Zoe Rebooting
Think this is the one. My art has gotten good enough to where I think it is serviceable and by doing it in B/W I can more easily go back and fix panels I think look bad down the line without it being too much work to be worth it. It will by stylistically the same as the new UGH! comic, which if haven’t yet, be sure to go check out. Far less explicit and more focused on the story, but still pornographic. Zoe won’t be having nonstop sex in this new version (but the old pages will remain for anyone who is more insterested in just seeing her doing every sex act imaginable).
I feel the current comic has indulged too much on the sex to the detriment of the story and feel a lot of the charm has been lost in the process. I’ve always treated these comics like rough drafts and would eventually do a “final draft” I am cautiously optimistic that this could be the final draft, same with the UGH! one. I’ve been really in a groove with both comics and really happy with how they have come out. Currently am working on page 14 of UGH! and really think the humor and personality is shining through better than any previous attempt, and with the Zoe I finished page 4 last night and think it is really solid so far and have an idea in my head where to take things that will hopefully make everyone happy.
These B/W pages don’t take me nearly as long so I can both get more done, and not be rushed into posting less than stellar pages. I am going to see how many I can get done a week but pretty confident that I can maintain 2 a week of each. Depending on how the next 2 weeks go I might shoot for 3 of Zoe, but need to see if that is something I can manage consistently.
I am finishing the current arc so that the story has a bit of a sweet ending so those that are invested in it don’t feel abandoned. My estimation is it will take 7 more pages to complete the arc, so in 7 weeks I plan to reboot Zoe.
How many more times are you going to do this lol.. like look I get that you’re a happy guy making this comic but how many years have you been dragging Zoe and your other projects along with seemingly no real growth to speak of? Friend I love your work and I’ve donated more times than I’m happy to admit to but this comic isn’t getting any valuable traffic. Your Twitter isn’t growing, expanding, or doing a whole lot of anything, you need money and you’re just falling into this seeming rut that at some point Zoe is going to kick off…
I feel bad because I care about you but sugar coating the message isn’t going to solve anything, you need to take a step back and look to see what can be done to put yourself on the right track to artistic success.
I don’t know if that means side gigs with video game companies, I don’t know if that means sell your soul and draw furry smut for thousands of dollars a picture, hey who knows maybe you’re under NDA and actually making it work with other artistic jobs, but the last time I looked back you were complaining about a lack of funds and didn’t seem to be doing too much about it. You need to get your name out there already and win it big like the other artists out there on Twitter and the like who are putting in 1/4th the effort you do but getting six times the payout.
Give it some thought, Zoe isn’t cutting it for your longevity and wellbeing man.
Thanks for the concern. I stick with Zoe because it is a character I like and the only one I’ve been able to consistently follow through with over the years (been drawing her every week for a decade now, when everything else falls by the wayside a few weeks into the project).
Curious, are you a sponsor and have you seen the reboot of Ugh? I am really really happy with how that has come along so far (18 pages done in a month) and think once it starts finding its footing here it will help the site grow a bit (not a huge amount but hoping it will trend things up instead of slowly losing people’s interest).
I have a non porn game I have been working on and hope to someday release that I think has a lot of potential, but is slow going. hoping by end of the year to have it in a place where can at least release it on pc (eventually want a phone version).
And I wish I could find success as easily as you think it is but its not easy, there aren’t many ways to get exposure and twitter is such a weird monster to try to get traction on. I’ve had a few drawings do well there but really the only thing I can hope for is something I put out gets retweeted by some people with much larger audiences than me, till then I just got to keep toiling away waiting for my “big break”.
hopefully more incest this time
probably a lot less, want to keep it simple, so sex likely only will be with Damien and Audrey, MIGHT still include the Uncle as I’ve always thought that was a fun arc, but mostly want the story to stay front and center instead of just doing whatever. Ugh will have incest though 😉
Damn. I’m a big fan of the mother daughter scenes
Yeah I enjoyed them too :). I’m sure I will have fanservice there (already have a naked Abi hugging Zoe in the pages completed so far)