Happy Pride Month (2021) + Music Store Archive (Patreon)

Pride Month is winding down but I wanted to get this up and posted before it was over!

For Pride I decided to draw some much older OCs I regretfully haven't touched in years! I've toyed around multiple ideas in my head of how their story could play out over the years, but never really found the right blend and the ideas just ended up getting scrapped or shelved.

Originally the two started out as a simple challenge for myself to make anything for a comic page and figure out the screen tone functions in manga studio or more ambitious projects. Even if they haven't had much of a presence since then I still think they're adorable!

I imagine if I continued their story today it would be a light hearted romance slice of life comedy between these two college aged guys that get constantly teased by their peers about the differences in stature. In their anthro world, Busk is a towering mysterious quiet Polar Bear, who has trouble expressing himself verbally and keeps to himself. Beat is a short fox boy, often lost in his head fantasizing scenes and lyrics to his instrumental music, finding himself suddenly spending more time with his friends at their music store part-time job one faithful summer. The two meet and slowly grow more interested in each other after several more serendipitous meetings, and more.

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Included in the attachments are the original files for the music store comic that I converted to clip format from manga studio 4 EX's old CPG files. Lineart minus the tones for those pages and a full resolution versions for archive purposes!

Happy Pride to all my Gay/Lesbian/Trans/Bi/NonBinary/Asexual/Pan/Queer friends!!! <3