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More PARTY OF TWO design sketches!
🕑 Added 2020-04-28 14:11:55 +0000 UTCIt's been a while since my last update on this slowly developing project, hasn't it?
Following up on my introductory post on the project, here's 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 two, I've ben noodlin' away at design roughs for the series, including a number based on kindly Patron art requests, such as this first one:
Good to know the a few of the dwarf's D&D 5e stats, right?
Plus, I've been doing some sketches based on Japanese and Western fantasy pose ref photos, such as the cleric-y one below:
The set below was based on Patron suggestions from the $5 and $10 tiers, I believe:
Most of these are analog sketch sets:
...but I've done a few in Clip Studio Paint, such as the one below, drawn this very morning:
Aaaaand back to sketchy analog pencil work:
Below, some rough designs for opponents from a potential story. Initially I tried messing around this designs based on 5e's disciplined, militaristic iteration of hobgoblins, but soon switched over to a sloppier form of humanoid.
And finally, a CSP set of life-drawing sketches drawn from muscle-mag photoref, but shifted to (theoretically) depict the dwarf barbarian:
Anyhoo, if I can claw free s'more time in my multitasking-infested schedule, I'm going to rough out another short story featuring the couple—possibly including the tale of their first perilous hook-up, and also possibly addressing the insanely catchy and thematically relevant current pop ditty that's become the project's theme song, much to my surprise.
Tomorrow on this here Patreon: Peril in store for poor Yuri as she faces off against the Pint-Size(d) Ninja Platoon, in a 5-page excerpt from a damsel-in-distress commissioned comic featuring some shockingly decent fight-scene storytelling. (Available to the $5 tiers and higher.)
Comments
Strypgia
Those _are_ +3 Bootyshorts of Power, indeed.
Tekkaman-James
I am loving everything you’ve shared so far on this project. I know you SO don’t want to draw it, but I hope you do. Regardless, thanks for allowing us to watch as this idea evolves into whatever it will eventually become. I am sure it will be incredible!
Dark Kuno
on the topic of kissing, something I actually read in a Warcraft fic years ago comes to mind. Instead of kissing, orcs tenderly touch foreheads with their SO while closing their eyes. This is again due to the logistics of two people with prominent tusks not being able to properly kiss the way non-tusked humanoids would. It's no less intimate. In fact in some ways it is even more intimate (mingling of scents, "sharing" of breath, etc), and represents a level of complete trust in such an aggressive war-like species, since it is such a vulnerable position to place one's self in. This might work better for the Party of Two for the same logistical reasons in addition to further accommodating the height difference as well. Just an idea I figured was worth sharing.
Eric
If this became another long running book like Empowered I'd collect Party of Two and Empowered side by side.
