impurepyxia

I’ve made a fair bit of process, even finishing the draft pages for SlothxLove, totaling up to twelve pages for the first chapter. My backlog also has enough pages until the New Year, so I’ll probably try and do the last two pages of the chapter and take an extended break while planning and drawing things at my own pace. I want to try and build a decent backlog— Or even finish the next chapter so I can post it at my leisure.

Witch’s Cradle has been put on the back burner because of this, I’m still chipping away at it of course but making art asserts and sprites are terribly time-consuming and rather draining of my energy. However, I’ll be writing for the cutscenes as that’s easier to do at the moment and I want scenes to hit, since I want the characters to stand out compared to the gameplay. Though I am trying to balance battles to have some sort of thought and engagement behind it. Such as giving characters special mechanics that suit them and their role.

It’s definitely interesting seeing the first page and then the latest of SlothxLove and seeing how much I’ve improved in such a short amount of time. Page 10 looks really good in my opinion, though I haven’t quite nailed the style that I’m entirely comfortable with, I’ll likely do experimental mini comics to try and nail it now that I have some sort of motivation and experience behind the process itself.

For now, I’ll try and slow down a bit to recuperate some energy. Though opening commissions to buy a steam deck for myself is tempting…

Oh well.

Or rather where I am since I haven't publicly posted about my projects much. I like keeping things to myself just in case I don't follow through and disappoint people who are really into it though I can't let it control me. I love creating things and maybe they're not finished half the time, it's something and experience.

Anyways, here's the update.

Witch's Cradle:
Several things have happened, like ditching my initial idea of making it a 1st person dungeon crawler. Something that I struggled with relentlessly since I wanted to emulate games I've personally enjoyed but I think I was more captured by the writing. It happened to be just a common itch that's scratched in the genre for me.

A lot of the visual assets have been completed, I would say about 60%, though I am redrawing the talk sprites.

I want to be more relaxed and messy since that's what is more comfortable to me. I also need to draw more overworld sprites and this might cause some characters to be redesigned to a degree. Some of them do not translate well to tiny pixel art. Other than that, a song I have commissioned for the game is coming along well. I can't wait to bring it all together!

SlothxLove
Page 2 is completed! There were some glitches as I'm trying to figure out Clip Studio's exporting quirks but it's fixed and should be posted on Friday. Though my inability to plan ahead is already kicking me in the ass, I can certainly come up with set pieces but having a reasonable in between still escapes me. Oh well, this is partially why I'm even doing this comic in the first place!



- Water (AKA: Imp)