Inkrot Calico

Hello, my lovely inkblots, and welcome to my first work-in-progress Wednesday post!

My goal with making these kinds of posts is to do two things: 1) hold myself accountable to working on my creative projects every week, and 2) keep a log of my progress on my projects. This way, I can share my progress with everyone and also be able to look back at everything I have done whenever I am feeling discouraged. I’ve been working on a lot recently, so I am going to be sharing those things here, and we’ll see if I can turn these posts into a regular thing. Anyway, here’s what I have been working on!

(Note: All images in this post are work-in-progress images, so details and such may change. Suggestions are welcome, as long as they are constructive and given in a kind way.)

VTuber Models

Right now, I am working on two different VTuber models: one for my partner, Wynter Rowan, and one as fan art for one of my favorite YouTubers. While I don’t want to share much about the latter, Wynter’s model has been going pretty well. Since he plays as a girl in a lot of his video games, I decided to make him a fem model. Here’s what she looks like so far, but these are all draft textures and I am still working on designing clothes for her:

On top of that, I have been coming up with more clothing ideas for my own model. Designing clothing is the hardest part of character design for me, so I am excited to work on it and see if I can improve. I don’t want to make designs as complex as the ones you see in Hoyoverse games, but I do want to make ones that look interesting.

Recently, I decided to really consider what kinds of clothing I would like to wear since I have been going through and getting rid of most of my old clothes. Now that I’ve had top surgery, I feel like I am more free to explore my sense of fashion and I think that has allowed me to come up with some fun outfit ideas for my model as well. While I am not done with it yet (I feel like some details are missing), here’s a sketch of a summer outfit that I came up with and some quick sketch textures to go with it:

I don’t think I will finish this outfit for a while, but compiling ideas for stuff like this has been fun when my energy levels are low but I still want to be creative. I realize that I have been leaning into androgyny again when it comes to the clothes that I like and it’s been fun to explore.

“Morrigan’s Cabin” continuation

I am also proud to announce that I have been making progress on the continuation for my recent short story, “Morrigan’s Cabin”. Truth is, I ended up working on it as a script for my writing for feature film class last semester, but converting it from a screenplay to a web novel has been difficult. I finished the first chapter the other night, but I am not quite sure if I like it yet. I will need to go through and add more details from the scenes that I removed to make the whole thing make more sense, but I plan on getting to chapter two by the end of the month (things are getting busy at school and I am getting married in 4 days, so I probably won’t have time before then).

Basically, the story will pick back up from the perspective of Althea, Morrigan’s only remaining friend at this point in the story. I don’t want to give too much away so I can’t share the title yet, but it has been picked out. I think that this project will probably be novella-length, and I’ll have to see how it goes to know if I will write more with these characters at the end of it. I have most of the first act drafted out in screenplay format, so we’ll see what can do with it.

The Rise of The Dragon Queen rewrite, but as a screenplay!

As mentioned previously, I am still in college and my final creative writing class is a writing for television class. I needed to draft a pilot episode for a show, so I decided to use the ideas I have for the rewrite of my old novel, The Rise of The Dragon Queen. So far, it has actually been a lot of fun and my classmates have given me a lot of helpful suggestions (I was one of the first people to have their script workshopped). Over the course of working on this, I have come up with a new inciting incident, changed character names, removed unneeded characters, created new ones, and played around with the world in ways I haven’t before. I need to fix the formatting on the script (the action lines are more like paragraphs) and I need to make some minor adjustments to the opening scene, but so far so good. I’m excited to see how this version will vary from previous ones. I might also work on models for the main characters soon—I’ve already started on one, but I’m stuck on clothes again.

That is all I have to share for this week. Thank you for checking out my little post! As I mentioned, if you have any suggestions or questions, go ahead and leave them in the comments and tell me about your current creative projects! I’d love to read about them. I am going to try to post more frequently here on my website, so if you’d like to see what I get up to, please consider signing up for my newsletter at the bottom of this post or in the sidebar. That way, you’ll be notified any time I share something here.

Anyway, good luck in your creative endeavors!