Hey everyone! I’ve been working on a bunch of smaller things here and there this week. Primarily, I’ve sketched out some CGs that will be added in the next update, and I’ve also started tinkering with ideas for a future update. That’s right, I planning ahead for the future! The reason being that I wanted to start brainstorming ideas for it, but I wanted to get two specific designs done and on paper before I continued. Also, I just really was in the mood to draw them. Anyway. I did work on a few sketches that I can share this week. Both a bit different and you can see a snippet of them here:

Tier 3+ patrons on the Crimson Veil Discord have already seen the full images early in the Shardforge Sanctum channel, where I post multiple works-in-progress regularly. If you haven’t joined yet, here’s the invite link: 

discord.gg/Mqz6WGn95j

I also wanted to share a preview of the dancer sketch I showed before, now with flat colors!

Pretty, right?

She is going to take a bit longer to finish since she will have several alternate versions, including different poses once she's done.

In addition, I have an update that actually affects the Hunter Route for a change! This week, I went back and updated the battle backgrounds in the final dungeon. Check out the improvements:

The originals were made with a primitive image generator and always felt a bit lackluster to me. While these new backgrounds are also generated, they look far closer to what I originally intended, instead of a blurry mess. There are a few other new backgrounds coming for certain scenes as well, but this should give you a solid idea of what to expect.

Overall, I’ve been in a pretty calm headspace this week. My day job has been slow with summer rolling in, which has given me more time to brainstorm and focus creatively. Honestly, I’ve just really enjoyed drawing more lately. Working on commissions recently seems to have sparked my art motivation, and it feels good. I am considering a couple of other illustrations in the background, but I’ll keep quiet on those for now so I don’t get anyone’s hopes up too early.

It’s been a good week, and I hope yours has been too. That’s all for this week. Until next time, everyone!