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Saya icebreaker

Yofukashi no Uta (Call of the Night) ended this week and I was feeling nostalgic for Saya, and I hadn't done any real new work since October and pushed myself into doing this. Work after a big break tends to be rusty but also reveals a small jump in quality/ability, so something a little different and a little looser and experimental is good. I ...

Asuka keyframes pt 2

So there were some changes to the first 3 from last year, and I got the subsequent 3.

The most difficult thing about it is the fact that I'm, eventually, going to have to reverse engineer some inbetween frames. You can see the difference it makes in the two gifs, which *should* have the same timing.

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A Nagatoro/Hana goof

This is the last thing hidden in my drafts I made last summer, just me dicking around with what I had.

Your continued patronage despite myself is amazing and I hope to make it more worthwhile next year. I kinda created the Patreon a little too early in my ability and pressured myself onto a borderline performative treadmill of art producti...

Shizuka nsfw blended ref

Teased on Twitter in the wake of the "Twitch Meta" gag, here's the thing. It's actually a sorta old edit/blend of two images you've probably seen previously which was primarily made for me to quickly have a reference for myself without a ground-up redraw. I've also been looking at the cast I've made and rethinking and mentally combining characte...

Kaede Stretch H ver

This one always looked rough to me, but it's still one in the chamber.

Giving myself room to think, the whole "succubus" idea might be more appealling to me if I ditched the high school setting and just eek up a bit to a college/university dorm setting. Kinda ends up feeling novel, avoids some feelings when it gets lewd, can actually ditch...

Kaede #1 H

Yes, I sat on this for a year and a half.

I'm taking a small mental break from drawing (while still practicing I suppose) while warming up my writing brain. Working on the Kiki drawing really fired me up and I had to change gears and take advantage of that, even if it's not what I intended to be doing. With that in mind, anyone interested ...

Birthday post - OC Kiki

Annual birthday Kiki. Wanted to make something a little more elaborate with her. Still experimental and concept-y and not quite as crazy as I was imagining in the final render but it's good to see her existing.

Birthday art preview

Just the lineart for the upcoming birthday drawing. It's Kiki again this year. I've been in a huge lull lately and doing this made me feel much better and invigorated. It'd be cool if I worked on her more than once a year but we'll see.

Succubus WiP #7

After making most of the cast I went back around to fiddle the initial trio to ensure they're still okay. Ditched the guys glasses, redid Succ's glasses and eyes for both ease and a little more interest.

I was in an unsure rut about Succ's character this whole time, where she was somewhat innocent and naive and kind hearted, that kind of c...

Text post: Personal update

Okay, this isn't an update week but I need to be forthcoming here since I'm struggling.

There's been an intense family situation for the past year which, while largely somewhat resolved as of a few months ago, turned into a 24/7 everpersent lifestyle adjustment since summer. I'm not depressed, and I don't feel burnt out, but I am experienc...

Succubus WiP #6

More excuses but it's been a very difficult time with very little good work done so this is fresh hot off the presses.

I took aspects of #3's wip process and wanted to reuse them and you get the evolutionary process above. She's kinda meant to be...

Succubus WiP #5

I don't want to make excuses every time, but the living situation continues and as I write this the heatwave we didn't get last month is now underway. Luckily the old fan broke and was replaced right before. Cold new motor =v= But forgive the shorter more exhausted post.

This was the "bigger tomboy" character, and while I didn't have the f...

Succubus WiP #4

I apologise for how different content has been lately, I've been refocusing and am experiencing some temporary household changes that aren't great for creative headspaces. HOWEVER:

One of the key things about last years Design-a-Character process was that you guys were able to railroad me into decisions - and without you here, the designs ...

Succubus WiP #3

Oh no, a boi. All male MCs seem to look the same, but trying to avoid those while having someone who doesn't look like a wet blanket nor someone you wouldn't like the girls to hang out with is a tricky balance. Half the cast are wearing glasses at this rate though it must be said. 

This'll be the main trio, still working out side char...

Patreon Payment Issue

Just letting you know that there was some kind of issue on Patreon's part (switching payment location from California to Ireland causing banks to mark as fraud, apparently?) that caused Patrons to either not successfully pay or outright remove all subscriptions from their account. Most/All of you seem okay from what I can see on my end, but be s...

Succubus WiP #2

Tomboy friend edition.

There is the traditional male MC POV character, but I wanted to pair him up with a female character so that they can share the same brain cell and push/pull each other around the succubus character. She won't be a childhood friend character: in fact, inspired by the Seitokai Yakuindomo manga/anime, which begins with ...

Succubus WiP #1

This whole idea emerged from me playing with those Japanese novel/manga with verbose premise-based titles, and came up with "The New School Transfer is a Half-Succubus!" At that point, the Demi-chan wa Kataritai (Interviews With Monster Girls) manga had concluded and its Valentine's Day postscript had released, which focused on the protagonist a...

Change of pace & Comic Project

The last 5-6 years I was regularly producing art to a schedule, which while helpful in a way it ultimately locked me down to popular showable works to the detriment of my personal growth, experimentation, ability to complete bigger things, and significant guilt-free breaks. For example, I've spent some of the last year sketching models, but I do...

Machida (Nagatoro)

Drawn a few days after chapter 128 dropped. She had a painting that we never see, so I wanted to play. This was going to be a small part of something else, but something else never materialised. I believe this is the first Machida lewd online too. Also clearly early because her hair design altered slightly between chapters 128 and 129, and I'll ...

Nagatoro 124 ALT END 2/2 H

Mid and high. Demisted.

Gotta be honest, I've spent the last month refocusing so I don't have a clear plan of what I'll be posting in presentable states the coming weeks. Lots of practice people-sketching that I probably shouldn't share, a fragment of an idea, but mainly incrementally working on character designing for a potential thing - ...

Nagatoro 124 ALT END 2/2

Mid-res and high-res. Wanted to do some backgruond work. Managed to manipulate a brush to get easy stars. Still pleased with the hair hard/soft shading. 

Still character designing and so we'll transition into irregular wip territory eventually maybe. Latest Nagatoro introduced a new artist girl character who is tempting me but her bag...

Nagatoro 124 ALT END 1/2

Mid-res and high-res. Pleased with the hair rendering in this. Next page is a little more ball busting for a few reasons.

Quietly trying to character design for the succubus idea, so as we approach that I may lean more towards wips, or if I can't do a 4koma with the created OC's I'll try to get something done with them. I'm a slave to my b...

Nagatoro 124 alternate ending WIP

Just wanted to prove that I'm working on stuff and not just sitting on a pile of completed works. I am a little further along than this implies, and there will be another page too. I think working at my own pace and allowing myself to slip from scheduled posting and showcasing WIPs might be a better fit.

That said, I'm very much thinking a...

Asuka keyframes

Here's a weird one, sorta in progress but at a slower pace than originally.

Evangelion 2.0 has a goofy fanservicey-y scene with convenient censors and cropping, but the Groundwork books contain the original much larger keyframes (along with digital RGB colour codes). I've attempted this in a minor way once before years ago but this is more...

Nagatoro competition reject

This recolour was originally intended to be some kindstarted for a reason that I couldn't remember, but then I picked it up again with the idea of making a censored version to enter into the contest somehow, but realised the arms/hands/others were a little more fucked up than I was willing to fix and redraw, but this. However the specific colour...

Hitomi redline saucy ver

Because of course I did.

Talking about comics

I really want to build up my comic making skills for my Kiki project, and I've been in a weird half-assed rut the last few months. But I've basically got three comic ideas in mind that I'd like to do to gradually assist in my ability to do them.

"Dorkoma" - Because Kaede and Shizuka have no real purpose or setting, I felt ...

#nagatorofanart Twitter competition entries

You probably weren't expecting a post but why not post these everywhere. There's a competition ending soon that'll be judged by Nanashi and editorial staff so, while something original might have been better, I wanted to give these a new (also sfw to be safe) colouring job based on the more recent colouring attempts.

Hitomi vol 8 cover redline

I feel a little weird about this one since I don't like the idea of "fixing" someone else's art, let alone a professional, but volume 8's cover does kinda have particularly warped proportions even with the current artstyle. So I wanted to have a little taller leaner course correct with some minor adjustments and a monochrome restyling.

I'l...

It's a "Shizuka finds Kaede's phone unlocked and unattended" episode

So, 6 months ago I drew the main image in this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dacii-finale-69669843 - and as per a few comments I did in fact sneakily draw Kaede's reverse shot photo and put it into reserve. As time went on, my mental image of Shizuk...