Part 1 of 3!

My followers on my INSTAGRAM account have already seen these one by one much earlier, I only decided to upload them as artdumps here later. Instagram seems better for work-in-progress things.

BIG DETAILED INFO COMING UP!

As you may know, I've declared that my graphic novel is dead. For several reasons. Clear lack of support on my Patreon which I used to have for over 2 years, me realizing it's not gonna be worth 700 pages for a real copy sale when the existing 50 pages didn't do well either, then there was a serious down in my private life as well, yadda yadda...

Eventually, I've finally come to embrace this feeling that's grown inside me for a while: I badly need to do a remake of the graphic novel, it needs a fresh start! I've put too much effort into the story and characters to just drop it. But just like I've grown and changed over the last 9 years, my art and stories have too. So in a way, I'm actually grateful my first try didn't go well, because now I can change things without any consistency pressure. The main core of my story will remain the same, I'll only do few minor but important changes. For example:

- Changing all my fantasy anthros into real animal anthros.

I got tired of being asked what Senanca is supposed to be, which is a totally reasonable question. His design makes no sense when many others are clear animal anthros. I need to harmonize this universe. Senanca, Vorac, and Marvin are fantasy anthros and the first characters I've designed for the story before I started using real animals for inspiration. If I allowed fantasy/mixed breeds to exist, any species would be unrecognizeable after few generations of active social lives and become confusing mutants. Like a walruss-flamingo-crocodile-ladybug-toad-wolf. Who then marries a parrot-snake-bee-newt-monkey-penguin, and then they have a baby that's a mixture of all these things.

So I'll go with the lazy "whatever species DNA is dominant in the embryo" excuse if two breeds make a baby.

Senanca, which was inspired by cats-goats-weasels, was gonna be a sphynx cat. But then I got introduced to cornish rex cats via Instagram and thought it was a better choice because I wanted him to keep his beard and hair. Cornish Rex are like sphynx but with a thin layer of curly fur so it looked more natural. He did keep his pink eyes though because I find those important.

I know I could have just chosen a goat anthro for Senanca because of the beard. But the Christian religion currently dominates this part of the world, and it would have made this main character of my mafia story too obvious if he straight looked like Satan. Senanca is subtle. He wears glasses/contacts because his eyes are bad, he enjoys bookkeeping like a nerd, loves manicure and hair care, and gets overly excited about indoor decoration and carpet shops. What the fuck kind of cliché bad guy does these things.

Marvin, which was inspired by lions and horses, just became a young lion (whose mane isn't fully grown yet). First I was against this because two felines in a world where I want anthro diversity is uncreative. But then I realized Senanca and Marvin are godfather and godchild, created through family connections, and makes harmonious sense if you look at it scientifically. Haha.

Vorac was inspired by vultures and eels, but he looked more vulture-like. Now he's a Himalayan vulture.

- None of my anthros have tails, wings, fins, etc.

I want them to be human-like from the neck down as far as anatomy goes. Exceptions are hands and feet, they may be more animal-like if it's convenient for the character's daily life.

- The bat spy clan gets to have more bat diversity.

Because I've only drawn flying foxes and a vampire bat so far. Which is boring. More bat species!

- Nilrem's name gets changed to "Nill".

I found the name "Nilrem" in some cheap fantasy names list and derped so fucking hard, I did not realize it's simply "Merlin" backwards. And it annoys me now.

- The title/Senanca's business name gets changed!

The word "Luminahi" was inspired by the English word "luminous", as in "glows in the dark", because traditionally a sex business is shown with a softly glowing red light. But I realized too late that it sounds too much like "Illuminati" which means "the bright/enlightened ones" in Latin. Yay, languages. And this annoys me too.

Still thinking about the title. A simple title that doesn't reveal names of the characters, only mysterious hints. So far I got "Luminous cage" unless I get another inspiration. But Senanca's "Luminahi" will probably be called "Club Luminous" or something.

- Anthros are the "humans" of this world, wild animals and pets will be fantasy creatures like small dragons and shit.

Though many of those fantasy animals are either endangered or hunted into extinction, because my anthros are the humans of this world and do what humans do to wildlife.

- There's probably gonna be porn-y scenes here and there but nothing violent.

My story doesn't focus on porn, it focuses on scenes behind things. However, a story about mafia and hookers will be more believable if I include that content more!

- There be female, male, and also trans/queer/fluid/neutral/tofu/helicopter/insert-Tumblr-slang-here hoes working for Senanca, with diverse sexual orientations for diverse customers.

Senanca is a professional businessman aiming for maximum profit. I thought it made more sense that way. Plus, I don't want the story to seem like it's about oppression of girls. Everyone gets fucked. Mafia bosses don't care about your genitals when you're a tool. Sally is still the main-alpha hoe though, because she's grown on me and gets involved in the story's ending too. :[

- The environment/city/inventions will be mixed between old-fashioned and science-fiction, creating a more fantasy-styled world

because I'm too lazy to look up which historical and cultural things happened when. So I can draw random shit as I please.

- Swear words won't be censored anymore

because frankly I don't give a fuck anymore.

- I won't do German-translation pages anymore

because these are quite time consuming on the long term. Other people can translate my pages into their first language and upload them if they want. As long as links to the original pages are given, and as long as they don't make money with it. My comic will be a free-to-read webcomic too. I don't think I'll open a Patreon for it but I may sell things like stickers and shirts, I don't know. I do plan to make it a real comicbook if I get a large enough audience after many pages, and thus a good argument when I talk to publishers. Publishers are no risk takers, they won't sell what won't sell.

And if this second try on my graphic novel project doesn't work out either, then OH WELL TOO BAD I GUESS! ¯\_(°ᗜ °')_/¯

That's all for now. More changes may or may not occur!