.

For whatever it's worth, I listened to 2022-06-23 03:27:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Storenvy Sale - FREE Sketch Badges

The FREE SKETCH BADGE Promotion with the Storenvy Sale is LIVE! All  orders of $100+ are eligible for one, so help me clear out my stock and  get some free custom art in the process!
https://rukis.storenvy.com/

Heretic and Kindred North/South now available in Hardcover

Offering them here, first!  Anyone want a copy?  E-mail me at rukiscroax@hotmail.com

Take It Slow WIP1

Go easy on him, it's his first time rounding fifth base

This month's WIPs

A bunch of stuff I'm working on!

WIPs, and a brief update on Writing

Hi all!  First off, here are some WIPs from an in-progress pic of Finnegan, bathing in the hot springs. 

Also using this post as a place to let you all know what's holding up the writing tier - for once, it's not procrastination!  But yet another character flaw of mine, namely the fact that I'm always losing things.

I use a very old laptop to do all my writing, and this weekend at BLFC I left its power cord behind... somewhere. It's ancient (still works great!) so a...