Someone mentioned to me a few years back it'd be cool to have Ix's dots glow sometime. Damn right, I thought. But there'd have to be a reason; a trigger for them to light up.
So I've been working towards that; towards the situation in which every part of her little body is utterly,
profoundly orgasming in one huge torrent of spine-breaking craziness, towards the moment when her subconscious is entirely opened out and joined to the person she's with. Can't fake that kind of sex, but if you've had it in real life, you'll know what I mean. So to that end I've been slowly moving the plot; isolating Ix from the crew a little since we met her really; there haven't been many intimate sex scenes with just her and the other characters. I've been getting her theoretical subconscious to the point at which the release would be just like real life: epic.
And we're finally there. Difficult to upload pics to this blog without giving away spoilers this late in the comic rendering process, so you can have these lighting tests instead (you know me and lighting tests, it's this fetish I have...). We're at about 120 pages and ready for the dots to start glowing, baby!
Don't check back every five minutes; it'll take at least a fortnight of work to get the comic ready. At least. But we're getting close to that stage :)
Gotta be honest I'm proud of this one, there's more funny bits than normal I think, and ... wait what am I saying there's nonsense in every comic. But this one is more haha than the previous ones. To me, anyway. And it's more ... I dunno, intimate I guess. Just what I was going for, and lovely to have some warmth after the fairly bleak plot environment of comic 18 - Shadows and Dust was really good but necessarily a little dark and cold. This one has just a touch of chiaroscuro, but on the whole it's all about the comfy snuggliness.
And tons and tons of descriptive content so if you're blind and just have someone read it to you it's hot as heck. How accessibility-minded of me! You're welcome.
Publishing note: The blog title Ix Glow Facto was because I was thinking early last year (when I wrote the script for comic 19) that the comic should be called 'Ix Xho Facto', but I thought people probably wouldn't get the 'clever' play on words from the Latin Ipso Facto, nor get the link between the content of the comic and the meaning of the Latin phrase. So I thought bollocks to Latin references, let's have it subtle rather than convoluted. Anyway, there you go. I might have Luce whisper "Ix Xho facto" to Zan instead; I like their conspiratorial stuff, they're a good couple to play with. Just ask Tom. Or Becky. Or ... well, anyone really :D
If you click on the pics below there's higher quality renders. Just sayin :)
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Three thunbs up, if you catch my drift ---
I will do what I always do. I will keep a watchful eye on the site. In between my own works. :)
It seems you are trying to get as many techniques as possible tried out before you finish this series. Really pushing for new wow factor things to catch our eyes and also things like the subtle deformations from previous posts that may only be spotted by the keen eyed fan. I look forward to picking out some of these type of things in renders where pure fantasy takes on hints of reality.
Whoo, more teasers! These test renders look amazing! Looking forward to this comic (probably have to replace the F5 button before then ;D).
Three things:
1. Is my suggestion responsible for all the sex Ix hasn't been having?
2. I very much like what you've done with it
3. Can Ix explain what a Hrung is? She shouldn't be able to (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect_(character)#First_birth_name).
Ix is beautiful, lovely job, especially the first and last renders. Love the Ix Xho facto title but do need to remind myself of its meaning, something like ergo isn't it?
Munkjack
Keen eyed fan is about right; I've never gone after the mainstream :)
1) No - she'd be on that path anyway I think. I just mean she needed the trigger to be there before the glow started, rather than it appearing every 5 minutes when she got horny. After completing comic 3 I always wanted to re-do the storyline between Bex and Tom, only take my time with it, build it up a bit more (rather than "Hey I fancy you bro; let's fuck!", do it more realistically). So the glowing spots thing just fitted with that super slow build-up I've been working on between Ix & Xho since comic 8.
2) Thanks :)
3) HOLY SHITBALLS! I had no idea Ix's name was in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy hahaha! I haven't read that since I was about 13 years old :)
But no, she doesn't know what it means, and though she does have 'boyish' good looks, we're all fairly certain she's a female. Guess we'll have to ask Xho after the next comic maybe? Let's find out... :P
Ipso Facto's more like 'this is the fact', or 'the fact itself' - sort of like saying the deed is done. So Ix Xho Facto / Ipso Facto would mean the Ix-Xho deed is done; that's a fact!
Next comic's not going to be called that after all though, so who knows, anything could happen hah
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