220 – Good enough!
HD + Textless | WIP
Tammy looking hecking adorable, and Bakunawa looking like… she stole Nezuko’s look! Just a little tribute since Doom: Eternal/Kimetsu no Yabadabadoo ended a while ago.
And thanks to all the new and returning patrons!
- Yugo Ryan
- Fishmeistercod
- Rothiem
- Red Marine
- ZeroKelvinKeyboard
- Nathaniel Jones
- Indi Skye
- BlueDavrial
Writing and thumbs: 59m | Sketching: 5h 24m | Lineart: 2h 20m | Flats: 51m | Final: 4h 23m | TOTAL: 13h 56m
↓ Transcript
Haliya: I'm glad it has eased her burden somewhat, but what can we do with just this?
Hibi-Hibi: It might seem like a failure, but perhaps we can make an agimat like Myan's for Bakunawa.
Hibi-Hibi: Similar to Tammy's case, we might not need to overpower Bakunawa's curse.
Hibi-Hibi: But maybe we can transform her just enough into a more... manageable form. It will be easier to persuade her to ask for forgiveness from the god that cursed her, or fulfill the curse's conditions. Even if we never win her over at least she'll be safely contained... to do what you have to do.
Hibi-Hibi: It might seem like a failure, but perhaps we can make an agimat like Myan's for Bakunawa.
Hibi-Hibi: Similar to Tammy's case, we might not need to overpower Bakunawa's curse.
Hibi-Hibi: But maybe we can transform her just enough into a more... manageable form. It will be easier to persuade her to ask for forgiveness from the god that cursed her, or fulfill the curse's conditions. Even if we never win her over at least she'll be safely contained... to do what you have to do.
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femCruz
For some reason, femCruz happened in the Cat Nine Discord… leading to a commissioned emoji, then some image sets by IndiSkye [part 1] | [part 2 (NSFW!)], and now this extra smug and extra busty femCruz (Cruzette?) that BlueDavrial also commissioned me.
Just some weird and fun things happening in there haha! Thanks for the commissions BlueDavrial, it’s been a while that anyone commissioned me, and thanks for making those amazing image sets Indi Skye , I always love seeing fanmade stuff even the NSFW ones!
With the help of Dyno bot, I’ve allowed people to give themselves ranks/roles in Cat Nine’s Discord. Now you can:
- Declare your Cat Nine waifu or husbando! Or be greedy and form a harem of them!
- Set which continent you live in to let people know where and when in the world you are!
- Tell people what you find sexy, you manyak!
- Show the others that you’re an artist, a streamer, or even a furry (so we can shun you)!
How to join a rank
Just type in ?ranks to get a list of available ranks. Then type ?rank rank name to assign yourself that rank. You can assign yourself any number of ranks as you wish, but please limit yourself to one continent. Also, please use these commands in the #bot-commands channel to prevent spamming other channels, thank you!
Seriously, join in! I streamed and drew this thing on the left after all!
I’ll be activating charge up front for Patreon at the start of the next month, revamp the art suggestions, and mayyyybe start accepting NSFW art too.
Charge up front
New patrons will be charged on the day you become a patron, giving you access to all content shared with their reward tier.
For existing patrons, there shouldn’t any changes. You’ll still get charged on the 1st of every month.
Read more about charge up front here.
I was reluctant to apply this cause I wanted to give my new patrons the opportunity to give my stuff a try and maybe prevent them from buyer’s remorse since you all know I’m pretty slow with the updates! I did plan to implement charge up front anyway if people keep abusing it. It has happened two times already, and I was going to activate it on the third “strike”. There’s no going back after I activate charge up front too.
It’s kinda annoying waking up and being happy about receiving a “New patron!” email but they actually canceled when I later checked Patreon!
Revamping art suggestions
I’ve wanted to revamp the art suggestions for a while now. Basically it’s exchanging one Cat Nine bonus art/comic for fan art. I really want to do more fan art stuff for the sake of self-promotion you see, and 1 bonus/fan art every week and alternating between Cat Nine and fan art doesn’t seem like a bad idea to me.
Current
KitTens ($10+)
- 1 Fully colored Cat Nine art
RAWRs ($5+)
- 1 Sketch/lineart Cat Nine art
- If I have the time for it I fully color the sketches.
- 1 Fully colored Cat Nine art
- 1 Fully colored Fan art
Revamped
KitTens ($10+)
- 1 Fully colored Cat Nine art
- 1 Fully colored Fan art
RAWRs ($5+)
- 1 Cat Nine art
- 1 Fan art
- So yeah, less guarantee of them being colored, but if I have the time for it they’ll be fully colored. Cleaned up sketches will be the minimum quality at least.
NSFW
Just a possibility. I still don’t think I’m horny enough to draw lewd stuff regularly haha.
If I did go nsfw, I’m thinking that $10+ can make nsfw suggestions and $5+ can see them. And yes, they count as a KitTen art suggestion, but at least now you can suggest lewd stuff. I don’t think I can make too extreme stuff yet haha, so keep em on the vanilla side. And yes, if I went ahead with this, nsfw fan art suggestions will also be accepted.
I’m also thinking of making either non or lewd-version tiers for RAWRs and KitTens (at the same price) so you won’t see nsfw stuff if you don’t like those.
Click here for the long comic version!
Myan’s collar specs
With comments by Hibi-Hibi and Lazylonewolf
“Nothing too fancy, which seems like something Keith would buy. And I just think black and a little heart of gold looks nice on her too.”Primary transformation powers
Animal transformation: Can transform into any real animal
– Learned behaviors and movement (like flying) aren’t included in the transformation, except for human.
“Animals transformed into humans often require imparted knowledge about basic human movements to participate in human society. Since this uses mind-affecting magic, I had to be meticulous when I applied this. It’s why Myan doesn’t know how to act with her other animal forms.”“It’s more interesting and hilarious if Myan has to learn how2animal first. And it’s not like humans themselves are experts at being human!”
– Can’t transform into mythical creatures.
“Animal forms should suffice, and transforming into creatures of legend will just attract human attention… and would you trust Myan with a dangerous form like a dragon?“I’d rather show actual mythological creatures rather than someone else transforming into those.”
– Can’t transform into fictional creatures/races. To be exact, those that aren’t associated with any real-life mythologies.
“Similar problems like above, and since they aren’t real, you don’t know if the form you took can actually survive in this world. You could also end up with missing body parts!”“I just find mythologies (and their creatures) across different cultures much more fascinating compared to fictional creatures in other media.”Human transformation: Can transform into (mostly) human form
– Hibi didn’t finish doing this enchantment since she was interrupted, so anyone who is using it will keep some of their animal traits. If Hibi fixes it, then they can fully turn into a human.
“Can I fix it? Yes I can! But she’s fine with it for now. I’m just relieved the safeguards I’ve put in are working.”“Thus our catgirl Myan was born!”
– Can change hair style and length. Can copy hairstyles from people, photos, or create from imagination.
“It’s for convenience and appearances’ sake. I can’t expect a boy like Keith to know how to do a lady’s hair.”“I wanted some practice drawing different hairstyles. I like longer hair in general though, but I try.”
– Can’t change most things when transforming like: age, height, weight, race, skin/eye color, voice, sex. Also applies to animal forms.
“Her current human appearance is set the first time she transformed. It would be highly suspicious if people who’ve seen Myan’s human form, but not know her collar’s powers, and later see her drastically different. I can let her change these if it’s reallly needed. However, her original form’s age and weight will be mirrored by her transformations. I sure hope Myan doesn’t it eat too much!”“Giving Myan the power to ara-ara you (or be ara-ara’d) is much too powerful! Joking aside, these ‘minor’ transformations aren’t that interesting enough to me and, in my opinion, are the domain of tricksters. BUT, I do have story ideas with some of these transformations, so they might come uplater.”
– Myan’s human (and other animals) appearance is based on her original form.
“The most basic transformation uses your original form as a base. It’s why they’ll often have their original form’s characteristics when transformed.”“Simply put, I designed her that way. And designed her cute!”
Tammy Strips: Take Two!
HD + WIP ($3+ patrons) | No underwear ($5+ patrons)
So you didn’t keep yer eyes close didja, you manyak?!
For page 219 as promised! Take two since she already stripped before and it’s super similar… though I suppose this one’s not exactly stripping since she really is just checking herself out.
I might make a no undies version later for patrons. Nude version might be too much work!
No underwear version up! Opted for that instead of totally nude because of the work and the poses wouldn’t make sense without the clothing.
Sketch: 6h 40m | Lineart: 1h 13m | Flats: 1h 25m |Final: 2h 16m | TOTAL: 12h 31m
cat-nine.net
- Installed Photo Gallery plugin for:
- the (probably) complete art gallery for all the stuff I’ve posted here.
- It’s quite disorganized, and the titles, tags, and descriptions aren’t fixed yet (if ever), but it’s great for randomly viewing my stuff if you used the dropdown list.
- I’ll keep posting my art here as blog posts and in deviantArt.
- the commission and fan art pages. Default WordPress galleries kinda suck!
- I’m a little more lenient now with some of the fan art that I’ve considered NSFW, so they’re now included there! Those new additions are nude or slightly fetishistic at most, so anything spicier than that should still be submitted to the #nsfw channel. Hopefully I won’t get in trouble with posting them, so if I do get in trouble, then sorry but I’ll remove them if I have to.
- Unlike the gallery for my stuff, the fan art gallery is tagged correctly.
- These tags and descriptions won’t work with the search bar on the top right.
- a nifty random art widget that you’ll see on the left sidebar. Clicking on them will bring up a nice lightbox for your viewing pleasure while clicking on “more from me” or “fan art” will take you to their associated gallery pages. I think it’s great to get my and your stuff seen, and maybe it’ll incentivize some of you to submit some fanart for ｅｘｐｏｓｕｒｅ コ穏セ.
- the (probably) complete art gallery for all the stuff I’ve posted here.
- Modified the Miscellaneous page and the nav menu a bit.
- Finally fixed that WordPress logo that points to my blog.
Social media
- Changed Cat Nine Facebook page and username.
- I’ve changed some of my usernames to “thelazylonewolf” since “lazylonewolf” is already taken in some of those sites. It’s also to make watermarking my artwork with their logos easier in the future.
- No changes for my Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch since those were already using thelazylonewolf, or the_lazylonewolf in Twitch’s case.
- Changed my Patreon changed lazylonewolf to patreon.com/thelazylonewolf. There should be no problems with links to my Patreon-exclusive posts since their URLs don’t contain the username.
- Changed my deviantArt from radstylix to deviantart.com/thelazylonewolf. I had to pay to be a Core member for this, but I’ve wanted to change my username since forever. I don’t particularly care for most of the features, but might as well use some of them I guess! There should also be no problem with the links since dA should automatically redirect them to the new username.
- I’m going to keep “lazylonewolf” for my Picarto.
Keith and Myan Dancing
As suggested by jonenat. Reminds me a lot of this! Going to consider this two KitTens worth of art, there are two characters after all!
Thumbs: 15m | Sketching: 4h 48m | Lineart: 2h 35m | Final: 2h 33m | TOTAL: 10h 11m
Click here for the blog version!
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!
Links to those pages have been removed! Thanks to everyone who participated!
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!