Sketch Page: Food Printer and V&L (Patreon)

I didn't have many great ideas for sketches to share here this month, so I did a page of Stuff I'm working on for future tumblr posts. 

The top is stuff for Victor and Lex, my neglected second fantasy story. CTC plays it more fast and loose with the magical creatures, in V&L they have much more worldbuilding and evolution behind them than "Candentia decided to make this." Since the local creatures in V&L are relocated British Isles legends, I wanted to do something cool and spooky with the fair folk. There are lots of different kinds of fae, and I thought it might be cool to have them all be different species of mammal as human mimicks... they use their enchanting furry faces to lure humans into their dens; then eat, adopt, or enslave them. Pixies are a little less gruesome, just being a class of arthropods similar to insects with necks, digits, and parrot or child-like intellegence. They have many languages, all spoken through movement, dance, and pheromones since they don't have a lung and vocal cord setup like we do. 

The food printer is an appliance from Staraways, used a lot in spaceships for ready-made "foodlike" products. It's not good at making anything that cannot be recreated as a smooth paste or slurry, so it mostly gets used for stuff like bread, tofu, sausage, egg, juice, porridge, chips, and etc. The very fancy ones can make a wider variety of food pastes cooked in more interesting ways than baked/fried, but they're bloody expensive and only found on huge ships or in space ports. Smaller ships usually also have a huge freezer and a regular kitchen, so they can stock up on better, tastier food at ports. The Starways crew has a HumBugBird model for feeding their coed crew, and Talita has her personal centaur food printer that she's owned and eaten from for the majority of her life. Someone.... get this poor girl some real meat...

Excuse the horrible quality, I don't have a scanner good at picking up light values :(