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August Exclusive Comic

Elodie requested a really sweet drawing idea this month of our cast playing sports in school! .....so of course I decided to make something angsty lol (Jon's version in the monthly sketches will be more light-hearted I promise! 😭💗)

Anyways, here are baby Alex and Marcie in high school~ A few thoughts I had while making this, if you're interested in reading:

Both Alex and Marcie are pretty coordinated and athletic, and I feel like they would have enjoyed playing sports when t...

Episodes 6.5 - 6.6 Behind the scenes

A BTS preview of Jon and Alex's farmer's market friend date~! 👀✨

smoke breaks

Today's post for Insta, heavily inspired by listening to this song on repeat ✨

I'm usually really bad at finding face/voice claims for my characters -- but the singer for that song sounds almost exactly how I'd picture Alex's voice. I imagine Alex's voice to have the same cadence and lilt, but pitched slightly lower....idk if that makes sense, but let me know if you have any thoughts on it too haha...

Send in your August sketch requests!

If you've got an idea or scene you'd like to request this month, comment it down below~ I'll share all the drawing requests at the end of the month, and may use a couple for our Patreon-exclusive illustrations 🥰

July Q&A

Our monthly Q&A post! Feel free to comment any questions you may have here (webcomic/OC related or not) and I'll be happy to answer them! Please also don't feel pressured to ask anything either if you don't want to/can't think of anything this month 🥰

A huge thank you! + updates on Patreon

Thank you all so, SO MUCH for your support on Patreon this last year!! I can hardly believe how much time has passed since we first launched, and I am so grateful to continue sharing my work with an audience like you guys 💗

Recently, my work and life outside of creating OC-related content has become a lot more time-consuming...and to keep my sanity, I need to cut back on creating new content (just a little!) Moving forward, instead of a weekly Instagram comic/drawing, I'm going to ai...

July monthly sketches

Some summery sketches for the month! Thank you for all your fun ideas - hope you enjoy them!! ☀️✨

Bonus monthly exclusive illustration

July's 2nd exclusive drawing! Thank you to Auxilium for the suggestion of our gang playing with some bunnies in the grass -- hope you enjoy it!! 🐰✨

Episodes 6.3 - 6.4 Behind the Scenes

Preview of the next couple episodes~! I am super curious to see what you and other readers will think about Theo as he begins to play a bigger role in the story....👀👀

Every DnD session

Today's Insta post, thanks to drawing suggestions from Tapas readers! The punchline here is basically a repeat of last month's DnD-themed monthly sketch, but I don't play the game -- and this is the one joke I've got 😭😭

At least the stabby onion is new haha ✨

Marcie's wardrobe

A Marcie appreciation post that's been a long time coming 😭💗

I finally found Marcie's wardobe aesthetic this week and I couldn't be happier! You can check out my Pinterest board for her here -- it will probably grow much larger now that I have some specific inspo for her look ✨

July Exclusive Illustration

Our Patreon-exclusive illustration for this month; Faith suggested a "river date"! Thank you for the cute idea -- I hope you enjoy the summery vibes! ☀️✨

Episodes 6.1 - 6.2 Behind the Scenes

Some previews on the upcoming webcomic episodes! No spoilers, but......expect some angst~ 👀✨✨

Webcomic excerpt

An excerpt from the end of Chapter 5 of our webcomic for today's Insta post! I've been very busy trying to create a new episode buffer for the next chapter, so I haven't had time to make any new mini-comics :,)

Hopefully next week, there will be some new content so share though! 🥰🥰

Send in your July sketch requests!

It's really starting to feel like Summer where I'm at now -- I hope you guys can enjoy the weather! ☀️✨

If you've got an idea or scene (summery-themed or not!) you'd like to request this month, comment it down below~ I'll share all the drawing requests at the end of the month, and may use a couple for our Patreon-exclusive illustrations 🥰

June Q&A

Here's our monthly Q&A post! Feel free to comment any questions you may have here (webcomic/OC related or not) and I'll be happy to answer them! Please also don't feel pressured to ask anything either if you don't want to/can't think of anything this month 🥰

I look forward to reading your questions! 💗

June monthly sketches

Our monthly sketches for June! These requests get more and more silly each month, thank you for the fresh ideas 😂✨

edit: just realized one of the sketches was missing! They should all be included now 🥰

Bonus June Exclusive illustration

The lies I tell myself whenever it's raining :,)

Our 2nd Patreon-exclusive drawing this month, and a preview of what's the come in Chapter 6 of our webcomic! Any predictions as to what'll happen? 👀🌧✨

Episodes 5.14 - 5.15 Behind-the-Scenes

The final episodes of Chapter Five are coming this weekend!!! I'm so pumped to share the finale of the chapter -- this one was a long ride :,,)

I'm mostly eager (maybe a little scared) to see what you guys  and others will think of the final part of Episode 5.15 haha. Can you guess who our mystery visitor will be? 👀👀

June Exclusive Illustration

Our Patreon-exclusive illustration for this month~ ✨

A rare drawing of Jon's dad for Father's Day -- thanks so much to Erin G. for the request! 🥰🥰

Leah and Akira's meet-cute

Leah and Akira's first meeting! 🥰 It's way less convoluted than the story of how Jon and Alex first met in our comic -- but they are perhaps just as awkward lol ✨

May Monthly Sketches

At last -- the monthly sketches from May!! ✨ This bunch had a lot of variation haha, and I hope you like how they turned out! Thanks so much for all your suggestions and for your patience while I worked on finishing them up~ 🥰💗

Episodes 5.12-5.13 Behind-the-Scenes

A little preview of the next comic updates! You guys might know by now how much I enjoy juggling the wholesome with the sad stuff, and a difficult conversation may be brewing for the end of the chapter.....😈

I also previously estimated that the chapter would end at 5.13 -- but I've had to split the final scene into a couple different parts 😭 Apologies for dragging it out so long, but there are a lot of things to still unpack between these two :,) 

Regardless -- enjoy! �...

Send in your June sketch requests!

If you've got an idea or scene you'd like to request this month, comment it down below! I'll share all the drawing requests at the end of the month, and may use a couple for our Patreon-exclusive illustrations ✨

I'm also about halfway done with the requests from May (thanks so much again for your patience on those 😭💗) -- be on the look out for that post within the next week or so~!

Jon's Pride 💗💜💙✨

Happy Pride Month, y'all 🥰💗

Rather than a group shot this year, I just wanted to focus on Jon~ He's the most self-inserty of the bunch, so drawing him in the flag was like a pseudo-self portrait haha 

I also just recently learned the definition of demisexual/demiromantic, and the latter really seemed to fit both of us --  here's something sweet for that discovery too! 🥺🤲

May Q&A

Aaah the end of the month really crept up on me 😭 I hope you guys have had a good past couple weeks; thank you as always for your support!

Here's our monthly Q&A post! Feel free to comment any questions you may have here (webcomic/OC related or not) and I'll be happy to answer them! Please also don't feel pressured to ask anything either if you don't want to/can't think of anything this month 🥰

I look forward to reading your questions! 💗

Webcomic excerpt 2/2

One more excerpt from Chapter 5 this week! The chance to have Jon wear Alex's hoodie here was too perfect an opportunity to pass up, so I may have written the entire chapter around this one part lol ✨

May sketch request update

Hey guys!

I’m so sorry to make this update 😭 This month has been unusually busy for me, and I don’t think I’ll be able to finish your sketch requests before the end of the month. I aim to complete them all in June, so please look out for them then! If you don’t plan on being a Patron for next month, please let me know privately (either on here or on Insta) and I’ll make sure you still receive the May sketches when they’re finished.

Thank you in advance for underst...

Episodes 5.9 - 5.11 Behind the Scenes

This birthday party arc has been going on much longer than I expected haha :,) 

But light can be seen at the end of the tunnel, and the party finally ends in Episode 5.11! ✨ We're only 1-2 more episodes away from the end of the chapter after this; thanks so much for keeping up with these two dino goofballs 🦖💗

May Bonus Exclusive Illustration

Sharing a sunset together ☀️

Thanks very much to Yayi for the suggestion! 🥰

This month's exclusive posts apparently have the theme of experimenting with different shading techniques haha~ This one was a little more frustrating to do, so I may not use this specific process again, but it was at least fun to play around with :,)

I hope you enjoy it too! 🤲✨