July | Poll #2

This was the first user suggested option (that was not part of the trello) that has won a poll. Congratulations.

I wanted the room the character walks into be very unused, and I wanted to indicate this without dialogue, so I tried drawing dust and spiderwebs everywhere. Originally, the toy chest was going to have a wood texture, but I was unable to figure out a way to draw it that I liked and I was behind schedule anyway, so I settled for just brown. I didn't really know what to do with the light, so I tried to keep it simple. I probably spent too much time trying to iterate on it.

About halfway through the comic, I felt like there should be some kind of indication that he would turn into a Zorua rather than feeling it was a completely random choice the toy box gave him, so I adjusted the character's design slightly (the shirt is the same color as Zorua's fur and there are bits of red in his color palette. I was thinking about those shirts with the flame pattern on them at the time.)

I wanted the background to look like it was plush foliage like the foreground, but I didn't want to use stitches everywhere because it felt like it would make the background too busy, so I put little plush patches over random parts. They still didn't really feel like plushies, though. Maybe I could justify it by implying the patches could be some kind of plush infection in the future.

Normally, when I make the eyes render over the hair, I tend to make only the outline visible. In this situation, I agonized over whether or not I should keep it like this due to the eyelids of Zorua having the red color. In the end, I kept the outline only part.

Source included due to lateness.

Edit: Adjusted color on one of the rings.

July | Poll Sequence #1

Mia Sequence | The Result of 3rd + Yellow & Inflatable from the polls.

I don't really have anything to say about this one, other than I spent the majority of drawing it on this table on my laptop without power. At most I got the lines done for the final frame before the power went out (I did the final frame first). I really like the concept of clothing "growing" from the body, so he kept his shirt on (it has infinite durability), and the pants exploded because I wanted an excuse to draw "skin" dentation (and to see the "shorts"). The air valve was an unfortunate casualty of these choices, but it's there. Trust me.

June | Poll #1

All of the comic's budget went into drawing the hat.

During the hat scene, I decided it was be entertaining if I added extra hats instead of just Pom-Pom's. One of the hats, which belongs to the Yu-Gi-Oh card [Madolche Mewfeuille], led me down a bit of a rabbit hole as I was trying to figure out how the hat should look. I'll be honest, I didn't fully realize the theming of the Madolche card series before this. Anyway, the hat looks more like food than I thought it originally did. The other hat is Daji's from Fullbokko Heroes.

Originally, I was going to end the sequence at the end of the transformation, but it felt wrong to not actually make him wear the hat, so I adjusted the sequence to have the post-TF bit. Then afterwards as I was trying to figure out a good excuse as to why he was wearing the full outfit, I figured maybe someone else is with him to make him wear the outfit, so the sequence ended up having another character involved. In the end, he remained naked regardless.

The "results" section at the end was originally more tame, but as I was trying to think of a good way to symbolize different categories, it morphed into a Sonic Adventure 2 reference due to stray thoughts invading my head at the time. It was most definitely not the random Knuckles music playing at the time.

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TF COMPLETED!

EGO NO CHANGE

TIME 00:19:73

LOOKS 80%

CLOTHES MISSING

RANK C