For Whom the Bells Toll, Page 00-03

So, I had some ideas for how I wanted to handle the Bell characters I introduced earlier this year. I could have just, like, drawn Jonah fucking Jasper and been done with it, but I wanted to try doing a narrative and some build-up instead. I considered telling their story within Applebridge Snapshots, but I’ve been having trouble getting those out lately and already have a number of ideas and new characters for that series I’m sitting on… I didn’t want to muck that series up with more backlog. So, I’m trying a different approach. This won’t be a comic, but it’ll still operate more or less like one. I’m hoping this formatting will work well for this type of story, but we’ll see as more pages come out. Right now the final page here is what would’ve originally been the first panel of the hypothetical Snapshot page, with the cover and preceding pages working to flesh the story out a bit more. The next update will jump right into the action, starting with what would’ve been the second panel of this story had been done as a Snapshot.

Maki Zenin Character Ask 1

So this is an Ask I wanted to do basically for my own reasons… the first and last time I drew Maki and Nobara together was as a commission reward for a Subscriber. It was before I’d seen Jujutsu Kaisen or knew anything about either of them, so it didn’t mean much to me at the time. I really like their relationship in the series, though, and wanted to do something with them again, even if it’s a simple pic like this. Like with Yuji before, I don’t really ship Nobara with any of her friends, but I don’t have any problem picturing her having a fun casual sexual relationship with them.

Diana the Acrobat Character Ask 1

Diana’s a character from the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon I drew back in 2015. Her and Shantae are really only being brought together in this Ask because the Subscriber likes both of them, but I thought it could be fun to do a little something with them. I don’t really picture them necessarily being “a thing”, but they’re both amicable enough I’m sure they’d get along fine.

Gohan Footjob

My second Lord Tier Subscriber whose commission came due this month wanted to have two one-character pics for their reward. This is the first of those, a Gohan footjob. They requested that it have the Hyperbolic Time Chamber bed background. I decided to go ahead and lean into the Special Training aesthetic, using that color pallet and making the cock Goku’s.

Johnny Bravo Character Ask 2

I don’t necessarily see the Studio as a place where everyone is always ready to bone no matter what, so someone like Johnny who hits on literally every person he’s attracted to will still get plenty of rejections one way or another. Still, I thought it’d be fun to see him hooking up with someone who says “yes,” and Jasmine just kinda came to mind as a casual partner he could have fun with.

Toji x Nanami

I’ve got three pictures this month that are commission rewards for Lord Tier Subscribers, and this is the first of them. Toji and Nanami are two Jujutsu Kaisen characters this Subscriber is fond of, so even though pairing them (especially this design of Nanami) doesn’t fit into the canon in any way, it’s what they wanted to see and I hope I delivered something satisfactory.

 

Kazusa Takatori’s First Dare

Kazusa’s a character I’ve only drawn a couple times but, even though I never watched Shōnen Maid, I’m fairly fond of her. I’ve liked the idea of pairing her with lolis for a while now, for reasons I don’t feel like getting into too much here, and this Dare was as good an excuse as any. This dare also appealed to me due to its wording. Because the Dare specifies the first loli she sees, I went a different route than choosing one for her. Using the same randomized selection I use for a variety of things like First Shoot partners, I went through to the first loli in a randomized list and it was Apple from Mother Up!. I haven’t drawn her in ages, but I think she makes a good pair with Kazusa here.