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[$5 Tier] Arka Zelandia the Aeon inks

This one will likely become a print, so it has to be painted beyond the margins of the normal comic page edges~ It would make a nice companion to the one I have irl of Ravi :) 

This one: (edit: lmao I forgot to put up the picture)

2022-10-05 03:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post

[$1 Tier] Arka Zelandia the Aeon sketch

The last page of the book will be this lovely illustration of Arka that would make a beautiful print /// 

Just a bit more to go!! aaaa

[$1 Tier] The Ritual page 1 sketch

look at this lol. I love when a moment in a page accidentally becomes really funny lmao

I promise the rest of this is explicit 'not totally played for laughs' smut lol

it was quite hard to choreograph the first panel but I think it looks great :)

News & Updates 10/2/22: Archive Uploads, New Halloween Bundles and More!

The password for this month has been updated on the Archive site! Thanks for your patience everyone :) (The password is on the pinned post for Patrons at the top of my Patreon page). I pulled a tendon in my hand from overexertion (I do hand stretches regularly, but sometimes you move in an unexpected way wher...

[$15 Tier] October 2022 Archive Tier Info

Hi everyone! The Archive password for menplusmonsters.com is:

skyrend201

Enter it on any password-protected page of the archive site above and enjoy Men Plus Monsters comics! :)

Thanks so much for reading,
Aero

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[$1 Tier] Guardian of the Forest page 1 sketch

someone give the little loaf [Arka hatchling] in the first panel a hug :3

[$15 Tier] The Void Calls page 2

arka tentacle fun dot com ;)

[$10 Tier] The Void Calls page 2 flats

local necromancer hoists up 'not-his-partner' with consentacles for pleasure and amusement lol

[$15 Tier] Sanguine page 1 final

Next: The Void Calls page 2, along with the rest of The Void Calls and Guardian of the Forest, then The Ritual and the book is done!! :D

After I finish The Void Calls page 2, I'll upload the next batch of finished pages onto the Archive :) More details in an upcoming text post~

[$10 Tier] Sanguine page 1 flats

it's always the pages where I'm like 'this one will look fine :)' that end up looking really beautiful lol

[$5 Tier] Sanguine page 1 inks

today's question: 'Why in the world is this awesome early-Final-Fantasy-esque song on the Plok! SNES soundtrack?' 

[$15 Tier] Sanguine page 2 final

yeah

[$10 Tier] Sanguine page 2 flats

now with background~ got to love those satiny sheets ///

stylizing the blood because I liked how it looked in The Wolf. I know how to render blood realistically, but for the sake of both style and time, I think this is a good compromise :)

[$5 Tier] Sanguine page 2 inks

Biting and scratching and all manner of fun vicious things.

Notes: The dripping from Verus' 'head' is wetness not c*m, Arka however is coming inside him ;) The lines that aren't inked are part of the background - they're in Verus' bedroom. Probably finishing this one and Sanguine 1 tomorrow :)

[$1 Tier] Zelandia page 8 sketch

it really rustles the divine scholars jimmies when arka runs on all fours like that lol

and with that, Zelandia is over! Now I'm going to work on inking these and the two pages of Sanguine, and doing more of The Void Calls. Lastly, the final story of Skyset Knights 1, Guardian of the Forest, where we learn who Arka's pa...

[$1 Tier] Zelandia page 9 sketch

a pin-up style illustration of our favorite swordboy :)

[$1 Tier] Zelandia page 7 sketch

Hand axe bandit and hawk bandit versus swordless swordsman, featuring owl! I watched Princess Mononoke in preparation for Arka'a backstory and the 'the natural world is grand, beautiful, and terrifying as it is home to monsters and gods' vibe lol. 

Really capturing the feel of the page with the darkness on panel 4 ...

[$1 Tier] Zelandia page 6 sketch

look at how cute Arka is :)

design notes: I poke fun at him looking cute and harmless but in all seriousness one thing they got right with Ardbert is that, when he holds his axe, his silhouette screams 'executioner'*. An axe just says 'something is getting chopped off or cleaved in half' in a way that a sword doesn't. I...

[$1 Tier] Zelandia (actual) page 4

A remix of the mythology of the changeling as metaphor for neurodivergence :) I rewrote this post explaining my choices on this page several times, but I think the writing and art might speak for itself. 

TL;DR, I'm autistic, so is Arka, and this is one of three pages confirming it in canon.

also: there's a s...

Skyset Knights 2: Sword Kings cover art!

Now the cover is finished :) ...Because I drew the final version of Set's design! He was originally in a placeholder outfit on the cover, but now I have written exactly what he will do in their guild / in the story so check out his new design! 

2022-09-18 06:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post

[$1 Tier] Dog Training page 1 sketch

I started laughing around the bottom panel section lol. There is a lot of difference between this sketch and the initial ones, due to the action :)

[Patron Bonus Content] What goes into the making of a Skyset Knights page

As I am working on Dog Training page 1, I'm restarting my computer so Photoshop can run better lol - and I'd like to take this opportunity to show you guys a little bit of what goes into making a Skyset Knights page!

SCRIPT

For this page, a few passes of script were written. This short story is 8 pages, and I want...

News & Updates: Kickstarter + What's Up

Hi everyone! Just letting you know what I've been up to - let's get right to it! :)

KICKSTARTER to print Skyset Knights 3

Right now there is a campaign running to fund development time and the printing of Skyset Knights 3: The Divine and The Cursed. Check it out here!: 2022-09-14 00:18:09 +0000 UTC View Post

[$1 Tier] Zelandia pages 4 and 9 [end] sketch

reminder that some of the stories like this one in Skyset Knights are safe for work and might just be only funny or cute - there will be erotic stuff after, don't worry :)

By the way, Arka's adolescent stage is absolutely cursed, lol. he looks like one of those bootleg dreamworks knockoff movie characters.

redrew ...

[$1 Tier] Zelandia page 3 sketch

based quite a bit on my own childhood, including that I was bullied a lot yet got in trouble a lot for fighting back lol.

[$1 Tier] Zelandia page 2 sketch

Arka was a funny little creature when he was a hatchling :) This was 30 years ago so Celestin is 20-something here.

[$15 Tier] An Interesting Choice of Viewing Material page 2 final

Verus: (looks at Arka in interest)
Arka: (licks own eyeball)
Verus: (nods in agreement)

News & Updates: 9/8/22 Archive Uploads

Hi everyone! Just letting you know that the latest Skyset Knights pages have been uploaded onto the Archive site :)

New uploads:

- Knight in the forest page 1

- An Interesting Choice of Viewing Material page 1

- With Purpose page 1

- Rex & The Sword Kings pages 17, 18, 19 [ed...

[$10 Tier] An Interesting Choice of Viewing Material page 2 flats

this just makes me really want to draw that scene where Verus fucks him for the first time in his sheath, hhh. it's in Skyset Knights 3 so not much longer until then!!

[$15 Tier] An Interesting Choice of Viewing Material page 1 final

I went a little extra on those satin pillows and sheets, lol.

Here's a closer view of my favorite panel from this one: