Serie is something of an enigmatic figure in Frieren, being much older than Frieren herself. She tends to dress rather simply, including forgoing shoes, and naturally some folks have taken note of that. Since this is the first time I’ve done something with Serie where she’s the focus, I decided to not go too far outside her source material for a partner, instead recruiting Stark from Frieren’s party to demonstrate with.
So this is one-half of a Lord Tier commission. This is a new person on this tier who wants to see more of Matrona from The Seven Deadly Sins. They decided to slit their commission into two Mini Commission-level pics, with her paired with other characters they like and want to see in the Studio. We decided to label these pics like a series, since it seems they’ll want to do this again in six months when their next commission comes around.
This first pic pairs her with Serie, from Frieren. Serie’s an ancient elf who controls the top level magic users in her world. To my knowledge there’s no classic “giant” race in her world, so we decided to work that into some dialogue here for this scene.
Kanne and Lawine are two supporting characters who appear prominently in the mage exam arc of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. They’re two childhood friends whose magic works well together, and they make a formidable team. Despite this, they’re constantly bickering, which gives them a cute love/hate dynamic. It’s clear they both care a lot for each other, though, and I find them pretty easy to ship. This is just a simple pic to break the ice (no pun intended) with them, but I’d like to draw them more together in the future.
As has become tradition, here is a compilation of some moments from this year’s Studio Christmas party. Hiro Hamada won the lottery to get chosen as the official Studio Santa this year, but as you can see he’s not the only one sporting the look. I had a lot of fun putting together this year’s party, and I tried to fit in an eclectic selection of characters. I hope there’s a little something for most everyone here, and I’d like to wish you all Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas.
I don’t usually do anything for Thanksgiving. I’ve considered it in the past, but this year I decided to go ahead and do a quick little pic I thought might be fun. It’s a pretty common holiday porn trope to tie someone up on the dinner table, usually with the implication of “dinner” being the guests groping, licking, etc. to the prone person. Here we have Fern serving up Frieren for such a feast.
So, in the show, Frieren talks once or twice about how elves don’t really feel a drive to reproduce which, combined with a genocide that occurred centuries before, have lead to there being very few elves. Now, my interpretation of this was that their longer lives have just lead to them not feeling the same pressure to reproduce most animals in the real world experience naturally. I didn’t read Frieren as being asexual or anything, though, it seemed more like something that just didn’t come up often for her. Sex is not really about reproducing in the Studio, of course, and everyone’s a bit hornier there due to its nature. I thought Frieren’s answer here might be a fun way to frame her sex drive here, and might inform future content with her.
I watched the first season of Frieren back when it aired, and re-watched it with some folks a bit later. Going in I wasn’t super attracted to either of the female leads. I liked them, but their designs reminded me too much of other characters. As often happens, though, watching the show warmed me up to them, and I wanted to do a little something with them. It’s hard to say right now just how much of Frieren or Fern I’ll draw in the future, but I do think it’s safe to assume they’ll show up in my work again.










