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It's Sydney's debut! Well, Sydney's been in plenty of vote incentives, but... there are nude versions over at Patreon, at the three dollar level. I figure I should actually make use of the tiers over there. I left the nudes at the $1 for six months just to make sure I could keep up with the work, and it seemed like Sydney's debut would be a good time to make the nude pinups "official" for lack of a better term.

I honestly can't tell if it's well done or if it's a little creepy. Not because Sydney looks too young… hopefully. It's a little uncanny-valley-ish, I think. I guess no reason it can't be both. I will say this much, this started as a paint over because I was having a ton of trouble with her body type, and Sydney wound up a biiiiit too fit. She doesn't have ab-cleavage like that, especially under her navel. Let's say this picture happens after she completes basic, with all the running and stuff. I'd say she PhotoShopped them, which would make sense if she's sending Frix sexts, but I'm not sure she's that skilled with the program.

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Anonymous

Love it, the shyness yet straightforwardness really fits her character :)

Michael O'Driscoll

Glad to see my favourite girl joining the roster :)

Aaron Morton

The giant toothy smile ... super distracting. Like an alligator before it bites.

Emmett Kelly

On one hand it's nice finally getting to see Sydney naked, despite the fact she appears to be in pain, and I appreciate the size but on the other f*** you for moving the pinups to another tier.

Anonymous

Well done! That embarrassed look is so Sidney. Also - It’s totally worth a couple of extra dollars for these.

Twister

Dude, that's been the listed meaning for the $3 tier all along.

Anonymous

I like seeing Sydney but yeah, a little uncanny valley and she seems more uncomfortable than shy. I would be curious seeing her drawn in your normal comic style like this.

Anonymous

I love how the blush spreads the more nude she gets. But I do agree with Aaron - those chompers are distracting.

Michael Obert

Charming in its innocence

Town Crier

She doesn't appear to be smiling, so much as gritting her teeth.

Bowoodstock

Okay, this is absolutely adorable.

Matthew Lambert

I love that she gets more red in the face the more is revealed.

Paul Rendell

The size of her mouth is a little off putting but other than that I likes!

davebarrack

Well, she is supposed to look like she's thinking "Smile, do this for the boyfriend, he sent me sexy pics OH MY GOD I'M TAKING NUDE PICTURES!"

Anonymous

She looks just the right amount of nervous for someone who is sending her very first nude selfies, IMO. Not that I've ever been the recipient of someone's very first nude selfies. At least not that I would want to come off as bragging about.

William Elliott

Frix is one lucky mammal analog

Anonymous

I wish my future was as bright as her smile.

Nicholas Fletcher

It looks pretty good. The expression makes perfect sense, just something about the scale (too large?) of the mouth/teeth is off-putting uncanny valley style.

Dave Marron

She looks embarrassed but she's doing it for her guy. Reclining makes her breasts look smaller, and therefore making her look younger. She looks lovely.

Dave Warren

I'd been contemplating signing on to here for your pinup nudes for awhile, but it was including Sydney in the NSFW gang that got me to pull the trigger. Been hoping she'd join the fun eventually.

Alysandir

Well...seeing as how we're all viewing these pictures, I'd say Frix is one dead woof, should Syd find out.

davebarrack

You and about 150 other people it seems. I guess I'll have to do a Pixel and Krona one eventually as well.

Kevin R Conk

Hello, Sydney. Now, about seeing Arianna join this growing list... :D

Kevin R Conk

By the way, you did a fine job with Sydney's body type. But, as always: practice, practice, practice.

Anonymous

I'm rather interested in the story behind her scars. But yes, she's beautiful, well worth the wait.

Zip Zop

Gotta be honest, Sydney is the reason I got your patreon in the first place.

Justin Case

Right behind ya Zip.

Anonymous

In previous pics the characters were pretty much the same, except for less clothes. But here you can really see Sidney become more and more nervous. Excellent work

Anonymous

Been hoping for some Sydney cheesecake for a while now. Thanks!

Zip Zop

Why would smaller breasts mean younger? Several fully grown adults have no breasts at all.

Anonymous

Awesome work Dave, as usual. :) If this is Canon, it answers some questions about "the unspecified quantity and quality of shenanigans" in the ship's pool. (#706) Which might make for an amazing incentive later. ;) One small nitpic- some of the panty linework can be seen in the full nude, and the left inner thigh's color stops before the line.

Brett Peirce

It's Sydney. One of her unofficial powers is cheese. The nerves brought out a bit unintentionally

Alex Piskura

I like the image, it's quality stuff. That said, I do think that if there's an uncanny valley issue, it's because of the mouth. It feels just a little too wide to be natural and kinda throws off the sense of proportion. Though I think that might also have something to do with the airbrushed style of coloring and shading. On their own they probably don't stand out, but together they have a very plastic-y kind of quality that can seem disproportionate. It's still quality work, but that might be where your sense of unease is coming from.

Batts

Artwork is good, but the mouth just seems to be a little overemphasized to me.

NickG

Those 'Star Trek' boy-shorts are just too damn cute, and Sydney looks great.

Joseph Bonnar

She looks both cute and also embarassed.

Merle Blue

Sydney can be oddly adorable!

Anne Welborn

Absolutely adorable in every way.

astralFitz

ohgosh this is lovely

Paul S.

You know what I like about this? She looks normal / natural. Cute even. I don't mind a woman with muscles (it can be really hot), but I can't stand big fake looking breasts... which almost every woman (super) in this comic has. For that reason, I find these to be the sexiest images you've posted to date.

Bowoodstock

Gonna agree. The stark (naked) difference between her and the rest of our heroines is what makes this great. Even the fact that she's uh, very clearly a natural blonde makes this very fun to look at. She's unique from everything else we've seen.

Jared Juetten

As attractive as Max is, Sydney is the reason I'm here. <3

Anonymous

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Sydney is the hottest Grrl Power character <3

Eric Loken

I will echo that the only drawback to this picture is the mouth is too large, at best it's a big fake smile, which she shouldn't be doing on a picture to a lover, and at worst it is just *wrong*. I don't normally recommend redoing a picture, but I might suggest changing her smile to a much smaller shy smile with closed lips, or barely any teeth, which I think would be far more appropriate and in character for this. The small breasts instead of silicon balloons are wonderful, as is the public hair that shows she is clearly an adult woman instead of a child or a doll. Definitely drawing Sydney as shaved would have been very wrong and disturbing. Sydney's physical allure is that she is *cute*, and that makes her more like a girl any of us could attain (well, not me, I'm way too old for her), unlike the super models of the rest of the cast which beyond being unrealistic are beyond the league of any normal human being that doesn't have a pile of money or equally inhuman perfection. tl/dr: Other than the too big smile, she looks fantastic

Anonymous

I can't remember, is it established in the comic that Sydney's had her appendix out?

davebarrack

No, those lines on her stomach are like, the little creases people pick up where their skin naturally folds over when they slouch or whatever. I may have made them a tad dark compared to the rest of the artwork. It was supposed to have a kind of sketchy line quality framing most of it, but I was a little inconsistent with it.

Anonymous

I think it might be that her head is a little too big. The proportions make me think she's under 4' tall in this image

Vysirez

The grin is a bit too large, verging into creepy. Otherwise pretty nice.

Peabody

The progressive blush is a nice touch.

Anton Schleef

I think you did fairly well with her body type. And as for thinking she 'looks' to young...........just look up the JAV actresses Mimi Yazawa and Kurumi Kawashima. You can find some of the works they are featured in over at www.r18.com, and remember they're both around 20 years old. Also, I have personally ran into women with similar body types in stores before, only twice mind you, but they do exist out there.

JoJo

I really hope to get more like this, double rez doesn't really do anything for me and neither do most of the muscle girls. Love the story and characters, just wish there was a greater variety of body types.

astralFitz

I just had a thought. Her glasses are the fancy new space phone/HUD she's got, and also both her hands are in view; how did she take the picture? With the orbs we don't see?

James C

She's holding the com-ball. Now, if she was also holding the fly-ball, I'd assume she was floating in the air, looking down, and we're looking at her projection. Since she ISN'T, that implies that the comm-ball projection is 'complete' enough that her glasses are able to 'see' from the light-bee's perspective too...

Zip Zop

I've noticed people say they don't care for muscles on pin-ups but for me it's been the opposite issue with superhero physiques. Gag-boob level proportions. Personally I find muscle tone quite sexxy on a woman or a man but over-exaggerated anything tends to breech the uncanny valley. (Especially in these high-res images as compared to the more cartoony regular style.) I also concur about having the more petite characters such as Krona would be nice. As for Pixel, I feel like an Animorphs book cover style image may be nice? Also when are we getting male pin-ups? Never?

Anne Welborn

Please don't tweak or rejig Sydney's pinup picture. I love her smile. This is afterall a picture series of Sydney, - a webcomic heroine, - not a 'real world' woman so please don't change her.

Anonymous

These are awesome, smile included! My head canon is that she spent a lot of time psyching herself before taking these pics, and was so worried about putting on a "sexy smile" for Frix that she spent too long "perfecting" it in the mirror and forgot what a normal smile looks like. So in that sense it's 100% on point for Sydney's character! But if you're still not pleased with her smile then there's a simple solution that doesn't involve tweaking these drawings: just try again by DRAWING MORE SYDNEY PINUPS :D

Anonymous

i concur with others above, that Syd's nervous rictus is fitting; she's not a brazen girl, so she's pushing herself out of her comfort zone here. my one nitpick, though... she actually seems a tad, well, busty for what the banter has lead me to expect (i.e. Peggy's "A-Team" jibe). but, upon further research, i'm gonna put that down to the pose/viewing angle. after studying a few different shots of confirmed A cups in similar poses, i'm going to assume my complaint comes down to expecting bad anatomy from my artists >.>

Zip Zop

Finally found the link for when Frix sent her a picture. https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-827-peaches-and-pics/

Kevin Wright

This is perfectly in character, given the strained smile. She's just too cute, and a nice contrast to the other heros. I like all sort of body types, and it's refreshing to see a petite slim girl. Looking forward to Krona, and Pixel in particular.

Anonymous

Sydney should be proud of her body, she's just as attractive, if not more depending on your type, as her peers

Anonymous

Not going to lie that grin is something else but heck I swear I've seen that look before. Very Nice seeing a human with more realistic proportions. Willing to support cheese cake for a small cup of coffee. One thing though she has Pseudo tentacle that she can control well enough to write with ... now maybe its too much for Halo to be sending any H but she could at least wrap herself up with a bow. Heck could completely cover up and still be very sexy. Feel like making an edit of the 4th image. Just swap the orbs and add some light effects.

Anonymous

wow. is all i can say

Anonymous

She’s perfect

L Pedersen

Is Sydney not a natural blonde? The carpet does not appear to match the drapes.

davebarrack

She is a "dirty blonde" so she's like an unevenly sun bleached light brunette really. Of course, that part never gets much sunlight, so it's going to look darker.

Anonymous

I assume this is after she found a razor: https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-342-predenuded/

Marc Vun Kannon

The rictus-grin looks a little weird, but she's always seemed tremendously shy and body-conscious so I can see that happening. Frix had better appreciate this act of courage on her part.

Anonymous

Love how the blush intensifies.

Ascender

Remember, Cora's bathing facilities are EXTREMELY well-equipped. And thorough.

Anonymous

I love your attention to anatomy in terms of muscles and such and your openness to body diversity throughout the comic. Where do you get your reference models from?

Anonymous

To hell with Frix. That's MY woman. I WANT TO BE THE ONE WHO MAKES HER BLUSH ADORABLY.

Bubbaclaw

I'm not going to lie. After the page of the team in the shower and the "between boyfriends" comment, I was expecting Sydney to have a lot more pubic hair than that.

John Doe

Great pics Dave. I think her face is a bit disproportionate as compared to the rest of her body. Although it could be a perspective issue too!

Krahazik

This is excellent. I find Sydney to be one of the most attractive one of the team.

davebarrack

I hate to say "the internet" but I don't have a specific source I hit up. Various subreddits, Instagram, plus folders I've collected over the years. Those are mostly very fit women though, so the bulk of my reference folder didn't help with this pic, hah hah.

GH

I joined this Patreon for this image......i am not ashamed of this fact

Matthew Paulin

I also joined for this. I have been waiting for this for a long time. I also find Sydney to be the most attractive.

Matthew Tierney

You know, looking at this, I get the feeling some folks will be clamoring for the picture that Frix sent her that prompted this.

Anonymous

I think this made so many people join

Matthew Paulin

Now I want to see an 'H' comic with Sydney and Frix back on the ship...hint hint. *Prays to whatever dark Gods that could make this happen..

Anonymous

It is a little uncanny-valley-ish, and I was trying to pinpoint exactly why... Part of it might be the stylistic difference between Sydney's face vs paintover, but I think the biggest thing is that Sydney's face and head are just *slightly* too big in proportion to her body. In your comic style it works. On the more realistic paintover it enters uncanny valley. My two cents, in case you were actually interested in the art critique from a stranger opinion. Love it though, thanks for all your hard work!

Anonymous

So how was Sydney shooting the pix? I don't see a selfie stick -- Timelapse setting on her phone and tape it to one of the orbs, I'm guessing, then edit out any intermediate shots where she's moving around. Easier (for her) than taping it to the ceiling or levitating a mirror...

zoombini

I found that Sydney's mouth on this one was over scaled, even with as big a mouth as she has in the comic. The pin-up looked so much sexier when I put my finger over that inhumanly large grin.

Biblioholic1993

Forgot if I commented. Probably didn't, inveterate lurker. Love all of these pictures, the shirt half up one is probably the best as far as the character in it. Yes, naked is there, and good, but she's so much more than her physicality (no I'm not above it but seriously people, the creep factor, maybe chuck it out the window for a minute). Addressing the "uncanny valley" stuff people are talking about. I think these critics forget her reaction to seeing Frix the first time... her face when she saw the room of tentacles... how she enabled the Vehemence takedown... when she got blue steel from a werewolf... facts are facts, she was spawned from the river banks in uncanny valley with a side order of mad geek syndrome, and that's why everyone loves her! Whether they know it or not. That being said the embarrassment rictus fits well for me. I was compelled to join for the Syd because I have a fictional crush, but with all the cheesecake around I figure it's a good investment.

Anonymous

After seeing her in the buff, I think Sydney doesn't have as much to worry about as she thinks she does. She looks pretty damn good! She has a Very nice body, IMHO.

Anonymous

Loving the comic and this is also well worth the patreon.

Anonymous

I love that Sydney is unshaved.

Anonymous

Mmmm I love seeing Sydney being naughty. I do hope there will be more in the future.