"A Tempest of Laughs"This is probably the greatest amount of time I've ever gone past the end-of-month due date for a monthly reward, but a combination of real life matters which were of higher priority and a personal project or two needing to be finished up led to this having to be pushed back a great deal. That was also why, despite having a story in mind for this piece as I said before, I couldn't get the time to actually write one. This is not the first time this has happened either but I still know what to do to some extent for the writing. It's just that I'll have to take the extra time to make sure that what I produce is as high in quality as possible given my current state of affairs (and for obvious reasons, sourced through ethical means - "time-saving" measures at anyone else's expense are not welcome here). All the same, I hope y'all can look forward to the full story behind Rimuru getting wrecked in five months time!I vacillated between giving this pic a dialogue alt and going without, but in the end I just didn't have the time to think of any suitable dialogue for the three characters featured, at least not on short notice. Chances are that should I choose to make a dialogue alt for this later, it'll be as a supplementary pic to the story proper, since for pics with a story associated with them I'll have the dialogue be taken from the actual fic. I still like the concept of this being akin to a color spread manga page, though. I don't know how soon it'll be before I start making actual tickle comics, but if I do they'll probably have to be commissioned and I'll need to charge extra since they seem to take more time than just a standard pic. I know this one did, at least. God help me if I even consider accepting comic commission requests with multiple pages... *shudder*
11/26/23 ADDENDUM: Finally, after way too long, a dialogue alt has been added (and the PSD file updated accordingly, with a few minor shading fixes as well) and the completed fic posted to go along with this piece! Click or tap the link below if you want to read the full story!
The Story: https://www.deviantart.com/skaeadaimonion/art/A-Tempest-of-Laughs-F-M-M-FF-M-M-FF-MFF-978282752**********The following is included in this reward:
High-resolution artwork
An additional version lacking the Patreon watermark and with a different signature
An additional version with dialogue
A PSD file version with all layers
-Skaea