Month: September 2024

Tsumugi and Kaori

The Idolm@ster is a franchise I have only a passing relationship with. One of my friends is really into it, so I’ve seen bits of the anime and games, but I’m not personally that invested in it so I don’t know any of the girls particularly well. This is a Master Mini Commission for one of my Master Tier Subscribers featuring Kaori Sakuramori and Tsumugi Shiraishi from “THE iDOLM@STER Million Live! Theater Days”, one of the mobile games which I know even less about than the rest of the franchise. There seemed to be a bit of fanart of these two, however, so I’m guessing they have a sort of relationship/dynamic that makes shipping them easy.

Goku Spread MC

Here’s a little Mini Commission done as a reward for one of my Subscribers. I took some liberties here, as the original submission gave the impression more that Goku should just be standing looking back. I went with a pose/angle that I thought would be more interesting, however, and I hope the Subscriber won’t mind.

Asuna Yuuki NHML

The Near Hentai Monthly Lady for September 2024 is Asuna Yuuki from Sword Art Online. I only watched a couple episodes of this show at a convention when it was popular and didn’t much care for it, and the longer it ran the less I felt it was a show I’d enjoy. That being said, I know basically nothing about Asuna so I just did a simple pic of her with Kirito. I hope y’all enjoy it.

With this post, NHML nominations for the month of October are now open. For those who don’t know, I’ll run down the rules real quick. Nominations are limited to one per person. You can nominate any female character you want, provided I have not drawn her within the past calendar year (though I prefer characters I’ve never drawn, period). Previous NHML winners are not eligible for a second time. Nominees must also not be from the same franchise as this month’s winner, Sword Art Online. If you violate any of those rules, I’ll let you know, and you can nominate someone else. I know it can be hard to keep track of these things. You may nominate by either commenting in the cBox, commenting on this post, or emailing me (Nearphotison2010@yahoo.com). I’ll compile a list of the nominees in the sidebar of this site, and then on October 1st I will use a randomizer to select the winning character who I will proceed to draw sometime that month. I look forward to seeing who you all nominate this time around!

First Shoot #23 – Gwen Stacy

This First Shoot poll was won by Gwen Stacy, specifically the one from the Spiderverse movies. Those films sit in a weird place for me, as there’s several characters I was interested in drawing from them, but a number of factors kept me from doing anything with them. I don’t think I’m comfortable talking about those factors here, but Gwen’s a popular character who’s getting to make her NHS debut now. I figured the most logical reaction from her to arriving in the Studio would be to fall back on her experience with hopping between dimensions, so that’s the angle I took.

Clean Break, Page 7

Here’s the seventh page of our Straight Ongoing comic, “Clean Break”. There were two scripts submitted for this page, but they went in pretty different directions and I didn’t feel like I could reconcile them. Instead, I just went with the one that felt like a better direction for the comic, although I did make a small change. I’d misread one part of the script, but liked my misread a bit better so I went with it, hopefully no one will mind. I think Armin tapping out and then Mikasa and Eren getting a romantic one-on-one moment makes sense as we near the end of this comic. I expect at most 1-2 pages more based on where we are, but we’ll see how things play out.