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WIP - It Doesn’t Matter – Zone 2, Scene 3 - Progress 2026/07/10

I heckin' love satyrs, deer girls, and wings! So yeah, had to do an attack of Adria, here! Adria belongs to VenomPeachy.

Scene 3! ^_^ This'll be a short one, more about pacing and mood than anything else, but I still think it's really important.

FUCKING MORE BUSES. AAHHHHHHHHHH

Gentle Comics Habit 2: Meer

Goal: 2 Minutes

Happy Wrath Month!

This comic doesn't have anything to do with that, but that's okay. The words is: "Ich muss mich in das Meer werfen." "I must throw myself into the sea." I like to try to visit the ocean at least once a year, dunno how possible that'll be this year. shrugs

The real reason I wanted this phrase on lock is to try and subsume my self-harming thoughts. Rather than, "I'm so stupid and worthless, I should k**l myself," let's try, "I must throw myself into the Sea," instead. Still might help to vent the despair, and also is much more whimsical. And usually a more practical solution to, "I didn't remember this word in class, I feel like such a failure," anyway. Run into the cold shock of water. It'll be okay.

But yeah, been looking for a good tool for this particular mental health problem for the last few years. I've tried lots of things, but nothing has worked well for me yet. So hopefully.

Gentle Comics Habit 1: Kopfschmerzen

Goal: 1 Minute

I ran into Sophie Yanow's Gentle Comics Habit after this year's annual Make a Terrible Comic Day. ^_^;; Which I did end up coincidentally make a terrible comic for, though I haven't taken a photo of it or posted it anywhere--it's just a two-panel chicken scratch pencil sketch in my sketchbook, with some veeeery basic German dialogue. Maybe I'll see if I can get photos where it'll show up and post it later? But not positive.

But I do reaaally like the vibes of this Gentle Comics Habit. I've been wanting to make more comics again, but been feeling pretty burnt out and empty. Like, I've got enough juice I can churn away on It Doesn't Matter again, but coming up with ideas for illustrations each week like I've been trying to keep rolling with since arriving in Germany in April has been tough. And sure, some of that is stress. Like. We were fully homeless for a weekend. Our cat escaped out a second story window for three weeks. My swiss cheese memory is required to learn a whole 'nother language. Visa bullshit. Money bullshit. The world being on fire bullshit. A literal record breaking heat wave.

Bro, Smash Mouth tried to warn us. The hits start comin' and they don't stop comin'. The ice we skate is gettin' pretty thin, the water's gettin' warm so you might as well swim. My world's on fire, how 'bout yours? That's the way I like it and I'll never get bored.

But also, can we please stop being on fire, now?

So I do like the thought of very, very gradually, linearly, rebuilding up a comics habit. I've thought about doing journal comic gads of times. But run into my own expectations, internal pressure, concern about making things "good enough" or that it was too boring or repetitive. But honestly, mostly scale creep.

It's hard not to pour everything into a project, it starts pouring back into your sense of self, and keeping your simple, silly idea simple and silly gets crushed by its own ballooning. ^_^;; Chaos, probably the only reason I've been able to keep It Doesn't Matter together is because it started literally bigger than I could make it, and I've had to chip parts off in order to get it to a functional size...and that's even assuming its current size can be considered functional. Chaos knows a scene a month is the best I've ever managed, and that scene 4 is such a tremendous monster I will NEVER be able to put it on that clip. Chaos, scene 4 might be most of the Zone, I don't even know. Like, it's not the most interesting thing that happens in the Zone, but it might be the longest! ^_^;; Poor, poor Imaginary who had to deal with the fuckin' mouthfulls of exposition vomit I wrote Tails spewing. ^_^;; Thank chaos Zacs beefed up Knux's reactions and added some good humor to the scene. Chaos knows I didn't come up with the, "Your dad thinks furries built the pyramids?" line!

Anyway. Comics. Gently making comics. One minute at a time. I can do that.

Like. I kinda can't? Because this first one you're only supposed to take one minute writing and drawing. ^_^;; And my minute timer came done as I was finishing scribing out "Ich habe eine kleine Kopfschmertzen." in pencil? So I wrote out the time I actually took on the comic itself. 2 minutes to pencil, another 5 to ink, so all told, 7 minutes. ^_^;; And in the challenge you're not supposed to go over time, so that you don't risk overextending yourself. ^_^;; Whoops.

^_^;; Ignoring the fact that I had already done my "writing" by checking the spelling of Kopfschmertzen before I started...

Sooo...yeah. ^_^;; I did break some guidelines. But sometimes that's okay.

SCENE 2 IS IN THE CAN! HELLS TO THE YEAH!

June was really fuckin' hard. Late overnight or early morning May 26, my kitty slipped out a second story window that hadn't been latched. That day and every day thereafter we went out searching for him. We connected with a local animal location rescue, who helped us with tools, tips, and even brought out a search dog.

Finally, last week, after 3 weeks of searching, we found him and got him home. ^_^ He's been very sleepy, and lost a lot of weight, but his appetite is good, and the vet (we brought him to the vet's the day after we found him to get him checked over for anything we might have missed, removing a tick, and getting flea and tick treatment) says he's young and healthy, and will bounce back over the next few weeks.

So that's taken up a shit-ton of my time and energy. ^_^ I'm super glad he's home, and super glad I got to finish this scene.

GODS DAMNED FUCKING BUSES!

I have spent YEARS of my life at this point drawing schoolbuses, not for love of the game, but because MY STUPID ASS DECIDED TO SET SEVERAL IMPORTANT SCENES OF MY BIG DUMB PASSION PROJECT ON OR AROUND THEM. Here writer me thought it'd be setting appropriate, and a cool juxtaposition to the craziness that's actually happening in this story…DRAWING ME HAS TO DEAL WITH THAT! DAMMIT, WRITER ME!

^_^ Meanwhile sound designer me is baby, has no idea what he's doing, and is very proud with how this scene came together. Utilized several sound effects from Freesound.org, and I think it all came together well! URLs to the sounds I sourced are listed below. For background soundtrack, I went with Fakery Way for Twinkle Park from Sonic Adventure 1, cuz it's nicely tense and ominous!

Commission for Ace Ruiner! Hells yeah, Happy Pride!

AHH!!! We're so close to the end of this scene! This scene's pretty short, just a little over a page in my storyboard thumbnails notebook (scene 1 was about 2 and a half pages). Scene 3 will be more of a transitional scene, just less than a page of storyboard thumbnails...but scene 4? Scene 4 is a fuckin' BEAST, at 10 pages of storyboard thumbnails. ^_^;; So that's gonna be a looong one.

We're still looking for Gray. I just want my cat home.

Last night was interesting. In our nightly searches for Gray, we've gotten pretty familiar with the other missing cat posters hanging around: one of which being a tortoiseshell little girl. Doing one of our laps around a local garden, we spotted a kitty peering out at us, and lo and behold, it was the little tortie. My mate and I snapped some quick photos, tried to tempt her over (to no avail), and dropped a pin, then grabbed the owners' info off the nearby missing cat poster for her, and let them know where she was. We stayed there, letting her watch us but not trying to chase the skittish little kitty, and her people showed up a few minutes later.

My mate chatted with them (since my German is not up to that) while they set up a humane trap and food for her. They told my mate that they'd only had the cat for a few weeks before she dashed out the door, that she'd been an outdoor cat before they got her. They said the neighbors had spotted her a few times in their yard, but that she'd avoided the trap before.

When I did my 6 PM walk/search for Gray tonight, the trap was still there, unsprung and empty.

We're still looking for Gray. We got more fliers printed this afternoon that we'll be posting tonight. Chaos, I want my cat back.

I wanted to do some more color experiments, and was looking for pose refs. I ran into this on @AdorkaStock and decided to go with it, cuz hey, kitty.

Despite the sad mood, I still wanted to play with saturated colors. I used blacks for inks and shadows, then painted under the shadows with some vibrant purple, and added pink and orange rim lighting.

Unicorns! Hey guys! Did you know that I love unicorns! Unicorns!

I really liked @Camelidae's relaxed prompt list for Junicorn. I never manage to get all the way through a prompt list, but I love a more relaxed/laid back prompt!

Of course, I immediately threw the "relaxed" part of that out by deciding to do all three colors in the first prompt all in one go. But come ONNNN!!! I had to! (I didn't have to)

I want to do a lot more with vibrant, saturated color. Actually, I ended up needing to pull this into the curves editor to bring up the lights and darks between getting this from my iPad to laptop. I decided to give it a sunset or dawn type look and give it pink and orange rim lighting.

Also played with how I put this together, I went a little overboard on the highlights on the liver chestnut on the far right, but it was really cool to experiment with utilizing the highlights and darks over top the silhouette of the unicorns. I dunno that I can explain it well.

I've challenged myself with not using pure white and black for years, and have been bringing them back. ^_^;; If I did this a little differently I wouldn't have needed to fix it with curves, but I get a bit too far into my experiments a lot of the time. It what it is! Learning!

Whooo, TF comic!

I started this two-page comic in November. I'd put together a spreadsheet for myself of Species, Trigger, Type, and Location to use to give myself TF prompts, and rolled for this one. What I'd rolled here was Pegasus, jewelry, age regression, and park.

I ended up dropping the age regression part just because it felt like it would have needed more storytelling. Originally, I'd sketched our TFee with her partner, with the idea that the earrings were a gift from them. But again, that was going to need a lot more panels than I'd wanted to commit to, so I ended up scrapping partner.

^_^ My mate, Robin, has been wanting a drawing of her as a bunny librarian for awhile, and I fiiiinally got around to it!

^_^;; And then five hours into doing that library background I realized I should've done a whimsical, woodland library, instead of a conventional one! Ah well. Another time!

After the Sonic Polycule Bingo Fracture installment, where I was really unhappy with how everything interacted with the background, I'm trying to lean more on best practices and background first again. I'll get good about doing that, and then get cocky, or burnt out, aaaannnd get set back to Not Doing That again. So...let's try to Not get burnt out again. As both Kaede from Rascal Does Not Dream and my kitty Gray like to say, "It's important to take frequent breaks."

^_^ My mate Robin is sooooo cute! I love her so damn much! I really leaned into the smudge tool, trying to get a nice, soft pattern to her silver-grey fur. I played a little with the lighting, trying to give the lighting of the room a bit of a yellow cast, with a bit of blue coming from the window. Honestly, I really should do more painting studies and really study how light and color interact, I kinda mostly just plop a color down for my lighting, which sometimes works well, and other times does not.

Should I have done all those books that way? Absolutely not. I really tried to not go overboard, but I did end up going pretty overboard. It could've been much worse, tho.

WIP - It Doesn’t Matter – Zone 2, Scene 2 - Progress 2026/05/22

Hecc! Back at the beginning again! Here we fuckin' go!

THESE. FUCKIN. BUSES.

NAME OF CHAOS. I HAVE SPENT SO DAMN MUCH TIME LIVING ON THESE GODS DAMNED BUSES!!!

...I was gonna say "years" and then I went to look at the metadata of some of my files from Zone 1, and...Dudes, I have zone 1 assets that ARE IN ZONE ONE from 2016. I...chaos. I think it took me from October 2016 allll the way through 2017 and most of 2018 to finish scene 2. Because the earliest shot renders I have of scene 1, which I made second, are from November 2018. AAAAND the assets from scene 1 are as old as October 2018...So yeah. LITERAL YEARS ON THE DAMN BUSES.