I know they’ve been few and far between lately, but here’s the calendar page for June in our second Studio Calendar. As you can see, this one features Deku and Ash in a little one-on-one.
Here’s the April page of the second Near Hentai Studio Calendar. I initially forgot I was trying to include more month-specific details, so I added bunny ears and a more Eastery background last-minute to this one.
Here’s the March page for our second calendar. In the first one I had Trunks and Goten as a unit, but I decided to use a different version of Trunks and so decided to split them up during the pairing-up stage. Goten ended up with Trunks’s dad, Vegeta, and lucky for me I already had a picture of them in the works at the time. So, I set that drawing aside, and then added some fun St. Patrick’s Day stuff to make it a more suitable March page.
I can’t believe it took me this long to get around to the February page of our second Calendar project. I suspect finishing the first NHS Calendar made me unknowingly file it away as “finished” in my head, and I just haven’t gotten deep enough into this second Calendar for it to feel real yet. Regardless, I did manage to get our second page out, with Beast Boy getting paired up with the Freeman boys. Since February is the month of love and all, I decided to put them in a love hotel.
I don’t normally make any effort to tie this calendar project to the months/holidays associated with it, but since I managed to get this page done before New Year’s I decided to rearrange the public release schedule so it can be my official New Year’s post. Since I normally post the One-Shot on the first this’ll also mean pushing that back a day, but that’s okay.
This is my new Calendar project. Like the first one, I’ve taken the top performers in the Studio (that is, the characters with the most frequently-used tags on the public site) and used a randomizer to create twelve random pairings. The lineup has changed slightly since the first Calendar, but there will be a lot of recurring faces. Our first page here sees Gon and Killua, who shared a slot in the pairing process, getting together with Helen Parr of The Incredibles. Gon and Killua got to work with Chi-Chi in the last Calendar, and Helen’s early Studio work had her getting double teamed by Trunks and Goten a lot, so this feels like a somewhat poetic match-up to me. I put them in the same location as some older New Year’s content I did on commission years ago, complete with a little letter banner in the background.