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Hi everyone!

Thank you for your patience and support, and sorry for the minor delays. Attached in this post is the .PDF file for the Halloween 2020 signup rewards. Please let me know if you've any concerns or issues in this post below and I'll try to fix it as soon as I can!

Snares
Nov 2020

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to thank you all for supporting Meatier Showers 2020 and being a part of this journey. I will be sending out the 12-page comic later this evening by 1 Nov (U.S. time). In the meanwhile, here's a preview on how the cover art is coming along for the Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary book!

Sketch Phase

In the original trade paperback, I had Groover and Tanz face the audience. What was just a little odd to me was that we never saw Groover in that specific bow-tie go-go dancer outfit. In fact, that was never the intended role for him, and red was never exactly supposed to be "his color". The height comparison between him & Tanz was also an illusion, and the background (and color scheme) just wasn't something I wanted to keep anymore.

Late in June this year, I set out figuring what the new crux of the cover should be, and very quickly decided it should focus on the themes of the new chapter. I also went with a side-shot to better illustrate or suggest what their relationship might be like (to viewers seeing the series for the first time).

At this point, I wasn't exactly sure what the background should entail... and went with a painfully generic full moon backdrop with... what could only be a clear evening sky?

Ink Phase 1

After dragging out the cover art for some time and having finally inked and cleaned up both characters, it was starting to bother me that the generic evening full moon background didn't just make any sense (there's no scene in the new chapter like that) but was just too plain for a 10th Anniversary cover... While there wasn't going to be literal fireworks in the background, I decided to simply return to where the new chapter takes place, and added a changing room mirror for the back half of the cover. This is just a prototype and I suspect the barcode can easily be shifted around by the publisher, but I think most of the layout if kinda "there".

Ink Phase 2

So here's the latest version of the cover art, mostly cleaned up and just awaiting colors and lighting. Filling up the characters will be relatively straightforward, but I haven't really decided what the background color scheme should be or what mood lighting to go with for now. There may be a tiny blurb on the back half of the cover so as not to cover too much of Tanz's rear reflection. I'm also considering coloring the background elements and having the line art removed, but we'll see how things go.

I hope you guys found this interesting, I'll be putting together the 12-page comic tonight and sending it out ASAP. There's been some major life updates I wanna share in another post, but for now, HAPPY HALLOWEEN, stay safe and take care!

Snares
Oct 2020

Harrow!

Thank you for supporting me this month! Here's one of my personal favorite sessions I've handpicked from my recorded Picarto stream sessions and the sketch that's featured in the video (where you'll also see some comic pages being made).

Just 2 guys having some quality time together, featuring Pridestar stuffing Snares (with something delectable) and growing.

Please kindly download the video from this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xvexCdfc4WyUGmM8e6QboAk5AUaCvzQR?usp=sharing

Harrow!

Firstly, I just wanna welcome every new patron who's joined in this month! I'm really excited to share this journey together and THANK YOU! Secondly, to all my long-time supporters, THANK YOU SO MUCH for continuing to support Meatier Showers and my work!

The Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary Project is an editorial project I've been working on this year that involves the revision of the original first book (released in 2012 by FurPlanet) to better reflect what Meatier Showers is today. You can read more about the book details in this previous post.

The thing I'm most excited for Meatier Showers' 10th Anniversary is that it adds a whole new bonus Chapter 4 to the original first book, and expands on what happens after Groover and Tanz tie the figurative knot. The bonus chapter creates more new story opportunities to explore between Groover and Tanz, while also paving a bridge to link towards the colored books where they finally get to meet Pridestar in person. There's so much untapped story potential during this "time gap" and it's something I'd like to be able to dive deeper into.

My main goal this year is to get Chapter 4 inked, lettered and toned by end of Nov (hopefully!) and have the book ready by Dec (no pressure!) As for 2021 and beyond, we'll talk details later. For now...

This coming Halloween, all current and new patron supporters who are signed up for the $5 "Mega Flex" tier will be receiving a 12-page e-book (.PDF) preview of the above mentioned Chapter 4, in its current state of progress (including cover art). If you haven't already, do make sure you're subscribed by the 31 Oct 2020 as I'll be posting the reward after that.

That's all for now! This month's rewards will be rolled out towards the end of the month so hopefully more new patrons can hop on in time to receive the updates. The selected stream session videos will be featured in a separate post. Till then, take care and stay safe, everyone!

Snares
Oct 2020

Hi everyone!

Thank you for supporting me on Patreon! Before I dive into anything else, I just wanted to make certain that everyone had a good sense of what my new project, the Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary Edition is all about. And to help you all better understand, I've created the above visual explainer on how the new book will be structured!

Why?

Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary Edition is being produced to celebrate 10 years of awkward sex and shenanigans!

What?

Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary Edition (both physical and e-book) will include:

• All-new cover art
• First 3 chapters from the original book
• An all-new chapter 4 featuring new faces
• New chapter separator artwork for atmosphere
• Minor art asset revisions in chapter 1
• New bonus material from over the years
• A detailed documentation of the making of chapter 4
• And more stuff!

Who?

Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary Edition stars Groover, Tanz and a new character!

How?

Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary Edition will be supported on Patreon with monthly rewards for patrons! Sign up as a SUPPORTER by HALLOWEEN (31 Oct 2020) to receive a PDF e-book of the first 8-page draft of Meatier Showers 2020. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/snares

When?

Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary Edition is expected to launch this holiday season in Dec 2020.

Where?

Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary Edition will be made available worldwide through Gumroad & Furplanet

Cover Art Preview

SIGN UP for my Patreon by Halloween to receive an 8-page PDF e-book of the Meatier Showers 2020 draft! Check out all the REWARDS here: https://www.patreon.com/snares

Snares
Oct 2020

Hi everyone!

Some of you might've noticed that my Patreon account has been reactivated recently. The quick rundown is that as of 30 September, I am officially out of a job and currently navigating the waters of unemployment, during which I have an opportunity to return to my passion projects and resume production on the Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary Project that I've been quietly working away on.

This post is primarily to notify patrons who may still be supporting me previously, so that you can make an informed decision and not be alarmed by any sudden deductions that should come into effect in Oct. Given the short notice, I will be compensating existing patrons with an e-book compilation of all the existing production work that has been done for the Meatier Showers 10th Anniversary project.

For now, this is just a quick update so that you know my Patreon account is back online. I will share more details regarding Meatier Showers 2020 and other major life changes in a later post. Thank you for your understanding!

Snares
Sep 2020

FAREWELL

First of all, thank you for being so kind and patient with my Patreon. After much deliberation, I've finally come to the difficult decision of unlaunching my Patreon Page. This will take place on the 31 Jan 2020. All existing supporters are advised to look through my Patreon archives should there be anything they wish to save, before the deadline.

This decision will be better for the long term as freezing the billing process every month has not been practical, and sometimes if i freeze it too late, some folks do get billed. Moreover, for the foreseeable future this new year, maintaining a side hustle in the form of consistent, monthly content has become unfeasible. As proven recently, December was supposed to mark my final episode this season for my day job. However as with the nature of film production, things don't always go according to plan, and I am slated for yet another final episode this month - after which I'll be working on a holiday special episode which will for the most part, occupy me till the end of Mar 2020.

There are many more thoughts I have on the overall situation, and other things I've slated for the future. But it would be counterproductive at this point for me to divulge any of them. For now, my main purpose of writing this update is to let everyone know that by 31 Jan 2020, I will unlaunch my creator page here.

THANK YOU PRESENTS

Secondly, as a gesture of gratitude for your patience and support all this time, especially those who've stuck around since the beginning, I am leaving two download links for my 2 best comics done on Patreon here for everyone until 31 Jan:

• FREE DOWNLOAD (expires 31 Jan 2020): Meatier Showers; Bulge Indulge
• FREE DOWNLOAD (expires 31 Jan 2020): Meatier Showers: Baewatch

If you love what you read, please kindly recommend my comic to a friend, or even better, gift them a comic book from my Gumroad online store.

KEEP IN TOUCH

For those of you keen on following my journey, you can still locate me on these platforms where I'm most active:

• TWITTER: https://twitter.com/snareslion
• PICARTO: https://picarto.tv/snares
• FURAFFINITY: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/furious/

Once again, thank you everyone for supporting me, I cannot express in words how much being able to work on comics these past few years means to me, especially with my own characters and stories. I will be shifting my focus towards doing art as therapy. My more regular updates will be on Twitter. I hope to gradually revitalize my FA account eventually. Picarto is where I usually hang out on Sundays.

Wishing everyone bright and prosperous 2020!

Snares
Jan 2020

Hi Everyone!

I know it's been a really long while since I've had the opportunity to post anything on my Patreon page. It's been a busy year adjusting to new schedules, environments and challenges. Moving towards the year 2020 (the future is here!), I'd like to take a moment to share some initial thoughts on the direction I want for my Patreon page, and what the process may look like as we gradually shift gears into a different model.

New Financial Goals

With my existing salary, after paying for rent, groceries, meals, insurance, phone bills, transportation etc. I am barely left with enough for personal savings - which for the most part are set aside to pay for my future mortgage.

While I am hoping for a positive performance review in April 2020, I don't really want to wait on the vague probability of getting a pay raise then, before going about my new objectives. The primary purpose of me rebooting my Patreon is to fund two key areas of my lifestyle:

• A full-year premium subscription for Picarto (for live streaming and recording videos)
• An active gym membership to attend dance fitness classes (e.g. Zumba, Sh'bam, Body Combat)

I am currently setting a Patreon goal of US$200 to pay off for the two things that matter the most to me at this point (sharing art, live streaming and staying alive - physically and metaphorically).

December Trials

Starting this month, I will resume my (outstanding & overdue) commissions and attempt to clear my current slate. As I normally go about doing these, I usually stream on Picarto in an effort to connect with my audience and followers (despite my own introversion). Every now and then, I will usually start a stream with warm-up sketches, and sometimes on occasion end with some bonus personal sketches for my own indulgence.

With my Patreon page, I hope to archive these sketches and recorded stream videos and make them available here. For the month of December, these updates will be available to existing patrons. If everything checks out, I will begin a new cycle of billing, starting January 2020.

The gist of it is that I'm turning my Patreon page to more of a donation platform (with exclusive content) to support my Picarto activities. That seems to be the most natural and logical synergy based on how I regularly conduct my online presence.

Projected Reward Tiers

$1 - Basic Access to Stream of the Month
$3 - Club Access to Weekly Sketch Dump

Admittedly the wording is a tad bit confusing for now, so do feel free to post your questions here while i further streamline and revise the offerings. It seems counter-intuitive at first to be placing a premium on the sketches, but that's what I feel has to most value (compared to the video recordings).

The What Now?

For those of you who aren't aware, after my return from FurDU 2019, I signed up for a gym membership and realized the dance fitness classes were something I truly enjoyed (I felt great even after an exhausting work week) and it allowed me to maintain a certain degree of physical fitness. Unfortunately, given the upkeep and my sudden jump in rent, I was only able to maintain the gym membership for only 4 months. And... I can really feel the difference with and without going for the dance fitness classes.

So yes. Among my to-do list of completely rebranding my Patreon page (which will take between Dec to Jan) and trying to better communicate my new goals... the main objective of my Patreon is to fund my passions. Even though doing comics isn't exactly feasible now, I am still trying to keep this up to literally afford my interests.

That's really it.

Hopefully, I'll be checking in soon with content and updates once I'm back from FURUM 2019. I am long overdue for a proper holiday.

Snares
Dec 2019

Hi Everyone!

This will be a brief catch up on where I am today and several broad strokes on where I intend to be heading down the road. It's been a very busy month for me at work and on the weekends. The purpose of this post is to offload some things from my mind and touch base with everyone else.

Payment Suspension

For those of you supporting me on Patreon, pledges and payments will continue to be suspended for another month, indefinitely. You can read about the details in this previous post as to why all this is happening.

Changing Gears

Over the past 2 months, I've pretty much hit the ground running and maneuvered back into opening myself up for commissions. I've taken about 10+ requests so far, and will be working towards delivering these orders over the course of September - November. I will be taking a break from commissions between December - January. Subsequently, I will reopen for commissions in February 2020.

Projected Milestones

Feb 2020 - season wrap-up for my day job (future prospects unknown).
Mar 2020 - performance review for the 2nd year of my day job.
Jul 2020 - lease for current place of rent expires (access new options).

Optimal Conditions

For now a few factors may affect my decision when to get back into producing for Meatier Showers. The first would be location. It has not been conducive to work on comics based on my current circumstances. Come July 2020, we'll see what rental options are available and hopefully, I can find one that's a good balance between proximity to my workplace (assuming I'm still there) and the right environment for working on my stuff. The second factor would be my day-job. I'm honestly not sure how well or how far I can tank through, but my ideal length of service would be 3-5 years at least (before burning out).

These are precarious times to say the least, and I'm vividly aware of how fortunate to be where I am today. My finances have stabilized for now and am able to build my savings.

Thirdly, at the expense of repeating myself would be timing. Timing is everything and it's rather intangible to talk about, It's such a highly variable factor that I have to leave it for the last. Currently I would not make any rash decisions. Maintaining this stability and flow has been a priority, and I've had a good portion of my 20s to work on my pet project as it is.

That's all for now.

Snares,
Sep 2019

Hi Everyone,

I've procrastinated with this post largely on the account of not knowing how best to articulate my thoughts and intentions, but it's been about 2 weeks now since moving to my new place, and I figured it was time to start, regardless of my personal reservations.

In A Nutshell

I will be suspending production on the Meatier Showers 2019 project and my Patreon account. While there will still be 1-2 more updates this month, subsequent payments will be suspended for the month of September.

Changing Circumstances

As explained in an earlier post, I had to move out from my previous place as the lease was ending on 28 July 2019. Having moved to the new area, the stability of my lifestyle and routines have been in upheaval, especially since I am now staying across a car park and unloading bay. I'm still currently in the process of finding sound proofing solutions.

On top of which, the room is significantly smaller than my previous place, The desk is kiddie-sized at best, and does not offer the preferred depth for my usual keyboard-on-tablet setup. I don't favor the laptop keys are they are hard to discern apart from one another, and difficult to work fast with.

It was only yesterday that I found these polystyrene cubes that I've used to elevate the laptop, so that I can slide the Wacom tablet under. And it's only this weekend that I'm able to get back into some semblance of production. And on that note...

Suspension of Patreon Payments

At the time of this writing, I still haven't figured out my work rhythm and methods with this new setup. Truth be told, I'm still adjusting to my new environment and all, and I don't honestly know how long it'll take for me to resume 100% production speed.

These are the immediate actions that have been taken:

• Patreon payments for September have been suspended and nothing will be billed to supporters for that month.
  
• Reward tiers have been removed as an additional measure.

The problem with the payments suspension is that it lasts only for a month, And I'll have to reactivate it every subsequent month thereafter if I am still not ready. There's no system currently in place to set a specific timeframe. (It's also only recently that Patreon allows creators to upload multiple images in one post... which kinda highlights the speed of progression here.)

I've also considered unlaunching my Patreon page for the meantime, but:

If you launch your page in the future, you will be subject to Patreon's standard pricing at that time.

I'm still weighing my options on this matter before proceeding, but generally if I were to unlaunch my existing page, it does come with the penalty that I will lose my Founder tier status on Patreon.

The Future Ahead

For the month of August, I will continue to post 1-2 final updates on this Patreon project. The purpose of this post is to notify all my Patreon supporters of the change in circumstances and allow you to make decisions. It has been a difficult decision to make, but the production of Meatier Showers 2019 will be suspended starting this month. The final available page 6 will be published towards the end of August so that everyone who has been supporting this project will know how far it went.

For those of you who've journeyed with me all this while, I am deeply grateful and thankful for all your support.

Snares,
Aug 2019

Harrow!

Thank you so much for your kindness and patience, and for supporting me throughout the year of 2019. For what it's worth, I had put in my best efforts in maintaining a weekly schedule to produce Meatier Showers, in addition to my day job commitments. It has not been easy, and to see myself be able to pencil 6 pages over the course of 6 months, I'd say it wasn't bad at all.

However, nothing lasts forever, and life is in a constant flux of change. For me personally, that is no more truer than when I decided to leave home back in 2016. Since then, things change considerably every 6-12 months. With my previous post explaining the gist of my situation, there's no need for me to harp on what has already happened. I am moving forward, but always with Meatier Showers as my goal and guiding compass. Whatever I do in life, it's to work towards an environment and situation that is conducive of producing comics as my lifelong passion.

In This Scene

Meatier Showers 2019 was designed with little "intermissions" in between story arcs for new readers to get a better sense of the characters as a group, and for returning readers to sort of "eavesdrop" and catch up on what's been developing with the cast.

This is the first of the diner scenes, where Tanz and Groover curiously inquire Pride on such developments. We are taken through a brief but raunchy montage of flashbacks. Onviously hiding something, Pride responds with, "nothing much". Groover curtly shouts, "LIAR!"

Beyond page 6, the trio spend a few more moments chatting, gradually leading us to the second story arc of Meatier Showers 2019.

Thank You

Thank you again for supporting me. There is one more development diary installed for the end of the month. All Patreon payments have been suspended for the month of September, and I will continue to do so indefinitely, until there is new content to share.

Snares,
Aug 2019

Harrow!

Here is this month's featured stream recording. For the record, this is the second comic page for the first 6 that's being inked. Unfortunately, my laptop crashed towards the end and like, the last 30 minutes of work was lost. The good news was that I saved the file just before working on the final panel, so I'll probably have to spend this weekend redoing it.

Snares
Jul 2019

I'll be shifting out of my current place and moving over to a new room rental (much closer to work) on the 28 July. As such, production for the rest of the month will be placed on hold until I've finally settled in and stabilized. This month has been highly disruptive to say the least, so I'm trying my best to maintain a clarity of month and not fret over things.

There's not a whole lot more that I could add, since a lot of what lies ahead depends on my new environment and I how manage to adapt to it. I won't make broad sweeping promises of renewed activity and updates, all I can share is that I'm going through a destabilizing phase in life right now.

Fingers crossed that things pan out smoothly as soon as possible. If the new place works out, I'll hopefully have more time for myself and... peace, maybe? I'll be there for the next 12 months starting 28 July 2019, all through the following year.

Harrow!

Thank you for your support through the month of June! This month, I'd like to share with you a silly scene where, just as things start to get spicy, Tanz walks in on both Groover and Pride mid-session through his massage. Tanz, Groover and Pride are all familiar with each other, so it's all chill, although a little awkward at the same time.

To this, Groover is whisked away by the promise of hamburgers which leaves Pride hanging, close to his climax, and much to his annoyance.

Snares,
July 2019

Harrow!

Work has commenced on the next 6 pages of Meatier Showers 2019. The following arc reveals what Tanz and Groover have both been up to the past year or so. They visit a shop very much akin to Mr. S Leather in San Francisco (much to Groover's shy embarassment). Tanz and Groover both find something new and decide to try it out in the changing room where things escalate to a raunchy height.

Based on my current outlook, it is more likely than not that I will only commence pencil work on this story arc towards the end of the year when things have (hopefully) stabilized.

Snares
July 2019

Harrow!

This weekend's stream turned out to be a productive one, I'll have the video uploaded next weekend for you guys to see the work that went into this page. This is basically my second take on page 1... and for those of you who've been following... God knows how many page ones I've had at this point. I don't consider myself a perfectionist, but if you're going to make a good first impression, a lot is riding on the first page. It sets the tone for the pages to come, and if people aren't invested and sold, you fight an uphill battle. That's storytelling.

I'll be finishing up the first panel next weekend (backgrounds take a while longer) and my hands were kinda aching by the time I hit the last panel (was also losing focus.) Hope you guys like the end result. I'll fill you guys in on what's lined up for July in the next update with this month's featured stream video.

Thank you for your patience and support.

Snares,
Jun 2019

Harrow!

Last weekend, I finally started inking the first page of Meatier Showers 2019, with much trepidation. It had been a long while since I last inked a comic page, and it requires me to be in a specific head space to get right. Then there's the pressure of trying to get the page fully inked within the day itself, if not it'll end up rolling over to the following weekend (when a new page can be worked on instead.)

Despite my best efforts, the inevitable happened. At the end of "fixing" and inking page 1, having seen the new results, it suddenly dawned upon me that the original page was a lot better than what I had produced:

For the casual observer, the above page seems "fine" and pretty cleaned up for that matter. However, compared to the original layout and designs I had, the new page layout is relatively much more claustrophobic than I had intended it to be. It made me realize that Meatier Showers isn't the sort of comic where I want to over-complicate things, not especially when it comes to the visual aspect. My personal preference is for the dialogues and visuals to flow and read easily, because ultimately Meatier Showers is the kinda of comic I personally would pick up to chill and have a good time with.

Looking back at the original page, despite my original reasons in an earlier post. While it frustrates me that I took up a whole weekend to realize the problem, I suppose the session was a good warm up for inking, considering that I had been hesitating initially for fear of messing things up (I did anyway so...)

I can't help but express that I would very much love to work on my project on a more regular basis (although that kind of unpaid freedom comes with great risks.) For now, I've scaled down my main goal for the year to come up with 6 solid, full-colored pages, rather than rushing things through and trying to hit some arbitrary deadline. Given my weekday commitments, it's a zero-sum game trying to constantly engage the internet. This is the stability and compromise I've settled for in life, to realize the goal of having my own home.

That said, I have drafted some thumbnails on the next story-arc involving Tanz and Groover, just so I still have direction and a trajectory to aim for. I've also worked out a 32-page format to get a better sense of what the "big picture" and through line of this new series. For now, I hope to attempt page one again this coming Sunday. Fingers crossed I'll arrive at something more satisfactory this time.

Snares,
Jun 2019

Harrow!

Thank you for supporting me through the month of May. There's been some notable developments unfolding in my life right now, and I'd like to share them later this month once I've deconstructed and processed all my thoughts. For now, I'd like to share with everyone page 4 of Meatier Showers 2019 - the massage scene.

In their exchange across pages 2 and 3, we learn that Groover and Pridestar have been absent in each other's lives for awhile now. We don't really know what has transpired during (my real world) one-year hiatus, and Pride asks Groover what's new with him.

To Pride's surprise, Groover has gone from being just a janitor to becoming a masseur. He's picked up a few new skills and is more than happy to show Pride what he's learnt.

Let me know what you think! Catch up soon later this month with another installment of the Meatier Showers Development Diary.

Snares,
Jun 2019

Harrow!

First, a quick warm welcome to all my new Patreon supporters! For those of you who aren't aware, I've been implementing extensive revisions to the first few pages of Meatier Showers 2019. The original page 1 had been taken out, shifting the consecutive pages forward - which means we only have 5 pages out of the original 6 for the first story arc, "Catching Up".

To compensate for this loss, the original page 3 has now been split and expanded upon to form a new page 2 and 3.

Original Page 3

NEW Page 2:

NEW Page 3:

This is partly why I work on each panel on a separate layer to facilitate drastic structural and pacing changes as you can see above. Changes like these aren't without repercussions. Now the middle panel of page 2 looks like the new page 1 - and almost looks like a jump cut when you flip the pages... and unintended effect while doing some improvised editing.

What's gonna happen this weekend is that I'll be revisiting page 1 to fix the mid shot of Pride and Groove) and avoid that weird jump cut effect (while flipping across pages 1 and 2) and also to add in the facial details missing in the placeholder sketches for pages 3.

I could, of course, rush the pages through and have them released by the initial projection date of June 2019... but ultimately that is an arbitrary deadline I created for myself to stay productive. It would, in fact, be counterproductive and even more detrimental to push out pages that are not at their best, and risk soiling the series and brand altogether.

Attached with this update you'll find a Patreon-exclusive featured stream of this month. The video itself captures the process to which I've been splicing and expanding the new pages 2 and 3, among other random things. For those of you who love behind-the-scenes videos, this one's for you!

DOWNLOAD HERE!

Snares,
May 2019

Harrow!

I'm happy to announce that at this time of writing, I've finished drafting the first 6 pages of Meatier Showers 2019. These 6 pages make up the first story arc of the series, titled, "Catching Up" - where we basically check in with the main cast to so how they've been and what has changed over the course of my 1-year hiatus.

While starting on the inking phase, with each revisit, it started to dawn on me that the gag for page 1 just wasn't working out. For those of you who are fresh to my new process, I only have 4-6 hours per week on Sundays to work on Meatier Showers, due to my day-job commitments. Having already reached the inking stage, at least 2-3 weekend hours had been invested on page 1, and it was with great reluctance that I finally decided to scrap the page, in favor of a stronger, more focused opening using the subsequent page 2 as the new first page.

Let's go over what happened:

Flat Punchline

Continuing from where we left off from last month's Development Diary, Page 1 had seen some amendments particularly in the last panel. The gist of the gag is that Pridestar is taking into a webcam. We don't know where he is, but he's doing his usual routine of putting up a good show for audiences, At the very last panel, we reveal that he's actually at a computer store, using a demo unit to do all his cam slut business. A store attendant then prompts Pridestar to leave.

Originally, this page was intended to set up just how aloof and socially out-of-tune Pridestar is. The jam with Pridestar is that he's so good at what he does professionally as a stripper, that he doesn't know how to behave outside of that professional environment. While at this point, the gag seemed to serve that purpose, a lot of the punchline relied heavily on one trick - concealing information (the whereabouts of Pridestar) and the revealing of said information.

For the most part, the sudden appearance of a complete stranger an "extra" character at the last panel was very abrupt, sudden and confusing - Who is this person? Was that Groover? What is going on? I tried adding an additional panel where a mysterious hand comes in from behind to tap on Pridestar to see if that helped with the flow of information...

Not only did the additional panel failed to contribute or save the gag, but it added to the visual clutter of the page. It was already very busy with all of Pridestar's dynamic poses, there was not enough breathing space for dialogue and made the top half very claustrophobic. Despite all the attempts and sacrifices, the amount of effort invested in this page was starting to become disproportional to the comedic payoff from the gag itself - something which I have to painfully admit, for the most part, was really lame and uninteresting. The reveal relied heavily on not telling the audience where Pridestar was. Without that, he's just a loon sitting naked at the computer store, and how funny was that really in the grand scheme of things? While it added little to character development, the addition of a completely random, non-reoccurring extra character, on the very first page of a series designed to introduce the full Meatier Showers cast to new readers and returning fans was high risk, detrimental and really not worth all the trouble.

Ultimately I made the executive decision to kill the gag and the page, and improvise with the remaining material I had in this story arc. For more on that, be sure to support my Patreon project, Meatier Showers 2019. Towards the end of the month, patrons will have early access to the page adjustments I've made - turning page 2 to page 1, and generating another 2 pages out of 1 to fill up the gap. Confusing? It'll make more sense when you see the pages!

If you find all this behind-the-scenes production stuff interesting, you'll want to join me on the rest of my journey HERE!

Production Schedule Updates

Not sure what you're in for? Check out my production schedule here from current to past (completed) Patreon projects!

Stay tuned end of this month for more comic page updates!

Snares,
May 2019

Hi everyone,

For this month's featured stream, I'll be sharing with you the latest page I worked, that is page 6. The comic page process starts at the 01:40:00 mark for those of you who want to jump right to it, otherwise it's a good 1.5 hours worth of hyper muscle madness and happy hardcore music.

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This Month's Featured Stream

Page 6 was a technically challenging page to work on. If you watch the video, I was initially going to work on a 11-panel page, which turned out to be insane and impractical considering how tiny the 9-panel montage frames were.

In a nutshell, the story plays out with Tanz and Groover asking where Pridestar's been the past several months and what he's been up to. Originally, Pridestar gets a flashback of all the random folks he'd been in bed with, and the punchline ends with him responding to Tanz and Groover, "sightseeing". The idea was to have all the "strangers" cameo appearances of friends I know, but as I started drafting the panels, I realized as a new reader, it was incredibly confusing to see 9 completely different and random characters, not to mention how constricted the space was. Mechanically and visually the whole thing felt clunky and unnecessarily over complicated.

(02:40:00)

I then cleared out the 9 panels and made 3 columns so that it gave me more breathing space to move things around. From here on, everything was impromptu and decided on the fly. I did not know where I was going, only that I knew I had some earlier drawing outtakes I figured I could reuse to "fill in the blanks". From here on, I decided to focus Pridestar's shenanigans on Snares, the lifeguard lion he's obsessed about, which made a better link and character connection for both new and returning readers (whom we'll see more of later). You'll notice that I've started sketching haphazardly trying to work out a variety of poses and angles to show the passing of time for the montage.

Winging it through, you'll see the results at the end of the video. There are still some slight adjustments that need to be made, so stay tuned for future updates!

If you enjoyed the videos, you can visit my Picarto page for more previously recorded sessions: https://picarto.tv/snares

Snares
Apr 2019

HARROW!

In last week's post, I shared about my production schedule and long term plans for my Patreon project. This week, I'm happy to show you guys the second page preview for Meatier Showers 2019. Of all the 6 drafted pages so far, this one seems to have the least amendments - primarily the middle panel where I resized the characters for clarity.

It's a little hard to see, but I also adjusted Priderstar's neck a little to make him look less awkward. As of this weekend, I've begun inking work on page 1 and man, it's been quite awhile since I did any major inking and it has been an uphill climb.

Bonus Image

Time permitting, I may add more detail to this establishing shot of the Showers. I've always imagined Meatier Showers to be tucked away on some smaller road in the Castro, San Francisco. Most likely it'll be Catstroll in the context of my universe. if I do get around to this, it'll most likely be used for promotional purposes.

Next Weekend

I'll be uploading the featured stream video for this month, and maybe a preview of the inked page. Stay tuned for more!

Snares
Apr 2019

Hey Everyone!

I'm happy to share that I've just finished penciling page 6 of the new Meatier Showers series this weekend (finally!) It's been something I've put off the past 2 weeks primarily because it's a demanding page (involving 10 panels) and I was literally terrified to begin working on it, not without being at my game 100%. And because it's been such a major production hurdle, it will be this month's Early Access page preview as I am excited to show the results!

Now that a minimal of 6 pages have been drafted, and a story arc formed, I feel more comfortable with sharing the long-term plans for Meatier Showers 2019.

Production Timeline

As of this weekend, I am actually 2 weekends or (12 hours) behind schedule. In a nutshell, I can only work on my Patreon project on Sundays - it's when I stream and usually lasts between 4-6 hours per session. Within that window of 4-6 hours, I try to cover as much ground as possible. Work has been draining, and I usually need to full Saturday to literally not do anything and recuperate. It's a tight shift to say the least.

The first story arc for Meatier Showers 2019 spans 6 pages. This is the reintroduction arc for returning readers (from my 1-year hiatus) and serves as a jumping board for new readers. It very quickly introduces the setting, main cast of characters and their dynamic.

The next 6 pages will transition from Harvey's Dine-In Diner to the "Changing Room" story arc involving fan-favorites, Tanz and Groover. This arc will explore what's new with the couple and sexy shenanigans they've been up to.

Short Term Goal

My goal for 2019 is essentially to produce 12 pages of the new series. It doesn't seem a lot, nut based on a monthly roll-out schedule, it will fill up a year's worth of updates.I am taking it SLOW, because my day job is demanding.

Mid Term Goal

While production is much slower as compared to when I was doing Patreon full-time, I hope to maintain the pace at least for 2 years worth of updates. This means that I have content lined up for another 1-2 story arcs spanning another 12 pages. Without revealing too much, I have a few more story arcs prepared for the future, in the event that I require them.

Long Term Goal

It is not feasible as before to produce a full comic book within a year, however I do hope to make the most of my available time. Originally my ideal situation was to quit my day job after the completion of my house (3-4 years away from now) and work on Patreon full-time. I have to emphasize on the word "ideal". The reality is that a lot can happen within that time-frame. And it'd be too long to wait until then before actually working on Meatier Showers. So I've decided to take those 3-4 years on slowly working towards an ongoing Patreon project that will hopefully someday, amount to enough content to form a substantial book. I do hope to engage my publisher again once we get there, and I do have plans to work on some new trade paperback compilations. But all this is far away. It's an inkling of a direction.

Book Review

For my patrons, you should be able to now access a free copy of my previous Patreon project, Meatier Showers: Supersized. What I ask in return is that you visit my Gumroad page and leave a review of the book of the same title. If you have read my other titles, please also consider leaving a review of my works so that other potential readers may be able to make a more informed decision.

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Thank you for your time and support.
Check in end of this month for early access to page 6!

Snares
Apr 2019

HARROW!

In last week's post, you may have seen this month's featured stream on how page 1 of Meatier Showers 2019 was made. This week, you'll see the amendments made on the last panel. The primary reason I don't upload draft pages right away is because I need about a week or two to look back at the originals, see (with fresh eyes( what can be improved on and take the necessary time to implement those corrections.

The Original Draft

Fortunately, I had a very clear vision of how I wanted page 1 to look like and what character moments were needed. This is not always the case, as you'll discover with later pages like 4 and 5 (which has gone through tremendous overhauls and delays, as a result).

The only major issue I had with the last panel was that the store attendant had obscured a large portion of Pride's tastier bits. The page is busy enough as it is, and the straight vertical posing of the attendant disrupted the overall visual flow of the panels that came before.

New Revisions

With the new posing, the shop attendant is now on the same eye level as Pride's, which makes for better composition when the dialogue balloons come in. Also, the attendant's head is strategically covering Pride's bits and makes for a playful, if not, silly looking tease which is on-brand with the series. There's probably going to be an Apple-like logo in the background to denote that it's a fancy computer store, that all this is happening in. Which in Pride's case, is appropriate behavior.

Next in April!

Next month, we'll talk more about new plot points and some world-changing developments that may possibly, irreversibly alter the course of Meatier Showers. Stay tuned!

Snares
Mar 2019

Hi everyone,

First of all, a warm welcome to all my new supporters joining in for the first time. Every month, I'll be posting a link to downloadable recorded stream video of my comic pages being made. You can save it down to learn from my process. The content is generally NSFW, so please be mindful.

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Picarto Premium lets me save down up to a maximum limit of 12 videos. I usually have 6 of them "locked down", otherwise the sessions will be automatically overwritten when a new stream session is recorded. Your support helps me fund the monthly Premium subscription, and I hope to feature my favorite weekend stream session of the month - which understandably not everyone will have the time or opportunity to catch hours and hours of.

This Month's Featured Stream

This video shows my process as I stumble through page 1 of the new Meatier Showers comic. While it had its own challenges, I had a very vivid image in mind how the panels would be: starting with Pridestar talking into a webcam, with the background mostly obscured. The gag is finally revealed at the end where he appears to be doing all this in a public setting, only to be halted by a store attendant.

While I'm still working on some of the later pages, I'll have more information to share on my production schedule next weekend. Work's been hectic now that I'm working on long format episodes for my day-job. Once I'm done with this month's deadline, we should be back on track for weekend streams every Sunday.

Let me know if you enjoy the videos!

Snares
Mar 2019

Déjà vu

I was watching, "Initial D: The Movie Legend 1", just the other day and thought to myself, "yeah, that's kinda what my life feels like right now..." Figuratively speaking, I'm on a beat-up vehicle meant for delivering tofu, racing against younger, faster, better qualified peers at work. My main hand is on the steering wheel - that's the day job that I gotta maintain. Weekend's I'm shifting gear ever so quickly to attack those bends and corners just to get back on track with my passion projects. Letting go of the steering wheel at this point would be unthinkable, unless I don't mind being stranded and dead on a mountain range. Losing control would simply send me careening off the mountain itself. Eurobeat intensifies.

Hustle

The original notion I had was to wait till 2023 - after the completion and handing over of my home - that I would go on another indefinite hiatus and get back into comics. Realistically speaking, there's no guarantee in life that things will always pan out the way we plan it. So much can happen between now and then.

Turns out that the past 3-4 years working on my Patreon projects, has trained me for this precise situation. Comics ARE FUCKING TOUGH - let alone having to produce them with a full-time job. And I've reworked my lifestyle and schedule to make this work even with my weekday commitments. All those production processes I've developed and streamlined for myself? It's all meant to attack these crazy corners, just like delivering tofu downhill on a Trueno.

Production Schedule 2019

This is my production schedule from now till May 2020. The goal is to have one comic page released every month starting June 2019, and have that run through a year. My weekends are now committed to this endeavor. It will no doubt put my discipline, focus, willpower and time-management skills to the test.

• 1 comic page per weekend
• 6-pages 6-weeks challenge
• 3-month turnaround time
• story arcs in multiples of 3
• 12 monthly pages for a year
• 24 pages to compile into a book

Whether or not this is attainable, we've yet to find out. But if I want to see my characters grow, I want to be with them. I have to hustle while I can.

Values and Principles

I started Meatier Showers more than 10 years ago. Since then, my world views and understanding of relationships have drastically changed. With Meatier Showers 2019 (Season 9), I want to see how the characters have grown during the hiatus.

I want to introduce more diverse body types in my work, and also feature a broader range of relationship models. The stories I want to tell are about characters trying to find mutual solutions that works for them, rather than trying to conform to established frameworks.

All this done in a manner that is entertaining and not with a didactic preachy tone. It is not my place to be instructing readers how to live their lives, but merely start conversations and laughter.

Work In Progress

This is page 3 which is slated for release online in August. This page isn't ready since I was struggling with the layout initially. It later dawned upon me that 1-on-1 interactions required a wider, horizontal layout. Once I altered my panels, things started to flow and read better. The last few panels are still in thumbnail phase and lack the obvious details since I have to work within my allocated weekend timings. Hopefully I'll have enough time this weekend to finish up the remaining panels.

If you like what you see, and are curious to find out more about my projects, please do consider supporting me on Patreon. I hope to continue making these development diaries a regular thing, so as to keep track of myself and just let folks know I'm actively producing content. Page 1 should be released end of this month once I've lettered the panels.

Stay buff.

Snares,
Mar 2019

Hi, Everyone!

Here's a preview of the cast and crew of Meatier Showers. It's been a year since the last season, and I figured it would be good to update some of the characters a little. Don't want to spoil too much for now! I've commenced production on the comic pages over the past 2 weeks, and I've been working hard to maintain the pace. Here's a quick look at what to expect starting March 2019:

Content Schedule

• 5th of every month - EARLY ACCESS COMIC PAGE
• 15th of every month - DEVELOPMENT DIARY
• 25th of every month - STREAM VIDEO LINK

From now till June 2019, Patreon supporters will gain early access to comic draft pages. The goal right now is to build up a library of draft pages (preferably 12 pages to make up a year's worth of updates). Once June begins, the first inked and colored comic page will be released to public. The public updates will run till June 2020. In this time, another 12 pages will be produced to hit a total of 24.

Starting 5 March 2019, I'll be releasing the comic draft pages I've worked on here. Please hang tight and feel free to leave your comments here!

Snares,
Feb 2019

Hi, everyone!

Come 5th March 2019, I'd have spent 12 months at my current company as a storyboard artist. The first 6 months were intense to say the least, and the following 3, unpredictable at best. Things started to settle down towards the end of the year, and now that I've adjusted to the challenges of my day job, contemplating my next move.

Retrospective

For those of you who've been supporting me since last year, or from the early beginning, you'd have seen how my Patreon projects have been constantly shifting and adapting to the circumstances surrounding me. I've gone from producing a 32-page full-color comic, Meatier Showers: Bulge Indulge (before leaving my previous home), to something more manageable in the instance of a 16-page full-color comic, Meatier Showers: Baewatch (while I was taking refuge at a shared art studio), to settling at a rented room and delivering a 28-page, gray-tone side story, Meatier Showers: Supersized.

It hasn't been easy, to put simply. Now that I have my finances and shelter managed, time has become a luxury resource. For the most part, I only have the weekends to work on my personal projects, and generally one day is set aside to recuperate from the work week.

Consistency

Over the 12 months of full-time employment, what I've observed myself to have been able to maintain (relatively) constantly are my weekend streams, It's a personal commitment to stay productive and accountable, and a means of honing my own skills.

With that in place, I have a better sense of time management, and the level of work I can afford to commit to outside of my 9-6 job.

Family

First of, I must apologize for my silence and lack of recent updates. I've been contemplating and double-checking the feasibility of executing my next project. We've talked about Fan Arts Project... and even a Fangra side project... and the one thing I've constantly felt is that I've strayed away from what I love and care for the most - the thing that's always on my mind - my boys - the denizens of Meatier Showers. Every waking moment I take, I check in with them to see what they're up to with their lives more than any other project I've undertaken. And I miss them dearly.

Making Time

The earliest completion time for the government housing that I've already reserved completes only in 2023. The original notion I had was to only return to comics production once I got a safe place to be... but by then, I'm not even sure if I would still have the capacity to pursue my passions freely... There's no guarantee. There's no easy answers.

I finally came to the resignation that in order to achieve what matters most to me, I have to hustle no matter what. The time that I want is never going to just show up on my doorstep. I have to make my own time through whatever means.

The Format

As described earlier, my Patreon projects have constantly evolved to adapt to my lifestyle and needs. Currently what I'm looking at (and bearing in mind still subject to amendments), is to reboot Meatier Showers in the form of a monthly comic strip. It'll take 4 weekends to work on a page, and have it delivered on social media platforms. The Patreon project allows for early access to the page and inside look to its creation.

Production Schedule

Currently what I'm looking at is to use the remaining weekends of February to build up visual assets to promote the project. Once March kicks in, I'm looking to begin drafting phase and release at the bare minimum, one sample page for a production and speed test. Once a system has been solidified, I will implement it upon actual project launch in June 2019. The time between March and June will be use to prospect for ideas, stories and to build a library of usable storage material for "dry" seasons.

Idea Samples

What you see below is a very early, initial draft with a "long-format" story in mind. It also covers more serious, life-altering story arcs which, after much consideration, may not be the best time to implement, not especially on a monthly format. In other words, this is an early prototype to visualize the product - it is not perfect or final.

Patreon Rewards

The rewards and support tier will remain unchanged. I intend to keep things simple and straightforward - no ridiculous rewards that are either difficult to implement or promises I can't commit to. There will only be a no-frills, "Early Access" supporter that will be standardized at $3. What the funds help to do is cover the costs of paying for Picarto Premium (for my weekend streaming and unlocking recording features) and my annual Adobe Photoshop CC subscription. Everything else goes back towards into my business for future needs such as possibly hiring help or advertising.

So that's all the major updates and stuff on my mind for now. I will be back end of the month to share progress updates and hopefully some new visuals for the Patreon page.

Snares,
Feb 2019

HARROW!

Here's something I've been busy with the past 3 weeks since returning from my new year's vacation. Conventions in the western hemisphere are relatively expensive for me to attend, let alone setting up a booth in dealer's den. Since attending FurDU last year, which is in Australia, Gold Coast, is much closer 6-(8-hour flight) and financially more feasible, I felt that I might want to expand my audience down under. A large following of my readership hails from the US, yet are mostly out of my physical reach and ability to interact with in person. Book signings have been for the most part, highly impractical. So here's an attempt to reach out to potential, new audiences in Australia, that will appear in FurDU 2019's convention book.

SKETCH

Initially I was gonna be lazy and just color over this... But since this was gonna be printed in a conbook, it needed some serious cleaning up. I've also adjusted the pointing arm which feels kinda hunched in a weird manner in the original. I "tightened" up the line work, clarified some details to make them more readable and reworked the "blacks" so that the shadows read better.

The convention theme this year is "Back to the Beach" or "apocalypse beach". Think Mad Max, Tank Girl and Fallout. I went with a furry version of Immortan Joe. If you know my work, I've always loved comics and their color treatment. It's something I can relate to more than digital paint - which admittedly, I'm terrible at and have little interest in pursuing. I take great inspiration from the colorists who've worked on the covers and pages of Image Comics' "Invincible". It's my favorite superhero comic.

CLEAN UP

The face is more readable now. There's a lot of white zones so I had to roll the details over to another weekend to complete. A lot of time really went mostly into refining the line art. I do prefer the new face mask. Initially I was trying too hard to make it look like the original Immortan Joe's mask, but the problem with the silhouette was that it became hard to distinguish the feline facial structure.

FLAT COLORS

The next step was really to work out the color scheme of the image and get an overall feel of how the colors were gonna interact with the BG. I went mostly with a reddish theme based on the storm chase scene in Mad Max: Fury Road. I gave the shadows a bluish purple hue so it would contrast with the reds and help the character "pop" out more. I could've just gone with gray tone shadows but I recall that Invincible would often color their shadows and not just have them gray especially for cover art.

So that's my process breakdown. Hope this is something interesting for you guys. I'll be working on new projects now that this has been cleared off my slate. See you guys next month! Cheers!

Snares
Jan 2019

Hi guys!

With the relaxed scheduling, I've been able to focus more on improving my sketches and pushing for stronger poses, instead of rushing to hit delivery deadlines. Here's a quick look at the changes and what you can expect down the line.

You'll notice that in the original sketch, where I was sticking as closely as possible to Delvin's pose and proportion's, I've opted for a "stronger" stance by pushing Spyro's chest outwards, changed his facial expression and generally a whole slew of other aesthetic upgrades.

Delvin's original pose works as a piece of concept art, but as a storyboard artist / animator I'm trained to push my poses for clearer silhouettes. You'll notice that Delvin looks more rigid compared to say, the adolescent version of Spyro:

What I really wanted to achieve is a balance between bulk and strong posing, So here it is, a Patreon early access preview to my latest version of Spyro REIGNITED:

Snares,
Jan 2019

Hi, everyone!

A HAPPY 2019 to all my supporters here on Patreon. Thank you so much, for being a part of my artistic journey and for being ever so patient while I work on my craft! 2018 was just crazy challenging. I still distinctly remember returning from JMoF 2018 and the reality of things hitting me so hard, that I developed a ocular migraine mid February. At that time, I just couldn't see any future ahead of me, no more than a month beyond. For the most part, I was resigning to the possibility that JMoF 2018 may be the last furry convention for me in a long while...

It was really through a stroke of luck and friendship that an industry peer recommended a job for me, and I was fortunate enough to have secured it by early March 2018. Since then, I've been working at this current animation studio for the past 10 months, and having a regular monthly salary has eased off my insurance payments, phone bills and monthly rental. With my finances and paperwork in order, I have also been able to apply for government housing. I'm expecting to do my unit selection on the 15 Jan 2019 and after that, it'll be an ongoing process of sorting out more paperwork and readying my finances.

With a full-time job, I am able to apply for a government housing loan. The unit I'm currently looking at is expected to be around US$100k. The numbers alone are frightening and even with everything signed and done, it'll take another 4 years before the flat construction is complete. This means I'll have to build up my finances during those 4 years if I'm to have enough money to pay off that sum, and that's actually the smallest available unit in the area I'm looking at, for single Singaporeans! Crazy city prices.

Moving into the new year with a renewed sense of optimism, I cannot express how grateful I am to have full-time work now. While I was reeling from a sense of loss having to give up on Meatier Showers (for now), the stable monthly income also meant creative opportunities in other forms. It has freed up the need to constantly put out new comic pages, and allow for more artistic exploration.

With this New Year's weekend, I was able to stream again and figure it out what it was I really wanted to do:

FANGRA: Revisited

Every once in a while, I do have folks asking me about the state of Fangra. While it is currently not feasible to work on a full-length comic, I am leaning more towards the reality of doing more visual development work for the series. In other words, world building. The original Fangra comic books focused a lot on the Eastern, oriental aspects of the world. But the North also exists, and it's something I've never had the chance to cover.

The Game Plan

As much as I love my current job, one can never be too complacent about job security. For the most part, "security" is just an illusion we tell ourselves so we can sleep easier at night. Ever since I made it past probation phase, I've been thinking of a contingency plan in the event that I needed to find employment again for whatever reason. Storyboarding is a very rare and deeply misunderstood position in our local industry, and not as highly respected as say the role a concept artist holds. I needed to build up some sort of jumping board and resources for a new, up-to-date portfolio to branch out into concept art related jobs in both animation and gaming fields.

World Building Project

With Fangra resurfacing as a feasible reality, my goal right now, is to spend 6-months developing 6 different "races" in Fangra North. The visual development work will include locations, mechanical designs and the works to help visually flesh out the world. The results will then translate into monthly, exclusive content here on Patreon - especially since these are still highly developmental concepts that aren't ready to go right out just yet.

Online Portfolio

After 6 months of development work, I'll gather the best pieces of material to revamp my Patreon front page - which, honestly speaking, is in a deplorable state now - and attempt to rebrand myself. The rebranding effort will be a monumental task, and I think 6-months worth of content development should at least yield some usable material for a new front page and marketing campaign. What's more, having a new stockpile of material means I have a framework to base my new online portfolio on - as much as I enjoy drawing hyper dongs, there aren't many existing jobs out there that are hiring on that account.

Transition Period

During this phase, I'll be working on fan art projects as well. But as concept work on Fangra ramps up to a more regular pace, I'll be moving the fan arts more towards Twitter to help build up a larger following. In other words, I'm shifting the dynamics of my content - hopefully with Fangra being substantial enough of a world building project that people will want to support over the course of 6-months.

Purpose of Funds

As mentioned before, I try as much as possible to reinvest my online earnings back into my businesses. With last year's Patreon's earnings, I have signed up for an entire year's Premium subscription for Picarto. This means I can invite other artists to join me on my multistreams and enable up to 10 live recordings on my channel here: https://picarto.tv/snares

With the new year, I've also subscribed to Adobe Cloud... since losing my CS3 CD... which is a monthly subscription fee of around US$10, which I need Photoshop to do layout work for graphical banners and promotional material.

So that's what Patreon helps me with - services and software that go back into adding more value into what I'm able to create and share with everyone. And I want to keep doing this for as long as possible.

Streaming is essential for me, because it forces me to "show up" and be accountable. It helps me stay productive while being able to share my more personal stuff, and interact with my followers over the weekends. It's therapeutic to say the least.

The rest of the funds go directly to my savings account, because I am so going to need it for when the mortgage kicks in.

TLDR

Above you'll have noticed the 2 new characters from Fangra North (tentative title). The left being the Hunter class and the right being an Assassin. For January this year, I'll be focusing my efforts on fleshing out the Deer race, creating notes and lore on its culture and generally just working on conceptual art for the character and its society - and how it all ties back into Fangra itself.

The next 6-months will commence the start of my Fangra world-building project. No changes in pledge amounts. I want to keep things simple and straightforward, enough to continue my Picarto and Adobe subscriptions.

Please hang around and check back for new stuff around the corner!

PS: I've changed my Twitter "AD account" to an "Art Dump account"... yes, it's another rebranding project I'm working on, kinda bare bones atm but the new handle is: @snaresart (on Twitter)

WISHING YOU ALL A GREAT YEAR AHEAD!
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ME!

Snares,
Jan 2019

Hi Everyone!

Seasons greetings and thank you for your patience! The long weekend is finally here and I've been busy sorting things out and shifting gears...

With the 4-day holiday, not only was I able to recover some creative energy, I could also finally get around to working on a fan art project I really wanted to do. I love the work Nicholas Kole did on Spyro Reignited, and once I saw his "grown-up" version of Spyro, I was sold. And think about it, growing up with all those bara dad dragons would eventually rub off on Spyro... into full-blown scaley swoleness!

Now that we're on that topic, let's talk about...

Original Goals

The new year's just around the corner, and many of you folks must be wondering what's going to happen to my Patreon project. As you can see, I still intend to carry on the Fan Arts Project, but in a different capacity - one that allows for a more forgiving schedule.

The original purpose of the Fan Arts Project was threefold:

• to perform character design studies, mimic styles and learn from their construction
• to produce new engaging content to maintain Patreon activity
• to post on a regular basis to build up followers on social media

However, the monthly targets became a battle of attrition and wore me out thin. Eventually, things started to snowball from my exhaustion, to the point that I wasn't even fulfilling the most important goal of FAP - which was to experiment, learn and develop myself.

Patreon 2019

Starting Jan 2019, my Patreon will be standardized at a single support tier of $3 per month for early access to Fan Arts Project, and all of its related work files will be posted here when they're ready. Adult versions will be made exclusively here on Patreon.

Given the flexible nature of this arrangement, I may also have the freedom to swap to another character (should I ever get bored from working on a former project), and return once I've refreshed myself. What this means is that Patreon supporters can expect to see multiple character previews overlapping within a single month!

TLDR:

• One single, solitary, simple, standardized support tier of $3
• Early access to all fan art projects (from sketch to finish)
• Exclusive access to adult versions and working files (when available)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here in this post. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Snares
Dec 2019

Hey guys, quick update. Tumblr WAS supposed to be my art dump for my hyper muscle and weight gain stuff BUUUTTTT guess what happened? I was pretty half-assed with my updates anyway...

Instead, here's my Twitter AD account: @snaressexy

I'll be posting the hyper muscle and growth stuff there eventually. This will be part of my Patreon 2019 shift into a donation jar model instead. If you like what you see in future posts, please continue supporting me here. I'll throw in the "Best of Stream" videos here featuring my favorite sessions.

Snares
Dec 2018

Thank you all for being patient with me while I work through my schedule and change of plans. I have a major deadline coming 18 Dec, which has taken up most of my time and energy. On the bright side, I have 2 long weekends lined up (22 Dec -25 Dec) and (20 Dec - 1 Jan). What this means is that until then, most of the upcoming plans and changes I wish to implement on my Patreon can only take place during those long weekends. For now, what I have are most intangible ideas and fragmented thoughts which have been difficult to articulate.

For now, the only heads-up I can divulge is that my Patreon will be shifting from a paid-for-exclusive-content model into more of a donation, tip-jar. There will still be exclusive rewards, but I haven't worked out the kinks for that yet. I still hope to continue working on fan art projects as well, but with a more flexible timeline and on characters I haven't been able to put in.

So just hang in there with me a little longer while I clear my end-of-year slate workload. It's been challenging managing the demands from my full-time job and balancing my Patreon, but I don't want to give up on something that I've poured in so many hours of tears, sweat and blood! I'll get back to everyone again once I have something comprehensive and substantial! Till then, stay safe and happy holidays!

Snares,
Dec 2018

Thank you for another month of support. I have not received many requests for December's polls! Save one for Spyro, there haven't been any new canine or feline candidates. If you guys would like some character (that's not someone else's OC), please leave your suggestion below in this thread.

There will be some significant changes for 2019, and I'm still gathering my thoughts on the matter. You should be receiving a news update from me soon, in the meantime, please let me know what characters you'd like to put up for the polls!

Terribly sorry for the long silence. November has been exhausting and intense, especially since the weekend when my housing agent threw me under the bus, and I nearly had to move out (on very short notice) end of the month. I may elaborate on the details in a later journal post, but if you've been following me on my Twitter account, you'll understand that it's been a harrowing time. So, I won't be beating around the bush. Let's get down to the updates I have to share!

Previous Poll Results

With October's polling, Beast King from One Punch Man got the highest vote. I had already commenced on sketching the character last month, however I cannot hide the reality that I am creatively burnt out both from my day job, my daily 2.5-hour commute and housing concerns.

By the time I started working on Beast King, I had lost all enthusiasm and could no longer work on him. My heart just wasn't there anymore and my mind was battered with pressing issues like finding alternative accommodations. Even after giving up gaming in September, here was simply not enough recovery time despite my best efforts. Oddly enough, when I was still gaming on some weekends, I found myself able to resume strength and energy. I'm still trying to isolate what's been draining me so much - and it could be something as simple as the fact that I need to draw or work on something for myself.

FAP Hiatus

I will be taking an extended break between December and January to gather myself and see if I recover. Originally, the plan was to start working on FAP "couples edition", for example, "Leomon x Weregarurumon". However rather than making empty promises, it's safer to say that I absolutely need to take a 2-month hiatus and figure out the rest once I find clarity of mind.

In the Interim

I will be converting my Patreon to a monthly sketch dump for my stream sketches. I will be rolling out the compiled sketches on 1 Dec 2018 to see how the reception is. I will include some stream videos for downloads for $5 and above patrons. As paying supporters, you have every right to choose what's financially best for you. Your support goes a long way to covering for bills and groceries - and I always set aside $15 for Picarto monthly so that fans can catch streams they miss out on. You may wish to return in February, when new projects are lined-up and explore other creators, or you may choose to wait and I will try to find something to compensate for the downtime upon my recovery.

Thank you for your patience and support.

Snares
Nov 2018

Here is Machoke from this month's Pokemon Poll results. You may notice some major changes to the proportions from the earlier version:

As much as I love over-sized pecs, ultimately the goal of my Fan Arts Project is to capture the essence of the source material and execute in my styling.

While the inflated look of the original draft is more towards my persona preferences, I think Machoke's original look and design was kinda lost in the treatment. I've taken longer than usual but adjusted the proportions, especially the legs and chest, going for more of a "Hulkbuster" aesthetic.

Hope you guys enjoy this piece as much as I did creating it. See you in November for the next FAP!

PS: If you are pledging $5 and above, to remember to check the "VIP" tagged posts to download all the work files from previous months!

Snares
Oct 2018

Here are the work files I used to create this month's FAP! Hope you find it useful!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gmjMnMiff5yaw4QoefvkzJAlqcR9SQDh?usp=sharing

Hi everyone! Thank you for another month of support. Been having quite the backlog and am terribly sorry for the late polls. So here's a quick recap, Machoke was voted the most wanted for Sep 2018. I'll be working on its completion by this 28 Oct, so hopefully it doesn't snowball into the following month, because here are the new candidates for NOVEMBER'S FAN ART PROJECT!

• Canine - Doggie Kruger (Tokatsu Sentai Dekaranger)
• Feline - Beast King (One Punch Man)
• Scalie - Drum (Buddyfight)
• Wild Card - Thirty/Thirty (Bravestarr)

Someone else you have in mind? Drop your suggestions down in this thread for next month's line-up!

Here are the work files I used to create this month's FAP! Hope you find it useful!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17itbRJykv19qA3hTynta9ftGOhBgRR9o?usp=sharing

Terribly sorry for the delay! The past 2 months have been really hectic and finding enough strength and energy to press on over the weekends has been nothing but challenging. That said, Bowser from last month's FAP has been completed and ready for viewing.

ADULT VERSION
PATREON-ONLY EXCLUSIVE:

CLUB ACCESS members will be receive a download link to all work files in a separate post. Thank you for your support!

Snares
Oct 2018

Just another quick progress update on Bowser:

• Flat colors added
• Basic lighting added
• Adult version WIP

I'll be posting up the next Fan Arts Project poll the next weekend, that's all for now and thanks again for being so patient!

Snares
Oct 2018

It's been a long while since I last had time for a journal entry, especially having started on my new full-time job as a storyboard artist early March this year. There's been a number of things piling in my mind lately, so here's a quick update on the major developments so far!

Funding My Home

Having turned 35 in August this year, I am, as a single Singaporean, gay male, eligible to apply for my own public housing. Younger married couples can legally do so when they're 28, as the nation prioritizes its growth and development on family building. As for the rest of us, our rite of passage comes at a huge time handicap.

Incidentally, on my birthday itself this year, was also the sales launch for a new wave of housing options in 2 different estates in Singapore. As soon as I could log on to my office computer, I initiated the online application in a flurry and hopped on the queue, because as it turns out, this was a hotly contested area - of the 891 two-room units available for singles like myself, it was oversubscribed by a total of 1927 applicants.

With my new full-time employment, I have been able get my finances and paper trail looking in good order, and have already been approved for a housing loan that will be valid till 2019, and enough from the loan to cover the only housing option I'm eligible for.

A Long Queue for the Long Wait

With much gratitude and praise to the RNG Gods, I have been fortunate enough to enter into the balloting queue. What this means is that come November 2018, I will be able to make a visit to the HDB Hub to select my choice of unit (pending availability and options)... only to wait for a good length of 4-5 years as the place has yet to be fully constructed, and only be ready by 2023 should everything run smoothly. As unpredictable as this seems, my partner and myself have determined this to actually be the "safest" option with a discernible timeline and attainable touch points.

My knowledge of housing abroad is non-existent, so I can't even begin to imagine what the process is like. Admittedly, the learning slope was relatively steep, and it was only in recent years that I've become more informed of the local processes - always better late than never, as they say.

What The Future Holds

The estate that I'll be queuing and vying for is called Punggol Point District. It has been touted by the media and HDB as this razzle-dazzle newfangled self-contained green town of the future. It is here, at the tip of the island across Sauron's gaze, that the Punggol Digital District - and here where I'll be staking my future prospects at...

Our local university, the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) have already made major plans to move the entirety of their segmented campus to Punggol. For those of you who know me well, will understand that I've been trying to get a degree for the longest time during the early phases of my unstable career as a creative professional.

While I agree with the general sentiments that a lot of the professional mileage we can attain ultimately lies in the quality of our experience and portfolio, I am also inclined to believe that having a paper qualification opens up extra doors. While I don't immediately need a degree to do what I'm already performing on a daily basis, it is obvious that by the time I can move into my home, I'll be 40. I don't know what my endurance will be like then, let alone if I would still have the edge to compete with a highly competitive industry.

For those not in the know, SIT offers degree courses from Digipen of America. Depending on future courses available, with enough resources and funding, one can pursue a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts in either Game Design or Digital Art & Animation. Circumstances permitting, I may bank on these options to further myself, and perhaps find openings to intern abroad in America through Digipen's exchange programs, as a possibility.

Meatier Showers

During this time, if conditions are right - that I have my own home to move to, freelance income to sustain me and a scholarship to fund my art degree, I may be in a better position in my 40s to revisit Meatier Showers and work on the project full-time. As of now, for those of you who have been following me, I've had to make some very tough choices and decided that this year was a good time to wrap up all my comic projects, including Meatier Showers. The characters and stories will always be on my mind, but I've chosen to sacrifice pursuing my dreams for now, and instead focus on getting basic necessities met as an immediate priority.

To sum it all up, this is essentially my trajectory for the next 5 years. It will not be easy, but it's the best plan so far. Thank you for continuing to support me and my projects.

Snares
Oct 2018

It was a tight battle and Machoke has emerged the winner of last month's poll! Here is a quick preview of Machoke having used the Buff Stone!

Snares
Oct 2018

I may choose to ink and color King K. Rool when there's more time. However, as things currently stand, I am actually 2 weeks behind schedule. Do hang around for next weekend as I'll start work on inks and base colors for Bowser. You can expect to see the finished artwork by 7 Oct!

Thank you for your patience and support! More updates coming in the following weekend!

Snares
Sep 2018

Hi guys. Just wanted to let everyone that this month’s Fan Arts Project will be back on track this coming Sunday.

Long story short, work has been pretty hectic, this month especially, so much that I haven’t really been able to even tweet about it. The general fatigue has pushed back production, however, rest assured I haven’t forgotten about you guys out there who are also supporting me each month.

Please kindly be patient, and you can expect to see updates coming in on the 23 and 30 Sep.

Thank you for your understanding!

Snares
Sep 2018

Hey everyone, and welcome to this month's FAN ART PROJECT polling! We've had a few Pokemon requests from our CLUB ACCESS members, so let's open this to all supporters and do a POKEMON THEME poll! (Last month's runner-up was the Beast King from One Punch Man, who will return for Oct!)

• Canine - Houndoom
• Feline - Incineroar
• Scalie - Machoke
• Wild Card - Mudsdale!

Who will you choose to evolve with the BUFF STONE!?

Here are the work files I used to create this month's FAP! Hope you find it useful!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MvF_P-RTkjk8Gm0xAWFgA3ssl3G6jH49?usp=sharing

Thank you for your patience! The August Fan Art Project is finally complete with 2 available flavors. The G-rated, public release above will be available on my social platforms for promotion purposes. The nude version attached below is exclusive only to my Patreon supporters.

Please enjoy:

CLUB ACCESS members will be receive a download link to all work files in a separate post. Thank you for your support!

Snares
Sep 2018

Who would you like to see next up on Sept's poll? Throw out your suggestions here, because next month's poll will be up on the 2nd of next month!

Snares
Aug 2018

Hope the weekend's been treating everyone well! Here's this week's progress update. Base colors and first round of lights and shadows have been added.

I'll be adding in the backgrounds and secondary lighting next weekend. If you want the work files for this month's Fan Art Project, be sure to update your rewards to CLUB ACCESS!

You can watch the recorded 2-hour stream session here from Sunday:
https://picarto.tv/snares

Snares
Aug 2018

Admittedly, I had gotten carried awhile a fair bit. Revisiting the sketch a week later, I decided to tone down Lionheart's physique in favor of a better balance between his original silhouette and cartoon buff. Don't worry though, if you enjoyed the original, over-the-top buff, you'll probably see it in a future piece elsewhere as I do intend to reuse the base for my own musings. You can see how the revised version below:

I took more time to ensure that his facial features were as close to the 3D model as possible, while adding a bit of pudge for good measure!

Patrons pledging towards the $5 Club Access will also receive an additional version of Lionheart this month (on top of the other rewards), just because. I'm really happy with the current results. Next week I'll commence work on the coloring phase, so stick around, feel free to look through the Meatier Showers archives on my Patreon and enjoy!

Snares
Aug 2018

Hi everyone! Thank you for another month of support. It's almost funny that while Mayor Lionheart may have won July's polling, Weregarurumon has survived yet another elimination round. If this continues to be the trend, he may very well be the best survivor, unless more folk lends him more loving (totally not influencing voter choices at all).

So let's take a look at what we've got this month!

• Canine - Weregarurumon (July runner-up, AGAIN!)
• Feline - Beast King (Patron request)
• Scalie - Bowser (Bowser week was quite recent!)
• Wild Card - Tiger Wolf

Club Access patrons are welcome to offset the polling by posting their personal requests here in this thread! If there's any other character you want to see drawn, leave a comment below, and it'll go in the poll for next month.

It has come to my recent attention that some patrons' automated payments have been affected this month - largely due to system issues on Patreon's end. Unfortunately the only quick solve lies on the end-user side of things, and it is with that I must request of my patrons to check their Patreon receipts.

If your payment has been declined this month, you may not be able to access this month's upcoming polling, or receive the follow-up progress for this month's Fan Arts Project (Mayor Lionheart).

To resolve said issue, please kindly refer to the following link:

https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203913769-How-do-I-update-my-payment-information

Thank you for your support and understanding. My apologies for any inconveniences caused.

Snares
Aug 2018

Guess who won the most votes!? Here's a sketch preview of what to expect this coming August. Stick around for the inked and full colored versions. I'll be releasing a new poll soon. If you have any requests or want to partake in the polling process, be sure to consider the $5 CLUB ACCESS tier!

Here are the work files I used to create this month's FAP! Hope you find it useful!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YGt4OmM4VYz-u0aunFE3j_z5OMD1WU5Z?usp=sharing

Inked-only version

Flat color version

Downloadable Work Files are also available to Club Access patrons! You'll will receive the Google Drive link in a separate post! Thank you for supporting my work through the month of July! More buffness coming to you once the poll results are in!

*EDIT: Fixed a minor color error with Jake's horns. Whoops!

Snares
Jul 2018

Hi everyone! Let's get started on polling for next month's fan favorite. Oddly enough, there haven't been many requests thus far, so I'm throwing in a Scalie and Wild Card entry.

• Canine - Weregarurumon (June runner-up)
• Feline - Mayor Lionheart (Patron request)
• Scalie - Bubba from Spyro
• Wild Card - Zenburu from Overlord

Club Access patrons can offset the polling by posting their personal requests here, in this thread! If there's any other character you want to see drawn, leave a comment below, and it'll go in the poll for next month.

It's pretty straightforward from here, just vote for the character you most want to see drawn, and the results will decide!

Based on last month's poll, Jake Long American Dragon was voted the most wanted for July 2018. I'll be releasing the new poll soon this weekend. Currently I've only one request for Mayor Leonhart from Zootopia, as well as last month's runner-up, Weregarurumon from Digimon Adventures.

Please kindly submit your requests by this weekend! If you would like to participate in the voting, please consider the CLUB ACCESS rewards!

Snares
Jun 2018

Thanks for your participation for the launch of my Fan Arts Project. The results of June are in, and we’re got strong votes for Jake Long as the forerunner, and Weregarurumon as the runner up.

This weekend, I’ll begin work with sketching out Jake Long and giving him the buff treatment you guys have asked for. Weregarurumon will be locked in for July’s poll option for the canine category. Please feel free to throw in your requests here, and remember to update your Patreon reward tiers if you aren’t receiving updates properly. Starting July, polls will be open to CLUB ACCESS members only!

Thanks again for your support, and I hope you all enjoyed Batzz this month!

Snares,
Jun 2018

HARROW!

Thank you for your support and patience this month. As promised, here is the completed, inked and fully colored version of Batzz to mark the start of Fan Arts Project (FAP).

As part of our launch campaign, supporters from any tier will have full access for only the month of June 2018. This means that you'll also be entitled to download additional content from our monthly CLUB ACCESS folder here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tEEC7AHr1qFMc-mMt4o3BlRBP7gUfAwO

With FAP being what it is, I am mostly producing art of preexisting characters from pop culture. As such, I've decided to make my work files an open resource to enthusiasts and creators who are already paying to support me and my endeavors. In the above link, you'll find a .PSD Photoshop file, as well as the original .SAI Paint Tool SAI file that I work in.

NEW OPERATING COSTS

In a rather inconvenient turn of events, some of you may know that a recent Windows Update released in May caused my system to slow down, and my tablet to go haywire. In the process of reformatting my computer, I realized that my Photoshop CS3 CD is missing. This has been a terrible oversight on my part, and I still cannot locate the CD...

In order to continue being able to work with Photoshop files and create Acrobat Reader content, it is required of me to pay a monthly fee of USD $10 to use the software as indicated here:

https://www.adobe.com/sea/creativecloud/plans.html

Moreover, I've decided to continue my Premium membership on Picarto which is an additional USD$15. Ever since I had terminated my premium account, followers have been requesting for my recorded sessions which is a feature only available to Premium users. The benefit of the recorded sessions is that folks can tune in anytime on my art streams that they miss out on, or are unavailable to sit in for. The recorded streams are also downloadable.

https://picarto.tv/site/upgrade

TLDR: With that expressed, my operating costs have literally gone up. While my current day job sustains my monthly rent and necessities, my goal with my Patreon earnings is to put it back into my business - into software I need to use, and streaming platforms that add to community value. Please consider the new reward tiers to help me keep my projects going.

FAP 2018 REWARD TIERS

Starting next month, July 2018, the monthly CLUB ACCESS folders will only be accessible by supporters pledging $5, in addition to being able to vote for their fan favorite characters.

$1 tiers will cease to exist starting July 2018. BASIC ACCESS will allow supporters to view all monthly sketch, inked and colored versions.

Base colors have been added this weekend for Batzz. I've done a preliminary round of rendering (lights and shadows) but haven't reached anything satisfactory. I'm not entirely sure how detailed or simple I want the coloring to be, so another round of experiments is necessary the following weekend.

In any case, here's a preview of where I am at now. Next weekend I'll also be working in the background and I should be on time for a delivery on the 25 Jun. Also, if you haven't already voted, please head on over here! Starting next month, voting is only available for Club Access supporters only.

Snares
Jun 2018

Firstly, I'd like to take a moment to welcome all my new supporters to the Fan Arts Project 2018. For this month only, all pledge tiers are welcomed to vote for their fan favorite that will appear for July.

For now, here's a quick preview of the Batzz fan art for June release. The ink phase has been completed for this weekend. Every weekend provides a window of opportunity for production to move onto a different phase, until the full completion of the month's Fan Art Project - which you can usually expect on the last weekend of each month.

As of this writing, Jake Long is in the lead for July's FAP. If you wish to continue being able to vote, as well as download the full resolution inked and colored illustrations, please do consider supporting with the CLUB ACCESS.

Thanks for your support! And don't forget to vote while you can!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/june-2018-poll-19240719

Snares
Jun 2018

Every poll will have 4 basic categories, featuring pop culture fan faves:

• Canine
• Feline
• Scalie
• Wild Card - a random entry of my own choosing (if necessary)

Club Access patrons can offset the polling by posting their personal requests here, in this thread! If there's any other character you want to see drawn, leave a comment below, and it'll go in the poll for next month.

To kickstart the polling, we have requests for Jake Long & Growlmon in a previous posting. That's 2 scalies locked in already. To balance things out, I've thrown in Yohei the Mercenary, and Weregarurumon, since Digimon was mentioned.

It's pretty straightforward from here, just vote for the character you most want to see drawn, and the results will decide!

Snares,
Jun 2018

Hope things have been going well for everyone. First and foremost, I want to thank you guys for being so incredibly patient while I reboot my Patreon. It means a lot to me that you guys are still hanging around, and I would like to give everyone a preview of the visual that I'll be using for my new Patreon cover page.

They are meant to be generic characters, primarily canine, feline and scalie representatives, because these are the 3 core species for the monthly fan art poll. Here's how the polling works:

To access this month's poll, you'll need to sign up for the $5 Club Access reward tier. Every monthly poll will have 4 basic categories, featuring pop culture fan faves from a core species group:

• Canine
• Feline
• Scalie
• Wild Card - a random entry of my own choosing (if necessary)

Club Access patrons can offset the polling by posting their personal requests here, in this thread! If there's any other character you want to see drawn, leave a comment below, and it'll go in the poll for next month.

To kickstart the polling, we have requests for Jake Long & Growlmon in a previous posting. That's 2 scalies locked in already. To balance things out, I've thrown in Yohei the Mercenary, and Weregarurumon, since Digimon was mentioned.

Here's what this month's polling options are:

• Canine - Weregarurumon (Digimon Adventures)
• Feline - Yohei (Grimoire of Zero)
• Scalie - Jake Long (American Dragon)
• Wild Card - Growlmon (Digimon Tamers)

Producing fan arts on Patreon is a staple monthly reward and business model for most furry creators. Most folks do fan art on a regular basis, and the whole concept of polling for your favorite characters isn't something particularly new. Which is why I'd like to introduce...

ELIMINATION ROUNDS

The top most voted fan favorite will be drawn, in all its glorious buffness. The second most voted character will be the sole survivor to roll over to the following month's poll. This means that even if you don't get your favorite character voted, if he holds the runner up place, he'll take over the "Wild Card" category.

TOP 3 MUSCLE ROUND

Of the 12 characters from a year's worth of polls, a FINAL POLL will determine which TOP 3 characters will be drawn in my hyper muscle style. If you want to see your favorite character buffed beyond silly proportions, be sure to stick around and watch them grow!

IMAGE PACK GIVEAWAY

The top 12 voted characters will be compiled into an image pack (.PDF format and individual .JPGs, including sketches, inked and final versions) for CLUB ACCESS patrons. The image pack will also include the fan favorite winners from the TOP 3 MUSCLE ROUND. This will later be available for sale on GUMROAD, but CLUB ACCESS patrons will receive a link to download their own free copies!

Determine the fate of the TOP 12 and decide which 3 finalists get to be jacked with hyper muscle!

• 5th of every month - Voting begins $5 CLUB ACCESS reward tier
• 25th of every month - Release of completed artwork to all tiers & requests

From now till 5 Jun, voting and requests are open to ALL REWARD TIERS.
Moreover, the full colored version of the above Batzz sketch (normally limited to $3 pledges and above) will be made available to ALL REWARD TIERS as part of our promotional campaign! Please look forward to the finished piece that will be released on 25 Jun, and do considering upgrading your reward tiers to access future rewards.

NEW REWARD TIERS

• $1 - BASIC ACCESS
  Gain basic access to black & white sketches
  
• $3 - FULL ACCESS
  Gain additional access to inked and fully colored image
  
• $5 - CLUB ACCESS
  Gain additional voting access to determine your fan favorite for the following month!

ACCEPTING REQUESTS NOW!

For the month of June 2018 only, all reward tiers are invited to participate in the voting process! You can start throwing in character requests right here and now in this topic! Just leave a comment below and let me know who's your favorite furry character and we'll see if they get voted!


Snares
May 2018

My apologies for the extended inactivity these past 2 months. The very nature of Patreon requires a fair amount of content buffer, meaning to say, additional material done in advance in preparation for further updates down the timeline. Whenever a comic project ends, there is inevitably a dearth of material to show and sustain audiences. To that end, I am regretful and deeply sorry for making everyone wait on me, while I acclimatize to my new work environments and schedules.

What's Happening?

This has especially been challenging transitioning from full-time comic production, to a complete cessation of such activities, and switching to a new framework. A fair amount of time was required in determining the best path to take (you may have seen the Twitter poll results from an earlier update). The next thing that had to be addressed was "what to tell everyone", "how are we getting there", and generally, how best to word my intentions in a fashion that makes sense... something that I struggled with for weeks. The last bit, and probably the most painstaking and time-consuming part, is creating the "new" content itself, that would replace the comic production project. And now that I actually have something to show, let's look at next month's line up:

Commissions Are Returning

Of the various things I'm currently working on, based on the recent Twitter poll, is to make commissions available for everyone, and integrate the process with my Patreon project. Supporters will have "early bird" notifications as and when my slots are open. They will also gain access to sketches from the commissions and get an inside look on my process from sketch to finish.

Currently I'm occupied with building new art assets for my commission form. What you see above is a size chart for character physique, which I personally believe will help clients and commissioners better decide what they want represented visually. What you see now is still a draft, but should provide an idea as to how folks can quickly "select" their desired body type for their commissions. To diversify, the body types don't just end at "regular", "bodybuilder" or "superbuff".

To better cater to a larger audience, I've also included plus size body types that include, "muscle gut", "chub" and "super chub". In the past, I have sensed that folks may have shied away from asking for "fat fur" commissions on the basis that I have a lack of them in my gallery. For the most part, I think based on my furry portfolio, I may have unintentionally given the false impression that I only do muscle art. With my new commission form, I'd like to rectify this misconception and provide potential clients with a wider range of options.

$1 Monthly Sketch Dump

With my schedule and energy levels stabilizing, I am now committed to streaming every Saturday for 4-6 hours, during which I will be working on commissions and doing warm-up sketches and porn doodles in between. I will be posting the better, more presentable stuff here as part of the transition from comics to sketch gallery.

Starting June 2018, the content schedule will be as follows:

5th of every month - news updates, early bird commission notice
25th of every month - sketches from a month's worth of Saturday streams

I'll be checking in again next weekend, hopefully with more stuff to share. Thank you for your patience and support.

May 2018
Snares

As we near the end of April 2018, I'm finally ready to announce that Meatier Showers will go on an indefinite hiatus and all comic production on my Patreon will cease this month. This has been a difficult decision for me, which is why it's taken me 2 months to mull over before arriving at a conclusion. I will try my best to explain my choices below,

TLDR Summary

Starting May 2018, I will be switching gears and turning my attention towards furry art commissions and streaming - all of the exclusive content such as work-in-progress illustrations and warm-up sketches from streams will be made available only here on my Patreon, for just a dollar each month. For those of you who have been asking me for commissions, I will be opening up slots mid-May.

A Little Backstory

With the completion of Meatier Showers: SUPERSIZE back in February 2018, some of you may have noticed that I've since been gradually scaling down on production. Mid February, on Chinese New Year, I woke up with an ocular migraine, which I only learned this year was a thing. It was like having fireworks go off in my eyes and I couldn't see shit. While the doctor couldn't pinpoint the cause, I do suspect it was the stress around this period that resulting in the visual scare. Stress surrounding my unstable future, my financials and general lack of prospects.

Reality is Relentless

Ever since moving to my current place, the weight of monthly rent has made my Patreon income unsustainable. It is barely enough to pay off the rent, with no savings and not much for survival. Since August last year, I've been tapping straight into my reserves (from previous book sales) to tide through the first 6 months. It is not pleasant and not practical for the long run, because book sales do eventually decline overtime.

It became clear, with the monthly rent in play, that a more stable source of income was required to cover the base cost of living. I started sending out job applications to an industry bubble that had already popped. I'd been to most of the major local animation companies and there were only so few left, which was why in 2015 I attempted retail, and in 2017 tried the hotel industry. I literally had no idea what I wanted to do, or what I could do long enough to make a living out of.

Come August this year, I will be 35, which is the legal age for Singaporean singles to apply for their own housing (married couples can make their applications when they're 28.) More so than ever, I need to get my financial status in order and looking good on paper. The day job goes a long way to not only helping cope with the monthly rent, but adds money to my CPF which can be tapped into for housing funds.

Basically I have to be an actual adult even if I don't want to or am not honestly ready, because that's how life works.

Calculated Transition

After the ocular migraine incident, I was fortunate enough to land on a job interview that worked out. By the end of February, I had signed my employment contract and begun making all the necessary preparations, such as scaling down reward tiers and trying to release my comic on Gumroad before work started.

I had to break down my original comic production schedule into a more modular form. Instead of working on Meatier Showers 7 days a week, it was wedged in the 2 day weekend that I could only afford. Those of you who have been following my past updates will know that I've been struggling to maintain this impractical setup. For most of the work week, I spend 12 hours outside, with 3 hours at home if I get back on time. By Saturday I'm usually in a state where I just want to power down and not think a whole lot. Sunday is the only time I have with my partner.

Comics Is A Full Time Job

And I say this on the assumption that we're working on a long format, proper book. Even with daily strips, it requires a lot of prepared material to sustain on a regular basis. I've been sustaining my comic production through Patreon over the past 3 years, and at least based on my skill level and experiences, if you really commit to a comic project, you are at it almost all the time.

It is incredibly difficult to work on a comic project if you don't have continuity for your thought processes, can't afford the safe space to make mistakes and experiment, or find time to quickly dive back into your work when a sudden breakthrough hits you.

Even when you're on breaks, you're figuring out how to move plot points forward, or make the story structure work, or watching how characters behave in your mind's eye. The process is highly iterative and constant changes and amendments take place, even towards the end where you're editing dialogues and text.

I've been working on my projects even before Patreon, and I know what works best for my process and why I've been arguably consistent enough.

My New Direction

For the past 2 months since my job has started, I've been experimenting with my schedule and trying to figure out how I can endeavor to maintain production capability. And I've experimented with different workloads to see what sorts of projects I can undertake while working my new day job.

Last week, I posted a poll on Twitter to get a better sense of what my audiences are looking for in general, outside of Patreon's paywall. From the results above, and my current circumstances, it's become apparent where I need to go next. While I still care a lot for my comics and characters, as of this juncture in life, can only undertake short term projects that do not require a sustained, ongoing amounts of commitment.

What will become of my Patreon project is that, not only will it serve as a 3-year archive of comic production content from my previous projects, it will also double as a "sketch dump" to compile all my stream sketches. For those of you who've visited my streams, I normally start the stream with warm up sketches, most of which I don't upload since they aren't "complete". What's going to happen (if I survive my new job's 3-month probation phase) is that I'll be ramping up my stream efforts on Saturdays, and start taking 3 commissions per month. The commission preview sketches will also be exclusively available here and I will try to post my process (from sketch, to inks, to color) here - the frequency of which I've yet to determine.

Next Month

I'll be sharing the thumbnails and story outline of what was meant to be Meatier Showers: LIGHT SHOW and talk about the long term goals I had for the series and its characters. I'll also be setting up a new framework for taking in commissions mid May. Stream sketches will be compiled throughout the month of May and released on the 25 of each month.

Again, and as always, thank you so much for your continued support and patience. It means a lot to me that you guys have made it possible over the course of the past 3 years for me to realize my dreams. Being able to do what I love and care about most, on my own terms, has been the greatest form of success to me. For now, I have to divert my energies towards my day job if I'm to prove my worth over the probation phase, as well as to secure a better future for myself. Perhaps then, when I have a home I can call my own, I will be able to resume my love for producing comics again.

Snares,
Apr 2018

For those of you currently supporting me at the $5 reward tier, please take note that I will be removing the $5 rewards and the Collector's Club tier will no longer be available.

Those of you currently pledging $5, you will still have access the the previous $5 reward tier posts. This means that if you haven't already downloaded the available content, please take a moment to explore archived posts with the tags "updates", "comic" and most importantly, "ebook".

Reinventing My Brand

Once you have downloaded the exclusive content, please consider staying on the $1 reward tier. With the start of my full-time job since March, I've been toggling around my schedules and trying to figure out the "best fit" for "the-things-I-really-want-to-do" and my actual work obligations.

As we move towards the middle of 2018, I will be shifting my Patreon projects more towards exclusive content instead of the previous "early access" approach. While I cannot divulge the details at this point, as I am still trying to finalize things and prepare all the necessary publicity materials, Patreon may possibly serve to be a tip jar archive for me to upload my more fetishy stuff. Again, I must emphasize that I am still figuring out how to make this work for both myself and everyone else.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome, so please feel free to leave them below this post. I may be starting a new poll next month to gather more feedback from everyone.

Ultimately my goal is to create sustainable, long-term relationships with my audiences and readers, and find an arrangement that can be mutually beneficial to those who choose to support my works.

I will be posting an update on the status of Meatier Showers, next weekend. I will be explaining the plot that was meant to be covered, the production challenges at this point, and what the follow up project of my Patreon will be like.

TLDR: $5 rewards will no longer be available. Please remember to download content and kindly update your pledges to a lower tier if you are affected. I apologize for any inconveniences caused.

Snares
Apr 2018

For now, here's an update on the currently available reward tiers:

$1 - EARLY ACCESS

You will gain early access to comic page drafts and progress, as well as having your name included in the credits (if you support the project till its completion)

$5 - INSIDER ACCESS

You will receive e-book copies of archived comic pages including new page progress. You will also be included in the "beta readers" group whenever a full draft version is available for viewing, and partake in the "brain trust" discussions. This includes the $1 rewards.

Please enjoy the first page of Meatier Showers: LIGHT SHOW - my new Patreon project for 2018! Thank you for your patience!

Snares
Apr 2018

Just writing in for a quick update on things. I'm currently into my fourth week at my new job and getting a better sense of things, including my schedule and how much time and energy I can expand outside of my work week.

Ideally, how I've been handling my comic projects all this while is that I pretty much engage in them full-time, 5 days a week. I may not be able to figure out a plot point, or draft out a page in a day, but being able to "get back" into the zone the following day creates a certain "continuity" and rhythm for me. Sometimes the creative block hits and it can last from 2-3 weeks to 1-2 months, depending on how depleted I am creatively. Usually the other 2 days of the week are my "down time" to take my focus off things and resume with a fresh perspective.

Currently, I work a 9-6 job, 5 times a week. For those of you who've read my previous post, this also includes a total of 2 hours for commuting each day, and another hour just to eat, shower and maybe space out. That's a good 12 hours each day locked down for my day job, another 6-7 hours for sleep and whatever else remaining for myself - usually which I generally limit to 1-2 things for leisure / decompressing.

What all this means is that I have to change my production style and adapt to my current circumstances if I'm ever to get this project up and running. My current strategy basically involves breaking down the comic into its key scenes or moments - particularly the ones that I can picture clearly. The total comic is projected to be 24 pages long. After some story tweaks, I've decided to start with the "bookends" for my latest comic, as that sets the tone and focus for the mid-section of the story, and also helps remind me that I need to get from "here" to "there".

The bookends are essentially an entire scene split into 3 pages at the front, and 3 at the rear. "LIGHT SHOW" continues to explore character backstories and in this issue, it centers on our main protagonist, Pridestar. "LIGHT SHOW" also takes a look at how the gay bathhouse, "Meatier Showers" might have established itself and illustrates the trajectory of the crew members from the past to present.

I've currently set the completion for 2020 primarily on the basis that I don't know how working full-time for a whole year will affect my production rate. If anything, it also depends on how long I can survive on this current job... Which is to say, there are too many variables I am unable to account for under these new circumstances to provide a more accurate projection, not until more stable conditions are fulfilled.

As for rewards, the two tiers will remain fairly similar, however, due to the nature of a new production cycle, there are no "collectible e-books" as of this moment, not until the pages are ready. I am still figuring out some manner of compensation for this - I am open to suggestions and ideas, so feel free to post them at the comments below.

Thank you for your patience and support.

Snares
Mar 2018

This is more of a personal journal entry than anything else, to keep my fans and followers updated on my current situation. Long story short, I'm into my third week of work at a new job, which is relatively amazing considering my history of chronic job hopping and awful career hookups.

A Series of Blind Dates

Just last year alone, in fit of sheer desperation, I had applied for the position of a front office service assistant at a hotel and barely lasted 2 weeks. This wasn't because I couldn't do the work (I learned how to use Opera OS while on the job, without any prior training in the relevant industries), but more so because I couldn't see myself doing it for even 3 months. There was a calling deep within me, and this wasn't my place. Based on what I had experienced, this was a job I could still fallback on later in my life, but it wasn't meant for now.

I had undertaken that job opportunity primarily on the basis that I had just gotten into a new relationship, needed to get my finances and paper trail in order to apply for housing and the fact that our local animation industry (which I have an actual diploma for) had already gone to hell awhile back.

The reality was that I was completely out of my element and the haphazard nature of shift work made it incredibly challenging, if not impossible to maintain my Patreon projects, which for the most part is what I currently deem to be my core business and ikigai.

Story What?

Coming back to the present, I've been fortunate enough, with the help of a friend who notified me of the job position, found myself back in the animation industry. What's even more unexpected is seeing the job title, "Story Artist" which is incredibly rare in this part of the world. At the very best, commercial storyboard artists do exist, but the very notion of storyboard is that anyone who draws can storyboard, tends to muddle how incredibly specific and specialized the skill set really is. "Story Artist" is something you would generally hear about in L.A., where the major animation studios are. It's basically being a specialized storyboard artist, if storyboarding wasn't already exclusive enough.

My current job requires me to create storyboards for a 1-minute short every week. I have only 1 day to complete the boards, the second day for revisions and a third to pitch to the director. The other 2 days are spent in a room strapped to a seat where we have to come up with at least 5 new ideas per week to put into production for the following week. It may sound easy to come up with 5, entertaining 1-minute shorts on a weekly basis but it's really intense, if not brutal, especially if you have to keep them fresh and engaging.

Commuting is a Bitch

The shift from self-employment back to full-time work has been challenging, but i'm managing better with each passing week. There has been and still is a fair amount of inertia involved in the lifestyle change. On most days as a self-sustaining artist, I would commit 3-6 hours per day, working full-time on my comic projects. This creates a very focused daily routine, and makes it more conducive to work on long-format creative projects like a comic. If you've ever actually worked on a comic book with the full works, you'll know how tricky the process is.

Right now, I'm pretty much working a 9 to 6 job. I spend a good 9 hours at the office, working on the company's projects. Commuting takes an hour to get to the office, and another hour to get home. Then another hour goes to just getting my meal, showering and whatever self-care things I need to do. My schedule is a lot tighter now, and usually after work, I only get to choose one "main activity" to focus on for the night, then it's bed time. I rarely game anymore these days, save for Hearthstone (Snares#6623) which mostly helps to make commuting a little more tolerable.

Patreon Scheduling

What this all means is that the nature of my updates will be severely affected by my full-time day job. I can only commit Saturdays to my Patreon project at this point, and Sunday is my only rest day. My production speed will be less consistent and notably slower, and I do hope you can bear with this necessary change. It is my goal to get Meatier Showers: Light Show up and running, although instead of the usual 3-month preproduction, 9-month production cycles (the past 2 years), I am looking at something that might span longer, possibly even rolling into 2020, who knows?

My Patreon will continue to offer 2 reward tiers, the specifics of which I'll address in another post, later, when I have more material to share. Since the completion of Supersized, I have been debating with myself what the best approach would be for my Patreon 2018, and may have arrived at something satisfactory.

All About the Money

Those of you who have been following me since last year, you may remember that my art studio / home is no more, and my current rent has since quadrupled, straining my Patreon earnings. 2017 was a bit of a crazy year and I was 2 weeks away from being homeless. Now that I have hot showers, wifi, and a proper bed, I generally would like to be in a position where I can maintain my accommodations, while saving up for my actual home when I become of legal age to apply for one in Singapore - which means I need to get my ducks in a row by August 2018 if I'm to you know, get this adulting shit done right, especially here.

Here's the current budgeting I've worked out for my new monthly salary:

• 25% - goes to rent (for current month)
• 25% - goes to rent (for the following month)
• 35% - goes to monthly spending and daily necessities (including bills)
• 15% - goes to savings account

Patreon will continue to serve as my core business, and the funds received will be diverted as follows:

• 50% - goes to savings account
• 50% - goes to travel budget account

That said, I've worked out that by 6 months, I should be able to pay off rent for an entire year, and continue saving enough to cover the application period for my own housing which is expected to take (2-3 years of waiting and processing at best).

So that's the general gist of it. A lot of blabber and uninteresting stuff, but that is where I currently am now in life, trying to figure out how to, not just survive, but actually have a life worth living. More updates later this month.

Snares
Mar 2018

Harrow!

There's been some major developments going on in my life at this point. For now, I'm hesitant to elaborate on the details, not until all the dust has settled down, when I'm able to give a better projection of things. I'm hoping to be able to reveal more by the start of April, and probably not on the 1st, since then everything would sound like a joke...

In any case, if you look at my Patreon cover page, it's currently under construction. I've finally added an archive for past Meatier Showers seasons to make the series more accessible for newcomers. I hope to populate the front page with newer content, so please be patient with me.

There will be a roll-out of all new rewards for the month of April. Due to the fact that a production cycle has ended, with the release of Meatier Showers: SUPERSIZED, and the start of a new one, there is a fair amount of "inertia" I'm working through with all the new changes happening in the background. Once I've established a better sense of routine and able to channel my energies efficiently, you'll be seeing a more regular content schedule eventually.

My live streams have been shifted to Saturday noon (Singapore time, possibly Friday midnight in the US) as a result of these changes. I've also discontinued the premium subscription to cut spending since I do not foresee being able to stream on a daily basis as before.

That's all I can realistically share for now, as much as I'm eager to tell you more... You can follow me on Twitter for more personal life updates. Please bear with me in this time of flux. I may be silent, but it doesn't mean I'm inactive.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Snares
Mar 2018

More information on new reward tiers and FAP Project next month. Please take note that $50 rewards will be no longer be available starting 1 March 2018.

Thank you so much for your support and patience. As promised, the completed e-book version of Meatier Showers, Season 8, SUPERSIZED is now available for download to all supporters pledging $5 and above.

As an added bonus, those of you who've supported my projects for more than 12 months, will also be receiving a copy as an extension of my gratitude for being such loyal patrons. You may begin downloading the e-book HERE (Link valid for 3 months) :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17ZrnaHb6tFaq0iw04CXffL5i0R2XAN7t/view?usp=sharing

PLEASE CHECK YOUR NAME IN CREDITS!

Amendments before the 1 March 2018 are still possible. Please kindly drop me a private message if you need anything changed.

FEEDBACK & COMMENTS

What do you think of the comic? Did you enjoy SUPERSIZED? Please leave your comments here on this post!

Snares
Feb 2018

Here's a sneak preview of the cover art. Spent a good 2 hours or so inking the foreground. Gonna save the rest for tomorrow, work in the backgrounds and lay out the colors. Sorry for the delay guys, working hard to get this product shipped out before the end of Feb,

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My goal is to have the e-book delivered to all my $5 tier patrons by 14 Feb, 2018 - Valentine's Day. Then, and only then, will I probably run out naked screaming, "I'M FREE!"

Snares
Feb 2018

Thank you, everyone, for another month of support! As of this writing, all 25 pages of Meatier Showers: SUPERSIZED have been fully inked! This means that we'll be moving onto the next phase of production within the week, and hopefully delivering the final product by the end of February. With all gears set to production crunch mode, here's an outlook of this month's schedule and content roll-out:

• 1st week of Feb 2018:

Toning phase begins - adding light and shadows to the remaining 12, inked pages, progressing at a daily quota of 2 toned pages per day.

• 2nd week of Feb 2018:

Cover art production, compilation and final edits - basically tying every individual element together, cleaning up dialogues with another final round of edits and getting ready for launch.

• 3rd week of Feb 2018:

Product launch on Patreon & Gumroad - SUPERSIZED will be sold on Gumroad using a "Pay-What-You-Want" model starting at $5. Patreon supporters already pledging $5 (this month) and above will receive their own e-book copy of the completed Meatier Showers: SUPERSIZED - with cover art, including name in credits of ongoing supporters from all tiers.

If you have any questions regarding the e-book for Patreon, please feel free to post them here. The e-book is exclusively for supporters pledging towards the $5 tier. If you opt to change your pledge for just this month alone, you are still eligible to receive the e-book towards the end of February. (The deductions will be made through Patreon's system and automatically reflected.)

Snares
Feb 2018

Thank you for your patience and support. Here is an exclusive look at Meatier Showers: LIGHTSHOW - that will be the main focus of my Patreon project this year.

LIGHTSHOW is projected to be another 24 page black and white comic, and the second chapter in the current “Origins” story arc.

Most of my comics all start out as thumbnails with placeholder dialogues. I rarely if ever, work with scripts, as I approach the medium primarily from a visual discipline.

The thumbnails above lack detail of any sort because the primary objective is to first establish:

• story pacing
• story structure
• paneling & layout
• visual flow
• scene distribution

Once all that is laid out, the thumbnails can then be extrapolated into its first draft consisting of rough sketches and placeholder doodles.

Changes in Production

Currently I’ve prioritized getting new content out for the following months over rushing Patreon rewards and deliverables. What this mean, is that my main objective for the remainder of January is to COMPLETE the production of SUPERSIZE as soon as possible.

I’ve also made the executive decision to forgo coloring SUPERSIZE at this phase, but instead focus all efforts on delivering the actual final product in black and white, preferably by the end of February.

The reason for doing so is to keep the momentum and not have paying Patrons receive the same page content again over the course of 2018, but instead move onto the next new chapter. The main objective this year is to get the key chapters of the "Origins" story arc out, reach a relatively good position and revisit the pages to lavish them in glorious color, at a later time frame that doesn't make Patrons feel like they're seeing reruns.

This means that I'll be going through production crunch mode the days ahead, and may be relatively silent (here). You may hear more from me through my Twitter account, as I am trying to get back into a regular stream schedule.

More details will be announced closer towards the end of February, as for now, please bear with me as I strive to complete inking and toning the remaining 12 pages.

Snares,
January 2018

Hi everyone, I've returned from Japan on the 17 this month. Since then, it's been an incredibly frustrating time the past several days doing technical troubleshooting on my laptop.

Well, Have You Tried...?

Long story short, a recent Windows 10 Fall Creator Update has caused my Wacom to malfunction. It would either encounter intermittent lags in pen response, have lines unable to register curvature movements, or simply not work right. Now I know what you're thinking, "haven't you tried reinstalling the drivers, turning on the power, checking the cables, consult the celestial alignment of the stars..." And my answer is, "yes, I've done everything in my power to fix this so please just... don't."

A quick search on the internet forums have yielded posts from other users around the world who've encountered similar "lag" issues, particularly only after the most recent Windows 10 update. I have also done a reset of Windows 10, and the same specific issues have been persistent.

Normally what I'd do in this situation, is roll back to a restore point prior to the update itself. Incidentally, there was only ONE restore point, and it was created after the update, to which I pulled of a Jackie Chan meme.

Living Like Glass

I suppose this would otherwise have been a minor annoyance for some, however for me personally, it is a tedious and tiring affair. As a freelancer and self-employed person, I am vividly aware of my own vulnerabilities on a daily basis, and do everything in my powerful to ensure those scenarios don't put me out of action. As a content creator, all my income depends on the steady production and timely release of content to my audience and clients. Unlike having a regular 9-5 job, we can't afford the security of mind that at the start or end of the month, our payroll will come in for certain.

With the end of a year alone, my Patreon saw a flux of outbound patrons terminating their support. This is, of course, the intrinsic nature of subscription based business models, and naturally after a full year of financial support, folks are more likely to move on and try out newer creators. A lot of Patreon's sustainability hinges on your talent and content, and if you're not hitting those sweet spots, attrition kicks in mercilessly and swiftly. There are no safety nets, unless of course, you are able to juggle between your passion project with a day job.

The Next Step

Even with the assistance of my tech-savvy Horse, it has become clear (to me at least) that the issue is rooted with the fall WIndows update. Prior to my trip to Japan, everything had been working fine and I was still able to do inking work with the precision I would expect out of my tools.

I've spent the past few days uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, software and whatever standard solutions that can be done, and it has not been very constructive. With each day lost, my schedule snowballs and work gets backlogged. I am increasingly irritable and antsy over this complete production standstill, and it has not been particularly motivational either to see the amount of attrition while I was gone.

Tomorrow, I'll be bringing my laptop to the local manufacturer to see if there's anything they can do about the matter. Depending on the time it'll take to resolve the issues, my contingency would be to ask Horse to loan me the previous PC I'd given to him (which he'd spruced up with new hardware) and see if I can use that as a replacement workstation.

If I cannot resolve all this by the end of the month, I will be reaching out to my VIP supporters and informing them that the monthly sketch rewards will be terminated for the following month (so that I may clear the backlogged slate from January - before taking on more work.)

How I Am Feeling Now

I cannot begin to express my frustration, especially since this is such a fragile ecosystem I struggle to survive in. I am still striving to be positive in the matter, that I am slowly recovering from falling ill after the convention in Japan (con crud), and am still in relatively good health. I am still blessed and grateful to be operational, even when my laptop has thrown me off track. I am aware of how easily our lives may be taken at any moment, and am humbled by that realization. I am frustrated by this fragility, and I think it also lends some insight to some of the kinks I'm into, as off-topic as that may sound.

At this point, I'm feeling a tad bit worn out from my recent year battles - trying to find shelter, trying to find stability, trying to find a place of belonging. I may just need to do some meditation in the meanwhile, waiting for things to be resolved.

TLDR

Windows 10 Fall Creator Update has caused my Wacom and other software to experience unresponsive input, coupled by intermittent lag. Laptop will be sent back to factory to see if they can do a clean format and get things properly updated and running. No content updates expected for the month of January due to said reasons - will endeavor to find alternate solutions to bring production back on track.

Snares,
Jan 2018

Whoo! Thank you so much for supporting me through the entirety of this project. For the month of January, here are the final 3 pages in the SUPERSIZED comic. There will most likely be further dialogue changes once the inked and toned versions are ready. For now, please enjoy!

Meatier Showers: SUPERSIZED is designed as a stand-alone, one shot comic, however, it is also written with a wider story arc in mind spanning 3 issues long. What you see here is pretty much the introductory part of the arc, and since I cannot determine how the new year will pan out, have also consciously designed this issue in a way that it ends off on its own. The answer as to how all this links up to Meatier Showers, will be covered in the following project, Meatier Showers: Hard-on Collider, that's expected commence production in May 2018.

Feel free to look back at the past pages, and if you're subscribing the $5 tier, you should be able to unlock the whole draft as an ebook on the 25th.

From here on, updates will focus on inking, toning and eventually coloring progress. I will also be switching gears back to finishing up my work on Fangra, if all goes well.

As of the time of this writing, I am 2 days away from my long-awaited vacation. This update is scheduled to post itself while I'm in Toyohashi, Nagoya for Japan Meeting of Furries 2018. During my time in Japan, I'll be working on thumbnails and story planning, here's hoping to share with you guys even more!

Thank you once again, for supporting this project.

It's almost hard to imagine another crazy year go by just like that. On a personal level, when the year started, I was consciously aware that my living situation would be up in the air by the end of July. During that time, I had scrounged up enough savings from my Patreon earnings and online book sales to invest on a new laptop, for the possibility that I may be shifting out of the country, and having realized only with 2 weeks' notice that the studio extension for where I used to stay, was a no-go.

Despite the deadline, I had been fortunate enough to have found a suitably decent room to rent, one with electricity, air-conditioning (something you really can't do without it in Singapore), hot showers, roof and bed, and most vital to the survival of my business, WiFi. It's easy to sometimes forget that these things don't always come by without strife. While my rent has been the lowest I could possibly find, which includes all of the above said benefits (of not being homeless), paying for a place to stay has taken up a large portion of my Patreon earnings with little remaining for savings.

In between all this, I had been funneling whatever extra I could afford to my driving lessons - a lifelong skill I personally felt would be good investing into myself with, should it ever come to a point where I have to make deliveries, or taxi people between places. It is with a huge sigh of relief that, I had finally passed the test and gotten myself a driving license early this December - and no longer having to divert more funds to lessons.

Get a Job

"Why not take up a part-time job?" This is an alternative that I certainly have tried before, doing retail and working front-office as a hotel staff. It had not been easy, juggling between content creation and another job, with my output dramatically decreasing in that time. For anyone who has dabbled in comic-making on a serious, professional level, you'll realize and understand just how HARD making comics can be, on top of a second part-time job. It quickly became increasingly challenging keeping audiences engaged on a regularly basis, during which I experienced high rates of subscription dropouts and attrition to my Patreon earnings.

What my part-time gigs did teach me however, is that whatever it is I am doing now on Patreon, is a full-time job and a legitimate form of self-employment. It's incredibly easy, especially if you live in Asia which traditional, cultural and social expectations of what a "proper" job should be, to be pressured into following the herd. And it took a fair amount of self-persuasion and acceptance, despite operating alone and without job securities, that I was part of a larger and growing "gig economy".

Folks have turned to Uber, Lyft, AirBnB (just to name a few globally recognizable brands) and a growing plethora of digital platforms to empower and create a living for themselves. While the success of every individual varies greatly, I am vividly aware, on a daily basis, of how my current livelihood would not have been possible just a handful of years ago, before Patreon ever existed. NONE of this, would have been feasible, let alone a sane option.

To My Supporters With Love

Things have been tough without a doubt, but I have never thought myself as having it worse off than others. While my foreseeable future has been generally foggy with little guarantees, I find that I still have much to be grateful and happy for. Life without struggle has no meaning, and I can confidently say that I've been able to experience a meaningful existence thus far.

I may not be what Patreon depicts as financially successful creator, let alone one of the many creators who sit in the upper echelons of Graphtreon, but there is no doubt that I have been blessed with a very generous and dedicated group of supporters who truly want to see me succeed, and who wish to aid me in sharing my world of pervy cartoon furry characters with the rest of the willing fandom. And for that, I am deeply humbled, and immensely grateful for your support. Thank you.

Schedule Projections for 2018

It is now my responsibility as a creator to inform everyone, as of the foreseeable future, my Patreon project will undertake a risky and unusual diversion between Jan - Apr 2018. What is projected to happen is that Meatier Showers "SUPERSIZED" will be entering its completion phase, which for the most part is good news. However, this also means that content release of "SUPERSIZED" will gradually dwindle. In its place, I will be returning to Fangra, a series that has been on hiatus since July 2015, and needs to be concluded. While it is without a doubt, enticing to hop on newer, bigger projects, it is still a professional responsibility to my readers, as well as fans of the series, to see it through and give it the ending it deserves.

What to Expect

For those of you who are here primarily on the basis of the Meatier Showers series, we will be switching gears back to preproduction. This means that instead of receiving regular comic page updates each month, you will be gaining behind-the-scenes snippets of early drafts, thumbnail previews and story outlines.

Fangra will then take stage, with projected updates of 3 to 6 pages per month, from February to April 2018. It is my personal hope that, during this of transitioning projects, that the following season of Meatier Showers (tentatively titled), "Hard On Collider" would have simmered long enough to enter its own production phase.

As of this writing, I can only project till August 2018, where I will finally be of legal age to apply through the government, for housing of my own through the "Singles Housing Scheme" of HDB, Singapore. This will mark another major milestone in my personal journey, with several future decisions hinging on the results of that application.

In Closing

For now, I ask not only for your continued support, but patience and understanding in the matter, and the creative choices I've made, to undertake Fangra as my Patreon line-up, and having to switch between projects. If you know anyone else who may be keen in either projects, please kindly recommend and share my work to them, because every little bit helps.

With all that said, I would like to wish everyone a MURRY PURRY HOLIDAY SEASON and a HORNIER NEW YEAR.

Snares,
Dec 2017

Thank you, thank you and THANK YOU so much for supporting this project through the year of 2017. None of this would have been possible (and I'd still be stuck at retail doing irregular shifts) if you guys hadn't been here for me. There's more I'd like to share with everyone else on the road ahead for 2018, but for now, here is this month's collectible e-book update for the $5 (and above) reward tier!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ky0yvlhMdtklTwDP61EFW9Jvp6EFjKeR/view?usp=sharing

Patch Notes:

• This month's updates have been added with pages 19 - 22
• Dialogue revisions between pages 07 - 12.

Starting today, the patron-exclusive promo code: pantsoff will no longer be usable. However, you can now use the new promo code: murryxmas for 33% OFF ALL TITLES on my Gumroad page! Simply key in "murryxmas" on the respective product page or on check-out to receive the discount.

You can also purchase the titles for friends and family (if they're into that sorta thing)! Simply use GUMROAD'S GIFT OPTION with the promo code and you're good!

This discount will only be announced and made available to public from 24 - 26 Dec. So here's a head start for all my patrons if you've been looking to pick up any titles you've missed out!

Check them out here:
https://gumroad.com/snares

Snares
Dec 2017

Back by popular demand, season 6 of Meatier Showers, "BULGE INDULGE" is now available on GUMROAD. As a token of appreciation to for all you guys who've stuck around, I am giving away an exclusive offer only to my Patreon supporters!

Use the promo code: pantsoff on checkout to receive $10 off the title! Know a friend who might be keen on the series? Give them the gift of furry porn this Christmas with GUMROAD'S easy-to-use GIFT OPTION!

Raging hard-ons are the best gift you can give this holiday season! Check it out NOW: https://gum.co/NmKK/pantsoff

Just wanted to let you all know that the "STAY SWOLE" badges have been mailed out as of 16 Dec 2017, to 19 different addresses around the globe. This is actually kinda new to me, and I'm thinking of what future tokens of appreciation might be good. The badges should arrive (within 7-14 working days) to patrons pledging $5 (and above), who've provided their mailing addresses. You still have time to update them before the year ends (do inform me if you do so after this post). Here's hoping they get to everyone by the holidays!

Update on Patreon Fees

So just a very quick update on the recent patreon fee situation, is that Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon, has thoroughly reviewed user feedback, called up creators and cancelled the original plans to implement the fee charges. This is good news for creators, and it has been expressed that they will find better means of implementing their system, hopefully not in a manner that affects the $1 pledges.

For More Information & Insights

Jack Conte Official Blog Post
https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/

Surviving Creativity Podcast:
Patreon Fees, Fears, and F Words
https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-fees-and-15909718

There are other creators out there, who have not been as fortunate, and have lost patrons as a result of the announcement.Hopefully, with time, these losses can be recovered. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you guys for sticking around and being patient while the developments unfolded over the weekend.

Have yourself a wonderful holiday this season and be well!

Thank you!

Snares
Dec 2017

At 3am (Singapore time) this morning, Patreon creators have received an email announcing a new fee system that will be implemented on the 18th December 2017.

In summary, patrons will have a 2.9% + $0.35 service fee incurred on all paid posts. In the past, creators instead have been covering Patreon’s 5% fee and all of the processing fees in full.

The full FAQ directed to us creators can be read here:
https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005631963

What Worked Before

The key success to Patreon's business model was essentially the $1 pledge. It's very straightforward - "for just a dollar, you could support your favorite creators each month". The $1 tier created a safe point of entry for a lot of potential supporters to "check out" a new creator. It also bares with it minimum financial risk and allows patrons to spread support across multiple creators within a limited budget.

Where The Issues Lies

The flaw with the new fee system is that Patreon's minimum pledge sum cannot be adjusted below $1. With the new fees, the minimum sum will be $1 + ( 2.9% + $0.35 service fee) = $1.38 - which pretty much screws up its original marketing strategy - and it doesn't even roll off your tongue nicely. Currently as of this writing, the creator user interface does not allow the minimum pledge sum to go lower than $1, as a counter effort to negate these fees incurred by patrons.

The implementation of this new fee system impacts the largest portion of my own supporters, namely, those who have chosen to pledge $1, with no workaround to it.

What Meatier Showers Believes In

It is with the endless support and patience of you guys that making adult furry comics can become a self-sustaining full-time gig for me. This is my dream and being able to share this while paying the rent and feeding myself is more than what I could ask for. You guys have been backing me all this while, and it's time for us creators to back you guys up.

To counteract the additional fees, Meatier Showers will be adjusting all possible reward tiers to "absorb" fees. The $5 and $50 tiers will be revised so that they remain the same amount, even after the new fee system is implemented.

However, this is limited to higher tiers. As explained above, the reward system currently does not allow for creators to modify the pledge amount below $1, in order to negate the fees.

For now, we are still monitoring the developments and hoping that Patreon gets back to creators with a more sensible solution.

Snares,
Dec 2017

Welcome to December's early access to Meatier Showers: SUPERSIZED. This month, we take a look at the growth sequence and pin-up page. Please let me know what you guys think in the comments below, enjoy!

Thank you for supporting my project!

Thank you everyone for supporting me through last month. November turned out to be a relatively busy month, between inking and toning my pages, trying to get my driver's license and entertaining visiting guests, most of the month itself had gone by in a flurry of events. Without the endless support of you guys, doing this full-time would not be possible. With the year drawing to a close, it's time to review a few things and talk about the road ahead.

Weekend Trip

This coming weekend, I'll be in Malaysia for 5 days, attending a small furry convention and catching up with friends. I'll be bringing along my Bara Bear products to sell (and hopefully clear them). While I'm there, I'll also be having a short breather before switching gears back into production mode. At this point, I'm mostly focusing whatever energy I have left in me to completing last month's sketch rewards for the VIP supporters.

Project Projections

December's schedule is a little tighter than what I would've preferred. With FURUM around the corner and my actual start-of-year vacation in January, it's imperative for me to get all pages inked before JMoF 2018. My trip to Japan will afford me some down time where I'll begin thumbnailing and drafting out Season 9 of Meatier Showers, tentatively titled, "Hard-on Collider". Once I'm back from my vacation proper, I will commence on the coloring phase for the current season's Meatier Shower: SUPERSIZED.

Projected completion date would probably be February 2018.

FANGRA Final

Beyond SUPERSIZED, I intend to allocate a month to resuming work on FANGRA, a comic project that's been on hiatus for awhile. My goal is to finish the final chapter by March 2018 and have that settled for good. As a general heads up, this means that there may be project overlaps next year on my Patreon.

Booby Badge Giveaway

The STAY SWOLE badges will be sent out over mid December after I'm back from my trip to Malaysia. Usually at the end and start of a month, there's a lot of movement with patrons. Once the dust has settled and mailing addresses updated, I'll get down to logistics. Do remember to update your pledge if you wish to receive one!

That's generally all the housekeeping for now, feel free to drop me a message here if you have any questions pertaining to future plans or projects. Thank you for your patience and support.

Snares
Dec 2017

Several folks have been inquiring about the "STAY SWOLE" badges since my announcement on Twitter. To be eligible for the Booby Badge Giveaway, simply sign up as a $5 supporter for my ongoing Meatier Showers comic projects, and key in your mailing address! It's that simple!

When Do Receive?

Shipping will be done on the 15 of each month, while stocks last. Please do note that the logistics of sending out physical rewards is still a relatively new thing to me, so please be patient as I endeavor to see that the goods are properly delivered. (International shipping will take between 7-14 working days.)

How to Mailing Address?

As I am currently using a "Creator" account, most of the solutions below are based on feedback from existing patrons. There are two methods of updating your mailing address:

• Go to my Patreon front page -> Edit your PLEDGE -> Select $5 reward tier -> Enter your mailiing address.
  
• Go to Settings -> Profile -> Location -> Enter your mailing address.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wMdpVjXHpcHDWYfw9MdsB9toEIZiJuj1/view?usp=sharing

Patch Notes:

• Inked pages have been added to page 18 - with tones.
• Extensive dialogue revision between pages 7-12.
• Minor visual adjustments between pages 13-18.

Upcoming Badge Giveaway

Later this month, I'll be announcing a holiday badge give-away to all those who sign up to support my Patreon project for $5 and above. Details will be out later so wait for it. This is just a heads up.

The Next Step

I'm currently revving up production pace to try and get as many pages inked as possible within the month of November. A large part of this is because I do want to get SUPERSIZED in its coloring phase by the following month, and resume production work on FANGRA for January.

There are a few other projects slated for the future, but for now, my main focus is to clear my current slate first before announcing anything else further.

Thank you for another month of supporting, and for allowing me to make a living out of my passion. Stay tuned for the e-book updates on 25 Nov.

Nov 2017
Snares

Welcome to November's early access to Meatier Showers: SUPERSIZED. Starting this month, you'll get to preview not just 2 comic pages, but 4! That's way ahead of everyone else! As mentioned before, all the pages below are works-in-progress, and we'll be revisiting the dialogues and illustrations eventually. For now, please enjoy:

The "monster" monologues are still clumsy at this point, at least in my own personal opinion, and I'm hoping to revise them to something less tacky. I may even choose to remove the whole thing if it proves too unwieldy.

As a result, V.I.P tier sketch rewards will be rolled out in the first week of November, together with new comic pages 15 & 16. Starting next month, we'll reveal some new changes to our production process, and elaborate on how this will affect the delivery of content. Pages will still be released on the 5th of each month, and the e-books and sketch rewards on the 25th. However, we are looking at new methods of expediting the release of content, and how all this ties into the grand scheme of things.

For now, have a spooky Halloween and thank you for your kind patience and support!

Oct 2017
Snares

Thank you for your patience and support this month. As mentioned last month with our new reward changes, all supporters pledging $5 and above will now receive a downloadable e-book archiving previous page updates and the latest progress.

This month, we've been busy preparing for November's public page release. Including in this update, you'll see the current state of clean ups for pages 7-12. Tones will be worked on later. Personally I am looking into editing the dialogues as well so that they flow better.

You can download the file here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8jjXJdwedHXX2J3dGlXdVZYUGc/view?usp=sharing

Stick around for more new pages on the 5 November.

Oct 2017
Snares

Thank you very much for another month of support!

Not sure if anyone saw what I was trying to do with the juxtaposition between the city buildings (from the earlier pages) and the sandcastles, but I'm trying to say something smart! Yeah! I'm so proud of myself!

Hope everyone's enjoying the updates so far. I'll start talking more next month on where I'm trying to take everyone with SUPERSIZE once there's more pages in to add context. For now, if you haven't tried out the free $5 REWARD SAMPLER, please visit the link to download your own! Ebooks will now be rolled out to patrons every 15 of the month! Don't miss out!

Thank you very much for your patience. We've been busy getting Meatier Showers: SUPERSIZED ready for next month's free-to-read public launch on various platforms. In order for SUPERSIZED to be ready for public viewing, comic production has gone into its inking phase. These inked pages will be made available a month earlier to patrons with the $5 INSIDER ACCESS tier, which includes a monthly, collectible e-book.

It's been tiring and stressful, and hard not to pretend otherwise, with that, we'd like to express a big THANK YOU for your continued support, and for believing in this project. We're posting a sample of the e-book here exclusive to ALL our active patrons, and hope that you would consider upgrading to the new $5 tier for the following month.

DOWNLOAD E-BOOK SAMPLE HERE:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8jjXJdwedHXbWhGaUVrTjVOWWc/view?usp=sharing

With production for "Meatier Showers: Supersized" (previously titled, "Kaijuice") moving gradually into its ink and toning phase, the collector's e-book reward will start to be updated with these newly completed pages and released on the 25 Sep 2017 for all patrons with INSIDER ACCESS as their support tiers. More inked and toned pages will be added in subsequent months, all through color phase and until completion.

FREE-TO-READ

Starting Oct 2017, "Meatier Showers: Supersized" will be released for free online reading on FurAffinity, Facebook, SoFurry, Tumblr and Twitter. The free-to-read version will be rolled out over the course of 4 months in batches of 6-7 black-and-white pages. These are slated to roll out at a slower rate than Patreon updates.

Full colored page updates and early access will only be available to Patreon supporters pledging towards the INSIDER ACCESS tier. If you wish to read the full comic sooner and view it in color, please kindly consider supporting this project till its completion!

UPGRADE NOW!

This is a great opportunity for everyone to consider the all-new $5 INSIDER ACCESS reward tier! INSIDER ACCESS now includes the basic early access to new comic pages each month, as well as a collectible e-book (that was previously available only to patrons pledging $15 and above). The INSIDER ACCESS e-book is a collectible item that you can download, archiving all released pages and new monthly page progress, including behind-the-scenes bonus material.

If you have any inquiries, please post them here!

Snares
Sep 2017

As expressed in an earlier post, as a self-taught artist, I mostly learn by just doing things and watching other people do those things, so teaching has never really been my thing. Not only that, but the very nature of tutorials detract me from my main path of production to a significant degree.

Over the first 2 weeks of August, I've been doing some test runs on my premium Picarto channel. Now that I've unlimited wifi again, it's been a lot more feasible to stream my work, which is something that comes more naturally to me and synchronizes pretty well with my production lifestyle. Initially the plan was to make production streams a patron-only content, but it was counter-productive in the sense that what I really hope to achieve is to promote my comic instead of isolate it.

What's gonna happen is that all Meatier Showers "SUPERSIZED" streams will be recorded down and made available for public viewing. On the other hand, all my furry porn streams will be made as exclusive paid content for my patrons here.

The nature of Picarto premium is that you can only store up to a maximum of 12 videos on the channel. This generally means that I want my Meatier Showers production streams up online for all to view and (hopefully) garner more support. As for supporters for are already funding my projects, I will be saving down those for-fun / chilling out porn streams and make them available on my Google Drive, depending on how many I do in a month, they will be up there for the "Insider Access" tier.

Check out the link, see if that's something you're keen on subscribing to, and do consider upgrading to Insider's Access. I'll definitely be uploading more videos per month, but for now, here's a taste:

VIEW A SAMPLE HERE

While "Meatier Showers" continues to exist as a ongoing comic series, the "Meatier Showers" label will be expanded upon to cover a wider range of furry and bara lifestyle products, featuring new faces and characters who coexist in the same universe.

Our first foray into the product line features a trio of bear designs celebrating bear culture. A new series of products will be rolled out quarterly each year, showcased as fashion models either as fictional magazine covers or lifestyle ads.

The designs will be made available on the new online store platform: https://society6.com/meatier

Hey everyone! I'm paving the way for a new selection of upcoming products under the expanded Meatier Showers lifestyle banner. For just 24 hours, all products are 20% off with FREE SHIPPING. Please check out the new store here: https://society6.com/meatier

PROMOTION DETAILS:
20% Off + Free Shipping on Everything
Start: 8/27/17 @ 12:00am PT
End: 8/27/17 @ 11:59pm PT

Did you know I have an online store? Bet you don't, cuz I've kinda dropped the ball on that one and haven't been adding any new designs whatsoever. You can check out the current store here: https://society6.com/snares

Which characters or themes would you like to see more product of?

This is something I've been meaning to talk about for awhile, but didn't the answers fully formed amidst the chaos around me (that is day-to-day survival.)

For the longest time ever, I felt deeply isolated primarily for the fact that I was mostly doing very niche furry art (even within the community itself, by it's alleged broad and open-minded standards) and catering to a very specific audience. This had been the voice I was most comfortable with because it was the most authentic version of myself. I don't do "safe" or "accessible" furry porn. I make hyper, borderline absurd muscle inflated furry content that cater to my own specific tastes (and to anyone else who shares that palate.) Pretty much from the get-go, I knew I wasn't hitting critical mass (pun intended) and there was no way I could compete with peers who had a significantly larger following.

I've always been vividly aware of my limitations in that aspect, and felt the strain of not being able to hit a substantial fan-base in order to be among the ranks of "commercially successful" indie creators. That's not to say that I got into all this with unrealistic expectations. For the most part, I started MEATIER SHOWERS not expecting it to even be self-sustaining.

As I watched industry peers on local soil continue to rise up the higher echelons of art society, it became very clear that the reason for what I outwardly perceive as "commercial success" was their ability to utilize G-rated content and tap into a larger pool of followers.

On a business level, it's very straight forward. That's why European comics are self-sustainable within their own soil, and rarely have to reach out beyond their borders. Likewise for Japan, their sheer volume alone sustains mainstream comics. Anything reaching international acclaim acts as a bonus multiplier for companies.

It is in that vein of frustration of not being able to hit that "sweet spot" of followers and (working wage) revenue that I started to have doubts about my own brands, like MEATIER SHOWERS for example. It was too niche, too inaccessible and relatively challenging and inadvisable to show potential clients and employers a portfolio of man boobs and log-for-schlongs. I'm constantly advised, as the generic cure-all for my ailments, is to do G-rated content. SIMPLE - as long as I was vocally homogeneous and bland as mainstream content - which is not what I want to be. And it's not the kinda of experiences I want to leave a legacy by, let alone waste my time and effort trying to pander to a crowd who's loyalties are as transient as the next big trend (let's all draw X because everyone else is drawing him and he's awesome!)

All that said, I actually caved into the financial pressures and decided to hit a wider audience as part of my marketing strategy, by tapping into the macrofur community. KAIJUICE was by design meant to attract more readers to that end, and was a title initially coined by myself for a friend's product line. During a local illustrator's festival, it suddenly occurred to me, despite her allowing me to go ahead with the name usage, that she had already produced a product line of stickers under KAIJUICE. I found myself contemplating if it was really necessary for me to be reusing the name. As much as I love puns and great ideas, my training as a storyboard artist has taught me never to cling onto an idea, or be too emotionally attached to them. As Joe Ranft once said, "Trust the process".

I was resolved to removing the KAIJUICE title, but what then? What was I going to call this project? At this point, I had already plotted ahead in my mind the third chapter in the KAIJUICE story arc. The more I thought about it, the truth was that it wasn't so much about macrofurs or Kaijus to begin with. I mean, those themes DO pop up visually in chapter one, yes, as you've currently seen in the page updates, but the THROUGHLINE of the whole story arc was never really about stomping cities and radioactive monsters in every chapter. It was ultimately (spoiler alert) about MEATIER SHOWERS and how it came to be. Project KAIJUICE from the very beginning was designed to be the ORIGIN STORIES of several characters, as well as the building, as a character in and of itself - MEATIER SHOWERS.

Epiphanies

In all this while that I had been trying to reach out to more readers, the story took on a life of its own and was rerouting me to where my voice would resonate in its truest volume... back home... back to MEATIER SHOWERS.

That made me re-assess my perspectives on what MEATIER SHOWERS meant to me as the creator. It wasn't just a title or product. It wasn't just a character or cast of characters. MEATIER SHOWERS is my true voice, the mechanism I built for myself to navigate the real world, and for the most part, has been the one thing I've been most proud of. WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING, ABANDONING IT FOR SOME PRETENTIOUS NAME!?

And so with all that expressed, I've been reworking my business strategies so that they divert value and content back to the MEATIER SHOWERS platforms. I have on hand right now, a new marketing campaign which will take awhile before I can actually implement - but there is a plan.

Product Overview

(Spoiler alert) The future titles and overall KAIJUICE story arc will take the following form, on top of the existing volumes:

Tanz & Groover Arc (existing chapters) Trade Paperback 1

• Chapter 1 - Get Groovy
• Chapter 2 - Living Large
• Chapter 3 - You're the One

Pridestar Arc (existing chapters)

• Chapter 4 - One More Time
• Chapter 5 - Harder, Buffer, Faster, Stronger
• Chapter 6 - Bulge Indulge
• Chapter 6.5 - Baewatch (Patreon exclusive)

Origins Arc (work in progress)

• Chapter 7 - Supersized (2017)
• Chapter 8 - Critical Mass (2018)
• Chapter 9 - Pridestar (2019)

In short, I'm doubling-down on strengthening my core brand, better understanding what it means to me and how I can convert "weaknesses" into vantage points as well. You'd think I'd have known these things by now, this long into whatever I've been doing, but no. I'll still learning and finding my way to the future I want.

Snares
Aug 2017

Housekeeping

Welcome to the first production blog for Project KAIJUCE (aka"Meatier Showers: SUPERSIZED"). The first 2 weeks of August have been pretty hectic, especially having to settle into a whole new work space and rhythm.

A big THANK YOU to all the new supporters who've recently joined in this foray. Regardless of whichever tier you've selected, every dollar goes a long way in helping pay for daily necessities.

Production Pipeline

As of this writing, the second draft of KAIJUICE had been sent to a small handful of beta readers. Most of the feedback has been positive, which is mildly disconcerting, since that's not something I would immediately expect from the initial drafts.

Comic page progress will continue to be released on the 5th of each month through scheduled posts, as well as the downloadable e-book versions (for Collector's tiers and above) being sent to eligible patrons.

Starting 20 August, we will officially embark on the next major phase of production - INKING - a crucial phase as it primes the draft copy to a production state that can be "locked in" for coloring. The goal is to have all 25 pages fully cleaned up - with missing details and placeholder images properly illustrated - ideally by early September.

Hi everyone. I've finally settled into the new room rental and set up my work space. It's not exactly the most ideal of situations, as I'm using a chair as the table and sitting on the floor while working, much akin to my situation back in August last year. This generally means that after long hours, my legs tend to go numb.

Discontinuation of Art Tutorial Rewards

It's been awfully stressful since the move on 29 July, and at this point, I'm kinda of emotionally numb. For the most part, the move was relatively sudden and I pretty much had to hit the ground running. As someone who's self-taught, it's always been a challenge imparting my own experiences and knowledge onto others in ways that make sense (refer to Kumatetsu in The Beast and The Boy.)

The art tutorials were an attempt to add value to my Patreon project experience and garner more support, however, that voice hasn't come naturally to me. In fact, it takes a very deliberate change of mind states to get done and has been impractical for me with all the overhead layers of work.

New Reward: Downloadable Stream Videos

With the funds I've gotten from last month, plus the fact that I now have unlimited wifi at the new space, I'm getting back to live streaming with a premium Picarto account. What this means is that I'll be recording production streams related to KAIJUICE and have them downloadable as a $5 tier reward. Given the limitations of the platform, Picarto doesn't store more than 12 streams, so it makes sense for me to archive the KAIJUICE in my own Google Drive folders instead, and make them available for supporters of my project.

I'll be doing some streaming over this weekend to get a sense of what everyone's response is like. Still getting warmed up with the new Wacom tablet placements and all. Once I'm feeling ready, I'll be resuming inking work with KAIJUICE.

For now, you can check out my channel on Picarto here:
https://picarto.tv/snares

Hi everyone, just dropping in for a quick update. Some of you may still be waiting for this month's Creator's Corner updates and wondering what's up with the delays. As I shared earlier in a post last week, July marks the expiration of my studio lease. Between sustained composure and frantically looking for last minute housing options, I had hit a fairly persistent creative block with the ending sequence of my comic (as much as I hate to admit it - things looked better in my mind's theater than on paper.)

All this, has, in some small way or another, affected my production schedule. But the biggest factor for my delays, despite everything else, was the fact that I was running away. Running away from my professional responsibilities, or the inevitable state of change.

My studio, in all its brevity, had been a sanctuary I carved out for myself away from all the years of dysfunction that was my old home. And for what it's worth, it had been our little safe corner between me and my husband, in a country where laws primarily work in favor for the traditional heterosexual family model.

If you've ever gotten to know me well, you'd understand that I grew up struggling with the challenges of "letting go". This is one such instance where I knew I had to, no matter what, and face reality. And I had been running since the start of July. I fucked up big time, and just kept running in the opposite direction instead of facing this reality.

And now, having packed all my suitcases with less than a week left, I can't run anymore. This is the end of the line for my childishness, this is all the procrastinating I can do, and I am terribly sorry for the delays with this month's content cycle.

I cannot pretend that I'm not emotionally affected in some way, and as a result, it has been challenging for me to feign my "teacher tone" that I had employed for my first tutorial. I am still in the midst of coming up with some alternative solution for that. Personally speaking, I prefer the "production blog tone" better as it focuses more on present matters, than creating another bubble.

As for this month's monthly sketch rewards, I'm rolling over the production for it to the start of August, and top that up with September's rewards. Meaning, I'll be clearing 2 birds with one stone and getting back soon to my VIP patrons soon on the matter.

Rest assured that the basic Early Access comic page updates for August and September have already been scheduled and automated. Collector's Club updates will also be rolled out as scheduled.

I will be physically moving out on the 29 July to my temporary new place for the foreseeable 6 months. This week will primarily focus on migrating my workstation and files from my 9-year old desktop PC to my new laptop (again, thank you for financially supporting me and enabling me to do so.)

I will also be focusing on the new pages 25 and 26 of my comic that was not originally planned for (as I am currently over-running in terms of length.) I will have a better peace of mind once I can lock in the end sequence and start rolling out the second draft to my beta-readers for a test drive.

I hope to return with good news on the 5 August. For now, I'll just be keeping my head low, focus on immediate matters and try to recover from the production backlog. Thank you for your support, your patience and understanding.

Snares
July 2017

Snares was a tubby little kid spotting an 80s mullet. He's still tubby in a powerlifter way, with the added boon of a rocker's mohawk. SUPERSIZED has been different as compared to previous MEATIER SHOWERS titles in that the story was specifically for the 16-18 year old version of myself, when I first discovered the fandom and was exploring what it had to offer. It is my personal hopes that, SUPERSIZED will reach out to the next generation of younger furs, and continue to inspire long-time readers.

• Early Access & Collector's Club
  5th of every month
  • EARLY ACCESS (ALL Patrons)
  • DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK ($15 and above)
  • REJECTED MATERIAL ($15 and above)
    
• Creator's Corner
  15th of every month
  • PRIVATE STREAMS ($5 and above)
  • PRODUCTION BLOG ($5 and above)
    
• The VIP Lounge
  25th of every month
  • MONTHLY SKETCH REWARDS ($50 and above)

Some of you may find these angles familiar, and they're largely a tribute to scenes from Attack on Titan, more specifically Eren's first combat engagement with the Colossal Titan. Originally I had wanted to have Snares run along the kaiju's arm, although apart from extending the action sequence, the dramatics did little in terms of story progression. In the end I trimmed the scene down to what you see now for something more economic and snappy.

CONTENT SCHEDULE
Updates every 10 days!

• 5 of every month
  • EARLY ACCESS (All patrons)
  • DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK ($15 and above)
  • REJECTED MATERIAL ($15 and above)
    
• 15 of every month
  • ART TUTORIALS ($5 and above)
  • PRODUCTION BLOG ($5 and above)
    
• 25 of every month
  • MONTHLY SKETCH REWARDS ($50 and above)

With the arrival of July, my one-year studio lease comes to an end. Despite earlier indications among my studio mates of wanting to extend our lease for another 6 months, enthusiasm had substantially withered down. An indication that I had only come to be aware of during the month itself, during which I had less than 3 weeks to make all the necessary arrangements.

The good news: 2 weeks prior to actually becoming homeless without a roof to take refuge under, I was fortunate enough to secure a place to stay for another 6 months till the end of 2017.

The bad news: What was once a US$100 monthly studio rent has now quadrupled to US$440 per month at what is now a proper residential area, because space in Singapore, like most cities, is a commodity.

What you can do to help: It's really quite simple mathematically... For the year that I was staying in the corner of our art studio, a fraction of my Patreon earnings was enough to pay for the rent, with enough to spare for daily necessities and some meager savings. Starting August 2017, more than half of my Patreon earnings goes to rent alone. Please kindly consider upgrading to the Creator's Corner for $5, and you'll be kept in the loop with production blogs like this one, as well as gain access to art tutorials. Also if you'd like to collect an archive of past pages as well as rejected material (not released anywhere else), do consider trying out the Collector's Club at $15 and gain access to a downloable ebook each month.

What's happening now: This is the production timeline for the month of July. As of this posting, I am trying to regain my focus from the initial panic of being homeless and reworking the end scene. I am currently at page 23 of the originally intended total of 24 pages. Based on the story pacing, I am revising the conclusion a little and extending it to possibly 26 pages so that things don't end abruptly.

What's happening later: I have already done some initial planning for KAIJUICE 2. In case anyone was wondering, yes, I'm doing this project for the long run as my main income source, and have plotted the KAIJUICE story arc for 3 chapters. After which everything will culminate in a final conclusive book that, hopefully, should bring all my work full circle.

That's all for our first production blog post, which will be free for all to sample this month. Starting August 2017, production blog posts like these will be made exclusive for Creator's Corner supporters only. Thank you again for believing in this project.

CONTENT SCHEDULE
Updates every 10 days!

• Early Access & Collector's Club
  5th of every month
  • EARLY ACCESS (ALL Patrons)
  • DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK ($15 and above)
  • REJECTED MATERIAL ($15 and above)

• Creator's Corner
  15th of every month
  • ART TUTORIALS ($5 and above)
  • PRODUCTION BLOG ($5 and above)

• The VIP Lounge
  25th of every month
  • MONTHLY SKETCH REWARDS ($50 and above)

Thank you everyone for supporting me through the month of June. Starting this month, comic page updates will be delivered on-site, under the "comic" tag. Every month I'll be releasing 2 pages until completion phase. Given the nature of Patreon's interface, only one page can be posted at a time.

The obligatory butt-shot. Clothes will be added on later. Now's your chance to savor it all.

Hi everyone. My first comic tutorial is finally ready! Please bear in mind that these aren't "how to draw guides", as you'll already find an abundance of good ones out there in bookstores and the internet! What I do hope to share is my process and insights and things that people tend to overlook when approaching sequential art, or comics.

I will be making the first 3 modules free for public viewing and download, after which starting September 2017 onwards, all subsequent modules will only be available to patrons subscribing to the Creators' Club reward tier. I If you like what you see, please consider joining the Creators' Club for more content like this, as well as access to future production blogs!

For the full downloadable tutorial, please use this link here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8jjXJdwedHXUEFBVFhfZmRVejA/view?usp=sharing

Hey guys, sorry with the art tutorial delays! I've been mulling over the past few days how best to deliver the materials. I've settled on a .PDF format, and wanted to add a "guide" sort of character in the tutorials. So here's kinda... what I look like? In my favorite hoodie. I'll have the stuff ready soon over the weekend.

OH NO! It's an Excel sheet! But fret not, it's harmless, I assure you. In the schedule above, you'll find under the green-colored track the lesson plan I've created for this particular project. As mentioned earlier (perhaps in my own monologues), the tutorials will be utilizing KAIJUICE comic pages as an actual "live" demonstration of my creative process.

I'm still figuring out how best to deliver the materials, most likely through Google Drive. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to post them here!

The art tutorials listed above are rewards for the $5 Creators' Corner tier. If you're keen on knowing more about my production process, or interested in making a comic someday yourself, please consider upgrading to a higher tier!

Thank you!

Snares
Jun 2017

If your account has already been processed for the previous month, you should be receiving a link in your PATREON INBOX. Please kindly check your messages for the URL to a downloadable e-book, for a free sample of what you might expect from the Collectors' Club support tier.

Here are the technical notes on this e-book release:

• As the project is primarily in its early draft phase, you'll find that there are many placeholder scribbles where actual characters should be. Please bare in mind that this will certainly not be the final quality or end result. As storytelling is a iterative process, the project will undergo a constant state of change towards completion. Many of the details will only be added in and refined towards the inking phase.
  
• Page 7 represents how the final treatment for the overall comic will look like. The goal is to have all 24 pages inked, and fully colored like so.
  
• All future updates will follow a schedule of 2 comic page updates per month. Collector's Club patrons will continue receiving monthly e-book updates like in this month's example, will updates retroactively added to illustrate the production process, archived with any rejected material.
  
• All Basic Access patrons will continue to have early access and see page updates posted on Patreon, in individual posts.
  
• Early access to KAIJUICE is on the 5th of each month. Public access is on the 25th of each month.
  
• Name credits will only appear in the final production.

I'm really excited to hear what you guys think about the pilot issue. Please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments on this post.

Snares
June 2017

KAIJUICE Content Release Schedule:

5 of each month

• Early access to comic pages (special 6-page release for June, 2-pages per month subsequently)
• Collector's Club e-book (with bonus material)

15 of each month

• Art tutorials (12-month, modular lesson plan to be announced soon)

25 of each month

• Production blog
• Monthly sketch rewards

This will be a particularly busy month, so expect to see changes to the cover page, new visual assets kicking in and developments around the corner. Stay tuned and thank you for supporting this project!

Snares
June 2017

Hi everyone. Just a quick update, as of this writing, 12 out of 24 pages have been drafted out. Not all are ready for viewing however, as a couple of pages are primarily placeholder drawings at this moment (in other words, sketchy geometric shapes where characters and faces are supposed to be.)

As the month of May draws to an end, I've decided to step up my efforts in garnering more support for this project (as well as future ones.) The purpose of this post is to let everyone know that I've revised the Patreon rewards for my project.

Art Tutorials

I know folks have been requesting this for awhile now, and it's been very difficult for me to implement this in the past while being stuck on longer format productions. With KAIJUICE, I'm able to switch in and out of gears more easily and will be using the project itself as a "live" example of how I make my creative choices, such as camera angles, page and panel layouts, etc. I will also cover topics like visual hierarchy and visual flow using key comic pages as teaching tools. If you are keen on these tutorials, as a content creator yourself or as a comic enthusiast, please kindly consider the $5 option. The monthly tutorials will be posted on-site here for easy access, under the "tutorial" tag.

Digital Downloads

As with the 2 previous Meatier Showers productions, patrons were able to receive a collectible e-book each month that was retroactively updated with page progress and served as an archive for past pages. This was accessible through a Google Drive link sent out privately to patron's inboxes. I will be doing the same thing with KAIJUICE, now that I have sufficient content to offer this to patrons. Please consider the $15 tier to subscribe to the monthly e-book as well as access to rejected, behind-the-scenes content.

Rejected Material

Most readers don't realize exactly how much content gets taken out in the final version of the comic. Like most movies you see in cinemas, content is edited for the economy of length and budget. With comics, full-size images sometimes have to be cropped to make space for more panels, drawings and poses don't always work, or entire pages get removed or amended for the betterment of the project. Supporters pledging to the $15 tier gain access to all this content along with their monthly e-book access through a private Google Drive link.

Custom Character Art

If you've been wanting to get commission work from me, this is the only channel I'll be available for the foreseeable future as I am focusing all my efforts on this current project. There are 10 commission slots per month. If you maintain your support, I will draw you something new as per your request each month, based on agreeable content. It can be a one-off thing as well, so the opened slot becomes open to others the following month.

Comic Collaboration

This is basically the freelance aspect apart from sketch commissions I'm opening up to 3 slots. If you're a content creator and looking for someone to produce with, or interested in developing a new series as a team, I am available for discussion and work.

Rewards Overhaul

While Patreon has made it easier to build rewards now with their editor interface, I've also unwittingly removed everyone from their pledged tiers while I was doing a complete overhaul of my services. I do apologize for any inconveniences caused, and would like to take the opportunity to ask everyone to update your pledges (so you don't get left out) as well as to check out the new tiers.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO UPDATE YOUR REWARDS!
https://www.patreon.com/snares

Hi guys. Just dropping in for a quick Update. With KAIJUICE now currently in the works, you can expect production updates on the 25th, monthly till completion. Comic page updates will be released on the 5th of each month.

Above is how the project will be delivered online to everyone. Given it's nature - a new title and untested product, it is excruciatingly difficult to garner financial support here in Patreon, especially since the market is saturated with individual content creators. The way things are going to work for now is that the draft version of KAIJUICE will be free to read for everyone, delivered at differing times of the month.

Patreon get early access on the 5th of each month as an incentive to support. Your comments and suggestions are widely welcomed if it helps contribute to the development of the project, and every supporters' names will make an appearance in the front credits as with all my previous Patreon titles.

The free-to-read online versions will be posted on the 25th of each month across a variety of other platforms. This is geared towards building up more interest and hopefully convert to financial support for production.

The free-to-read content is limited to black and white sketch versions of the comic only. Patrons will eventually gain early access to inked and colored pages as they come out, as well as high resolution, rejected material for $5 supporters.

I hesitate to switch to a more impersonal tone, seeing that I should generally conduct myself professionally at all times when money is involved...

But the reality is simple. By the end of 2017, the lease for our current low-cost art studio will be over. Once 2018 begins, I need to start renting elsewhere, and rental is expected to quadruple. I am barely getting by as it is, and I try not to worry too much about next year now.

I am trying to pay for driving lessons and finish them up before all this happens, as well as to save up for a decent laptop around US$1,300.

If this is within your means, please kindly consider upgrading to the $5 support tier. I know there's not much else I can offer apart from rejected material and high resolution art files at this point of production, but I do hope you guys could support me in this aspect.

I can only reopen my commission slots once all the draft pages for KAIJUICE have been laid out.

I don't spend as much time as my peers on social media to stay relevant and engaging. I'm hoping to change this in June once I have more content to share with folks. Comics aren't easy, but this is the fight I've chosen for myself, because this is what I want to leave behind for the fandom.

Thank you for your patience and support this month.

Snares
May 2017

Today's the official launch of KAIJUICE: The Flavor is Buff! Things are only going to grow bigger from here on! Starting next month, KAIJUICE will be released episodically, with each episode consisting of 6 comic pages, while a full complete season spanning 4 episodes! (That's a total of 24 comic pages over 4 months!)

As a patron, you get 20-days early access than everyone else. What's more, loyal supporters will have access to colored pages as and when they are made available!

For those of you who love schedules, you can have a detailed look at our projected release dates here (under the KAIJUICE tab): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bPEFIlvc-StluQJWtP3GNpkq1rk6bakBhGYFklNBOHc/edit?usp=sharing

Stay tuned next month for the first episode!

Snares
May 2017

Hi guys, I know you've been waiting on more information for the new Patreon comic project, so I'll keep things short and simple. I've been battling with my anxieties and demons this whole week, and it's been incredibly difficult to stay focused. Now I'm sure you aren't supporting this project just to hear me talk about my sob stories, but I do hope to someday share about my anxiety issues on an appropriate platform, with the goal of helping others who may face similar problems get through their own demons.

For now, my primary objective this month is to get my comic art sample page out ASAP. It was slated for 5 May, but as I've mentioned, my personal anxieties has derailed my progress, and I am still in the midst of working out the page colors.

I hope this page gives everyone a better sense of what to expect from the final product. This page is meant as a prototype and benchmark for the quality and production process of the final product. For now, it is still lacking shadows, highlights and atmospheric lighting.

Once completed, not only will it serve as a proof of concept, but it will better help market this new project for potential new followers. My goal is to get a minimal wage out of this Patreon project, so that I may continue working on this comic with minimal side distractions for as long as possible. If you see the potential in what I am creating, and believe in my vision, please do recommend my Patreon project to a friend. Come 25 May, I will reveal the next part of the 3-page pilot. Stay tuned for more.

Snares
May 2017

*spoiler warning*

Drafting & exploiting the 3 pilot pages into a full length comic. The original goal was to keep it within 16 pages, but given the extensive nature of the action sequences, I'm already hitting 32 pages. I did not honestly think I had that much content on hand until I started planning the action scenes.

For now, it is rather likely that Kaijuice Chapter One will be split into 2 parts. Stay tuned for more pages next month!

Hi everyone, here is the current story overview for my new comic series. It takes place in the same universe as Meatier Showers.

Underfunded & overwhelmed, the remaining crew of a fringe military defense unit prepares itself for the imminent arrival of a massive alien hostile. Facing despair, desperation and disaster on a shoestring budget, Agent Buddy & Gunner Wolfblitzer turn to their first line of defense and only option - The Lifeguard.

Thank you for your patience. Here's an early update on the new project around the horizon. There have been many reasons why I've drastically changed the format, but I'll save that for another post next time.

For now, allow me to introduce to you an all-new 16-18 page action comedy series, "KAIJUICE". If you love growth, into macrofurs or just tokusatsu movies, this is definitely for you!

As we move closer towards May, the front cover page of my Patreon page will undergo several changes to better reflect the new project I'm undertaking.

To garner stronger interest and new readers, I am building this 3-page prototype comic, or pilot if you will. The 3-page comic pretty much sums up and captures the overall mood of the series, but is not necessarily the final product. In fact, the final 16-18 page comic is more of an expanded version of this pilot and goes into deeper detail.

Fans of Meatier Showers may recognize 2 returning faces from the series in KAIJUICE.

So if you know a friend who's into kaijus or macrofurs, please point them this way. Every bit helps! Thank you for your continued support, hang around for more pages next month!

Snares
Apr 2017

I've worked out the page rhythms from multiples of 3 to something with an opening of a faster pace with a slow, concentrated finish to the likes of 2-2-2-3-4-3. So instead of the 18 pages above, we're looking at another 16 page comic. I haven't exactly started on the page art yet, but I've more time now to focus on my Kaiju project which I'm very excited about.

Thank you for your continued patience and support. For those of you still waiting around to see what's actually being planned out on the horizon, the short story is that the Muscle Growth project will be cancelled. Since the first test drive last month, a good deal of $15 supporters have since completely dropping out. I think that this is clear enough a signal that supporters do not see the justification in terms of rewards returned for the amount pledged. It's always unfortunate when this happens, but again it's an unmistakable symptom that prompts change.

The new format transition will be relatively difficult. As with all new comic projects on my Patreon, I pretty much start each on from scratch - this means practically zero content. Working my way back up to speed, with things to show, usually mean a harrowing period where I need to prove to supporters that their support isn't just going nowhere.

For awhile now, I've always been wanting to work on a macro-related furry project. Attached with this post, Patreons will get to revisit the outtakes from Meatier Showers: Bulge Indulge (Book 4 from FurPlanet)

Those of you who've been following me from the start might also understand that creating comics, merely on the account of the layers of work involved, is no easy feat. Long format projects are usually high risk (if you do not have a strong financial buffer) and sales are rarely guaranteed.

Expanding on the Muscle Growth project (pun intended), what I'll be opening up to the community are macrofur comic commissions. I understand that folks would like to get their own sequences, and personally I'd like to work on something with heavier storytelling elements in it.

Before I start opening up these commission slots, I do need to come up with some samples to give folks a better idea of what they can expect for the money they are paying.

Over the next 2-3 months, I'll be producing about 3 pages worth of a short macrofur comic. Each page represents a different page configuration I'm offering for the commission slots.

Once those 3 pages have been produced, I will open my slots using those samples as benchmarks. Whatever has been commissioned, will be featured on my Patreon page for supporters to see my process and all - since streaming has not been practical, given my current living conditions.

I hope all that kinda makes sense. If it doesn't, just stick around. I promise it will, once I get down to showing it on the 25 April.

Snares
Apr 2017

Hey guys, been a lot going on my end. There's gonna be some major changes here, details of which I'll go over the next weekend. Expect new information and previews on the 15 April 2017.

Those of you who are subscribed with $15, please take note: I will be removing this tier by the end of the month. Please kindly consider switching to the lower $1 or $5 as I will not be able to provide matching rewards with the new product planned.

I know this is all very sudden, but my shift work isn't working out favorably for my art. I've made the decision to terminate my shift work and go back full steam on my true calling. Sorry if this confuses anyone. It's been a crazy month.

Snares
Apr 2017

How's everyone enjoying the new updates? From this month onwards, I'll be making muscle growth sequences for my ongoing Patreon projects. As a test drive, I've used my own fursona to get a better measure of the work load that's involved, potential hiccups and the final form of the product.

I'd like to hear what you guys think. Starting 5 April, I'll be opening a poll. All paying patrons get to have a say on what popular character they'd like to see buffed up. Leomon? Doggie Kruger? Kass? Those are just a few potential candidates I have on my mind. Let me know what you guys would like to have and I'll put it up for polling!

• $1 - Sketch-only
• $5 - Sketch, Inked with Full Color
• $15 - Sketch, Inked with Full Color & Adult Version + High Res work files

( All tiers include patron eligibility to poll for next month's growth species.)

DOWNLOADABLE High Res .PSD file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8jjXJdwedHXcEZiTTdHeTlVQ0U/view?usp=sharing

• $1 - Sketch-only
• $5 - Sketch, Inked with Full Color
• $15 - Sketch, Inked with Full Color & Adult Version

( All tiers include patron eligibility to poll for next month's growth species.)

• $1 - Sketch-only
• $5 - Sketch, Inked with Full Color
• $15 - Sketch, Inked with Full Color & Adult Version + High Res work files

( All tiers include patron eligibility to poll for next month's growth species.)

Hi guys. Just wanted to let everyone know that this month's new muscle growth updates will roll in on the 27 Mar instead of the usual 25 Mar.

This is largely due to my new shift work schedules as a front desk service associate, and I'm slotted for work this weekend. My off days have been pushed forward to 27 & 28 instead.

Pencils and inks have already been completed. I'm just down to finishing up the adult version for the $15 reward tiers. Once that's done, it's colors and delivery.

Thank you all for your support and patience. Tune in 5 April for an opportunity to poll for the next species you want to see most in the second muscle growth sequence!

Snares
Mar 2017

Starting March 2017 till March 2018, we will be rolling out our new Patreon project!

"SNARES SODA: The Flavor is BUFF" will take the eventual form of a coffee table artbook. The artbook specializes in 3-part muscle growth sequences. Each month, we'll be featuring a new character or species that consumes a bottle of Snares Soda, that sets off a sudden transformative growth!

The exisiting reward tiers will be updated as follows:

• PUBLIC ACCESS - FREE
  Furry muscle growth commissions (paid for by clients)
  
• SNARES LIGHT - $1 tier
  Furry muscle growth commissions (paid for by clients)
  Patreon-exclusive monthly muscle growth sequence
  (SKETCH ONLY)
  
• SNARES SODA - $5 tier
  Furry muscle growth commissions (paid for by clients)
  Patreon-exclusive monthly muscle growth sequence
  (FULL COLOR)
  
• SNARESPRILLA MAX - $15
  Furry muscle growth commissions (paid for by clients)
  Patreon-exclusive monthly muscle growth sequence
  Bonus adult versions (unclothed)
  Downloadable high resolution work files
  (FULL COLOR)

For more information, stay tuned for March updates!

Harrow!

By now, everyone who's supported Meatier Showers: BAEWATCH should've gotten their fair share of rewards corresponding to their support tiers. If you haven't already, please kindly check your email (linked to your Patreon accounts) and your Patreon message inbox itself for the respective download links.

With the end of this production cycle, we have introduced a new Loyalty Rewards Program for supporters who've been financing this Patreon project for at least 12 months. For all those eligible, please kindly check your message inbox for a special download link to a bonus reward. If you like what you see, please feel free to post your thoughts and comments here!

Snares
Feb 2017

(Now renamed to, "BAEWATCH") Basic access comic page updates - (Link to downloadable file of archived pages available to Backstage / Celebrity Access only)

(Now renamed to, "BAEWATCH") Basic access comic page updates - (Link to downloadable file of archived pages available to Backstage / Celebrity Access only)

The early access of Meatier Showers: BAEWATCH will be available tomorrow. A download link will be sent to the inbox of all patrons who have Celebrity Access ($15 and above).

In addition to regular updates (sketch pages for Basic Access) and the archives pages without cover art (for Backstage Access), I'll be rolling out a Loyalty Rewards program for folks who've supported this project for more than 12 months.

So just hang around for the next content drop on 25 February. Starting next month, we'll be entering a new project phase. More details to be announced on 5 March.

Here's a quick look at the cover art for the latest Meatier Showers project, now renamed from the previous, "Bulge Indulge" to "BAEWATCH". If you've been enjoying the ride so far, please kindly recommend the comic to a friend!

Just send them the PREORDER LINK HERE:
https://goo.gl/forms/2f8OdtMXXqWvUdYx2

Hey guys, just dropping in for a quick update. Now that all 16 pages have been fully colored & adjusted, I've been moving back to working on the cover art. The previous iteration was based on the Coppertone Girl ads, you can look up Google for what it looks like.

The tricky thing about comic covers is that not only should it surmise the entirety of your comic in a single image, but it has the double function of selling your product. The comic cover is essentially your product packaging and a lot needs to be said within very limited parameters.

The issue I had with the original cover, while supposedly funny initially, really lacked impact both visually and conceptually. It was kinda lame in terms of relevance to what the premise of this issue was about.

Coming back from my Japan trip, a new story title struck me, which I'll be saving till the release of the book. I personally think it's fittingly brilliant, and with that, I decided to revise the imagery to suit the new title.

The new version on the right has much more motion and energy in it. Moreover, the scene helps hint to readers what they might expect from the dynamic between the two characters. The low angle shot makes for a tastier view and gives people a better sense of the character's mass and volume.

Working on the comic cover will be my main focus this week, after which I'll be putting on my writer's hat again to fill in dialogues and such.

The public version will be available for preorder around the same time as the Patreon launch, but will only be released later in March and sold at $18. If you're wanting the Patreon ebook, please kindly remember to change your subscription to $15.

Hi everyone, as you may know by now, Meatier Showers: Buff Patrol will soon finish production. With that in mind, I'm hoping to rebrand and redevelop my Patreon content to better fit my changing circumstances. Please let me know what you'd like to see more of beyond Meatier Showers.

Hi guys, thank you for your patience and understanding. As mentioned earlier, this month has been pretty crazy for me. I've been in production crunch mode the past 2 weeks working on the latest Meatier Showers pages.

For those of you pledging $5 and above, you would have already received a link to this month's reward. You'll notice in the .pdf archive that full color pages have finally been added in, and have a better sense of my color process from the initial, blotchy color tests of the first few pages to its more presentable, refined state.

This isn't the final version of course, as the following items still need to be done:

• Color corrections
• Markings & tattoos
• Luminosity lighting
• Dialogues
• Cover art

Adding in the dialogues and sound effects text will be the next most important task, as I generally work backwards in this respect. I actually do not work with scripts for all my comics until all the visuals are done, and only work in the text at the very last minute.

Various new developments are happening in my life now that have shifted my focus and objectives. Ideally speaking, Meatier Showers: Buff Patrol should be reading by the end of February / early March, pending how soon the cover art will be ready.

A collectible e-book version with a Patreon exclusive cover will be made available for folks pledging $15 & above. (End of Feb 2017)

Thank you again for your ongoing support & contributions.

Snares
Jan 2017

Basic access comic page updates - (Link to downloadable file of archived pages available to Backstage / Celebrity Access only)

Basic access comic page updates - (Link to downloadable file of archived pages available to Backstage / Celebrity Access only)

Hi guys. Firstly, a warm welcome to all the new patrons that joined recently. I wasn't expecting a new flow of supporters at this junction, but I'm really grateful and happy to have you guys along for the journey. To fill you in, we're in the final stretch of the race right now, with 11 out of 15 pages fully colored.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be delaying the downloadable content updates for $5 tiers and above this month. Instead of the usual update on 25 this month, I'm pushing it back to 31 Jan, because I would like to give you guys a good taste of how this comic is shaping up.

By 31 Jan, my goal is to have a full color preview for patrons supporting $5 and above. It'll be in a downloadable .pdf format as with previous, similar updates. And you can keep this archive.

Things have been relatively busy this month. I've started dating again and that's been wonderful, exciting and full of anxieties as well in equal amounts. I went to JMoF2017 to perform and entered my first fursuit dance competition. And since being back on the 19 Jan I've been busy playing catch up with work and clearing module one of my driving lessons (it's a pain in the ass here in Singapore to get a drivers license).

My main goal right now is to get this comic out by end of February, then roll out my new plans for this year. Thank you for your patience & understanding. That is all.

Snares
Jan 2017

Hot damn. 2016 has been nothing short of intense and challenging on every possible front. The events of the world have been humbling; sometimes downright crazy or senseless even. But we've made it this far, and we must channel our energies towards the challenges that lie ahead.

Most of you who've been following will know that I left home last year to live my own life. Last I checked, the situation back home has only deteoriated further, with the bank repossessing the father's car (as he could no longer afford the auto loan payments) and the housing authorities chasing him for mortgages. After years of living in constant threat of being kicked out of home, events unveiled themselves over the course of June, propelling me to take matters into my own hands and find my own path by the start of July.

It was through the generosity and kindness of my friends that I was able to find temporary housing and aid during the first two months on my own, and subsequently finding a shared studio space with friends and colleagues where I currently work and live in. It has no doubt been a harrowing experience, and while it may have taken some time, but I am finally able to accept my own reality and face it with equal courage.

Given the circumstances, it has been difficult to shake off my survival mode. My priorities have changed drastically, and I can longer afford room for luxuries or indulgent comforts. My decisions have been primarily grounded pragmatism. My ability to take on long-term, risky, extensive projects have been impeded by the uncertainties of my accomodations.

If you take a look at my Production Schedule , you'll realize that I'll be using my Patreon funds to save up for a new, high end laptop. By July 2017, the lease for the studio space will end, which marks the official start of my mobile lifestyle as a digital nomad. Given the challenges of housing, finances and visa lengths, I will most likely be constantly moving about every 3 months, and living off whatever and wherever I possibly can.

With that in mind, please allow me to share my plans for 2017:

• New Projects

Meatier Showers: Buff Patrol is projected for release between February and March 2017. With its completion, my Patreon page will be shifting gears into a platform that showcases whatever current projects I may be actively working on - not just Meatier Showers, but any other creative pursuit. It may range from sketches, fan-projects, collaborations and even image packs.

• Faster Turn-Around-Times

Given the nomadic nature of my future path, projects will be designed in a modular fashion that allows for completion within a maximum of 3 months. The goal of this is to find stablity in an ever-changing environment. This also means that patrons aren't locked down either content (Meatier Showers ) or the time taken for the production to complete (previously 6-12 months per comic project). With this revision, I hope to make it easier for patrons to pop in and out of subscription if need be. Hopefully shorter projects means better turn-around production time, improved cash flow and more energy on this portal.

• Production Diaries

Once production for Meatier Showers: Buff Patrol concludes, I will cease monthly newsletters and introduce production diary posts instead. These snippets of information will appear as and when there are new developments for my Patreon projects, and come in more bite-sized updates.

Thank you to all my fans and readers for supporting me another year, here on Patreon. Happy 2017, and here's to a better year ahead.

Cheers,
Snares 2017

Hi everyone, thank you for another year of supporting my on-going Patreon project. Just to keep everyone informed, two new comic pages have been added on-site. Due to unexpectedly slow mobile data speeds, the archived file version of Meatier Showers will be delayed by a day as I'm still trying to get it on Google Drive.

I apologize for not having the newsletter up this month. December has been an emotionally taxing month for me, and it is difficult to find the right tone.

As of this update, Donryu has finished toning all the character art in Buff Patrol. Now all that's left is really for me to color the backgrounds, do color adjustments and work in the dialogues.

Based on current projections, the book is more likely to be ready by mid February 2017.

Happy holidays and stay safe.

Basic access comic page updates - (Link to downloadable file of archived pages available to Backstage / Celebrity Access only)

Basic access comic page updates - (Link to downloadable file of archived pages available to Backstage / Celebrity Access only)

Hi everyone, thank you again for another month of support. Here is a quick update on what's been going on. It's been relatively challenging to share my work and progress without internet broadband at my disposal. For the most part, I have to tether data usage through my mobile phone, which incidentally has already overrun its data cap by 3 GB (so this month's bill is going to hurt my wallet.)

Monthly newsletter coming up soon! Stay tuned!

20% off all Society6 Meatier Showers products and free shipping available for just one night!

https://society6.com/snares

Basic access comic page updates - upgrade to Backstage / Celebrity Access for colored and inked pages!

(A downloadable file of archived pages will be made available in the following month through Google Drive)

Basic access comic page updates - upgrade to Backstage / Celebrity Access for colored and inked pages!

(A downloadable file of archived pages will be made available in the following month through Google Drive)

So here's a sample of the communication going on between Donryu & myself. Donryu has laid out all the flat colors for the characters. Pages 6-16 have more direction and lighting as those require a specific mood. Later this month, once I've cleared my slate of outstanding commissions, I will personally be working on the BG elements to set the overall mood and color script for Meatier Showers: Buff Patrol.

Hi guys. Just wanted to post a quick update that I'm back from my Melbourne trip and stuff. Gonna let things calm down a little from the election results before I post this months newsletter. Trying to find the right tone and topic. Also, if anyone's keen on commissions, please check out my FA gallery for the commission form and samples: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/furious/ Catch up soon.

Wow, what an amazing time in history to be in (for better or worse.) I've been wondering the past couple of days what would have been the best tone to start this month's newsletter with, and kinda figured I'd just go with the usual. While we can already feel the weight of these consequences and effects to come, and mentally & emotionally ready ourselves for them, the only solace I can offer, as a content creator, is a sense of normalacy in escapism, by continuning to create safe spaces in my own worlds and stories, and to share some form of comfort in the characters I breathe life into.

Progress Report

During the time I was in Melbourne taking my week off and connecting with the local Australian furs, I had delegated the color phase to Donryu which I'm happy to share has been dutifully completed. As of this writing, all flat colors have been laid out with minor amendments here and there. We are now proceeding with the next phase where Donryu will be working on the toning (lights & shadows) for all character elements, while I begin work on background colors and color adjustments later this week (once I've cleared my commissions backlog.)

As we do not phsyically meet in person, it is always a challenge, especially when it comes to creative collaborations, to communicate the project's needs and directions. In order to delegate tasks properly, Donryu and myself liason through Telegram and instructions scribbled all over the comic pages in red. These include pointers like technical notes, mood and lighting directions.

For subscribing patrons, you'll see an example of this page in a following, seperate post.

The Road Ahead

While another year draws to an end, I am already charting a roadmap for next year's Patreon projects. The current "Buff Patrol" 16-page comic is expected to complete late Jan 2017. Once that is complete, we will officially begin the Groover growth story collaboration with Graveyard Greg. This project is expected to last between Jan - Jun 2017.

Plans are hazy beyong Jul 2017 as this is the time when my current studio lease is up, and I could be anywhere between Malaysia, someone else's home in Singapore, or if things work out, Gold Coast, Australia. It will be another moment of freefalling through life from that point on, however, should my phyiscal location stablisize, the project timeline would be as follows:

From Aug 2017 - Dec 2017, the Groover growth story will lead onto a short arc tentatively titled, "The Talk". This is a key story arc for Meatier Showers as the cast work out the intricacies of a polyarmous relationship. Once that is laid out, and if I'm still doing ok... (nervous laugh) ...we'll be working on a weight gain / fat growth comic, details of which are too early to disclose at this point.

How To Help

Patreon has reached a point of saturation where most active supporters have already settled into their preferred content creators. Movement and patronage between other creators has decreased over time, and the rate of new patrons doesn't cover the rate of attrition and dropouts (for whatever reasons it may be.)

While I could continue to raise the pledge amounts and include more rewards, as I mentioned before, my goals are long-term and not to deter supporters with financial commitments that quickly become a burden. It's not in my best interest either to include rewards that detract me from accomplishing my main goals, by adding more overhead labor to create those fancy rewards.

The only thing I can ask of everyone who continues to believe in the work I produce and the world that is Meatier Showers, is to continue spreading the word that this comic exists, and share it with friends you think might too enjoy its content.

Just hitting and maintaining that $600 milestone would ease up a lot of financial strain on my part, and ease up the amount of commission I have to take per month to supplement my income.

To those of you for continue to support and have faith in my work, that means a lot of me. I know I've dug a very difficult path for myself, especially working on content that's relatively niche even for the furry fandom.

While I may not be a commercial success by any quantative measure, I think that being able to do what I love and believe in the most, is a personal success I can be proud of. And for that, thank you again.

Nov 2016

Snares

Back in May this year, trapped in the ennui of how things haven't seem to be getting any better back home, I committed myself to PAX AUS 2016 which will be happening in the first weekend of Nov, Melbourne, Victoria. This was way before I even knew I was going to run away from home.

Tonight I'm following up with that decision and seeing it through. My goals are threefold:

- visit Australia (& Melbourne) for the first time ever as one we had the privilege to do so
- experience what Penny Arcade Expo is like since I missed out the one before RF2014 due to my flight schedule
- make contact with the Melbourne furry community and create new connections.

October (particularly) the last week has been crazy, what with my episode of stomach flu and various sudden distractions and surprises popping up here and there...

There's a lot of deeper inner emotions I want to express in regard to my personal life, the state of things but I'm not sure if this is the best place or time to be sharing those yet.

Work on BUFF PATROL has been delegated to Donryu who is already hard at work with priming and coloring the pages. Please send him your support too.

My cab is reaching the airport soon and i must turn my focus to my journey. Take care and thank you for supporting me.

Pride helps the lifeguard lion loosen up a little. More to come next month.

Rolling out pages in a new, low-res format for basic access. $5 includes page previews of inked pages and step-by-step progression from draft, sketch to finish.

Starting this month, Patreons pledging $5 and above will receive, archived, high resolution files of the work-in-progress comic pages for my latest Meatier Showers comic, with phase-by-phase progressions of each page to help better understand and appreciate the labor of love that goes into the production.

Basic Access supporters will continue to receive comic page updates, but only low resolution ones posted directly to this site.I will send out the downloadable link for this month's Backstage & Celebrity Access later on 30 Oct, so you still have (some) time to upgrade your pledge to $5 and above.

Funds go to paying off my studio rent, staff payments and basic necessities such as groceries. Please kindly support this project and help me continue producing content for the community by considering the higher tier rewards, or by simply spreading the word of the project and getting friends to subscribe. Thank you.

Hey everyone, my apologies on this month's delay for updates. Had a very bad case of food poisoning the day before, and I'm still detoxing my system... I should have the new format of content delivered before the month ends. =_=

It's been quite the busy month here! Moving into the new studio, settling down, setting up and churning out new content! Basically I'm living by my own right now, working and staying at an art studio space. You can check out how things look over here at the Meatier Showers Studio!

Every bit of support provided now goes towards helping me in 3 key areas:

• Studio Rent - the place where I work and live in needs to get paid for!
• Driving Lessons - a useful life skill I've yet to pick up on!
• Daily Necessities - churning out pages gets me hungry, and I need to eat!

Production Progress

As of this writing, I'm happy to announce that 14 out of 16 pages have been fully inked. While amendments and revisions are constantly being made to these pages, it has been difficult to add dialogues & glitter to the preview pages. On the plus side, if I can continue to channel all my attention on production, this means that we'll get to see an earlier release of the full color comic, hopefully by the end of the year with the aid of my assistant, Donryu.

So please kindly bare with the silence / general lack of activity online, because our main focus is really to get the product completed and ready for everyoneas soon as possible!

Future Plans

We've made several mentions in earlier posts about working together with Graveyard Greg, and this is definitely something we still have down the pipeline. Once Buff Patrol is near its completion phase, we'll start to announce what out next lineup is. Hint: it's based on our earlier poll results, and a request that's popular among fans - a Groover muscle growth comic!

Please continue your support for Meatier Showers and its future projects! Thank you!

Hi guys. Just a quick update on the missing newsletter for this month. As some of you may know, I've moved out to a studio. With no internet connection. And I have to tether using my cellphone. And like. I've exceeded my data cap this month by over 3GB. And like... my phone bill is gonna be crazy this month. I feel sick just thinking about it. But yeah. The data cap refreshes 12 Oct, so I'll have more updates then. For now, I'm mostly using wifi and keeping my head low and immersed in my work. Sorry for being antisocial, that's just kinda me in production mode. Catch up soon.

Due to my current circumstances, physical rewards have become logistically impractical for me to send out. This is in part due to the fact that my current project studio residence has no mailing address. In light of the situation, those who are eligible for physical rewards in the previous "Bulge Indulge" project phase, will be entitled to a free e-book version of the latest "Buff Patrol" project, regardless of their support tiers. For inquiries, please kindly post under this thread.

I deeply apologize for any inconveniences caused as a result of this change.

SnaresSep 2016

Hi everyone,

My apologies for this month's delay with DLC News Update. While the Patreon exclusive content had been disseminated much earlier, I have personally been struggling to find the right tone of voice and angle to articulate my thoughts on this month's numerous developments on Meatier Showers.

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances and feasibility issues, "Mass Masseur", a bonus side-story comic collaboration with artist, Modem Leonlynx, featuring Tanz and Groover, will no longer be in production. As with most things in the production world, not all projects get to see the light of day, regrettably "Mass Masseur" is one of them.

For those of you who've enjoyed this month's Google Drive access to Graveyard Greg's draft script of, "Mass Masseur",please do check out Graveyard Greg's other works on his Patreon page, featuring his latest web comic project, "With Friends Like These".

In lieu of the above developments, the newly revised reward tiers have been condensed to something more comprehensive:

BASIC ACCESS - $1

After a month of frantically running around, I've finally settled down at my new studio location. It's been nearly a week since I've began my residence here, and have been relatively busy playing catching with everything that was supposed to be cleared the previous month, from outstanding commissions to managing my Patreon project and other things. I'll share more about my personal adventures in a journal post on my FurAffinity page eventually, but for now, let's talk about updates!

Recent Poll Results

In an ongoing effort to provide for better rewards, we conducted 2 quick surveys over the first week of September to gain some better understanding. As of this writing, here are the figures:

What rewards would you find attractive on the Meatier Showers Patreon?

(67 Responses)

43% - Art Tutorial

25% - ArtRaffles

32% - Art Requests

Following up on the popularity of art tutorials, we went further to ask for specifics:What sort of art tutorials would you like to see from (Meatier Showers Patreon) if you could choose?(93 Responses)

67% - How to Draw Muscles

9% - How to Draw Dongs

18% - (How to Draw) My Furry Characters

6% - (How to Draw) Famous Furry Characters

It's apparent that there's a demand for anatomy guides, and I would assume given the context of Meatier Showers, how to pull off believable hyper buff dudes. I think that art tutorials are a viable, new offering for my project supporters, and I believe these walkthroughs will help make for a more meaning experience overall.

Implementation

Due to the nature of art tutorials, some planning and preparation is required, and I cannot roll these rewards as of yet (especially since I'm currently backlogged with furry commissions). Towards the end of the year, we'll start seeing some changes around the place and see how that serves the community at large.

Rewards Not Punishment

As you know, over the course of this year with the commencement of the new Meatier Showers production cycle, I've been revising my rewards system to better cater to my supporters. This is admittedly be a challenging balance between financial sustainability (for myself, as a creator), and customer satisfaction (for my supporters). For the most part, the current highest tier ($25 per month) has been putting a real strain on my supporters, and over the course of the past several months, we've seen supporters dropping out one after another due to the pressures. While the short term benefits mean that I have been able to pay off for my move, furniture, rent and bills, the long term effects presented are detrimental at best. Ultimately, my goal is to maintain a supportive community and not maintain a "reward" system that is punishing.

Revised Tiers

At the risk of inconveniencing my supporters once more, I would like to ask for your patience and understanding in the above matter. My current proposal for a streamlined reward system is as follows:

$1 - Basic Access (no changes)

• Monthly comic pages
• Monthly newsletter
• Name Credits

$5 - Backstage Access (bumped from $3 tier - now with e-book reward)

• Monthly comic pages
• Monthly newsletter
• Development Talk & Notes
• Digital copy of "Buff Patrol" (by Snares & Donryu)
• Name Credits

$15 - Celebrity Access (combined between $10 and $25 tiers)

• Monthly comic pages
• Monthly newsletter
• Development Talk & Notes
• Access to high resolution files
• Digital copy of "Buff Patrol"(by Snares & Donryu)
  
• Digital copy of "Mass Masseur" (by Modem & Graveyard Greg)
• Name Credits

In addition to the individual support tiers, we hope to implement milestone rewards, something that we've overlooked for a long period of time:

New Milestone Rewards:

• $600 pledged unlocks Muscle Tutorial (Arms)
• $700 pledgedunlocks Muscle Tutorial (Legs)
• $800 pledged greenlights Groover Muscle Growth Comic
• $900 pledgedunlocks Muscle Tutorial (Chest)
• $1000 pledgedunlocks Muscle Tutorial (Back)
• $1200 pledged greenlights Snares Weight Gain Comic

New System Roll-Out

In order to allow patrons to respond to the above proposed rewards system, these changes will only be rolled out in the month of October. This is a good opportunity for those pledging $3 per month, who wanted the e-books but found the original $10 tier unfeasible, to now switch to a more affordable $5 tier (with e-book.) The two highest tiers have been combined to form the new $15 tier, an in-between of the two. Future Google Drive access to high resolution content will be limited to this new tier, and includes the bonus story by Modem and Graveyard Greg.

I know all this is confusing, and if you have any inquires, please feel free to leave them here in this thread. Otherwise, we'll have new inked preview pages from Modem coming in 15 Sept, and more comic pages with dialogue on 30 Sep.

SnaresSep 2016

Hi everyone. In a recent poll asking what would everyone's preferred addition of rewards would be, a majority of 43% have voted for "Art Tutorials" to be included in my Patreon rewards.

In my ongoing efforts to provide a more rewarding and positive Patreon experience for my supporters, please let me know what sort of art tutorials would you like to see available in the future, here:

https://twitter.com/snareslion/status/772440276027584513

Thank you for your time!

Harrow!

I just made a public poll here:
https://twitter.com/snareslion/status/771177819149705217

Please take a few seconds to let me know how I can make supporting the Meatier Showers project more rewarding and I will see if it's within my current means to execute them!

(Comments and suggestions are welcome regarding existing reward tiers down below in this thread.)

Most of you should soon be receiving the end-of-month updates in your Messages Inbox! All patrons with processed accounts will find a URL granting access to the Meatier Showers Google Drive. This month's edition adds another 2 fresh draft pages to the previous comic file. While there are no actual dialogues at the moment, they should start making their way into next month's update once I'm settled into my new studio space.

Limited Internet Connectivity

Speaking of which, September will mark yet another new chapter in my life where my living conditions and lifestyle will drastically change. Aside from abandoning my actual home to seek better opportunities, the new studio space has no internet connections. This means that in order to upload any new content or updates, I'll have to tether my desktop PC to my mobile phone. Fortunately the Patreon iPhone app makes it fairly easy still to do quick updates as well as replying messages.

A Temporary Solution

The interesting challenge presented with the studio space is that it is not a long-term, cure-all solution. While I am glad that I still have a place of refuge to retreat to, so to speak, the studio is only leased to me and my friends for only a year. This means that I've literally bought myself 12 months, after which we'll most likely be asked to leave. If we're lucky, we could possibly extend the rent for another 6 months, but that's provided there aren't any new applicants already queuing for the project studio space. This means that my studio solution is only a transient one, and while I'd like to rejoice for having such a nice space to take shelter in, I'm not exactly out of the woods either.

Disposable Comforts

Taking the above parameter into consideration, most of the decisions I've made between running away from home in July till now have been on the basis that I'll be on the move again in less than a year. This means that a lot of the furniture for the studio will have to go, one way or the other, after the lease expires. This also means that I cannot bring items that will otherwise become a liability along, since most things will either have to be sold, given away or thrown out ultimately. This condition has forced me to shop for the cheapest solutions possible at IKEA. The total cost of all the furniture that I've selected and moved into the space is around US$150 - some of which has been generously sponsored by my friends as birthday presents; some of which will be covered by my Patreon funds.

Sacrifices For Survival

The other relatively big change is that there are no showers at the art studio space. This means that I'll either have to make do with the toilet's bidet, or cross the street where (thankfully) the public pool is. That said, it's cold showers either way, and not something I'm particularly enthusiastic about, but that's one of the many sacrifices I'll have to make in order to get ahead in life.

This new chapter will be a test of my self-sufficiency and resourcefulness. I know that, I could've stayed home in my comfort zone, and simply kick back and work on my comic projects peacefully. I also know that, if I did that, I probably would not be able to push myself further in life, and provide myself the growth opportunities I need to become a better person.

There's no easy way out, and to be quite honest, I've been in a bit of a transitory funk this whole month. It's not a pleasant feeling, but hopefully once I'm settled into my new environment next month, things will start picking up from there.

Taking things in stride.

Snares
Aug 2016

For those of you who've been following, I recently ran away from home in July and was staying at a friend's place in the meanwhile. I have to move out by the end of August, so I've been mostly busy this whole month setting up at a new art studio location. It's shared amongst 6 other friends, although I'll be the only person using it more as a place of residence. The final pieces of furniture from IKEA came in today, some of which had been sponsored by my friends as a birthday gift. Hopefully once my Society 6 wall tapestry arrives, I can show everyone how the place looks.

Hi everyone. Thank you for your patience with me over these trying months as I transition from having run away from home to settling down and adapting to my new environments. Normally when I do my newsletters, I require a very deliberate approach of shifting gears mentally into a more upbeat PR tone. While I'm by no means depressed over matters, and for the most part am a lot happier the way things are on my own, I am admittedly strained both physically and mentally, this month especially. With that said, I'll be speaking in a more subdued tone of voice this month as we go over what's been going so far with the Meatier Showers crew.

Everything's In Overdrive

The best way to describe things recently is that I made every day in July count, clearing commissions, drafting out Meatier Showers pages and practically meeting different people each week to fill them in on my current situation. Various opportunities presented themselves and I'm currently engaged with some friends whom I met in design school on a relatively "kind-of-a-big-deal" project that's expected to take awhile before I can talk details. This project is an extension of what I originally wanted to talk about in my Development Notes on the subject of, "safe spaces". If things work out, I'll actually be giving a talk in person to the public.

My first week of August was spent in Malaysia reconnecting with furry friends and exploring future housing options over there, where the standards of living are a lot more affordable with what I earn from Patreon and the irregular commissions I get. A friend and I have identified a few options and that's something we've left for 2017 to revisit, given that my current studio lease lasts till July 2017.

Ever since I returned from Malaysia, things kinda went from neutral to top gear within the span of a week. For the most part, everyday I'm meeting up with someone and exploring potential business opportunities. By night, I'm back at my friend's place on my computer typing away business proposals and trying to hustle and find some sort of opening to better things.

At this point, I've a bunch of cards which I'm trying to figure out how best to play them, and if possible, make connections in a way that they form a stronger, better hand. For the most part, my brain is fried at the end of each day, and it's mostly from trying to troubleshoot a lot of life and administrative matters.

I've also been systematically shifting into my new studio space. A lot needs to be done before I can actually start living and working from there, such as registering the company name - which I've no prior experience of doing, preparing class schedules and lesson plans so that the venue can pay for itself, dealing with the window situation where we don't have curtains or privacy, figuring out how to get furniture for students and ourselves without busting a budget, setting up wifi under a corporate plan since we're in a commercial district (and can only do so once the company name is registered), as well as figuring out how to get students to attend our life drawing classes.

It's kinda crazy in the sense that, the moment I decided to step out of my comfort zone and leave home, the amount of things that need to be settled have extrapolated - most of which can't be solved instantaneously and require a certain degree of sustained attention.

Project Progress

Personal life aside, I'm working on the sidelines trying to get more collaborative work done under the Meatier Showers banners. Comics are tough work, and not everyone's ready to make those sacrifices. Usually folks just want the instant gratification of rewards in this day and agewithout bleeding and sweating it out. It is an inevitable byproduct of our advancement in technology and affluence of society.

More pages will be released towards end of the month (incidentally which is also my birthday), and you'll start to notice as we go along, more pages will be added retroactively to past updates, eventually with dummy dialogues to give a better sense of what's happening in this new issue. We'll mostly be exploring things like kink, consent and aftercare - things I personally rarely find explored in furry adult comics, and something I would like to touch on in a non-preachy manner.

On a side note, I hope you guys have been watching Steven Universe lately. I really do adore the series and am enjoying the adult themes covered.

SnaresAug 2016

Hey guys. Just wanted to drop in real quick to let everyone know I was back from Malaysia on the 8 Aug. The week in Malaysia went by really fast. Was reconnecting with furry friends and exploring housing options while I was there. While things are politically unsound up north, the standards of living are much more affordable. I was able to survive on just US$100 spread across the week. My studio lease only lasts a year, after that I've no shelter. The plan is that if I can find cheap accommodation in Malaysia, I can stay there for 30 days before having to return to Singapore and refresh the visa. Since returning home things have been a flurry of activity. A friend's birthday, moving my paraphernalia over to the new studio and working on 2 business proposals. I've had another opportunity calling me over to Indonesia in September, but I can't afford to divert more funds to travel at this point given that I have to factor in the studio rent and equipment. I'll be combing the monthly newsletter update with our DLC update that's slated for 15 of the month. Thank you for your support in July and hope to share more progress with you guys. Snares Aug 2016

Hey everyone! Things have been changing quite a fair bit since our initial superhero story announcementhere. It's been harrowing to say the least, amidst running away from home, moving between places and trying to bang out an all new story at the same time over the month of July. Taking cues fromthe results our of reader poll, I've managed to concoct a more lighthearted approach to this next issue, sometimes that's very much preferred given the personal state I'm in.

To say the least, the comic has allowed me to momentarily escape from worries over various things that are out of my control. Just a quick heads up, I'll be heading up north to Malaysia again to reconnect with some furry friends there and for some R&R.

For those of you who have healthy accounts and processed your pledges the last month, you should have received a downloadable link in your Patreon inboxes. Please check your messages from the drop-down menu to enjoy the preview pages of Meatier Showers: Buff Patrol. Let me know what you think by posting your comments to this thread!

July 2016Snares

My friends and I collected the keys to our new art studio today. Went down to inspect the space. Now I just need to get a bed and furniture and hopefully I'll have a place to stay for now. A portion of Patreon funds will now go to paying off the monthly get for this space.

As a precursor to our regularly scheduled end-of-month content update, I just wanted to highlight a few new changes. First up, a warm welcome to all our new supporters. For those of you unfamiliar with how things are run on this project, our content update schedule can now be found on the main page here:https://www.patreon.com/snaresI hope that helps provide some transparency, and a better sense of what to expect each month. So hang around, because we'll have 2 new comic page previews slated for release on 31 July.

As of this writing, about 12 our of 16 pages have been drafted - some of which are undergoing reiterations. It may even expand up to 18 pages depending on how things go. If you're really eager to see what the new pages look like, or way too bored, you can check out the recorded LIVESTREAM SESSIONS I've been doing.

I'll be moving out by the end of this month from my friend's home. I've been lucky enough to secure an art studio, however am not sure if I'm actually allowed to stay there overnight. Things have been in a constant state of flux since my decision to move out. Stay tuned and I'll keep everyone up to date on things. Thank you for supporting this project.

Snares

July 2016

• PS: If you haven't been able to keep up, I've dropped the superhero story angle in favor of more lighthearted entertainment. The newly revised story synopsis is as follows:

MEATIER SHOWERS: "BUFF PATROL"

Inspired by the iconic landscape ofBrighton's Bathing Boxes, Australia, this new issue takes place on the other, quieter side of Buffie Beach.Up to his usual antics, Pridestar has been obsessively stalking his object of desire. Trailing the mountain of mass, Snares, on one of his off-days, Pridestar quickly discovers that there's more than meets the eye to the lifeguard's personal bathing box and "unintentionally" crashes in on one of Snares' "little" secrets. An all-new comicspanning 16-18 pages, "Buff Patrol" continues Meatier Shower's exploration of growth in a fresh direction to the series that's reminiscent of classic Saturday morning cartoons. Expect laughs, pure absurdity andirresponsible amounts of muscle porn!

It's that time of the month again for patrons pledging $3 and above to access behind-the-scenes goodies! This month, we have high resolution files of the rejected superhero premise that was originally slated for this year's Meatier Showers issue 7.For those eligible to the Meatier Shower's Google Drive, you should have received a URL in your Patreon message inbox.

A Hero For Another Day

Despite having thumbnailed all 32 pages and the story outline written, while working on the first 6 pages, I found it incredibly difficult to gain any momentum with comic itself. Panels felt stifled and characters weren't really coming to life. It was a tough month of low productivity during June, and I couldn't understand what the problem was.

Taking a short break from the pages, I started to realize a lot of the issues laid in the introduction of Sun Stripes - Pridestar's ex-boyfriend from his days in superhero college. Sun Stripes was designed as an internally homophobic character who struggled with his own sexual identity, and for that reason had become bitter and cynical despite his glowing reputation as a paragon of justice. He was anything but fun to write, and his dark hateful nature counteracted Pridestar's playful presence in the story. I'd like to think that, this would still be a story that I could work on outside the Meatier Showers universe with its own set of characters. In light of the recent Pulse Orlando tragedy, the conversation of safe spaces only served to reinforce my personal principles that Meatier Showers, while not an actual physical location, should still serve to the LGBT community and furry fandom as a "safe space" where readers can escape to and find solace in. Having Sun Stripes and the conversation of homophobia, while poignant in itself, did not serve the guiding morals of Meatier Showers and its reason of existence. It was a heavy month of mourning, and our battles back on home soil, here in Singapore, reinforced my personal goal of creating and maintaining these safe spaces for those in the furry fandom.

More Updates Soon

Hang around for our next Development Talk & Production Notes update as we discuss and explore the topic of "safe spaces" and how we as content creators, curators and consumers can appreciate them better. Come 31 July, you'll also have first-hand previews of the revised Meatier Showers 7 comic pages, so don't go away! And if you love what you see, do recommend a friend to support this ongoing production! Thank you.

Snares

July 2016

Hi everyone, due to last month's unexpected turn of events and delay, I've issued a downloadable link to the original Kaiju story outtakes not just to top tier subscribers, but also every other tier. I hope this sample of work let's everyone have a better understanding of how much goes into my projects, and how much also gets taken out, salvaged and spliced back in. The creative process is chaotic and unpredictable at best, and for good reason, as having the conducive environment to make mistakes and experiment is crucial in discovering the best possible story paths.Your continued support helps me maintain that financial buffer to work with an ease of mind. Do consider upgrading to the $3 tier if you haven't already, as that grants access to the Google Drive for high res bonus files like this Director's Cut issue.Thank you.

Snares

July 2016

Last month we conducted a short Meatier Showers survey among our Patreon supporters to garner a better idea of what everyone would like to see more of in future projects, and which direction to steer for this year's content. You can see the full results here if you filled out the survey form before:http://goo.gl/forms/nd9nCrabsfBLzEj03

For those of you who can't view the data, here's a quick summary of our findings!

If Meatier Showers is exploring physical growth again, what type of transformation would you like to see?

This query allowed users to choose more than one answer. Naturally, many of you wanted to see more muscle growth! That's a good 80% of all 80 responses, while the other results were mixed around fat growth, macro growth and inflation. Among the mixed responses, interestingly though, was the 35% who opted for inflation. That's actually some close to heart that I've been wanting to do.

15% of all respondents opted "Other" with suggestions such as pec growth, hyper, nipple growth, muscle milk, endowment growth, cum-induced inflation, lactation and... even a rottweiler character!

If you could only pick one, which character would you most like to see growing in a future issue?

Much to my personal surprise, 37.5% of patrons voted for Groover as the character they most wanted to see growing. Most muscle growth comics out there start out with a smaller than average character growing to huge sizes, and I can only imagine the appeal stems from that progressive transformation from thin to thick. Second in place with 25% is Snares! Looks like a good quarter of readers would like to see Snares growing even larger than he already is!

What aspects of growth & transformation stories would you like to see more in a future issue of Meatier Showers?

This question was geared towards getting a better sense of what themes and aspects of growth and transformation readers felt most important.Growth directly induced by consumables such as food, drinks, protein shakes was the most favorable at 71.3%. This was followed by 60% of respondents indicating that physical sensations caused by growth was another key aspect they looked forward to. Tied at 47.5% were reactions both by the protagonist towards his state of growth and the supporting casts' reactions as well towards the protagonist, indicating that character performance was a key area not to be overlooked, as it helps reinforce the notions of sudden, unexpected change (43.8%). Not surprisingly, to top it all off, was the unexpected release of bodily fluids from growth at 42.5%.

Other interesting suggestions include the ripping and straining of clothing due to growth and interactions with the environment, possibly growing out of a building, etc.

Which of the following kinks would you like to see more of between your favorite characters?

When asked about more specific kinks within the context of growth and transformation story, many have shown a strong favor for muscle worship at 71.3%, because, why wouldn't anyone before the presence of a muscle god? A surprising amount of respondents at 57.5% have also shown keen interest for nipple play, which is something that personally pushes my kink buttons as well. This is followed by size difference at 55%, which is a natural result of growth in characters, and a key element in drawing context to how much a character has transformed in relation to what's "normal".

Between anal, oral and pec sex, we saw a healthy mix of responses - possibly because these were very much the bread and butter activities of furry erotica. Trailing not too far behind at 47.5% is male lactation which is again, something that's really up my alley and good to know that supporters are more than happy to receive more content like so. Size difference

Survey Results & Next Update

With the compilation of last month's survey results, I do have a better sense of where I want to go with Meatier Showers issue 7, and the format it should take. Expect more items to be uploaded to the Meatier Showers Google Drive. This month, I'll unveil the reasons why I've recently decided to reject the proposed superhero story and present the draft pages that have been made so far. To access the high resolution content on Google Drive, simply pledge $3 per month for Backstage Access on the 15 of each month.

Ferzu

If you wish to keep in touch with me live, please contact me via the new furry social network platform:https://www.ferzu.com/Member/Details/snares(With theinvitation codeof:3194e9)

Snares

July 2016

Hey guys, just wanted to let you all know that I've set up my rig and currently staying at a friend's place for the month. I'll be moving again next month possibly to a new location. It may make sense now to get a laptop but I have to be very careful with my cash. I know it sounds like a whole lot of PR talk, but I really do mean it when I say, "thank you for your support" every month. Patreon has pretty much become my bread and butter now. I've seen at least 10 patrons drop out the last month. It's an inevitable nature, and it's a humbling reminder that we all gotta earn our keep. There's still a couple of "declined" accounts as Patreon is slowly processing them. Once we're in the clear, I'll start sending out the delayed content for 30 June. Terribly sorry for that as I had to move out of the house sooner than expected. Once again, thank you for your support and making it possible for me to make a living out of doing what I love most.

Hey guys, I know I'm late for last month's 30th June update. I've sort of recently "run away" from home and had a housing situation to contend with. The file content is already on Google Drive. I just need to set up my computer and you guys will be receiving a downloadable link real soon. (Taking refuge at a friend's home for the month).

I'm actually posting this through my phone app for now, my apologies for the delay.
You can read more about what's happening here with my life: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7657492/

Hi everyone. It is LGBT pride month. With recent events happening both at home and abroad, it is more important than ever for the LGBT community to maintain its visibility and have its voices heard in everyday discussions and conversations.While it is understandably not safe in various parts of the world to even identify as LGBT, we must continue to do what we can for our communities in whatever capacity possible. We need to be there for one another, be less judgmental and more understanding towards each other; for when the world turns us away, we only have ourselves to rely on for love and support. Don't hate out of fear. Love yourself first and foremost, and extend that love to others - even to those that may seem not to deserve it.

This month, I've had the opportunity again to participate as my fursona at Pink Dot 2016 in Hong Lim Park, Singapore,for a third year's appearance with the support and company of dear, treasured friends who've become extended family. There has been a growing sentiment within our own community that the event has devolved into nothing more than a "feel good" party, spurring little to no change in terms of the nation's laws and policies. However, every time that notion of apathy surfaces, the community is given a brusque reality check to remind us why we must continue to be vigilant and vocal.Shortly after Pink Dot, various entities, circumstances and individuals have served as stark reminders that the LGBT community cannot afford to conflate silence for security, and that there are still many sources of discrimination and hatred that exist out there (whether we care to acknowledge them or not). Social & human rights movements like Pink Dot need to exist and continue its visibility and dialogue in society. I hope that in light of all the recent events, particularly during this month of Pride, you too would find the courage and unity to support your own communities.

Housekeeping

Starting today, in an effort to streamline housekeeping work and deterring "tourists" from freely accessing Patreon content (without actually paying and messing up stats), I'm rolling out Patreon's newly introduced "Charge Upfront" feature. This roll-out will only affect new patrons supporting this project. No action is required for existing patrons with processed accounts.

Final Installment of Meatier Showers 6

You should all have received a downloadable content link in your message inbox. This URL grants you access for patrons of all tiers to the final episodic release of Meatier Showers 6: Bulge Indulge. Normally the middle of the month DLC Update consists of developers notes and high resolution, behind-the-scenes files.

Supersize Your Meal For Just $3

This month, I've revised the BACKSTAGE ACCESS tier to include access to my Google Drive.For the end of this month alone, a pledge of $3 lets youdownload a special 26-page e-book,"Director's Cut" version of Meatier Showers 6's original "SIDE B" - rejected pages from a kaiju / macro story arc edited for length. (Please kindly consider upgrading to $3 as I'll be placing more unreleased content in the Google Drive each month. I'm pushing for this in part due to the fact that I'm now hiring additional help, on top of which I'm taking up driving lessons and applying for my license which is already setting me back a fair deal...)

The key difference with the higher tier rewards is that those are primarily for securing digital copies of the finished products. $10 (till project completion) gets you the main e-book (when it's finished) and $25 gets you both the main e-book and bonus comic. Essentially speaking, the higher tiers don't get patrons MORE content per month, it promises them that upon project completion, they will receive the digital copies of the products. It also means that patrons who can't afford to pay more, don't necessarily get left out on the main content development.

The underlying principle behind all this is simple: as much as I would like to be able to make a substantial living out of all this, adding absurd layers ofsuperficial rewardsto justify more value (which I've tried before), serve only to become additional obstacles to jump over that distract me from ever completing the main product itself!What I truly hope is for people to support me because they BELIEVE in the characters, the project and what they all stand for.

Snares

June 2016

Thank you for supporting this ongoing project through the month of May! The hard copy version of Meatier Showers 6: Bulge Indulge is now available throughFURPLANET!For Anthrocon 2016 attendees, you can pick up your preorders directly from the FurPlanet table in the Dealer's Den! If you can't attend AC2016, not to worry! Preorders online will also ship out right after the convention! If you haven't already gotten the full digital version, or been waiting for the physical book, you canPREORDER NOW!

$3 BACKSTAGE ACCESS Rewards Revision

To sweeten the deal for "casual" supporters, I'll be opening up the high-res files & Google Drive access to BACKSTAGE patrons as well. Unfortunately, the podcast has proven to be not as practical as I would've hoped - I'm really not that vocal or talkative a person, and the timezone differences make it challenging to bring guests onto the show. Those pledging $10 and above will still have their existing rewards maintained, and will have the bonus Mass Masseur digital comic by Modem as the final digital rewards - exclusive to the top 2 tiers only.

Secret Identities, Capes, & Backstories, OH MY!

After much deliberation and story testing over the month of May, instead of sticking with the original "safe" option, I decided to take on the risk of a high stakes project and go with my instincts instead. Pridestar's superhero backstory arc has been something I've been developing in my mind on and off, over the past 2 years in a slow simmering brew. Looking at its current state, it's got enough content and ingredients in it to stand on its own. I've run the entire story through my mind's theater multiple times, and it's got all the hooks and challenges to keep me engaged for the marathon ahead, of fully realizing another issue. It's not going to be easy, and there's probably going to be a whole slew of new obstacles lying in wait, but we'll deal with those as we get there. Compared to Meatier Showers 6 where I was figuring things out along the way, Meatier Showers 7 has a lot of core elements and path fully laid out already - which is why I've even done up the cover art at this point - something I don't normally do for all my previous titles until the very end.

With his full color debut inMeatier Showers: One More Time(July 2013), I had always intended for him to take over as the new, up and coming protagonist of the series. As a severely flawed and socially inept character, Pridestar provided a lot of material to work with and space to develop.Somewhere around September 2014, possibly even earlier, I'd already started work on Pridestar's origin stories. He was at this point, pitched as a "retired superhero" who had actual superpowers. These powers weren't fully defined yet at this point of development, but it's always been hinted that there's something more than meets the eyes about this character. As I went on completingMeatier Showers: Harder, Buffer, Faster, Stronger(September 2014), I was edging closer to revealing this hidden secret behind Pridestar in the deleted scenes and director's cut version.

For those of you who supported this project since it's early origins, many of you may remember that Meatier Showers 6 was originally 2 separate stories, with Side B being the "kaiju" arc. This was the arc where the story actually touches on Pridestar's powers. While the dialogues were never fully revealed, there is a scene where Pridestar is at Snares' beach home and having a discussion. BACKSTAGE,INSIDER & CELEBRITYpatrons will have access to these pages inhigh resolution in a Google Drive folder on the 15th of this month.(How about giving that $3 tier a go? If you don't like what you see, you can always return to supporting a dollar a month instead!)

TLDR: New Story Synopsis!

"Once a promising student of the Heroic Association of Learned Powers, Pridestar was accused of using his abilities to turn other aspiring superheros gay. Permanently barred from practice, the asiatic lion sought other lines of work. During a routine night performance at a gay club, Pridestar encounters his old flame from the academy - now an outstanding superhero champion of justice - and learns that his ex has been stalking him for some time. Meanwhile, sperm banks have been robbed clean by the mysterious Orgasmutt, whose powers of kink have dominated its city's peacekeepers. The echoes of Pridestar's secret superhero past are creeping back to surface - will he answer them and put his ghosts to rest, or will he leave matters to fate?"

Support now for as low as $3 per month and receive:

Google Drive Access - to high resolution outtakes, rejected scenes from Meatier Showers 6 and Meatier Showers 7 cover art preview! - (15 June)

Meatier Showers 7 draft pages -(30 June)

Snares

June 2016

I've been on the low - quietly preparing content ahead of time and waiting for the right moment to post things up. There have been a couple of new Patron sign-ups lately, interestingly all pledging top tiers which seemed rather suspect - not that I don't welcome such an outpouring of generous support, surely not! But true enough, towards the end of the month,a handful of these sign-ups had upped and leftprior to their accounts being processed and preventing me from hitting my next milestone. I figured I'd just wait for these folk to leave on their own first before I uploaded more "free" content.

So here we are, the big project reveal for 2016 - 2017: Meatier Showers 7 has been undergoing a lot of reviews and risk assessments, and we've finally come to the decision that rather than taking the easy path out of just doing yet another linear sex story... we'd make our own lives difficult and take on a high-risk project with a high probability of failure AND DO JUST THAT INSTEAD cause I'm masochistic like that.

Meatier Showers 7 -"Pridestar"

Updated Synopsis:

Once a promising student of the Heroic Association of Learned Powers, Pridestar was allegedly accused of using his abilities to turn other aspiring superheros gay and permanently barred from practice. During a routine pole-dance performance, Pridestarencounters his old flame from the academy - now an outstanding paragon of justice - and learns that his ex has been stalking him for some time. Meanwhile, Califurnia's sperm banks have been robbed by the mysterious Orgasmutt, whose powers have effortlessly subdued its city's peacekeepers.The ghosts of Pridestar's secret superhero past are beckoning him back into active duty - what is his true powers? And will answer the hero's call?

Find out more next month, as we introduce our trial Meatier Showers Podcastwith guest host, Modem Leolynx! "Why are we taking such a bold change in direction and what were some of the considerations made on taking on this project?"

Snares

May 2016

The FULL COLOR (44-page) physical copy of Meatier Showers 6: Bulge Indulge is now available through FurPlanet and ready for pick-up at Anthrocon 2016! If you are not attending AC2016, don't worry! Preorders online will ship out after the convention!

Patreons eligible for the previous year's top tier physical rewards will be receiving an autographed copy of the above mentioned comic book.

The orders will only be shipped out from Furplanet after AC2016, and most likely arrive in Singapore (where I live) a month after. Subsequently, this will take another month to sign and send out all rewards, so please kindly be patient with the logistical end of all this. Those eligible are listed as follows (with the provision that an existing physical shipping address has been disclosed):

• Al Gonzato
• bcokami
• Dancing Mad
• Jerome
• joshua carrillo
• kaz
• modjo
• Rito Deltaro
• TheBulfPup
• Tida
• WooferWolf
• Zhu

To preorder, click here: https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=857

Need a sampler? Read the FREE ONLINE VERSION HERE

Hey wow!

Thank you very much for supporting the top tier of this project. There really isn't anything much more I can give until the final product is ready, short of me giving my imaginary offspring or being spread thin - which is kinda counter productive to the completion of this project!

So here's a coupon that looks like a condom.This magical condom entitles you to 15% off ALL COMMISSION TYPES for Furious' Art Services.Use it when you need it. Valid till the end of June - please indicate with a valid email address corresponding to the one you use for Patreon for verification - we don't know enough coding to register your patronage here and apply the discount on the other end, so we're pretty low-tech like that.

ACTIVATE ORDER FORM

That took awhile, but if you look around, you'll notice a few new changes have taken place! First of, all future updates from now (on this Patreon project) will feature banners like what you see above. This is a step forward to better differentiate and indicate the various rewards and content tied to their respective tiers. Naturally, those pledging the top tiers will get to see everything else, while those with basic access may barely notice a difference. In any case, this is simply a housekeeping initiative on our part to make content produced on this project more meaningful.

This month, you may have noticed a post titled, "The Emotional Core of StoryTelling". That's a preview of what you will regularly find as a patron pledging $3 and above. Basically these posts are like tutorials on storytelling, or what I'd personally prefer to call "development talk" or "production notes" - something I'll be scheduling for the 15th of each month.

Those pledging $10 and above should be able to see a post titled, "Meatier Showers 6 Outtakes" - which basically comes with a like to some nifty high resolution files.

What a load of mumbo jumbo! Let's sum that all up again for clarity:

• Every 5th of each month

• All Access Tiers - Newsletter

• Every 15th of each month

• Basic Access ($1+) - Downloadble Content (DLC) Updates

• Backstage Access ($3+) - Development Talk & Production Notes

• Insider Access ($10+) - High Resolution Files

• Celebrity Access ($25+) - Discount Coupons

• Every 30th of each month

• All Access Tiers - Work-in-Progress Comic Pages

Snares

May 2016

Hi everyone! Here's the new format that I'll be using to roll out monthly bonus content on Google Drive - more specifically, supporters who've pledged $10 and above will start having access tohigh-resolution files, either sketches, director's cut materials and various other things that don't belong in the final product.

For this month, as an INSIDER & CELEBRITY patrons, we have director's cut scenes from Meatier Showers 6 of pages and illustrations that just didn't make it into the final edit. To check them out, please use the following link:

Meatier Showers 6 Outtakes A - GOOGLE DRIVE ACCESS

Next month, we'll be releasing the original "Side B" Kaiju content that was removed due to overrunning issues, in high resolution.

Probably one of the hardest things (at least for me) when working on a new comic project is finding the emotional core or heart of the story. There's a reason why I don't do straight-out get-down-to-business sex stories, not because it's beneath me or anything arrogant like that, but rather on a personal level, and being an all-round weirdo myself, doesn't really satisfy me. Admittedly even when it comes to sexual encounters, things just don't work out for me if I'm not connected to the other party on a basic level. The experience then feels mechanical, cold and almost pointless. Again, this is just me, and it may do well to satisfy most other folk, which is perfectly fine. As an INTJ, I'm generally hardwired to make life difficult for myself.

The Pride x Snares story for Meatier Showers 7 was originally planned to explore further the moment in between their dinner "date" and the scene where Snares "walks" Pride back to his home island. As I continue to dwell over the specifics of the story, I've decided to move the time frame to later phase where Pride makes a return visit to Buffie Beach instead. It feels good to have that chronological lapse for both parties to reflect, rather than focus on them "riding the wave".

The reason why I haven't committed to any significant amount of drafts or work is because something felt sorely missing in the scenes I've been conjuring. I knew in my mind what I would like to see, or what would've been nice to explore, but these were mostly disjointed scenes that existed in their own bubbles, and had no cohesive qualities to share with each other as a whole story. The challenge then was to find the through-line of the story and have all the parts link along that line. For the most part, I didn't know what I wanted to say, or what I wanted to show apart from the obvious eye candy and muscle porn - which of course, is readily available online elsewhere out there - so then the key question is, what makes Meatier Showers 7 so special, and what makes it worth telling?

Over the past 2-3 weeks, I've been fighting with a rather bad bout of depression.If it's not serious, about a week's worth of binge gaming or anime marathon helps clear my system.Usually depression doesn't occur simply because of one single matter, but when several similar or interlinked matters compound each other to form this unsolvable mess. I start to fall into an apathetic state of being overwhelmed and helpless, and that's when depression kicks in for me. Falling ill over the last week only made things worse.

Rather than being a prisoner of my own emotions, I've coerced myself to spend more time with friends and, even though I have nothing to add to the conversations, have mostly enjoyed listening and making observations. As an INTJ, as weird as it sounds, I'm really terrible when it comes to people and social norms, and generally have very little interest in gossip and relationship talk. It's simply not the sort of conversation that engages my mind - not that those topics are bad or anything, it's just the way I am. Regardless, I've tried my best to keep an open mind and keen ear and listen to the struggles and stories my peers have to share, if simply to gain a better understanding of human nature.

Sleepless In Seattle

All this conversation on dating, finding one's "type" and discussion of ideals has sort of led me back to a fairly recent (mad) crush I had back while I was visiting Seattle for the first time. The guy I met was of a certain renown, and I was fairly curious to learn more about him. There was a genuine passion and fervor in what he did (with this hobbies and interests) and exuded a respectable amount of intellect that I admired. Things started out formally, and I took hint from one of his invitations that, perhaps, our first encounter may present something more than just fancy tea and cookies. By the time I found myself at his place, I learned (a little too late) that he already had a mate (thus the importance of background checks) and that this whole thing was going to be nothing more than just a simple one-night stand. This was also a period in my life where it had been less than a year since I broke up with my ex, and those emotional wounds were relatively fresh - you can see the scabs forming, but still a little moist & squishy around the edges. But this was an opportunity presented before me, at a time where I truly believed that I would never find love again for my mistakes in life, and that as punishment, I would have to face off the rest of my time on my own. The invitation was too strong to resist, and throughout the encounter, I had the clarity of mind and consciously knew that if I consented and accepted this offer, I would be in for a world of pain and heartbreak later - and so I paid for the ride, readied myself and accepted the figurative costs.

The following day, I was skipping across Pike Place Market on a chemical high. Everything felt wonderful - in a time of despair and hopelessness, I was once again, given the permission to love another again and receive love, and the icing of it was to physically experience a wonderful exchange of positive emotions. I was flying across the city of Seattle, exploring on my own and content with the sweet memories. We had taken a selfie together and had breakfast one more time the following day after he toured me around the zoo. And that's when reality crept in.

As much as I loved this person, I knew very well that whatever my feelings were, they were purely a construct of my own desperation and loneliness. I was not ready for a one-night stand, let alone a long-term relationship at that point, and I paid dearly after that. I was so depressed by the 4th day that I hid at my friend's place (where I was crashing at) and broke down. I was supposed to return to Seattle city to meet up another local furry, but had no willpower to even leave the door. I simply cried in the living room where I slept for my trip, scrolling through the photos and savoring the memories.

Lessons Learnt

That was then, and the take-away from this life experience was a very real appreciation for brevity and its value. Those powerful emotions and unspeakable feelings and the conscious price that was paid for. While the original Pride x Snares story was to explore more sexual kinks and perhaps maybe even inflation, I decided to leave that for a later issue when Pride's inner workings have been fully fleshed out and explored. If you can relate to my experience above, you can probably guess the direction of where the next story will go - while it does have some hard-hitting bits of reality, I do hope to end things off on a high note, in the traditional fashion of a Meatier Showers romantic comedy. Life's tough enough as it is for me to rewrite sob stories.

To end of this unexpectedly long post, these are the two songs that I feel strongly encapsulate the emotional core of the story between Pride & Snares in Meatier Showers 7 - that in the brevity of experiences, lies true value.

Red Light -Tiësto

Snares

May 2016

Thank you once again for another month of support. Not only have we been able to set aside a budget for all new hires, but with the funds pledged, I've also been able to continue my Zumba classes - which have proved invaluable to maintaining my health (especially being self-employed and trapped in a room all-week) as well as my driving test which will commence next month.

Housekeeping

Here are some of the things & developments you can look forward to seeing this month, including the third episodic release of Meatier Showers 6 to all patrons pledging $1 and above. Please note that all downloadable content and Google Drive items are only available to processed accounts, so kindly remember to make sure your credit and Paypal accounts are topped up and working!

Possible Podcast

Ever since we announced our new hire, Modem Leolynx, the both of us have been in several talks and discussions on how best to go about this new project, and where we wanted to take it. We've also had a voice chat with each other, and have scheduled one more on May 10 - which we'll record this time and have as a behind-the-scenes content. If this proves interesting to patrons, we may consider expanding the conversations to a proper podcast made exclusive to supporters!

Here Comes A New Challenger!

Modem has expressed keen interest and enthusiasm in the themes and kinks explored in Mass Masseur, the bonus comic for reward tiers $10 and above, so much so that we're getting an extra staff member to help out with the story. At this point, we're still working out the details and such, but you'll probably find out who it is by June! (And we're equally excited to have him on board the project!)

Meatier Showers 7 - A New Format

This year's Patreon project will be a new experiment in format. Looking back at Meatier Showers 6, the full color 32 page (for print) format proved too taxing for an independent producer like myself to attempt on an annual basis. On top of various other personal & strategic reasons, we've decided that the final physical format of Meatier Showers 7 will still consist of 32 full color pages, however half of it will be done by Team Modem, which is the Mass Masseur story featuring Tanz & Groover in more sexy time, as requested from the survey results! The other half, a character exploration piece focused on the interactions between Pride & the mute lifeguard lion, Snares, will be done by me. If this process works out favorably for the year, I will very likely be hiring more guest artists from the fandom to contribute for future issues.

In short, this is all very new for everyone on the team, and we're taking time to figure out each other's methods and process. So please be patient with us!

Snares,

May 2016

Hi everyone, thank you once again for your support and generosity in seeing the first Meatier Showers Patreon project through.

Planning Phase

The above image covers very rough plans for Meatier Showers 7-9. The mid-section illustrates the page breakdown of issue 7, "After Dark", in a similar style and fashion that was employed for issue 6.

The rectangles represent pages, with its corresponding page number on each, while the groupings and separations represent the story "beat" or a scene, like notes on a song sheet. I'm still wrestling with conflicting ideas and in a mental process of exploring what my options are. Naturally, as a result, no comic pages of the new issue will be available yet at this point.

While issue 6 explores muscle growth and briefly touches on the genre of macrofurs, I am personally inclined to explore muscle inflation in issue 7, as well as sex toys and some growth-induced immobility kinks. Trying to fit them all into one story is confusing, so I am working out what needs to be left out for things to flow in a sensible manner.

Issue 8 will be the collective result of the side story collaborations between my team and I. Issue 9 tentatively will touch upon the origins of the Meatier Showers bathhouse and Pridestar's origins.

Honest Talk

Towards the end of issue 6's production over the past 2 months, I had been receiving feedback from individuals who saw this Patreon project as a form of service provision and expect every dollar of their pledge made worthwhile.Even though these have been only a few, statistically negligible instances of complaints,nonethelessI felt it necessary to address the matter as a whole,

While I personally try my best to honor each promised reward and validate each tier's worth, I hope that supporters remember that if you are at anytime unable to support the pledged tier, or unsatisfied with the rewards promised, you can always either:

1) pull out of the project support, or

2) switch to a lower pledge to suit your needs

Rather than being controlled by the fear of losing patrons and pandering to people who may have unrealistic expectations, I have chosen to stand by my principles and strategy and continue working on my projects regardless.

Retrospective

With the passing of April 2016, I've taken much time to reflect on my journey and where I wanted to drive the next Patreon project towards. In retrospect, Meatier Showers 6 was an incredibly tough project with its own unique challenges.

By August 2015, 4 months after the original concept was announced and started on, I had come to realize that not only was the original 2-part story not working, but it had major story issues with the ending and overrunning (the comic hit 46 pages and wasn't close to ending.) It wasn't until after my birthday celebrations when I had returned from my hiatus that I figured out an emergency plan to fix the story. It was a harrowing time and by September I had the story structure completely reworked, with only a few months to spare before Further Confusion 2016 arrived.

I was feeling the immense strain and pressure of the sudden emergency maneuver, but had to see the project through no matter what. Towards the end of November, I had miraculously managed to ink all 32 pages of the reworked story line before burning out completely and taking a nosedive into a state of depression. I knew I wasn't going to make it Further Confusion, and trusted in myself that I'd make a recover after my visit to Tokyo for a much needed emotional & spiritual reboot - which I did, and colored all 32 pages with the aid of Donryu within the month of January. Everything else was hastily put together and by the end of February, the completed product - inked, colored, lettered, edited & properly compiled was delivered and made available for online orders.

Wrapping Up

Patreon basically serves as a platform for creators to receive donations from supporters like yourself, who believe in the project, and wish to see it through - and for creators to connect with patrons through their works and production journey. I believe that was the original spirit of Patreon. To be honest, there's no way I can ever repay the generosity given dollar-for-dollar. The only true artistic promise I can hold myself accountable for is to ensure that the proposed product is realized in some readable state, in a quality and fashion that I can personally be proud of - and share that with the world.

With all that said, hang around for 5 May, where we'll be rolling out our next newsletter with new details on story and production developments. Thank you and hope to be sharing more.

HARROW!

Just wanted to let you all know that I recently had the honor and pleasure of appearing on Panda Pause! It's furry podcast bymickeybamboo. While it not only covers various fandom-related topics, the online series also delves into various aspects of content creation, whether as an artist, writer or musician in the community. As some of you who visit my livestreams might know is that I enjoy tuning in to furry podcasts while I work. What I particularly love about Panda Pause is that not only is itincredibly consistent and timely with its updates and segments, but also the fact thatMickey Bamboo's podcast serves as a platform for the artistic voices of the fandom. Mickey has successfully created an audio archive of all your favorite artists (especially those in thetransformation, muscle and growth genre) and given them an opportunity to share their thoughts and insights.

We talk about my furry past, name origins, life in Singapore as well as werewolf dicks. If you're curious to hear what my dorky voice sounds like,please check out Panda Pause Radio!

PANDA PAUSE INTERVIEW WITH

ON TUMBLR

ON SOUNDCLOUD

ON FURAFFINITY

Find more of Mickey Bamboo's shows on iTunes at

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast.....e/id1073396731

Please support Mickey Bamboo's Patreon HERE:

https://www.patreon.com/pandapause

Harrow!

Thank you everyone for your ongoing support! With your kind generosity, Meatier Showers 6: Bulge Indulge was successfully completed within9 monthssince its project commencement in April 2015. Shortly 2 months after, the physical release has also been sent toFurplanetfor publication and projected for anAnthrocon 2016 launch in Pittsburgh! All this would not have been possible without you fans and supporters! For that,THANK YOU!

New Monthly Newsletter!

In celebration of our first year anniversary on Patreon, we will now be releasing a monthly newsletter on the 5th of each month! This will allow patrons to keep better track of Meatier Showers happenings such as production status, story developments and more! In fact, you're experiencing it firsthand right now!

New Hire - Modem Leolynx!

Please kindly welcome our newest member of the production team, Modem Leolynx! It had been a difficult task going over the recruit applications, considering how skilled everyone is in their unique manner! Modem is a veteran artist in the furry fandom and has been producing commission art at a doggedly consistent rate for the past 16 years! We're really excited to have him on board! The lion-lynx will be working closely with us on bringing a side-story project titled, "Meatier Showers: Mass Masseur" - this 16-page special will be made exclusive to the new $25 reward tier and will eventually make its physical appearance in the form of Meatier Showers' second trade paperback collection (slated for an Anthrocon 2017 release).

New Reward Tiers!

To top off the festivities of our 1-year birthday on Patreon, we've revised our reward tiers into 2 main categories to better suit your subscription lifestyle! Introducing "Online Rewards" & "E-book Rewards"!

"Online Rewards" tiers

are catered towards casual supporters and curious observers! For only $1 or $3, patrons receive the standard monthly comic page updates and progress, and if they follow through to the end of another production phase (9-12 months) they will have their names in the book's credits page!

"E-book Rewards" tiers are tailored towards the true fan and hardcore collector! Not only do you want to see the project's successful completion, but you want to have a piece of the action for keepsake! $10 entitles supports who follow through the end of the production phase (9-12 months) to a digital copy of the completed comic book! This is a proper finished compilation of all the final phase pages collected in a downloadable .PDF file with an exclusive art cover made only Patreon supporters. With the $25 tier, we'll throw in the digital copy of secret special bonus side story that will be produced by our new hire Modem and our team!

New Projects!

Last but not least, it's important to mention what lies ahead for the next 9 to 12 months on the Meatier Showers Patreon page! With issue 6 now complete, we move on to Meatier Showers: After Dark - a 16 page short-story on Pridestar's misadventures at the lifeguard lion's den!

"Between the events of Meatier Showers 6: Bulge Indulge, shortly after Pridestar crashed over at the lifeguard lion's home for dinner, the two felines settle in for the evening. While Pridestar realizes that he can't force a relationship onto others, it doesn't mean that they can't have a bit of fun either. Pridestar lends a helping hand to his host with those hard to reach spots - considering how large the lifeguard lion really is!"

Support our Patreon project and join us as we draft out pages, discuss revisions & work towards another new comic altogether! So stick around, cause our second episodic release (for $1 and above patrons) of Meatier Showers 6: Bulge Indulge will continue 15 April!Once again, thank you for support!!

Snares,

April 2016

NEWSLETTER SUMMARY

• New Reward Tiers for April 2016 - April 2017

  
  

• Online Rewards

  
  

• $1 - BASIC ACCESS
• Basic access tomonthly comic pages
• Basic access tomonthly newsletter
• Name appearance in comic book credits page




• $3 - BACKSTAGE ACCESS
• Basic access tomonthly comic pages
• Basic access tomonthly newsletter
• Backstage access tostory developments & updates
• Backstage access tobehind-the-scenes production materials
• Name appearance in comic book credits page

• E-Book Rewards

• $10 - INSIDER ACCESS
• Basic access tomonthly comic pages
• Basic access tomonthly newsletter
• Backstage access tostory developments & updates
• Backstage access tobehind-the-scenes production materials
  
• Insider access tohigh resolution filesthrough Google Drive
• Digital copy of Meatier Showers 7: After Dark(16 pages & cover art)
• Name appearance in comic book credits page
  




• $25 - CELEBRITY ACCESS
• Basic access tomonthly comic pages
• Basic access tomonthly newsletter
• Backstage access tostory developments & updates
• Backstage access tobehind-the-scenes production materials
  
• Insider access tohigh resolution filesthrough Google Drive
• Digital copy of Meatier Showers 7: After Dark(16 pages & cover)
• Digital copy of Meatier Showers: Mass Masseur(16 pages & cover)
• Name appearance in comic book credits page







• 2 New Ongoing Projects (Production phase of 9-12 months):




• Meatier Showers: "After Dark"
• Meatier Showers: "Mass Masseur"

• Monthly Patreon Content Roll-Out Schedule




• Every 5th of each month - Monthly Newsletter
• Every 15th of each month - Downloadble Content (DLC) Updates
• Every 30th of each month - Monthly Comic Pages (Project developments)

Hey guys, here's a sneak peek at how the cover art will look like for the physical copy. I'm now in the process of finalizing the artwork, and doing a few minor additions for the physical version. Hang around next month for the second episodic release of Meatier Showers 6 and read it in full color. Thanks again for making all this possible. <3

Snares

Hi guys, just wanted to keep you all in the loop of things. We're currently entering a phase of transition so there's a bit of logistical upheaval going on here and there (might wanna put on that hard hat.) If you look at the project front page, you'll notice that the Meatier Showers cast has been added, as well as a project preview of what's to come - Meatier Showers: After Dark.

We'll also been introducing our new hire hopefully by April, who'll be on board the Meatier Showers side project, "Mass Masseur".

Do check out the updated rewards list as I've currently revised the tiers back to 3 formats, now ranging from the basic $1, to backstage access $3 and a $10 V.I.P access. You don't have to commit now, especially since nothing much yet has been revealed. But do hang around for the rest of the episodic releases of Meatier Showers: Bulge Indulge and I'll have more reasons for you to upgrade your reward tiers down the line!

Snares

With the completion of (and soon to be publicly released) Meatier Showers, I am now looking for collaborators and assistants in the production of future Meatier Shower projects. Currently available position:

Comic Artist

Work will be paid on a professional contract basis. Payment is negotiable. Production is expected to last 3-6 months pending commencement period.

For the position(s) listed you must:
- Have adequate drawing and inking skills.
- Be familiar with the series' content & characters, and comfortable illustrating them in sexual situations.
- Be able to work independently.
- Be able to communicate clearly and promptly on production progress
- Have a flexible work schedule.
- Ready to commit at least 3 months to the project.

If you are keen on taking up this project, please send your portfolio to snareswoof[at]gmail.com with the subject title: Application - Comic Artist and a short write up on why you're applying for the position.

Hi everyone!

All processed accounts should be receiving a downloadable link to the first EPISODIC release of Meatier Showers 6. From now till June, a new collectible episode will be made available each month as a basic $1 reward for supporters. There will be a total of four episodes.

With regards to upcoming projects, more will be revealed once I'm back home on the 16 March. Thank you for your support!

Snares

Hi everyone, I'm currently in Malaysia now (for 3 weeks) visiting my fur family and doing mostly social things. I haven't exactly fled the country with all my savings and I just want to take this opportunity to give everyone a preview of what's planned ahead now that Meatier Showers 6 is completed.

Starting March 2016, the $5 and $15 reward tiers will no longer be available with the completion of Meatier Showers 6. I will be scaling down project production size on my Patreon to smaller scale projects, like short comics ranging 16-18 pages instead. As such, I will not be able to provide for rewards of grandeur, short of offering my future offspring, which, I have no intention of ever having.

The nature of this new project will be revealed once I return home on 16 March. That said, the reward tiers will be altered to better reflect the scale of this project - with $1 and $3 tier options. New patrons are strongly advised not to pledge towards the $5 and $15 as you will not be receiving the associated rewards beyond 5 Feb 2016. Existing patrons are also advised to revise their pledges in view of this new development.

Those currently pledging towards the $1 basic access will all begin receiving the episodic releases of Meatier Showers 6 starting 5 Mar.

More news and updates to come in March, so hang around and thanks for supporting!

Snares

Harrow!

By now, those of you who've pledged $5 and above with processed accounts prior to 5 Feb 2016 should have received a direct download link to the FULL VERSION of Meatier Showers 6. You'll also have received a separate message linking to a survey form. If you qualify for the digital rewards and have not received any download link please kindly post HERE.

Please also kindly report any product-related errors and downloading issues

you may experience and I will try my best to resolve the problems. Thank you.

Hi everyone!

As we near our product launch, I wish to share with everyone what to expect towards the end of this month.

First of all, due to the nature of Patreon's end-of-month billing system and user interface limitations, I deeply regret to inform supporters, in particular, those who have recently switched their pledges to higher tiersafter 5 Feb 2016will only receive rewards based on theirprevious tier subscription.

An example:

A user pledging $1 for the previous 5 months (totalling a sum of $5) and switching to a higher tier this product launch month, will only receive the $1 rewards based on their support history.

In addition, users who have recently joined after 5 Feb 2016 will not be listed under the credits page.However, do note that new supporters will still receive the respective product format (based on their pledge) after 5 Mar 2016 once accounts have been properly processed.

I apologize for any inconveniences caused in the above matter, and would recommend that you reconsider your options before the next billing transaction.

• Patreon Supporters pledging $1 who continue to support the project over the subsequent 4 months, will receive the final full color version comic in separate, EPISODIC parts. This will be carried out over a course of 4 months from March 2016 - June 2016. Each part will consist of 8 pages, and collecting all 4 parts will complete the full volume of Meatier Showers issue 6. This EPISODIC VERSION

  is for $1 supporters, and will not feature any cover art.

• Patreon Supporters pledging $5 and above will receive the FULL VERSION of the Patreon release of Meatier Showers 6, comprising of 32 full color pages in a single .pdf file, with the Patreon cover art variant, a name dedication page, and each supporter's name listed in the credits page*.

(*Supporters who have contributed between 5 May 2015 till 5 Feb 2016 will have their names listed in the credits page of all release versions.)

Lastly, as alternatives to curious readers outside of Patreon, we have 2 options available after the Patreon early insider access. Meatier Showers 6 will be available for preorder online. This PUBLIC RELEASE VERSION is priced at $25. It consists of all 32 full color pages, Patreon cover art (tagged with bright red border and slightly altered for differentiation). This alternative preorder method is only available between March 2016 - May 2016, after which, all online sales will cease. Customers who purchased through preorder will still be able to download the comic over a time frame of 12 months. Customers who wish to purchase beyond this time frame will have to do so through Furplanet or BadDogBooks.

The second alternative to new readers and non-Patreon supporters is the FREE VERSION which will take the form of bi-weekly updates on FurAffinity

starting with 6 full-color free-sampling page releases, and all subsequent updates in black & white.

This free version will only be available after phyiscal copies (published through Furplanet) have been sold at Anthrocon 2016 and shipped to $15 supporters.

TLDR SUMMARY:

• EPISODIC VERSION

  ($1 Patreon subscription from Mar 2016 - Jun 2016)
  

  Full color comic, digital copies in 4 seperate monthly parts. No cover art.

• PUBLIC RELEASE VERSION

  ($25, preorder from Mar 2016 - May 2016, one-time payment end of May 2016, direct downloadable for 12 months)
  

  Full color comic, digital copy, limited-time sales, Patreon cover art (altered).

• FULL VERSION

  ($5 - $15 Patreon supporters from May 2015 - Jan 2016)
  

  Full color comic, digital copy, personalized dedication page, name in credits, Patreon cover art (original)

• FURPLANET VERSION

  (Price TBA, projected launch during Anthrocon, 30 Jun 2016)
  

  Full color comic, physical copy, Furplanet cover art variant.

• FREE VERISION

  (Free on http://www.furaffinity.net/user/furious/)
  

  Black and white comic pages with only 6 full-color sampler, released bi-weekly online only after physical sales.

I hope this helps clarify everyone's expectations and concerns. If you have any queries, please post them here and I will try to respond after production phase is completed. Thank you.

It's been a harrowing month to say the least! We're now entering the final phases of production, with less than 10 days to get everything in order from writing dialogues to coloring and exclusive Patreon cover art. Please enjoy this preview page while we work hard to complete the product!

If you haven't followed us on Facebook, please remember to like!

https://www.facebook.com/meatier/

From the Meatier Showers crew, have yourself a wonderful weekend and remember to keep loving no matter what!

Harrow!

By now, all paid and processed accounts should have received a link to a downloadable file showcasing the color process involved for Meatier Showers 6. As of this writing, while there are still some minor amendments to be made, I'm happy to announce that 50% of all Meatier Showers 6 pages have been fully colored. Of the other 16 pages, 10 of which have already been flatted out and toned by Donryu, which I'll be going over this coming week to add in backgrounds, make color adjustments and work in the final lighting layer. With your enduring support and generous contributions, I've been able to hire Donryu again this month to settle the remaining 6 pages.

Based on optimistic estimates, I should be able to complete the coloring phase by Valentine's Day, 14 Feb and have the pages locked down. The last 2 harrowing weeks of February will be spent working on the cover art, ensuring that every supporter is properly credited in the credits page, adding in and editing dialogues as well as lettering. I hope to achieve all of this by 25 Feb, as I will be heading up north to Malaysia again end of the month to visit the fur family for Zootopia's premiere.

There's really not much room left for error or complacency. Every month more that goes into this comic production, does so at the cost of my ability to take in commissions and my financial reserves. That said, thank you very much for supporting me through this project. It's been a long journey, especially for those of you who've followed me since April 2015, you'll have seen how much the project has evolved to its current final phases. I hope that you'll continue to remain patient and faithful that this project will complete, and once that does happen, I certainly hope you guys enjoy the finished product!

Hey everyone, thanks for supporting me through the year of 2015. It's helped keep me going on top of what I saved up from commissions earlier. I'm pretty much running low on reserves at this point, so it's imperative for me to get this project out ASAP! Here's a sneak peak at the page progress in color!

For just $1 each month, you can gain access to all archived content, as well as future comic page updates! Check out the list of rewards for the higher tiers and consider keeping a digital copy of the final product, with Patreon-exclusive cover art!

Hey everyone, just dropping in real quick to let you guys know that we're currently in our COLOR & LIGHTING PHASE. This means we're working hard to make all those black and white inked pages you saw look OH-SO-PRETTY. If you can't wait to see what's been going on, do follow me on Twitter (@snareslion), and you'll get notifications of when I'm doing my comic page live streams! TECHNOLOGY!

My current goal is to complete 10 colored pages by the end of this month. Every dollar goes a long way in keeping me afloat during this risky production phase, so thank you very much for supporting me through 2015, and hopefully till book launch in March! If you know any friends who love muscle growth and like what you see so far, do let them know that this project is still ongoing!

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you guys know that I recently returned from my 10-day vacation in Japan. Had a really good time at JMoF (Japan Meeting of Furries) and am spending this weekend mostly to unpack, reorganize and decompress from my experiences. Starting next week, I will be gradually shifting back into production mode, starting with page colors and trying out new methods and styles. I should hopefully be ready to show some samples by 31 Jan.

I also wish to share some upcoming future plans on how my Patreon project will evolve. As some of you may have read in my earlier updates, my goal is to complete Meatier Showers (issue 6) by Feb / Mar 2016, and roll out the rewards and digital distribution systematically. Folks who have been

once I can iron things out with my publisher.

With that, Happy New Year and thank you for your continued support!

Hi everyone, just wanted to write in before the year ends. It's pretty incredible isn't it? Another year gone just like that. I started this Patreon project somewhere in April shortly after I quit my retail job to focus my efforts on creating content, and I surely could not have lasted this long with your generosity and kindness. I just wanted to let you all know that it means a lot to me, having the ease of mind to continue working on projects that really matter to my heart, and being able to share them with you in the process.

5 - 14 Jan 2016, I will be spending my vacation in Tokyo. This will be my 5th visit to Japan, and I haven't visited Tokyo since 2013, the year after I broke up from my previous mess of a relationship. I think that it's time for me to revisit this place and rediscover Tokyo through fresh eyes, and enjoy all the wonderful sights and sounds it always has to offer. During my stay, I'll also be attending

to meet up with old acquaintances (who got me into fursuiting the first place) and (hopefully) making new ones as well.

As you may have read in my previous updates, I'm so creatively drained at this point that I can't produce work anymore, not without it looking completely half-assed and unsatisfactory. I do sincerely hope that this trip will rekindle my fire and passion, and that it gives me inspiration for new projects as well. My eyes actually haven't been doing particularly well from staring at the computer too long, so hopefully the week away will also help provide the rest it needs.

Come March, I'll also be heading up north to Malaysia to visit the fur family and join them for the highly anticipated animated movie, Zootopia. It's looking up to be an exciting new year ahead. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and wishing everyone out there a happy new year!

Cheers!

Furious

Good news everyone! The Meatier Showers Store is now online! Wanna get a furry gift for a friend but don't know what? Looking for something subtly subversive and sexy? Swing by the store and check out what we've got!

https://society6.com/snares

Hey everyone, if you account has been processed for last month's pledges, you should have received a direct download link in your message inbox. Clicking on it will allow you to receive the first half of inked comic pages. The following update will be available end of January, so if you'd like a quick preview of the other pages, it's only $1 for now and if you like what you see, do spread the word! Every bit helps fend of those merciless phone bills and whatnot.

I will be taking my official break at the start of January and be gone for about 2 weeks, after which I'll be back (and hopefully) creatively recharged to tackle the rest of the color work that's left. Things will be a little quiet here till then, so if you'd like to keep up with what's happening on my end, do follow me on Twitter: @snareslion

Till then, stay safe and happy holidays!

For this month's Insider Access, here's an early preview of how the Patreon-only, digital cover variant will look like. Those of you who've pledged $5 and above will be receiving the digital copy of Meatier Showers featuring this exclusive cover art. As this is still a work-in-progress, some details are still missing. With my previous titles, I would normally do the cover art last, however, this time with issue 6, I hope to try out some new techniques and experiment with the results. If the color treatment works to my liking, I'll most likely apply it to key scenes in the book itself. In a way, the cover art serves as a "safe" testing ground for me before I commit to a mass production phase.

The next cover art I'll be working on features Tanz x Groover for the physical, hard copy version, made available through FurPlanet. Customers purchasing from FurPlanet & BadDogBooks will only have access to the Tanz x Groover variant.

Hey everyone, thank you again for your support the previous month. You should be able to pledge sums through Paypal right now. Just a heads up, the next comic release will be on the 26 Dec, Boxing Day! And will consist of the first half of inked pages for Meatier Showers 6.

Don's been working on the color flats for the first half so far. As for myself, I'll be taking the month off to recharge. The inking phase took quite a bit out of me and I need to remove myself from the project awhile. Here is a summary of how the project will be rolled out over the following year:

• Meatier Showers 6 (Digital Cover A) - will feature a Patreon-exclusive cover art (Pridestar x Snares) only for those pledging $5 and above. Completion by late January 2016. Rollout by mid February 2016.
  
  
• Meatier Showers 6 (Physical Cover B) - will be published through FurPlanet and launched during Anthrocon 2016. The physical hard copy will feature a cover art variant (Tanz & Groover). Those pledging $15 will receive the physical book hopefully before the AC2016 launch as I'll have to ship the books from my publisher to Singapore, then subsequently ship them individually to my patrons.
  
  
• Meatier Showers 6 (Free-to-Read, No Cover) - the web version will be made available on my FurAffinity gallery in black and white (grayscale), through slower, carefully timed weekly releases leading up to AC2016. Fans of the series who want the full color version can only acquire it through FurPlanet or BadDogBooks. This will be rolled out in conjunction with the Meatier Showers online store that's currently in development. You can actually purchase mobile phone skins, cases and art prints now.
  
  

As with all previous Patreon-only releases, comic page updates will be distributed through a custom downloadable link to all processed, functioning accounts only. Please kindly ensure that you've topped up your accounts for the previous month to receive the update! Hopefully with the upcoming Patreon UI improvements, I won't have to keep bringing this up every month!

Thank you again for your patience and support.

Hey everyone!

Thanks again for another month of support and kindness. A downloadable link has been forwarded to all processed accounts, so if you're viewing this through YiffParty or an "@trbvm.com" account, you'll most likely only be seeing these little update posts.

Come December, I will be phasing out the pencil draft phase of the comic page preview and begin rolling out the inked version instead. As of this writing, 29 out of 32 pages have been fully inked. It's still too soon to celebrate, as I still have to color and go over the 32 pages another round (with Donryu helping out). I am pacing myself with a daily quota of one completed page per day. This may not seem like a whole lot to everyone, and it's probably true. The past weeks have been emotionally grueling for me as I struggle to push myself to churn out pages, despite feeling creatively burned out. And I've been using all manner of motivators to get myself going no matter what. I'm accountable for this project, and to everyone's support, and I do very much want to have a completed product by January 2016.

I'm stressed, I'm tired, but I'm pushing day by day, one page at a time, eyes on the prize. Come this weekend, 26 - 30 November, I will be taking a short hiatus once I finish inking the remaining 3 pages. Hopefully once December arrives, I'll be fully recharged from the break, and ready to finish up the rest of the race.

If you enjoyed this months' comic page updates, share it with a friend and let them know this Patreon project exists, and recommend them to check it out. Every dollar helps. Leave your comments here or just contact me through Twitter (@snareslion) Thank you and see you next month!

Furious

Hey guys, just wanted to give everyone a quick update and heads up. As of this writing, 50% of the comic pages have been fully inked. I've also delegated the inked pages to Donryu who will assist me in coloring and toning them, so that I don't have to worry too much about the first half. Next week, I will resume production with page inking and try my best to push through the remaining 50%. My goal is to have everything inked by the end of November, hopefully with some space to breath in between. It's been a truly taxing process, thank you everyone for supporting me and backing this project.

The next batch of comic page updates is slated for the 21 November. As usual, I will do some housekeeping before releasing the pages. A link will be attached to a private message sent to all my active supporters, while I will also be removing erroneous, inactive accounts.

In the mean time, I will continue to upload selected inked pages of interest to let you guys know how things are progressing. Once again, thank you for your patience and support, be seeing you around!

Remember the first Insider Access showcase of what the original comic was like? I've since expanded on several of the past ideas. This is the latest page 15 that was inked yesterday. I could've just jumped into a muscle growth comic years ago if I really wanted to, but I wanted folks to remember these guys and relate with them one way or the other. So yeah, it's taken awhile to get here, but I hope you guys enjoy the progress so far!

(This is a free sampler post, if you like what you see, please pledge a small amount to support this project! For as little as a dollar a month, you'll receive comic page updates and progress previews!)

Everyone wants to be loved and Pridestar is no exception, especially by a large hunk of lion mass. 50% of comic pages should be fully inked hopefully by this weekend. Thanks for supporting this project and hope to see you around for the 3rd quarter of page updates in November!

Hey everyone, just a quick update! I've sent out private messages with the download link attached, to all processed accounts which grants access to this month's comic page release! I've been relatively occupied now that I've manage to integrate my backlogged furry art commissions to the production schedule. I'll assign 2 days for commissions and 4 days for Meatier Showers ink phase, with a day's rest and toggle between whatever requires my attention. As of this writing, 25% (8 out of 32 pages) have been fully inked. I'll most likely overrun into November, which is slightly worrying, which means I'll have to step up the pace this week.

Hang around, as I'll upload new inked pages as they come about. Thank you!

Furious

Hi guys, I know you're all waiting for the comic page updates. I've been admittedly slow with that this month, especially since I've channeled my focus to inking pages. Just to let you know, things are still churning out. Production pace is not as fast as I'd like it to be, as the pages are relatively challenging to clean up. Here's a new page anyway, which took about 3-4 hours.

Just a little snippet on how the ink phase is progressing. Pages in this issue are a lot more compressed (in terms of pacing) compared to previous issues, and each page with about 3-4 panels takes about 1-2 hours, while 5 or more ones can go up to 3-4 hours to ink properly. Multiply that by 32 pages and you can imagine how much labor goes into a book, not counting the color and lettering phases.

Pencil phase is basically where you get to make all the mistakes that need to be made, and there's a lot of exploration and discovery going on. Inking phase is a completely different experience, in that you have to fix all those visual mistakes, clean everything up and make it all look better. This is pretty much where it becomes a marathon and a test of endurance.

So here's a quick shout-out to all my supporters, thank you for funding this project and keeping it afloat while I try my best to get these pages out!

Hi everyone, just wanted to thank you all for supporting me through the month of September. As there has been a larger volume of declined transactions for September, I am currently still about over a $100+ short of the pledged amount and handling the declined transactions individually. Once all accounts have been properly sorted out, I will then release the next batch of updates on the 10 Oct.

This month, I will commence the ink phase. My goal is to produce 2 inked pages in a day, and I expect the comic to be fully inked within a total of 2-3 weeks. This process should span through the month of October.

I may do a recorded session of my ink process, circumstances permitting, for this month's "Insider Access".

Thanks again for your kind support,

Furious

Harrow~

Just popping in for a quick update. I'm still in Malaysia right now, and will be home by the 1 Oct. As usual, once all transactions have been processed for the month of September, I'll be sending out the next batch of updates to everyone's inbox. This will include the pages from the last update, so you'll have a better sense of pacing and whatever's going on, even without dialogues.

So stick around, and hopefully once I'm back home, I'll be streaming again.

Furious

Hey everyone!

As always, a private message has been sent out to all supporters with processed transactions and healthy accounts! Check out your inbox for this month's comic pages! If you're wondering why there aren't any dialogues in them, that's because we're changing the way things are being updated starting this month!

For more information on what the story changes may be, check out this post:https://www.patreon.com/posts/3314836

Furious

Hi everyone, thank you once again for your support the past month. As promised, we'll be having a new update today, however the comic release will be postponed towards the end of month as I am still knee-deep in applying the new story revisions across all 32 pages.

Here's a sneak preview of the new cover art for Meatier Showers issue 6, slated for a Further Confusion 2016 launch in 14-18 January. Those of you who have already looked through the contents of SIDE A will find this image familiar. It is actually based on the same panel where Pridestar first introduces his new "boyfriend" to Tanz and Groover.

The challenge of creating a comic book cover art is that you're in essence trying to summarize (in my case) 32 pages of content all onto one single page, and at the same time design it in a manner that is attractive and marketable - something that would draw returning fans and first-time readers to pick the book up at conventions and sample through.

The reason for going with this design was primarily because the previous 2 books were stories written as part of a larger story arc focusing on Pridestar as a protagonist. The 3 books "One More Time", "Harder, Buffer, Faster, Stronger" and the currently work-in-progress issue 6 aka, "Battle Of The Bulge" will be combined together as a full trade paperback collection that chronicles Pridestar's misadventures in love.

As of this writing, I'm down to the last two pages of Meatier Showers 6 and figuring out how best to end of the comic based on the new amendments. After further experimentation and brainstorming, I've managed to include some original muscle & size growth scenes from SIDE B as well.

With the next update, a fresh new .pdf file will be sent directly to all processed accounts containing the new introduction scene. In fact, the pages have already been produced, just that they aren't lettered yet. It is incredibly challenging for me to switch to my "writer mode" while rushing against time to bust out the last pages while in "artist mode", so the delay largely rests on the fact that I do need to take a conscious effort in switching between the two mental states.

That's all for now, thanks again for supporting this project and hope you like how the new cover is looking!

Furious

After a painfully boring 1-hour video presentation of our initial plans, we (marketing, creative and management) have decided it would be in our best interests to scrap SIDE B as the final product, seeing how structurally unsound its story elements are.

In response to the ever-depleting time resources, we feel that SIDE A is able to better stand on its own as a core story. However, as of now, SIDE A is only a humble short story of 18 pages. In order for SIDE A to be sales-worthy, it needs to be at least within a range of 28-32 pages of content for that "sweet spot", otherwise the book is going to turn out more like a flimsy brochure no one wants to buy. To tackle this predicament, creative has spent the entire afternoon banging their heads to arrive at a feasible solution, without disrupting the integrity of the core story that is SIDE A. Creative has not only managed to expand upon the existing SIDE A prototype, but with measured dialogue tweaks, we are able to reuse existing content from SIDE B as well, which helps save on production time.

Based on the illustration above, as of this point, 14 pages will be added to SIDE A to expand it into a complete, stand-alone story that will be the body of Meatier Showers issue 6. Of the 14 add-on pages, 8 pages have been selected from SIDE B and strategically inserted into SIDE A, sandwiching the core story between 2 cushy buns, while another 6 pages are all-new content tailor-made to tie in these additional SIDE B elements so that everything works together as a whole. Basically creative tells management that what we're looking at is a substantial, tasty looking meat-filled burger that will please consumers.

Marketing (us) have our work cut out to, in that all that the initial Kaiju vs Macrofur campaign will have to cease and desist. All efforts now in PR and marketing are geared towards reestablishing the original "muscle growth" brand image that is in line with our "Meatier Showers" core brand of lighthearted muscle porn entertainment.

HR is currently maintaining talks with the Donryu and will be engaging his art services with laying out the flat colors once production is able to send out completed inked work. For now, production is scrambling to get these 6 new pages of content out by the second week of September, (hopefully) on time for the next Patreon update.

That's all for now.

Meatier Showers PR Guy
Furious

Hi everyone. Just a quick warning about this month's insider that it's an hour long video recording of me rambling in a completely unenthusiastic, monotone voice. The reason why it's in this format is because there are many things I needed to show in order to make sense, and I needed to articulate a few matters so I could hear for myself whether they were going to work or not. This really isn't so much a presentation piece than it is a sad little exercise for myself to figure out how best to deal with the slew of story issues I'm currently facing.

I only recommend watching the video if you're curious as to how messed up and convoluted my mind is (and how often I go, "UM"...), or you're having difficulties sleeping at night and need something to knock you out fast. Otherwise you're probably going to waste an entire hour of your time on this one. (You've been warned.)

Most of the extensive story and comic format changes are covered in detail in this video upload, and you'll probably see why I'm stressed and not spending a whole lot of time on social media these days, if any of what I've recorded actually makes sense. (I face-palmed a couple of times when I realized how insanely confusing the story elements actually are...)

Production schedule:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bPEFIlvc-StluQJWtP3GNpkq1rk6bakBhGYFklNBOHc/edit?usp=sharing

Video download link:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7816493/Meatier%20Showers/Holy%20Shit%20WTF-20150906-002939_446.mp4

Feel free to pop your comments on this post.

Hey everyone, I'm back from my 2-week hiatus and been home for about 5 days now. Recently formatted my computer to clean up the system a little, and now Livestream Procaster won't work for some reason, which means I couldn't get my video presentation up as I had intended to.

Some major changes will take place over this month, which I will explain once I can do a proper recording. As usual, only paid-for accounts will receive the download link to new content, and all inactive accounts will be cleared out by 5 September. The next batch of comic pages will be released directly to processed accounts on the 12 September.

Hi everyone, I'm still away on my hiatus and will be returning home 31 Aug. Updates for this month has already been sent to all processed Patreon accounts during the first week of the month. To receive Septermber's updates, please kindly ensure that your PayPal accounts have been topped up and that your credit card details are accurate and ready for transaction. Take note that monthly comic releases are sent directly to processed accounts and not uploaded on site.

There will be no Insider Access this month, however I will make up for it with something different this coming Septermber. Catch up soon.

Hi everyone, and thank you to those of you who've supported last month! A message has been sent to all processed accounts for July and you'll be able to download the new Meatier Showers 6 SIDE B from the link.

As we embark on a new chapter, SIDE A will no longer be archived in the same .pdf file. Patrons will still be able to revisit SIDE A during its inking phase. Patrons who have pledged $5 and above will receive SIDE A & B as a complete .pdf file when the final product is finished.

SIDE B marks a different story approach to the Meatier Showers series. I've taken several creative risks in its telling - some things may work; somethings may not. It's all part of the drafting process. As patrons of this project, you have the opportunity to act as beta readers with the early access preview. Please feel free to leave your comments and thoughts here as SIDE B progresses. Dialogues are not set in stone, and pages are still subject to change if need arises.

Thank you and hope you enjoy this month's update.

Hi everyone, thanks for supporting me for another month of this project. There have been 9 declined accounts this month which will be placed under review. I will release the next comic update to all good standing processed accounts this coming weekend. If you are unable to resolve the declined status, do not worry. Your subscription will be deactivated by 10 Aug, and you can always join back with a supporting fee of your choice to receive the next update (upon a successful transaction.) Due to the technical limitations of Patreon, this is a practice to reflect an accurate state of funding, and to maintain healthy accounts. I apologize for any inconveniences caused.

Hey everyone, just wanted to drop a quick message here. Most of the Patreon transactions should be completed after the 5 August and I'll probably start releasing updates to all accounts in good standing that weekend. Do check if your Paypal account has been topped up, and that your credit account details are correct and active, because I only send content directly to healthy accounts.

Short Hiatus

I'll be away from the 15-31 August, visiting my fur family in Kuala Lumpur, so I'm going to get most of this month's content released before I head off on my trip. It's a much needed getaway, and the calm before the storm. Once September kicks in, production hell's gonna break loose as I'll only have 5 months to ink, color, letter and edit 42 pages worth of content (as of now) before Further Confusion 2016. This would've been a more feasible target had the book only been say 28-32 pages, and now I'm pretty much trying to out do my own record there in a very tight time frame. No pressure.

Digital Reward

I'll also start explaining what the digital reward of a "personalized copy" of Meatier Showers 6 means with the upcoming update. It'll give you all a better idea of what it entails, and why it's gonna be a little special for everyone. It means a lot to me that you guys believe in the work I do, and that you're supporting me through Patreon. It's tough as it is being knee deep in production and running on my financial reserves, so every dollar channeling to this project really helps take the burden of daily necessities like paying for meals, monthly utility, internet and mobile bills and with whatever remaining going towards my "Hire-A-Donryu" colorist fund. So yeah... Thank you everyone for sticking around and really helping me keep this going.

Next week, a 6 page draft release of SIDE B macrofur growth story!

Hi everyone, I hope this message finds you well. Just wanted to keep everyone afloat with the latest project growth and developments. As of this writing, 36 out of the projected 42 pages have been penciled out. This means there are only 6 more pages to go based on initial plans. However, with the complexities of SIDE B story in play, the comic pages are becoming increasingly dense in terms of both content and detail, and there is a likelihood that additional pages may be added to adjust the pacing of the story. This is slightly disconcerting as every single page added could drastically alter the production schedule. As much as possible, I'm hoping to keep the final page count to a maximum of 46 pages.

Attached is a scene that I have been recently working on this week. It gives you a rough idea of how densely packed each page of SIDE B has become due to the narrative and developments of story. In this Insider update, I've detailed my process of working with comic page layouts, how to maximize space and what to look out for.

If you find this tutorial useful, please kindly let your friends know about this Patreon project or link them here:https://twitter.com/snareslion/status/617072280502317056

(3 page .PDF attached to this post, please download to view or use this alternative link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7816493/Meatier%20Showers/Meatier%20Showers%20201507%20Insider.pdf)

These are some environment sketches for the upcoming Side B story. I've selected this design for Snares' home primarily for it's improvised, slap-together appearance. Snares lives on the other side of Buffie Beach away from the tourist crowd, within accessible proximity of the lighthouse. Working as lifeguard doesn't really afford him luxurious beach houses, in fact, part of his existing home is the lifeguard office. Over the years, he's added extensions onto the core building to meet his personal needs, turning the place into a home office.

A new updated release of Meatier Showers 6 has been sent out to all processed accounts (72 out of 73 supporters) from last month! Check your inboxes or emails for the offsite link and feel free to leave your comments here on what you think of SIDE A so far!

With this update, SIDE A story draws to an unusual close. Towards the end of July, expect another release of Meatier Showers Insider for previews and developments on SIDE B. Coming in August, find out how the two stories link up into one massive issue of growth! Thank you again for your support!

Previous titles now available from BadDogBooks.com:
https://baddogbooks.com/?s=meatier+showers&post_type=product

Hi everyone, just wanted to keep you guys in the loop of developments with Meatier Showers. There's always a huge risk for consumers backing crowdfunded projects, especially one that has an indefinite production timeline. While other Patreon accounts run on the business model of providing long-running, regular entertainment services, Meatier Showers Buffhaus, at its heart, is all about realizing a product that ultimately everyone can hold in their hands. Therefore, in this instance, having the project run indefinitely is highly counter-productive to my own goals and achievements.

This post is to share with all my existing patrons, newcomers and potential supporters what things are going to be like down the road. From the get-go, Meatier Showers 6 is slated for a Further Confusion 2016 release, and the physical version will be made available through my publisher, Furplanet. To that end, I'm looking at a relatively tight schedule with little room for error. Over the course of 2 weeks, my goal is to complete the pencil drafts for SIDE B story. When this is accomplished, that will mean all 42 pages of Meatier Showers 6 will be ready for inking. At this point, it is imperative for me to finish inking at least 18 pages before mid-August as I will be travelling to visit my extended fur family up north. During this production "down-time" on my part, I have Donryu, author of Rat Pack and a good colleague of mine, working on color flats for the first 18 inked pages (SIDE A). This means that even though I'm away, there will still be a certain measure of automation.

Upon return, SIDE B ink phase will resume during the last week of August (which happens to be my birthday week), and this will stretch over to September until all remaining 24 pages are completely inked. After which I would most likely be spent, so I've not slated anything else beyond that. Ideally, Meatier Showers 6 production should wrap up by December 2015, and hopefully with enough travel funds saved, I will get to see you all at Further Confusion 2016.

I hope this gives everyone a clearer picture of what's scheduled for the project. If you have any questions please feel free to leave them under the comments here.

Hi everyone! I hope this newsletter finds you well. Just a quick update on things to come. As of this writing, we're actually at 28 out of the planned 42 pages for Meatier Showers 6. This means that 1/3 of "SIDE B" special story has already been penciled, but not ready for public viewing yet (as I'm still moving back and forth between pages with various amendments.) By the middle of July, we'll get to see the remaining pages of the muscle growth story. This marks the end of "SIDE A" where we transition to macrofur and kaiju of Meatier Showers 6.

As most of you have received from Patreon, a community update on funds transfer by now, there had been various issues pertaining to the transaction of supporter accounts. This is an issue on Patreon's end. With their speedy team of engineers, most of the technical problems have been solved and funds are currently being processed. However, at the time of this post, 63 out of 73 supporter accounts have been processed, while the rest declined. I would like to take this opportunity once again to request accounts with erroneous transactions to check if their PayPal accounts are refilled, and credit information accurate. If the unhealthy accounts are not resolved prior to my next update, I'm afraid I will have to remove said accounts. If you wish to continue supporting this project, you may opt in again at any time, but at the risk of missing out on the off-site updates.

Thank you for believing in this project and for supporting me during this production phase where I have absolutely no other source of revenue coming in. Comics require a fair amount of attention and effort, and this commitment requires that I sacrifice stable pay (art commissions) over production (financial attrition). Your funds have not only allowed me to purchase hardware (a much needed 1TB portable Western Digital HDD), pay for my monthly dance classes but also allow me to channel some savings to my future hire.

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances and fraudulent accounts, the initial milestones I had achieved were all reset. Moreover, due to the revision of reward tiers, I've chosen higher quality, delivery-assured updates at the expanse of a higher payroll. I do hope that, if you absolutely love what you've read and experienced, please help spread the word by sharing and retweeting this post:

RETWEET THIS MESSAGE!

Thank you once again,

Furious

Originally this was slated for this month's art tutorial feature. As mentioned in a previous post, the very act of doing all these fancy schmancy bonus things actually detract me and my efforts from producing the main product itself. Since then I've decided against adding more overhead labor than necessary. Secondly and more importantly, despite the revisions, this cover art was really a poor misrepresentation of what Meatier Showers 6 is at its core. There is NO shower scene to begin with, and having these trio together in a cubicle had absolutely no relation to the 2 stories AT ALL.

I've decided that it would be a better choice to do the cover art at the very end when I can better sum up the overall experience visually, once everything is in place and properly produced. For now, here's some Director's Cut for you guys.

Storytelling in general is the organic and chaotic process of attempting to create an emotional effect through the selectively piecing of story elements in a meaningful structure. SIDE B is so very different from SIDE A in that, while it explores the themes of physical growth, is actually at its heart a kaiju-macrofur action romantic comedy that transcends space-time. I know that's a lot to take in, but stay with me here. What you see in above is the outline I have for SIDE B. It's admittedly ambitious and takes a lot of creative risks. The desire of which is akin to combining sea-salt and caramel for that sweet and savory effect in storytelling, when Meatier Showers 6 is read as a whole - an exploration of size growth of in 2 different flavors, carried by a core love story that will hopefully, move you the same way it has for me.

Hi everyone, all patrons whose accounts are in good standing, should by now, have received an external download link to this month's comic update. Do let me know what you think here.

Reward Revisions

This being only my third month working on the Patreon platform, I've taken the time to review my business model and approach. The higher $25 reward tier had proven to be the least popular of all, while the highest $50 reward tier proved to be far too impractical (and high risk for patrons) to subscribe to. Not only that, it had started to attract a slew of fraudulent accounts and content theft which has been something for the most part, that's unavoidable given Patreon's jarring UI limitations. Moreover, the $25 and $50 rewards were beginning to prove to be unwieldy in the larger scheme of things and counter productive for me, in that the rewards detracted my efforts from producing the actual product and instead spreading my efforts thin to produce other unrelated superficial fluff.

After much deliberation, I've decided to review and streamline my reward tiers at the expense of a lower monthly passive income, in favor of working within a framework that is more manageable long term (less layers of overhead labor that detract from actual product completion) while channeling my resources to enhancing the quality of existing reward tiers. Refunds have already been rolled out to affected patrons (who have provided their Paypal addresses) and also notified to review their choice of subscription.

There are now only 3 comprehensive reward tiers:

• BASIC ACCESS - $1 per month

(For patrons who only need to read the comic online and want to support its production.)

• DIGITAL REWARD - $5 per month

(For patrons who want basic access with a personalized e-book dedicated to them at project completion.)

• DIGITAL & PHYSICAL REWARDS - $15 per month

(For patrons who seeking a "collector's edition" experience, complete with e-book and an autographed hard copy, shipped personally.)

That said, I am currently knee-deep in production mode working on "Side B" of Meatier Showers 6 already. This means that all my efforts are channeled towards ensuring that a high quality product is made instead of expanding too much excess energy on PR and hopping around being a marketing monkey (for now). I've also revised my milestones to better reflect my goals and aspirations, so do take a look at them (especially since the fraudulent accounts had tripped off my second milestone alert to everyone and I've since had to reset the thing...)

Lastly, I'll like to let everyone in on some behind-the-scenes planning I've got installed for Side B. More details on that in a separate post.

Furious.

Hi everyone. Please kindly check your emails that is linked to your Patreon account for this month's Insider Special downloadable link. Until Patreon can offer its creators better security options and improved UI features, the best counter-measure I can employ for now is to locate alldigital reward items to off-site to minimize content theft and justify the generous support you've provided. Comic pages will still be made available on site as a single .PDF format and updated monthly. As much as possible, I will strive not to inconvenience true supporters in an effort to mitigate only a small percentage of fraudulent, unhealthy accounts.

TLDR:

Off-site (time-limited) items:

• Insider Specials
• Digital Rewards

On-site items:

• Comic project

Thank you for supporting my Patreon project, Meatier Showers Buffhaus.

Hello and thank you for supporting Meatier Showers Buffhaus for the month of May. As of this posting, 46 out of 69 transactions have been successfully processed. 3 out of 5 of the $50 pledges have declined transactions. (That's a $150 discrepancy on the front page counter.) I would like to take this moment to remind supporters to kindly ensure that their credit card information are accurate and PayPal accounts properly topped up by the 5th of each month. Erroneous pledges paint a false picture on the project's front page and sends wrong information to supporters that certain milestones are met, even though it is inaccurate.

Should you wish to continue receiving content from this Patreon project, please enable your payment methods soon. After the 5th of each month, I will maintain all healthy accounts and remove all declined transactions. Patrons who wish to renew their support may opt to do so by pledging a new sum again. If the Patreon system is exploited I will have no choice but to highlight the cases in question to the admins.

This was originally the comic cover for issue 5 (book 3), but due to time and resource limitations, I had opted for something else practical. For just $1, you will not only have basic access to the comic draft itself, but I will be uploading bonus material, production art and for the month of June, a step-by-step art tutorial and guide on how I go about preparing my work for a comic cover, inking, coloring and delve into aesthetic issues like composition and layout.

June will present some interesting new challenges. Originally SIDE A story was going to be 18 pages long, however having penned out a couple of draft pages, I soon realized that the pacing was off. The story ended abruptly and too conveniently, while there was no real payoff, leaving more to be desired. One of the important things about having Patreon support is that it gives me the financial security and safety of making these creative mistakes, and providing room for me to access the situation and maneuver. Next month, I will be adding 6 more pages to the original 18 to adjust pacing and story issues, meaning the page count for SIDE A will hit a total of 24 pages of glorious muscle porn. Moreover, I'm already in the midst of working on production art for SIDE B story, more of which I will talk about when the time comes.

I'll be able to start paying for coloring help by August when all the draft pages are ready (and I've just the perfect person for the job.) This gives me extra breathing space and I can focus on a swankier looking cover as well. If you believe in this project just as much as I do, please continue to support me, and if you haven't, it's only a dollar each month. If you're just following, do spread the word and let a friend know.
Once again, thanks for hanging around, believing in this project and supporting my passion. Things are slowly starting to fall in place, page by page, bit by bit. I am humbled.

Hello hello, this is just a quick notice for Patrons pledging $50 and above. Firstly, thank you very much for your support and interest in this project. I'm still figuring how to best go about the logistics of gathering everyone's characters and allocating which scenes / backgrounds they should appear in. Tentatively, the SIDE A story will be complete by mid June. I will start compiling your fursonas and their visual references early June and systematically illustrating them into the preview pages. These pages will then be uploaded again for all to view the new additions. As a major freelance project has landed on my lap middle of May, I am currently unable to actively oversee the implementation of everyone's characters immediately. I will however, do so when June arrives, and ask for everyone's kind patience and understanding. Thank you again and I hope that helps answers some queries on how the cameo appearance bonus will be implemented.

So let's try something new for the month of May. Being new and all, I've been observing various practices around Patreon and decided to implement my own methods of content delivery. From now on, rather than uploading each individual comic page and spamming your inbox with a barrage of Patreon update notifications, the main comic pages will be all compiled into a SINGLE .PDF file.

*The new scenes are fairly self-explanatory so there is little to no dialogue. I may add more sound FX in the final piece.

What I hope to achieve:
1) More concise and straightforward updates
2) Make it easier for new subscribers to follow the comic (and not be lost)
3) Make it easier for existing readers to enjoy the overall flow of the comic pages

(Let me know how you find this delivery method and if you have any suggestions or comments type them below.)

**For supporters who have pledged $5+, you will all receive a properly compiled digital copy of the comic with full color and finalized dialogues. Those who haven't will only have access to the B/W draft versions, however, the final product will still be made available through print eventually.

Having worked professionally as a storyboard artist for several years, I've been self-taught and trained to approach my work as objectively as possible. There are many moments when working as a storyboard artist that calls for ideas to be scrapped, and hours long work to be thrown out almost mercilessly to make way for better things. Working on comics, for me at least, has always been a chaotic, organic process. I will often times go over draft pages I've done and make numerous phases of iterations. What you see in the final products, printed books, are the results of constant fine-tuning and correction.

Here in this sample, I was troubled by how static Pridestar's new boyfriend is presented. I wanted to capture the emotion of surprise and shock that Tanz and Groover would've felt at this revelation, and wanted readers to experience the same reactions as Tanz and Groover would. I've opted to lower the camera angle to mimic Groover's POV and push the posing further. In the BEFORE image, Snares looks completely disinterested and indifferent with Pride's approach. He's completely spaced out, and it makes one wonder if they're even together, or more so the whole thing being a one-way relationship. By having them share mirroring poses, it also juxtaposes their size difference and provides a stronger sense of impact when Pride first reveals his new companion. The new illustration also breaks out of the panel, creating a "pop-out" 3D effect, a technique that's more commonly used in action comics. Due to the pose change, I've also made some minor adjustments to give Tanz and Groover more headroom for dialogue bubbles.

WAIT. Where's all the pictures? Yeah I'm working on that. I've had to rework the page limits and do some shifting of scenes here and there. Currently Meatier Showers 6 will feature 2 separate stories. The events in this book are canonical, however there is an undetermined time skip from issue 5. SIDE A (if anyone actually uses that term anymore) will feature 18 pages and is the growth comic you've already seen 6 pages of. This means it's already 1/3 through. Given the limited amount of pages I can assign, I have to be extremely economic with my use of panels and pages. While the first 6 pages you've seen features the INTRODUCTION and SETUP OF CONFLICT, the next 4 pages JUXTAPOSES the two rival parties and sets the STAKES OF CONFLICT. It works in a A,B,A,B rhythm. The remaining 8 pages will cover the ACTION SCENE which is the muscle growth content itself and RESOLVES at the end. If all the CAP LOCKED words are turning you on, you should really recommend this Patreon to a friend.

I'll leave SIDE B a mystery to everyone else. If you can make out what's happening, good on you. It's encrypted in shorthand for my own reference and not meant to make a whole lot of sense. But yes, you read it right. KAIJU FIGHT SCENE. WTF IS GOING ON IN THIS ISSUE?!! WHAT THE FUUUUCCCCKKKKK???!!!

As you may or may not be aware, Patreon is still a relatively new platform to me and already I'm noticing its idiosyncrasies and figuring how best to utilize it as a content delivery system. The first and foremost characteristic of Patreon is that it heavily relies on an existing fan-base or following, while barring out strangers and potential patrons. This is the paradox of a platform that provides exclusive content to differing tiers of users. There is high entry bar to curious onlookers and would-be supporters, especially when a preview of the creations tab generally shows mostly locked content if not already a patron. I'm working around this to make content more accessible to appeal to potential patrons and new readers who are unfamiliar with my works. This is a work in progress and will be reviewed overtime.

The other quirk I've noticed about Patreon is that creators have a tendency to engage in a make-or-break dash towards the end of each month to upload content and remind their patrons what they're pledging for. Originally my reward was also to upload comic pages on a weekly basis. In lieu of the unique characteristic of Meatier Showers and the creative process in which I work by, having arbitrary deadlines and a routine schedule does not work in my favor and is counter-productive. I've revised my pledge rewards to better reflect the changes in content delivery. For example, as you've noticed, I uploaded 6 pages at a go. The 6 pages read better as a scene in itself rather than having 1 page uploaded individually each week. It makes more sense to the reader coming in the first time, and is less annoying than having readers dangling on a string wondering what happens next.

Another personal peeve of mine is that the current user interface of Patreon does not support batch uploads. In other words, I cannot display more than a single image at a time, and this is incredibly frustrating especially for comics. Essentially what happened in April was that patrons were spammed by 6 incoming email updates for each of the 6 new pages. I'm currently subscribed to a few creators, and I personally find multiple emails, especially when they come as a sudden wave to be quite distracting.

Taking these key observations into consideration and better understanding the platform, I will constantly review and update my content delivery methods until I find something that is seamless and appealing for readers. For the month of May, I will, instead of uploading each individual page, try disseminating my work in .PDF format instead. I welcome feedback and suggestions on how you, the patron, would prefer comics to be delivered to your mail and if there's anything else I can do to improve your overall experience here.

Thank you for your support and stay buff.

(FILE ATTACHMENT ICON TOP RIGHT!! Don't forget to download the FULL MINI COMIC!)

Hi everyone! I hope this update finds you all well and swell... (Gonna have to work on that opening...) I'm absolutely blown away by the support that has been shown for my new Buffhaus project. It's been less than a month, and I'll already be able to afford taking up my dance lessons again next month, once payment rolls in. I'll uhh... do a video or something as a form of THANK YOU and PLEASE DON'T LAUGH AT ME.

As an introductory offer, this month's INSIDER ACCESS will be made available for FREE to even basic access supporters. But I'm only doing it JUST THIS ONCE. Attached with this post, you'll find a .PDF file. Pledge $5 and above, and this is a sample of what you may find each month, little development tidbits and behind-the-scenes project information!

About 8 years ago, even before Groover and Tanz got their official names, I did a random muscle growth comic for the two. Originally Meatier Showers was just a gym, and Groover worked as a service assistant there, tasked by the "boss" (actually drawn as a Groover clone since I didn't have a design of him back then... in fact, the whole place was run by Groover clones...) to prepare a protein shake for a client, Tanz. Groover realizes that the concoction is short of whey protein, being him, decides to add his own substitution. Groover blushes as Tanz comments on how well-made the shake was. Groover, sensing guilt, later shares his misdeeds with Tanz whom, before he can return any appropriate response, starts to feel funny all over. That's when it all escalates.

For the longest time ever (like, 8 years), I've wanted to work on a muscle growth comic. The interwebs is full of them, and you don't have to look far and wide just to find several dozen on FurAffinity. If I ever wanted to do just a muscle growth comic on its own, I would've done it long ago (like, 8 years). The reality was that I saw a lot more in Tanz and Groover, and really wanted to develop them as characters first before anything else. After 8 years and 5 publications, I think now's a perfectly fine time to explore the more zany, raunchy story arcs I've been saving for. This little mini comic, while not much and incomplete, sets the basis of Meatier Showers issue 6, Battle Of The Bulges. I do hope you folks enjoy it as much as I did doodling the comic.

More developments in May! See you around and thank you for your support!

What's happening in May? Here's a quick preview of the bonus story included in issue 6 of Meatier Showers: Battle Of The Bulges!

I've hesitated for a long time over this, especially seeing that the Patreon scene is saturated with furry artists. I needed to have a clear direction and plan on what to do if I was going to commit to this. There isn't anything much YET. I've only just started on the new Meatier Showers comic TODAY. So by the end of April 2015, we should see more pages and such. I'm still really new to this so we'll see how things run.