Art update 38 (Patreon)

Back with a bag of ramblings for you to shake your head at. I call it an art update offically, but we all know what this has turned into..   a whatever-comes-across-my-mind post.  I'll try and keep it within bounds.

First of all, mosquitos are horrible, horrible little creatures when they decide to suck your blood near or on one of your knuckles. I can deal with it pretty much anywhere except there.

Okay let's talk art. I've been making some slow but nice progress these last weeks. Slow isn't really a major problem because I just keep going till whatever I needed finished is finished. But sometimes things just flow and other times you really have to work at it.

One of the two biggest hurdles I had to take is the change in hardcore levels. At the end of a route you pretty much can and need to draw mostly full on intercourse scenes. I like those the best because... well, I'm a major pervert and those are just a ton of fun to draw.

When you start out again with a new route it's more geared towards the opposite of that. Especially the love route. I like doing the love route a lot. It's just that I'd like it even more when I can really cut loose again.  Not to worry, I got to work on at the very least one  scene without any restrictions. I really like this one myself and it isn't even a Joo Dee scene!(I made up for that "lack" during some of my warmup sketching)  

So that was hurdle one. What about the second? Well in an effort to get stuff to the coder as fast as I could I left in some temp art which looked bad. I didn't tell him that and he liked it anyway or more likely figured out it was temp stuff by himself and decided it wasn't worth mentioning. 

Anyway, I made a mental note of it as something I needed to get back to later, but I think it was bothering me on a subconscious level because I just couldn't get into things anymore after that. I didn't even realize it myself until I finally redid the art. I was cleaning up some files I had been working on and decided to tackle some of the temp art. After finishing those it pretty much cleared up the fluff in my brain and things went a lot smoother again.

I'm a simple soul really. If I do a drawing which I feel is good, I'm having a good day. When it's something I don't like, I'm having trouble letting it go and drag it along with me, secretly fearing I must have forgotten how to draw. that's me in a nutshell alright.

Talking about simple... while drawing I mostly listen to music or simple stuff which doesn't demand too much of my attention. Compared to the coder I do have the advantage I can listen to slightly more complicated stuff while working. He's someone who listens a lot to instrumental music.  I have no idea whether this applies to other artists, but I can't draw and listen intently to a conversation or a lecture etc while drawing. Not unless I want to realize I've stopped working after five minutes and started listening instead. 

Some simple coloring or inking allows me to listen more and not stop working, but not the actual drawing part. So basically listening to music is best. I have a pretty varied taste in music but I tend to go for the harder/louder stuff. The coder has a tendency to go for the more easy listening stuff. But even only listening to music all the time can become boring so anything which doesn't rely too much on an active listener can also work.  Things like short funny stories which you can drop in and out of usually work well.

I used to listen to Bill Burr's(a standup comedian) podcast a lot, but kinda stopped doing that. 

I do think he's pretty funny so if this is the first time you've heared about him and you're looking for something new, give him a try. I always completely zone out when he starts talking about sports though.

Back to FET. We're going to introduce a few new girls in the love route with a veeery limited amount of screen time. You only see them for a very short time in the cartoon itself and they are meant to have the same amount of exposure in the game. However, depending on the reaction of you guys we'll decide whether to expand on them a bit more or not. When working on their idles a scene immediately popped up in my mind for them, but like I said we'll see what the general reaction is to them.

I pretty much finished what we have planned for the new build, but I'll happily chug along and try to add as much as possible to that in case the coder sees a chance to work in more stuff. With the exception for last minute changes, I try to be at least two weeks in advance of what he needs so he won't have to wait on me. 

Things are moving along and hopefully we can bring you a great start of book 3's love route once the time is there. Btw. the raffle winners have been contacted so check your pm box if you haven't already in the last week or so. 

Finally something I drew this week because.... I have no idea really. I just started some warmup sketching and before I knew it I ended up with this.

Generally, my warmup sketches look absolutely nothing like this. I figured it might get a chuckle out of some of you guys. so I'm including it here.

I'll also try and see if I can reply to some comments in earlier updates(this one too of course).I'm afraid we've been singly focused on the new build to the point of seriously neglecting anything else.

That's it for now.  Talk to ya'all later(or in the comments)!