[Comic] a first time for everything

It took me ~ 40 hours in total (thanks Clip studio paint for keeping track!) and alot of sweat and tears- I mean research and brainpower BUT here we are! This is by far the most time intensive voted project I've done so far and I'm genuinely SO proud of it. Unfortunately, after this very intensive week of work my brain is pretty much deep fried still so the overall dialogue is still WIP!

Reading direction is left to right!

 I will most likely overhaul the wording and speechbubble placement as soon as my brain is unfried but I'm very much running out of time here since it's the last day of the month so I'm dropping you guys this as it is right now! 🙏💕 it still brings the story across so it's fine, it's mostly for my own satisfaction with the project really 🙈

You might recognize the last page since I actually did post an older version in the past with me expressing just how much I'd love to finish the entire comic I had planned but didn't have the time for it... well here we are! This is actually the entire comic to go along with it that I had roughly planned out back then, finally finished! 🥺💕

I went with a more complex rendering style for this in comparison to the DoD comic I did a while ago so it also matches the final page (and the nsfw test page I made a while ago!) which was alot of work and I honestly will not do it again for future projects unless the characters are (mostly) naked because it's SO much extra work in comparison to the simpler approach 😂 But I wanted to go through with this!!

Just for context I need to add here that this takes place before they're actually in a relationship in that sense, and mostly just spend alot of time together because they get along pretty well, you might even spot them holding hands totally platonically in the first page 🤭 they're both very much in denial to varying degrees of their own feelings and the other one's and view each other as "friends" but alas it's kinda obvious that they don't just have platonic interest in each other but both are pretty shit at dealing with this kind of thing. Kiran at this point is pretty aware of her feelings but tries to hide them since she doesn't want to impose them on him and ruin the fragile kind of relationship she has with Grima.