Quick Update (Patreon)

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to drop in with a quick update. Over the weekend, I was able to make some breakthroughs and get draft pages 09 - 12 down (not featured in this post). While they have been able to capture the major moments of Swole Mates, the climax feels abrupt and the growth sequence needed more story beats. It was also important to "ride the waves" while they were up, so a lot of what you'll be seeing tonight were done pretty late in the night. They are mostly thumbnails and difficult to decode for the untrained eye, and serve mostly as shorthand for me to extrapolate at a later time of clarity and focus:

The challenge of doing a muscle growth comic, as compared to say, an animation, is that the latter contains all the key frames and in-betweens of the growth. A comic is essentially a compression of time, and editorially I have to be very specific and decisive about which key moments in time I want to capture in the panels.

The purpose of page 11 is designed to elaborate and give more build up to Snares' growth, resulting from him grabbing Pridestar and taking him all in. Page 12 is meant to show Snares busting through the roof of the beach showers and establish size comparison.

The climax takes place in pages 13 and 14 (not shown above) and could've technically ended there if I wanted to. But for the sake of pacing, I've added pages 15 - 18 as a sort of epilogue and "aftergrow" for readers. It's just a bonus for you guys if you can decipher what's happening, but for now I don't want to give away or spoil too much.

All in all, after the weekend's stream session and exploration, I kinda realized that the comic itself may be able to hit at least 16 - 18 pages. So that's a good length / feel for the short growth story.

I'll upload and share the recorded stream session in another post, so stick around.

Snares
Sep 2021