Finally got this one complete!

Mnrrrg took a long time to get the energy arcs to where I was happy with them.

It should be uploaded to all of the patron pages. Hit me up if you have trouble locating any of the various version. :p

-Wood Tier
 Inks
 Avatar
-Copper Tier
 Early Access
 High Res
-Gold Tier
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One of the things I'm hoping to do once I move over to wordpress is to have all of this content be contained on the same page. 

Using Member Press to section off content based on the Patronage Tier peeps have.

I also want to set it up so that the dividers. header, and nav icons change based on the same. Meaning... that I'll probably take some time to create those new sets. I'm contemplating renaming the tiers to reflect the designs of said sets.

Given the current set, I would redefine that as Iron (Wood). actually maybe I could just get away with changing the wood tier, or mebbe make copper into Steel?

Iron < Copper? < Silver < Gold, That should work, or how bout steel instead of copper? The nave Icons I'd just have to recolor, but would need new designs for the main 3 to get them all guilded looking.

Tell me what you all think of the new pic and I really wanna know what you all think of it. ^o ^

Last nights progress!

Mnrrrg feels like I'm moving rediculously slow with this piece. 

I've had to make major changes to my approach to the energy arcs to bring them more inline with how I've portrayed them in the past illustrations. 

Quite a ways to go still, to get all the elements playing together nicely. 

​im open to ideas and critiques if peeps got suggestions.  ^ _^

Since Discord released their new Nitro Boost option I decided to create this Gif to use for the server icon. 

Sadly thanks to how they set up said system the icon is only animated when your directly hovering over it, and incredibly small to boot. So annoying.

But the gif itself is still fun. 

Essentially a sequence of Red Riding Hood: Orphan transforming into her shewolf form and reverting. ^  o^

Most of these images are currently only available as early access for Patrons. 

I really can't wait to see this Novella completed and brought to print. Please help spread the word to help the series grow and assist me with tearing down some of the obstetrical slowing down my progress!

Sorry for posting this late​. Didn't get much work done yesterday due to upgrading my computer.

I managed to double my RAM maxing out my computers potential there.

I'm hoping it will help to speed up my inking process. Since the way things used to go I would draw a line then Photoshop would eventually draw it down, but while attempting to approximate or smooth it out cause it to really be a series of short straight lines with bumps and edges that only I would really notice. 

If the new RAM can cut back on that happening then I will be able to dedicate less time to cleaning up each line I lay down. 

I got approved for a credit card the other day, the first since my bankruptcy, so I'm a bit leery about wanting to use it yet, that and it hasnt arrived just yet.

I got it with the intended purpose of helping me to move out to an apartment all my own. But I'm mulling over if I shouldnt use it to purchase the 3 accounts I need to build a new website. Wordpress Business, Memberpress, and Beaverbuilder. Which should allow me to craft a much more efficient website with easier to customize log in options. 

I'm especially keen on the idea of doing alternate headers,dividers, and nav icons to reflect the current patronage one is logged in with. To give more of a sense of prestige for being a patron.
^  o^

Will take a while to design 3 other image sets for each tier but would make things far more fascinating. ^ _^

Looks like I'll have to move out to West Virginia to find the price range perfect for my income, which means i'll need a vehicle too, but I really don't want to have to get a boring ugly "Normal" car.

I'm pretty interested in getting a boxy Step Van, something I could get customized with my own art work. Set it up to be a mini mobile apartment so that I can maybe look into doing convention work again in the future. Though I suspect that that sort of work is even less financially viable than it was some years back.

Phewa almost done with these inks finally, Just gotta get in the energy arc between the smallest skulls shes firing off.

Lost a lot of time fixing the proportions for this pic, Might still need to do some adjustments for the lower jaws they feel a tad off still. 

I'm liking where its going tho so far. Still debating if the background should be just darkness with the glow of the energy shes firing or if i should put the wall of the stairway with her shadow cast on it. Will have to see how it might play out once its inked.

Tell me if anything feels like it sticks out as annoying or off so I can adjust it while theres still time. ^o ^
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Man this ones been fighting back against me real hard. Have had to put quite a bit of time into ironing out the mistakes in the anatomy. Finally looks about where I'd like it to be. 

Man I really need to make the time to start doing some anatomical studies to get my penciling faster and accurate, so I'm not loosing so much time correcting mistakes in the inking process.

Tweaked the pencils for the main skull a bit today, that got it looking more accurate. 

Started inking the head and hair, took a while to get the flow just right. Actually I don't think it's quite there just yet, but is close. 

​Tell me what you think and get me your feed back and ideas before the inks locks down that can be done. XD

Updated the energy arc to make it a bit more interesting, hopefully now it reads more as the skulls flying out from said arc. 

I imagine them flying off with a high pitch wailing, like anime styled missiles with how they do those crazy contrails. ^  o^

Hrmm I'm wondering now that if i put the background of the stone wall from the "Beacon of Light" pic that I could do up a big shadow of her in the back to make things more dramatic. 

Will have to experiment with that to see how cool it might be.

Got Vampire's body penciled in now, I feel I might have relied on mirroring her body a bit too much, so might need to go in and tweak a few features here and there.

Not sure that I'm satisfied with the energy arch with the skulls in the middle just yet.

debating if i should work in more of the background but in its current state it seems like any more elements might be more distracting than anything

New illustration for the novella.

This is a scene were Red Riding Hood: Vampire upon realizing that they are trapped within a looped space unleashes a rapid succession of necro bolts into the void in order to collapse the warped space.

debating if I should include Orphan and Standard in the pic and if so where. 

This takes place in the same location that the "Beacon of Light" illustration was set in so there's not a whole lot to see background wise. 

It might be preferrable to just leave it as a display of light in the void. Will have to experiment and see.

Finally got this one completed tonight!  ...  For the third time.  TT  oTT

I'm usually of the mind set that it's best to move on from older works, but as this is an illustration for an as yet unreleased product I need it to be the best it can be.

I really need to double my efforts and get this thing finished before my skills hit a new spike in growth and I'm back at correcting this piece yet again. XD 

Please don't forget to help out with sharing links to my works and if you really love what I'm aiming to achieve maybe consider becoming be patron too. ^ o^

Oh yeah the full scale image is up for early access in the Copper Tier section!

Starting to work in the highlights for Standard, meanwhile I'll also be adjusting the layers on orphan to match the temperature of the later images more. 

Background will have to be repainted from scratch but should overall be the least troublesome aspect to updating this drawing.

Starting to feel like I'll never get this project finished with how slow I'm moving. 

Gives me worry as to how well I'll be able to handle a more traditional comic format later. I guess I'll figure that out when I get back to the Shewolf Bride 1 shot comic. 

I wish I could find an artist skilled enough to match my style and be as dedicated to the cause, but I'm just not bringing in enough funds at the moment to really even think about hiring another full time artist just yet.

My last attempt at hiring on an inker went so poorly it really left a bad taste in my mouth. 

If I could just work faster. So much of my time is lost in the inking process, having to clean up linework because my computer/programs refuse to paint the lines to the level of precision I'm physically drawing them at on the tablet. I always have to go back in and clean them up. 

Sadly its the sort of thing that only I really notice, I've seen other artists works up close and the sloppiness of their line art up close is horrifying. XD 

I just cant downgrade to a sloppier line work tho in the effort of saving time. I've tried to do so repeatedly but it always just ends with me eventually falling back into my slower grindstone methods after so many pages. ;V

Oh yeah I'm feeling restless today so I'll be taking the night off, well I say that but I'll really be messing with the website till the wee hours of the night.  .  o ,

Last nights progress!
​Couple of areas that need adjusting now that I see them with fresh eyes.

After taking a good long look at the newer versions of these 2 fighting I had done I realized a couple things about this pic.

1) Orphan didn't look nearly as big as she needed to compared to the newer works.
and 2) That Standards pose was pretty boring.

Doing large overhauls on already completed works can be a major pain given how many layers there are to work around. So instead of trying to fill in the holes of dozens of layers I decided that I'll just redo the backgrounds colors completely. 

Will save a lot of time overall, that and I'm thinking the colors should be brought more in line with the later pieces. A warmer light source than the original cold. 

Tell me what you think and if there's other aspects u wouldn't mind seeing me take another crack at while I'm at it.

I'm considering shortening the fur on Orphan's shoulders too since that aspect evolved as I continued drawing her over a years time. 

Starting to feel like I'm never gonna be done with this product. I think though that once its all done that I'd like to crowd fund a hard cover book for those interested. Gotta research the best way to go about it. Seen some very nice crowd funded books that were very affordable. 

Oh yeah don't forget the roll for loot contest ends tomorrow. spread the word and help raise the reward pot. ^  o^

Finally it's complete!

I had to walk back the colors for the phantom, but also adjusted the colors and shading. It works much better now.

As this is a Novella piece I sadly cannot allow the final version to be loosed into the public just yet. 

Copper Tier Patrons and up though will have early access to the Completed version!

With / Without Logo, High Res, and the .PST are available for the various Tiers.

For as little as 2 dollars a month or an equivelant one time donation You can recieve access to this and much more!

A little goes a long way towards helping me to work towards improving my living condition and speeding up production! ^ o^

Don't forget to tell me what you think of the finished product! ^  o^ 

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Brother mentioned that the phantom looks too much as though shes made out of an oily bubble, and that he preferred the blue. 

I had changed it from the blue initially because it felt as though it were clashing too hard with the orange and reds of the rest of the scene.

I'll tone down some of the sheen and see if I can find a better color for the phantom.

Thinking about it now maybe it would work better if the smaller tendrils coming through the walls were desaturated, and let your eyes more thoroughly focus on her main body.

Or perhaps I should take it a step further and remove a couple of said tendrils to make it feel less busy.

Hrmm yeah I think that will help out alot as well.

Inks and Flats are complete!

Now for the colors! :D

Why did I design such a crazy chimney? XD

I need to put in all of the background for this piece since the Monstress' phantasmal form will be translucent. 

Its starting to come along though. 

Not sure about that left hand just yet though.

​How does it feel to you so far??

yesterday/morning's progress. Am trying to get my sleep schedule back onto day shift again. For the umpteenth time. 

I adjusted the position of her legs and arms a bit, and made the ghostly tendrils a bit more dynamic as well as added in some of the smaller sub ghost offshoots. The Ssudo Clones she can produce from her body.

It feels like it's just about ready to start inking.

What will be challenging is that given the translucent nature of the Monstress I'll have to ink the entirety of the background before drawing her in so I can be sure to get the points where shes piercing through the walls to work out correctly.

How do you feel about the piece overall?

​This is the moment before she ends up cracking the ceiling allowing some of the moonlight into the space. Which is out of sync from the lunar cycle of the outside world.

This is one of several sketches I made for the novella almost over half a year ago that I'm only just now getting back to. 

I reached a point where I opted to pump out several sketches to get a better sense of where I needed to guide the writing along.

​As with all of the works I sketched out half a year back this one wasn't without its fatal flaws. 

Orphans leg is stretched across the perspective to such a degree as to be ridiculously long or having just been ripped off

I removed the chair from the corner to make Orphan cloak more pronounced and the center of focus. I'll probably play with its over all shape a lot more before its all said and done. 

As for what the monstress is? It's the phantasmal form of the creature inhabiting the the Doomed Cabin. In her own little pocket dimension, an echo chamber where only see reigns supreme. That is until Vampire intrudes into her domain. 

She might have overlooked the other 3 but she quickly develops an intense hatred for Vampire and tries to manipulate the other members of the team against her.

She fails to trap Prisoner, Standard, and Vampire in a spacial loop, so she goes after Orphan sensing her true nature. To push her into turning so that maybe she can deal with the others while she is still mostly in an incorporeal state.

Shes quickly developing into one of my more unique creature designs.

New Version!

Old Version

I started up by touching up the pic Arising Doom, where I had missed a detail on vampires gloves that just bugged me a lot. XD I designed her gloves so that the finger tips are red and I just plum forgot to add the element back when I did that piece originally. I also touched up the shading a tad here and there. Such small changes that I suspect most people wont recognize that anything had changed.

Were as with Precarious Maneuvers I cam to the realization that her front teeth were way out of perspective, and a bit too uniform where the back teeth were concerned. So I went in and completely redrew them to get them more in the proper perspective, adjusted the roof of her mouth and darkened her neck fur to match how her design has evolved since I originally drew this piece. I also touched up the shading throughout her body and darkened it so it wasn't quite as shiny.

I'm guessing, though, that most people wont be able to spot the differences between the too. Ah well if only my own OCD is left assuaged then it will still have been worth the time I put in.

Copper Tier Patrons and above can have Early Access to all the Novella pages for as little as 2$. Don't forget too though if you only want to do a 1 time donation I'll still gladly give you a single months access up to the level u match pledge wise. ^ _^