Hey all π
Sorry for the quietness this week!
I've finished the pic I posted a preview of last week and was going to post today... buuuut then I got inspired to write a little scene to go with it.
I should have the written scene finished by Sunday (it's only a short one), but I didn't want to leave you guys hanging too long, so as an appetiser here's the other half ...
2024-04-05 19:48:36 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone π
And Happy Easterπ₯π°!
Little WIP pic and character concept for you this week. Or, more accurately, one half of a WIP pic (see below).
Allow me to introduce Courtney. Like the pic, her background and even her name are a work in progress out. But I get the sense that she's a failed footballer's wife - which is to say she married a footballer who never quite...
2024-03-28 22:01:41 +0000 UTC
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Morning all π
Hope everyone has had a good week. Bit of a hectic one for me, with a lot of things going very wrong in work-work, but I managed to finish off this little short story, inspired by one of ExtraBaggageClaim's weekly writing prompts from a few weeks ago.
The prompt word was haunt, and the story below is a longer version of the one I've...
2024-03-23 10:58:54 +0000 UTC
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Introducing Donna and Eva, two OC's created by KewlKidz.
Kewl commissioned this pic from me (there'll be further pics of them to come) and has written an fantastic little introductory scene to go with it, which you can check out below!
Dinner for Two ~ By KewlKidz
βPlease make yourself comfortable. Ms. Baratta shouldnβt be much longer.β sai...
2024-03-20 18:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Morning friends π
Hope everyone is well.
It shows how deeply I've been living in my own fictional universe that when someone mentioned "the drizzle" to me the other day, my first thought was of Kari and Yaz licking their lips and gazing at butterscotch sauce dripping in thick layers over the edges of their strawberry pavlova, and my second was of Tyler squeezing chocolate syrup i...
2024-03-14 11:33:16 +0000 UTC
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Evening all πββοΈβ
I can see this becoming a tradition (read: running joke), where these Wednesday weigh-ins are never actually posted on a Wednesday.
At least there was a decent reason this week, which is that I was getting Chapter 11 of The Lady wot lunched a little too...
2024-03-09 18:29:41 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 11!
Hope you enjoy it.
I'll blurb it up once I've had some sleep. π
2024-03-06 22:16:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Sorry I'm late with this!
Also, when I combined the Abby parts of chapter 10 with the Gemma ones, it was coming out very long, so I've split the Gemma ones into a separate chapter (Chapter 11) which will be posted in a few mins.
I'll also go back and re-do Chapter 9 as a PDF, just for consistency!
2024-03-06 21:43:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Still polishing up the full chapter, but promised something by today, so here is a preview.
The full addition will be just over twice as long as the below, and will form part of the definitive Chapter 10, in combination with the previous two previews. This will be posted on Tuesday (there's just one tiny bit I need to sort out at the end) so if you pre...
2024-03-03 21:37:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends π
Hope all is good! It's been a busy though not hectic week for me, both creativity and life-wise. I've been getting more writing done than ever and am well on track to have the next chapter of TWLW posted this weekend. I think it'll be a fun one, albeit relatively short if you've read the previews, and I'm now eager to get the full story wrapped up. There are some cool sce...
2024-02-28 14:30:50 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends ππΌ
Hoping that a smashing week has been had by all. Mine was pretty mixed. Things aren't too wonderful at work at the moment - it's a difficult time for a lot of businesses, I think, and it's all having a knock-on effect. The upside of this, though, is that I'll be pushing to try to make more money here: not with price increases; just by creating more to encourage more s...
2024-02-21 17:52:15 +0000 UTC
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Poor Gemma and Holly. Their chances of getting a share of whatever's in that huge heart-shaped box are looking a lot slimmer than Abby's waistline.
Maybe they'll start to wonder why it's the only day of the year she gets into the office first!
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Happy belated Valentine's Day! πΉπ
NB I'm fairly happy with how Abby's overall shape came out here. Sti...
2024-02-18 14:25:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Happy belated Valentine's Day! π Oh, and pancake day the day before, too. π₯ That's a lot of sugar for our ladies in two consecutive days!
And for the rest of us, too, it seems. For in Googling possible inspiration for Abby's Valentine's Day pic, I discovered that hospital admissions for gastrointestinal issues tend to increase considerably on Valentine'...
2024-02-15 21:07:00 +0000 UTC
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Cleanin' winders π΅ cleanin' winders π΅ when I'm...
Reminds me of that time the window cleaner arrived while I was downstairs. Standard mildly awkward smile and wave exchanged, then as he extends his ladder I realise I've left a pic rendering on the PC in full view of upstairs window. Bolted upstairs and managed to get the monitor off, turning to leave just as his head appears in the ...
2024-02-13 17:54:15 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! Want to do a Valentine's Day pic, but drawing a bit of a blank, so thought I'd open it up and see if anyone has a preference for a character to feature.
NB I've left Holly and Amelia out as they've featured in the last couple of years' Valentine's pics. Sorry if that disappoints!
Feel free to offer up any ideas for a setting / pic in the comments.
2024-02-10 07:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope we've all had a great week. A little late with this, but still calling it the Wednesday weigh-in because, well, alliteration. And maybe it is still Wednesday for one or two of you.
The reason for the delay is that I caught up with an old uni friend yesterday evening. (Gosh, where have the years gone?!) It was the first time we'd seen each other in over five years, ...
2024-02-08 15:15:24 +0000 UTC
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Looks like the ladies have taken matters into their own hands... Matters being Debi's extremely full belly. That greedy girl clearly didn't stop at the hors d'oeuvres!
But where has Cyrus gotten to?
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The third part in my commission-collab with my friend 2024-02-04 08:25:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! π
Hope everyone's good. For me, the last two weeks of January are the storm before the calm: work churns like Amelia's potbelly after an ill-advised fourth helping of crème brûlée, but then things begin to settle in February and usually continue fair to middling through March - which is great, because it means more time and energy for the creative stuf...
2024-01-31 21:04:25 +0000 UTC
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Inspired by the trailers for the new Mean Girls film, here is Amelia doing her best Regina George imitation.
This is a teaser for a scene from my upcoming Amelia story set during her time in university. The "Irene" Amelia is berating will feature heavily, and was inspired by a member of the canteen staff (back then we called them dinner ladies) from my own time at university. 'Irene' coul...
2024-01-25 00:03:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Hope everyone's good.
First, here's the link to my entry for this week's writing prompt.
Bit of a standalone story this week. However, many of my entries will be snippets/teasers from fuller stories that will eventually be available on Pat...
2024-01-20 11:16:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Had a minor work emergency at the end of last week which meant I had to travel and work over the weekend. So the week 2 writing prompt (#SPECTACLE) will be delayed slightly. I'll definitely have it posted this week. I may incorporate it with the prompt for this week, or may do something separate for that, depending on how it goes!
The "Spectacle" is an in media res...
2024-01-14 23:30:27 +0000 UTC
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Hey all.
A few days later than promised, but hopefully it's worth the wait!
For context, the following scene is set a year after A Cranky Kari Christmas and a year before 2024-01-11 18:15:33 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
Just a quick side-note to say that I've decided to jump in on the awesome ExtraBaggageClaim's weekly one-word writing prompts this year. For me, it's an attempt to fight perfectionism (aka fear of posting) and hopefully stimulate some fun ideas!
I only joined the prompt writing as of Friday...
2024-01-07 23:10:33 +0000 UTC
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Happy new year everyone! π
I was hit by a bit of slightly inspiration for the Christmas Kari vignette I'm working on, so it'll be delayed until the weekend - but it will be longer than planned and come with a pic.
To tide you over until then, here's the second picture in the collaboration I'm working on with 2024-01-04 11:33:22 +0000 UTC
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Oh dear... it looks like Michelle's post about lazy businesswomen and their mince pie habits hit Kari's Instagram feed at a rather inopportune moment!
Hope you like the pic. I have written a little scenario to go with it, but haven't quite had time to format and tidy it up amidst all the family and friends stuff that comes with Christmas and the new year. I'll have it posted Tues / Wed.
2023-12-31 17:51:17 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Just wanted to drop a quick message to say thank you so much for your support this year. I hope you all have a wonderful festive season and that Santa brings you everything you want. π
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An unexpected (but very welcome!) visitor this year means I haven't been able to finish off my second Christmas pic - it's quite hard to work on fetish art with someone else in the fla...
2023-12-24 16:09:40 +0000 UTC
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James didn't need to be asked twice. Rolling out from beneath the table like a commando, he scrabbled to his feet, tugging at his jacket and glancing around nervously.
He needn't have worried. All eyes in the hall were on Abby.
And for once, not for a reason she wanted.
'Bleurch!' the dazed diva spluttered, spitting out strands of sodden hair as she struggled to pus...
2023-12-21 22:24:23 +0000 UTC
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The first of two Christmas pics this year - and a little teaser for an upcoming chapter of Kari's Life in Lockdown.
While Covid restrictions are giving investment banker Kari a bad case of financial indigestion, Michelle's social media business is thriving, with higher profits than ever.
Unfortunately, as any accountant will tell you, higher profits mean higher taxes. Any accountant...
2023-12-18 20:31:38 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
First off, apologies for being so quiet recently. I've been full of man flu these last couple of weeks. Added to which my boiler broke down and it's been a bit of a nightmare trying to find someone to fix it this time of year. Fortunately the weather hasn't been as cold as it could have been.
Sob story over. The full Chapter 10 of TLWL is almost done. The only bit to finish...
2023-12-17 15:06:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Here's the first in a sequence of 3 pics (or possibly more) in collaboration with my friend Samster, set in his incredibly immersive Corporate Worlds universe.
Here we have Cyrus Benson and his confidant and lover Debi arriving at the end-of-season awards event for amateur GT car racing. Cyrus, a ...
2023-11-30 18:40:01 +0000 UTC
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