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I draw horny NSFW things, mostly of the bara variety. Be sure to check the scraps, I put lots of stuff in there! Not taking any commissions.
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Recent Journal
Plans for the Coming Year
4 months ago
Year's coming to a close and I wanted to do a bit of a writeup to give some thoughts on where my work's currently at and share my plans for where I want to focus in the coming year!
The Bottomless Butlers - Main Focus
Should hopefully come as no surprise, as they've been my biggest focus for the year, but it's especially relevant to me now since I basically first conceived of the idea exactly one year ago. To give some backstory, around this time last year I was having a bit of a lull in my drawing plans, and looking for something to fully throw my efforts into. The butlers have pretty consistently continued to be an outlet for that over the past year, and I've got a lot of big plans for where I want art for them to go.
When it comes to my art schedule, I'm generally working through a backlog of ideas, some of which are multiple years old. (This is especially true with anything Pokemon related.) The butlers were a really unusual exception; the idea of 'naked butler' basically popped into my head just before the new year, and absolutely everything about them was conceived in the time it took me to whip up those character sheets about two weeks later. It was taking more of a risk than I was used to, given that you never really know how enthusiastic you'll be about an idea once it's no longer fresh, but I've remained pretty consistently interested in drawing them and they'll absolutely be getting the bulk of my creative efforts in 2024.
This is to say, I know it's a bit of an aesthetic shift for me, maybe slightly less raunchy and considerably more structured than anything I've done before, and this is kind of the point. The Obstagang trio was a band of OCs that were never really meant to have as much content as they do, they were just meant as background characters for my Lopunny OC to eventually fuck with (Still gonna happen some day! I swear it!!) and so their whole premise is kind of full of holes I never planned on filling. (Like, y'know, names.) The butlers are intended as something that's really fully my own creation, a distinct setting, cast of characters, and story beats that follow some kind of structure even if it's still not a proper plotline. It's basically just a nonstop character building exercise, no real end goal in sight.
I'm finishing up a six page 'end' to this introductory arc with the butlers, something to tie off the major themes I'm aiming for with Blake's character, and hopefully set up the next major set of comics that's going to focus on Al's dynamic with the butlers rather than Blake. With the heavy lifting of setting up the basic premise out of the way, things are going to get considerably hornier than they already were-- I like drawing Blake, but I think Al's scenes will generally carry a lot more bara-spice with them, and I'm hoping it'll feel like a proper payoff to finally have him coming in with his big dramamine-proportions to fuck shit up. At the same time, I've got way more short, goofy strip-type things planned, and I'm going to push for more of these comics being short and sweet, consisting of 1 or 2 page anecdotes instead of pushing things to 4 or 6 pages.
The Obstagang - Secondary Focus
As described earlier, the Obstagang is definitely something I've found myself burning out on a little bit. A lot of it has to do with my own issues with their designs-- I like drawing Zangoose, but Obstagoon and Lycanroc are genuinely kind of difficult to make work a lot of the time, and I think they're long overdue a bit of a redesign to push them away from their purely canon-pokemon designs and maybe fur-ify them a bit more. This is especially an issue when it comes to all the one-off pokemon designs I throw in-- I'm just not suuuuper sure about how to anthropomorphize a lot of pokemon designs, and I'm left pretty disatisfied with a lot of the results-- it's something I'd just need to sketch through a lot more to really figure out, how to get a fully human-proportioned design like Obstagoon to work alongside the more toony, digitigrade pokemon like Lycanroc or Lucario.
That said, I've got a shitton more stuff planned for the three of them, a lot of which I think should ultimately benefit from the time I've spent away from drawing them. I'd like to think the best is yet to come for the Obstagang, it's just a matter of finding time to draw them more. Ultimately, they're always going to follow this less formal approach to building their characters, fewer clearly defined arcs and not a ton of payoff, but there is a bit of a 'climax' I've got planned for them that I really want to get around to drawing at some point. Not a definitive ending, mind you, just something to tie together their development as characters. I'm looking forward to giving them some air again!
VN Art / Adastra - Winding Down
So with the Adastra art, while it was at one point my peak focus, I think I've kind of drawn all I need to draw for the time being-- after finishing up the last four pages of the "After the Dance" comic (next on the list after I get out this Butler comic this week) I'm not planning on making any more Adastra scenes for the time being. There's still many sundry scenes I love re-reading and have some sort of idea in mind for, and it's still just kind of wild to me how the first VN I read is just so far and away my favorite one, the characters and writing in it and its sequels are just completely my favorite. If development on its sequels ever kicks back up again and we start getting regular releases, I will totally consider diving back in for more, but for the time being fanart for it feels a little like trying to breath life back into something that's just clearly already had its day in the sun, when there's so, so many other projects I'm reading and watching come out on the regular.
So that's to say, I'm not totally done with VN fanart! Really, my main priority this year is speed-- to figure out how to get through a lot of these ideas in a way that's fun and effective story telling, and isn't leaving me with as many 3 or 4 week gaps. The Adastra art I've done has really been some of my favorite because it's just such a breath of fresh air-- pulling from writing and characters so far superior to my own, to really see if I can make something that feels like it does the source material justice. There's a lot of VNs I'm keeping up with nowadays that I'd love to give a bit of fanart to-- not the least of which is TSR, which is just easily my second favorite, like holy SHIT I love it so much, and could easily make a whole other gallery of fan art for in a similar vein.
With all of this, it's mainly just a matter of finding the time, and working through my own personal ideas is something I'm trying to give top priority. Still, I don't like just being totally in my own little bubble of an art world, cuz there's just too many projects I'm following that I want to pay some kinda homage to. Back when I was doing the YCH-tober giveaways, my main motivator was being able to share in some of the OCs other people are creating that I just find really endearing or fun to draw, and VNs are really where I'm finding a veritable gold-mine of that kind of content-- characters with actual viewable backstories and chemistry instead of just people's sonas. Simply put, it's the most fun thing for me to draw, its the kind of context I generally want all my work to have, and it's why I'm still pretty far from wanting to take commissions or collabs or to do a ton of gift art to specific people.
So that's my 2024 in a nutshell! Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to enjoy my stuff, very special thanks to anyone who's leaving comments that give me a glimpse as to how much of my bad writing is actually managing to communicate the right idea with people-- it's the most satisfying thing in the world to see someone pick up on the subtext I put into my comics, haha. With Twitter always seeming to be on the verge of total collapse, I kind of just have to work with the assumption that my biggest source of exposure might just go kaput, so it's always nice to have a place like FA to come back to that just seems to be unshakable for whatever reason.
The Bottomless Butlers - Main Focus
Should hopefully come as no surprise, as they've been my biggest focus for the year, but it's especially relevant to me now since I basically first conceived of the idea exactly one year ago. To give some backstory, around this time last year I was having a bit of a lull in my drawing plans, and looking for something to fully throw my efforts into. The butlers have pretty consistently continued to be an outlet for that over the past year, and I've got a lot of big plans for where I want art for them to go.
When it comes to my art schedule, I'm generally working through a backlog of ideas, some of which are multiple years old. (This is especially true with anything Pokemon related.) The butlers were a really unusual exception; the idea of 'naked butler' basically popped into my head just before the new year, and absolutely everything about them was conceived in the time it took me to whip up those character sheets about two weeks later. It was taking more of a risk than I was used to, given that you never really know how enthusiastic you'll be about an idea once it's no longer fresh, but I've remained pretty consistently interested in drawing them and they'll absolutely be getting the bulk of my creative efforts in 2024.
This is to say, I know it's a bit of an aesthetic shift for me, maybe slightly less raunchy and considerably more structured than anything I've done before, and this is kind of the point. The Obstagang trio was a band of OCs that were never really meant to have as much content as they do, they were just meant as background characters for my Lopunny OC to eventually fuck with (Still gonna happen some day! I swear it!!) and so their whole premise is kind of full of holes I never planned on filling. (Like, y'know, names.) The butlers are intended as something that's really fully my own creation, a distinct setting, cast of characters, and story beats that follow some kind of structure even if it's still not a proper plotline. It's basically just a nonstop character building exercise, no real end goal in sight.
I'm finishing up a six page 'end' to this introductory arc with the butlers, something to tie off the major themes I'm aiming for with Blake's character, and hopefully set up the next major set of comics that's going to focus on Al's dynamic with the butlers rather than Blake. With the heavy lifting of setting up the basic premise out of the way, things are going to get considerably hornier than they already were-- I like drawing Blake, but I think Al's scenes will generally carry a lot more bara-spice with them, and I'm hoping it'll feel like a proper payoff to finally have him coming in with his big dramamine-proportions to fuck shit up. At the same time, I've got way more short, goofy strip-type things planned, and I'm going to push for more of these comics being short and sweet, consisting of 1 or 2 page anecdotes instead of pushing things to 4 or 6 pages.
The Obstagang - Secondary Focus
As described earlier, the Obstagang is definitely something I've found myself burning out on a little bit. A lot of it has to do with my own issues with their designs-- I like drawing Zangoose, but Obstagoon and Lycanroc are genuinely kind of difficult to make work a lot of the time, and I think they're long overdue a bit of a redesign to push them away from their purely canon-pokemon designs and maybe fur-ify them a bit more. This is especially an issue when it comes to all the one-off pokemon designs I throw in-- I'm just not suuuuper sure about how to anthropomorphize a lot of pokemon designs, and I'm left pretty disatisfied with a lot of the results-- it's something I'd just need to sketch through a lot more to really figure out, how to get a fully human-proportioned design like Obstagoon to work alongside the more toony, digitigrade pokemon like Lycanroc or Lucario.
That said, I've got a shitton more stuff planned for the three of them, a lot of which I think should ultimately benefit from the time I've spent away from drawing them. I'd like to think the best is yet to come for the Obstagang, it's just a matter of finding time to draw them more. Ultimately, they're always going to follow this less formal approach to building their characters, fewer clearly defined arcs and not a ton of payoff, but there is a bit of a 'climax' I've got planned for them that I really want to get around to drawing at some point. Not a definitive ending, mind you, just something to tie together their development as characters. I'm looking forward to giving them some air again!
VN Art / Adastra - Winding Down
So with the Adastra art, while it was at one point my peak focus, I think I've kind of drawn all I need to draw for the time being-- after finishing up the last four pages of the "After the Dance" comic (next on the list after I get out this Butler comic this week) I'm not planning on making any more Adastra scenes for the time being. There's still many sundry scenes I love re-reading and have some sort of idea in mind for, and it's still just kind of wild to me how the first VN I read is just so far and away my favorite one, the characters and writing in it and its sequels are just completely my favorite. If development on its sequels ever kicks back up again and we start getting regular releases, I will totally consider diving back in for more, but for the time being fanart for it feels a little like trying to breath life back into something that's just clearly already had its day in the sun, when there's so, so many other projects I'm reading and watching come out on the regular.
So that's to say, I'm not totally done with VN fanart! Really, my main priority this year is speed-- to figure out how to get through a lot of these ideas in a way that's fun and effective story telling, and isn't leaving me with as many 3 or 4 week gaps. The Adastra art I've done has really been some of my favorite because it's just such a breath of fresh air-- pulling from writing and characters so far superior to my own, to really see if I can make something that feels like it does the source material justice. There's a lot of VNs I'm keeping up with nowadays that I'd love to give a bit of fanart to-- not the least of which is TSR, which is just easily my second favorite, like holy SHIT I love it so much, and could easily make a whole other gallery of fan art for in a similar vein.
With all of this, it's mainly just a matter of finding the time, and working through my own personal ideas is something I'm trying to give top priority. Still, I don't like just being totally in my own little bubble of an art world, cuz there's just too many projects I'm following that I want to pay some kinda homage to. Back when I was doing the YCH-tober giveaways, my main motivator was being able to share in some of the OCs other people are creating that I just find really endearing or fun to draw, and VNs are really where I'm finding a veritable gold-mine of that kind of content-- characters with actual viewable backstories and chemistry instead of just people's sonas. Simply put, it's the most fun thing for me to draw, its the kind of context I generally want all my work to have, and it's why I'm still pretty far from wanting to take commissions or collabs or to do a ton of gift art to specific people.
So that's my 2024 in a nutshell! Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to enjoy my stuff, very special thanks to anyone who's leaving comments that give me a glimpse as to how much of my bad writing is actually managing to communicate the right idea with people-- it's the most satisfying thing in the world to see someone pick up on the subtext I put into my comics, haha. With Twitter always seeming to be on the verge of total collapse, I kind of just have to work with the assumption that my biggest source of exposure might just go kaput, so it's always nice to have a place like FA to come back to that just seems to be unshakable for whatever reason.
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