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Season's Uploadings --September 20th, 2025--
Hello there! Things have been productive here at the usual workstation: this update log will be devoid of smalltalk but full of news about ongoing projects (the best kind of update posts!).First off, Lock is now more than halfway done with colours and shading on BloodWorks' pages: throughout October I'll give a helping hand just with the flats to speed things up a little more but we can now be fully positive the volume will be ready to print for the end of that month! Hmm, printing a horror comic during Halloween season... how fitting! Of course, this means that you'll find available comics starting from our next convention appeareance, which will be at Milan Games Week at the end of November. After that are already booked for Bologna Nerd Show, Novegro Comics Festival and for our first time we'll be adding Genova's Megacon to the tour dates. I'll update my scrolling calendar on the Travel Bar as usual so check that out for the dates! In the following days I'll also update the site's section of the comic to add the first volume's blurb and preview, stay tuned!
Secondly, I've shaken things up here in the galleries and uploaded several things, including two digital illustrations (with a third one incoming, I just sketched it today!), a traditional media pic, two new comic strips, a brand new DIY tutorial (this time focused on buildable displays- very useful if you are a fellow seller!) and finally... a huge recap on our Japan honeymoon in the journal section! This time I had so much to talk about that I ended up having to split the entry in two due to reaching the database's limits... my brother has assured that it won't be the case in VN 3.0, so you'll see all that in one single entry once we switch to the new iteration.
That's already a lot of stuff to sift through, but much more is incoming! Along with the illustration I'm currently doing I'm in the mood of revisiting two previously done animations because I'm sure they can be done way better... but for now, the new comic volume is taking priority!
Hoping to see you soon at one of the next conventions, bye for now!
The Great Inking Month --July 27th 2025--
Hey remember when in last update I had just finished sketching Bloodworks' pages and I would have started inks soon after? Just the other Thursday I inked the last page, now the volume only needs Lock's colours and it's ready for prints! I managed to successfully keep my planned schedule of three pages every two days, which made me think of that Inktober trend people do, and how I had the personal proof now that if one commits to it then nothing else gets done for the rest of the month.Granted, I'm certainly happy my main task at hand is complete in record time, but between that and a few commissions alternated during downtimes, I haven't done anything else and it's been a bit of a creative nightmare, so to speak. I had started a few art trades with friends so I could have some fanart to put in Vol 1, but when could I have had the time to sketch them? So I guess in these days I'm gonna resume those deals and come back with three hundred "sorry, sorry, sorry!". Friends have even suggested to take part to this year's Art Fight to rack up Bloodworks fanarts but you can guess how that went: I logged in but I didn't even have time to upload one single ref, imagine that... at least I have the account ready for next year, that is, unless next July I'll find myself in need to speedrun inking on yet another volume.
I'll also be closing commissions for probably the whole of August and instead see if I can upload a couple of comic strips for the site, have some fun with zine submissions, take care of personal projects. So, I'll see you all in the Gallery sections and in a new update in September! Hope you have fun during this last month of summer!
I Should Write Something! --June 28th 2025--
Hey! Hello! Why yes I am indeed back from Japan! Since a couple of months really! I know I should have written something here: I originally wanted to say it with a whole journal detailing our trip, but it's taking a bit too much to type that out and I couldn't leave the update page silent for so long. Me sorry!Since we got back, May and early June have been taken by the two main events- the usual Novegro Comics Festival (which went well! The sticker run was well recieved once again! We're ready to try it out in updated form on next January too!) and Furizon Zenith which for me and Lock has been the first proper furry convention we attended to. Of course, we've been active mainly in the Dealers' Den area where we had an extremely satisfying encounter with customers; apart from commissions selling really well, we brought along some english copies of Lost Without You (basically the only printed copies we got left!) and almost sold out on those! Next year we'll come up with something to put up for auction in the Art Show as well: little spoiler, I'm ready to put my woodworking skills at work once again for it!
However, it was clear Furizon was nothing like our previous "standard" comic conventions: despite having enough time to properly sell at the DD, that room wasn't open for all day- allowing us artists enough time to look at the rest of the con and make new friends. I've chit chatted with a lot of amazing people and took part of a couple panels- among which, a fun Art Battle focused on puns as prompts and a Pokemon trivia quiz... which I took a shot at and successfully completed! I was sure that with my knowledge stopping at basically the third gen I would have sucked xD Won a bunch of stickers instead. :3
We're ready to take part of it once again next year, hoping it'll take place in the same venue since it's easily reachable from our home. I have positive expectations on this, since apparently it's been the year with most attendance capped at 400 participants!
Just a week after the con we packed things to finally come rest a bit in my hometown. Here me and Lock resumed our usual "halftime" work schedule taking turns to work on the comp while the other relaxes or works on paper and in my computer days I've been totally focusing on penciling BloodWorks... infact, just the other day I've sketched my final page: the cover! Today I'm starting the inks and if I keep up a proper page I'll have everything ready for colour by the end of July. This is actually proceeding at a record pace!
I still feel a bit sour for failing to keep my prefixed "schedule" of working at least two days a week on the volume in March, April and May. If I did, maybe July would have been dedicated to colours already and not inks. However, it's also true that those days have been busy with real life and I felt too electric to put my remaining energies on the volume. What's done is done, the pencils that I've worked on here are actually satisfying, I'm moving on from here. Let's look forward to a completed volume in November!
In the days Lock is using the workstation I'm instead hopping on my brother's computer to work alongside him on the site: yaaay let's talk about VN 3.0 again!
I feel a bit embarrassed talking once again about our major makeover because it feels like I've been anticipating it each time I spoke in these updates; in reality, last time it's been mentioned has been way back in last year's April's post, so we're overdue to shed some light on the project. So much has changed from our initial concept art: while keeping the same aesthetic, we took time to polish and redesign it over and over to give everything a more solid, pleasant appeareance. In some ways we could say it has been slightly streamlined, but at the same time it has many more details and decorations... it's odd: the site's now cleaner and simpler than our old mockup but this doesn't mean it's lackluster or empty. On the contrary!
Anyway it's clear CSS and HTML are not the only languages that have been rewritten from the groud up here. My brother is just starting on the PHP again and after this it's gonna be the GUI turn. This is taking a lot of work... I'm always hoping that everytime I come visiting here it'll be the time we finally put the new pages online, but it's never this way: there's always something we missed that we stop and work on, so the bottom line is, I gotta stop saying there's an ETA for this. Since its conception last year I've been hoping to roll the update for Christmas 2024, then the site's fourth birthday, then this summer... But now I'm not so sure, and I'm sick of keeping my own hopes up and everyone else's, at this point.
Everytime I feel we're inching closer to its completion, I stop using VN for a couple weeks because I'm sure that next update will be published on 3.0; then the update doesn't happen and I resume my uploads here like nothing happened. xD It's kinda the reason why subconsciously I haven't done much personal art this year? But I have to stop on that attitude and use my site properly as I intended when I first opened it, regardless of its ever upcoming makeover or not.
So instead let's talk about what I've been uploading since I've come back from Japan! There's infact a new journal, which is a bit on the geeky side admittedly, in which I talk enghts about the Marquee HTML tag and its "deprecated" status dictated from web developing institutions. Also a new strip with the gang, and both an illustration and a comic strip incoming, provided I can snug in some personal work among vampire hunting pages.
That's all I have for now, I feel like I've been ranting enough this time! xD Let's get back to work and hope that my new years resolutions about my projects will be kept! xP
Take-Off! --April 15th, 2025--
The day of departure grows near! As I mentioned in a previous update post, me and Lock have been planning our honeymoon for April and now it's almost time: our plane takes off on the 22nd and it'll take us to Tokyo: for a week-ish we'll visit all around Japan!In these weeks I've been putting the rest of my projects on hold to instead complete as many commissions as possible, I don't want to leave anyone hanging while I'm away. However, considering the next pieces in queue are rather big I'm afraid I won't be able to provide a WIP for everyone. I'm sorry :(
In any case, we'll be back on May 2nd and our schedule will resume normally.
Before going, I've also uploaded a new illustration, go check that out!
That's it for the day, a little news ticker post to keep you updated. XD See you soon!
2025 Update Post --February 21st, 2025--
Since I like to publish these updates on semi-seasonal dates, I can tell today is the last half moon of February, how bout that? XD Jokes aside, I've been quite active both onsite and offsite, so let's have some recaps.Novegro's stamp rally has been such a success that we're making it a tradition- we plan to make more games and prize illustrations to even collect in an artbook at some point in time! We'll be keeping the initiative exclusive to the Novegro festival, but participants will be able to pay during both the January and May events, with different prizes each time.
On the other hand looks like Lucca Collezionando chose to not host us this year, bummer- along with many other friends of us and the reason for this is, apparently, that they had way too many booth requests and decided to make the artist area smaller in response. What kind of backwards logic is that?! Instead of making the area bigger? >:C But frankly I can't lose too much time gnawing on this since, well, there's so much to think about... and to draw!
I've started penciling BloodWorks with a good pacing, making around six pages per week. Having started this month it doesn't seem much because only two full weeks have passed, but I'm actually already at one fourth of it all done. I hope to keep this up because it means that by the end of March I'll already have al pencils ready for inks! And speaking of this project, I've started fleshing its intro section here on site. Well there's not much obviously... except the logo and some synopsis. I'm particularly proud of the logo, I love it so much <3
Speaking of site updates: the latest and last chapter of my convention tips journal has been posted; I also finally have a new illustration (the first of 2025!) featuring Valy, Lock and friends of the channel Coeleth (who finally has a sona, wheeee) and Crym as we ready up our booths in Novegro. I had a bunch of photos of us working and I liked them so much I wanted an anthro version of that <3 i also have a new audio animation, they're getting more and more popular in my gallery! This time it's something with Program doing what he does best: messing up with old techno xD There's a new comic strip as well, and a recieved fanart of Jay as part of a Secret Santa project.
That might be all for now, but since I'm working in equal measure on my projects weeks after weeks, expect to have a 2025 full of art!
Till next time!
Cleanups And Recaps --December 25th, 2024--
Merry Christmas! House has been busy these last days of the year: mainly typical holidays meetups and days out with my family, but also me and Lock are setting everything up for our projects in the upcoming new year. Quite infact, I should get ready to go celebrate the 25th with uncles and aunts, but let's see if I have enough time to list everything out.First in the order of importance, now that LWY has ended it's about time to start working on new comicbooks. Infact, we plan to work on two volumes at once! We'll release the first issues of both our new projects, BloodWorks and Fatal Riff, at the same time. In theory, this should be possible because while with Fatal Riff we'll resume the same working roles (Lock with pencils and inks, me with colouring) we'll switch with BloodWorks and I'll do the pencils/inks that Lock will colour. After these releases we will alternate between the two series, working on the second issue of Fatal Riff one year, then on BloodWorks on the next, and so on.
Fatal Riff's concept art and plot has already been laid out in the past months, but these last weeks have been solely dedicated to the sister project; Lock is already halfway done with the script and page thumbnails, I'm doing the characters concept art... I'd say give it a few weeks more and you'll see me already penciling the first pages out.
We're also organizing for the upcoming cons of the new year. The first one in line is the usual Novegro Comics Festival for which we are setting up a stamp rally with the other booths of the Griffinest family and a few more anthro-adiacent creatives! Novegro is a very big event among anthro fans, so even if technically we don't have much new printed goods to show (except for the merch I guess) the rally should help make attendees go around and incentivated to visit.
Next up we have the Bologna Nerd Show in February, then hopefully Lucca Collezionando in March for which I've sent the booth request form in these last few days (who on earth opens booth claims under Xmas?). Afterwards in summer we should be able to attend our first actual furry con! Arven has invited me and Lock to Furizon and I can't wait to set up shop there. It's gonna be a different experience for once, we'll see how it goes.
Our convention presence will also get an upgrade as up until now we've had all our booth setup and decorations gravitating towards LWY... but again, since that's ended we now need something more general to introduce ourselves to the public; so, we came up with the indie label name NeonGalaxy Comics! In the next few weeks we'll study some new banners to decorate our booth with but for now we already have the logo ready!
As a Christmas gift to myself I've brought along my Pokemon cartridges from the collection to install a little upgrade on them: swappable battery slots!
The idea came from this thread I found on Reddit and the solution seemed clean and easy enough for me to try (uh, correction- I had dad do the soldering. He's muuuch more precise at these things. Quite infact he did a mighty good job). I've always been a bit nervous about changing batteries on these carts because the ones usually sold online imply that you have to solder stuff each time you need a change, and I definitely would like to avoid unnecessary stress on the board. Adding a swappable slot means that the job is pretty permanent, with the only thing that needs to be changed is, well, the battery, just like any other battery powered device.
The only downside is that whoa mama the prices were out of this world! I resorted to buying the board as a standalone piece and then the battery "socket" with the idea of fusing the two pieces together and then soldering everything on the game, because the whole piece together would have costed me more than a hundred euros shipping combined...
I applied this on Crystal, Silver, Gold, Red, Blue and Yellow version (yes, I forgot I also had Green and only realized once in the lab... oh well, I don't play that much often). In particular the first gen carts generally use a 1616 battery instead of a 2025 so their original diameter is tinier, but the piece can still be applied on their board if slightly askew (and a bigger battery simply means it'll last more time).
But anyway, this is something I've been meaning to do for a while, and I'm quite happy with both the result and the idea of having given new life to these games. I've already started a new savefile on Crystal!
Lastly speaking of updates, let's talk about the site! With the commission works having cleared something like last week I haven't been able to do much new personal art, but I remembered to do at least some holiday cleaning in the Sitely sections. First off let's talk about the most obvious change- VN has a new skin! This one's dedicated to Candy with a lot of pink and whites. I like it very much because it reminds me of an italian fansite suggested by the Pokemon World magazine I used to visit back in the day and I was totally enamoured by the colourscheme! The About Site section now has a Site Map; more Dragonite plushies have been added to my collection in About Artist; I've streamlined the Affiliates section with a new banner order and added a new link to my friends- a Kangaskhan collection shrine! I've cleaned up some of the older update posts and made room for at least one of the new comics in the Projects section.
What's next in the immediate future? Commission reopenings of course, and if I have some time inbetween a BloodWorks page and a fanzine contribution I should be able to finish writing the last journal/guide chapter for convention setups! I also have in mind to revamp the old refs for my secondary characters as they do need a graphical update along with completely redesigning one of my charas, Tartan. Let's see how it goes.
Happy end of the year!
And We'Re Back! --September 3rd, 2024--
Wedding day has happened! I'm back to my usual things except now me and Lock have a cool ring. :VJokes aside, the day itself went smooth as butter; all the nervousness I had accumulated during previous weeks concerning its organization vanished just the day before the event as I saw all my relatives and parents arrive here in town after a day of travel. Ceremony started at 10 o'clock in the mornings at the Castle of Legnano in a small but cute room decorated with swords and shields! It was quick and simple, only involved a bunch of signatures from us and the best men. Also our friend Silvia/Coeleth brought the rings to the "altar"! She was almost in tears from the excitement and happiness when we asked her to do it xD
Afterwards we went to a villa near Lake Maggiore for our party; its main theme was animals! I had printed a hundred of cards featuring classic zoology lithographies and named tables after taxonomy families. I was expecting the (few) kids would have noticed the animal cards more but it was actually the older relatives and guests that started playing with them! I got asked for info on several species and I saw many collect the cards and trade amongst others. The casual chic vibe of everything was largely appreciated too as it eased everyone from being constriced in a long event full of stuck up rules and unnecessary pompousness; even the menu was as easy as it could be as we totally avouded the multiple course meal and only did a buffet where everyone could take how much they wanted. Finally the cake was very cute (and, once again, simple) featuring a wolf and a raccoon figures as topper! We ended everything relatively early and by 7 o'clock in the evening we were already back home. I wasn't even that much tired, to the point of hanging out in Legnano once changing into more city appropriate clothing.
So yes, I couldn't have imagined a better outcome for this! Really the only thing that annoyed me was the -admittedly very, very light- makeup applied by the hair stylist (which made me realize I might be way more of a tomboy that I actually imagined- I mean, I've always known to be boyish but not this much xD) and the fact that everyone appreciated the sugared almond wedding favors so much there was not even one left for me to take home... I was looking forward to keep some leftovers for me but nah :C Oh well, considering how sweet they are that might have probably been for the best- I am not to be trusted around sugared dried fruit.
All in all, this means that the major event that has taken me hostage for most of the year is now over and I can really, really get back to my usual artings and projects. Yes, we do plan to go on honeymoon (Japan tour!) but that ain't gonna happen until April so I'm free to fill my mind with different thoughts for now. So, where were we, and where are we going?
Speaking of updates, those who have been following my mini guides on conventions would love to know its third chapter has been out for some time now! Check my logbook section to find an entry detailing how to use your convention journal at best! There's also a new digital illustration of Valery and Acid having a play fight- or is it an actual fight? Also, an Utopian Scholastic aesthetic piece featuring Carabine has appeared in the other digital art section, and an animation featuring Joypad, too! This last piece has left me a bit unsatisfied of the final result, but I'm happy to see it complete nonetheless. Oh, and there's a new strip with Valy and Lock in the comics section, as well! My my: I might have been way more active than expected this past July.
The fanarts section has seen a big update as I uploaded my zine contributions of last year- the saddest part of a zine is that I have to wait sooo much before revealing my own pieces to the public! But otherwise they're a fantastic occasion to work with so many cool artists and I can't wait to get involved in more projects in the future! Speaking of, the LostDex zine that I took part in raised more than 2k dollars for the WWF! It was a truly emotional moment for the group as the admins made the donation x'3
Jumping to recieved fanarts, I've uploaded two trade pieces featuring Carabine. I'm happy to see my sporty tiger get some recognition finally!
I've gone back to commission work and am working on my current queue before taking more orders, so you can expect an official reopening sometime next week. In the meanwhile, I'll ready up a schedule for the many illustrations I plan to do during this upcoming autumn and finally, after a summer of silence... more convention announcements! We're planning to get back to events with a whole new product line (of which I've already placed my manifacturing order, I can't wait to see them live!) and most importantly a new comic saga now that Lost Without You is over. I'll disclose more about it in the eventual next entry as this update post has become huge! See you soon everyone!
Celebrating Our Third Year! --April 29th, 2024--
Happy birthday, me! And happy third birthday, website! I've been silent throughout April and especially busy after the 15th, so let me disclose a bit about what's been going on both online and offline.First things first, it's obvious that the 3.0 version update hasn't shown up in time for the 26th. My ideal update timing is usually a few months after the annoucement but this won't be the case: me and my brother are considering 3.0 to be the "ultimate" backend update for VN so to not further tweak it anymore. Not only we're double and triple checking every line of code without rushing things up, this is a real revamp from actual scratch: new database structure, new way to store my gallery, a genuine executable to run new uploadings and new skins from! This is just like making VN for the first time again but now with all the experience we accumulated from the past iterations (and mistakes).
However, I won't be here talking about it again if I didn't have anything to show yet: we've obviously been busy working on 3.0's frontend too and as of today, at least that portion can be considered complete! It's looking mighty fine on local and I took the time to take a screenshot to show how it'll look. Here's the new upcoming frontpage!
Tadaa! I think that's an appropriate gift for VN's third birthday, hehe! I know there's a lot to unpack from that screencap, but I won't disclose anything yet as I do want to make the "full tour" giude on the day of the actual update. However, fellow players who grew up with Kiara And Kovu's Daybreak during the 90's will recognize the aesthetic! The initial idea was to fully bind to the Global Village Coffeehouse aesthetic but it became more and more "Lion King"-y as I went on... which I don't mind at all. Back to the roots :V
Speaking of updated pages, I've started rewriting and cleaning up a bit my Sitely section pages, namely: I've cleaned up some of the old update logs saving only the important milestones; rewrote About Site and About Author (which will be fused into one page in 3.0 anyway- whoops, spoilers!); did the same for Contacts and Webs; tidied up Affiliates and removed dead links. Also added some new ones, go check em out!
If I find some time in the following days, the Lore and Stickers sections will recieve an update as well, with Lore getting new paragraphs and Stickers getting revamped with a new layout. If I can't make it now, eh you'll see the new stuff implemented along with 3.0 .
And now, gallery novelties!
- A new relaxing Digital illustration with the Galactic Bunnies stargazing.
- A new Digital picture featuring some of the gals on the 90est couch ever! xD
- Couple of new Comic strips with another one in the works at the time of writing and that will surely be posted in the following days. 2024 is the year of comic strips...
- The Guest artists section sees a meaty update with several new recieved trade halves featuring Jamaila, Carabine, Helios and Valy... also yeah if that wasn't clear enough, I'm back to trading pictures! After probably ten years of putting them aside.
Back to real life! While here at my parents' home I went shopping for my wedding dress! We're not having a religious wedding so luckily I could choose something simple and nice xD And we got the rings too! Locations for the ritual and the party have also been chosen, and it's been a bit of a hassle but I managed to organize trips and stayings for my part of the family... now I have the decorations to take care of x.x
Rest of life is going as usual; Can't believe I have a convention to attend to in two weekends. Where did the time go? Where's the rest of sleepy April? Anyhow, hope you readers are doing fine and that you're having a good spring! Until next update (which I hope I can do before August), see you!
Spring Update --March 21st, 2024--
Spring update! I love writing update posts just at the cusp of season changes. Luckily I also have plenty to talk about this time. It might have been a quieter month among these gallery sections, but there's been a lot of happenings in any case; also, whenever I'm not in a drawing mood it just means I'm in a writing mood instead, so there's still additions to my site. Starting off with the artings this time around!- New digital illustration featuring the gang shopping in Stargate Fantasy, which was an actual emo/scene shop me and my friends used to get all our spiked bracelets from. A little memory piece, so to speak.
- In the other digital gallery, a piece featuring Amphetamine opens the new folder for 2024. Inspired by eurobeat and cool fighing poses!
- There's also a new comic strip with Jimmy, Tunny and a terrible pun. I mean, what are terrible puns for if not for silly comic strips?
- New recieved fanart of Jamaila from Raye as part of a trade! And it's the first fanart of Jami I get, too!
- As for my own fanart pictures, I uploaded my second set of sepia-toned Pokemon art since I sold the originals of the other ones. I hope this one strikes the same success! The new designs featuring Bulbasaur line, Meowth, Lapras, Suicune and Ho-Oh will premiere as exclusives for the Lucca Collezionando convention, but afterwards (if still available!) will be put for sale also on my Ko-Fi, so keep your eyes peeled!
The new VN skin has rolled out since last update! It now features the cyborg siblings Joypad and Program with a bright and pleasant turquoise/orange palette and some Metalheart aesthetics. Been meaning to do this skin for a while and I'm happy it feels as cozy as I imagined.
I wrote a new Journal! It's the first entry of a tutorial/tips'n'tricks mini series on convention booth organization. The second one is in the works so I hope to update again with that entry as well! We also have a new affiliate with Mystic Wish and I got accepted into a new webring, PKMNCollecting!
Works have already started on the backend portion of the site and will probably have a database migration at some time. I'll let you know if the place might go dark for a few minutes xD
Other sites of mine are also experiencing updates: in these last weeks I've completely revived and revamped my Neocities which was lying around as a semi-dead fake splashpage but now it's a repository of fun stuff that doesn't really fit here; animation reviews, music playlist, toy shrines, quiz results... all those things that fit more in a playroom than a portfolio, that's why I decided to rename it as, infact, The Playroom! The layout (which features tables and is not compatible for mobile, sorry!) is 100% complete and pages are in the process of being built, with content scheduled to roll out in a semi-regular pace.
After that will come an overdue update for my poor BlastoiseMonster as I've noticed the layout keeps giving out more and more errors, I can't even see its graphics on some computers! This might be mostly a fault of where the layout graphics are being currently stored, but surely something that I have to take a look at in the near future. I might have to come up for a new skin for it, or I dunno, move everything out of Tumblr if I feel there's a better option for my gaming blog. Sigh!
Real life wise, at the time of writing I just completed packing everything up for Lucca Collezionando which will take place in Florence this weekend; also, me and Lock managed to reserve a booth for Novegro Comics Festival's spring edition, so we'll be there in May. Novegro will probably be our last event before taking a big pause for summer and autumn, since we have to organize for something much bigger...
So uh, it's official: me and Lock are getting married this summer! We have a late March appointment at the town hall to sign the usual papers and decide for the official celebration date, which we plan to be either in late August or early September. We've been together a long time and sharing a house since five years now, so the marriage won't be a shock to our daily lives and routines, but it'll obviously take some work to organize and that's why we'll be taking a pause off conventions. I have been calling Lock both my boyfriend and my husband at the same time, so I can imagine it might have confused people xD Well, after summer's over there won't be any more misleading naming. :V
And that is all for today! It's quite a bit of news, so if you've been reading the whole post, thanks for sticking through it! See you!
Comics And Coffees --October 5th, 2023--
Oh hey fuzzies! The homecoming from vacation last September was more hectic than expected: we took care of a lot of chores and at the end of the day we felt that the only thing we were doing was paying bills and insurances. The joys of freelance work and VAT numbers... Though luckily we could alternate these oh-so-fun trips to the bank with actually fun times.So what happened in these last months of summer? Well, my relatives from the States came to visit for a week and I could hang around with my cousins! I don't see them often and it's so good to finally catch up once in a while. Two of them brought their boyfriend/girlfriend along and it was a pleasure to meet them. Hope I can soon return the favour and go visit them with a trip overseas sometime in the near future!
Moving on to comic-related news, english copies of LWY 4 and 5 are now in stock. Finally we have all volumes available in both languages and our shop is complete! All that's left for us to do is to push these sales by attending a non-italian speaking con... we're thinking UK, but I know that at the moment it's just fancy musings as we already are busy with events in Italy. But! Of course the comics (and the rest of the merch) is still purchasable online!
For that matter, because I still have to reach "layout peace" in the Shop sections of VN, I've opened a Kofi shop to better advertise and sell LWY and subsequent printed projects. I still have to set details up, take more appealing pictures and advertise properly, but so far I've been toying with it and feels like a comfortable platform to sell on. Once it's complete every available product will be directly linked from the shop page so if you're interested in getting something, you will be able to easily pay through Kofi. Sounds cool enough, doesn't it? X3
Also it's official, my new artbook's coming this November. It's going to be called Doubutsu No Gyaru and will feature over 20 coloured pinups plus research on the subgenres of gyaru fashion styles aaaannndddd... a little printable game! No more spoilers, I'm excited to see this on paper!
What else... the spooky autumn season has arrived, as soon as I free myself up from a few more commissions I would love to spruce up VN with a new skin. I'm thinking something vaguely Halloween-y but general enough to last throughout the rest of the season. I'd hate to come up with a new palette just to change it back only a week after!
And of course, a little update log on the gallery's new entries!
- A new digital illustration is in the dedicated gallery with deliciouisly warm autumn-y colours!
- Also a new cellshaded pic, a simple pinup of Fredrick in another experimental Global Village Coffeehouse aesthetic.
- Added late this August, two traditional media pics featuring Helios along with equally tribal OCs of two friends of mine. Done with Copics!
- Also done with Copics, three more japanese-tattoo styled Poke'mon fanarts in the appropriate section, so now my set of five is complete! Originals will be put for sale at conventions but there will also be miniprints versions of them!
- Finally, a new black and white strip comic, about spam mail xP
