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Vesna: Dogs to Watch Out For

8 months

V:DtWOF is a light slice of life comic set in southern medieval Bohemia. It updates Friday and Monday. This account will post each comic, but my main platform is and will remain on tumblr, so please field any serious questions there:

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the new one is so long because I realized how much I like drawing her

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Ask received via tumblr:

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MANY thanks to @whoismonday for sending me this beautiful Vesna in the mail... I love the way her fur is rendered so much...

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Practice in gouache and black/red ink of Vesna, drawn as a 14th century noblewoman with curled braids and slashed sleeves, after a piece by Auguste Racinet

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Thread of Vesna sketches, on a whim (first five for now)

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both versions of this franzesca will always be near and dear to my heart by the way

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Stay safe everyone 🥶

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Meteorologové rozšířili výstrahu před extrémními srážkami a hrozícími povodněmi. Do oblasti nově spadá i Praha a většina Středočeského kraje. Hladiny řek budou stoupat a mohou překročit třetí povodňový stupeň.

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Hello all Vesna fans. Sorry for my absence over the past month! The next comic is sketched but I haven't finished it because I'm working hard finishing the art for @Poppy_Zone and my upcoming game, Lovely Lady RPG, hopefully releasing very soon now!

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This got the vesna acct to 2k followers... Thank you everyone enjoy the comic : )

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WIP background for an upcoming Vesna strip that feels worth posting by itself

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Thank you for the ask @ravioli117

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Ljuba enjoys music more than any of the others. As a gamer, she listens to as many anime and game soundtracks as 'proper' music. She wildly oscillates between complicated prog rock and the stupidest electro swing you could imagine.

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Hi everyone! Sorry that Vesna updates have been so inconsistent. I have the next couple dozen planned out, but I'm moving right now, so it'll be a few days before I can get back to drawing. Thank you all for sharing and enjoying the comics! Have some doodles in the meantime.

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(Ask received on tumblr) "Are any puppies more desirable than others?"

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(Rough translation from Bavarian german: "Dumplings... Dumplings with chanterelles... yes... yes... Mushroom sauce for Vesna... Exactly... Yum... Yum...")

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Did you know Vesna is a multimedia project that also has a game coming out eventually? Now you know. Follow Dana

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Franzesca doodle

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Most of the backgrounds are drawn freehand. I always do a sketch of every page before doing the inking, and sometimes they're almost identical throughout, but sometimes they change dramatically when I realize it needs more detail or a different value distribution:

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Please note that I am not a historian, despite a long and ongoing interest in medieval central European history, and I am Upper Austrian, not Czech. If you feel that anything presented in this comic is harmful in some way, please reach out.

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Vesna likes music she thinks is "cool" or "funny." She's not very discerning, and will probably enjoy anything you put on around her, unless it's "scary." Her favourite song is currently "Ein Kompliment" by Sportfreunde Stiller, which she thinks of as her "Girlfriend Song."

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Also note that I am interested in a character driven light story here, not an accurate account of history, though I broadly try my best to stay true to the period (with some obvious exceptions). Thank you, and please enjoy!

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I was hoping to finish the next comic tonight, since I can't work on it, so it'll be out late. Which is, I suppose, the norm! The upside is it looks really nice

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Snježa likes a lot of shoegaze and dark metal adjacent stuff, and more experimental music in general, with occasional hip hop. She hates everything Vesna listens to. Her favourite song is "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima," which she found via Ljuba.

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That sounds expensive! Maybe once there are enough comics to warrant it, or if I start a patreon it can be a special initiative at some point

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@LoyalHoundVesna Do you ever plan to have it printed in chapters? I know I would absolutely buy any physical copies! :D

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Franzesca has absorbed the musical taste of her rich friends and immediate family. She likes 80s bangers, Schlager and some music she remembers from being a teenager in, I guess, the 2010s. Her favourite song is a tie between She Wolf by David Guetta and Heroes by David Bowie.

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The castle is surrounded by orchards and small goat pastures. There's plenty of apples and pears year round, and apricots in summer. The castle buttery makes butter and cheeses from mostly cow and goat milk.

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(Via tumblr) "Does that hound Vesna like women?"

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(Ask received via locked account) "how would vesna react to drinking coca cola for the first time. how would franzesca react to drinking coca cola for the first time. is vesna afraid of ghosts in the castle. how would ljuba react to drinking coca cola for the first time."

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Ljuba speaks Czech as her first language, and Franzesca knows French and some Latin. (Unrelated bonus art)

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For a more specific example, Franzesca's room is based on an actual room in the ruin's Wohnturm (dwelling tower), including her big stone window seat:

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Seeing your beekeeper art years ago inspired an NPC in a game of mine, honoured to have you follow me!

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(Ask received via Tumblr) "What sort of music taste would Vesna and the gang have?"

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so I based the main castle on an actual ruin I've fallen in love with, Burgruine Ruttenstein in the Austrian Mühlviertel. I've visited it a couple times and taken hundreds of photos, so I have a lot of reference material.

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in the flesh

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@LoyalHoundVesna here we have the crosshatching godess

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For the comic, I want to convey something similar, which is a medieval setting where sunshine and colour are allowed to coexist along drab stormy ruined castles. I want to depict something the reader can understand as being real and lived in,

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I've always liked drawing environments a bit more than characters. For Vesna, I want the setting to be well defined. This maybe characterizes a lot of my work; a university game I directed and produced art for, Triverz, had a LOT of work put into making it feel like a real place.

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To supplement that, I created a rudimentary 3D mesh of the castle, though I haven't used it a ton so far.

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(Ask received via tumblr) "I'd love to know more about how you approach background work and what your process is like."

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(Ask received via Tumblr)

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Note how Vesna wears a plain linen shift under her nicer yellow dress. I usually draw her with the sleeves all the way at the wrist, which would be the appropriate way to wear them, but she has them folded back here to make the composition nicer.

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@Poppy_Zone

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(Via tumblr) "Which language(s) do Vesna and the gang speak in canonically?"

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(Via tumblr) "What sort of fabrics and dyes were the most common back then?"

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I've been drawing long enough that I don't really need to thumbnail much for these. I mostly know what the panels will look like before I draw them, though my execution often leaves something to be desired if you ask me :p

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2- Yes. It'll be explored in the comic at some point, but it's not spectacularly interesting, so I'll just share that it's because among women, wolves are seen as the fiercest/only warriors; whereas among men it's stag and boar people. It's not super plot relevant, though.

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and steer more towards depicting people living their lives under specific circumstances. If any games release, the first one to come out, "Vesna's DOG NIGHTMARE," has monsters in it because it's a dream Vesna's having: She'll face monsters because her subconscious invented them,

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If you just can't get enough of my writing (why?) you could also play my last game. It's free!

Will This Bitter Night Bring Change? - Two Women in Trouble by Mia Cain

Will Emily and Hornet escape the City? A narrative game

mia-cain.itch.io

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3- excellent question! This will be explored down the line.

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1- V:DTWOF will never have monsters, magic, prophecy, anything of the sort in it- I'm even trying to stay away from traditional heroic/fantasy modes of storytelling where the characters do Big Important Things,

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Bonus: Amusing pictures of King Václav IV slaying (150 years after when Vesna is set) and the "work uniform" of a bathhouse maid

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Autumn 🏳️‍⚧️

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@fugazoid Vesna is amazing i eagerly await every update

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The hatching is untidy, in some areas more than others, because my deckweiss seems to mess with my quill. I should probably look into ways around this, or try to use thinner colour

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Her favourite song is either this cover of the Madoka Magika opening, or this cover of People II: The Reckoning by AJJ, but I imagine it changes on the daily.

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esna would see herself do this move in game, think it's sick, and twist her ankle trying to do it irl

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where most people would be speaking Old/Medieval Czech. Vesna and Snježana were born further north but raised in the household, and Vesna was never taught much Czech; Franzesca's father holds very serious anti-slavic views and prefers members of the household to speak German.

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or because she thinks they're real (in which case I will try to stay close to real period folklore and bestiaries)- but she'll also face folk heroes like Dietrich von Bern or Roland, and have to endure a great deal of hardship regarding her relationship to other women, etc.

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People knew a lot about dyes, and dyers were important, respected craftspeople; the wool market dominated the english economy at this point, and Italian city states became renowned for how beautiful their dyes and so on were; the silk road is exactly what it says on the tin

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(via best friend privilege discord access) "whgats vesnas favourite thing to buy at the market!"