Status Update 12/31/14 and Happy New Year!

Hey again. I have been working on the character bios for the various characters I have already made as well as a handful of new ones that nobody has seen yet. I hope to get the initial ones finished within the week, and I plan to post previews on Patreon of the newer characters before the set(s) featuring them is/are posted here.

Speaking of Patreon, I have posted a new poll up there for the $5 tier and up. The poll is simple, it asks which of the many things listed do you want to see come together (pun definitely intended) in a mini set. (It may be a full set if a lot of people vote or if I get carried away again.) The top two choices from the poll will be put into a mini set for Patreon. (Obviously at least one of the top two needs to be a female, if not I will use the top choice and whoever the highest voted girl is.) There are a variety of choices on the poll, including all the girls I have made so far, all the monster options from the set seven poll, as well as options for a random female slave, either human or elf. There is also one new monster option: a Cerberus! This poll will be up for the month of January, and may even be used twice if there are a lot of votes. (i.e. one mini set for mid-January with whatever is winning at the time, and another for February with the ending winners.)

This is a far more generous poll than I intend to usually do, as it has basically everything that I have done/offered as an option. So if you want to see some specific combination from that list, this is your chance. You also get to help support my work and get access to the Patreon content for the appropriate tiers that is already up! (Such as the last two sets I made.)

Anyway, keep voting on the polls here on the blog as well and watch for the bio pages being added here within a week. (Hopefully.) Finally, Happy New Year to everyone!

EDIT 1/2/2015: I also posted a new poll on Patreon for the $15 tiers and up giving a choice of heroines for my first attempt at a VN/choose your own adventure game. Most of my girls so far are available as choices, as well as options for a random female elf and a random human girl. If one of the random girl options wins the vote, things can get... darker... as far as story twists/content go. (Since they would [probably] be one-off characters, they don't need to get out of the trouble they get in...unless maybe you really want them to.) As far as the character bios go, I am done with most of the writing, I didn't want to put too much in this early. I would like to get pictures up on the page to go with all the text, but it isn't behaving so far. Hopefully I can sort this out over the weekend.
 

Big poll two discussion, side project discussion, and two new polls up now!

Hi again. So it's time to go over the results of the last two polls, I will start with the side project poll.

This post is huge so I am putting a break here, the discussion is after the break. Before that though, two new polls are up so vote away!

Set seven posted to Patreon!

Hey everyone. I managed to finish the seventh set and I am posting it to Patreon right now. The name of the set is "To catch a Minotaur", for obvious reasons. It is 31 images and features Helenya the succubus and of course, a minotaur. I think this turned out extremely well, as hopefully shown in the preview images below. The set will be exclusive to Patreon for a month or so before it is released free here. If you want to help support my work and get access to it right now, it is available for the $5 tiers and up on my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart. The archive posted there has clean and comic versions of each image in the set.

I am way too tired right now to go over the polls and post new ones, that will have to wait until tomorrow morning. Constructive comments on the previews are welcome.

Here are four preview images:

Set six - "Curioscity and the Catgirl" free release!

Hi everyone. So the seventh set will almost certainly be delayed and therefore not put out today as I had hoped; but because of that I am posting the sixth set publicly today instead of on friday. I also posted the set's title in the post title, they have had names for the last few sets but I kept forgetting to put them here. Below are the four preview images from before, as well as two new preview images on the bottom, not linked to the rest because I just put them up. I think this is a very nice 24 image set with both clean and comic versions, and hopefully you will like it as well. It has Lucia the catgirl, tentacles, double penetration, and some nice cumshots/creampies. Constructive comments/feedback are welcome and very helpful, and if you really like it; check out my Patreon page. (http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart)

I will wait and change the polls/discuss the results on friday, so two more days to vote.

After looking over the seventh set, it looks like I might as well wait and rerender it tonight, if I do it during the day I can't do postwork anyway so it will have to wait until friday assuming it works this time. I still have no idea why that one prop didn't render right last night, but it seems fine now.

EDIT 12/26: Holiday stuff ran over into today, I will see if I can find enough time to finish the postwork on set seven today; hopefully I will. Two images need fixed, after that I should have time to start the postwork, there have been a few new images added from all these rerenders, so this is good.

Here is the download link, the password is still redleatherart
https://mega.co.nz/#!GwMGzDQb!r6TuArXM4IbQ4eSK0GoyttJiKz3_uh0jCqeVPBBNo3U

25k views and Patreon revamp!

Hi everyone. This blog just hit another important milestone; 25k overall pageviews! So I made this image for the occasion; there is a pg 13 version of it on my deviant art page as I mentioned last post. The image features Zayla and Salune posing with some of Zayla's various toys.

In other news I have rewritten much of the Patreon page; and shifted some of the benefits around, as well as changing some basic things. There are now more benefits/goodies available at lower support levels along with custom stuff available at higher support levels. I added a $2 support level which just gets you access to the Patreon feed where I post previews and promo images. There is also the basic $5 tier that gets you early access to my normal image sets as well. (The exclusivity period is currently a month, I may extend this in the future if need be.)

Considering that I now plan to work on animations and games as time allows, those have been added to the content list and are generally available (games get early releases/previews on Patreon, animations get high quality mp4/gif files on Patreon) for the $15 tier along with all the 'bonus" content now. (Early/unused renders and the like; this used to be on the tier above.) The $15 tier and above also get access to the Patreon polls that determine some part of a set each month and even help me decide what to make on occasion, as well as getting the Patreon exclusive "mini" set that I make each month, such as the one I made last week. (It was full size at 24 images with a comic version as well, but that was abnormal.) If you want to see something specific from me, there are tiers that can accommodate that as well. The top two tiers basically allow the patrons to ask for whatever they want for that month; so if there is something specific that you really want to see or have me work on, that is an available option.

Any and all support is appreciated; the more support I get for this project, the better my work will be and the more content I can make. I have two funding goals set, a low one to increase quality and the higher one being that I double the base number of images per set; which would be amazing. Anyway, I hope to get the seventh set done and posted to Patreon this coming week, and the sixth set gets released free at the end of the week as well so keep checking back for those.

EDIT 12/23: Construction on set seven is done, I plan to render it tonight. I think this one is really nice, probably because this is the first public set I have done since I actually got a rendering card, so now I can actually put props/scenery in the scenes. (The Patreon set two weeks ago was the actual first.) I am going to try and get all the writing/postwork done and ready today so that I can just slap it on the images tomorrow when the renders are done. So unless something horrific happens with the renders, I hope to have set seven posted to Patreon tomorrow. Also, I will probably take the votes down when I post the sixth set publicly at the end of this week; so vote now if you haven't already!

EDIT 12/24: So something did happen while rendering the seventh set, it isn't major but I want to redo it and I don't think I am going to have time to redo the images and finish the postwork today. The problem isn't horrific as I thought it might be (that was something else that I actually caught in time) but there is an important prop in over half the scenes that didn't show up right if at all for some reason that I need to figure out. I do not plan to work on this tomorrow because it's a holiday but if I can't finish it all today I will just have to release it on friday. Sorry for the delay again but I want this to be as good as it can be.

Set 7 Preview/Update and new Deviant Art page

Hey. I am working on the seventh set but progress has been slow due to real life factors. I just haven't had large enough breaks of time to do much because of the coming holiday, and this probably won't change until the weekend. This means the seventh set will be pushed back to next week, but this is an intentionally large set for once (the only public one this month) and I have put a lot of work into it already. Below is a low res but high quality preview of the two characters in the seventh set, a minotaur, as voted in the special poll here and a new girl I haven't used yet; Helenya the Demoness. (This is the one that has had a preview of her up on Patreon for a while; the one I said that I really liked.) This particular image may not actually be used in the full set, I just needed to make a preview image that had both characters fully in the frame and facing the camera that didn't give too much away. Long story short, the set is taking longer than I thought (as usual) but I think this will be really nice so I want to give it the time it needs. Constructive comments on the preview are welcome.

In other news I now have a Deviant Art page. It's actually been up for a while but I haven't really used it since almost two weeks ago now. (I made it two months ago to contact some people, but recently decided to use it for promotional reasons.) It has gotten a fair bit of attention so I am going to continue updating it when I can. There is a link to it on the right of the blog, and while much of it's contents are just softcore previews of the full sets available here, there are a few images that you probably haven't seen yet up there. So check that out if you want and watch me on Deviant Art if you have an account there to keep up with any updates I make to that gallery.

On a side note, there was a weird jump in the polls in the last few days; all of the side project votes went to the simulation game, but the ones for the fetish preferences seem more spread out (I think?) so I don't think it was stuffed; but it might have been. Maybe someone got friends to vote for them or maybe I just got a weird surge in votes. Whatever the case, more interest in the polls is good; keep it coming. Special information for those of you that actually read this far down; there will be another update here with a special image posted (not from the seventh set) sometime over the weekend, there may be a hint/preview on my Deviant Art page somewhere. (I think you need an account to see images containing nudity, but it's free.)

Status Update: 12/15/14

Hey. I have started work on the seventh set but yesterday and today have been crazy, so not much has gotten done yet. I am shooting for next weekend, but we will see how that goes. There will be a preview posted here at some point in the next week before the set is done so watch for that.

As an update to the serious story situation, I have finished most of what I needed to do in preparation; I am just waiting to get reality 4 working if at all possible. I wanted to wait to start an actual story arc until I got a decent rendering card and/or reality working. Reality is mostly fixed but is still having some issues, and even if it was working I can't use reality for everything. Reality renders tend to look a lot better but take exponentially more time to make, time that I can't spare for normal sets right now. I have to render everything manually with reality, and it takes hours; so this will be for special images and mini-sets only until the situation changes. (i.e. I get a separate rendering machine and/or enough support to warrant the time/effort.) However the first story arc and initial characters are all set to go, I may just have to go ahead and start it up in January either way, (I was hoping to anyway) but we shall see. If all goes well I may have the character info pages done before the end of the month, but again I was really hoping to get reality working for those.

In other news, I went ahead and looked into making VNs and such over the weekend and it turned out better than expected. Below is a screencap of the tiny test game I made to check that everything worked OK. Obviously this is just a basic test but the execution was successful so this means that VNs, the choose your own adventure style game, and the actual adventure game options could be done at this point. The rpg maker game, dating sim, and simulation game would take a lot more work and research to do well, not to mention time. (I know how to use rpg maker xp but I am not familiar with VX ACE yet, also are few things I don't know about using custom content in rpg maker.)

The VN style things seem more on the level of what I can afford to do both with my time and current skill level with python. (These could be done in a week or two for smallish ones, the harder projects would probably take months of solid work which I can't do right now.) Animations are already in the plans and tested, as I posted last week. All of these things just depend on the time I can spare and the interest of people in them. So keep voting if you want any of these things to happen! More votes = more interest = higher chance of it happening. Comments and follows are always helpful as well. (Follow widgets are under the polls on the right.)

Set five free release!

Hi everyone. It's time for set five to be released free and I hope you all like it. This is a much better representation of what I can do both with the images and the writing compared to the earlier sets. It is 33 images total, featuring Zayla and her new friend Salune the futa elf. The archive comes with both clean and comic versions. I am still very limited by time and hardware/software, but I think this is still pretty good.

I could really use comments on this, it would help me improve faster and do more of what you guys like. I also still could use votes in both polls on the right, as both will help me decide what to work on. Here are two new preview images of set five, (the other four are from the original post) and this time I am posting the comic versions of two images.













Anyway, here is the download link, the password is "redleatherart". If you like my work please spread the word about my work/blog and consider supporting me on Patreon.
https://mega.co.nz/#!j0sEmZKL!szRY3BWGk7pHprbIRoPSmkK32_F3Sl5RFnq7P6QVWgU

Patreon "mini" set four finished!

Hey. I finally finished the new Patreon set, and it ended up being full size and quality. It was supposed to be a few small images, but I made a story for it and ended up liking it enough to go all in. It features Karen and a a homeless beastman who lives near the brothel where she works. The set ended up being 24 images, with a clean and comic version of each. I think this turned out pretty well and I think the story is good and very fitting.

This set will be Patreon only, it will never get released here. So if this appeals to you, (I hope it does) it is available to the $15 Patreon tier and above along with many other benefits. I have posted the set to patreon already along with the high quality mp4 and gif of the test animation that I made earlier with a much smaller watermark.

Here are four preview images of the clean versions of the images in this new Patreon set. I'm out for at least a few days now, this has drained me and I wasn't even planning to do it. Hopefully I can start work on the seventh set sometime later this week. I also have a few specific images that I need to make, I may work on those instead since there are only a handful. Constructive comments are always welcome and please keep voting in the polls on the right of the blog under the Patreon button.

Oh and set five will get released free in a few days, so check back for that.

Second special poll winner and new big poll up!

Hi again. I haven't finished the new Patreon set yet, it ended up being normal sized and will take another day or two to finish the postwork.  I think it turned out well considering that it was supposed to be five or six softcore images, and it will have a little story to go with it. (Which it wasn't supposed to have either.)

In other news, the second special poll is over, and it seems people want to see a minotaur in the seventh set; so I will work that in. Since there were no votes in the Patreon poll, I guess I'll just use the new girl I have ready for this set. (Probably, I might change my mind.) Production on this set should start later this week.

In any case I am posting a new big poll featuring some more fetishes that I could include in my work at some point. This is simply a gauge of interest in these things, it does not guarantee anything will happen but it lets me know what you all like. (I put threesomes on this one because I forgot it last time.) A few things on this poll I don't really care for and one in particular I really dislike. However I am posting this anyway to see how interested all of you are in these things. As before pick a few (3-5 things per person please) of your favorites, and if you really like some fetish that wasn't on either of the big polls, leave a comment saying what it is and why it is awesome and I may include it in future polls.

Animation test preview!

So I got kind of sidetracked while working on the new mini-set. The mini-set features Karen and a beastman creature in an abandoned area of the docks. I decided to try and make this animation, I know its not that great, but I think it's more than fair for a first attempt. (Especially considering the shitstorm I had to go through to get this to work...) Also this is NOT an actual quality render of the animation, this is a preview sample. These take about 2 minutes to render, real ones take over six hours... so yeah. I don't really know what I'm doing yet as far as animations go, but I think this is good enough to show you guys. I am going to try and render an actual quality render tonight; but in the meantime here is a little low quality gif I made. Consider it proof that I can/will do animations/movie clips. (Just in case any of you were wondering if I actually could or would do any/all of that stuff in the side project poll. I wouldn't offer things that I couldn't/wouldn't do.) Also hopefully I can complete the actual mini-set later today. 

Just to establish something: I will put small gif previews of these animations here on the blog, however; once I get actual quality ones made, they will be Patreon only. (I actually make high-ish quality mp4s of these, then convert them to gifs, I plan to host both on Patreon, if I can.)

There are only three days left on the current special/Patreon polls as well, there's still time to turn the special poll around if people vote. It looks like I'll get to pick the winner of the Patreon one.

Anyway here it is, I hope that maybe this will encourage more people to vote in the side project poll.

Constructive comments welcome. 

EDIT 12/5: I put up a preview gif of the real render version. I also shrank the old one and put it on the left. I think it's easy to see the difference. (The drip was already there, you just can't see it with no lighting/shadows. That's why the preview is made so fast, it skips all of that.) I think the real one actually looks pretty good, especially for a first attempt at an animation. Oh and I didn't have time to finish the Patreon set that this came from yesterday, hopefully I can work on that later today/over the weekend. The higher quality versions of this will be posted to Patreon with the set whenever I can finish it. (I keep wanting to make a full set instead of a mini-set, probably will.)

EDIT 12/7: I finished the 'mini-set', it ended up being over ten images and more of a normal set (The plan was for Patreon mini-sets to be solo/softcore sort of stuff.) but whatever, it's done now. I will render it tonight and do the postwork tomorrow. There will also be a comic version of this set because I already wrote it. (Normally Patreon mini-sets aren't this big and don't get comic versions.) It should be ready tomorrow, and I will post the better quality/less watermarked versions of this animation with it.

 

Status Update:12/1/14

Hey again. The polls are going fairly well so far, with plenty of time for things to still change. The special poll is fairly bent towards the first option, but a handful of votes could completely change that. So keep voting and spread the word, anything can still happen.

The side project poll is going along nicely, but still needs input as well. This poll is not a simple win/lose poll; I am gauging the desire for these various types of side projects. Unless something literally gets zero votes, it is at least an idea on the table for future plans. So vote for your favorite(s) and tell your friends; more votes here means a higher likelihood of it happening.

On the other hand, the Patreon poll has no votes yet. This poll asks which of my girls do you want to see star in the seventh set? (4 named girls so far and one new option, preview of her on Patreon.) I will have to choose the winner if nobody signs up/votes, so if you want the seventh set to feature one of my girls specifically, this is your chance; one vote could decide it at this stage. I have also recently redone much of the Patreon page and edited numerous things to reflect my current plans. (Some edits still pending.) Any and all support would help expedite those plans and make my work better.

Oh and new subscribe/follow by email widgets on the right of the blog.

EDIT 12/2: So my new hardware arrived and is installed and working great. I can render in half the time now, which is really nice. I am fiddling around trying to get reality to work right but having issues. I will update this again if/when I can get that going. So apparently Reality 4 has a ton of release issues that don't look to be fixed anytime soon, so that will have to wait. Also I am part way through making a Patreon mini-set (maybe full set, we will see), it should be done in the next few days, so watch for previews of that.

Set six posted to Patreon and new special poll up!

Hey everyone, set six is done and up on Patreon right now! It features 24 images of the newly improved Lucia and a tentacle monster. Four preview images are below, and I think it is my best set so far from an image standpoint. (The story for set five was better, I feel.) Once again the set ended up being what I consider large, (20+ images) but this is probably for the best. There are both clean and comic versions of each image in the file on Patreon, to give you both options. (As always, the set is Patreon only for a month, then released free here.)

As promised, the new special poll is now up on the right under the side project poll. It asks which of the given options would you like to see in the seventh set. I will use whatever option wins the poll so choose carefully and spread the word about the polls! As previously mentioned there is the twin poll to this special one up on Patreon as well, asking what girl you want to see star in the seventh set. All my named girls are available choices as well as a new one that I haven't used yet. (Preview of her is on Patreon also, I think she is really nice. http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart)

If one person signs up for the appropriate tiers, ($5 and up this time, usually $15 and up) they could decide who stars in the seventh set. Obviously more votes/patrons would be preferable, but even one vote will prevent it from going to a random choice. (This is what I will most likely do if nobody signs up/votes.) Patrons of the $5 tiers and up also get access to the fifth and sixth sets right now, as well as other bonuses listed on Patreon.

Any constructive comments/support/votes go a long way in helping me make better images/comics. You can also follow my blog with the follow widget at the bottom right of the blog. As always please spread the word about my work and the special poll which will run until December 8th. I still need votes on the side project poll as well, which I consider more important than the special poll. Currently it seems people prefer the images/comics I currently do over anything else.

 Set six preview images below. (Clean versions.)

EDIT 11/26: Fixed one image in the archive and reuploaded the previews below. I also added two unused renders to the deluxe tier of Patreon.

EDIT 11/27: I just ordered some new hardware thanks to black friday pricing. I will post an update on how this works out next week probably. In other news, I still need votes in both polls. According to the last big poll, people wanted to see monsters more than anything else. I am giving you the option to pick one from the list right now and so far no progress has been made, which seems odd to me. The side project poll is also very important and hasn't gotten many votes. I can do most of those things fairly easily, but some would require me to refresh my python coding. What I try to do depends on what people vote for which so far is just image sets/comics.

EDIT 11/28: Got a few more odds and ends with the various black friday sales; they should help out in future sets. Keep voting in the polls please and spread the word about them. I will probably make a Patreon mini set or something in the meantime.

Set 6 public preview, status update, and a new poll

Hey all.  Nobody is voting on the old polls so I am taking them down and putting up a new one right now and I will post another special poll when set six is done. It seems people think a story is fairly important to an image set, and that either one large set or two small sets is fine.  The new poll asks which of the following ideas most appeals to you. As in the last big poll, you can vote for multiple options but keep it to two or three please. To explain this a bit, I have done most of these things before and/or want to try to do them here if/when I find the time. I will go ahead and say that voting on this is rather important; probably more so than the upcoming special poll, as it will tell me what people are interested in seeing. The new poll is up now; on the right of the blog under the Patreon link, and should be up for a month-ish.

On the other hand, there were no votes whatsoever regarding the implementation of the story in set four, so I just have to assume it was decent. It was basically a test run of implementing a story, so the story itself was very limited and in no way representative of what I can/will be doing. The story in set five however is pretty good and much more representative of what I usually do. (The set itself is better too.)

The comic of set five is a self-contained story, as I am trying to work up to getting a small story arc together. I have the characters made and a story mostly planned, I just need to find time to work on it. (I also wanted to wait until I had poser lighting mostly figured out, which I think I do now.) It is really hard to manage with so little time/assets but I am trying.

I will also post a new special poll whenever the sixth set is finished, so keep checking back for that; it will ask what monster(s) you all want to see in the seventh set and the winner will get put in. This special poll will also have a twin on Patreon, to determine who stars in the seventh set. That means that if one person signs up for the appropriate Patreon tiers and votes, they can decide your fate. (Normally this means the $15 tier and up, but for this first poll I am going to make it available to the $5 tier and up.) If there is a tie and/or nobody signs up/votes on either poll I will decide the outcome(s). (Zayla won the last special poll so she will not get selected by me if nobody votes; she will be on the poll though.) There will also be a special preview of a new girl I made up on Patreon with the special poll, who will be an option on the poll to star in set seven. (I really like her, preview is up on Patreon right now along with the poll.)

Oh and here is the public preview of set six. The set features the newly redone Lucia and a mysterious box. What's in the box you ask? Well it's porn so take a wild guess, I would say that there is a pretty good chance you will get it right. Also the Patreon preview shows the box open if you are deathly curious. (I have since changed a few things though, that was a very early preview.) The set itself if almost done from a construction standpoint and I can hopefully start rendering tonight. So if all goes well (which it never does) it may be ready in the next couple of days.

EDIT 11/24: Set six almost done but I don't think I will have enough time to finish tonight. Hoping for tomorrow.

Set six construction starting soon.

So I have planned through my next set, and will be starting work on it either today or tomorrow. I am going to try hard to keep it small this time as there as already been a large set this month (which is supposed to be my goal for the month). There is a tip as to who and what the set will feature on my Patreon feed. So hopefully next week (almost certainly not this week) or so this next set will be ready, but that is just a very rough estimate.

I have tons of ideas/plans/stories but very limited time to do all these things right now. I have a few sets planned through already, and a bunch of new girls to work through when time allows.

In the meantime, the fifth set is on Patreon for patrons, (some clean previews are below, there is also a story/comic version is included with the clean version in the archive listed on Patreon) and the fourth set was released here a few days ago. There are also three polls on the right of this blog that could use votes, I can't tell what people prefer without comments or votes, so either or both would really help.

EDIT 11/17: I just got a bunch of nice stuff off the DAZ store for 80% off. This should come in handy in the seventh set, as I have finally acquired some decent monster skins.

EDIT 11/19: Set six work in progress, I am aiming for sometime next week to finish it.

Side note, it has been a week since I posted the latest poll and literally nobody has voted on it or any others since then except one vote for the middle poll. I really need some kind of feedback for the fourth set, otherwise I just have to assume it's fine because I have no feedback. The two small sets vs one big set poll is currently on either by two votes and the story importance poll is tied but at fairly important levels. I could use more votes on all of these, I really do use the results for future ideas/sets so it makes a difference. A new poll will be posted next week or whenever I finish the sixth set.

Also, early preview image for set 6 on Patreon, available to all tiers.

Fourth set free release!

Hey everyone. It's two days early but here is the fourth set's free release. I am very interested in comments for this set and the fifth one. I know the "story" for this set is on the light side as far as words/content go, but this was my first attempt at implementing a story. The set was also done at the request of a friend, so the story had to be retrofitted in. It wasn't even supposed to have a story but I wanted to try implementing a story into this one so that I would know better for the next, better story. (I think the fifth set is much, much better from a story standpoint; check the previews below for clean image previews or Patreon for the full set.)

I am also posting a sort of new poll to help get feedback on this set as it is the first set with text implemented. The poll just asks how you feel about the implementation of the story into this set. It is very similar to an old poll about how I should have implemented stories into my sets, but this time there is something to judge your previous choice with. I have already done the fifth set in this style, but we will see what you all think of this first attempt.

Please vote in the polls, they help me a lot and give you all a way to influence my work. Real comments would also be helpful as long as they are constructive.

I am not going to post the entire set to imagevenue this time as it is over 30 images, but here are the four preview images from before. The archive below contains a clean images folder as well as the comic folder.

As always if you like my work please spread the word, or even better; support me on Patreon. Patrons get early access to my sets (the fifth set is up there right now!) and the higher tiers get other stuff as well. Examples include: Patreon exclusive image sets and much more frequent special polls that directly affect some part of an upcoming set. Any support would also help my art get better, faster as it would allow me to get decent hardware to render things with and newer/better software to make better images with. My Patreon is http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart and there is also a button on the right of the blog.

password: redleatherart

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Huge poll discussion and two new polls!

So the big poll is closed now with some interesting results. There were a total of 44 votes this time which is great, so thanks to everyone who voted.

The two things with the most votes were Monsters and Vaginal sex. It makes sense, and I am looking into making better monster characters. Oral sex and anal sex got a fair amount of votes with anal coming in third between the big three (vaginal, oral, anal). I kind of figured this would happen as well, and this is fine. So far I have tried to include oral and vaginal sex in almost every set, as they tend to be the most frequent acts performed. I will try to work in more anal, it just depends on what the story requires/allows.

Lesbian sex, bondage, creampies and swallowing all got comparable amounts of votes too which is great because I like all these things as well. Tentacles and Futanari also got pretty high votes, and I will see about working those in more than I had previously intended. The fifth set I posted earlier has most of these things included already (not sure if futa/girl still counts as lesbian sex, I don't think so?), so there you go if that's what you wanted.

Gangbangs also got a good amount of votes and I would like to do this in some of my image sets, but I just can't right now. I am somehow managing to make decent renders with hardware in no way optimized for it, and I can barely render the scenes I make now on low settings. Three figures per scene seems to be my current limit, assuming there is a decent environment/lighting. (I meant to put threesomes on the big poll but somehow I forgot it.) If I get to the first goal on my Patreon, I can afford at least decent hardware to work with and then perhaps I can actually use more than three figures per scene. So if that is what you want, then you know how to help it happen.

Pregnant sex, prostitution, bukkake, titsex/breast caressing, masturbation/solo play, and orgies all got a fair number of votes for them, and most of these I can try to work in if I haven't already. Orgies have the same problem as gangbangs however, so I will have to wait on that one. Bukkake is also somewhat hard to do with my current software/hardware configuration, but I can look into it.

The things that came in last this time are handjobs/fingering, kissing/foreplay, and couples. I understand why few people voted for these as I asked you to pick your favorites. Kissing and handjobs are generally just part of a general sex sequence and rarely the main event. I will generally include these things anyway, if only one or two images of it. Couples scenes are just something that will be mandated by the story as well as my lack of decent hardware.

In other news, I have posted two new polls. One asks about if you prefer one large set or two smaller sets; as I intend to do one or the other each month at the very least. The other asks about just how important the story is to an image set, if at all. I will have at least one new poll (sort of) when I release the fourth set here in a few days, so vote on these in the meantime. I also did think of a bunch of other things to include on the next big poll, so watch out for that at some point in the future.

EDIT 11/13: I forgot to mention that I fixed a few minor grammar issues with set 5 and re-uploaded it, so it's fine now.

Set five posted to Patreon!

Hey everyone. It's a bit late but I stayed up to finish this tonight. This has been a messy last few days working on this, but that's what happens sometimes. Regardless, I finished the fifth set and posted the link on Patreon; it ended up being a massive 33 images. I want to emphasize that this is way over the 20 that I am for in a large set and is not normal; I just keep going overboard. If you want to see it before a month from now and help me make my images better and faster, check it out. The higher tiers on Patreon will also get to vote on fairly regular Patreon exclusive polls about things that go into my future sets. My Patreon is http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart and there is also a button on the right of the blog. The $5 Patreon tier and above get early access to any sets that I make in addition to other bonuses, check my Patreon page for details.

The set features Zayla as she won the previous special poll and also features Salune, a new character I made a while back. She was made to cater to the futanari crowd out there, which according to the current poll is substantial. Not necessarily my favorite thing, but if people want it, what can you do. Sorry about the delay on this, but if I had decent hardware at home to make this with stuff like that wouldn't happen. (And if it did I could fix it in hours instead of days...)

There is also a substantial chance that I made some minor errors in final construction of the fifth set, as I have been working for hours to get this done tonight and am really tired. I will check again as soon as I can and correct any issues that may be there. I also know I meant to talk about the big poll and post new ones, but that can wait until tomorrow. So I will post again then; in the meantime I hope you all like this new set. I think it came out really well and the the story part is hopefully good too. The story is more serious than the fourth set but still not quite up to the fairly serious level that people seemed to want from a previous poll. Quality is also improving as I get back into writing, and will only get better.

As before, the archive on Patreon features a clean folder and a comic folder. These preview images are from the clean version. Constructive comments are welcome, and as always spread the word about my blog if you like my work.

Fifth set in end phases

Hey all. Just a separate post for the update for today. The fifth set is done from a construction standpoint, just a few camera/lighting tweaks and such left to do today. I will try to render it all tonight, and do all the postwork tomorrow if time allows. If anything gets screwed up it may run into Saturday, but that is still this week so I am still on schedule for a Friday/Saturday Patreon release of the fifth set.

The vote has gone well and produced some interesting results. I will discuss the results in more detail when I post the fifth set. I also think that I will end the vote early as it seems to have run it's course. (Voting has slowed greatly in the past few days.) If something you like has low votes, you have one or two days left to get some more votes in before this early survey is over.

So unless something goes horribly wrong I should have the fifth set posted to Patreon either tomorrow or the day after, so check back then.

EDIT 11/7: So only about a third of the fifth set finished rendering last night, and at least a few most of the images that finished need redone due to lighting issues. The set is massive (30ish images rendering but some may be cut) and there is no way I will make it today, I will see if this can finish rendering before tomorrow, but even if it does I am fairly sure that I will not be able to finish the postwork tomorrow.  This delay just comes down to me not having any decent hardware to do this with at home.

As of now, it looks like Sunday or maybe Monday is when this should be done, if time permits. My original estimate would have correct if these rendered as fast as they usually do and/or if I didn't keep having raytrace problems with lighting. (Or if I made the set small like I planned to, but more is better usually.) Long story short, just stay tuned to see when this gets done; there is nothing I can do to make it go any faster unless I cut the size or quality which I don't want to do.

RE-EDIT: So after some troubleshooting I believe I have found the source of my raytrace issues. (A tree prop I was using.) I removed it and render speed is back to what it should be, at least in my one render test. After fixing the lighting, I am hoping that the set will render completely and properly tonight, but we shall see.

EDIT 11/8: About a third of the set rendered last night again, and some of it is fine, a few need redone again. I will see if these will finish today/tonight but it isn't really up to me how fast this goes. Not sure if I will make Sunday now either, but it just depends on how long this takes and how much I need to fix. This is getting ridiculous. I'm cutting some of the less important render settings to speed this up. I am still aiming for tomorrow or Monday.

RE-EDIT: So four hours in to the new render settings it has already surpassed the old ones at almost nine hours. Things look good to make tomorrow or Monday hopefully. I keep forgetting I have crap resources at home and I can't use good settings until I get something decent.

EDIT 11/9: I am fixing the remaining few lighting issues in the set right now, and will render the remaining images tonight. If I get enough time tomorrow, I should be able to finish the postwork on the set then.

EDIT 11/10: Redoing one image, but the rest are fine. I just don't have time to finish the postwork today. I'm hoping to get it done tomorrow but we will see.

Special poll results and a new HUGE poll is up!

Hey everybody. The special poll is now over with Zayla winning by a landslide so she will co-star in the fifth set. I will begin work on the fifth set this week, and if I have enough time and don't go overboard again, I hope to get it done around the end of the month. (It will probably run into November so don't be surprised.) Whenever people sign up for the appropriate tiers of Patreon, I plan to do votes like this fairly regularly. So if the idea appeals to you and you want to help decide what ends up in my future sets/comics, the middle and high tiers of Patreon will get to do that for most of them in some way. There will still be special polls on this blog on occasion, but they will be fairly rare and not as powerful as Patreon results would be.

The other two polls seemed to have run their course as well so I took them down also, people seem to prefer slutty clothing, with some also liking sexy and minimal clothing as well which is fine. I planned to mix it up a bit anyway, and this is essentially what I had planned so that works out great. The story one seemed split between a large story arc and many small arcs, with a large arc getting one more vote. This is for a bit father down the road for me, but it is good to know that people would like to see medium/large story arcs as opposed to many tiny ones. (I wanted to do medium/large arcs anyway.)

Many of you probably already noticed my new poll, which is massive. This is a general early survey to see what all of you want to see. The poll will not necessarily make any of these things happen like a special/Patreon poll would, but it will tell me what people like/want to see which will probably affect what I try to put in future sets. I have listed a fairly wide selection of things, including stuff I have done and things that I want to do as well as some fetishes that seem popular in the 3d art world. You can select as many as you want but remember I want to know your FAVORITE things. If everyone votes for everything, it doesn't help me at all. So please just pick your favorites, maybe six or seven things per person.

If you really like some fetish that I didn't include, leave a comment saying what it is and why its amazing. (It needs to be appropriate for fantasy artwork.) I will take any good suggestions and include them in future polls. I would put it in this poll, but I can't edit it after someone has voted so it will have to wait until next time. Do remember that some things are off the table completely, those things are up top in the rules page under stuff I will never do, don't bother trying to suggest any of those things because it won't happen.

I will post an update around the end of the month about the state of the fifth set if it isn't finished yet.

EDIT 10/30: Quick update, there is no way I am going to have time to finish the fifth set before tomorrow, I just haven't had enough spare time to finish everything, much less render it all, or do the postwork. It is coming along nicely though, so that's good. Next week is when this will probably be done unless my normal work ends up eating too much time again, but I should be able to make late next week I think. Also the poll is going great so far, so keep voting for your favorite scenarios and spread the word!

EDIT 11/3: Another update, I had little to no free time yesterday so I still have a fair bit of work left to do on the fifth set. It is also shaping up to be another large set as well, though it may not be. Currently it is around ten images with about half of what I planned to include yet to be finished. I think it is shaping up nicely, and if it ends up being the month's large set, so be it. The poll is making significant progress, so keep that up and watch for the fifth set being posted to Patreon around the end of this week unless something doesn't cooperate.

10,000 views!

Awesome news people; this blog has been viewed over 10,000 times as of today. This is an important milestone for all websites/blogs, and as such I have made you guys the image below to celebrate. It features Zayla with my recent updates to her. (Plus some of her new toys.) Thanks, everyone.

A very special thanks to the various 3d artists that exchanged links with me and helped this happen.

I have also posted a third mini-set on Patreon, featuring Zayla and some of her new toys that I got this week (six images). I put a preview image in the post below. It also looks pretty surely decided that Zayla will co-star in my next set, but I will wait until it ends tomorrow to post a new poll or two. (It looks like the clothing preference one has run it's course as well, ending with a preference for slutty clothing and a bit of sexy and minimal, which I can totally do.)

Fourth set fixed and Patreon update

Hi everyone. As noted in the post title, I redid the fourth set, and made it lighter. Apparently because I use an LED monitor, things that look fine to me are rather dark on older monitors. Sorry about that, but its all fixed now and the previews on the original post have been updated. There are also a total of 29 images in the set now (so three extra images!), as I could fix some things since I was re-rendering it all anyway. This will not affect the free release date, and the fixed and larger set is up on Patreon now. (Both comic version and a cleaner version.)

The polls seem to be going well, with the most important one at this time currently in no danger of a tie. (Though this can easily change, there is still the weekend left, and only 15 votes so far.) The clothing one is also somewhat decisive, (it seems people want what I was doing anyway) but the story one is split fairly evenly. Most people seem to want small story arcs or one large story arc. Either of these are fine (not exactly conflicting either), and realistically are for a bit farther down the road than I currently am now. However some more decisiveness would be helpful, if I could get some more votes in.

I have also added one mini-set to the middle tier (high tier gets it too) on Patreon, and I should have time to get another one (at least) in over the weekend. I will see what else I have time for, but I have been refining and upgrading my girls in the meantime. (Zayla has her nipple rings back, Lucia has claws, etc.) In any case here is one of the four images in the new mini-set featuring Lucia. I will update this post if I get any other Patreon stuff done over the weekend.

EDIT 10/26: Preview image added of second mini set up on Patreon, six images total.

Two new polls up! One is very special!

Hey again. I wanted to make a new post about these new polls, the one right under the Patreon link in particular. This is a preview of what I plan to do on Patreon for the middle and high tiers on a fairly regular basis. (Not necessarily every set, but probably every other one at least.) This is a poll where you get to help me decide what goes into my next image set! You can now vote on who gets to co-star in my next set with a new girl I have already made. I will use whatever girl wins the poll in the fifth set, so make sure to vote for your favorite. (If there is a tie I will break it.) This very special poll will only be up for ten days, so spread the word about it!

There is also a third poll under the clothing one, regarding plans for future stories. Would you guys prefer one long story arc, a few smaller ones, or many tiny ones? Let me know!

I am going to take the time while the poll is in progress and fill out the Patreon content, and post a few mini-sets up there, so go check that out too!

EDIT 10/18: I have also posted the early preview pic of the new girl for set 5 on Patreon. So any supporters will get a sneak peek of that. (Final design may be subject to to minor changes, but it may help you decide what to vote on for the poll?)

Fourth set finally up on Patreon!

Hey all, it has been a rough two weeks finishing this set. I initially took this on as a favor to a friend, who wanted to see a pregnant blonde get banged by two black guys. He also insisted that the blonde not be an elf for some reason; so I made one of the guys a half-elf, just because. I planned for this to be around ten images, a standard small set but it quickly got out of hand and became a whopping 26 images.

This was made worse by my wanting to test out a story on this set, which was... interesting. Please note that this story is the first I have done in a while and basically a retrofit, as I had the set half done before the story was made. (So cut me some slack.) It is also not representative of medium seriousness as far as story goes (this is low-minimal), as that poll was also done a bit over halfway into the set. Hopefully the story bits are at least decent to you guys, I think they are or I wouldn't have released it. As always constructive comments are welcome.

I think the images turned out well, and I am improving with each set that I do. I also tried to use an indoor scene for this set, which was kind of a mess. This is probably why most 3d artists use outdoor scenes. Either way I have posted not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR preview images for all of you! This is mostly because the set is huge, and also because I had trouble deciding which images to use. Note that the preview images are the clean versions. If you want to see the whole set and the story before next month, as well as support my future work, my Patreon link is on the right.
 
I am also putting up that special poll I talked about, but I will make a new post about that because I don't think most people will read this far down. 0_0

Fourth set status update and one new poll up now

I have resumed work on the fourth set and all is going well so far. If nothing horrible happens, it should be done in the next few days, but next week for sure I would think. The set ended up being much larger and more complex than I thought it would, I am at ten(ish) unique images so far with at least a third or more left to do. My general plan was to do two small sets (ten-ish images) a month or one large set (twenty-ish images), this is shaping up to be what I considered large. However I have no intention of letting this be it for the month, as I am very excited by the next few sets that I have planned. There will be one special poll posted whenever I finish this fourth set as well as at least one other. The special poll will be a chance for all of you that vote in my polls to help me decide a crucial part of the next set. So check back over the next few days/week to see when that goes up.

I also took down the down the two polls about implementing stories, as they seem to have run their course. I want to thank the handful of people that voted after my previous post, as they decided both poll outcomes. The seriousness poll settled definitively in the middle area, wanting a balance of story and sex. I have no problem doing this, but as I mentioned before it will take a few sets to get up to the quality level that I would prefer. On the other hand, the implementation poll had comic book style boxes win over horizontal split boxes by one vote; 6 to 5. So I will attempt to honor that in the coming sets assuming I have no horrific problems. For all those who don't want boxes over the images, I will include the clean images with the story ones in the downloads for the sets. This is a lesson in the importance of voting too; as one side can win or lose by a single vote just like that.

There is one new poll up now, regarding clothing preference for the girls in my image sets. I know what we're all thinking here, but I'm posting a poll anyway since people seem to want a balanced story and may want something other than what I have planned. As always these polls are early surveys and not permanent but they will be taken into account in my future sets. So far I have been usually going with the sexy/slutty clothing since this is adult artwork. I can go for more realistic clothing where applicable, use a balance of sexy and believable clothing, or I can use even sluttier clothing if people prefer. I also posted options for minimal clothes and no clothes just to cover all the bases. So let me know what you guys prefer clothing-wise and keep checking back to see when I post the fourth set to Patreon and put up that special poll.

EDIT: 10/15 - So I have everything done on my end, but poser queue manager decided not to render my list of images last night for some reason. So I have to do some of it during the day today and maybe tonight again since it takes over nine hours to render all this with my home computer. Then all I have to do is put in the words with paintshop pro which shouldn't take over a day I hope. So it looks like tomorrow or friday is when this should be done if poser queue manager behaves itself. Sorry about the wait, but there is nothing I can really do if my software decides not to work.

I'm back.

So I have returned from my vacation, which was mostly nice. It seems that the story quality poll has settled into medium-low seriousness level so far; which is a bit above most adult comics/image sets which are minimal-low. (That I have seen anyway.) I can do this easily, but it may take time to make this happen at a quality level that I am happy with.

The other poll however is a tie so far, which doesn't help. People seem to want images split horizontally and comic style words in boxes in the image, which are rather different. This is just an early survey but I could use some more decisiveness in this regard, in the other poll as well actually. The more people vote, the clearer what people want usually is unless it gets split both ways like it is now. If it does remain a tie, I will have to break it and I think I would prefer the horizontal break in the image at the bottom, both because it is easier to do for me and because it doesn't interfere with the image itself.

Again, these are just early surveys and are in no way permanent but I would like a more definite vote if possible. I will update this again whenever I know that I can resume work on the fourth set, since I have a fair bit of catching up to do.

EDIT: Apparently there isn't as much for me to do as I was first led to believe; I should be able to resume work on the fourth set in the next few days. Also while I was on vacation I planned ahead through the next few sets, so the next few sets should go a bit smoother if nothing gets in the way.

Third set early release!

Hello again. So as I mentioned in my last few posts I will be on vacation starting tomorrow for one week. This means that there will be no posts or updates during that time and that there will likely be little work done on the fourth set the week that I return as I have to catch up on work and other things.

Given all this, and noting that I first posted the previews for the third set almost two weeks ago, I am going to go ahead and release the third set early due to my impending absence. I want to give you all something new while I am gone and I did not want to leave such a large gap between content since my next set probably won't be done until about two or three weeks from now. Normally sets will be Patreon exclusive for a month, this is just a special case since I am going on vacation.

If you like my work and want to support it and help it improve, there is a link to my Patreon page on the right. The higher tiers on Patreon will also get to help me decide what to put in my future sets, so until some people sign up for those tiers I will just continue to try different things and do what I like.

As always please spread the word about my blog if you like my work, and constructive comments are welcome.

Oh and please vote on the two polls under the Patreon link, they will help me decide how to implement stories into my image sets.

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