Mira's Practice Art Log

[metamira]

A slightly more focused sketch for today! I'm still trying to direct most of my time into work on v0.11 of A Very Full House, so polished drawings might not make an appearance for the next week.

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Now I promised an update about the release of A Very Full House, and I'm here to deliver! I'm going to commit to a release in Four (4) [100B] days. I have all of the new locations hooked into the game and properly triggering location changes/interaction events. The last thing I need to do (besides testing) is restructure the "work" events so you have a choice between a bunch of different lesson plans. Four days should be enough time to get that figured out and write some extra events to fill out the new options.

 

[metamira]

The release of A Very Full House v0.11 is just around the corner (2 days to go!), but I'm making sure to squeak in some practice time. I wanted to draw a chubbier, more stylized character. I default to drawing characters with big tits, so a fantasy cow girl seemed like an easy choice. I decided to get some male practice in as well and do some comparative anatomy too.

Then I remembered that cows have four udders. So of course our stacked cowgirl became double-stacked.

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I'm in panic focus mode with v0.11 as I hurry to get the last bits of the new school work system finished. There's lots of fiddly details, like making sure all of the NPC's are actually scaled correctly and that at-home dialogue options don't appear while you're at work. I'm making good progress though, and it should all come together pretty quickly!

 

[metamira]

No art today because it's the release day for v0.11 of A Very Full House instead! Rather than write out my whole blurb for the update again I'm just going to point you over to Patreon. The update is free (as usual), backwards compatible (as usual), and awesome (debatable).

Enjoy!

 

[metamira]

The release of v0.11 has gone fairly well, so I was able to get in some drawing practice! I'm experimenting with Clip Studio's vector lineart tools and working towards a full quality polished piece with this!

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Hopefully I'll be back in a couple days with a fully rendered version of this one!

 

[metamira]

And as promised, I am back with a fully rendered version! I was having fun with it, so I turned it into a stand-alone comic while I was at it.

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There's nothing too groundbreaking going on in this update, mostly just me getting comfortable with the shading and colouring tools in Clip. The one thing that was very were the text and comic tools - they're a lot more convenient than the GIMP equivalents and make it a lot faster to throw down some dialogue and have it all look reasonable.

My next practice post might be a little bit secretive - I've got plans for a special 250 Patron thank you piece that's going to take some time to finish, but I don't want to spoil the surprise of it. Maybe I'll crop in on one section or massively pixilate it or something and see if people can guess what's going on.

That's all for today!

 

[metamira]

Something a little strange and non-drawing related today! I had the urge to do something new and writing based, so I started a game of a solo RPG "Thousand Year Old Vampire". You play as a human turned immortal (implied to be a vampire, but any sort of eternal creature will do) and follow them through the centuries as memories slip away alongside their humanity. Of course I've got a porn-y asthetic to maintain, so my immortal - also called Mira, because I'm very creative and clever - was turned into a succubus.

I've done a write-up of my first play session over on Patreon. It's mostly character setup, where we figure out what the mortal life of the character looked like. I'm hoping to play more of this over the next few weeks, if only to give me an excuse to do some creative writing!

In the background I'm working on my patron thank-you drawing, but I've had a few unproductive days so that hasn't changed a ton. Another thing I'm hoping to work on!

 

[metamira]

The patron poll results for the content of v0.12 are in, and the vote was strongly in favour of a new lewd frame! I've spent a couple days figuring out what I'd like to add, and I've mocked up a few possibilities:

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There's a poll running over on Patreon, you can go over and vote on which option you'd like to see added next!

 

[metamira]

I played some more "Thousand Year Old Vampire" today, and decided to mix that in with my practice sketches. So for today we have a look at what she looks like at the start of the game as a fledgling succubus.

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Today's session upped the body count significantly. Go read the full play description over on Patreon!

 

[metamira]

The patron vote for which new frame they wanted added came back in favour of an upskirt crotch view, so I've been buy working on that. A series of productive days took it from concept art to finished and rigged model quite quickly, here's a preview of what it will look like!

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The .gif is too large to upload here directly, so here's an imgur link instead.

https://imgur.com/OABk9dJ

Now I'm onto drawing all of the clothing items that are needed for this frame. After that I'll see about adding some more effects that can be tied directly into some events: a masturbation hand, some wetness effects, etc.

 

[metamira]

I've been making good progress on the new frame for A Very Full House and hope to have it fully in game in the next day or two. I've got some previews of that over on Discord, but I have something else I wanted to share today.

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In my spare time I've been working on a bit of patron thank you art in celebration of passing 250 patrons. Backgrounds are something I've never felt strong at, so I'm really happy with how this has turned out so far! When I've got some more drawing time I'll add in all the fun bits that go in front of the background!

Oh, and I squeezed in a little more "Thousand Year Old Succubus" gameplay, for anyone who's curious about that. We've advanced a hundred and fifty years or so, so I'll have to be sure to do a new character drawing for my next play session.

 

[metamira]

It's Easter, which means it's my once-a-year opportunity to combined hot bunny girl costumes with corrupted religious values! I wasn't going to pass up on that, so I started in on some practice art featuring everyone's favourite MILF/main character. Here's a look at the current WIP version, just after laying down the flats:

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I've added some really quick highlights here to try and give a sense of the materials and shapes, but for some bits the shading is going to be the really important bit. I chose a particularly challenging pose with her giving herself bunny ears, because it both introduces a ton of foreshortening to her arms/hands and needs the fingers to be legible to make sense as a gesture. I don't think I nailed it, but it's something I'm getting better at with time.

That's me for today, be back in a couple of days with more art updates!

 

[metamira]

My finished bit of art is a few days late for Easter, but it's close enough that I'm going to call it a win! Enjoy a MILF-y Easter bunny!

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I'm still familiarizing myself with all of the tools in Clip Studio. I took some extra time on this to figure out a non-garbage background, and I think it turned out alright!

I also made good use of a "rendering" phase for this drawing, finalizing the line art and the shading and then fiddling with the image as a whole. If you compare this finished piece with the WIP version posted a couple of days ago you'll see some big differences in her face, elbows, and hair. The better thing to do is to just draw it right in the first place, of course, but knowing what it should look like is half the challenge!

In other news, I'm rapidly speeding towards the release of v0.12. I hope to have it ready in two days, although it's possible that will slip if major bugs float to the surface during testing. The largest feature is the new upskirt frame, along with some updated events to make use of it.

That's all for now! See you in a couple of days!

 

[metamira]

Quick update for people: I've got v0.12 finished and I'm giving Discord members a chance to comb over it to find bugs before making an official release. I'll be doing the full post with screenshots and a feature write up tomorrow.

If you want to help out with debugging, or you just cannot wait for the update and you're willing to deal with crashes, come on over to Discord and hang out!

 

[metamira]

I'm back with my promised official release of AVFH v0.12! You can read the full patch notes and grab the official download links over on Patreon

Whew, now I can catch my breath a little and do some planning for the next update!

 

[metamira]

I found some time to play more of my running solo "Thousand Year Old Vampire" game. I started off with a sketch of my succubus (Currently known as Chastity - yes, it's very ironic) as she looks around the year 1350, having been alive now for about a hundred and fifty years.

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You can read the full play session over on Patreon if you're interested in a dark story of lust and murder.

 

[metamira]

I've started work on v0.13, but I also found some time to squeeze in some practice art! Here's a WIP look at a piece of Firebrand art I'm working on!

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In other news, I'm nearly finished with my patron thank-you! Since we're so close to the milestone I'm going to be releasing it when A Very Full House hits 300 patrons (rather than the 250 that it was originally planned for). We're sitting at 293 right now, so if you've been considering becoming a patron now's a good time to do it!

 

[metamira]

I've been putting most of my spare drawing time into my patron thank-you special piece of art, but I can't show that off - it's a surprise for when we hit 300 patrons (296 right now, we're SO CLOSE). So instead I've got some quick character proportion sketches to share! The goal here was to see how the ratio of head:torso:limbs impacts how tall/thicc a character is perceived to be.

Initial Sketch: Drawn without a mannequin; these seem to be the proportions I default to.

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Edit 1: Larger head, shorter limbs, torso kept the same.

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Edit 2: pushing the proportions even further puts us well into goblin shortstack territory. Please imagine this as the basis for a slutty schoolgirl Yark!

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In other news, I've been hard at work on v0.13 of A Very Full House! The last two days have been dominated by code updates: There are updated Control mechanics to help make space for the new sex chores, a new sex record system to keep track of how many times you've done various acts with people, and a proper mod management screen that allows you to enable/disable mods without having to actually delete files entirely.

With that code work done I should be able to turn my full attention to writing new content!

 

[metamira]

I squeezed in some time to work on my current bit of practice art. I laid in the proper flat colours, roughed in the shadows, and did some background work. Next drawing session will be smoothing out the shadows, adding highlights, and adding some finishing touches.

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That's all for today! Back in a couple of days, probably with an update to this bit of art!

 

[metamira]

True to my word, I'm back to deliver the finished Firebrand backyard art!

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I'm going to squeeze this into a phone-background aspect ratio and fit it into A Very Full House as an unlockable background.

In other news, I'm still working on the new sex chore events for v0.13. I've been struggling with some writers block, so progress on that has been slow. I think I'm through the worst of the block and expect productivity to pick up over the next few days.

 

[metamira]

I was indeed through the worst of my writers block! I've been getting some good work done on A Very Full House the last few days. Most of my time went into coding and writing - I really need to get v0.13 out the door soon - but I also found some time to do some art practice. I've just got some very work-in-progress sketches to show off, but hopefully I'll have time to flesh them out soon.

First, a concept sketch of the preppy rich girl NPC I'd like to add in v0.14:

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(I've just realised how loooong her feet are - I'll go and fix that )

And second, a two-phase Cheerleader sketch.

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That's all for today! I'm finishing up content for A Very Full House v0.13 and hope to have it ready for release soon - May 3rd is looking like the most likely release day.

 

[metamira]

I'm busy getting v0.13 ready for release (I should have that ready for my next practice post!), but I've also had time to do some practice art and play some Thousand Year Old Vampire! Today's art is of one of the enemy immortals that's shown up in my ongoing game. Marceline, Matriarch of Darkness.

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The latest after action report is patron only (due to the boobies in the associated art), but if you're a patron you can go read it over on Patreon!

 

[metamira]

v0.13.1 of A Very Full House is live!

I've done a whole write up of the changelog and features on Patreon: head over there to check it out!

 

[metamira]

Due to some IRL logistics I was busy yesterday, but I'm here to make up my art-debt! I've been playing a lot of Omega Strikers lately, so I decided to do some themed practice art! Here's a flat-coloured sketch of everyone's favourite world-devouring slime Juno!

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I'm hoping to find some more spare time and fully shade this one. I think nailing the slime-effect would be a really fun thing to do!

In other news, we're almost certainly going to pass the 300 patron mark tomorrow, so I'm planning to release the special bit of patron thank-you art that I've been sitting on for a little while now! Be sure to check back - it's a fun bit of art AND it has an interactive component!

That's all for today, see you tomorrow!

 

[metamira]

I've got a special post for today: my 300 patron thank you art! I'm going to skip over the sappy stuff (I've done all of that over on Patreon), so I'll cut right to the good stuff!

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Every like, react, retweet, or whatever that this image gets (across all platforms!) will be another "visitor" that I'll be considering in the aftermath image! Patrons also have a bunch of polls available to them to help decide exactly how things go down. If you're already a patron (or this has pushed you over the edge) be sure to go check them out!

 

[metamira]

I'm looking to add a new backyard event for the Firebrand that needed a swimsuit for her, so I've gone ahead and added one!

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I'm expecting to get a bunch of writing done over the next few days. Some of that might need extra art, so my next art update might be more WIP A Very Full House assets. Meanwhile, the 300-patron thank you polls are doing well; we're well into the danger zone of visitors vs. number of condoms I've estimated to be in that box. The aftermath art might be a little sloppy!

 

[metamira]

I've been doing more work on that Firebrand event and needed some UI elements to show on the map. The lawnchair has gotten a glow-up, and the Firebrand has a few different poses she can have while relaxing in the backyard.

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These additions are also acting as a style test for future map improvements. I think it hits the right blend of quality vs. speed-of-drawing. Let me know what you think!

 

[metamira]

Whoops, missed one of my updates! I've been focusing on writing for v0.14 of A Very Full House, so I don't have anything visual to share. I have been getting some sketching practice in, but it's all very rough work (and I haven't been very happy with any of it).

I've got a fun idea for a twitter/Patreon art thing-y to run in the near future; I might try and get that started for my next post here. It's a (hopefully) fun take on the "X likes to remove her clothes!" trend that's been going on over on Twitter.

Sorry I don't have anything more interesting to share today! Hopefully all of the new written content in v0.14 will make it up to you!

 

[metamira]

Happy to say I'm back with some art to show off (and even got enough to have some saved up for a future post!) I wanted to practice some different body types, so I've done some basic construction sketches of some fantasy races. I considered doing male versions, but A) that's twice as much work and B) I really just felt like drawing some boobs and soft curves today.

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I've got a Patreon poll planned for something related to these sketches, but I'm running short on time today. That event/post will have to go up tomorrow instead!

 

[metamira]

I've been keeping busy by colouring in all of the unfinished school locations and have them all finished up! Here's a preview of what the new locations will look like!

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I'm going to get back to my fantasy character art for my next post - my patrons have voted for her to to be a halfling rogue, and I'm excited to do some drawing!

 

[metamira]

Working on my next practice art character. I'll have to think of some halfling last name for her - The Bigbottom clan, or The Cheekslap clan, something like that.

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Other than that I've been hard at work on v0.14. If things go well I'm hoping to have the release ready for the 26th! I had hoped to have it ready today, but I still have one last event to get written. See ya then!