Month: September 2026

Lost and Found Files – Yumi Yamashita

It’s been a bit since the first one, but here’s another entry in my “Lost and Found Files,” a series where I show of and talk about unused characters of mine. This is Yumi Yamashita, from Kaito. Kaito was a long-running harem comic I wanted to do, but only ever got a few pages into drafting and never posted anywhere. Kaito, the protagonist, was the last character I shared for this series, and Yumi here was his girlfriend. The two of them were the only characters for this series I ever actually drew back then.
The premise of Kaito was inspired by Tenchi Muyo, and would see Kaito meet and hook up with a variety of eccentric alien girls. As his girlfriend from before the start of the story, Yumi was meant to be kinda a girl-next-door baseline type in comparison to the alien girls. For that reason she has a bit of an understated design, but I think she has her own charms. Her name is one I’ve actually reused a couple times, most recently for one of the ghost ladies in the Spookyverse.

Max Gibson Character Ask 1

This seemed like a fun chance to do something with two of my personal favorite DCAU gals (although there’s honestly a lot of ’em I like). I can’t actually remember how often Max and Babs interact in Batman Beyond, but the first time I drew either of them was in a threesome with Terry. As fond as I am of Barbara’s older Commissioner design in Beyond, I don’t see that as being how she chills by default in the Studio, so this got to be a bit of an impossible pairing that only makes sense in the Studio (or if time travel or something was involved, I guess).

Studio Santa #14 – Aurum Aliniesectator

I imagine this post will require a bit of explanation for most folks. So, last year I put together a list of Studio Santas, an annual pin-up I’ve been doing for a few years now where a random Studio resident dons a Santa outfit and takes on hosting duties for the Studio Christmas Party. When making the list, I also went back and randomly selected a character for each year I’ve been doing Near Hentai, creating a canon backlog of people who’ve served as Santa in the past. I made sure each year, the winner was someone who was actually in the Studio at the time.
My plan is to do pin-ups for all of them, going in reverse chronological order. This’ll surely take a few years, especially if they all end up taking me as long to fit into my schedule as this one did. This is the “fourteenth” Studio Santa, the one who hosted the 2020 Christmas party.
The second thing I need to explain is the Ludibrio Chronicles. Some of you will remember this, but this is a project that actually predates Near Hentai. I was experimenting with my interest in femboys, and started putting together comics made of screencaps from live action porn scenes, then tracing over them and changing the women into feminine elf-like boys called Ludibrio. This was an exercise I really enjoyed at the time, and one I’m pretty sure heavily shaped a number of thing about my art going up even to today. I only completed a couple of these comics, but I have over a hundred plotted out that I never did. Aurum is from the first of them, traced over the pornstar Katia Geizer. Since he won this raffle, I did the same to make this pic, finding a photo from the same shoot as the original comic and just tracing over it while adding a Santa outfit. I went with a green Santa for him, since the idea for him was always to be a bit Link-like, and I think it fits.

Subscriber Scenarios #25 – A Flashy Challenge

So I’ve been slowly working my way through Demon Slayer for a while with a friend, and only just recently got to the Entertainment District Arc. As of yet I have not met Tengen’s wives, although I have seen them in the credits. That being said, I know they’re relatively in-demand characters, with one or two of them usually getting nominated to the NHML each month. Tengen himself has been in the Studio for a while, with a handful of appearances, so I figured he’d be happy to have his wives join him here. Since I haven’t really met them, I mostly guessed based on their designs how their dynamic might go, and hopefully I got the scene close enough to be believable.