[Announcement] Tasty Temptation - Part 5

Hi everyone!

Actually, it was supposed to be its turn last week, but it got pushed back one slot by Contagious Augmentation... Now, it's finally time: the 5th and final (Nope, that was the original plan, but I've decided to keep this one going further) part of Tasty Temptation!

We'll be seeing Vera, Emma, and Callie continue to indulge in their newly discovered passion - much to the delight of Evelyn, whose desire to take part in the whole spectacle just keeps growing stronger...

By the way, just like last time, we've got a cover featuring multiple characters again - and personally, I think this one turned out a lot more coherent than the last one.
I've been experimenting like crazy, especially in Part 6 of Contagious Augmentation, where I played around a lot with multi-character images (more on that below), and I think my progress really shows! That slight "uncanny valley" effect I still had with Part 4's cover is now almost completely gone - and in terms of quality, you can barely tell the difference between this and the usual images with just one character.

At least that's my very humble (hehe) assessment. Feel free to let me know how it comes across to you ^^
The whole comic should be finished in just over a week!

Contagious Augmentation – Part 6

Phew, I'm really starting to run out of smooth segues into this section without repeating myself to death haha. So I'll just skip the transition altogether this time - you all know what's coming now anyway ^^

I have to admit, this series has always been a bit of a thorn in my side.
Why? Because it's the only one of my series whose title isn't an alliteration :( cry.

I spent ages trying to come up with a fitting title back then and found nothing - absolutely nothing. Contagious Augmentation eventually stuck because, while it didn't meet my self-imposed alliteration standard, it at least sounded good enough and kinda gave off the same vibe as my other comics...
BUT it's still not an alliteration, which drives my OCD absolutely insane - Aaaargh!

Okay, on a more serious note: I'm actually really, really happy with this comic. This might just as well be the best work I've done so far.

As already teased above, I focused especially on scenes with multiple characters this time. I spent soooo much time researching various techniques to make it work and did a ton of editing on the images.
Especially the early pages - like 4, 6, and 7 - took me forever. But man, was it worth it. I think the scenes feel incredibly natural and are miles away from that typical "AI look" that's been taking over the internet lately.

Also: I immediately regretted choosing a ship as the setting for this comic, haha. Coordinating the whole scenery - a wooden floor in the foreground, white railings, the ocean in the background - was insanely hard to do and I had to put a lot of work into getting the backgrounds to look the way they do.
Not to mention the boat on page 3 (I think I already talked about how hard it is to generate generic objects in Stable Diffusion before - basically anything that isn't an anime girl haha) which got a whole page to itself just so you can admire it in all its glory (and because I had the feeling that without that establishing shot, it wouldn't have been clear the comic is set on a boat - which would've forced me to have the characters awkwardly say something like, "Oh look, we're on a boat!" haha).

But hey, in the end result, I think you can barely see any of those struggles, and it all comes together quite smoothly. The railings might not be 100% consistent from panel to panel, but that's really nitpicking at this point.
That said, I'm always on the lookout for ways to improve, and I'm slowly running out of big issues - so I have to focus more and more on the finer details like those railings ^^

So yeah, that's also why I don't really have much more to say about this comic. Normally I'd be rambling on endlessly here about what bugged me and what I want to do better next time, but this time I'm honestly just really, really happy with it.
I'm especially fond of the sequence from pages 14 to 18. I don't think we've ever had a setting like that before - our protagonist growing in public while she's getting increasingly horny but still trying to maintain her professionalism... I found it really sexy to write and read ^^

Okay, but that's pretty much all I've got for today! I'll get right back to working on Part 5 of Tasty Temptation, and I'll talk to you again when it drops - either next week or right at the beginning of the week after ^^

Until then, take care!