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Open Trade - pg 243

Continuing watching Stephanie on set as she tends to a performer with a twisted ankle, and playing defender with a producer.

First off, it is not a mistake that all the text is purple.

Also Stephanie seems to effortlessly pick up the dancer. The workouts have been working.

Poll - Lexi's Next Trade

Stephanie is getting ready to leave Lexi alone for a couple weeks. Lexi is due for a trade. So let's decide what that will be.

I'm adding two new options into the mix.

"Lexi should delay her next trade"
"Lexi should stop taking new trades"

Basically as we got deeper with Steph's trades there wasn't aways a notable change i...

Open Trade - 242

We are finally seeing Stephanie (Young-mi) actually working as a nurse after gaining the educational experience. She is working as a set medic where they are filming a music video. Her average day is kind of sitting there or giving an ice pack.

It's Labor Day today in the states, so I'm popping it up early as I'll be a little out of conta...

Open Trade - Issue 9

Stephanie and Mina take their relationship into a very different place before Stephanie travels to South Korea for a wedding.

Final Exam - Pg 12

We are halfway there and our heroes are already looking at a life in each others body. Isn't this like the end of a lot of these short stories? How are they going to get out of this? Are we really going to let them get out of this?

Final Exam - pg 11

Why did Morris get a message to delete the app? What happened in the short time that Morris didn't have access to a phone. Find out today!

We are seeing a bit more about how this is a story set before Open Trade. Using an earlier version on the nanobot tech.

Development Sketches - Mina

Hey Folks - Recovering a bit from the weekend. Lots of work going on. So I'm swapping Mon and Weds again. Final Exam pages will be up Weds and Friday. Thanks.

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Anytime we do a big change, or have a notable new character, I need to take some time to do some test sketches to get a feel for them before they show up in t...

Open Trade - pg 241

The rest of Stephanie's meeting with her sister is here. Let's find out why Jocelyn wanted to do this trade in the first place.

Middle of the night posting as I am awake and will be busy when the normal update time is.

Open Trade - pg 240

I took way too long to answer this question that I put into the universe all the way back over 2 YEARS ago on page 88.

Stephanie started wearing high collar shirts, or a collar, or a choker around 2024-08-21 05:40:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Pin Up - Steph and 'Mina'

I'm having fun making the retro covers and made one for Stephanie and Mina. I am drawing/posting this before I actually introduce male Mina into the story. So I don't have a male name set for them yet. But thinking we likely have one by the time this goes live.

If you like this formatting, I'll keep it up for our pins ups for the rest of ...

Open Trade - pg 239

Stephanie and Mina finish up their pillow talk, and discuss about making an additional alterations in light of Mina taking on a male form.

We are going up really early this week. I'm going to be going on a bit of a trip this weekend. So I wouldn't be available to reply to comments and chat with you all. So it's going up now.

What a...

Captioned Image - Swift

Let's give a bit of exploring different options or ideas that never came to pass. We'll start off with a bit of a suggestion from Rag345, looking to a Swiftie themed Steph.

There could have been a trade that sent her down this road. She would blend into the crowd pretty well.

If there is an alternate take you'd like to see, leave i...

Open Trade - Pg 238

Steph and Mina have a little chat post coitus. Which I'm sure will lead to the question, will we see a sex scene at some point? Um, yeah. I had actually kind of planned on showing this one. But just didn't work out. However there is a script that has a narratively required sex scene in it coming up soon.

Also to talk about things that are...

Quick Poll - How do you feel about 'bad ends'?

Quick Note : This is NOT about Open Trade. Just the idea in general. Don't Panic.

What is this about, then? 
So I was thinking about using the Captioned Images to explore some paths not taken, and some alternate outcomes that could have happened to our characters. Some ...

Open Trade - pg 237

It's been less than 24 hours since Lexi had a surprise trade put upon her, and we haven't seen her in 7 pages. It's a bit of the trade off with our duel leading ladies. So how is Lexi fairing with her updated looks after her.

She is still short and stacked, but this is a pretty big change, and she deserved some time to dwell on it. Do you...

Development - Lexi's Room

Working on Lexi's Room. I've been making some backdrops to make some production flow a little easier in the future.

We've previously only seen a little bit of Lexi's room before. Just a bit of the wall and view from the closet. We'll be setting some more scenes in Lexi's Room in the future. So working on the layout and what it will look li...

Poll - Mina's Name Change

Mina is going to be spending some time as a guy. According to the regulations, at least a month. But we don't know the terms of her trade yet, or her plans on how long she plans on doing this.

But as we had for Stephanie and Lexi, lets pick out a male name for Mina.

I'm chosing a variety of options for Mina, ranging from more tradi...

Open Trade - Pg 236

What what does Stephanie think about Mina's choice? Is she ok with Mina taking such a huge risk behind her back?

None of this is really visible here, but this took a little longer to get out as I realized that the layout of Stephanie's room didn't make any sense. The wall the window is on, is techincally not an outside wall. So the next ti...

Final Exam - 10

The exam is finished and maybe so is Ella's academic success. What is Morris going to do about this? What is this mysterious text?

I'll probably come back and redo the phone crack. I'm not in love with it and will give it an other go, but I'm out of time right now.

Development - Jean Grey Step by Step

Because I was talking about some of the art style and efforts to improve, lately, I thought it would be cool to show a step by step of a pin up. The comic process is a little different, but I'll point out when it happens.

Reference

With the pin ups I have been using more and more references lately. I'll occationally use reference...

Open Trade - Issue 8

Stephanie and Lexi dive deeper into their new social lives with a night out on the town, navigating relationships, and visiting their respective families.

Collects Issue 8.

Sketch - Jean Grey

This week I have a sketch based on a request from TrueRonin88.

I went a bit crazy with all of the tools. I was playing with markers at first, but didn't like them as much.

I know, I picked the more fan art central sketch options first. Just happened to be the order I wrote things down. We have some fun suggestions of variations for...

Sketch - Variations of Stephanie

Another sketch dump as I continue to test out different tools.

This time around I wanted to do different styles on the same sketch. With our standard-ish format/colors; pencils; black & white; and the final two are using different limited palettes.

If there anything you want to see, put your sketch requests below.

Final Exam - 09

Thankfully we are not spending 20 pages watching Morris solve linear algebra problems. She has finished the test and turned it in. How did you think she did?

Stakes are high for Ella's future.  

Final Exam - 08

Morris has made it to the classroom, but are they focused enough to perform as well as they hope?

I may have gone a bit too old on that other student in her class. lol.

Sketch - Lexi is The Wolverine

I slacked off a bit. I needed to take some time during work to do a sketch to cool down.

Pop26 suggested wanting to see Steph and Laxi as Deadpool and Wolverine.

Oddly enough, I don't have any place in the schedule to post this. All the spare slots for fun art and sketches is booked through September. So I'm going to use Thurdays as ...

Sketch - Prom Date

I've mentioned a couple times that I got some new digital tools. So I've been doing some tests and experiments to get used to them.

Alexander Neu asked to see Stephanie in a prom dress.

If there is something you want to see or suggest, post in the comments below.

Final Exam - 07

With the transformation completed, Morris heads over to take Ella's exam for her. It's short notice. Let's just hope that Morris can keep her head in the game and focus on math.

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Notes added after the page posted: (mostly was tired and didn't talk about this this extra stuff last night when I ma...

Open Trade - Pg 235

Stephanie is getting home after a long day. She could use a rest, but there is some good news as Mina seems to have found a guy to attempt to satisfy Stephanie's needs safely.

What do you think of Mina's choice? Think they will hit it off

Status Update - Lexi July 2024

Lexi had a trade last month, and we did not do a status update for her. So to play a little catch up here is Lexi's pin up and update on her trades so far.

I've been experimenting with a bunch of different tools and techniques lately. There are a bunch of sketches I've been doing to try out different things. You will see them more and mor...