First off, congrats on the therapy! I also started mine some weeks ago despite my dire monethary situation. It's good, showed me that I need more help than I thought. 

Secondly: I particulary am loving the fantasy stuff, moar Aflheim chronicles!!!

Third: For your creativity issues, yeah, it should not be that otugh to live on what we love, but if you hit a creativity wall, always count with us for some creative juice. It helps me boost my creativity speaking stuff with you, and other friends on this place and IRL, maybe that helps you too. I'm looking foward seeing your other girls again!

Fourth: I'm enloved with Mina!!! 

There you go. In our culture, many see men going to therapy as a weakness. I say to all of them to fuck off. It made me more stable and understand the genesis of things I didn't fully understand and act accordingly to grow past things, solve others and give a closure to what needed to be ended. It's awesome you're taking care of yourself, because you need to take care of you, to be able to take care of others.

On the other hand, I'm glad you're still creating things, but I would be lying if I said I won't miss CNC Baby. Not because our entangled universe, but because that was getting GOOD. No pressure, no pressure. You'll find the way.

I'm happy you're around.

16 hours ago, Morius said:

First off, congrats on the therapy! I also started mine some weeks ago despite my dire monethary situation. It's good, showed me that I need more help than I thought. 

Secondly: I particulary am loving the fantasy stuff, moar Aflheim chronicles!!!

Third: For your creativity issues, yeah, it should not be that otugh to live on what we love, but if you hit a creativity wall, always count with us for some creative juice. It helps me boost my creativity speaking stuff with you, and other friends on this place and IRL, maybe that helps you too. I'm looking foward seeing your other girls again!

Fourth: I'm enloved with Mina!!! 

7 minutes ago, SovietTiger said:

There you go. In our culture, many see men going to therapy as a weakness. I say to all of them to fuck off. It made me more stable and understand the genesis of things I didn't fully understand and act accordingly to grow past things, solve others and give a closure to what needed to be ended. It's awesome you're taking care of yourself, because you need to take care of you, to be able to take care of others.

On the other hand, I'm glad you're still creating things, but I would be lying if I said I won't miss CNC Baby. Not because our entangled universe, but because that was getting GOOD. No pressure, no pressure. You'll find the way.

I'm happy you're around.

Regarding therapy, it was never about thinking it's weakness. I just didn't have the push to go into more vulnerable places before and I was admittedly very scared to open up. Now it's like, you know what? What else have I got to lose? So yeah. If I can come out a better person from this, then let's at least give it a fair shot.

Fantasy is not my strong suit, to be honest. My goal with sex stories was to follow a very Hentai-style plot and visuals, and for what I have prepared for Raina next, it is very deeply rooted in that. As for Mina... You guys are going to LOVE what's coming from her. No doubt at all.

And CNC Baby will definitely continue. I stated that I want to see that to it's conclusion, but I don't know how I can make it. After the Extra chapter, I planned on them carrying on where they left off, but after that, what's next? And that's what I'm struggling with. The other characters, I have ideas for subplots already, but if I don't have a good story for my leads, then it's all for nothing. I'm really stuck there, so that's why I decided not to touch it for now. I don't want to write myself into a corner.

Good thing you're trying to improve your mental state. Wish I could do the same but I'm trying to grind out my stuff like crazy. I've experienced burnout but I know what awaits me if I don't work on this stuff (Retail and misery).  I don't have the luxuries of a wealthy family, good education or any other perks a lot of people online seem to have. It's either this or nothing. Sad, but it is what it is.

As I said before, Renpy is incredibly easy to use. If you translate your comics into renpy then upload it to certain sites; F95zone, itch, steam (if you got $100 to spare). You would get much more exposure. TK17 is just not suitable for comics outside of this site, people demand state of the art visuals mostly and yeah, people have done amazing work with TK but there is a limit. For instance, this engine will never have ray tracing. Yet DAZ, blender and even Unreal now has. It's not a minor point either because ray tracing is what makes things photo realistic.

There's no harm in giving it a try, just go to the renpy site and download a build. Watch one video and you'll learn how simple it is to get started.  I see you're also capable of graphic design so it wouldn't be an issue creating titles / UI. Then again you can use the default stuff. Just choose your most standout characters that have gotten the most attention on here, and have them be the lead. Like Willow, she'd be excellent for a slightly gothic story.

Also expect criticism, and maybe even A LOT of criticism. But it's the only way to see what's wrong in your stuff and improve.

3 hours ago, Trapp said:

And CNC Baby will definitely continue. I stated that I want to see that to it's conclusion, but I don't know how I can make it. After the Extra chapter, I planned on them carrying on where they left off, but after that, what's next? And that's what I'm struggling with. The other characters, I have ideas for subplots already, but if I don't have a good story for my leads, then it's all for nothing. I'm really stuck there, so that's why I decided not to touch it for now. I don't want to write myself into a corner

You’re good on closing arcs, I know you are. Considering this I never ever ended nothing I began. I know what to do, but never followed what I know what I need to do. 

and what we need to do is to set an end of a character arc and end it there. That doesn’t means the end of that character, it means an end for one of his her stories, it can be others, but first finish what you began, when? It’s up to you. Or do episodics stories like @ArtsAndCrafty do, with no end on sight, nor caring about it. 

Shit, @gobman! Hang on on what makes you happy then. You are a hero!

56 minutes ago, gobman said:

Good thing you're trying to improve your mental state. Wish I could do the same but I'm trying to grind out my stuff like crazy. I've experienced burnout but I know what awaits me if I don't work on this stuff (Retail and misery).  I don't have the luxuries of a wealthy family, good education or any other perks a lot of people online seem to have. It's either this or nothing. Sad, but it is what it is.

 

As I said before, Renpy is incredibly easy to use. If you translate your comics into renpy then upload it to certain sites; F95zone, itch, steam (if you got $100 to spare). You would get much more exposure. TK17 is just not suitable for comics outside of this site, people demand state of the art visuals mostly and yeah, people have done amazing work with TK but there is a limit. For instance, this engine will never have ray tracing. Yet DAZ, blender and even Unreal now has. It's not a minor point either because ray tracing is what makes things photo realistic.

 

There's no harm in giving it a try, just go to the renpy site and download a build. Watch one video and you'll learn how simple it is to get started.  I see you're also capable of graphic design so it wouldn't be an issue creating titles / UI. Then again you can use the default stuff. Just choose your most standout characters that have gotten the most attention on here, and have them be the lead. Like Willow, she'd be excellent for a slightly gothic story.

 

Also expect criticism, and maybe even A LOT of criticism. But it's the only way to see what's wrong in your stuff and improve.

I feel you man. I was on that same spot when I joined KE and when I was unable to do that... Let's just say it wasn't pretty. But I sincerely hope things look up for you in the very near future. I know you can do it. From what I can see with your models, pictures and videos, you have a FANTASTIC eye for the visual. I really love what you do, and I encourage you to see it as a means to learn a new skill.

As for Ren'Py, I definitely will give it a watch. However, I do wish to make engaging stuff. Maybe bring together some of the girls for a visual novel unrelated to their KE Comic canon? Who knows. But I agree, the norm now seems to be DAZ for its ease of use from what I can tell. But DAZ has none of the content that TK17 does, and I don't know about porting assets between UIs, so that remains to be seen in any case. As for UI graphic stuff, I really need to think where to go with it all. Maybe take some proper lessons now?

52 minutes ago, Morius said:

You’re good on closing arcs, I know you are. Considering this I never ever ended nothing I began. I know what to do, but never followed what I know what I need to do. 

and what we need to do is to set an end of a character arc and end it there. That doesn’t means the end of that character, it means an end for one of his her stories, it can be others, but first finish what you began, when? It’s up to you. Or do episodics stories like @ArtsAndCrafty do, with no end on sight, nor caring about it. 

Shit, @gobman! Hang on on what makes you happy then. You are a hero!

Well, I do have sort of that planned out for most of my main stories. But those are spoilers for another day. But yeah, their story arcs are definitely something to work on. In any case, there are ways to do this but I just don't have the time to engage on doing that...

3 hours ago, Morius said:

Or do episodics stories like @ArtsAndCrafty do, with no end on sight, nor caring about it. 

Sorry if mine is "too long." (not really)

It's not a "wham bam, thank you mam" kind of story.

I do, however, have a heart condition.

Several heart attacks and I still smoke.

So I guess it will end "when it ends."

5 minutes ago, ArtsAndCrafty said:

Sorry if mine is "too long." (not really)

It's not a "wham bam, thank you mam" kind of story.

I do, however, have a heart condition.

Several heart attacks and I still smoke.

So I guess it will end "when it ends."

I don't know how to react, lol.

39 minutes ago, Morius said:

I don't know how to react, lol.

Me neither, man. And I do smoke quite a lot myself, so I'm fearful as to what the future could hold there. But hang in there @ArtsAndCrafty. Your stuff is fantastic, for real.

Glad to see you getting mental worked on. God knows I need it too lol.

Man I love Mina cant wait to see her set judging from that preview!

18 hours ago, ArtsAndCrafty said:

Sorry if mine is "too long." (not really)

It's not a "wham bam, thank you mam" kind of story.

I do, however, have a heart condition.

Several heart attacks and I still smoke.

So I guess it will end "when it ends."

At first I was confused how long it's been going but now I kinda like it long and ongoing. It gives me a nice story to read every now and then.

It's like Dragonball that shit is never ending.

3 hours ago, demonv1 said:

Dragonball

Yeah, kinda' like that.  I was thinking of how some serial comics strips were like in old newspapers.  Trying to make a daily page installment of an ongoing romance story.   That's pretty much how I see "The Crush."

Oh, I still make the other kinds too.  I've got enough of "TC" lined up so I can work on other "shorter" projects.