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fresh meat, page 58 (flats)

i'm uploading the flats tonight because being sick has my commission schedule out of whack. it's also bigger than usual at 21 panels instead of 15, so i knew i wasn't going to get it done on time. this is the end of the scene, so it was basically figure out a way to pad the shit out of it, or make the page longer than usual. i couldn't think of any padding this time.

i'm not even sure wha...

1/26 stream

today's going to just be a random pokemon fusion stream to finish out the month.

 https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective

stream started at 6:28 pm MT.

1/19 stream (finished)

today i'm going to be making furries with a random anthro generator.

 https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective

stream started at 7:14 pm MT.
stream ended at 9:42 pm MT.

fresh meat, page 57

if i had anything to say about this page, it's mostly gone now; i've been up since about 6 AM, and i'm very tired. my sleep schedule has been out of whack as i've stressed about the usual things, but more immediately, that my dog needs to be vaccinated for rabies on monday and i might sleep in past the appointment time if i don't wake up early.

i guess i will say that in this scene, sugar...

quick notice

i've changed my twitch username from wispworst to dupereffective, which will affect the url you'll need to go to if you watch stream archives.
i'll still be posting the link every time i stream with the notices, so don't worry about it too much otherwise. :)

quick catharsis-related poll

this is a character i designed for catharsis. i've been developing the plot a bit more and want to tweak her design. i want her to wear a beanie and i don't have strong enough feelings for any of the ways i thought of, so i was like, "what if i just made a poll, i don't do enough for patreon nowadays anyway" 

here it is:
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fresh meat, page 56

i'm uploading this as flats first because i woke up at like, 7 pm, which is usually when i'm supposed to already be almost done with flats and prepping to shade.

not much changed from the sketch to the final product, although the big middle panel there had some depth in the sketch.

 this is probably THE oldest scene written for the comic aside from the first breakfast between t...

doodle dump 6

this was a long time coming. i kept forgetting it and then dreading how bad the web page was gonna chug when typing the commentary. i'm just going to submit it now and insert the commentary a little later, although i don't have much to say about this one i don't think.

this took longer than expected, but the majority in the middle here are commissions. they do push what i have the time to...

1/5 stream (finished)

today i'm just going to be doing some randomly generated pokemon fusions since i'm a little foggy-headed and i'd rather save the random furry generator for when i have a little more mental clarity.

 https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/ 

stream started at 8:10 pm MT.
stream ended at 10:08 pm MT.

fresh meat, page 55

for this page, i was going to type some stuff about whittacker's dialogue in this page, but i feel like i should wait for her arc to wrap up.

 this is mainly setting up that whittacker is leaving soon, also establishing the idea that you don't really need to be nice to be free (kind of established to bat away the idea that the characters deserve to be here even if they aren't exactly...

january poll

meme redraw streams are pretty self-explanatory.

random generator streams will feature using a random generator and drawing the prompt -- might be a pokemon generator, might be a fursona generator, etc.

prop design is where i tighten up designs for objects, settings, and clothes that aren't technically characters, but nonetheless usually need to be designed for consistency because t...

january 2020

hey folks... it's a new month and a new year. thank you for the continued support.

so, getting down to business: told my landlord and signed all the paperwork indicating we're not renewing our lease here because we couldn't find a roommate. i can say immediately that i was already kind of expecting it to go this way because me and my wife are both transgender people who are so far into tr...

12/29 stream (finished)

i'm kind of out of it today, so, while i wanted the last stream to be a hip anatomy study, i'll just be painting a couple thumbnails again this time.

 https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/

stream started at 9:29 pm MT.
stream ended at 11:25 pm MT.

FaD strip: sucking it up

chipped away at this one over the span of a while and finished it some-odd days ago. i said i wasn't going to work on folie a dupe strips much and then ended up dealing with my wife being sick for multiple weeks cuz my doctor is incompetent and being sick myself. i keep getting antsy working on these to (pretty futilely) blow off steam about being bored/unproductive.
there was SO much resizi...

no fresh meat page this week

my wife became sick with a respiratory infection last friday so i was taking care of her. on monday after walking to the pharmacy to get antibiotics she was prescribed i came home and started showing the same symptoms presumably because she finally got me sick. ironically i'd already taken meds by the time i noticed so i had done some work + the FaD strip i posted on monday, which is better tha...

FaD strip: a little off the top

gave myself a haircut recently... or maybe not so recently by now.
i was a little ambivalent about this strip, but once i thought about how the mirror should be showing a reflection closer to reality than of these 2 i could NOT stop thinking about it.

i give myself haircuts. they look nice to me, but i was never a big fan of how weird and fluffy hair looks after going to a salon... aft...

12/22 stream

happy hanukkah folks. i'm a little tired because my wife has been sick, so i'm just going to be doing thumbnail paintings again this time.

 https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/

stream started at 6:34 pm MT.

fresh meat, page 54

it's another breather page... haven't had one in a while, and sometimes i still have a hard time describing when i feel like one is... preferable? necessary? i don't know. a scene where kim was having therapy in her own ward and was quickly whisked away before she could try to chat with an old ward-mate was deleted because it felt superfluous.

this page reminds the reader of the other eve...

12/15 stream (finished)

today i'll be doing some light anatomy studying for the first half, and then a painting or 2 for the second half of the stream.

 https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/

stream started at 6:56 pm MT.
stream ended at 9:50 pm MT.

fresh meat, page 53

no sketch or flats with this one, it was pretty bare-bones from start to finish. i worked on it on-stream for most of the day anyway.

let's see... edits first...

cut out one line here for space reasons, but also because sugar can go 2 ways: she can over-explain or she can make conversational jumps without cla...

12/8 stream (finished)

today i'm going to be doing some of those small observational paintings, probably only for an hour or two.

 https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/ 

stream started at 8:26 pm MT.
stream ended at 10:50 pm MT.

FaD strip: fact check

there are a few things i wanted to talk about after finishing this strip, so i'm going to do my favorite thing: make a numbered list.

1) the editing decisions.

first of all, this comic was going to be longer. like, probably 2 times as long. i'll talk about what got cut in the next item. i decided to cut it because it was getting substantially long in terms of physical height and thi...

fresh meat, page 52

i feel like i should have more to say about this page, but i wore myself out finishing it before typing any kind of commentary.

this page accomplishes a few things: it establishes some influence in sugar's decisions and thought processes in drop-out; it shifts the conversation from carmilla and sugar to kim and sugar; and it injects some exposition about the ward itself.
the first purp...

december poll

december 2019

hi again folks. it's the end of the year.

this is the month i was planning on starting to search for a new roommate. truth be told, i was really dreading it, and hoping my wife would find another job. now a few days ago i was told my lease ends a month earlier than i thought and that i need to inform my landlord if i'll be renewing my lease or not a month earlier than i thought i would, s...

12/1 stream (finished)

today i have to draw the monthly update image, so that's what i'll be doing on this stream. ideally after that i want to sketch a folie a dupe strip.

 https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/

stream started at 3:36 pm MT.
stream ended at 7:00 pm MT.

fresh meat, page 51

cranky because your prescription finally went through aren't you carmilla... understandable.
i wanted her to at least get to the point where tabitha verbally taps her on the shoulder, just another row, but after 2 late pages, i told myself i wasn't going to keep making pages longer than 15-17 panels for a while.
i think my urge to rush a scene probably intensifies when carmilla or sugar a...

FaD strip: bandages

my wife has identified as a "very clumsy" person since i met her. i didn't really understand it at first and assumed she might mentally embellish little slips most people have... but she does tend to get hurt a lot.
when we started living together, i realized that bandages and first aid supplies are kind of a thing you won't get constant reminders about when you're low on stock like how "hun...

11/24 stream (finished)

today i'm probably going to work on felix's reference... i started tightening up their design last night. i'm probably also going to be working on commissions afterwards.

 https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/

stream started at 11:20 am MT.
stream ended at 4:08 pm MT.

fresh meat, page 50

just lines for now... will be updated to flats in a couple of hours. you can see this is another longer page, almost 2 times the length of the average page... and i only woke up about 5 hours ago. -_-;

i really didn't want to split this one into 2 pages though, because i felt like it gave too much narrative weight to the exchange between kim and carmilla.

this page in general was tr...