Upcoming projects and “new” art style (Patreon)

Hey everyone! :)

So recently both the prologue of Tree of Life, and Perfect Fit has ended. What's next, you could ask. Well, I'm so glad you asked :) (I hope you asked.) Now, let's see how our future projects will go in the very near future:

First of all, Tree of Life. The actual story with Book One will start very soon. Again, I know how weird it was to make a whole prologue book, but I really needed some practice and courage boost before starting my biggest project so far. So yeah, I know it was everything but a good and well made start for a series, but… this will be my biggest project, and one of my childhood dream, so… I want to do everything to make it the best I just can. But the real story will start soon, I promise :D

Now, about the next erotic comic. We already had the next erotic comic written and ready for quite some time now, and we were really excited to start it (because it will be a pretty long sequel, and it will be full of story, characters and surprises), but then we saw one sketch idea among the monthly sketch suggestions, one that really started our imaginations. So we kept thinking and thinking about this idea, and at the end we decided to put another, much shorter comic before the big one, with an idea we couldn't explore until now, because we didn't have a good idea and concept for it. Well, until now, that is :)

So the next erotic comic will be a fairly short and very kinky sequel ;) And after that, a very long one will come (that is also a sequel), full of story and characters. I'm sorry if this all sounds a bit hectic, but we really try our best to not give away anything about our future projects (because we hate spoilers, and love surprises), but believe us, behind the curtains we had a ton of fun coming up with this next, short comic, we worked a lot on it, and we hope you'll like the idea just as much as we do :)

So after all of these very vague info, you could ask “What was the point of this? Where are the comic's starting dates?” Well, there's still something left to mention: I'm going to work in a “new” style, and there will be a very short project to practice and get the hang of it before I start the next erotic comic and the Tree of Life. But why did I write “new” in quotation mark, and what is this short practice project? Let me explain.

When I first started making comics here, on Patreon, I didn't have much time for drawing beside school and work, so I had to complete every page in one day. A few years passed, things changed, and I could finally spend more time on my projects, thanks to your support. I decided to spend two days on every page, and that helped a lot with scheduling and quality. Years passed again, a ton of things changed, and we arrived to today, and I had to realise something: no matter how much I love spending more and more time on pages, making them more and more detailed, I'm just a single human being, and this can't be maintained for long. The pages became so detailed, that coming up with the actual WIP sketch for them became secondary, and I really hate that. I had very little time, and very little stamina remaining to come up with the most important part of the comics, their backbone, the actual layout of the pages. I feel over the past few years (as much as I loved making more and more detailed comics), they got weaker and weaker, because I wasn't putting the effort in the right place. I want to change that, so I started to work on a “new”, much more controlled style. I know this might sound weird, so let me explain:

Looking back at my older projects, there were a few pages that were just attracting my eyes to no end. Those pages were made when I switched from one day/page to two days/page. If you look back at Welcome to New Dawn, around page 55.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/30731269

You can see the style changed significantly. I could finally switch the very sketchy lines to line art, and I could be a lot more brave with colours, saturation and perspectives. But this wasn't the page that really caught my eyes when I looked around my previous projects. It was Prophecy page 35.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/30862342

I was looking at that page for a long time, and I just loved it. The colours, the line art, I just love looking at it. And that was when I realised that over the years I started focusing on the wrong parts of the pages. And because I want to make the best comics I can, I had to take a step back, and reevaluate my priorities. So this “new” style is more like going back to an older style, and trying to divide work better, to make better comics.

That old Prophecy style is my goal in the near future. To be more specific: very thick line art, very vibrant colours, very little or no shading at all, and using highlights and filters to give the scenes more feel and emotion. This is a style I'd really like to see and make, and hopefully it will free up a lot of time for things I REALLY want to focus in my future projects: interesting and unique perspectives, poses and panelling. I'm planning to give one day for each page again, but with the years of practice and experience behind my back, they won't look rushed and sketchy. And I want to spend another day working on each page sketch, to make the movement, the poses and the actions engaging and impressive. I think detailed backgrounds and shading I spent so much time on in the past few years are worth less than a well composed page.

So in short: I'm going back to a bit more simple, more stylised art style, so I'll have much more time to make the pages more engaging. I know this might sound a bit weird (or even sad), but I'm planning to prove this won't be a step back, but a step forward. And for this, I'm planning to make a very short, 5 pages long Crossover County comic to finally get the hang of this style I'm trying to get into. I'll start it next week, and after that we'll continue with Tree of Life and the next erotic comic.

Again, I'm sorry if all of this sounds a bit weird, but I felt it's something I just HAD to share with you, because you guys provide our livelihood with your selfless support. I think keeping you up to date, and being completely honest is the bare minimum.

So let me sum it up:

- Tree of Life Book One will start very soon.

- The next erotic comic will be short and very kinky, but the one after that will be long and very story focused.

- Before all of this, I'll make a 5 pages long Crossover County comic with a new/old art style I'm planning to use in the future.

That was really all for now. I'm happy to answer any questions, and if you don't have any, stay tuned for a new Crossover County next week ;)