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Establishing shots + panel WIPs of the next 2 episodes!

A necessary evil, and one I greatly underestimated haha πŸ™πŸ˜­πŸ’¦
My original draft didn't have this entire section of panels. The castle itself was such an afterthought from the character interactions.

    So when it came time to fix my pacing, I knew I had to introduce the castle in the eyes of Cassidy as it's her first time along with us to see it. You don't go into a big fancy place and not look around right!? It made me realize I still have a long way to...

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December Wallpaper DOWNLOAD

We get December's Wallpaper EARLY!! The girls are looking real cute sharing gifts with each other πŸ₯°πŸ’–

I hope you lovelies stay warm and cozy! πŸ™πŸ’•

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Character Interactions + panel WIPS of the next 2 episodes!

     Not too much changed composition-wise from the first draft of the pages here. I just added a previous panel to the Mel and Nola nuzzle just so I could draw them being cute more LOL. I coooould say that I zoomed them out so the Nola and Cas nuzzle could have more emphasis, but I'm gonna be honest with you guys here my brain isn't THAT huge HAHA πŸ‘πŸ€£πŸ’–

    So I'll use this as a chance to talk about understanding characters! For a lo...

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November Wallpaper DOWNLOAD

Here it is! We get a lovely view of a quiet, and tranquil moment between Loren and Annie. I feel blessed. πŸ™πŸ˜­πŸ’–

I don't know if you've noticed, but I've been trying to go with a specific color for each month! Orange was perfect for that Autumn feel πŸ’–

I hope this gives you tranquil feelings as well! πŸ₯°πŸ’•

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November Wallpaper WIP

Now that the EA update is done I can finally work on this Month's Wallpaper! I hear it's perfect weather to cuddle up next to someone in some parts of the world.  πŸ‘€βœ¨

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Switching focus + panel WIPS of the next 2 episodes!

     I thought it was really cool that I managed to do this alternate focus with the paneling here. The background starts zooming out as we zoom in back into the cart, until we get the full shot of the wall.

    I knew I had to pull the focus out of the cart in order for the memorial reveal to have any impact. So along with the readers, Cassidy isn't sure what's gotten Mel and Nola to stop mid-bickering, until she gets a better view and see...

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CHIBI MICAH ACQUIRED!

It was about time I added our sailing Princess Micah to the cast of Chibis that surround you lovelies! You'll see her in the next public episode! (I kind of want a sticker of all the chibis here, they're so cute!! 😭😭 )

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Inconsistency + panel WIPS of the next 3 episodes!

I'm inconsistent with my backgrounds and that is entirely intentional haha! 😈✨

    I've mentioned that with ODIL, one of my goals is to improve on making backgrounds. Knowing that my concepts start out very basic, it was very liberating for myself that I can go back to a background idea and put in elements I feel will make it look a lot better.

    A good example is the castle of Lumain here! I wanted an elevated castle that overlo...

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October Wallpaper DOWNLOAD

THERE THEY ARE!!! πŸ˜³πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’–
With every draft I did of them, it got slightly more spicy haha! (Micah's smile turned into a lip bite and her leg was originally off to the side but..  but I thought what if πŸ‘€πŸ’¦ )

I hope you all enjoy this thirsty vampire wallpaper, and have a Happy Halloween! πŸ§›β€β™€οΈπŸ’–πŸƒβ€β™€οΈ

**EDIT**
I realized a few of my atmosphere layers were off in the final render so I had to fix that! πŸ™πŸ₯ΊπŸ’¦

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October Wallpaper WIP2

It's nearly done! It's taking a little longer to finish than I had hoped but I should have it done for you lovelies before the next update! πŸ™βœ¨

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A butter ramble #1

If you care to indulge me, I would like to share some stuff on my mind about the comic!

      With Long Road almost done, and finishing the thumbnails of the next chapter.. it made me realize that the story is actually moving haha! I didn't think I'd be hit with this sense of progression for my story, but it's dawning on me that a lot of the stuff that I have been putting down will start to connect soon. Gosh I'm excited about it!πŸ’–

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Notes + panel WIPS of the next 2 episodes!

     I've been going at my comic under the mentality to fix and adjust things as much as I can until it's set in stone through the outlining phase. I know that the first ideas I throw from my head into a drawing can be pretty vague still, it isn't until I come back to it that I realize it can be done in a better way.

    In that first page here I really wanted to have an additional panel of a flustered Mel. As well as a slightly different ...

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Vague BGs + panel WIPS of the next 2 episodes!

The nice thing about a constant background is that if it's not the focus, you can get away with a quick color pick and just block it out! It's definitely saved me a lot of time in the up coming episode. I'm also not over Mel launching at Nola. This segment, and the panels of Nola and Mel that follow after, are some of my favorite panels so far haha πŸ’–πŸ˜‚

Mel seems to continue to be very expressive, but something catches their attention! Could it have something to do with the concept...

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October wallpaper WIP

WE GETTING A VAMPIRE AU WALLPAPER!! πŸ˜³πŸ’–πŸ’–

I struggled a little with who I wanted to be the vampire, but having Micah play the willing- I mean helpless victim was too good to pass up. πŸ˜‚

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September Wallpaper DOWNLOAD

Imagine the world turning pink and standing still when you're in the middle of a kiss with the one you love πŸ˜³πŸ’–
Sometimes you have to simplify the background a little to let the focus be on what really matters πŸ™πŸ₯Ίβ€β€

I hope this brings you sweet feelings and soothing moods! βœ¨πŸ’–πŸ’–

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September Wallpaper WIP

It needs a little more tweaks, but we're getting Nola and Cass sharing a kiss for this monthπŸ˜³πŸ’–

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3D models + panel WIPS of the next 2 episodes!

Oh hey there's the rest of that background haha!

I'm starting to look into incorporating some help of 3D models! I would have agonized over the Coliseum backgrounds without this model to reference it by. A very inspiring GL creator helped me figure out SketchUp for this and I'm eternally grateful πŸ™πŸ˜­πŸ’–
I'm really happy to be using a different color palette for the late afternoon scenes too! I'm starting to pay more attention to how that can effect the atmosphere of a conversa...

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Growing Pains + panel WIPS of the next 2 episodes!

     Something I'm learning in the process is that if you want a wide scenic panel in the scrolling format.. you have to either sacrifice some elements, or make that panel a lot smaller than you intended it to be.
    This episode, and the next episode after this, have background shots that actually had a little more detail that I had to give up in the scroll format. In both cases I gave up the side elements to focus on the panel scroll, becau...

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August Wallpaper DOWNLOAD

I played Ashley Tinsdale's version on "Kiss the Girl" on loop for this. Thank you Ashley πŸ™

A powerful wlw creator showed me these extremely versatile brushes that I experimented with throughout this piece. I don't think it would have been as pretty as it is now without them, and I am once again eternally grateful πŸ˜­πŸ’–

Also, I didn't realize how much I wanted a GL version of that Disney scene until I started making this haha! I hope you enjoy this as much as I loved making...

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August wallpaper WIP

Of course now that we've introduce Micah we HAVE to have a wallpaper with her and Mel in it πŸ‘€ ✨

I wanted to try teasing this sooner, but I was sitting on a sketch before this one that I wasn't 100% into, BUT THIS!!

THIS

*chef's kiss* πŸ˜˜πŸ‘Œ

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Knowing Characters + panels WIPS of the next 2 episodes!

This episode had a huge rework in terms of how I got from point A to point B. Let's talk about it!

    When I made the drafts back in late 2019 I didn't fully understand my own characters dynamics toward each other. All I knew was I wanted Mel feeling a certain way by the end of the scenario, so that it would make Mel introduce Cassidy the way that she does.

     When it finally came to working on this episode I realized what I had ...

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Let's do a QnA!!

We're coming close to 10K subscribers in Webtoon Canvas AAAH! I want to do a QnA in celebration of this milestone!! ✨

I'd like to reach out to you sweet beans first for following and being an active part in supporting me make this comic. πŸ’–πŸ’– (So GARUNTEED your questions here will get answered.)
Any questions you'd like to ask will be answered in a similar way to the QnA's I did in The Right Knight. So the characters will answer for themselves (if they can, as long as it isn't...

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Micah's Intro + panel WIPS of the next 2 episodes!

Prince Kennar gets introduced along with his suave sister, Princess Micah!!
The blue haired wizard will have his own, very fun introduction later on in the story haha!

Aaaah I'm so happy we've finally reached this point in updates, we're getting to the interesting plot points surrounding these characters soon!! There wasn't too much change from the tumbnails this time around. Just added and switched a few for better pacing and placement of characters. There were a few people Micah h...

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July Wallpaper DOWNLOAD

This month's wallpaper has Loren and Annie having a lovely tea time together ❀

Some very powerful cousins who fight evil by moonlight, and win love by daylight helped me with this πŸ™πŸ˜­

I reaaaaally love how Loren's expression came out here, she's so pretty!! No wonder Annie can't help stealing a glance at her~ πŸ₯°β€β€β€

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July wallpaper preview!

We get to have Loren and Annie enjoying some quali-tea time together! (I'm not sorry for that punπŸ₯°)

If you like japanese flower language, I'll be putting some symbolic flowers in the bg for you to decipher what could be going on between these two for the story πŸ‘€β€

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Extending a scene + panel WIPS of the next 2 episodes

Those gray squares with scribbles on them? That's my script, and how it all starts out as. πŸ˜…

I'm a very visually dependent person, so I rough it out with only the basic idea of what the dialogue should be. I'm sure every artist has a method that works best for them. Although it may not look the most organized, it gives me wiggle room to further improve a scene and the dialogue when I come back to it.

Which is what I wanted to do for that claw hold scene haha!πŸ’– I wanted to ...

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Replicating lines + Panel WIPS of the next 2 episodes

Slowly but surely I'm learning the tricks of the trade when it comes to making webcomics. One of those being how much time you save when you re-use stuff you've already made once! Granted the lines had tweaks for facial expression changes, but overall it was so much faster aah! I'm excited to learn more!

Also seems there's a lot of worry goin around those preview WIPS! It couldn't be from the new face in that last preview panel could it?? πŸ‘€πŸ’¦

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June Wallpaper DOWNLOAD

It's the whole gang!! Patterned all over your screen!? Yes please, with an additional rainbow sheen color theme in celebration of Pride month!🌈 ❀❀

I hope the month has treated you all very well πŸ™πŸ₯°πŸ’–

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Episode Cut + Panel WIPS of the next 2 episodes!

During the thumbnail phase I try to figure out where would be some good places to cut the episode at. Since we've already had an episode end with Nola popping in. Ending it with Loren guessing about it would work much better!

LOREN'S REFERENCE FACE.. I was looking in google search for something, I don't remember what but THIS FACE popped up, I made a joke about it with some comic friends I work with and it ended up making it's way into the comic haha! ❀

Also dang! Cassidy was ...

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Crossover doodles with Diamond Dive!

This was something I made about a year ago I think, but I thought I'd share it with you guys this Pride month!

Diamond Dive is an absolutely gorgeous wlw fantasy webcomic, and I've become really good friends with the creator. She's helped me learn so much, and I definitely know I wouldn't be at the level of growth I'm at now if it wasn't for her and the group of comic friends I've managed to find myself in.  πŸ™βœ¨

I don't fully remember how the convo got to Karta and Nola...

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