May was a slightly less productive month, with a bit more stress and a week long vacation that limited my available drawing time. I've also been working at a different station on my job that further limits how many times I can provide Natashas for the teeming masses.

I do have one additional technology available to me to address that, I recently got my hands on a copy of the new Tomodachi Life and wouldn't you know it, now Estavelle Island is full of residents that you might find familiar and I definitely find familiar. I've been trying to take screenshots of their travails and I intend on sharing them with you all here in a separate post in the near future. I should also note that this art update includes Kat, the mega lady protagonist from Glitch's newest cartoon pilot Gameovers. I just think she's neat!

The month of April marks the arrival of new Dimestore Novel character, Brie Zahn. You see, what had happened was, I was spending a lot of time drawing Hitomi Kanzaki from classic anime The Vision of Escaflowne. Now, I have never been much for fanart and fanworks, and the Hitomi I was drawing bore decreasing resemblance to the Hitomi in the show. Imagine the artistic equivalent of a dog chewing a chew toy. It dawned on me to take this feeling and release it from the burden of being attached to an existing character. With surprising speed it sprang into a new configuration. Like Hitomi, Brie is launched into another world against her will. Unlike Hitomi, Brie is kind of a bad person. Entitled, immature, unwilling and unable to deal with the demands of the real world. So lucky for her the world she finds herself in is not real.

Look forward to seeing how her story intersects with the rest of Dimestore Novel (spoilers, it's laid out on her EoP page).

Additionally, among the love heaped on Natasha and Brie this month you will also find Evangeline, Virginia, and Ashley. Remember them? I wonder if we will ever see and/or meet them in the near future. You never know!! Dig Ashley's cool arm though. Pretty neat, eh? I think you will see her robotic limb in increasingly modular forms going forward.