I'm getting why there has been so little official character artwork from Hades over the years. The artist, really struggles to draw the same guy twice.

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So, effects that try to make digital art look more analog have been pretty popular as of late. Textures, scratchy line art, you name it. One of them is more recent, I call it the satin effect, that looks like we're watching the image through a slightly opaque glass and likely recreates the refraction caused by the superimposition of various animation cells. If you look at the X-Men 97 trailers and clips from YouTube it's very noticeable: every color block has a sort of glow around itself. Does this effect have a somewhat official name? Is it a procedure of different blending modes, or is it a filter doing that?

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I'm considering writing an illustrating a visual novel, since Ren'Py looks pretty easy to learn. But due to my zero experience, I'm seeking advice from people that actually know the matter on what should I shouldn't do. Hit me up on Discord, my handle is "rickleone"

Ok, soul-like genre, do you want to make your games all about right-timed parrying? Give me a fucking training mode for parrying so I can practice it without risking a corpse run. Set the stage in a room of the fucking dream/spiritual/netherworld you ALL have so the immersion won't be ruined

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BTW my dream is to make an RPG where every D&D-style stat is also a seduction stat to end the combat in a non-violent way.
Constitution → Square-shaped himbos
Strenght → Triangle-Shaped himbos
Dexterity → Your boring skinny dude
Intelligence → Lovable Nerds
Wisdom → Comforting Daddies
Charisma → You know

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I've bought RPGMaker on sale on Steam. Let it happily gather dust in my account because I will never ever find the time to learn how to use it. But I can entertain myself with pixel orc walking animations in the meanwhile.

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I'm not doing much art in the past ten days or so. That's because I've adopted a dog: Her name is Luna, an adorable mutt with a lot of Border Collie and some Husky in her, especially the eyes, the tail, and her lust for bird blood. The eyes are especially adorable because they make her look either sassy or dazed, but she's always adorable.
Despite her having a year already (they told me she was only six months old when I adopted her, go figure) we instantly bonded. She's cuddly, sociable, and quite obedient for an untrained dog.
I'm not a (conventionally) religious person, but I feel like she was sent to me. Sensation corroborated by the idea that by now she would be caged in a dog pound if it wasn't for me. Their owners wanted to get rid of her once they realized that raising a medium-sized dog is too much of a hassle. For me, it was just the right thing to do.
I haven't felt so happy and healthy as long as I remember. I've stopped playing games up until midnight and I finally went back to reading instead. I guess I've gained two kilos because I couldn't go to the gym or run during this period (I sprained my ankle while walking her, ugh) but I see a more colored, toned, and happier face when I look in the mirror and that's the important part.
So yeah, her name is aptly Luna because her life revolves around me, and currently vice versa. I have to re-plan my life in a way that I can take care of a dog and still draw a decent amount of hours per day and also hit the gym again. The removal of gaming has increased so much my free time and mental and physical stamina that it doesn't seem impossible.
See you soon!

So, guys, I've been thinking. I do that a lot.
Especially now that with CBM I'm in the coloring and shading phase. And with the end of this update coming, I'm anxious.
Because I've said that I would have gone on with Skyhorn, the comic set on a magic island, which has been stalled for almost two years now.
The problem is that Skyhorn has a plot. A big friggin' quest fantasy plot with multiple PoVs and a multi-choice gimmick. Every time I try to start mapping out the story, I just start panicking.
And I'm sure it's because this story has been brewing in my mind for two years, and it looks more difficult than it would be if I started to work on that.
On the other hand, there's another comic I've dropped, for different reasons. It was XII, the sexy comedy spin on the Heracles myth. Another victim of my experimental phase, it ended up very confused in terms of tone and look. I had to drop it out of frustration but since I'm such a Greek mythology nerd, I've always regretted it.
Lately, I've been playing a game themed around Greek mythology, Apotheon, and that reignited my interest in rebooting XII, not with this title, with a more epic but still comedic tone and with… a sci-fi spin. More space fantasy than sci-fi, with stupid corky stuff like the Netherworld being on Pluto and Heracles wearing a harness that turns into a super-tight spacesuit with the press of a button.
Because… I don't know. Likely because I watched Saint Seiya as a child and I dig its dreamy space atmospheres and gay innuendos.
But it wouldn't be a comic, oh god no, it would be the many times mentioned visual novel. Since it's a medium much hotter than comics and lets you put a lot of written narrative per single image.
But yeah so many irons in the fire and this CBM update has quite lowered my confidence in making art quickly. And I know that it's not representative because I had the worst pipeline ever, switching from app to app over and over and losing already made work along the way.
I'm now completing it on the friggin' Steam Deck, plugged into the graphic tablet via some dark Linux magic, just because the work file has become such a titanic Frankenstein of different content sources that my desktop PC can't handle it anymore and I have to rely on an unexpectedly powerful mini-computer that Valve is apparently selling at a loss.
My emotional brain needs tangible proof that I can work more efficiently than this, and… I seriously don't know. I guess I will break my work into smaller chunks from now on, that's for sure. And do more standalone art concepts. Just to get the gist of the new art program.
And take an hour every day just for writing comic scripts and ideas and see what seems more solid.
Ugh, the anxiety.

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Hey guys, still alive. Just recovering from a bout of gastroenteritis, and don't worry, I live in Italy, so I don't have to worry about not having sick days or insurance coverage. I just feel pretty frustrated about another bump on the road to my next big update.
The reasons why I've been silent for so much time are roughly three.
1. I have a side project about another animation, which is on a fixed amount of hours per week, 7, which don't seem a lot, but they really add up, especially in rougher periods where the time for the comics decreases.
2. The next update of Celebrity Bangmatch is pretty big, 12 pages, 4 more than the original script, and I've also added some extra flourishes to the moves of the contenders, which require time to be drawn. If you're wondering, no, it's not the Incineroar Vs Kraven Match. That one has already been posted on Patreon. I'm just holding it back until I get the new update.
3. I'm switching entirely from Krita to Blender's Grease Pencil. Because the possibilities given by vector art and 3D modeling are too good to pass. But I'm still in the acclimatization phase and I'm not as quick as I could be sticking to Krita: the responsivity is different, I have to remap all the shortcuts and the Shader Tab is still incomprehensible mumbo jumbo to me.
My cautious estimate is that the update will be ready by the end of this month. Then I will start working on the much-feared SkyHorn update. Feared because it will involve a lot of worldbuilding, both written and practical. I want to make the map of the Island 3D, so I have reliability about places and distances, and the backgrounds won't look like "random things scattered here and there" but a real land with its biomes and structures. So I guess that "terrains with Blender" is the next series of tutorials I'm going to spend time with.
Unless Flowscape reveals itself as something more than a simple toy and I can at least do the base terrain with that. Does someone here have a tip about terraforming in 3D?

Ok, that's maybe an overstatement, I just felt like I was close to burnout, i.e. falling down a spiral of self-deprecation for not being able to carry on with a thing, and I preferred to stop.
With the chess challenge, I mean. Turns out that one-piece-per-day challenges are meant for creators that haven't any other series going on, and I have a ton of stuff going on.
I wonder how the "creative block" feels because the only block I have is lacking a second pair of arms to draw and write everything that boils in my head.
Also, a clone slave would be useful with that sort of thing. As I said, every fetish is a cope.
So, it's this challenge over? Not quite, it will go on but more in form of an irregular series I will use to get better a costume design and painting, when I have some time left between CBM, Skyhorn and commissions.
The big shortcoming of a daily challenge it's not letting the creator to take a break and look with a cold and refreshed mind at the piece before posting it.
(Another reason to believe that most of the artists start preparing their October challenges in August.)
And since I need to actually learn from this series, better let myself look at what I've done and fix mistakes, instead of posting stuff in a persistent rush.
Well, right now I'm going back to the Thrall VS All-Might piece, so you will have plenty of orcs this month anyway!
See you very soon.

Inspired by the trainwreck that was Blood of Zeus, I've made this list about ways to feature gods in fiction and don't make the story a waste of time. (Because otherwise, gods should have resolved the problem right at the beginning with their divine powers.)

• They're uncaring for humanity. They let people be abused or abuse them directly. But you have to roll with it and don't try to make them sympathetic. It doesn't convince anyone.
• The majority of them are uncaring for humanity, and we can concentrate on the few caring ones.
• Some of them are actually evil. It has been done to death, it's boring, it has no reference IRL: the only religions with a good VS evil scenario are the Abrahamic ones and Zoroastrism.
• They haven't a human personality and they're the embodiment of concepts and natural forces, prone to bend to the fiercest worshipper. Like the numen in Roman religion before they started mocking Greek pantheon.
• They're dumb and easily gullible. It makes sense because intelligence is first of all a survival skill, but they don't need to survive. But the story and the characters have to acknowledge that.
• They're just smoky spirits that can intervene in very slow and hard to notice ways. Maybe they can summon a blizzard. But in three months.
• Their powers have limitations. No one of them can revive people, Zeus can't directly throw bolts out of his hands but summon thunderstorms, only Hermes can fast-travel and Apollo has no elemental powers at all.
• There's some code of conduct about not intervening directly in human affairs. Maybe because it ended up in a near-apocalypse during the early times. Or because the super gods say so. Or because humanity must learn how to behave by itself.
• They feed upon human faith and without that, they lose power and fade away. A la Neil Gaiman. But it requires them to be dumb or limited in their actions, otherwise, they would just cast prodigies back and forth to keep the faith alive.

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Sorry people, I was finishing the page of SkyHorn but I've accidentally more than three hours of work, and now I'm too tired for redoing the lineart. I'll post it on Thursday. Me and my clumsy fingers and my bad habit of relying on autosaves…

So fellas, after yesterday's post I spent some time thinking about the implications of a mono-gender world where everyone can be both a seeder and a carrier, and I realized a bizarre implication.
If our guys can get pregnant, they have to get also periods.
Something that I won't highlight or fetishize in any way. I won't show guys with a baby bump unless I was so stupid to make it plot-necessary.
So, I started wondering if our guys should bleed through the anus or the urethra, got a bit nauseated, went back to do the homeworks, and found that luckily, bleeding is more the exception than the rule between mammals, and happens just to some primates and a handful of unrelated species.
(Why? It seems like our species build up a thicker uterine lining, in order to protect the tissues of the mother from the very invasive human placenta, and also for better recognizing and suppressing embryos with aneuploidy, a chromosomal anomaly that happens more often between primates. Watch this video if you're more curious about it.)
So, since this world isn't the product of clumsy evolution but a horny bara artist intelligent dragon-gods, I can state that they don't bleed because they produce a thinner lining that can be reabsorbed, and also that they don't need wide womanly hips because they have shorter pregnancies and children come out of the size of an adult hand.
Then I wonder, what could happen during the fertile period? Would they go through a bottom-frenzy? Would in some cultures try to hide during that period not just because there's shaming but for avoiding unwanted pregnancies? Would it be an inappropriate question to ask if they're in that period?
Would interspecies sex encouraged in order to avoid pregnancies? Like, a code of conduit for prostitutes to never hook up with a member of their own species?
Would some bigoted clans treat as an unpleasant necessity having some prostitutes of different species around, especially during those craving-for-cock days?
Personally, I totally expect bulls to be so aristocratic to always gloss over interspecies sex. Them, lions, and tigers. And wolves as well, with a timid aperture towards humans because they give the best tummy scratches.
But now a question, if it ever happens to have the fertility period of one of my guys plot-necessary, which would you like?
Close monthly cycles like IRL humans, or 1-2 times per year like most of the mammals?
Go vote here!

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That’s right guys, I’ve always been very reticent about spreading my efforts on many platforms with many rules and styles, I personally believe that an artist should primarily spend their time improving their art, and then posting it everywhere, but FLO looks like a very neat showcase, both from an artist and appraiser perspective, for the following reason.

• The layout of the site looks like it’s made in this decade. It’s something
• For creators, very easy to post batches of images and tag them.
• You can give a discord-like reaction to the contents you see. Pretty cute.
• The contents can be also music, literature, and streams (!)
• There’s the incognito feature for you, peeps.

That’s pretty subjective, but due (presumably) to the social circles of its creators, the site right now is mostly about gay content. So the annoying “straight” guys that try to explain why their perversions are less perverted than your perversions or try to shame you because you like body types different from the one of the David of Michelangelo, are still absent, and when they will arrive, they won’t be cocky.
So, go take a look and follow me!
My profile isn’t still updated with all my art, it will take a while, but thank god I found a desktop app Postybirb that lets me schedule my posts and publish them on many platforms at the same time. Finally, I won’t feel like I’ve been born in the wrong part of the world when it comes to time zones!

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The kurzgesagt calendar (year 12019 of #humanera) has arrived, and I found also this very pretty sticker to put on my sketchbook. Just to keep me inspired and remember me that art is here to amaze people, to dare something unexpected and use the beauty to introduce new ideas.
I know that most of my followers are here for beefy guys getting dirty, but I really hope, maybe with January, to find the time and energies to start also a proper, non-erotic, but filled with erotic tension, fantasy comic that could do something of very unexpected and wonderous too.

In the meanwhile, I have this sticker on my sketchbook that remembers me that the ability to craft images out of my mind isn't just sweat, frustration and self-worth issues.

It's also awesome.
If used properly

you can find my journals illustrated on rickleoneart.tumblr.com/tagged/art-log

Click here for the previous and ilustrated logs https://rickleoneart.tumblr.com/tagged/art-log
Furiously inking the last page of the next update of Alphas (https://bit.ly/2NM2X3W) my comic about lumbersexual furries competing for the top position. It has been kinda boring in the last weeks to ink and color these pages, especially after the inktober challenge, so I decided to try a new color technique that I hope it will result also more efficient.

I yet succeeded to transfer the technique of sketching on paper on a digital medium, with fewer strokes and less time used. You know there’s a limited amount of drawing and erasing that the paper can take before becoming a mess of cellulose and graphite.

And I’m very glad about that.

Because, as you might now, I want to participate also the #worldember challenge, a challenge based on worldbuilding with no technique restrictions, and I need to squeeze out every useful minute of my day to do it.

For everyone interested, I compiled the commission session. And yep, I promise that I will use the journal session for something else, more personal, than self-promotion. For everyone interested in the dark side of their favorited artists.
Like badmouthing about IG and how dumb are their users. Sometimes dumber than their bots. It's a very promising topic.