I used to offer monthly sketch rewards to patrons but at some point the workload started to drain my ability to focus on my main projects.

So now I offer the monthly "Roll For Loot" contest were upwards of 3 contestants can win a personalized sketch request.

I also offer them as birthday gifts to members of the "Crimson Dames Discord Server" (Even to non Patrons)

And sometimes I offer them up randomly as a gift to people I identify as being in dire need of a pick me up. To help offer something a bit more exciting for them to look forward to. 

Why I recommend that peeps join up with the server and participate. To help strengthen your network of peeps, and be kept in the know of interesting goings on. 

If or rather "When? my work starts to gain traction and eventually reaches critical mass, I'll open a secondary server to ensure that those earliest peeps who were there from the beginning will have their platform preserved before it becomes flooded with new peeps. 

To ensure my core fans have the strongest voice in influencing the growth of my works. ^ _^

Not every sketch may be my best work but they do help me to continue improving my penciling skills.

Hrmm, still not quite sure about this just yet. 

Wings feel a bit too small at the moment.

The scythes position still feels too static. I'm wondering if I shouldn't just bite the bullet and put work in some forced perspective.

Issue I'm running into is finding an interesting position for his arms to fit its current position.

​I'll continue playing with it to ensure its worth putting onto a shirt. ^ _^

I wanted to do something a bit lighter for my next piece and remembered I had this older sketch laying around.

So was cleaning it up some. Looking at it now though his body language feels a bit too benign so I'm thinking that might just redraw it to get something a bit more threatening.

Since its a simpler piece without a major background I think It might end up being ideal for a shirt design. 

Tell me what you think, I crave feed back, feed it to me! XD

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.

Hoboy. So after discussing matters with my brother and Wereworld I realized that a small change could get the perspective to feel much more dynamic, and that a much bigger change could really push for a bigger moment of anticipation.

Thus despite how disapointed I will be to have in a sense wasted my time over the last 3 days I'll bite the bullet and put in the work to vastly improve this piece. Really it wasn't a waste of time because I wouldn't have gotten to this much stronger design otherwise. Its all part of the process. ^ _^

I'll really only have to redo her arm and legs. I'll have to do more work with the background now though but it will be worth the effort. This feels like it will be so much more epic a piece now, I'm really excited!

I even realized there are some major ways I could improve some of the previously completed pieces that will really bring them all in line design wise and help to strengthen the core of these 2 characters struggle.

Tell me what you think about it all I really want to know, and please don't forget to consider perhaps leaving a donation or at least helping to spread the word! ^ _^

Man this piece has been resisting me really bad. I don't want to abandon the work I've put into it but it just wasn't working as I intended it to.

What I wanted was to have a piece where both characters seemed to have the upper hand in their struggle before the new challenger arrived.

So I'll try adjusting the layout to make it look more like Orphan is about to pounce on Standard and see how I can get that working.

I might try reusing the other side i had inked with Standard too just in a piece that focuses more on her than struggling against Orphans arm.

Tell me what u think of the changes so far. :0

Hrmm not sure which variation of this pic feels better just yet.

​I shrank down Orphan's body initially because I wanted to get more of her arms in there, but now I'm thinking it feels too small so I made a quick edit using the mid and large scale to see how it feels. I'm not sure which feels best just yet given how big she is in some of the other pics in the novella.

Thinking about it now I think trying to update a pencil sketch from half a year ago is restricting me too much.

I'm thinking I just need to start over from scratch and find a better dynamic pose for this particular piece.


This project has gone on for so long It feels like I've wildly improved from the earlier pieces in the set now. I'm sort of feeling like I really should just do something extreme like start over. I guess given the nature of a novella it wont be quite so big an issue if there are some inconsistencies in the character models or skill levels, but it just riles up my perfectionist nature really bad.  :\  

​What do you think??? Leave a comment and help me decide. 
Or is anyone reading these??  Y  oY

Commend below here if u do.  :c

I didn't have a clear idea when I started this one but before long the idea of the Hecatoncheires came to mind and the concept continued to develop from there.

Given the scale of this creature I don't think that it would be practical to render it in physical form. But perhaps this one would be best suited for 3D projection mapping. 

Do up a 3D animated model and make it feel like its inhabiting a space much larger than the actual proportions of the room. then later in the path should it collapse or be defeated could render a portion of the creature in physical form to give patrons a sense of its size.

I especially want to use 3D projection mapping to make the space feel much larger than it actually is. Then couple that with some 3D soundscapes and perhaps even smells.

I tend to not see or rather not hear of haunts utilizing scents to bring their creations to a new level. I'm not sure if there are effective ways to produce some of the creepier scents out there without needing to actually have stuff like rotted meat or blood about. Also would like to avoid having to clean up vomit. xD

New Haunted Mannequin concept! I tried to keep the concept to parts that might normally be available to a mannequin. I wonder now what some creative uses of a Sphynx theme could be in a haunted house?

Like what sort of riddle might she provide and how to reward beating the riddle? With candy? or maybe access to an additional path in the haunt? Hrmm much to think about. 

I think simple animatronics might be best to render this creature, given how it might be more difficult to put a person in there. though if its larger than normal maybe could open up some unique options to raise the creep factor.

Sketch Reward for Keyblademark!

Inks are coming along for Emperor Scion! 

I didn't quite get as much done as I wanted due to having to go grocery shopping today.

Which is an all day affair for me due to not having a vehicle.

I have a sturdy luggage rack that I drag along with an old Amazon Food box and bring back as much as I can carry crossed as well as how thick (or Thin) the wallet is for that week.

I tend to feel like I'm playing a game of Organ Trail. Go out hunting and and shoot 800 pounds worth of food but could only carry back 200 pounds. XD​

Sketch Reward for Mark Undread! 

Current progress for the vid. 

I started dropping in some simple sounds clips in to help inspire where to go next.

I wont be able to have them all the same pace and have this many pics in there.

I'll likely start to focus in on a few key pieces to give more focus to and let the smaller ones speed up or slow down based on how the beat changes. 

I'm wondering if I should try including some of the other silhouettes of the Crimson Dames in the same style to show more images at once, or if that would be too distracting.

As a rough concept its coming along, but there still isn't quite that hook yet. I'll need to find an ideal piece of music to bring it all together and help me 

In the end I suspect I'll be stripping out some of the pics to let it focus a bit more on the Crimson Dames stuff.

Tell me what you think so far and if u have any ideas you think could spark some inspiration.
​^  _^

Oh yeah please don't forget It would really help me out a ton if those of you are are my patrons could switch over to using my in site set up. Would seriously save me like an additional 50 dollars a month, which would help me big time with off setting the costs of my Adobe subscriptions for these programs.

Oh yeah and if u decide to switch over inform me that you are and I'll send u back your first payment after subscribing that way you wont be getting double charged. ^ o^

Sketch Reward for QuebecoisWolf!

Refined pencils for Emperor Scion. Both Pieces have been approved for inking now. 
Moved the shield to his other hand after peeps in the stream helped me come to the realization that it looked like a lefties shield. XD 

I predict this one will still be the more difficult of the 2 to ink but It's been simplified some so hopefully things go smoothly enough. 

Third version for this illustration Is almost ready to start inking.

The Fief Lord Revealed, impressed with what a good girl his Shewolf has been.

I'm leaning towards the Lord falling into the role of Gold Wolf, one of the Four lords, among the Fang. His power will be added to the pack where he himself will gain his lycanthropy via his new bride.

This page still wasn't sitting well with me. Beefed up the look of ferocity of her close up, Tilted the panel border to make her feel less claustrophobic. and re positioned the victim so that the action reads a bit better.

Take 2 for Emperor Scion, Got feedback already, wasn't quite what they were looking for yet so will try a new take tomorrow.

Sketch Reward for Quebecoiswolf!

Todays progress with refining the pencils for Lance Thunderhoof. Not sure about his expression just yet, might add in the dragons tail in the background too later.

Was looking at these 2 pages and realized that the final panel of 18 and the first of 19 just didn't gel right, and since they were both somewhat similar I opted to keep the one that fed best into the next page.

I might still want to adjust the 4th panel on page 18, it still doesn't quite feel right yet.

I think maybe 2-3 more pages and a cover and things should be ready to start inking/refining.

Hrmm need to think about how to design her master/groom now. If I make him too cool people will expect to see him more down the line, but not cool enough and it might not be as satisfying a finish. :p

Tell me what u think though, and by all means point out what u think looks stupid and that I need to fix, just be classy about it. XD

Next take on the Lane Thunderhoof sketch.
I felt that the dragon was eating up too much space for the original take so attempted to a version that was zoomed in closer.
Will see what the Art Director decides they like best.
Tomorrow will work more on Scion while waiting for feedback.

Finally getting started on these 2. The first set of sketches is proving to be quite the challenge for finding the right balance between the 3 main figures each of which pulls focus away from the other.

The more of the dragon I show the smaller the riders presence, were as there's only so many poses I can use where that tower shield isn't covering up most of his body.

The next of the emperors throne came together much quicker, but will conversely be the harder of the 2 to ink. T  oT

Will see what suggestions the Art director provides before moving forward.