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.
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.
Ken and Kayla
Winter Gwen
Gifted Gwen
Date Night Gwen
Go Woman's Soccer
Power Gwen
Capt Gwen
Scouting Gwen
Pilgrim Gwen
Fit Gwen
Going for the Likes
Vapid Gwen
Final Gwen
In addition to Gwen, Roseleaf herself posed for some sketches during the run of the comic.
Covid Hits
Dental Work
Birthday
We had a couple Pride months pass by during the run of Con Artist and Gwen took the opportunity to express herself accordingly.
For the Explorer Posts thumbnail, I needed an explorer. So with a pith hat donned, a cursed relic was discovered by our lead explorer. His life will never be the same.
It's time for a new story! We are starting off with some guy playing videos games. People love watching other people play games, right? There are nanobots! Are we in the same setting as Open Trade? Maybe some years later after Steph and Lexi's story? Maybe.