So....good news is that this piece is finished about when I thought it would be. It's not quite as good as I'd like, mostly 'cause it's actually really hard to find a decent reference picture for kissing for some reason, resulting in this one being done largely referenceless. Overall, not displeased with it considering that, though.
Bad news...I'm a dumbass and thought I'd already drawn one of the other pieces that I'm supposed to have for this update. I haven't. Doh. So today and tomorrow are going to be taken up frantically fixing that, since it's not an image I can really do the update without. Once it's finished I'll be at 12 new images for the update (which doesn't sound like much, does it? Given that it was taking me an average of 4 days for each piece for the first 5-6 pieces though...). To be honest, I'd really like to have more reward/punishment options for Serena to start with, but what I have will simply have to do for her first update.
My original intention with each update was to put in 10 new character images and 2 location images. Since I ran over that this time with 12 new character images, I'm thinking about leaving out any new original locations, this month is going to be tight getting everything done as it is, and forgetting that one piece of art has farther thrown things off. If I can find a decent placeholder for the one completely new location I need this time, I'll probably go ahead without the original location drawings this time.