TopHeavy

Weekly Update 5/16/2024

So we're on to Chapter 4, and I'm trying to do at least 4 pages at a time in the hopes of getting through the next few chapters quickly. I'll probably fail but it's worth trying.

There's something about this that's bothering m...

Daily Update 5/15/2024

So you know how I said I was feeling better after being sick and was going to get back to work? Yeah, my body made a liar of me and I was knocked down for another week. Sorry. I am much better now. I can actually breathe and sit up straight without the world spinning. Soooo.... I'm back to work this week, but I will be gone...

Weekly Update 5/9/2024

I don't want to go into details but I've been ill and didn't get much done this week. Hopefully next week will be better. The basic lighting in all of my pages starts off as cel shading because its easier to work out how the light falls across form that way. So this is still very early in the process for this page.

2024-05-09 09:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Update 4/29/2024

I made a lot of progress today. I did a couple of redraws, and cleaned up the next five pages.

2024-04-29 23:05:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Weekly Update 4/26/2024

I got 3 pages for you today. One thing I learned from the Rockini Piece... I really need to focus on backgrounds. In that piece I specifically decided on and painted the background before I did anything with Toph. That isn't my typical workflow and I think it should be. I've spent a lot of time trying to make these backgr...

Weekly Update 4-17-2024

Hey guys, back at it again. Had to take a break last week due to some personal drama, but I think (hope) that it's been taken care of. I'm kind of upset because I was on fire with the recent Toph Rockini Pin Up, and now I feel super cold. So its taking some time to ramp up. 

I'm not a huge fan of wher...

Toph Pin-Up "I call it the Rockini"

I've been feeling unhappy with my work lately, so I enrolled in some online illustration courses to try and improve, but before I go through them, I want to establish a baseline. I'm at the point with this now where I feel like any adjustment I make will make it worse, so this is my baseline.

I specifically put what I ...

Weekly Update 4-5-2024

I am taking a break this week to do a pin up of Toph to sort of gauge where my skills are. This is still a WIP.

This should be finished by the end of the weekend.

Daily Update 4-2-2024

For starters, just as a reminder, Subscribestar is a thing.

No Toph Heavy news today for a few reasons. I said on twitter I was feeling stagnant as an artist, and that's true. I decided to pour all of my knowledge into a single pin-up to gau...

Weekly Update 3-28-2024

Hey, an on-time weekly update. How about that? So I wrote the script for the Teresa comic. I'm not sure if you all would be interested in that. And I also got some pages done this week. As a reminder, thanks to the TOS and continued hostility towards adult content on this platform, Toph Heavy will be moving to 2024-03-28 14:50:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Update 3-25-2025

Hey, just some touch ups and finishing touches on pages. I'm going to take a day to see if anything that needs fixing stands out.

I removed the rimlight on the head because it flattened things out too much. If the rimlight wa...

Weekend Update 3-24-2024

Normally, I try to take my weekends off to avoid burn out, but I liked this page so much that I kept working on it. The big change here is that I added dialogue and a rimlight. Where is the Rimlight coming from? Who cares. It looks neat. But I also made a more subtle decision to lower the brightness of the main light falling ...

Daily Update 3-23-2024

An extra page inked, flatted, and rendered all in one sleepless night. I'm trying to improve the rate at which I do things because I currently have 5 projects in the works. I need to be quicker. I think the reason I am so slow is that the drawings I am rendering are older. My skill as a draftsman has improved and I'm...

Weekly Update 3-22-2024

This week has been exhausting. Gumroad banning NSFW. Changes to Patreon. And it looks like soon you'll be able to be sued for posting rule 34 to Twitter. I didn't get much done. The temptation to go in to a rant is very strong, but I just wanna offer some art in this trying time.

I need to do some final edits for the ...

Daily Update 3-19-2024

Follow up to my last post. Thanks to TOS changes I am divorcing Toph Heavy from this patreon. Unless Patreon forces me to do this sooner, Toph Heavy is moving to subscribestar completely once Part 3 - Chapter 3 is finished. That's 7 pages from now. ...

A very important post about the future of Toph Heavy and this Patreon

I know this is very long. I've tried to make it digestable, but still, as daunting as it may be... please read it. It's very important.

The Bad News

I'm going to start with an admission. I am barely getting by. All of my income amounts to about half the minimum wage of my state. About 80% of t...

Toph Heavy Part 3 - Chapter 3 - Page 11

I may make some minor adjustments, but this one's finally 99% done and worth sharing. 

Weekly Update 3-14-2024

So this was kind of a "slow" week in that I got stuck trying to fix a page. I think I'm almost there, and I plan to post the finished thing tomorrow.  Going back and forth on little minutia is the kind of thing I'm hesitant to give a daily update on, so there weren't that many this week.

2024-03-15 01:33:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Update 3-12-2024

So I didn't update yesterday because I was recovering from a weekend marathon of FF7 Rebirth. I was able to finish it. I laughed. I cried. I screamed WTF. Highly recommended.

Moving on. I think I'm like 90% finished with this page.

2024-03-13 04:43:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Update 3-8-2024

Kind of a "small" update today. I wasn't feeling too good and decided to take it easy by putting some finishing touches on a page that was almost complete.  As I was putting those finishing touches on I realized...."wait a minute, these proportions are off." The next thing I knew, the entire day was gone as I redrew and ...

Weekly Update 3-7-2024

There was no daily update yesterday because there was a huge snowfall, and my snowblower broke, so my arms were dead for almost the entire day. Sorry. 

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2024-03-08 00:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Update 3-5-2024

Only got this page rendered. We got about a foot of snow and I spent half the day shoveling. More snow tomorrow too, so there will likely only be one thing to show tomorrow too.

The pages are getting easier to render because t...

Daily Update 3-4-2024

Today was busy and I didn't get as much as I wanted to done. Monday is a day when I'm warming up for the rest of the week.  First is an upcoming project. A comic commission of Lois Lane growing some huge tats after a chance encounter with some special Kryptonite, and what Clark does to get them back to normal.

2024-03-05 00:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Update - 3/1/2024

Today I did some rendering on a couple of pages. 

This is a basic shading pass of just the characters. I...

Daily Update and Weekly Update

Daily Update for WIP tier
Weekly Update for Early Bird Tier

Doing it this way because I want to work on multiple pages at once and drop full chapters on you guys.

Weekly Update on Thursday

So consider this the first weekly update.

2024-02-29 07:06:43 +0000 UTC View Post