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[rockybloo]

After looking at the recent pic that you posted, it reminded me of a pic that you posted in the past (it was a pic that was from the earlier days of when they started dating where Jack was kissing Nana on the cheek). When I look at the two pics side by side, it kinda shows how their love & bond has grown overtime, especially w/ how Nana grows more comfortable w/ physical touch from Jack

I have bad habit of accidentally redrawing the same pose over and over again between these two (mainly because I've drawn them SO much) but that's kind of a cool thing because of coincidences like this because it really does look like them in the past versus them in the present day (right down to the background being more bright to match their feelings of each other)

LOVE ACCIDENTALY PROGRESSION SHOTS OF THESE TWO'S RELATIONSHIP

[rockybloo]

With the way I draw Jack now...I can kinda better understand how some mistake him for a girl.

Esp since I sort of gave him thicker eyelashes and fuller lips (but I like giving all my men lips in general)

[rockybloo]

This ramble is short but gore warning under cut because I like typing out how Nana kills

Nana tearing out someone's throat with her teeth. Her face is covered in their blood and her mouth practically splits her face in half with how large it is.

All the bandits watch in horror and fear as she stands over the gurgling dying body of one of their crew. She puts the pathetic sounds to a halt as she casually jams her foot into their chest, cracking their ribs with the ease of crunching a chip as her foot crushes their heart between her sole and the ground and they finally go limp.

Her spitting out the chewed up remains of what used to be her victim's jugular in the direction of the bandits that ambushed her and Jack is enough to send them all screaming in terror.

Meanwhile Jack stares in awe and his chest is pounding heill hard since his heart is full of love because wow he really adores when his girlfriend has no mercy and is dripping in the blood of people who were trying to kill them just mere moments ago.

[rockybloo]

I can finally get back to drawing some good classic Red Beans after fixing up Beanstalked.

Anyways, Jack loves smothering Nana in kisses. This is nothing new but I just love the image of him holding her face in his hands and covering it in pecks like an old school cartoon.

[rockybloo]

🌱Beanstalked's Revamped Chapter 1 is OUT🌱

I FINISHED MY MINI PROJECT which means now's a good time to stop being so vague about what I've been up to for the past month or two.

I spent this whole time basically giving the first chapter of Beanstalked a revamp!

"But Rocky, didn't you already redraw the first chapter before?" YOU ARE CORRECT ✨--but to not clog stuff up, I have a more in depth explanation for why I did this under the cut!

I swear this will be the last time I touch the first chapter. I AM AT PEACE NOW! I am also SUPER happy with how everything turned out. I love Beanstalked very much and am constantly trying to do my little fairy tale comic justice.

I originally did redraw the first chapter in 2022 or somewhere around that time range.

I wanted to reboot Beanstalked since I had originally written everything back in highschool and I knew I could do better executing the story. That redrawn chapter sort of winded up acting like a pilot of sorts. And thanks to Glitter and Guilt, I figured out an easier and quicker way of going about coloring and shading characters so I could complete pages waaay faster.

What initially was planned to just be a thing for Glitter and Guilt winded up becoming how I've decided to do all my future comic stuff now.

This is the reason why Chapter 2 looks stylistically different when it comes to rendering compared to the older Chapter 1. PLUS...I really hated how different Jack's hair looked in the original redraw. I also cleaned up and resorted some speech bubbles so dialogue flows a little smoother at points.

SO THAT'S ONE TASK CROSSED OF MY TO-DO LIST!

[rockybloo]

Does making a mini comic as fanart of your oc's go against your boundaries on fanfics? The comic is just drawing some you said in response to someone else's ask, but I want to make sure it's ok first.

I see it as fanart instead of a fanfic. And it's literally based off my own response (if I'm reading this right) so it should be fine.

I just can't read fanfics because of the risk of me accidentally putting in a concept someone may deem too similar to the one they introduced in their fic and then getting mad or even accusing me of stealing.

[rockybloo]

I wanted to ask, how tall is Jack's mom? I know you said Jack is kinda tall, but wow, it seems she's taller than him...or are my eyes deceiving me?

Originally Jack was a lot shorter but I made him 5'8 ft...I never really quit drawing Aurelia (his mom) taller than him though so she winded up being BIG MOTHER. Which I think is kind of cute. Tall mom and her short low-key cursed son.

I don't have her height in numbers, I just know Jack is shorter than her.

Jack's dad was taller than her though so...the hella tall genes just sort of skipped farm boy. Tbh though there are a lot of tall women in Beanstalked.

[rockybloo]

🌱Beanstalked's Revamped Chapter 1 is OUT🌱

I FINISHED MY MINI PROJECT which means now's a good time to stop being so vague about what I've been up to for the past month or two.

I spent this whole time basically giving the first chapter of Beanstalked a revamp!

"But Rocky, didn't you already redraw the first chapter before?" YOU ARE CORRECT ✨--but to not clog stuff up, I have a more in depth explanation for why I did this under the cut!

I swear this will be the last time I touch the first chapter. I AM AT PEACE NOW! I am also SUPER happy with how everything turned out. I love Beanstalked very much and am constantly trying to do my little fairy tale comic justice.

I originally did redraw the first chapter in 2022 or somewhere around that time range.

I wanted to reboot Beanstalked since I had originally written everything back in highschool and I knew I could do better executing the story. That redrawn chapter sort of winded up acting like a pilot of sorts. And thanks to Glitter and Guilt, I figured out an easier and quicker way of going about coloring and shading characters so I could complete pages waaay faster.

What initially was planned to just be a thing for Glitter and Guilt winded up becoming how I've decided to do all my future comic stuff now.

This is the reason why Chapter 2 looks stylistically different when it comes to rendering compared to the older Chapter 1. PLUS...I really hated how different Jack's hair looked in the original redraw. I also cleaned up and resorted some speech bubbles so dialogue flows a little smoother at points.

SO THAT'S ONE TASK CROSSED OF MY TO-DO LIST!

[rockybloo]

🌱Beanstalked's Revamped Chapter 1 is OUT🌱

I FINISHED MY MINI PROJECT which means now's a good time to stop being so vague about what I've been up to for the past month or two.

I spent this whole time basically giving the first chapter of Beanstalked a revamp!

"But Rocky, didn't you already redraw the first chapter before?" YOU ARE CORRECT ✨--but to not clog stuff up, I have a more in depth explanation for why I did this under the cut!

I swear this will be the last time I touch the first chapter. I AM AT PEACE NOW! I am also SUPER happy with how everything turned out. I love Beanstalked very much and am constantly trying to do my little fairy tale comic justice.

I originally did redraw the first chapter in 2022 or somewhere around that time range.

I wanted to reboot Beanstalked since I had originally written everything back in highschool and I knew I could do better executing the story. That redrawn chapter sort of winded up acting like a pilot of sorts. And thanks to Glitter and Guilt, I figured out an easier and quicker way of going about coloring and shading characters so I could complete pages waaay faster.

What initially was planned to just be a thing for Glitter and Guilt winded up becoming how I've decided to do all my future comic stuff now.

This is the reason why Chapter 2 looks stylistically different when it comes to rendering compared to the older Chapter 1. PLUS...I really hated how different Jack's hair looked in the original redraw. I also cleaned up and resorted some speech bubbles so dialogue flows a little smoother at points.

SO THAT'S ONE TASK CROSSED OF MY TO-DO LIST!

[rockybloo]

💖THE FIRST THREE PAGES OF CHAPTER 1 OF GLITTER AND GUILT IS OUT 💖

I have finished cooking and am ready to serve some magical girl food. Here's the cover to Chapter 1 alongside a Lovely content warning for the entire story in general.

[rockybloo]

It took me a year or two but I finally got a brand new shiny cover for Beanstalked!

I am so much happier with the vibes of this cover and I feel like it fits the themes and characters of the comic so much more compared to the previous more serious versions.

[Image description: The cover shows a large group of mostly Black and brown characters, plus a bear, a cat, and a person with mouse-like features. The characters are fit into a dark frame with swirly vine decorations, and at the top is the title ‘Beanstalked’ in a calligrahy-style font with a combined sun-and-moon symbol. The author’s name, ‘Sierra Ray’ is at the bottom of the frame. \End description]

[rockybloo]

Could we see your comic process for a random comic page? like thumbnails to line art to flat color ect. I'm tying to study webcomic artist I like while I'm working on my own, so I hope it's ok to ask. Also I adore your comic's, Beanstalked scratches an itch like no other comic. Black main characters are always great to see but Jack hits different. He is such a cute goof and I want good things for him, but I know horrors await, and Nana. Redbeans has many of my favorite ship dynamics, like half of them, so I love them.

THANK YOU SO MUCH😭

Aaaand here is one of the comic processes for Jack encountering his first horror (specifically Chapter 2: Page 6)

Thumbnail

Line art (as I tend to delete the sketches for comic pages after I finish them because I already have SO MANY layers in the end of things)

Flats for Jack

Background colors and effects (like motion lines, glow, extra mood shading)

AND then Speech Bubbles (I always have the speech bubbles typed out already while sketching so I can move them around or alter sketches so they don't cover up anything important or pretty)

I have an old ask answer that shows another comic process (the art is old and that version of Beanstalked is scrapped but it's still close to how I do things now)

[rockybloo]

About Nana’s Sight

Nana has low vision. 

Basically, her sight is blurry. 

SPECIFICALLY, she can see shapes, colors and differentiate light and dark and people based off a combination of all of the above but nothing is sharp and details are nonexistent.  

This is why she can sometimes look around and move her eyes to follow people as she can still pick them up, even if they are fuzzy mish mashes of color. It does get more difficult if they’re farther away and/or if they’re darker.

She has a foldable wooded cane made by the Boar Brothers she can use with picking up some obstacles and changes in and on the ground she may miss, especially in settings that are new or dark. And she has a magic mirror that can read aloud writing to her as she can’t read due to text being too blurry.

[rockybloo]

Ok weird question, and you don't have to answer if it makes you uncomfortable, but it comes to your kissing images, is there a technique you use. Because for some reason when I try they always come out weird.

My technique is called "using a reference"

I always use a reference for my kisses because they look weird or weak without them. Same goes for any pose I'm having a hard time with.

[rockybloo]

Are there divine beings in the glitter and guilt universe?

Glitter and Guilt takes place on Earth which is shared with all my other stories also taking place on Earth.

I have a storyverse I call the Rockyverse and it's where all my OCs stories take place. I have some deity OCs in said universe as well.

So yes TECHNICALLY there are divine beings in the universe Glitter and Guilt takes place in (The Rockyverse)

However, there are 0 plans for a divine being character in Glitter and Guilt...save for Angel but she has strong ties to the Beloveds so she fits in well.

But that's it as I don't want to over complicate Glitter and Guilt and I don't see gods really fitting into the plot of a story about a magical girl and her obsessive villainous boyfriend who loves her very very much.

[rockybloo]

What time period Is Beanstalked set in?

Modern day. Lore is a different planet from Earth existing at the same time.

Tbh Glitter and Guilt and Beanstalked are happening in sync with each other.

It's just that everything looks medieval but there's magical technology and bits of our world glitching over to it sometimes thanks to small pockets opening up in our world and that swallow lost things up here and spit them out over there.

They're called bloopers

[rockybloo]

Is there a way to see Nana's first dance dress more close up? It looks so pretty!! (She always looks pretty honestly, like I'm sure she can pull off any outfit!)

I literally doodled this up for this ask. There isn't really a good defined version as it's still a concept I am tinkering with in my head (I even altered the dress some from the previous ask). It's an outfit that shows up during a super important plot point in Beanstalked so I wanna add a wee bit more pizzaz to it but it's mainly just a humble little ballgown with roses and rose petals.

She looks so shy here because this is the first ball gown she's worn in her life...and she's wearing it primarily so she can awe Jack as this is still around where they are mutually crushing.