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Swole Mates Page 10 (Addendum)

Harrow!

Just wanted to drop in with a quick update! I've been meaning to let everyone know that I have intentions to add more pages to Swole Mates, but haven't really the chance to communicate what exactly those plans are in detail. The past few weeks have been pretty busy toggling between inking and drafting modes... as well as getting ready to color end of the month, so I figured I'd just show one of the new pages that's been added to adjust the pacing of the comic:<...

Swole Mates Page 02 (Inked)

Over the 2-week break in December, I tried my best to cover as much ground as possible with the ink phase for Meatier Showers 2022: Swole Mates. In the above last panel, Snares looks more like he'd picked up something foul smelling, especially from the look of shock from his eyes and the lack of color in the "scent trail" effect, making it hard to discern the nature of the smell.

2022-01-15 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Happy New Year!

Harrow!

Before I get too caught up in my own world, I just wanted to wish everyone a HAPPY 2022! No doubt, things have been rough for most of us one way or the other, but I do hope that as we continue to understand and learn more about our current, collective circumstances, that we'll all be able to move towards the next, better chapter of our lives.

Progress Report

2022-01-09 12:02:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Swole Mates Page 12

Happy 2022 Everyone!

Here is this month's update on the draft cleanups. Those of you who've seen the prototype will notice a lot of placeholder images like the one in the bottom panel:

This is admittedly another one of my favorite pages! I've since gone through most of the remaining ones that need details added in and here's the cleaned up version that's good to go for t...

Dec 2021 - Featured Stream

Hi everyone!

It's been a month since I streamed online, and may have inadvertently altered my Streamlabs settings while trying to get back into the process. This month's stream was recorded on a much higher resolution than I normally do, so I can't attach the video directly to this post. You can however find the file HERE for download:

2022-01-01 01:50:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Swole Mates Page 01 (Inked)

During the drafting phase, my main goal is to ensure that "big picture" visual elements such as composition, overall panel and page layout look and feel good when reading left to right. Generally I settle for "good enough" at this stage and there usually are still character placeholders left around to "block" out their positions in a scene. I don't go for "perfect" yet at this stage because I don't w...

Happy Holidays!

Harrow!

Seasons greetings everyone, I hope this post finds you well! As you can see in the preview above, inking has finally begun in earnest with the new Meatier Showers 2022 project. I'll be sharing the full page AND a recorded session of the process towards end of Dec, so stick ar...

Swole Mates Page 11

Harrow!

For those of you who missed out on the previous prototype post, here's a quick update on where this page has shifted to (after the addition of 4 new pages). It's a tad bit confusing due to the reshuffle, but you can download the PDF from the above link to see the differences. In terms of line art, 2021-12-12 03:36:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Swole Mates Page 10

Harrow!

Thank you for supporting me through another month! To kickoff the holiday season, here's another work-in-progress update for page 10 of Meatier Showers (2022): Swole Mates!

It's another favorite page of mine, partly because I've gotten into this weird thing for hyper dongs that aren't necessarily hard and erect like forest logs, but so long that you have to handl...

Dec 2021 Updates

Hi everyone!

It's been 2 weeks since I started my 6-month training attachment at a local university, and I feel that I'm in a better position now to update you guys on changes in my schedule and overall production speed.

Current Status

As of this writing, things have been relatively relaxed (by comparison to my la...

Swole Mates Page 09

Harrow!

Following up on the previous page, here's one of my personal favorites for possibly obvious reasons... There's still a fair amount of touching up to do, but it's definitely one of the more straightforward and fun pages to work on so far, enjoy!

Got some life updates to...

Swole Mates Page 08

Harrow!

Thank you all for supporting me through the month of October! As I've shared earlier, my current goal is to get all the remaining work-in-progress draft pages hammered out so that I can start moving into the ink phase starting this month.

If you can recall, I'd made some str...

Swole Mates Page 07 (Revised)

Harrow!

Pre-production has historically been the most chaotic phase in making a comic, at least for me, on the account that whatever missteps required to move towards success, need to be made and iterated fast at this stage.

In a previous post, I shared what was supposed to be page 07 of Swole Mates. Now that same page, is page 09. Surprise!  I felt that there were...

The Long Game

Hi everyone!

While we continue to move steadily towards the end of year, I thought it would be a good time now to reflect with everyone on things, before being too caught up in production again:

Progress Report

As of this post, not only have 4 additional pages been added to the overall page count of Meater Showers: Swole Mates (2022), a few major story structure and pacing fixes have been added to its mid-section (trans...

Quick Update

There's been a lot of flux lately with Swole Mates. After a 4-hour stream session, the comic has gone from 12-pages to 16. In my current state of mind, I'm not able to make any sound judgement calls, so I'll just share one of the better pages so far:

I think the general issue I had with the first 12-page iteration was that things happened too fast, and lacked moments where characters were just ...

Meatier Showers 2020 - Page 12 (End)

Harrow!

Here is this month's comic! Thank you so much for supporting the Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary update from start to finish. This was done way before the Fast & Furious "family" meme went around. Given the time gap between the movie and this, I do hope that it doesn't detract the comic's intended message and meaning from everyone's reading experience. Something's are simply out of our control, and we just have to roll with it.

"Family" has always bee...

Meatier Showers: Swole Mates Prototype

Harrow!

Hope everyone's been doing well and staying safe! If you've been following the previous few updates, I imagine it must be confusing keeping track of how things are going and what the comic as a whole is actually shaping up to look like.

I've put together a PDF compilation of the first draft for everyone to look. While this version is far from ready, and doesn't contain the new revisions and additional pages as previewed in this 2021-10-10 13:08:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Swole Mates Page 07

Harrow!

Thank you everyone for supporting this project through another month. Following up on the previous post on page 06, you can see where the original panels (in bolder lines) were edited out from page 07 and shifted to the end of page 06 to adjust pacing:

And here's where...

Sep 2021 - Featured Stream

Harrow!

Here is this month's featured stream recorded from the mid September. It's quite a long clip, spanning 4 hours long and covering my effort to push through an earlier creative stump. Moving forward into October, my priority would be to flesh out the 6 new pages thumbnailed after thi...

Swole Mates Page 06 - Draft & Iterations

Harrow!

Thank you for your patience! For a good 2 weeks, I had found myself stuck at page 06 despite having already plot out some preliminary thumbnails earlier. The key issue I encountered while transitioning from page 06 - 07 based on these earlier thumbnails was that page 07 was effectively repeating similar story beats that could've all been compressed into page 06.

Meatier Showers 2020 - Page 11

Harrow!   Here is this month's comic! The remaining pages of the 10th Anniversary epilogue will continue to be uploaded here each month until the last page (Oct 2021). Stay safe and take care!

Snares
Sep 2021

Quick Update

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to drop in with a quick update. Over the weekend, I was able to make some breakthroughs and get draft pages 09 - 12 down (not featured in this post). While they have been able to capture the major moments of Swole Mates, the climax feels abrupt and the growth sequence needed more story beats. It was also important to "ride the waves" while they were up, so a lot of what you'll be seeing tonight were done pretty late in the night. They are mostl...

Swole Mates Page 05 - Draft

Harrow!

For this month's updates, we'll be looking at how things have been shifting around in the second half of Swole Mates. As of this writing, I'm pretty happy with everything between pages 1 - 5. As you can see below, things are pretty straightforward:

Not only was I able to sneak in some humor in the exchange between Pridestar and Snares (we see how misaligned their ...

Quick Update

Harrow!

Thank you everyone for supporting me through the month of August. Just wanted to share with you guys what you can expect to see in September. I've committed to some new story choices and am now trying to push through the creative block with page 7. What you see above is the first panel. I've actually been working on 2 pages for the past 3-4 hours or so, and it's 1.30AM now - a timeframe which I don't normally encourage myself to operate social media with.

Thumbnails (Pages 7- 12)

Hi everyone!

Hope you've all been doing well! As of this writing, I'm quite pleased with the new drafts for pages 1-6. While some revisions and cleaning up remain to be done for page 6, I've proceeded ahead with thumbnails for the next 6 pages. What you see above serves primarily as a guide / estimation for how things will be. These aren't necessarily set in stone and will be s...

Aug 2021 - Featured Stream

Harrow!

This month's featured stream shows the process for the above warm up image, as well as my process getting back into fixing up the draft for Meatier Showers: Swole Mates page 4. It also includes a preview of next month's page 5. Next week, I'll be sharing with everyone the th...

Meatier Showers 2020 - Page 10

Harrow!

Here is this month's comic! The remaining pages of the 10th Anniversary epilogue will continue to be uploaded here each month until the last page (Oct 2021). Stay safe and take care!

Snares
Aug 2021

Swole Mates Page 04 - Draft

HARROW!

Just wanted to welcome everyone back after a one-month hiatus! I would also like to warmly welcome all my new Patreon supporters who recently joined this month! Things may feel a little haphazard now that we're still in preproduction phase, so I'll be sharing more details on the project timeline in a later post mid-August! For now, here's a quick update on my progress so far:

2021-08-08 16:15:38 +0000 UTC View Post

August Reboot

Hi everyone!

First and foremost. thank you so much for your kindness and patience in sticking around with me while I was busy sorting out the month. There was a convergence of several matters in June that took the figurative wind out of me. Number one, was the fact that my train-and-place program (that provides a monthly allowance, half of which goes to rent) came to ...

Meatier Showers 2020 - Page 9

Harrow!

While billing for the month of July has been paused, I will continue to upload the remaining pages of the bonus epilogue here each month until the last page (Oct 2021). Stay safe and take care!

Snares
Jul 2021