New Patreon Project - "Whenever it rains" (Patreon)

 Oooh what's this? A new project?! 

 If you want to know more about it and skip the more personal segment, please do a little jump below! I put up a page break to where you can know more about the project.

 After making patreon in the end of 2018, it has helped me a lot to build pieces for a portfolio, practicing a LOT of themes and getting out concept art ideas!! I thank everyone here for that.

 Recently I have noticed something in particular: I've created a bunch of things but ultimately they don't amount to any final product. The constellations project for example, I have dozens upon dozens of experiment plates that I have and had lots of fun doing, but I won't be using them for anything besides visual development.

 Some time ago I announced I'm incubating a webcomic in my mind (that has most of the initial part scripted!), but I haven't developed key parts of it like final designs for the main characters or the setting - something I want to turn out great because I love these characters very much already and I want their stories to be dazzling! 

 I was thinking how this webcomic has to have lots of work put into it and how I'm practically.... inexperienced in comic making. Most of you know that this year I tried test pages, and as the year went by, I asked for the opinion of lots of comic artists that I respect. So I got somehow afraid with my perfectionism and lack of experience, the project could potentially frustrate me a lot?

 What's the solution to that? I started to think everyday about it. I have so many issues with art, if I get frustrated at the start of something I never did seriously before, imagine if I end up with nothing, wanting to givee up, having nothing final in my hands? I hate to think that. 

 Then I had an idea. Last month was horrible to me, my mental health was at its lowest point in ages. My mind brought the burly """"""bara""""""" dojinshis I read a lot as a teenager that helped me a lot in a very, very difficult phase of my life. So.... Why don't I do an oneshot?! A self contained story. With a beginning and an end. And that is a final product, which will surely help attracting more people here! I'll learn along the way, I just have to commit.

 I haven't been able to draw much as before lately due to health reasons (but I've been improving that!!!). So even though I wasn't able to draw, I had time to think a script and write it out. And then recently.... I was able to tackle character designs and I even started thumbnailing the comic!! So it's not much of a promise I'll get to do it - I've been already hard at work to bring it out. It's being scary and informative!

I'll present it as purposely blurred for now hehe... But I'm experimenting a lot with lots of different things to see what feels the most natural to me!!

                  Ok... the more personal side of it ends here! Now let's talk about the project!

 The comic synopsis goes as it follows:

                                                                             Whenever it rains

A young reclusive author who thinks of rain as his only confidant discovers it reciprocates his feelings.

 It's meant to be a romantic, almost shoujo like story! Full of feelstuff, because that's how I am. The difference is it'll feature burly handsome men, being wholesome and sexy while they're at it. So yeah - I'm not ready for tackling sexually explicit comics as of now, but showing meaty dudes and bringing up positive masculinity/sexuality are what I hopefully wish are recognized traces of my work. I plan for it to have 15-25 pages! ((:

While I keep up the work with the thumbnails (I have the first pages already done at that stage) and start finishing the pages, I'll see how I'll work it out releasing here. I've been thinking releasing it in packs of 5 pages could be interesting? Either way, it's patreon exclusive for now, and there will be process pics for some pages along the way. You'll always get the pages waaaay first than non patrons. For non patrons, I'm still thinking on how to handle it - if I do a gumroad or release it two times a week in my twitter. So many new things to think, but I'll keep you updated!!!!!!!

 So from here to the end of the month expect I'll be working the monthly pin-up and I plan to finish my thumbnails and start finishing the first pages.... And i'll start posting about the main characters tomorrow! Design plates and experiments as always. I'm so excited for you to meet them. Look at one of them.... he seems wary, but he's excited to meet you too!