Hush doujinshi
Hush Cover Page
This is the cover page to Hush. Hush will be a short full-color Sess/Kag doujinshi (estimated length is 10-20 pages, probably closer to the latter). Genre is smut/romance/humor and it will contain adult content. Probably not all that adult...there is a sex scene, but frankly, I'm just too embarassed to draw really graphic stuff, but nevertheless, it is for mature audiences only. It's a hot spring scenario. Need I say more?
I know, out of all the cliche overdone plots I could have chosen, why, oh why, did the muse pick that one? Admittedly, I had much better ideas for a doujinshi--big, epic illustrated sagas--but I really don't want to take on that kind of project right now, and this was the only thing I could come up with that was, well...concise. And after I drew Simmer, the idea wouldn't leave me alone. (Possibly the muse is punishing me for not letting me do the one that it wanted. Also, I'll confess that it's really all just buildup for the joke at the end, and we all know my muse's sense of humor...).
Anyway, I'm doing this mostly for the art practice. I'm hoping sequential art will let me experiment a little and make me try some new things. The other reason I'm doing this is because there is not enough Sess/Kag doujinshi out there to satisfy my cravings! There's only the scant handful of (marvelously wonderful) online doujinshi and that one elusive japanese one that no one can get hold of. Seriously, I've scoured ebay, and you can find oodles of Sess/Rin, plenty of Sess/Naraku and Sess/Inuyasha, the occasional Sess/Kagura, and hell, I've even seen Sess/Miroku and Sess/FemaleSess...but no Sess/Kag. It boggles the mind.
This is a deficit that must be corrected.
I actually have the first few pages sketched out, but coloring will be on hold till I wrap up a few other things. (And, y'know, there's that whole grad school *coughindenturedservitudecough* thing eating my time...). Plus I want to get back into writing more. So updates will likely be slow in coming, but I'll try to get a few pages out this summer. And don't expect fabulous art...this is just for pushing personal boundries, not for making something that looks professional.
And on a personal note, my cat is finally home from the vet...thank god. We're so happy he's okay.
It has been a wretched week, starting with memorial day, when while I was at work (yes, I worked on the holiday) my poor baby Mo went downhill fast. Turns out he had a blocked urethra...not uncommon in neutered male cats, though it's surprising in a two-year old...essentially, crystals build up in the urethra until they can't urinate (un-neutered males have acidic urine that dissolve the crystals). This may sound like a funny embarassing medical problem, but it'll kill a cat in 36 hours or less. Their bladders burst, their kidneys burn out, the rest of their body goes into dehydration...it's fairly excruciating.
And of course, the vets were closed on the holiday. ~_~ We found the Tufts Emergency clinic to take him to. And while I am eternally grateful to them--they saved my baby's life, and I will never forget it--I have to say...I really don't like their way of doing things. We took him in at 1pm. He did not get treated until 1am. And they were actually planning to wait until the next morning; they suspected it was blocked urethra, but wanted to see if he couldn't use the litter box. Of course, being terrified of the vets as he is, he wasn't going to try to use the litter box: Duh. So they wanted to keep him overnight, and if he didn't pee by morning they'd assume it was because he couldn't. They told us this plan at 7pm.
We said no. Give us our cat. We took him home, plunked him in the litter box, he strained for awhile and was not successful. Boom: 15 minutes and we had a diagnosis. By this point he couldn't even walk and was obviously in incredible pain. We took him back, they said they'd treat him now that they were sure, and he still didn't get helped until 1am. He was in life-threatening agony for 12 hours. And I understand that, being an emergency clinic, if your pet isn't actively bleeding to death you're last in line, but nevertheless...it was frustrating. And it wasn't even busy there in the afternoon; if they hadn't waited all day to actually talk to us, we could've shot down their plan and had him home and back hours earlier, and maybe he'd have gotten treated before midnight.
And when he was finally released, they gave us prescriptions to treat the urethral damage...but nothing for the pain. He was still howling and hissing in agony, and y'know, they'd had to suture the catheter into his 'kittyhood', which likely smarts quite a bit...for our $2,000 dollars, I'd have liked to see a little more concern for his pain and suffering. Our regular vet gave us a pain-killer on the spot.
But anyway...all that matters is my baby is home again.
This is the cover page to Hush. Hush will be a short full-color Sess/Kag doujinshi (estimated length is 10-20 pages, probably closer to the latter). Genre is smut/romance/humor and it will contain adult content. Probably not all that adult...there is a sex scene, but frankly, I'm just too embarassed to draw really graphic stuff, but nevertheless, it is for mature audiences only. It's a hot spring scenario. Need I say more?
I know, out of all the cliche overdone plots I could have chosen, why, oh why, did the muse pick that one? Admittedly, I had much better ideas for a doujinshi--big, epic illustrated sagas--but I really don't want to take on that kind of project right now, and this was the only thing I could come up with that was, well...concise. And after I drew Simmer, the idea wouldn't leave me alone. (Possibly the muse is punishing me for not letting me do the one that it wanted. Also, I'll confess that it's really all just buildup for the joke at the end, and we all know my muse's sense of humor...).
Anyway, I'm doing this mostly for the art practice. I'm hoping sequential art will let me experiment a little and make me try some new things. The other reason I'm doing this is because there is not enough Sess/Kag doujinshi out there to satisfy my cravings! There's only the scant handful of (marvelously wonderful) online doujinshi and that one elusive japanese one that no one can get hold of. Seriously, I've scoured ebay, and you can find oodles of Sess/Rin, plenty of Sess/Naraku and Sess/Inuyasha, the occasional Sess/Kagura, and hell, I've even seen Sess/Miroku and Sess/FemaleSess...but no Sess/Kag. It boggles the mind.
This is a deficit that must be corrected.
I actually have the first few pages sketched out, but coloring will be on hold till I wrap up a few other things. (And, y'know, there's that whole grad school *coughindenturedservitudecough* thing eating my time...). Plus I want to get back into writing more. So updates will likely be slow in coming, but I'll try to get a few pages out this summer. And don't expect fabulous art...this is just for pushing personal boundries, not for making something that looks professional.
And on a personal note, my cat is finally home from the vet...thank god. We're so happy he's okay.
It has been a wretched week, starting with memorial day, when while I was at work (yes, I worked on the holiday) my poor baby Mo went downhill fast. Turns out he had a blocked urethra...not uncommon in neutered male cats, though it's surprising in a two-year old...essentially, crystals build up in the urethra until they can't urinate (un-neutered males have acidic urine that dissolve the crystals). This may sound like a funny embarassing medical problem, but it'll kill a cat in 36 hours or less. Their bladders burst, their kidneys burn out, the rest of their body goes into dehydration...it's fairly excruciating.
And of course, the vets were closed on the holiday. ~_~ We found the Tufts Emergency clinic to take him to. And while I am eternally grateful to them--they saved my baby's life, and I will never forget it--I have to say...I really don't like their way of doing things. We took him in at 1pm. He did not get treated until 1am. And they were actually planning to wait until the next morning; they suspected it was blocked urethra, but wanted to see if he couldn't use the litter box. Of course, being terrified of the vets as he is, he wasn't going to try to use the litter box: Duh. So they wanted to keep him overnight, and if he didn't pee by morning they'd assume it was because he couldn't. They told us this plan at 7pm.
We said no. Give us our cat. We took him home, plunked him in the litter box, he strained for awhile and was not successful. Boom: 15 minutes and we had a diagnosis. By this point he couldn't even walk and was obviously in incredible pain. We took him back, they said they'd treat him now that they were sure, and he still didn't get helped until 1am. He was in life-threatening agony for 12 hours. And I understand that, being an emergency clinic, if your pet isn't actively bleeding to death you're last in line, but nevertheless...it was frustrating. And it wasn't even busy there in the afternoon; if they hadn't waited all day to actually talk to us, we could've shot down their plan and had him home and back hours earlier, and maybe he'd have gotten treated before midnight.
And when he was finally released, they gave us prescriptions to treat the urethral damage...but nothing for the pain. He was still howling and hissing in agony, and y'know, they'd had to suture the catheter into his 'kittyhood', which likely smarts quite a bit...for our $2,000 dollars, I'd have liked to see a little more concern for his pain and suffering. Our regular vet gave us a pain-killer on the spot.
But anyway...all that matters is my baby is home again.