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Streaming 8/20

Streaming Thursday, 8/20, starting at 9PM EST. I should be working on Seeds art, but expect requests and other stuff as well depending on the crowd.

http://original.livestream.com/saburox

This Week in Seeds of Fate (Week of 8/15)

Okay, so obviously things have been quiet here on Patreon this month, and Seeds is at least in part to blame for that (as are broken cars, and various other annoyances). I'll try and make it up to you guys somehow.

Having said that, This week in Seeds of Fate, I commissioned a programmer to help out the project by tweaking a couple things (Mediguard has popup numbers now) and coding two new states. Endure and Recoil. Their names are pretty self explanatory but here's how they're used.

Family Style Spaghetti Western

I sketched out this cowgirl back in 2011 or so, and up until now didn't really want to do anything with it because I messed up the legs and didn't want to risk messing up the sketch to fix them.

But lately I've been feeling good enough about my abilities to ink in SAI that I realized I could just fix it there, so here we are.

This Week in Seeds of Fate (Week of 8/9)

This week in Seeds of Fate, lots of Audio Visual stuff.

For music; I got back remastered versions of the starting town and dungeon themes, so those are in now, as well as the WIP music for a scene that comes towards the end of what's currently playable.

For visuals, slowly working on some portrait art, as well as icons for some of the skills, like the new icons for Van's Second Wind and Quick Step abilities.

Sketch Book - Mai and Chun Li [$WIP]

Work in progress sketch of an upcoming commission. 

This Week in Seeds of Fate (Week of 8/1)

This week in Seeds of Fate, more work on last week's timed mission. Specially work on getting said timer to run during battle as it should. Also general bug testing gearing up for the release I want to have happen at some point this month. But since neither of those are interesting or worth a screen shot, there's also new enemy. Everyone's favorite Japanese fox spirit, a kitsune! You will hate this little bugger due to its Foxfire skill; not only does it damage, it has a property that will do ...

July 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Big New Year - August

The next month in the Big New Year pledge reward calendar.

According to my research, the first week in August is International Clown Week. Immediately after that is National Smile Week. August is also when National Sister's Day and National Watermelon Day fall.

So with those days in mind and a week left in July, inspiration struck, so that now we have the clown sisters, Calliope and Chloe, demonstrating the importance of proper sun protection when you've got chalk whit...

This Week in Seeds of Fate (Week of 7/25)

This week in Seeds of Fate, the guy I have helping me with sprites came through for the Samejin (sharkman) over-world graphics. This was a last bit of snag that had this sequence slowed down, so now progress is being made again and I can unveil the Ship Defense mini-game. As the name implies, you've got five minutes to protect the ship from the attacking sharkmen. Can you succeed?

Sketch Book - Heavy Lifting

No idea who these characters are. I figure they're best friends or sisters or something. Either way I was researching dynamic poses last week and found one I really liked of various heavy lifting pulling and pushing poses and it inspired me.

Stream Sketches #3

Last Sunday's stream was a slow one but it still bore some fruit; a requested trio of fertile fan art females!

Sketch Book - Shantae [$WIP]

Work in progress sketch of an upcoming commission of Shantae, from the series of the same name.

Sketch Book - Rio [$WIP]

Work in progress sketch of an upcoming commission.  According to the commissioner, this is Rio Rollins Tachibana from the Super Blackjack video game and the anime series Rio: Rainbow Gate!

This Week in Seeds of Fate (Week of 7/18)

This week in Seeds of Fate, minor tweaks to make game play more accessible or visually impressive as we gear up for the next release.

Included in these tweaks are:

- The ability to continue or quit from the game over screen (in addition to the preexisting "return to title screen") option.

- Battle animation improvements for the Raise, Smoke Bomb, Curse, and Mana Charge moves.

- Temple Sentinel gets its over world sprite for the Mountain Ruins dungeon.

-Dashing Ethereali...

Sketch Book - Hijab

Finishing that Tali picture got me in a mood to draw various hoods and veils and this woman in a hijab ended up being a result. This is not intended to have any kind of political statement or anything, I just wanted to draw clothing folds.

Streaming 7/19

Streaming 7/19 http://original.livestream.com/saburox This Sunday. 7/19, starting at 9PM EST, barring unforseen circumstances. I'm going to see if Sunday gives a better turnout than my usual Thursday night streams. If turnout is especially poor, I may try and squeeze in two this month at a later date TBD.

Sketch Book - Madoi Kaleidoscope [$WIP]

Work in progress sketch of an upcoming commission. 

Cliched Mass Puns

Back in March I put up this sketch of Tali'Zorah from Mass Effect https://www.patreon.com/posts/1800909

Like I'd said there,  I had a sort of comic in mind based on some dialogue from replaying the first game. Took me a while and I had to learn some new stuff about Paint Tool SAI to get it how I wanted it, but I managed to get it done. Also attached a clean version for those who want it.

Sketch Book - Hilda [$]

Work in progress sketch of an upcoming commission, of a Kokoro sized Hilda/Touko from Pokemon Black/White 2.

EDIT: I suppose I can also share the finished version.

This Week in Seeds of Fate (Week of 7/11)

This week in Seeds of Fate, monster graphics. Specifically, started shopping around to subcontract a couple graphics, as well as finished up the revised version of a beastie called the "Chiropteran". It's a spectral skeletal bat that drains MP and curses the player.

Busty Sidekick Problems

More of the illustrated ideas I did for /co/'s Golden Girl concept

The Developing Adventures of Golden Girl

Okay, so here's the thing. A few days ago I was browsing the Comics and Cartoons board on 4chan at 3 in the morning and there was a thread about boobs, and an idea started to get thrown around along these lines:

"Almost all the women in comic books have huge boobs. So puberty must be nuts."

This got knocked back and forth until the idea of a late blooming sidekick that grows chest first into being a busty Power Girl styled brawler, and how she's now clumsy and has to relearn crim...

This Week in Seeds of Fate (Week of 7/4)

Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans! Unfortunately, car troubles in the past week prevented a lot of work on Seeds of Fate, but on the plus side, the game over jingle came in from our composer, and a recently released resource pack allowed me to start renovating the resume space sequence. Hopefully this next week will afford me enough time to complete it.

Big New Year - July

The first of the pledge rewards is a pinup calendar called Big New Year. I kept meaning to start t earlier on, but couldn't plan thing effectively. However, that changes now, with the first of the months.

July was a tricky month to decide on  but the general consensus was to go for the Fourth of July as the theme. Then I suddenly realized that I actually don't have that many American characters. But since I wanted to get something done, and since my freezer is full of Bomb Pops, I dec...

June 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

This Week in Seeds of Fate (Week of 6/27)

This week in Seeds of Fate, very little got accomplished as other projects and work took precedence. Having said that, work did begin on the new manual and strategy guide, and there was an object lesson as to why you can't just hack sections of code out of a script (hint: It causes everything to crash.) A nasty bug in enemies that could use the guard command was breaking the game. Luckily that problem has been caught and appears to have been solved.

Rebuild of Evanbellyon : You Can (Not) Have Another Picture.

As said back when I upped the sketch,  DA isn't entirely clear on their practices, so rather than tempt fate I'm going to share this with you guys here instead.

Interestingly enough Sachiel was supposed to attack last week. So I guess we'll have to wait and see if this indeed turns out to be canon.

Stream Sketches #2

The product of the most recent member sketch stream. Not as many as last time, but the stream was also a little slower. I've got to figure out when the best time to hold them is, since weekends are actually not going to be an option most of the time.

Sketch Book - Silvia [$WIP]

Work in progress sketch of an upcoming commission, of Silvia Van Hossen from the anime Princess Lover! It's a spin on a semi-popular animated gif.

Streaming 6/25

http://original.livestream.com/saburox

This Thursday. 6/25, starting at 9PM EST.

Come for the art, stay for the conversation and also the art!

http://www.livestream.com/saburox