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Plans for the next month or so

I need to push mi creative congestion out, so right now I will start prioritizing the Skyhorn animation over Celebrity Bangmatch 'till it will be finished.
You will get the new cover for CBM in the next few days, then the covers for the 4 presently posted chapters of Skyhorn in the following weeks.
I do it also to give a proper cover to downloadable chapters I could link here, and to create the "first pics" of the Twitter threads I will initiate and use to repost the comics, after havin...

Cover them Up!

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New CMB Cover - WIP

I'm working on a new cover for the Celebrity Bangmatch series, something that reflects more my current skills and style, instead of the very goofy expression of Leomon against a background I've never used again. 

Also, this might be the first time I've done something entirely on Blender. The tool has a very different feeling but I'm getting it.

Having my guys hanging around a 3D space is too fascinating and I can't get enough of it.

Switch of project

So guys, a small sad announcement. I'm sidelining the three goddads animation for going back to the Skyhorn battle animation, for several reasons:

1. I don't want to keep Skyhorn's story hostage for much longer. I want to go on and use what I’ve learned in the past year for giving a new shine to this adventure.
2. The models are a mess, right from the reference material, that is scarce and contradi...
   2022-03-05 20:56:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Kraven VS Incineroar - Pool

Express here your preference for the winner and the modality of the fight. The pool is open but I use a spreadsheet to weight the votes, so the more supportive and older patrons will have a bigger influence on the result.

Celebrity Bangmatch - Kraven and Incineroar's Catwalks

Hunter versus beast, villain versus heel, man versus a goddamn pokemon! Who’s gonna show the hairiest pair of balls? The rugged hunter with one of the gloriest mustaches in comic book history, or the pokemon that’s already the rule34 of himself? Go decide your winner by clicking here.

It took quite a long while this time, but it was because I’ve started using the 2022-03-03 15:50:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Welcome to the Rawr Arena!

Gorilla and Merbull

Gokong and Korno action. Yeah, the animation project has held the thing for quite a while and one of my patrons asked for some more art. It will be ready, sooner or later.

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2022-02-13 18:30:53 +0000 UTC View Post

The Low Poly Orc.

Here we are, the model of the low poly orc is done. Not that low poly as you can see, I feel like an N64 would have some problems handling this guy.

I might use it in the future to learn the rigging, but right now I want to keep it just as a benchmark for the modeling of the stadium, which from now on will feel incredibly easier.

One thing I won't do for sure with him will be the texture paint, because, hell, I tried it for 90 minutes and it broke me 2022-02-13 12:32:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Kondar Reference Sheet

Kondar - Reference Sheet
Time for Kondar to T-Posing! And to have his design ironed out.
For starters, the tattoos, now more angular, and his body proportions, that aren't quite human, the legs are still very short compared to the rest of the body, not like Gokong, he, but I feel like fantasy races should have weirder body proportions, and not be just humans with a different scale.
Looking at you, elves, he.
I will use this reference sheet to make a 3D model, that will be very l...

2022-02-09 16:19:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Celebrity Bangmatch - End of the Intermission

Oh guys this last batch has been very interesting to make.

Firstly because it rotates all around that Gaston VS Beast panel that I sketched ages ago and never published. Literally, all the previous four panels exist to contextualize this scene.

Secondly, because I spent hours doodling the crowd. You might recognize some older drawings here and there, I'm not ashamed. Animation helped me a lot in speeding up the inking process and drawing anatomy from memory.

Thirdly, I wante...

2022-02-06 20:22:26 +0000 UTC View Post

What I've been doing

So, for those interested, I got Covid, nothing serious, just one day of symptoms because I was already vaccinated (only two shots, sigh) but I am stuck at home, at least for the next two days, when I will hopefully be tested negative and come back to my normal life and maybe to nights filled with less vivid and uncomfortable dreams.

I used this period at home to climb the very steep learning curve of Blender, the open-source 3D program, not to do 3D but to get accustomed to its 2D anima...

2022-02-04 21:53:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Second try with Grease Pencil

Cranky Orc adapting to new technology.

New attempt at 2D art with Blender. The fill function is neat but I missed A LOT my usual shortcuts, so the sketch was made on Krita as usual to avoid frustration

The brush is very smooth and sharp, but the eraser when used is OUT FOR BLOOD

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2022-01-29 20:09:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Second Interviewer?

Since He-Man might still be busy with some subplots, one of them this firefighters thing, I need a support interviewer for the other interludes. Which one would prefer? My OC Gokong, or, for staying in theme, Beast-Man updated to the Powerhouse design?

2022-01-24 20:03:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Asking for interior design advice

As I said prior, I'm studying Blender for the use of the animation tool and Grease Pencil, and I'm thinking also about modeling the Rawr Arena (the name I gave to the stadium of Celebrity Bagmatch) and literally setting the comic there, drawing over the 3D background, to keep consistency and not having to worry how perspective works anymore.

But I was thinking, where should the stables be?

Until now, I've depicted them like three-...

2022-01-24 14:53:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Gokong Reference Sheet- Patreon Reward

So, what's the best way to make an artist overdeliver over something? Tickling his ego. And that's what Painbow has done by asking me for a reference sheet for the 3D modeling of Gokong.
The hardest part was the bottom-up perspective, since, it's not a perspective but an orthogonal view, and having foreshortening so ingrained in my art muscles, having to stick to what the projections said ways was painful.
...

2022-01-23 15:45:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Celebrity Bangmatch - Firefighters, again!

Oh, you believed that the firefighters were a one-off thing? Wrong! They will be needed more and more. With their powers over water and lighting, and their sexy, sexy moves.
If you want to read the comic in the proper order, well, Patreon isn't the best platform, but you can try with this page.

And yeah, I stand by Adam's punchline: the 2022-01-22 13:21:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Bill and Fangbone grown ups

Bill and Fangbone if they became young adults and their respective worlds grew on one another. Fagbone became a hipster that can't wear tight pants and Bill a barbarian that can't yet ditch them.

Reward for Rodney Talon, that asks for the less lewd, but most creative artworks.

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2022-01-21 18:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Mind-controlled Arsalan at the Gym - Commission

Uh oh, Arsalan today seems like enjoying himself a bit too much. Might it be because Lumus King is possessing his body and tasting a bit of mammalian musk?

This time I pushed a bit my limits. With the size, because this Arsalan character is literally wider than taller, and also I tried again the dreadful textured brushes for the background elements. Did it work? Absolutely not, but they're objec...

2022-01-19 15:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Size play with the Bugbear - Commission

Zur'Gon  this time steps out of his comfort zone, grows some hair, a muzzle, and becomes a very furry bugbear, everything for satisfying his friend Bonk with some good size play and humiliation.
"Hey, I'm like you but bigger!"

Sorry if the frequency of posting has diminished. In this period I'm trying ...

2022-01-17 20:53:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Sabertooth riding a space orc - Commission

Hey guys, this time is a bit of a special content because one of the two clients asked to keep it private, and allowed only for a Patreon posting. So, here, only for your eyes.

If you're wondering, this guy is the one owning the orc with a sci-fi helmet, but actually, it should be a creature made of nanites that only occasionally assumes a goo orc form.

I'd wonder why he wanted the expressionless android form to feature, but then I'd have to admit that fantasy helmets don't make m...

2022-01-08 20:08:42 +0000 UTC View Post

The three Goddads

Characters sheet for the three goddads of Hades, that I made because there isn't a lot of official artwork around and I needed some reliability a simplification for the models I will use for the animation.
That I have to restart because there's so much overlapping of mightly beards and skimpy chitons that my brain was frying with that much information, and I need to put the bodies on one layer and the rest of the stuff on another.
Cur...

2021-12-30 17:02:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Still alive, here some goddads

So, the December emergency is coming to its long-awaited end, and I'm back to art. Still, pretty unfocused, and I don't quite know what to pick first. I've tried to go on with the Hades animation, but the sheer amount of floating hair and garments those three gods display are very confusing. Also, character sheets for Poseidon and Zeus don't exist (and Hades has just a 3D model quite different from its 2D artwork in some places) so i felt like to make one for my own and get the shapes of thei...

2021-12-27 21:34:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Double Goo Double Trouble - Commission

Zur'Gon  isn't the only goo-made creature around, and this time has messed up with a goo demon. How is the original vessel, Sparky, going to take it?
It's just that satisfying to stretch anatomies and make indefinite growth and inflation happen. People that just stick to realistic anatomies (BTW, they're essential for study) don't...

2021-12-26 18:31:15 +0000 UTC View Post