Hello! It's almost the end of 2020! We're almost there! I'm so tired! I will probably be tired for most of 2021 as well, let's be real.
First thing's first: there's a new short comic up over on Other Sleep called Another Dream: New Self. Here's the first page:
I drew all three pages of this in February, and even started coloring in March, but then the pandemic hit and everything went sideways. I finished it this month as a way of easing myself back into working digitally with colors once more since all I've been doing for the most part is painting.
I actually got semi-productive again in November, starting with a self-indulgent tangent I went on called, uh, Nude November, where I took a different nude photo of myself every day of the month (starting on the sixth or so, maybe?) and posted it to my NSFW Instagram and Twitter. That was a nice little creative thing to do that kept me motivated. You should know how to find the links to those accounts at this point if you want to see that content, ha. Here's one I'll share though, that's life imitating art imitating life:
Online figure drawing picked back up at the small capacity of a pose a week, and that was the pose one week. Here's the actual painting:
And just to keep the nudity rolling, here's a painting I did last month as well called She Looms:
(my scanner really tends to blow out the whites and lighter tones, especially skintones, so apologies for the cellphone pics here)
The big thing, though? The thing that feels most important? I'M WORKING ON SLIMEPUNK AGAIN. So far all I've done is just draw the cover and first page to issue 7, both of which are pretty heavily detailed and left me kinda drained once I finished inking them. You can see the cover inks on my Patreon, if you subscribe at the Comic Consumer level. You can see a smidge of the first page on my Instagram.
Copies of volume 1 are still available on Gumroad! Had I been more business savy, I would've done some kind of sale for the weekend of Black Friday or pushed it as a potential Christmas gift, but it's a little late for that now.
Regarding Patreon: I switched a couple tiers on it, with the Comic Consumer level dropping to $3 a month. The plan is to post Slimepunk stuff there as its finished, along with other Ninel comics and this new thing I'm slowly developing that's based on some VERY old ideas from high school, which, when I get to work on drawing it, will be serialized there as a webcomic and nowhere else. The Figure Drawing Fan level got bumped up to $5 a month, and while the stuff from the online group is accessible for ALL patron levels, the more explicit nude stuff goes there. I really want to try to push that more and do more with it, especially on the NSFW front since Instagram's upcoming changes to their terms and conditions may shut down my End of April account...
And well, there's other stuff I've painted that I don't really bother to post here, more kaiju fanart and other nudes that are more quickly done.
Umm...was there something else? I dunno. I still have things I'm working on and hoping to wrap up before the end of the year. I wanted to talk about more personal stuff and the media I got into this year, but it's already taken me days to write this and I need a break, so that'll be another post for another day, yeah?
See you again soon!