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Week 30. Sad to say, progress this week has been much slower than usual and slower than I'd like. I've had a lot on my plate during the day, and during this month I'm not particularly keen on pulling late-nighters to meet a work quota, so this comic hasn't been as much of a priority. Maybe soon I can find a way to get more work done for it, but this week has been very tough.

I do apologize for the wait, but I hope that when I do get this episode completed it will be all the more worth it and all the more exciting to read! ^^

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Cooked a smore this morning and the marshmallow was so pretty i waited all day for the chance to paint it UoU

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week 29! Day 200 of production on IFM happened! Drew another fetus to celebrate because I'm still weird like that! Linearting of ep.8 happened, and the beginnings of coloring. Been a bit preoccupied with other stuff on the side, but then, when am I not? It's just crazy to think that I've now dedicated the better part of a year to this comic and its rapidly developing story. Things simultaneously feel fast and slow. Makes me wonder where I'll be when I hit the year mark in just another 165 days...

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Oh yeah, I guess I kinda helped make the new designs for team Rwby in Fixing RWBY, huh?

The process of making these designs was, in a word, grueling. There was just so much pressure, not only to evolve and improve from where we left off with the vol.4 redesigns, but to also be conscientious of the canon vol.7 design and make sure that we addressing flaws from those designs as well.

It was brutal, it was a lot of hard work, and it was stressful with a capital S.

But it got done! And they came out very nice, so in a way it was all worth it!

While working on each of these reference sheets I ended up assigning each girl her own genre of music that I would listen to, sometimes repeatedly, in order to keep myself motivated and in the right mindset for their designs. For Weiss it was ballet music, particularly from the ballet for Snow White. For Ruby I deadass looked up playlists on youtube labeled "Hot Topic music" and listened to that lol. Blake got the discography of The Crane Wives, and Yang got all the Neffex tracks.

I really wanted to up the quality of these reference sheets, hence splitting each of them into two for a turn around and an action model sheet, and providing not just color reference but an eye-catching example of them being fully rendered with effects as appropriate. It was so much effort, but I'm really proud of myself for taking the time to do it, and how well each of these reference sheets turned out for it.

I hope you guys enjoy looking at these designs as well as we progress through the rest of the next few volumes of Frwby! Till next time!

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What a thing, for week 28 to come and go, and the release of ep.7 of IFM along with it.

This was actually an episode that I was experimenting with for the creation process, trying out a different means of coloring and skipping putting a color filter over the panels, which is something I was doing previously. My hope is for something simultaneously more vibrant while also still being unified and cohesive in palette. Will probably continue to experiment and fiddle with the way colors are done until I find something satisfying.

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Ep.7 is live! Go and give it a read!

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love the kdh movie but i hate the pacing and i sure wish they spent like 5 minutes explaining rumi's origins more ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

so now you all get my headcanons/my small fix for when gwi-ma is telling jinu about the patterns because holy shit why did he say that completely unprompted in the movie pls just one single line of jinu asking the question i'm begging you—

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Week 27, the week where I suddenly realize I don't have the time to actually keep up with a two-week update schedule, and immediately dial shit back.

Yeah, sad to say, I'm going back to simply working on one chapter at a time and they'll be out when they're out. You see, in order to try and update every two weeks, I needed to be working on two chapters at once. And that was okay, for the most part, even if it was getting increasingly demanding and difficult to keep up with. But this week I would've needed to start working on a third chapter as well as the other two, all at the same time, and that was just too much. Would've completed crashed and burned out, so, I opted to chill and not worry about it. Maybe someday in the future when I have more free time I could consider attempting a schedule like that again. Maybe if I stretch out the length of time I give myself for working on each chapter, thus lowering my daily workload, then it would become viable. But for right now, it's back to just getting one chapter done at a time.

With that said, here's the week's progress from the upcoming ep.7 as well as later planned content, got the inks done and started the coloring process. Also made a bunch of outfit concepts for Noelle. :B

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Week 26! A lot happened this week!

Episode 6 went live!

Finished storyboarding ep. 12!

Started a patreon! And started posting full-size panel previews of the in-progress comic for subscribers!

Attempting to commit to a 2-week update schedule has been pretty demanding, but so far it's all good, just haven't hit my stride yet. Luckily I've been able to increase my overall productivity by ironically taking more short breaks during art sessions, who knew?

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Episode 6 is now live! Also, I started a patreon, in case y'all wanted another way to support me besides ko-fi!

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Oh yeah, week 25 also happened for production on IFM. This week the theme's been storyboarding, storyboarding, and more storyboarding. Just a little smackeral of a rough sketch for ep.7 as well. The reason why I'm doing so much storyboarding is because I want to commit to an update schedule of putting a new chapter every two weeks. And to do that, I need more episodes storyboarded ahead of time. Gotta get ahead of the curve and then stay there, and so far it's basically working out like I hoped. Just gotta keep at it!

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Shadowheart annoys me sometimes: A Series.

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new pfp time

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Shout out to week 24, as I continued to work on ep.6 and posted ep.5. But, I've decided not to post ep.6 right away when I finish it, instead I'd like to schedule it to post in a couple weeks. I'm thinking a bi-weekly update schedule might work well for me, considering my pace and the length of time episodes take to make. We'll try for it, anyways, and see how it works out.

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new episode now i guess :u

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Whoops I almost completely forgot to post about week 23. Finished inking ep.6, progress on coloring the episode has been coming along nicely. Probably next week I'll be able to update with ep.5 at long last after going on that short hiatus. Man I'm excited for it.

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Week 22, finished sketching ep.6 and began inking, and then I got sick with a sudden cold/flu type thing. xP Happily though I'm recovering quickly, and should be back to normal by next week. Sure do hate how being sick completely throws off my schedule and motivation for stuff tho. >:T