I feel like a lot of this page speaks for itself so I'm struggling with what to say in this space here. The idea that Switch's economics class quickly devolved into an apocalyptic survival course comes from my own strange fascination with wilderness living. I say strange because I'm not outdoorsy in the least myself. But if you put a Youtube video about a guy building a hut out of sticks and clay in front of me, brother I will watch that shit for two hours.
Hope you guys...
2024-08-02 02:22:18 +0000 UTC
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I implied earlier in the scene that Switch had approached Isaac prior to her class debut. I had a bit planned where she had tried to do the same with Casey. But since Casey had shaken up her routine due to the events of the previous night, Switch hadn't been able to find her in time. I couldn't fit that explanation in but I think this works alright. I like the idea that Switch would really enjoy surprising the hell out of her human friends and the looks on their faces when she just shows up ...
2024-07-25 20:43:22 +0000 UTC
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You know, I don't think I ever had a character actually get their hands on a magic potion in any DnD game I ever played. The most difficult challenge our adventuring party ever encountered was just getting everyone together in one place consistently enough to keep a campaign going. I think the highest level I ever got was four or maybe five, tops. There would inevitably be a weekend where one guy couldn't make it, so we'd all roll new characters and start a new game to play without them. You ...
2024-07-22 14:39:36 +0000 UTC
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As supporters I'm going to let you in on the fact that this is a mild fake out. There's no way Casey's just going to keep walking here without noticing Switch. I don't often do misdirection like this for a couple of reasons but in this case I was prompted to get out of my comfort zone. By what? By me realizing I was about to end another page in this chapter with a panel of somebody with a look on their face like that scene in Jurassic Park where they see the dinosaurs for the fi...
2024-07-18 21:18:17 +0000 UTC
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Our game master here is having to run things along way faster than a real one normally would for the sake of this being a strip series that needs to keep things snappy. By that I mean I don't imagine a lot of real-life adventures that would just punt a new player upon the group without everyone getting a chance to role-play a bit of ceremonial distrust to the newcomer first. If you've never played DnD, one common character trait that EVERY player has is that their character is suspicious of e...
2024-07-15 21:39:40 +0000 UTC
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This commission for Mr. Bug continues the what-if series of pin ups featuring Casey and the twins. Though this also marks the first sexual appearance of Goth Abbey! :D
Tried something different with the lighting here: hard light and shadows. Normally I blend colors on skin with a soft airbrush tool. But in this case I wanted to make the light above them look really bright, and I think it works here. In any case I loved the chance to draw this group together and I hope you all like it to...
2024-07-14 20:16:33 +0000 UTC
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Spanning across three different students, Switch's mental projection has been attending classes in Castlewood for years now. She knows the teachers here don't really "teach" so much as lecture their opinions to a captive audience. She'll fit right in just fine.
Story structure has always been a challenge for me. I personally think that what writing strength I have lies in slice of life, minute to minute-style pocket stories. It's when I have to plan proper plot outlines in the long term...
2024-07-12 16:22:13 +0000 UTC
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I'm pleased to announce that I was able to get the eye drops I needed and am now feeling a thousand times better. I hate for TRW to run late a day, especially because my travel visa is up this month and I'm getting booted back to America on the 29th. I was hoping to save THAT week for a possible late post. But I'll just try to get ahead of schedule before I make the trip.
That's all the important stuff but I'll share some details about my ordeal if you're interested. I had to spend the ...
2024-07-11 15:18:30 +0000 UTC
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So straight to the point: my eye problems from last year are back, and I can't easily get the medication I need for it in England. If you weren't around last time, what I'm dealing with is extreme light sensitivity. Basically staring at any backlit screen currently hurts like knives and there's little I can do but lie down with a blindfold and listen to podcasts to pass the time. I'm not a podcast guy, this is boring as shit and I feel like I'm in purgatory over here.
As of now...
2024-07-08 19:05:22 +0000 UTC
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I put a lot of thought into Human Switch's design. Visually, she just didn't look like Switch without the shark teeth. Besides, she's a cross-dimensional hell monster disguised in a human body. It just makes sense that she'd have a few design quirks like teeth and claws to imply her otherworldly nature.
At first I thought maybe I'd just go by anime rules as to explaining why nobody freaks out at the little details on her. By that I mean in shows like Ah My Goddess, for example, nobody...
2024-07-04 20:51:56 +0000 UTC
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This commission for Sgt Artyom is a timely one! As of this writing, the much-anticipated latest expansion for Final Fantasy 14 dropped today. And this job features their Warrior of Light paired up with Y'shtola and a bustier, 18+ version of Alisae from the game.
Anyone else playing the game today? If you don't know, FF14 is one of my personal favorite games of all time. But every time I come back to it after a long break it's always a real challenge for me to remember how to not be a to...
2024-07-02 20:44:26 +0000 UTC
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I found myself without a Discord Poll for the month of June. The easy poll has always been who to draw for the Monday pin up. But since those are on pause until I finish the current strip story and I didn't have anything in the comic itself to vote on either, I had to come up with something at the last minute.
The vote was to see a TRW character doing a fourth wall break in reaction to the new smaller, more realistic money shots in the comic. It was a fairly close one, but Nikki came o...
2024-07-01 23:40:36 +0000 UTC
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I was kicking myself at first for having two very similar cliffhanger pages over such a short span of time in the comic. By that I mean where the last panel is somebody looking shocked. In the end I had to just live with it because anything else doesn't fit here.
Half the work on this page was that group shot. Some of it was just about figuring out who should and shouldn't be present. Characters like Bria, Abbey, and Elianna have too much going on themselves to be around for a scene t...
2024-06-27 20:46:58 +0000 UTC
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For the record I do know that elves have the ability to see in the dark in Dungeons and Dragons. But I really wanted that torch-lit shot up top, so let's just say he's carrying the torch to boost the light for his human companions.
I very rarely use jet black for shading. But I am jealous of those who can pull it off so i thought it would be fun to try and practice here. Also Millie's here as an homage for any of us who've had to put up with someone in the house who's not playing and ...
2024-06-24 19:59:17 +0000 UTC
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This commission for Dapper Basilisk features Kinzie from Saint's Row! I never got going on the series myself, and I'm not exactly sure why. Tonally it looks right up my alley. What probably happened was that the series didn't evolve into my kind of thing until part two or maybe even three. And I have an irrational inability to come in on a franchise from anywhere but the beginning. It's like I have an extreme fear of missing references and Easter eggs. I've missed out on the entire Witcher se...
2024-06-23 13:09:43 +0000 UTC
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First off, I'd like to announce that all of our stickers in the merch shop are currently half-price for the next thirty days! This includes our newest one here featuring Madelyne Pryor. Enter the code Summer2024 during checkout to apply your discount if you're interested. <...
2024-06-21 20:22:20 +0000 UTC
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I don't know about you, but this page made me wish I had a Halver following ME at around to immediately coach me through what would otherwise be tense or upsetting social situations in real time.
Bit of a throwback to the visual novel as well here. I think there was a line in there about how Chloe, when angered, is prone to announcing silent treatment but is too feisty to actually keep her mouth shut when she's upset at someone.
I'm trying to put more effort into c...
2024-06-20 20:47:48 +0000 UTC
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I appreciated the suggestions you all gave last week on how to end a sex scene without an explicit money shot. I do like the "close up of the woman's O-face" idea and will likely use it in the future. But as you might have guessed from the page, Morgan wasn't quite able to get there in this case. So I went with "smash cut to aftermath."
The move to softcore content still feels strange for me, if I'm being honest. But it does have the upside of making the sex scenes ...
2024-06-13 23:34:23 +0000 UTC
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This page is inspired by a true story. Ages ago, some friends and I were playing in a modern sci-fi-themed setting called Alternity. (Is Alternity still a thing? Is any role-playing system but Dungeons and Dragons still a thing? Let me know if so, no time to Google it.)
Anyhow I played as a heavy machine gunner and my brother was basically playing as discount James Bond. Alternity players had points you could spend to get yourself out of a jam. Last resort points, I think they were c...
2024-06-10 20:32:04 +0000 UTC
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This joint commission for Raj Tallahand and Kaldonis features their characters, (Amber and Kal respectively,) getting it on outdoors! This one is canonical with the comic and takes place during Chapter Nine of TRW. Attached is a PDF with a full story to go along with it written by Kaldonis.
I liked working on this one. Amber has a very unique look and I think the warmer colors do a good job of conveying that it's a hot sunny day. Now I'm wishing the last few pages of the comic looked...
2024-06-09 16:53:58 +0000 UTC
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I try to make every individual page of the comic stand on its own merits if I can, ideally so that new readers might come in and get hooked without having to have read everything that came before. Part of that process for me demands that the last panel should have something punchy in it. What that means to me exactly is hard to articulate but what I want to avoid is for a page to feel like I just ran out of room and had to stop there. Page 359 felt like a ran out of room page when I fini...
2024-06-06 21:45:53 +0000 UTC
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Why the twins are scared of Elianna was first referenced in a studio strip I did awhile back. I try to keep those separate from the canon and it will be properly mentioned in the main comic at some point, but for now I can summarize it pretty easily:
Mary: "That bitch knows kung fu."
If Elianna had been present she'd be quick to correct Mary that it's not Kung Fu, it's Karate. Back before Abbey got ahold of them, Trish and Mary were rather stereotypical schoolyard bullies. ...
2024-05-30 21:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Bundled here is the first 107 TRW Strips bundled into one PDF for offline viewing. It's the complete "Studio Era" that was focused on the cast answering fourth wall-breaking questions before I moved on to a more story-driven format. Not to say I'll never come back to the studio. In fact I most certainly will at some point. It's just a convenient framing device for this particular bundle is all. XD
Get the bundle right 2024-05-27 21:39:56 +0000 UTC
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I haven't decided whether or not Jane is aware that Douglas has a character inspired by her. Probably not, as Douglas doesn't want anyone to know about his love of fantasy gaming and he would know that Jane is the last person on Earth you should trust with a secret like that. But if she did know, she'd probably ask why her dragon-breasts weren't bigger. Hope you guys are liking the story so far. I've resolved to plow ahead until it's complete before I switch back to pin ups for...
2024-05-27 21:29:26 +0000 UTC
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In most cases whenever Elianna shows up in fun police mode, her targets have more or less rolled over for her. Even someone as standoffish as Casey put up little resistance when Ellie busted in on her and Morgan in the showers way back at the start of the comic. I'm pretty sure this is the first time she's had any real pushback. This could get messy! :O
2024-05-23 22:15:43 +0000 UTC
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Last night I was attempting to get an animation to look right for the game. My choice of the word "attempting" should be plenty telling as to how that particular session went. I needed a break but nothing was grabbing me, ( I got shamefully stuck within the first 45 minutes of playing Crow Country.) So I picked an old drawing to paint over to pass the time.
Went with Rogue because X-Men 97 wrapped this week and I still have that show on my brain. By now I should know better than to get...
2024-05-19 12:11:27 +0000 UTC
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I don't have a lot to elaborate on in this space about the page itself this time, as I'd just like to hear what you guys think of it without me rambling about it first. I will say that while I was drawing it, it felt like Casey taking a kick in the ass without falling over on her face might be the most unrealistic thing in the whole comic. Being so top-heavy has got to be hell on your balance.
Hope you're interested to see how Casey navigates this particular day and thanks as always fo...
2024-05-16 19:36:10 +0000 UTC
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Here's the biggest chapter yet, complete for offline viewing in high resolution! :)
2024-05-16 18:38:20 +0000 UTC
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Critical fail wins the Discord poll this month! It was a close vote but slightly more members wanted to see Morgan humiliated, it would seem. XD
I'm sure that in real DnD it's likely a rare thing indeed that rolling a one would actually get your party safely out of a combat encounter. (Has that ever happened to anyone? Let me know if you have a story.) But I figure that TRW role-playing would be so seduction heavy that having the female NPCs nope out entirely and now
2024-05-13 21:37:40 +0000 UTC
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Congrats to everyone for making it through the cliffhanger! Also that's Chapter Nine finished at long last! :D
2024-05-09 22:52:01 +0000 UTC
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