Hey, everyone.

Lovestrings Chapter 1 released a few hours ago. I wanted to include some concept art and behind the scenes stuff in the credits, but it didn't look very good, so I'll put it here instead. But first, quick confirmation: I decided that I will be adapting Chapter 2 and beyond (with a lot of changes from the original webcomic). So, yeah. Stay tuned for that.

And now, the behind the scenes stuff.

CONCEPT ART

This one was the very first art of the modern variation of the Lovestrings. There are some minor differences but overall these would go on to mostly be the final designs. Forgive me for the poor drawing skills, I'm not very good at 2D art, hence why I went with 3D for Lovestrings, haha.

This concept art is of a scrapped character named "Encrypto" - he had a similar concept to Randall Ransom, although he isn't evil or even ransomware. He was more of a helpful program, and had a very laid-back, chill personality. Inspired by Prismo from Adventure Time.

MEMES

...I'm not giving you context for this one.

FUN FACTS

-Boss Colon does actually have a voice actor, but said voice actor had to drop out of this chapter last minute. So instead, I sampled a voice clip of her screaming "NO!" in a voice chat at the top of her lungs for the dialogue sound.

-In the ancient cavemen times of late 2022, I made up the idea of the Lovestrings in the shower. Except, they weren't called the Lovestrings. And they were neither Kara nor Riley. They went by the horrible, terrible, stupid names "Samu and Martha" (like seriously what was I thinking) and they went by the last name...get ready for this... "Layshun" (WHAT WAS I THINKING?) - the idea was that, haha, get it, Samu Layshun = Simulation, but no, that's really stupid. Like, what about Martha? Marthulation is not a thing. I don't think. And if it is, it's probably something really gross. But it gets worse. They had emojis for heads. I feel sick. All of this was obviously scrapped because that was all very, very stupid.

-The Bovinews news anchor was inspired by two Minecraft players - "Salted" and "TheCampingRusher". A lot of my online friends are either 2b2t or Wynncraft (Minecraft servers) enjoyers, and they both happened to have some influential cow in a suit.

Final Remarks

So yeah, Chapter 2 is coming eventually. I had too much fun with this one not to. I've already started concept art-ing. Feel free to spoil yourself with the far lower quality webcomic linked on my profile. Although, like stated above, you wouldn't exactly be spoiling yourself too much, considering there's going to be a lot of changes.

I'll try my best to give regular updates here.

See ya later, digital world. <3