As we approach the end of the year, we enter a twilight art period. The problem is, these roundups bring together all the physical art I've made in the month, but they don't reflect the behind the scenes work I'm doing updating ComicControl and writing and, I dunno, Graphic Design.

A lot of behind the scenes work has been going on this month, including updating the design for dimestore.fun and writing out future comic pages. I also had time to do some art to show my love for fellow artist Grog of Finland. Unfortunately, the art here was done in two parts because I didn't like how Perpsichory's legs turned out. If you want to see the completed version, direct your gaze to the Gallery.
We also see young Nemo, of his Adventures in Dreamland, and Ashley, and a brief cameo by Virginia and Evangeline.

It is widely acknowledged that August is not a creative month. Despite this, I have managed to produce not one, but several additional images of Natasha. Additionally, I have made progress with 3D backgrounds for reference and use with the free program Sweet Home 3D, perhaps I should share that progress in an additional post.
In addition to the standard assortment of Natashas we also see Virginia and Evangeline, Natasha hanging out with Stuart Gipp's Merry (Read Merry Hell), and an unnamed curly haired girl with glasses! Neat!

In July, I had a significant amount of time off from work, which unintuitively means I didn't draw as much. As I may have mentioned in the past I tend to do most of my drawing during my lunch break at work, so it's easy to see how fewer lunch breaks would result in less art. In addition, when I have more than a lunch break's worth of time to devote to art, I tend to put it into bigger projects which aren't so easy to share here. Hopefully more on that soon. Anyway, here is July's bounty for you to enjoy.
We've got Natasha exhibiting poor sword handling skills, Natasha beating the heat, Natasha reading a raunchy novel, Natasha and Evangeline participating in an art meme, Evangeline playing some violin, and last but not least Hitomi Kanzaki from Vision of Escaflowne, undoubtedly rushing to warn Van Fanel that he is seconds away from death.

Pretty happy with my art output in June. Still looking for a workflow that makes producing comic pages feasible. One promising thing I've found is Sweet Home 3D, an open source freeware app that probably won't get me usable rendered backgrounds, but could conceivably give me something I can trace over with relative ease. I'll let you know how it goes!
Anyway, this month we have plenty of cute Natashas, plus cute Virgina, cute Evangeline, and cute Ashley. As a bonus, Miho the eponymous Gumiho from My Girlfriend is a Gumiho gets some representation! How about that!

This month I interacted with friend of the site AniMerrill, and have drawn Kelsie from his comic Let's Move Forward. His comic has a lot in common with Dimestore Novel and I hope to see both stories told in the future.
Here you'll also find the standard assortment of Natashas, including one mermaid because May. Ashley is really looking good this month, as is her brother Asher. Virginia, Evangeline, and Mr. E represent as well. Lastly, a rare one this month, Virginia's rival Roy G. Bivouac makes an appearance.