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July, July, It's a Heck of a Month

Hello again.

As always, thank you so much for continuing to support me here on Patreon.

With July now upon us, so we begin the final countdown.

This is what will happen:

As you can see, itā€...

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...For Your Support This Month

I am extremely grateful for it.  If you decide not to stick around next month, that's OK.  Times are financially difficult after all.

Due to several nights not sleeping properly finally catching up with me, I'm too tired to make a decent journal detailing what's to happen in July right now (30th June 2023).  I'll get on that soon as the brain fog lifts.

Anyway, it was more important to let you know how appreciated you are as a Patron; thank you so much again.
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PAOwer Up!

Pao ćƒ‘ć‚Ŗ is the Japanese onomatopoeia of an elephant trumpeting.

Yup, I did the thing based on the thing, because I like TF but couldn't care less about the titular character - enjoy.

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Grr, Rito...

Penn's remark about how a particular item is too small for him so Link may as well have it is what led to this.  That's all.

Game's been out for over a month now and this isn't really a plot-related spoiler so... šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™‚ļø   Enjoy.  Probably the last one I'll draw of this bird fella.

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A Majestic Beast King

So I’ve been rather enjoying this one lately (correct at the time of posting this, June 2023).

Given how plot heavy this is, I’ll only detail the overall synopsis: the two titular characters develop a relationship but face a number of hurdles before they can been accepted in wider society, including many a prepossession due to long-standing cultural and historical issues.

Bonu...

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This One Bird...

Or more accurately, Rito.

It took me a while to figure out how I’m going to post this one without annoying someone by giving away a potential spoiler for this game.   So I opted for a textless version and saved the dialogue-heavy one as an attachment.

You can download and view it at your own discretion but fair w...

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'I'm Just Living Up To My Name...'

'... and what could be bad about that?'

Y'know, if they do adapt the rest of the Bad Guys books as a bunch of movies, it'll be very interesting to see everyone's reaction to this part; oh yes, his getting kaijÅ«ified is canon.   

Enjoy!

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'If You Have the Guts To..."

... take him on.  Again.  He's been a recurring character for a while now, and the game's been out for over a month now and so I don't think this counts as a spoiler-- it'd be like saying it's a spoiler that the titular chara...

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Poking Around Pt 156

This is probably the closest I shall lampshade the original franchise’s most famous game mechanic…

ā€˜But wait,’ you may interject, ā€˜didn’t the characters say much earlier in the story that those devices were no longer in use in this world?’ That’ll be explained in the next page as I couldn’t fit it in here—man, these giant creatures take up a lot of room…

Oh and why these particular creatures have to get big in the first place.  Loose threads all coming ...

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So You Recently Signed Up...

... and you ask: "Yo, where are the keys?"

To that, I say:

But many thanks for your support, and your time and patience with me.

Yours Humbly,

'Kamiduzaurus, trying not to melt.

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Poking Around Pt 155

Man, typesetting took me a lot longer than expected, but hey, kept my promise from the previous page, no? And there won’t be any more preamble soon enough, as I’m finally closing in on the pages I drew first ages ago.

No TL notes this page.

Again, thank you to all who support this ongoing work. Don’t forget, you can read the all the previous parts altogether on the 2023-06-13 15:42:54 +0000 UTC View Post

'Welcome...'

My feelings towards this game are conflicted and complicated, now that I’ve played it.

I’ll spare you the rhetoric.  Again, my sincerest thanks to Rodrigo for gifting me it for a first-hand experience and nope, this is not a spoiler, he appears pretty early on.

Anyway, this was more a ā€˜let’s see if I can do it’ piece rather than any infatuation with the 2023-06-11 05:51:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Thank You!

From the bottom of my heart.  Cue Act Clear theme.  

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Poking Around Pt 154

Why did this part take me so long to draw…? (Asking rhetorically; it’s mostly pacing issues and trying not to overcrowd my pages; 9 panels seems to be my go-to, though I was pushing this one at 14, 15 panels-ish)  But yes, I’m finally onto the set-up part. Couldn’t fit in the growth sequence so that’ll be on the next page. Again, thank you to everyone for supporting this story…

As always, you can read all the previous parts altogether on the 2023-06-08 02:14:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Poking Around Pt 153

Whoo, it’s June and here’s the next part; sorry for the wait!

Took a while to piece everything together as the last panel was actually the first one I drew. No TL notes this time. Don’t forget, you can read all the previous parts altogether on the Poking Around Complete Collection. Or you can use 2023-06-06 12:44:27 +0000 UTC View Post

June Journal

Hello again and thank you as always for your support here on Patreon.

A new month means a new season, and a new batch of things to come.

As indicated here, there will be a slight delay in content. I apologise for any inconvenience and/or disappointment by this: I’d wanted to get all the pages of ...

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End of the Month Update... kinda

There will be a pause in production as this weekend coming, I'll be going down to the other end of the country and the parents' place to get fitted for a waistcoat.

Not because I've outgrown my other one; my mother or my sister are pretty insistent  on a particular fabric/pattern being worn for the 2nd wedding ceremony this summer.  Anyway, I'll be back next week (5th June).  
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Poking Around Pt 152

Thank you for waiting. That last panel was a bit of a pain to put together which is why this is a day late compared to the others, but here we are. Can you tell I’m not much of a Char​izard fan these days?  šŸ˜…

You can read the rest here. 

Anyway, couple more TL Notes – please look forward to more:

  • ā€œI volunteer as tributeā€/ā€I hunger for this ...

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Poking Around Pt 151

Ta-da! This was a lot easier to put together as these panels were originally drawn for the previous page.  Blame my love of Crayon Sh​in Chan for the goji 誤字/ 恔恘(misspelling, typos).  Please look forward to more coming soon and again, thank you to everyone who continues to support this story.

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Poking Around Part 150

I seem to always say whenever I return to this comic after a long time but: it almost took me out, but I did it. I really  did it…  Thank you so much for waiting!

This page went through several iterations and revisions before I was finally satisfied. So this is one of several pages I worked on this month, albeit non-sequentially. So later pages are done and I’m doing the intermediary pages building up to them, if that makes sense.  Just have to rearrange pane...

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Oi, Where's the Rest?

... is what you're probably asking, given it's 20th (at the time of posting this), and there's no sign of the comics and I did rather drop off the stratosphere on here.  

Good news: I'm dedicating the rest of the month to work on them, so please look forward to them; it's just gonna take me a while as these comics are getting more complicated to put together.

And any recent arrivals, I'll sort out the archives for soon, so look out for that.  

That's all.  ...

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'Is This What You Wished For?'

You'd have thought I'd drawn Long sooner, given how long ago the film came out and I actually got a keyring and stuffed dragon of him.  Enjoy.

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Another Image Be Here

I shall play it safe and post this one as an attachment (below this text) as I did for this character, as I really don’t know how far into the game you have to be to interact with this individual.  At the time of posting this, said game only came out 3 days ago.

So view at your personal discretion, can’t ...

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Wandered Up the Wrong Hill...

Game’s out, I can post it.  This guy was featured in the demo the game review sites had once the embargo was lifted.  And apparently, it happens really early on in the game, so it’s not a spoiler, unlike this fellow from a few days ago.  Anyway, it’s nice to see some canonically weightier c...

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Dino-Might (Kinda...)

Can you tell it’s my first time attempting a wrestling grapple? I almost gave up on this several times but I preserved. Not quite at the point where I’d like to be, but to save a long-winded whinge, I’ll just say that my aim going forward is to improve more action-heavy scenes in colour.

So, context for this piece:

In an attempt to emulate the success of the Turtles in the late...

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He Flex

So an antagonist (kinda) from the original series was reimagined for the reboot.

That's all I got really; the reboot series started off very slice-of-life and episodic though apparently, it later re-incorporated a lot of elements from its predecessor and went a lot more adventure-driven.  Apparently.  I don't know, I never...

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Special Delivery

Akin to what I did this time last month when that certain tv series ended and had a surprising character appear in it that I could draw, I'm going to post this image as an attachment, given video game sequel about a crying kingdom technic...

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Hey, It's May!

Sorry this took so long given it's been a full week into the new month; last week was a busy time with commissions (a far smaller number of 10 this time rather than the 35 that took me two months to complete).  As you know (or may not), I'm building up a nest-egg now to cover for the month and a half I'm away on holiday in the summer.

At the time of posting this, I've completed 6 works, so the rest of the month I can dedicate to doing content here.  So of that, please anticip...

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'Why Must You Bug Me So?!'

So this is Stegron, man-turned-dinosaur and wants to do the same to the rest of the world's human population.  A bit of an obscure villain, whose role was more usurped by Sauron (the pterodactyl man) and then the Lizard but... oh wel...

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End of the Month Update

Hello and as always, thank you for your support on here, especially those who reached out during my unexpected downtime.  This entry is a follow-up to my journal on 28th April, when I finally felt like myself again.

So, my plan for May is to open up for commissions again, but in a more limited capacity than before.  However, I won’t be pausing Patr​eon again because there’ll be t...

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