Here’s the final page to this little comic. Everybody gets to finish on someone’s face. Some of you may remember that this comic was commissioned to help cover expenses following a personal disaster, but the commission I sold was for ten pages. This marks the end of the first half of that commission, and sometime down the road I’ll begin working on another five-page comic that makes up the second half.
In Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Yuta and Toge have a cute friendship, so it’s not at all surprising to me some folks would ship them. I don’t use the 0 designs for either of them by default, though, so even if I’d use them for a regular pic of these two I didn’t here. I honestly didn’t have any ideas for what to have Yuta say here, but I figured a good workaround would be to have them kissing instead.
This is the first pic in a new series I’m trying out called “Poll Me Closer.” To start I gave Subscribers a semi-random list of twenty Studio characters, and they voted for Gwen. This is the second time my Subs have voted for Gwen in something, so she must be popular.
This series is inspired by pic series I’ve seen on social media designed to drive engagement. I’m not really a social media guy, so I’m not doing it like that, but I like the dynamic and thought it’d be fun to try my own little spin on it. So Subscribers will get to vote on how this series goes down, step-by-step. I imagine it will update a little slowly, with me taking at week for the polls to run before even being able to start the next pic, so probably this first PMC will run into next year. I hope people will enjoy it, though, and Gwen seems to be game!
I don’t know if Thorfinn has much interaction with any strong women in Vinland Saga. From my limited time with the series, the only strong woman I’m aware of is his sister. So I don’t know if there’s much canonical basis to work off of here, but there was at least one strong woman in the Studio I thought might remind Thorfinn a bit of home.
I wasn’t planning to do a Valentine’s Day pic for February’s Subscriber Scenario, but the more I thought about it the more I wanted to do this one. Not only does this bring in two minor JJK characters I’d like to have in the Studio but had no real plans for, but it also marks the first time I’ve drawn Nanami’s younger design. I kinda pictured this as a bit of a laid-back hangout, with Gojo, Geto and Shoko not needing as much ice-breaking as Nanami and Haibara.
This is a yuri anime about a girl who used to be a quiet nobody, but reinvented herself for high school to try and turn her life around and become popular. She got in with the popular girls at school, including the leader who’s an international model, and through circumstances ended up with them all crushing on her in one way or another. It hits a lot of the same contrivances as your average harem anime, but it has a strong cast and humor and won me over. Ajisai, the NHML winner, is the quiet member of the group, and she’s just the sweetest thing. The last arc of the anime’s first season focuses on her, and my heart broke for her at a couple points. She’s arguably the best ship with the MC, Renako, but she has a good relationship with the main LI (Mai) as well. They have that kinda love triangle/throuple energy that made me want to put all three of them together for this pic.
The text here is “muri muri,” which is what’s translated in the title as “there’s no freaking way.” Renako says it a lot, especially in the opening credits, but basically any time yuri stuff is happening to her.
We’ll be well into it by the time this post goes public, but for Subscribers this Ask is coming out right at the start of the Year of the Horse. It’s a bit of a meme in Attack on Titan that Jean has a horse face or even is a horse, but in the Studio there are much horseier folks around. Thirty-Thrity is a BraveStarr character I included in a pic many years ago, but this is his first time appearing fully on camera (it was mostly just his cock before). He’s giving Jean a horsey ride to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
Here we go with the third page of our straight ongoing! There were a lot of scripts this time, some of them going in pretty different directions. I identified a few common themes, though, and tried to synthesize something that used those while progressing the scene sensibly. Also twisted one panel that had Ochaco smothering Deku with her tits for a different body part, just ’cause I like what it sets up.
It’s really refreshing to have a One-Shot that feels more like a coherent scene like this. I took a few liberties with how I interpreted the panel direction here, but I hope the final result is okay. For the first panel I wanted to try and call back the posing from an Ask I did with these three, but that made it hard for her to blow them both at once. This script also left open the option for dialogue, so I tried to work in something fun and accurate enough to the characters.
I’m actually not sure why it took so long for me to get to Riley and her mom Jill for this series. I wanted to do the Sleepover Raid girls who had moms early on, but I think I just got caught up in other pairing ideas. So she ended up pushed back, but we’re here now. One benefit of the wait is that I got to use her slightly older design from the second film, with this being the first time I’ve drawn this version of Riley. As for Jill, she’s one of my favorite Pixar moms, maybe second only to Helen? I’m not sure I’m prepared for a tier list but she’s definitely up there.
