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Exclusive Patreon update on new RPG romantic comedy PARTY OF TWO!
🕑 Added 2020-04-10 13:24:16 +0000 UTCFollowing up on last Friday's introductory post on the project, here's a lot more of my still-in-development pitch for a fantasy RPG romantic comedy/ sex farce I'm calling Party of Two—as in, D&D adventuring party of two.
The basic concept:
HE is a fierce, axe-swinging dwarf barbarian, manfully cultivating the stoic hardheadedness, bloodthirsty rage, and apocalyptic worldview required of a valiant but furiously death-seeking warrior bound for Valhalla—and soon.
SHE is a half-orc cleric worshipping a goddess of (tough) love, a good-natured healer whose relentless warmth, sweetness and affection—and horniness!—inadvertently but constantly undermines her dwarven partner's dogged attempts at steely discipline and coldblooded detachment.
Can this starcrossed pair of dungeon-raiding, hanky-pankying monster slayers ever become more than just "adventurers with benefits?" Find out in Party of Two, folks!
Anyhoo, in the last week or so I did up some page roughs for a new random story ideas in both digital and analog media. The first two-pager, "Hilt Deep," sketched hastily in the Clip Studio Paint app, establishes the situation mentioned above:
(I haven't drawn a g-d real action scene in at least a year and a half now, so this project might skew violent to scratch that itch for me.)
Like Empowered, this "sexy RPG comedy" probably won't have actual nudity, but will have pretty overt—if non-explicit— sex scenes. (That might rule it out for Webtoons, though I've not investigated the matter in any detail as yet.)
No idea if I'm gonna retain the dwarf barbarian's goofy, pseudo-Scottish speech pattern going forward, a dubious riff which does seem a tad at odds with his pseudo-Norseman tendencies. (Yeah, I've probably listened to a bit too much Critical Role over the last few months, where such faux-Celtic dwarven dialects abound.)
The next one-pager was originally more complicated—with the dwarf in the background, reacting to the half-orc's metatextual secret-sharing— but to knock out the piece in under an hour of worktime, I just stuck with close-ups of our winsome and betusked heroine:
Next up is a quick sketch of the couple in action, as suggested by one of my generous $20-tier Patrons in an April art-request solicitation. (Note that, if time allows, I try to sketch every suggestion made by the $10 and $20 tiers, as a wan attempt to reward those tiers for the extra generosity.) I might revisit the hand-sketched piece later in Clip Studio Paint, as I try to dredge up viable tools and brushes on that app.
Yesterday, I randomly thumbnailed a 7-page story during the morning shift. Note that the story's pagecount expanded as I was working on it, hence the out-of-order roughs:
Interestingly enough, I've never before done base roughs at this size; I usually do 8.5" X 13" page-proportional sketches first, then recopy them at this size in quad thumbnails, as seen with the Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell roughs I posted here a while back. Then again, this is just a conversation scene, after all; thumbnailing a far more complex fight scene at this size would be tougher to pull off.
And now, the same page roughs, cropped out of the quad format and in the proper order:
Yes, folks, it's my beloved "five slightly abstract panoramic panels" as an opener.
The story has the flustered dwarf asking the usually half-nekkid half-orc why she cavorts hither and yon so immodestly.
As a cleric of a love goddess and a child of a clothing-optional orc culture, she isn't inclined towards covering herself up.
When she points out that her barbarian partner rarely wears very much clothing either, he protests "that's different," though she too finds his immodesty distracting.
Panel two above is a flashback to the couple lying together in a snowstorm, as the dwarf recollects that "the strapping wench's body puts out more heat than Moradin's fewkin' forge."
The barbarian's issue with the fetching cleric's scanty attire isn't one of cultural conservatism as such, but the fact that he has an exceedingly difficult time keeping his hands off of her. Cue the ending sex scene!
Anyhoo, that's all I got on Party of Two for a bit. As I said last week, I'm not sure where this project will be going, but I'm at least having fun doing designs and roughs for it—as opposed to, say, the currently stalled-out Empowered vol.12. (More on that matter later.)
Next Monday on this here Patreon: As usual, more life drawings, folks!
Comments
Tim
I fully support this endeavor. X3
Thos. Merchant
It's interesting, I don't think there's much out there (that I've noticed) that is like this, and it's nice to see Unconventionally Attractive Couples in Hot (Mostly-)Nekkid Luv! I think your storytelling is good enough to make this more than orc-pron!
Strypgia
It's very amusing and cute that she _knows_ she's hot, and is perfectly willing to enjoy the effect it has on him. I'm in for reading about these two.
The Silver Socialist
I think the dwarf might look a little too much like Thugboy.
Felis
I love the idea. You should try to keep their height difference even more pronounced. There is something inherently hilarious in the grim tough guy who can bench press a dragon but is just 4 feet tall :) I bet there is much humor to be extracted from such physically (as well as mentally) miss matched pair. Just as an example - a really cheap one - his eyes are ALWAYS at a level of her breasts :D
Carly Dingman
I love this
The D-Wrek
I personally find the pseudo-Scottish stuff quite endearing and would be sad if it didn't continue, lol. Also, I was wondering if these two would ever come across a certain half-elf during their travels. X'D
Brian Christy Burke
Yay!
Adam Warren
Very cool; thanks much!
Adam Warren
You definitely will (in multiple senses of "seeing more of her," of course)!
Adam Warren
Will do!
Adam Warren
Thanks much!
Adam Warren
Yeah, I gotta admit that this really is a bit of a "placeholder dialogue riff" until I figure out a more appropriate approach for his speech patterns.
Stuart Little
Speaking as a Scot, when I read the dialect reproduced in comics (speaking generally, because there's various sub-dialects in Scotland), the danger is getting it 90% spot on, but then a few key words get missed and kinda breaks the whole thing. Like in this instance, I'd have him say "heid" instead of "head". Speaking of which, just before Tusk Time, mayhaps she proclaims "looks like meat's back on the menu!"?
Ariamaki
Yeah this is 10000% what I am on-board for (Emp as well, of course), sign me up for this romp.
Eric
Enjoyably amusing. Have fun with it!
Sabrina Pandora
I am SO in for this!
Brian Christy Burke
That is a super cute orc! I would not mind seeing more of her.
