217 – Check yo self
HD + Textless | WIP
I hope we all make it through this pandemic, so take care of yourselves everyone! I’m just gonna keep doing what I’m doing: make stuff at a snail-like pace.
Writing and thumbs: 36m | Sketching: 8h 19m | Lineart: 2h 15m | Flats: 1h 2m | Final: 2h 37m | TOTAL: 14h 13m
↓ Transcript
Tammy: ...AH?! It didn't work?!!
Hibi-Hibi: Calm down dear. Your face and some parts of your body are back to normal. (interesting...)
Tammy: Ohhh! No more dog nose in the way too! What else went back to normal?
Tammy: Hey boys! Cover your eyes, look away, or whatever!
Keith: Ehh?
Cruz: What for?
Tammy: I'm going to check myself out, so don't you dare look!
Hibi-Hibi: Calm down dear. Your face and some parts of your body are back to normal. (interesting...)
Tammy: Ohhh! No more dog nose in the way too! What else went back to normal?
Tammy: Hey boys! Cover your eyes, look away, or whatever!
Keith: Ehh?
Cruz: What for?
Tammy: I'm going to check myself out, so don't you dare look!
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Collar specs 1/3: Primary transformation powers
Oh man this took sooo long. And regardless of a pandemic going on, it’s back to work for me!
Originally this one was super long, but Clip Studio (and my computer) couldn’t handle the large size, so I’ve split this thing into three parts.
I might make a separate blog-type post for this later so the info will be easier to look up.
I’ve been itching to blog again, so here’s A Lazy Blog, Take Two!
I’ll be posting about:
- personal stuff
- random stuff
- cool stuff
- rants
- memes
- unrefined, practice, and warm-up sketches. I didn’t want to flood my other websites with these
I prefer using WordPress for “content” like these, so if these look fun to you then feel free to sub/follow. I’ll only publish really big or important posts to Facebook (and maybe Cat Nine), but I’ll definitely share most of them to my Twitter and deviantArt.
I also won’t blog about finished artwork or comic-related updates like with my old Tumblr, so go sub to Cat Nine or my other social media for those! Or… make it a monthly update of all the stuff I’ve drawn that month. It makes sense to post them here after all.
Speaking of which, I originally did import the older blog from Tumblr. I changed my mind since most of them are old (because of the first panel comic updates) or Tumblr-exclusive, so they looked out of place here. And I didn’t want to have to edit 200+ posts too, so I might as well start from scratch.
If I like blogging enough then maybe I’ll get a proper lazylonewolf.com domain, but that’s another yearly expense. I could’ve made a subdomain here, but lazylonewolf.cat-nine.net just doesn’t look great to me.
More likely I’ll just abandon or forget about this blog again, but hey
(Off to a good start with the memes eh?)
Thanks for the input everyone, I’ve already applied Horizontal Scrolling for mobile-users to every comic strip in the site. You might have to zoom-in for the double or larger comic strips, but they’re still readable in my experience. Horizontal Scrolling also shouldn’t conflict with already webtoon’d comic strips like with Episode 1. I might convert more strips too to webtoon in the future if I have the time!
ggwp
Regarding that unofficial poll by our Discord mod BlueDavrial. Reminder that wild animals are still savage!
Transcript
Myan: Aww, I lost!
Tammy: Muahaha, sorry Myan! Just too many dudes lusting after my hot hot wolf bod.
Tammy: Muahaha, sorry Myan! Just too many dudes lusting after my hot hot wolf bod.
Myan: I would’ve won if I got the big cat vote. In fact…
Myan: Yo stripyboy, do you think I’m best girl?
Stripyboy: (No. I don’t even know who you are.)
Valentine’s 2020
HD + WIP + Textless ($3+ patrons)
A bit late but hey. And yeah, there’s a textless version if you’re that thirsty, wink wink.
I didn’t originally really plan this to take place before our heroes (I gotta come up with a name for their group…) arrived at their village, but making it so seemed like a good fit.
I also don’t really have names for these three girls yet, though I’ve just been naming the layers I drew them in as “Nami”, “Hothead”, and “Blondie”.
Oh yeah, just found out about the<details> html tag. Gonna use them for the transcripts. Unlike the actual comic pages, that feature isn’t built-in for these blog posts…
Transcript
[The trio of Haliyans discuss their plans for getting a date…]
Redhead Haliyan: The waiting game. Works every time, eventually!
Brunette Haliyan: Ah, patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. But I prefer-Brunette Haliyan: Brustkrieg!! Give them no time to think, except “yes”!
Redhead Haliyan: Bodacious, as usual!Blonde Haliyan: Instead of relying on convoluted tactics, I was thinking of just asking directly this time.Brunette Haliyan: EHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!!
Redhead Haliyan: Is that the breast you can do?!
Redhead Haliyan: The waiting game. Works every time, eventually!
Brunette Haliyan: Ah, patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. But I prefer-Brunette Haliyan: Brustkrieg!! Give them no time to think, except “yes”!
Redhead Haliyan: Bodacious, as usual!Blonde Haliyan: Instead of relying on convoluted tactics, I was thinking of just asking directly this time.Brunette Haliyan: EHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!!
Redhead Haliyan: Is that the breast you can do?!
Writing and thumbs: 1h | Sketching: 4h 54m | Lineart: 1h 8m | Final: 2h 29m | TOTAL: 9h 32m
While you’re waiting for me to finish the Valentine’s Day 2020 comic, I’ve been doing some testing with possible mobile comic formats. Help out by testing them out with your phone/tablet, then tell me your opinions and suggestions in the comments or polls below!
In order of how easy they are to implement:
Horizontal Scrolling
Comics can now scroll horizontally. Work involved depends if I upload bigger comic sizes to compensate for the zoomed-in comic. Looks pretty nice in either orientations, I can actually implement this right now if you guys don’t care about the image lower quality!
Rotate
The comics, just rotated 90 degrees. I still have to upload a separate file for each comic with this method, but at least all I have to do is rotate and export them. Oh, and just before someone suggests it, I did try rotating the whole comic navigation + comic with CSS, but too bad the rest of the page’s elements don’t adjust automatically. If that worked, this would be a way easier fix than Horizontal Scrolling.
I’m not too keen on this though since you have to set your phone to portrait mode, it’s hard to switch into a different format if I change my mind later, aaand my inner web designer is telling me this is stupid.
Manga/Rectangle page
Upload new versions of the comic strip in a manga-like rectangle format. Gonna take a lot of work to convert the strips into this. The benefit with this is I might be able to use this in physical prints, though the page you can see is still a bit shorter than an actual (Shonen Jump) manga page. Around 20% shorter to be exact! I was thinking of changing Cat Nine’s format to something like this, but I’ll think about it more seriously after the current episode is over.
Related to this is the square format like with the Mega Myan VS Bakunawa comic. Fits in most places and super easy to share in sites like Instagram, but it’s a lot more limiting than it looks. I’m sure you’ve seen some comics that would be a lot better if they cut one or more panels for their joke… and if not, just check out r/comedynecromancy for some examples. You could argue that they just need to level up their humor, but some comics need fewer panels, and that’s often not possible with a square format. Finally, I want to reserve this format for bonus comics, for now. Why am I using it then? Well, it just looks so nice in the home/blog pages ain’t it?
Webtoon
Some of you should be familiar with this mobile-optimized, super-long, vertical comic format. Downside is, like the manga page format, this will take some time to convert and upload. The benefits of this is I can upload this to websites LINE Webtoon, Tapas, and MangaDex. I suppose it does look great on mobile, though I’m not a huge fan of this since you can’t really be creative with the panels… though I’ll admit, I haven’t played with creative panels recently, so this might be a moot point. Lastly, you can drop some panels if needed, unlike the square format. A neutral point is I can just rotate the long horizontal panels I’ve used in Cat Nine. Not ideal, but it will do!
I was supposed to put up an Opinion Stage poll here, but they apparently have a 250/month view limit now with the Free version. They’ve become extremely greedy these past years, geez. Gonna use Straw Poll from now on!
I just told myself I wouldn’t be fiddling around with the website again, but ehh, I suddenly found myself having another go at trying to make the website more mobile-friendly again.
So far, all I’ve done is:
- Remove the left-sidebar. The left-sidebar disappears when the width is down to a certain size. This should work on most mobile screen sizes (in both orientations), but also with desktop browsers, unfortunately. If I did this correctly, the left-sidebar shouldn’t disappear when you resize desktop browsers, but I don’t have the time yet so this will do for now! Later, I’m planning to put up another sidebar for mobile-users just below the bottom comic navigation that displays my social media, ko-fi, and Patreon.
- Disable all of the widgets on mobile for the left sidebar. The left sidebar is just hidden through CSS actually, so I still need to disable some of the widgets before they load so mobile-users don’t load them, specifically the advertisements. I disabled all of them though just in case, and they’re only disabled for mobile. This should speed things up a bit for mobile-users!
- Adjust the width to 100% for the right sidebar. Well, the remaining sidebar, which contains most of the content. If I left it alone, there’d be a huge space left by the removed left-sidebar. Reading the blog/
comments, and looking at the artwork from the homepage looks a lot nicer now! Er, okay, the comments look too small to read without zooming-in. I don’t recall if they were that small before I changed stuff, so, sorry if it did become smaller! - From now on, artwork will fit 90-95% of the screen’s height. I’ve applied it to all of the artwork displayed currently displayed in the homepage. Looks like I need to decide on a minimum width for them so they’ll fit it perfectly for mobile…
- Added some slight space between the bottom comic navigation and the responsive ad, to lessen misclicks.
And sorry, but you still have to zoom-in and/or read in landscape orientation for most of the comics since I have to convert them to the vertical format first, which takes a lot of time, plus not all pages will fit the format correctly.
I was thinking if I should permanently change to a square/vertical/manga page format to make things easier for myself. I still like the horizontal strip format a lot though, but I’ll think about this more seriously after the current Episode is over. What do you guys think?
Mega Myan VS. Bakunawa
HD + WIP + Textless ($3+ patrons)
Early accessed by $3+ patrons on 1/10/2019
Anyone remember this? Also a callback to page 127.
Transcript
Myan: I got an idea! Make me big too so I can fight the Snek!
Myan and Bakunawa: [HISS]
Tammy: Snake.
Hibi-Hibi: Iiit’s a nice suggestion, but it’s just not possible.
Keith: What’s actually gonna happen if you’re gigantic is-
Myan: MEOWRR!!
Myan: That… might happen, not gonna lie.
New Discord Emojis
IndiSkye and MCWildcat boosted the Cat Nine Discord server, so we got 100+ more emoji slots to use, so thanks you two! Now we have a lot more emojis to abuse. I hope I won’t regret adding some of these, especially those two with Myan and Tammy licking!
Comicad Ads
Remember Project Wonderful (RIP)? A couple of guys started a replacement called Comicad.net, and I’m already using it to publish and advertise as some of you have already seen. Perhaps if it performs better than Google Adsense, I’ll even replace all of them with these.
So if you guys got a website, comic, or artwork to advertise, why not start here? For now, I’ve got two ad units:
- Leaderboard (728×90): This leaderboard ad shows at the top of most pages, and more importantly, near comic pages, so it’s prime real estate! Has a minimum of $0.15 though. I replaced an Adsense responsive ad for this, but it’s starting to look like it’s worth it.
- Skyscraper (160×600): Found on the bottom left sidebar. Visible while scrolling down the homepage, most posts/pages, and the comments section. No minimum bid. And for now, I’ve also set it so it will follow people around when they scroll down for maximum visibility! I hope that doesn’t annoy people too much though… but hey, most of you are reading for free you know!
- NEW! Square (300×250): Replaced another responsive Google ad, this time in the left sidebar. Added 2/9/2020. Looks like there’s a max of 3 ads per website with Comicads.
Finally, depending on your Patreon tier, these three ads will be disabled similarly with Adsense ads if you’re logged-in.
Christmas 2019
Belated Merry Christmas 2019 everyone! Myan is a reindeer girl here.
Hibi, Haliya, and Bakunawa Sprite Sheet
Yup, the sprites used in page 212. Good enough for some simple games eh?
Butter Sugar Cream
HD & WIP ($3+ patrons)
Early accessed by $3+ patrons on 12/16/2019
I love the song, it’s cute! She’s one of the girls from Butter Sugar Cream’s cover art. Also available on Spotify!
Super not feeling it when I drew this and I have no idea where the big ara ara energy came from, but I don’t think anyone’s gonna complain!
Nine Shades of Myan
HD & WIP ($3+ patrons) | Nude ($5+ patrons)
Early accessed by $3+ patrons on 12/12/2019
Originally, I was wondering what she’d look like with dark skin since a cat’s skin is the same or similar to their fur in real life. Might as well try with paler skin too!
The teacher from page 45 to be specific.
And yep, nude version available, it’s been awhile!
Magicat Girl – Panther Witch
HD ($3+ patrons)
Early accessed by $3+ patrons on 11/28/2019
So… if I ever start Magicat Girl again as a comic or game, Myan would have alternate forms such as this.
Power-up or alternate form? I think I’ll go for alternate form like in Ben 10 or Shantae.
Gotta have black cats when it comes to witches, so I went with panthers since they’re typically black for some reason. And each of her other forms would have other cats and colors associated with them.
A witch should definitely be her first alternate transformation since the first magical girls were apparently inspired by Bewitched . Try watching it on Youtube too guys, it’s actually pretty good!
Spats Rallidae
HD & WIP ($3+ patrons)
Early accessed by $3+ patrons on 12/3/2019
Gotta be fit to chase the news! As suggested by Yugo Ryan 
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Like her, I’m exercising too by trying out some soft airbrushing again! Might as well since it’s another thing to add to my skill set for commissions, ehem.
Just in case anyone asks, I just like the look cel-shading better in most cases, aside from saving tons of time that is. I haven’t done much practice or research when it comes to airbrushing, but from doing this piece I can guess that:
- You need more references and experience with lighting/shadows, especially with muscles and the like. I do need more practice with muscles in the first place though.
- More references/experience for reflections too, if you’re feeling fancy.
- For more control with shading/highlights, you’re gonna have to select/deselect/marquee more compared to cel-shading.
The third bullet point in particular adds quite a bit of time…
MULTI-ANGLE CHILLAXING (colored)
HD & WIP ($3+ patrons)
Early accessed by $3+ patrons on 11/19/2019
I keep forgetting to put up a color poll where patrons can vote on which bonus art I should color (The one with the tawlis lost). Sorry patrons!
Was thinking if I should just replace the sketch with this and just making a status update, but I’m gonna have to post this in other social media sites anyway.
Temp Tawli Concept
HD ($3+ patrons)
Early accessed by $3+ patrons on 11/21/2019
Was thinking if tawlis will change forms depending on the temperature.
Astrid (Foxy Flavored Cookie)
HD & WIP ($3+ patrons)
Early accessed by $3+ patrons on 11/26/2019
My own take on Astrid from Foxy Flavored Cookie as thanks for linking me and the 100+ clicks they’ve sent me! Check out his dA page here too!
Really tried hard not to make her look too much like Ankha. Both having the same expression and being Egyptian-inspired doesn’t help at all haha.
Er, and I’m not sure if she’s a jackal or a doberman, or if she’s even actually Anubis-inspired… but I’m gonna go for jackal+Anubis because of the ears. Was looking up jackals and Anubis see, and apparently Anubis’ sacred animal is supposed to be the African Golden Wolf. I’m just confused if that’s supposed to be what his animal head is instead of a jackal, or just his favored animal. Okay, rambling over!
EDIT: Oh cool, seems he likes it enough to actually use this in a sketch!
@thelazylonewolf HEY, Lone Wolf! I really liked your design idea, many aspects I quickly sketched to try em out… of course it got out of hand and before I knew it… goth Astrid… I'm not even mad, thank you! pic.twitter.com/sodINAwtQW
— Foxy Flavored Cookie (@FFCcomic) December 4, 2019
2 wolves 1 fish
HD & WIP ($3+ patrons)
Early accessed by $3+ patrons on 11/12/2019
My train of thought:
- hmm, the guys haven’t seen were!Tammy naked yet…
- I can’t call myself an assman when I haven’t drawn butts that much
- I like putting fishsticks in my mouth
This won the color poll! I really like the sketch I did here… which you should totally check out if you’re a patron that is. Anyway, I didn’t want to ruin it’s sketchy look , so I just cleaned it up rather than draw the lineart. Also tried out airbrushing and those anime blushes on shoulders/elbows/knees. Not bad I say!
MULTI-ANGLE CHILLAXING
HD ($3+ patrons)
Early accessed by $3+ patrons on 11/19/2019
I’ve always wanted to do the “one pose, multiple angles” exercise. Might as well use it together with one of the poses that cats do, and hey, I know a catgirl that’s perfect as a model!
And well… you can see why cats are often “coded” as female because they have a lot of poses like this.