February Report (Patreon)

Hello everyone and happy March!

Thank you so much for your support and patience over the past month!❤️ Please allow me to fill you in on what’s been happening, Let’s get to the report!

My February goals were the previous un-addressed goals from last year. Here’s how I did:

✅ Fanart

✅ CYOA Pt. 10

⏹️✔️ Libby & Holly Ch3 Pages 9-12

February started off with me revisiting the subject from the last fanart poll...

✅ Fanart Shadowheart from Baldur’s Gate 3! 

I used my usual process of sketching a character in a kinda spreading composition until I’ve got a handle on them and then try to polish it up into a continuous spread.

I like the results overall and it helped to return to something as simple as this black/white/pink palette. It feels like home. I did get into a bit more color for this moony one, though 🌚

The sketches that I didn’t polish aren’t too numerous but they helped figure out her design!

✅ CYOA Pt. 10 was next on my list to try to finish and it got done!
I ended up having to cut it down from my original plan of 8 illustrations down to four to make it manageable but I still really like the art that came out of it.

Especially this Goblin Sneak illustration, which I’m most pleased with! 

I get the impression that the voting this round will be TREMENDOUSLY one sided😅 I promise I’ll give you more interesting choices for Part 11.

In the sketchbook I’m trying to consolidate my manga and western cartooning influences. To find the intersection of my manga influences and 1960’s playboy cartoons by Erich Sokol. I just finished reading Dororo by Osamu Tezuka and it’s charming to know that both those artists were being published concurrently.

You’ll probably keep seeing characters with little eyes and big eyes as i try to find what I’m looking for 😅

The other notable influence was that I started reading Card Captor Sakura this past month as well as and the delicacy of the linework and the way the page layouts spill all over the place and have all kinds of cute flourishes, like flowers that frame characters or even little lace doily accents. Adorable 😩

Libby’s eyes might start growing or gaining sparkles as I let the manga spirit move me, but even from the first chapter I was trying to do something with more manga-ish flair, so it’s really just getting a new shot in the arm, stylistically.

Libby drawings are an evergreen sketch subject, but I tried to give this month’s drawings a little more love and add some tone and color.

Which brings us finally around to...

⏹️✔️ Libby & Holly Chapter 3! 

This is my miss for the month.  Only 2/4 pages finished. This was because I was revisiting my old thumbnails I made months ago and I could barely understand them. 😅

I’m going to try to make my thumbnails clearer in the future so I don’t have this problem going forward, because it’s not the first time, I’m ashamed to say.

I do really like how pages 9-10 turned out and I even added color to make it a triumphant return 😤

I have 11 roughed and 12-14 in thumbnail form right now, about to be turned into roughs. I am trying to find a balance between progressing a plot that will result in more fun erotic scenarios vs just letting horny scenes play out.

I don’t want my story to turn *serious* or anything, I want to stay fast and silly for the most part, but I want to make sure the story is an interesting component of the eroticism…which is probably making me over-cautious and slow. I’ll try to be more reckless in the future and just let the work be what it’ll be 😅

Here’s what I’m planning for this month.

March Goals:

⏹️ Libby & Holly Ch3:11-14 -4 pages seems pitiful but I’m still wrangling my schedule a lot lately, so I’m trying to be realistic rather than optimistic.

⏹️CYOA Pt 11 : I’d like to let this be a little bit larger of an update too, so that’s going to steal a bit of energy from Libby & Holly.

⏹️Art Archives on Gumroad/ itch

I’m working on collecting all my past art into some downloadable art packs to put on gumroad. Up until now, if you’re not a patron, a lot of this stuff is inaccessible and to package it up nicely and put it out in the next month (I hope!)

As a follow up to my end of year report, I’m still working through new processes with my new assistant to figure out how to get more things off my plate! It’s going to be really helpful in the future but so far we’re both just learning!

I want to open up another fanart poll soon but I fear that it will be too much this month. I’ll probably revisit old almost-winners if I want some fun things to draw outside of these tasks, but mostly I’m going to focus on the existing projects.

Thank you as always for reading and for your support in making all this possible!

❤️Winton