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[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 25

Jojo weaves in and out of the panel borders to find a friendly hand in the abyss. ♥

One more short page after this in Chapter 1! I'm really looking forward to diving into the meat of the story in Ch2, now that the story and its direction is set up! I've got the things I'm excited for - what are you looking forward to ...

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 24

Sylvia's inevitable scar is the conversation politely not had on this page. There's mourning in that, too.

A little creepy crawly hiding in the closet has come to offer some comfort. ♥

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 23

We're coming up on the end of the chapter very shortly (25 pages with maybe some splash art for the 26th), with one final small cameo arriving on the next page. ♥

Here's that bottom left panel without the dialog! Looking forward to doing more flashbacks like this as we go, too!

2024-07-08 06:18:54 +0000 UTC View Post

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 22

The hovertext for this one is:

pro introvert strat, using two completely opposite excuses within one minute of each other

To those it applies to, we wish you and your pets a very quiet, firework-free weekend ♥ We wish a lovely weekend to everyone just the same, though!

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 21

Here's a little dash of more introduction! Most of this will come up in the comic in the next chapter, but none of it is spoilers so much as it is the slowness of webcomics to deliver major exposition in such a small amount of real estate. ♥ As I write this up here, I'll start adapting it for the cast page, too.

Jack ...

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 20

Sometimes... sometimes everything just takes a little longer than you expect it to.

Meet the neighbors, btw! Felix is the 6'3" ginger with a crushing bear hug. Jack (short for Jacqueline, specifically not Jackie) and Ernest are cousins. Jack and Felix live next door to each other, across the street from the Dunstan-Schw...

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 19

Roger absolutely stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to make sure he heard from his baby girl.

Coincidentally, we stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to queue this page, too! But look at us, going to bed before 2AM, and a full 8 hours before the page goes live! \o/

We'll get there, lmao. Expect...

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 18

There are so many new scenes in this chapter (of course), which includes sooo many maps. Previously it was designing the main street of town, which we saw earlier in the chapter— and now, these last few pages have prompted mapping out their new house.

I thought it might be fun to share the floor plans for said house h...

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 17

Happy belated Father's day!

We've begun building backlog, and that starts out as sketching out the rest of the chapter, then inking, then having multiple pages to batch upload. In the meantime, we make sure to still get a fully completed page up on update days. even if we haven't started inking the rest of the batch. Pr...

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 16

It'll be interesting to candidly share how far along we are in buffer-building in real time, now that we're back. I think we've learned a lot in the last few months (under just a wee bit of pressure) about how to work more efficiently, so I'm optimistic about building a buffer more effectively than we ever have before.

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[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 15

Hey lovelies! It's been a minute, huh?

I'm queuing this page up literally minutes after it's finished - and that's a nostalgic feeling, let me tell you. I can't tell you how many TOY pages were added to the queue with the "posting in 4 hours" notification, and here we are again. Friday's page will arrive for you either ...

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 14

Here's another page of LIFT for you, lovelies. Keeping a buffer alongside the omnibus is tough, but just wait until we're not splitting ourselves in two! It's only a few more updates until we'll be finished at this point, too! Maybe we can even do more updates a week... ♥

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 13

These pages continue to remind me how much I hate moving. Hope you're doing well, friends ♥ We're tired but happy over here, just getting through the work and lots of pages!

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 12

Woof, this one took a while - both from backgrounds and from being sandwiched between a couple major deadlines. We'd like to get another couple pages of LIFT done this week now that we have a little more breathing room. Here's this for now; some more Elijah. ♥

[LIFT Update] Chapter 1, Page 11

Lots of love and hometown pride on this page on this page, for me. ♥ Looking forward to continuing to build this imaginary town with real pieces of Massachusetts. 

I'll also include a copy of the page with no word bubbles:

2024-02-27 00:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post

[LIFT UPDATE] Chapter 1, Page 10

This was a very fun page to make.

I'll also include a few panels sans-words, because these were especially fun. ♥

That tiny Teddy and Liam in the top panel might be my favorite thing about LIFT so far.

2024-02-10 11:50:21 +0000 UTC View Post

[LIFT UPDATE] Chapter 1, Page 9

It's such a treat to make pages for LIFT! We're making these pages alongside working on the TOY omnibus, and while both are very satisfying to work on, there's just something about telling a brand new story that really sparks joy. ♥ 

First mention of Elijah! Next page will actually feature him, ...

[LIFT UPDATE] Chapter 1, Page 8

Hey, Owena here this week! I'm really happy with how this page turned out! I'm glad for Sylvia's personality to start to unfold as she gets a chance to really speak, and I'm looking forward to all of us (me included) getting to know her better as an adult person.

It's been a looong time since Suzana and I have ...

[LIFT UPDATE] Chapter 1, Page 7

Hellohello, our first update for LIFT since we launched the website on Wednesday! The response has been really lovely so far and we're very happy to get to work on regular webcomic updates again ♥ Welcome to our new patrons, too! Thank you to you and those who have been with us for a while, we really appreciate the support ...

[LIFT UPDATE] Chapter 1, Page 6

I hope the holiday season was wonderful for all of you! We're going to be launching LIFT publicly after the new year on January 3rd and we're very happy to have all of these pages to share with you all first ♥

I've been inking the early pages for the TOY omnibus alongside these pages, which is great for loosening up b...

[LIFT UPDATE] Chapter 1, Page 5

This page was a lot of fun to work on and something I've been looking forward to making. Fun is a weird word to use there, because the word fun implies more lightheartedness than the content allows. When I say fun I mean this is probably the most creative flexibility I've had making comics in a long time ♥ It's a joy to mak...

[LIFT UPDATE] Chapter 1, Page 4

Usually I'd include the alt text here, but we haven't had any alt text yet for LIFT. We're still very interested in doing it, but these early pages felt out of place for it as we started posting to patreon. We might add some as it goes live on the website, which we're now setting up for a launch in January— but for now we a...

[LIFT UPDATE] Chapter 1, Page 3

Rabbit, rabbit! I hope December finds you well and treats everyone nice this year. ♥

I'm thrilled to say the slipcases have officially been shipped, after an understandably lengthy printing process ♥ The video we received from the printer yesterday looks amazing (especially the spot gloss that couldn't be applied to...

[LIFT UPDATE] Chapter 1, Page 2

Happy Friday! Very thankful to be getting into the swing of things, I missed these two a lot. ♥

We definitely have plans to post flashback comics to their wedding, as well as other events between TOY and LIFT - likely most of them will be Patreon exclusives, too. ♥ We're looking forward to sharing those!

[LIFT UPDATE] Chapter 1, Page 1

Thanks for your patience, lovelies, as we finished this first page of LIFT. ♥ We'll be building a patron-only backlog here on Patreon before we publicly launch. We're not sure how many pages we'll finish pre-launch; maybe five? Maybe ten? Regardless of that, please enjoy this private page. ♥ More incoming shortly as we fi...

What I've been working on lately

Happy October! I have so much work going on behind the scenes that has been difficult to share, but this set of drawings is something I was excited I can share with you all.♥

Sharing some commission samples!

Here are a few commission samples for Kickstarter! I do a sketch version of eac...

New TOY Extra: Voice Rest

Hellohello, here with some good news! We just added the last 18+ extra to the store and dropbox, titled Voice Rest!

Here's a link to the extra in our store ♥ 

If you are on the $10 ti...

2023-08-14 04:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post