Aster Sketches + Some Stray Thoughts

Sharing these two together is soooo uncanny because I recycled the expression from one to the other lol

I set out at the beginning of this week to unwind with a simple pornographic pin-up like I used to make back in the day, but something about them wasn't really sitting right no matter how much I fiddled or adjusted or perfected. I don't think it's that they're bad drawings by any means, but really that my heart just ain't in it right now.

One of the greatest gifts of working in comics is the space it gives to add meaningful context to something like sex, where you grow to care about why the sex is happening rather than just enjoying it at face value. Conversely, something about pin-up's like these starts to feel a little lacking. Maybe I'm ruminating a little too deeply on something that should be fun and carnal, but the fact that I'm ruminating at all speaks to a desire to want to say more. "This girl has her cock out at the gym" and "This same girl (with the same face lol) is fucking one of her yoga students" isn't scratching the itch right now. I want y'all to learn more about the two of them first so there can be some catharsis out of making them fuck each other. 

The sketches are probably good, and I hope y'all can simply enjoy them for what they are, but I probably won't finish these as they are. Maybe they can server as a jumping point for a short comic in the future! But for now I'm going to hop back into A Show of the Ropes, because there's a fulfillment there that I'm having trouble finding elsewhere. Thanks for reading if you got this far. :)