Narmaya (Patreon)

Okay! I really dragged my feet with this one. Partly the blame lies with me since I wanted to make it into a very ambitious project from the get-go. I think you guys can call it biting off more than you can chew? Not only have I been overloaded with work this month but I feel like I haven't had much of a chance to rest at all. At best I had a day or proper rest in between two weeks of back to back work and I realized... I need to take proper breaks in between or I'm not going to last long ==;;

If I had to describe it, it kind of felt like I was feeling suffocated. Like I breathe normally but I constantly feel like I'm out of breath and I couldn't really sleep easy knowing I should be drawing. I really need to find some ways to unwind but the immediate problem I seem to see is the lack of time to take breaks. 

I hope from next month I'll try to pace myself better so I don't burn myself out like I did this month >.<;; 

Now then, a bit more about the artwork itself. The original plan was to have more variants with a completely nude version as well. The latter however proved next to impossible with the time I had available since it would mean I'd have to redraw the skin that isn't affected by the tight fabric digging slightly into her soft skin.

For anyone new to art, it might seem like it's a very simple process where you can click on a bikini and voila! the bikini is no more and the naughty bits are there for all to see~!

It's a little bit more complex than that sadly ^^;;

The number of layers of coloring, shading, special effects, etc would also need to be adjusted if the base sketch is altered in any way because it would suddenly mismatch with the new outline layer below everything else.


To put it into context.

Imagine you are building a tower of pancakes (Helltaker really got the pancake memes into my head now) and between each layer you have strawberry jam, the spread of Nutella, sliced bananas, whipped cream, sliced strawberries, the spread of peanut butter, cheese, etc. Each ingredient below a layer of one slide of pancake.

Now imagine you seal this monstrosity in a layer of Icing sugar into a smooth surface finish.

But! Suddenly you feel the need to squeeze in a layer of sliced kiwi in between the strawberry layer and peanut butter layer. You'd need to undo the icing sugar, open the layers and rework your progress from the new kiwi layer again. It's not just a matter of erasing the bikini layer and drawing boobs in place if I did that all the other layers will clash with the redrawn layer.

Likewise, the simple solution would be to plan out well in advance of what you want to make so that you draw both layers simultaneously.

Back to the pancake example, it would be like slicing it into two portions and building both versions at the same time.


Either way, time is the biggest problem. I grossly miscalculated the time I had available for this month. That's one part, but the other one was a more pleasant surprise that ended up taking more time away from me. 

You may have heard me say this before in an earlier post but I've mentioned before that I managed to find an animator who wanted to do some collabs with me. The good news I bring is that I'm fairly confident that I'd be able to get the older waifu works that didn't get an animation done (because my animators went AWOL) turned into an animation. One of them already finished the animation for a recent Waifu and I've just finished working on the final editing for it.

But as history has proven multiple times, I won't hold my breath this time. I can only hope this collab partnership is a long-lasting one at least I pray much longer than my old animator. 

Ah, one thing I wanted to mention regarding the pose I drew for Narmaya. I wanted to draw a similar pose as the official illustration where she always has a habit of wedging her sword in between her boobs or her thicc thighs. Like this... 

So yes, I hope it's to everyone's liking! I've also made a desktop wallpaper version below. 

Again, I apologize for the inconvenience and the lateness of this piece. I made a blunder but I'm going to try and be more mindful about my time management from next month. 

One last thing I wanted to ask for my Discord community. Has anyone heard from Fakkuza since the 25th of May? I'm just a bit worried about him since he is usually active on Discord but has been completely silent in the past week. 

With that said, please take care of yourselves from COVID-19 and all related problems associated with it!

Thanks, everyone for being so awesome ^^