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Ever since I first heard Grausame Töchter's Schnabel zu I thought of Spica grinning maliciously while transforming into a barbed monster. I just had to draw it eventually.

Drawn on 07.04.25.

[BGM - Schnabel zu]

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All demons can be shapeshifters. Shapeshifing happens either consciously or unconsciously. Conscious shapeshifting requires practice. Skilled shapeshifters can, for example, heal their own wounds through sheer will.

The hottest kind of spice in Hell is broken glass and blood, which is only safe to ingest by skilled shapeshifters. It provides the greatest kind of spiciness that capsaicin can't match.

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I like the name Trepans for one of the deaths.

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Drowning

Back when I dreamt up Imogen I also dreamt up Jack, who was supposed to be her friend and bodyguard, sort of. This idea vegetated for years until I started to work on my diploma-comic and drew a random boy for a scene with Scarlett and Emma. I liked him enough that I decided to replace Jack with him in the story and also to rename him Adam, because Jack sounds too plain. He'll befriend the girls and introduce them to Imogen, who will connect them to the spirit world as a medium.

This was finished already a few days ago but I hated the rendering and proportions so I fixed it today (meaning burned most of it off). I think it's OK now.

Drawn on 20-26.02.25.

[BGM - Greyhound]

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Today, while sketching a scene in Electric Hellfire for my diploma-comic, I realized the Polish word for party - impreza - contains the word imp.

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Back in 2011 on oekaki I came up with these visualisations for my idea of the Tower of Babel and Interno, Hell’s core (the blue thing on the right was supposed to be the sun of Heaven).

Today, after so many years I finally got to work on this part of my comic seriously, and so I asked my good friend Enigma to make me a quick simulation in a 3D app of what would Interno and the Tower of Babel actually look like. Here’s the results.

This is Interno seen from the surface of Hell.

This is the scale of it as a whole. It’s much smaller than I initially thought, only being around 200 kilometres in diameter, if it were to be seen similarly to our sun and moon.

This is a visualisation with the Tower of Babel added. It has 444 storeys, every one of them is fourteen kilometers high. At the start of the story there’s a few storeys missing on the top.

These two are additional, more detailed renders.

Enigma wanted me to pay in Pokémon cards, so I’ll give him all my bulk that he doesn’t already have. I'm sure that’s fair trade.

Oekaki drawn on 02-03.01.11 and 12.04.11.

Renders made by Enigma on 17.02.25.

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Drawn a random Scorpio Rising - adjacent portrait to check if I can mimic ink and watercolour at least a bit in my mobile Sketchbook app. What do you think?

Drawn on 11.02.25.

[BGM - Surfin' Safari]

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Satellite demons are creatures that fly around Interno, the core and simultaneous sun of Hell. They mimic the look of stars from afar and serve as transmitters for demons visiting Earth, like succubi and incubi. Their bodies are made mostly of electric energy and emit very strong light.

Drawn on 04.02.25.

[BGM - Brutus (Instrumental)]

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BRUTUS THE RUDEST

Wanted to make a quick drawing of Spica on his cool chair. Used his 2016 design, but I'm gonna change it later because it's a bit unintelligible. Added a dog to fill up space.

Drawn on 01-03.02.25.

[BGM - Rex - Brutus II]

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Spica holding Lilith's head after killing him for abusing him. He would run away, hide and become a Centurion afterwards.

Drawn on 29.01-01.02.25.

[BGM - Brutus]

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seriously tho wtf

Drawn on 01-02.01.25.

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A long time ago I thought about the age of consent and how it would work with characters who are thousands of years old. Is a character that's at the end of human life like a teenager to a character that lives for 600 years? Is it scalable, and if so, does it compare to controversial topics like zoophilia?

Yesterday I also pondered about the widely disliked trope of 2000 year-old lolis and if some demons would unironically take forms of children to pander to their own or other's pedophilia. There would be people who are disgusted by that, but the argument against them would be tough to push, since they would actually be adult shapeshifters.

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Recently when my mother was in church, she had a vision of Jesus holding a white, organic heart (but without anatomical details like blood vessels), which she understood to be the world. I like that vision, so it gave me an idea.

The sun of Hell is actually Yahweh's left hand, cut off in the great war during the creation of Hell. I thought Earth could be made of God's heart, which he tore off to make our world, making him literally heartless. When demons finish building the Tower of Babel, they will enter the wound in Yahweh's left hand (Hell's sun) to enter Earth and then Heaven. The hand will explode and blood will rain everywhere in Hell.

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The house that Emma, Scarlett and Alexis live in when Scarlett and Alexis move to Emma will be burned down by Alexis, setting up a metaphor for broken relationships.

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When Alexis was in kindergarten, his class went to a park with huge, old trees. He was playing alone, when he saw three boys poking a toad with a stick violently. He wanted to stop them so much, but he feared being attacked by them even more.

He was a passive child, always closed off to the world, living in his own. Other children saw him as weird and antisocial, or shy and dumb. They never asked him how he felt.

Pubescence came and went the same. He was never interested in girls or even boys, and he seemed to enjoy the company of animals more. He collected their remains, ever reminiscent of his own state of mind. Alone and forgotten, he regressed into himself, until one day a sudden urge pushed him to burning action.

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Today, after waking up I thought of an interesting visual mechanic. If you draw something in black and white, as I intend my comics to be, you can then use inverted colours to indicate some kind of distortion. If it's a sexual scene, the colours of the fluids will be white, or black if inverted. In that case I can invert the original colours, but keep the fluid colour white for a subtle confusion, and when inverting the colours back to normal, make the fluids black, indicating blood or some other dark substance for a horror effect. This could be used to instill terror by the likes of Lessex, who can control the state of reality around them in some way.

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Today I had a stream of curious dreams about a bunch of potential comic ideas. From the point where I was watching a movie in a dingy bar: the movie was a thriller and it had two scenes referencing well known last photos of people. One was of Joe Rogan (lol) before being murdered (double lol, I don't hate Joe Rogan if you wonder) and the other was the actually existing last photo of Regina Kay Walters before being murdered by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades.

I thought the references were very smart and wanted to put them in Carnality of Heart. Then it turned out I was actually a black-haired girl who moved to Japan with stereotypical weaboo dreams, but ended up working in this dingy fast-food bar, where her female boss, a disgusting old hag with a buzzcut, raped her on a stove, while she coped with it imagining her boss is showing her off to customers. The story turned up to be told from the perspective of a young PE teacher in high school and a student he was friends with. The student was gay and had a crush on the girl's effeminate brother (who apparently also moved to Japan with her and went to the same school). When I was briefly waking up before returning to sleep, I was planning on abandoning all the other comics I work on for a while and making this dream into a comic I was going to name Weaboo.

Well, I certainly don't plan on doing so, but I liked the idea of referencing well-known creepy photos in Carnality of Heart. With the respect to the victims, there are many memorable true crime images that remain haunting every time I look at them, like the Regina Kay Walters photo or the young John Doe next to Dean Corll's torture toolbox.

True crime has been a huge inspiration for my works for the longest time, so I may end up using these in scenes of horror in the future. There's no bigger horror than human evil, after all.