Sun's out, padded bums're out!
Them's the rules! I'm hoping to taking this one to the next level with finer lineart, color, and shading, so please stay tuned. It's fun getting to figure out new techniques and the best way to handle certain things to accomplish certain effects. As per usual I'm learning, but tangible stuff like this always feels great on a progress point of view! Nevertheless, please bear with me as I try to improve!
Obligatory sorry for the wait. I'm really good at breaking my promises with dates, but I really wanted to close out with something special on this chapter! Please enjoy to your heart's content and share your thoughts! Now without further ado!
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49 - The Places We’ll Go
It was an uncomfortable silence. Very uncomfortable. It was warm, hot, confusing, and obscenely embarrassing. The world was spinning, there must have been an e...
2022-10-10 18:00:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Handheld consoles! Never need to pause, even in the middle of a change!
Another sketch I threw together and have been tweaking, and getting super helpful feedback from friends. Not "colored" by any means, but some filled in spots to add a tiny bit more flare!
22 - Decompress
“Is it not going to affect your work?” Katherine spoke with James, and Dawn did her damndest to contribute.
“Don’t worry, I’ll be able to make the time,” James was casual as he passively rubbed his palms from his seat. “Thankfully my time is flexible when I’m at home.”
“Mm…” Katherine quietly agreed, and Dawn boredly watched the Amazon, sitting right behind her with her legs splayed out like retaining walls on either s...
2022-10-04 23:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Apologies. Please one more day of patience on Illegal Immigrant! As another tide-me-over, please enjoy a WIP sketch of mine. This delay should not affect Sheltered's regular weekend release!
2022-10-04 02:58:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a very short one, but a nice little tide-me-over! Illegal Immigrant still needs some more work, so please stay tuned on that until what I'm shooting for tomorrow to be. This is an older piece that was sort of a tangent, but a fast and fun read, I think. Nothing magnum opus level though, that is for sure!
Enjoy!
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Not Quite Yet
Carrie ran, or toddled, as fast as she could to the door. It was truly a blessing th...
2022-10-02 22:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post48 - Being Brave
“So…” Amy slowly set down her needle and thread, and Emily on her toes as she reached for a bin tried to look extra busy right then. “You…dripping wet, butt naked, started running all over the apartment?”
“Y-you…you had to be there…” Emily grunted especially hard just to hide the stutters.
“Be careful, by the way; I wasn’t kidding when Joyce said I had to stick to some rules,” Amy said again with her watchful eyes s...
2022-09-26 02:25:49 +0000 UTC View PostSorry! You know what they say: there's no Monday like a Tuesday! I'm sick again. Not COVID this time, but sure feels like it! The past three days my sickness has been evolving like a pokemon, assuming that every evolution was just a different kind of bad. Either way, fingers crossed I'll finally be on the upswing by tomorrow, as its only been feeling worse. I'm thinking I'll be fine enough to manage Sheltered on schedule, but I apologize for the late arrival of Illegal ...
2022-09-21 01:41:54 +0000 UTC View PostJust a notice in advance; things were a little busy this week (including today). Illegal Immigrant isn't quite ready to release, so that should be good to go for tomorrow. Instead I was able to release another chapter for Making Amends today, which is a commissioned story with some areas I don't quite work in, so as that story evolves it may pique your interests if you prefer something different.
Apologies for the disappointment, but I will do my best to maintain Saturday/Sunday releas...
47 - Lunch
“Pins should go…” One turn. Two turns. Negative half a turn, and she found the bin. “There.”
Sifting through the little things was obviously the biggest problem. In trying to sort and clean through Amy’s workspace, it gave the clueless girl an awful lot of insight into the job of a seamstress, and possibly someone that just lacked organization. To the best of Emily’s knowledge Amy didn’t own a dog, but if she did, a rainbow-colored husky...
2022-09-11 18:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post20 - Dumb and Difficult
2022-09-05 02:27:16 +0000 UTC View Post46 - First day on the Job
“And you’re not forgetting anything?” Joyce warned her one last time. They stood on the final frontier; the point of no return.
“No, I’m not…” Emily tried not to sound pensive, folding her hands in her lap. Why was she nervous? Ugh, it’s because Joyce was making her nervous!
“Did you bring your phone? I wanna call you at lunch.” Joyce explained, then blurted out right after, “–But don’t think that means you...
2022-08-28 23:26:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Went on a tangent, found an image, liked it, created. Something like that. No kinks with this one, at the moment, but I liked the look and feel so I gave it a shot for practice. Maybe I should port this to digital to give it some better attention...? Hmm...perhaps make some "additions" to it. Either way, it's not perfect, but felt like sharing! My pencil sketches can be a bit messy.
2022-08-25 02:44:13 +0000 UTC View PostEDIT - Slight mistake; replaced name "Kelly" with "Stacy." I accidentally used the wrong name when referring to Dawn's tour guide....
19 - Jumping Around
“Okay…” Dayna started from her rocking chair, postured like a queen before her masses, all condemned to diapers, bottles and sippy cups whilst she delivered her royal decree. Dawn listened to each and every familiar noise, though.
The laminate skin covering the book as ...
2022-08-22 03:37:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there! Hate to do this to you all again, but Illegal Immigrant is going to be a Sunday release this time around. That being said, a sketch I shared a while back that I've been sitting on is worth sharing, I'd say! I plan to add some shading to this, but I've made many tweaks since the last update, including color and a diaper, for those of ya interested!
Illegal Immigrant comes tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!
45 - Something Leaks in the Night
Being upset about something made it impossible to appreciate any possible alternative. Frankly, Isabelle had shocked her system that night, to the point where she was scared straight, if only for now.
It was that same person Joyce did not want to interact with anymore, hence why it aggravated her being the one to reach back out to her, if nothing else but for ending things amicably. But why was she the one having to make the call?...
2022-08-13 23:53:55 +0000 UTC View Post18 - Propaganda Prison
“What do you mean, ‘play with the books?’,” Dawn barely managed to hold back a scoff. “I’m here to read them like everyone else!”
“And you can go read lots of fun stories in here?” Grace deflected and redirected with her finger. “I bet if you gave them a chance, you’d be really surprised how good they are!”
“And I want a book that isn’t made from cardboard or more pictures than actual words,” Dawn...
2022-08-08 01:14:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Something unexpected came up and I'm running behind on finishing/ironing out the next chapter of Illegal Immigrant. I'm either shooting for sometime later tonight or tomorrow. I apologize for this and to hopefully make up for it, I uploaded a scrapped scene that was going to be in Freedom at Last. Maybe if I'm brave enough I'll share some normal sketches from my book too, but I know you're hear for the stories (at least most of you!)
Please expect Illegal...
For context, this was a scene that was scrapped. This was one way Sarah was going to convince Anna to “help” her, though it was potentially going to be a set up for something that was more in line with setting Sarah up for failure.
What better time to have big and important discussions than when in the sandbox?
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“Anna, please…” Sarah quietly murmured, fighting for her wardrobe’s dear life as she used both hands...
2022-08-06 19:29:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In all honesty, this has been a hectic month, so while a lot was accomplished on the back end of things, that doesn't quite do justice what I was hoping for this update to be. This is primarily an update for controls.
No fancy system for in-game patch notes yet, so I'll list them here:
[07-30-2022] v0.12
Intuitive Controls
Sorry, kept you guys waiting a tiny bit on this one!
44 - Business As Usual
Self-built success and self-made achievements always felt fulfilling. Hard work and luck that put you so high off the ground in such a lavish and spacious place was always something that could make a person grin. Similarly, being at the peak of performance and power also meant getting to dictate yourself and everything below, hence why Joyce wasn’t in the office today.
Given recent...
2022-07-30 21:50:34 +0000 UTC View Post17 - Too Tight
“Dawn? Honey? Please?”
“No.” Her arms were crossed and she sat firm.
“It’s not as bad as you think?”
“Yes it is! I told you that!” There wasn’t any remorse for a person who so one-sidedly decided to spring this on her. Dawn didn’t ask for it, so she had no qualms in refusing it.
“Don’t you wanna get out of that chair? There’s still a little time to play with Waver or watch cartoons?”
“Then take...
2022-07-23 19:32:38 +0000 UTC View Post43 - The Hand that Feeds You
One pair of eyes just barely reigned above the other. Joyce quietly watched her secretary, contemplating pensively just what she was supposed to say. How she was supposed to think. Sheila’s pupils could barely rise to the challenge, falling far below their mark and weighed by sheer guilt she could only find herself realizing now.
Courtesy of the executive floor, not even the sounds of countless employees and office workers could save...
2022-07-16 16:39:26 +0000 UTC View PostAs a disclaimer, this was originally started wi
2022-07-10 01:42:46 +0000 UTC View Post16 - Sun Set & Sun Rise
“Okay, Dawn, time to go upstairs,” Katherine made herself known by becoming the physical barrier between Dawn and the cartoon.
“Sorry?” Snapping out of her tv-mode, Dawn blinked as she looked up at her.
“What are you sorry for? It’s bedtime, hon. Let’s get you upstairs and changed.” Katherine said once again, though this time reaching for a remote on the coffee table, killing the motion picture as a final measure.<...
2022-07-09 00:58:40 +0000 UTC View PostTLDR; I have COVID, annoyed over personal situation, story progress this weekend might be a bit slow, but next chapter of Illegal Immigrant is still guaranteed.
Hello everybody! Sorry for the lack of things at the moment. I prefaced Illegal Immigrant's last posting with me possibly slowing down just for the 4th of July weekend, which is partially accurate, but not for the reasons I had hoped. I'm going to partly rant in this posting somewhat because I feel like I've ear...
2022-07-06 03:11:43 +0000 UTC View Post42 - Bathtime Blues
Hear the knob! Ready for the pounce! Plant your feet and–!
“Welcome hom–!” Emily shouted with a cheer as she started to soar, yet the train barreling through the doorway had caught her completely and expectedly. She couldn’t finish her signature line because her face was currently being smothered into her girlfriend’s shoulder.
“Awwwhhh! My sweet baby girl!” Joyce cooed and rocked, shaking her all over as her hips...
2022-07-06 02:48:35 +0000 UTC View PostAgh, I'm already breaking the schedule, I think
2022-07-01 23:48:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm drawing! And it actually looks like something! Someone! Still have a lot to learn, but really happy with how this is turning out. The hand though bothers me soo much. Need to study hands a little bit more. Before I put anything on her I wanted to make sure I could get a halfway decent figure going. Here's what the WIP looks like!
2022-06-30 21:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post