That’s right! A new month means new goodies for you, the wonderful reader! First of all, we have a new piece of commissioned artwork done by a new artist! Our new artist is Rezuban! Feel free to go over to his dA page and check out his work. Regardless, our commissioned piece is from one of the more recent chapters with Robynne and Angela having a friendly chat!
All I can say is, “Nailed it!” Once again, I’m obsessed with how perfectly an artist nails the background. This is Angela and Mallory’s worn down, cramped, and very plain apartment. From the stains on the linoleum to the couch that looks like it hasn’t moved since the 80’s she gets it all! Rezuban, great. Amazing. If you bother to look at the non-thumbnailed image, you’ll even see how she hits the crampedness of the place. How can there be so many great artists who just perfectly encapsulate things… oh, and Robynne and Angela don’t look half bad either! XD In fact, I think this is the first commissioned Angela (commissioned Pip to draw Spirit Guard Valor originally so I think that’s the closest we’ve gotten before this). And doesn’t Angela just look so prim and proper? Love it! Go ahead and head on over to her dA page here and spread the love for a great piece of artwork!
Also, for my patrons, head over to my patreon page to check out my very first Q&A! It was a blast to answer your questions and I look forward to answering them again this month. Also, as a reminder, the next MGP Vignette goes up on the 15th so be on the lookout for that.
Lastly, before I leave for the night, please, if you’re a $3 and up patron, remember to comment on the Fan Reel. I’m closing the most recent chapter down this weekend so I can post the update. Also, the next chapter is going up either the 11th or the 19th. Why the full week gap? Well, more family comes in town during that week so I know if I don’t get it posted on the 11th, I’m likely not getting it completed until the 19th. But that’s life.
Regardless, thanks so much for your support,
Taralynn
PS: Almost forgot to mention, thanks to those who voted for the September Pin-up image! Robynne won out over Kara and it looks like she’ll be wearing a Japanese School Girl outfit! So look forward to that in September!
Every time the story mentions that Angela is blonde I have this moment of surprise because I forget that due to this incredibly strong image I have in my head of her, and that image has very dark brown, essentially black hair. So this image was particularly jarring at first. It took me about twenty seconds of racking my brain for “Who has Robynne had a hapopy, one on one talk with in recent chapters?” before it clicked that it was Angela. It’s so different from how I pictured her. Angela is so much the straight-laced one, the one reminding the teacher “You forget to give us homework”, so I always pictured her as thinner, with a long face and limbs, and mousier, with dark hair and eyes. I know this contradicts the descriptions we’re explicitly given in the story, but you know how it can be when you read a story and form an image. Plus, to be fair, the descriptions were rarer in the beginning when I was forming my image and I went more off her characterization. So this picture will actually help me a lot because now I have a reference for how she’s SUPPOSED to look and maybe it’ll finally sink in to my thick skull.
I used the word “image” a lot. I probably should have proofread. I should have said this “picture” was jarring at first.
Well alright, I’ll ask. What IS with the up arrow?
Oh my god, that’s the artist from Transcerebral! I thought they dropped off the face of the internet! It had such a promising start, but then the site just went dark after too long with no updates.