The first post of the New Year. Happy 2018.

Hey there reader! Welcome to the first blog of 2018.
I'm Zach, if you don't know me!
I just recently got contacted by an author of a book. They asked me if I was interested in doing some illustrations for their book. I've never done it before, so I said yeah!
I got some rough stuff posted up here. I've been spending a lot of time trying to find a voice and style for the illustrations. I'm still not set 100% on everything at the moment but here's what I've been working on.

This first image is me just messing around with trying to find a sense of style with the characters.

After talking with the author about what she feels is most visually important in her book we agreed to work on a few scenes. The fist thing she said to me was that there's a part involving the main character, a young girl, and her Grandfather. They were together on the porch and it was something to symbolize togetherness.
I wasn't sure what I wanted the grandpa to look like so I did a lot of just sketches feeling out characters.

Got a rough done, and then liked where it was going.

There's just a simple idea of what I was looking for but I'm still not sold on coloring it.
I want to emulate a style with a lot of texture. So I still have some work to do with this.

This scene, when read and described to me popped up so vividly in my mind. I am proud of this rough drawing and I hope to execute it properly.

Some progress of the clean up. Still not sold on the line work.

Here's one last rough drawing of a scene in the book. I think there's about 2 or 3 other ideas to get to but I'm still getting stuff together for it.

I recently had some hardware malfunctions which made me treat myself over the holidays.
I bought a Cintiq 13HD and was messing around with it all day yesterday.

I wanted to work on some lewd stuff with Panty and Stocking. So I started working out this idea of the next 3 pieces.
Panty, showing off her ASSets. Panty, doing the same thing. Then one final piece of them together.
So far the tablet is great, honestly. I love the feel of looking at what I'm drawing right there. It feels so natural. But I still have a hard time separating myself from the laptop screen or monitor. Breaking old habits can be rough.

Got a pose I settled on for Panty, but then we had to wrap up at the shop. It's usually how it goes. I get into the groove and then we have to leave.

The stream on Twitch.tv has been put on hold because for some reason Two-Factor Authentication had been activated on my account, causing me to be locked out of it for almost a whole month.
I just recently cleared it up, finally! It wasn't my fault, Twitch and Authy took forever getting back to me. Glad to be back on track.

Hope to start this year out strong and keep the momentum.