At various points before and during the production of the comic, I have to pause and do some sketches to test out character designs, new hair styles, new outfits and more. Below is a collection of development sketches from 2020-2024.
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Moving beyond the Status Updates to make a monthly pin up with the Open Trade Characters. These are pin ups from 2024
To track Stephanie's progress through all her changes, each month of the comic also had a pin up sketch of Stephanie and highlighting what aspect of her most recently changed. These posts were from 2023 I kind of stopped focusing on the Status Updates at this point. Basically, the changes were slowing down and I…
To track Stephanie's progress through all her changes, each month of the comic also had a pin up sketch of Stephanie and highlighting what aspect of her most recently changed. These posts were from 2022 There were special pinups also featuring the loss of Row v Wade, Ren Faire, Halloween, Women's World Cup, X-Mas &…
To track Stephanie's progress through all her changes, each month of the comic also had a pin up sketch of Stephanie and highlighting what aspect of her most recently changed. These posts were from 2021 There were special pinups also featuring the recent release of Resident Evil and the professional volleyball, and New Year's. There…
While Stephanie is visiting South Korea on a bit of vacation, and making a dangerous trade while she is there, Victory and Lexi spend some time together.
Stephanie and Mina take their relationship into a very different place before Stephanie travels to South Korea for a wedding.
Stephanie and Lexi dive deeper into their new social lives with a night out on the town, navigating relationships, and visiting their respective families.
Lexi heads out to the bar and meets someone new. Stephanie finds out that getting her trades back is going to be harder than she expected.
Some help arrives in the form of Victory, a lawyer very familiar with the nanobot technology. Also, the girls update their looks with a day at the salon.
Lexi takes on a big trade and brings Stephanie shopping with her. Stephanie has a bit of a spiral of her own.
Lexi takes on a big trade and brings Stephanie shopping with her. Stephanie has a bit of a spiral of her own.