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Ground Yourself - HD

Ira in glorious HD

Ground Yourself

watched the Whale and the Menu while drawing this. both mid as hell

Sketch dump 24.08.2025

Getting my laptop back on Monday I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait💥💥

Ira illustration coming next week!

Sketch dump 19.08.2025

Went on a Wikipedia binge and materialised a small story idea that's ultimately an excuse for me to draw bullshit machinery on buildings. Nothing will probably come of this lol. Maybe in a few year's time...

This is the first thing I've drawn on my dad's computer and it felt weird as hell. The good news is, my laptop got fixed!! I'll be able to retrieve it on Monday! I'm so excited to get back to work. I wrote an extra scene for ZATO in the meantime, so that's 2k extra words to fatten ...

Who do I draw next?

sorry for the weird collage I'm on my phone

Wanted to do an illustration with one of the ZATO girls for a while... Could be cute I think:)

Progress update 13.08.2025

Sorry for the lack of updates, I'm still waiting for the verdict from the repair shop. Turns out the laptop battery is more or less fine - the issue is in some fine electronics burning themselves up, so the two options were to either let the laptop fry itself from the inside until it inevitably dies or perform some risky operation that might either salvage it or kill it completely. Chose the latter, but I'm yet to hear a word back on how it's going. I really hope they save it... So nervousðŸ˜...

Progress update 09.08.2025

THIS CAN'T KEEP HAPPENING

My laptop seems to have a battery leak (it smells like nail polish and looks a little swollen), so I'm taking it to a repair shop next week. Backing everything up right now, hope it doesn't explode mid transfer lol.

I'm not even surprised by tech malfunctioning at this point. Maybe I killed an IT guy in my past life and this is my atonement

Progress update 05.08.2025

This is the last CG I'll be showing before the game's release. There's not that many of them, so I don't want to spoil too much. Though, I might edit this one a little bit later, I'm noticing some mistakes...

I don't remember if I've said it before, but thank you so much for being patient with me. It's really amazing that I've been allowed to go all in on a spontaneous side project no one asked for. I'm working hard to bring it to you as soon as possible!!

Progress update 30.07.2025

a toothpick changes everythang

i've realised asya needs a lot more expression variants compared to other characters. even if the alterations are pretty small, it makes a huge difference in game... at least to me.

i've lost a couple work days due to a family visit, but it really feels like everything is com...

Progress update 24.07.2025

her jacket sprites look funny

reread the first hour of the game and realised the prologue needs some rewrites. yeowch!! this visual novel thing sure is tricky

Progress update 22.07.2025

danganronpa ass sprite

I feel like the end is in sight... I have 3 CG sets left to draw and two spritesets to finish. There are still some backgrounds I need to add/redo as well as a couple of audio quirks to iron out, but I should be able to send the beta version out to my playtesters by early August.

The game menu still uses the default ren'py interface... I'll do a UI overhaul during...

Rebirth - Timelapse

the sketch had more aura but we need to keep going always keep going and looking into the future not the past

Songs used:

1. Poppy - Time Is Up

2. Grimes, HANA - We Appreciate Power

Rebirth - HD

yup yup yup

Rebirth

i enjoyed drawing this:)

Sketch dump 16.07.2025

more zato doodles it's all progressing nicely...

more zato doodles

it's all progressing nicely...

Progress update 11.07.2025

Gave two side characters their own spritesets and added a lot of backgrounds! It's really cool to see the scenes gradually filling out.

I'm using a fair share of archival photos, so some backgrounds are visibly blurrier than the rest, even with all the paintovers and editing tricks. I keep telling myself it's a free game at the end of the day, but I do hope that it won't be too jarring.

Progress update 05.07.2025

me and my wife saw you from across the bar and we really hate your vibe

it's hard to give updates on the VN without going into spoiler territory, since i'm just working on graphical assets at this point - finishing spritesets, CGs and implementing all that into the game. sorry, i don't have anything exciting to report on lol

why does patreon crunch these screenshots up so hard...

Sketch dump 03.07.2025

evil football

my tablet is getting really difficult to draw on... perhaps i'll get a replacement next year

Progress update 28.06.2025

every other panel in Rough looks like this. I can't escape the Yura residue

Vote on the next illustration!

I haven't drawn my demons in a while. Who's up next gang

Riff - Timelapse

we doing timelapses for sketches now okay

Song used:

The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again

Riff

don't have the time to do a full-blown illustration but i wanted to draw her. maybe i'll add some stuff to it in the future

also i realised i was drawing on a mirrored canvas halfway through so the guitar is flipped over... whoops

Progress update 23.06.2025

at last. portraits for the curious starer.

i was going to put her on the left side of the screen at first, but it looked so cramped and unbalanced, i couldn't stand it.

also fixed a major bug with the textlog (it used to seriously mess up NVL segments) and made 30+ new sprites for marina. how come mom lets you have three outfits

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Progress update 22.06.2025

Done transferring the script! I couldn't work as much as I hoped last week due to irl circumstances, but now I'm back at it. Now it's all about finishing everyone's spritesets and CGs.

I've also removed a lot of swears along the way. I understand that people swore back in the day as well, but seeing USSR teenagers being crude all too often breaks the immersion for me. I guess you can blame movie cen...

Sketch dump 16.06.2025

i feel so rusty, i've just been coding for the past week and a half. i'm almost done transferring the written script into renpy, though it will still require a couple rounds of editing. i gotta get back into shape, there's still a lot of sprites i need to draw...

Progress update 10.06.2025

green girl in green school

I'm about halfway through the script right now! Maybe there will be a couple more CGs than I initially thought. And definitely more sprites... My entire next week will be extremely busy, so I'm trying to get as much work done as I can before that. Sorry if the updates will be lacking during that time🦧

edit: oh patreon crunched this screenshot up so bad

Progress update 06.06.2025

As I'm inputting the script into the engine, I realise it needs some extra scenes here and there to even out the pacing, or to make the chain of events easier to follow, or to describe the setting a little bit better. That's all fine and good. But what I'm saying is, the script has already gotten 2000 words fatter in the first hour of playtime. I wonder how big it will be by the time the game is done

Progress update 03.06.2025

drawing cgs😗 there won't be that many but they're fun to do

Progress update 31.05.2025

got to this screen and my computer crashed. you bitch

(all the files are okay)

renpy is so fun! im having fun:)

Progress update 30.05.2025

finished the script. 204 pages, 60K words

time to renpy tf out...