fantakoi

review & plans

hey everyone, I've written this post a few days ago and didn't get around to post it yet, so even though I'm a little late I wish you a Happy New Year 🍀!! I hope you all had a good start and could get some rest.

I also want to talk about my plans for the coming months and do a review of last year. The short version is that I'm very grateful that I could get back into doing things for the comic. And that many readers are still sticking with me and ...

scene 53 (334 - 340)

update time!  

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2021-12-29 20:51:54 +0000 UTC View Post

scene 53 (334 - 340) HIGH RES

update time!  (maybe read the pages first before reading the following text ->)

I'm so excited to share those pages with you. It was important for me to put extra effort into the backgrounds because they showed how it looked like before, and what had happened to "the place by the lake". I think it might be obvious what it used to be now~ I wanted to use rich greens to show the contrast, and I also wanted to finally give some answers.

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comic progress & chara tidbit

hey everyone, here's a wip of scene 53! I'm currently working on the backgrounds for the scene and it's almost done so I will be able to post it next week 🌸

I really wanted to include a panel with Noah and his dad to show that they're very close, too. Since I had to cut some things while rewriting, some of the relationships have to happen more in the "background" and I can't show them in depth in the actual story. But I want to give them at least some visuals and...

Robin & Noah doodle

hey everyone, just want to share some doodles of today (they're separate drawings but had to put them next to each other of course)! I'm currently testing some things out 🌸 

hope you have a nice day! 🌻

comic progress 🐾 sketch / ink & talk

hey, how are you? 🌸 i could make nice progress with the current pages and have finished inking scene 53! after a short break i'll start with coloring, and i can't wait to show you the finished pages! many background panels wait to be drawn in this scene as well <3

the panels above are sketch to ink progress shots 🌻 i like to see them side by side and spot the subtle differences. I feel like I improved my inking and line skills a lot this year, and the thing...

comic progress & a bit of talking ❄

hey everyone, happy December 🌟! i hope you've been well!! my visit to kan finally became reality on 20th November~ and i've been enjoying the time here, getting comfortable, hogging the whole sofa with my makeshift workstation...!

Last week I started to work on the comic again (we kinda work at the same times, for extra motivation~ i can see kan's screen from where i sit and work and it's nice to get a live sneak peek of their page progress whenever i walk by, an...

scene 52 (328 - 333)

update time!

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2021-10-30 19:03:39 +0000 UTC View Post

scene 52 (328 - 333) HIGH RES

update time!  I'm really happy with how this scene turned out. I wanted to finally show how and why Noah started to spend time in the closed area, how long it took him to map out paths that are safe(r), and where his "small space of comfort" is~ What do you think could those weird looking branches in the cave system be...? 🌸🐾

I'd love to hear your thoughts about those pages 🖤 Thank you so much for your wonderful support! Next scene we'...

snuggles 🐱💕 (+ info / talk)

hey everyone, hope you're fine! i'm actually not sure if I've shared this doodle before, but I couldn't find it in the posts, so here you go! The next few canon scenes are going to be a bit rough (damn character development...) so I really crave for them being affectionate with each other. But luckily I can just reward myself with cute doodles sometimes

Speaking of rewards, I'm really glad I took my time with the pages I've been working on recently because I feel li...

comic progress 🐾 + talking~

hey everyone, it's been a while! my to do list is getting shorter and i could take care of some tasks that i was procrastinating on for the longest time. It kind of feels like I fell off track and getting back again is more work than it should be, but seeing that other people also have had those issues recently makes me feel a bit better about it, because it means that maybe it's not that I'm not trying hard enough, but maybe it's just generally... the whole weight of thin...

sketch + a bit of talking

hey everyone 💜 hope you've been well? here's just a quick sketch i did the other day! tbh drawing Noah's spirit form is basically my default doodle, it's the first thing that comes out of my pen without thinking about it. i have so many of them. It's kind of relaxing and comforting for me to draw his spirit form, and animal(like creature)s in general. Robin's spirit form is a little bit more difficult to draw, but I still draw him very often, too. Most of my doodle file...

comic progress 🐾

hey everyone, yesterday i posted the illustration i've worked on this month in case you haven't seen it yet! as i mentioned a bit ago i've worked on scene 52 and the illustration at the same time. i had planned to finish scene 52 this month as well, and i'm so close to finishing it but now suddenly the month is over 🥀 and i'm not completely done yet, because some of the background...

don't let go ☄

aaaa i finished this drawing some days ago and now i can share it with you! i'm quite happy with how it turned out and it feels so good to have a new illustration for them ; o; the thought behind it is basically that they ask each other to not let go (and they don't want to let go either). and there's a bit of foreshadowing included, as in most of my illustrations.

i also felt a bit emotional (in a positive way) during drawing, and i kind of talked about it in 2021-09-27 18:37:25 +0000 UTC View Post

comic page wip 🐾

hey everyone, how are you? 🌻 I've been working on my illustration the past week and I also took two days off to rest. Now I'm almost done with it and I could also make good progress with my current scene. I could finish the lines for some of the pages and I also started to do the coloration for them. It's really nice to work on both of these things and I kind of switch between them on a daily basis. Working on an illustration is so different from working on my pages and...

illustration wip 🔴

aaah ; o; i'm so happy, i'm almost done with the lines for this (here's the sketch in case you missed it)!! it's my first illustration in forever, and now that it's progressing further i'm getting a bit giddy. i was worried i couldn't do the sketch justice, but actually really liking how it turns out.

to reward myself i'm adding many small details (like Robin's crystals a...

comic page wip 🌳

hey everyone 💕 here's a wip of scene 52. Just Noah doing Noah things~

How are you all? August has been such an up and down for me. Right now I'd say I'm feeling okay-ish, not bad, but also not great. You ever have those phases where you just feel like you want to curl into a cozy ball and just be for a while, without having to be for anyone else? Just needing a bit more alone time than usual. I feel the need to say "please leave me alone" in the gentlest way poss...

scene 51 (324- 327)

update time! i had to keep this part of their past a secret until now, but i can finally reveal it and it feels really nice 🌸 writing realistic characters comes with many decisions like this, and unfortunately I have to break both of their hearts in different ways. I would love to hear your thoughts about it all!

Thank you so much for your patience and your ongoing support, it means so much to me 💙

2021-08-29 19:18:26 +0000 UTC View Post

scene 51 (324- 327) HIGH RES

update time! i had to keep this part of their past a secret until now, but i can finally reveal it and it feels really nice 🌸 writing realistic characters comes with many decisions like this, and unfortunately I have to break both of their hearts in different ways. I would love to hear your thoughts about it all!

Thank you so much for your patience and your ongoing support, it means so much to me 💙

comic page wip 🪴

heyy, here's a panel of Martha and Robin from scene 51~ Robin and Noah will be a bit older now, and Robin got his tattoos!!

I'm making steady progress with the pages 🐾 but tbh I was kind of fighting with myself over this scene (and the next two). Whenever I'm excited about something in the plot I want to put many pages out at once to let the reveals happen faster. Buuut that's just not smart, because I want to keep a buffer, too.

Also, during the years I've...

illustration wip 🖤

hey everyone 🌸 i'm currently working on this illustration (parallel to working on my next scenes) and i really like how it's turning out so far!! I'll probably call it "i won't let go" or something similar, because of how Noah holds onto Robin. It's gonna be fun to draw the flowy cape and I'm already looking forward to the coloration part!

I also made a bit more progress with the vertical versions of earlier scenes. I'm spending time on things outside of drawing c...

sketches 👻 + a bit of talk

hey there, hope you're doing fine! I'm still not where I was before the vaccine health-wise, and I think my body just needs some extra weeks to deal with it. I'm overall feeling better though, just pretty tired and my dizzy spells are more prominent currently. But I'm optimistic that it's getting better now 🌺 and I hope I can make visible progress with the pages soon again.

Speaking of, I'm typing this from my dying laptop..... it started to make clicking noises ...

comic page wip 🐾

heyy, just a small update from me! A week ago I received my second vaccine dose and this time I'm not taking it well to be honest ;; I was feeling better after two or three days and now the past few days I have various side effects again. I kind of expected it, so I planned for it and I have lots of distractions! And I'm very relieved I have my second dose in now, because that means I get to visit kan soon hopefully!! I don't have much energy right now, so I won't be able ...

comic progress

hey everyone!! sorry for not posting much this month, my internet was broken the past week and I didn't have internet access until yesterday! I had access on my phone only so I could listen to music and talk to kan, but I have some boundaries for myself that I didn't want to just throw away now that I built them up as habits. For example, I noticed that it's really good for me when I don't have any work related apps on my phone (so no patreon, and no Discord) 🌻

th...

comic panel wip (Noah doodles)

hey everyone 🌻 how are you? Hope you're doing fine!! Here's a panel sketch I wanted to change up a little bit, but I just showed it to kan and they said Noah looks like he's in one of those lo-fi study videos and i LOVE that, because lo-fi is definitely something Noah listens to when he writes in his journals or studies 🎵

In other news, my health has been a bit funky again recently, that's why I decided not to update for patreon in July. I'll keep working on t...

spirit doodles 🦋 & character tidbit

here are some doodles from yesterday 🖤 the boys with moths~ Noah got surprised mid-cleaning!
Something I spend a lot of time on is to find out what they do and what they don't do as spirits. They share some traits and mannerisms with animals, but they aren't animals, so I have a lot of fun to explore the possibilities and find out what actually makes sense for them!

Noah likes to take baths in rivers, he loves to play in rain, and he cleans his fur often! He s...

comic page wip & being in scripting void

Heyy, hope you are fine 🌻! I had my first vaccine shot a few days ago and I'm handling it well! I'm relieved that the wait for an appointment is over, and I'll get my second shot end of July!

Apart from that... I'm currently trapped in a scripting and storyboard void! 👻 To be honest, that's one of my favorite parts of working on this story and one of my favorite moods to be in general – it has always been a hobby of mine and at the same time it's progressing...

scene 50 (318 - 323)

update time! 🐾

i'm really excited to share this scene with you!! I'm in the middle of peeling off and revealing layers of their underlying insecurities and doubts, how their relationship changed, and what phases it went through. Also adding in some breadcrumbs & parallels here and there for you to discover~ It's very satisfying for me to see my plot's build-up taking form. I had to keep some things a secret for so long, too, but it's actually...

scene 50 (318 - 323) HIGH RES

update time! 🐾

i'm really excited to share this scene with you!! I'm in the middle of peeling off and revealing layers of their underlying insecurities and doubts, how their relationship changed, and what phases it went through. Also adding in some breadcrumbs & parallels here and there for you to discover~ It's very satisfying for me to see my plot's build-up taking form. I had to keep some things a secret for so long, too, but it's actuall...

Ghost Lights 🔴 Discord server

Hey everyone, a few weeks ago I reopened the Ghost Lights Discord server. I did a bit of an overhaul for it and was observing how it all works for me with new rules and less channels to moderate, and now that I know that it's easier to manage for me I can finally add it back to the rewards!

🌙 What's it about:
The server is a place for everyone who wants to talk about the comic with others and with me, share photos, talk about fandoms, games, et...