DovSherman
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Where I’ve Been and Where We’re Going
🕑 Added 2025-04-28 04:09:03 +0000 UTCHello my dear patrons!
First, thank you for being here. I know I haven’t been posting as much as I used to, and if you’ve felt disappointed or let down, I totally understand and I want you to know that I feel it too. You deserve consistency and creativity, and it’s been weighing on me that I haven’t delivered the way I want to. I want to be honest with you about what’s been going on and where things are headed next.
Two big issues have been blocking my progress lately.
The first is something I’ve struggled with for a long time: executive dysfunction. When Patreon allowed a pay-per-work model, it helped me focus by giving me a clear, achievable goal: finish one illustration, get paid. But when Patreon shifted to a monthly subscription model, that structure disappeared. Suddenly, I was facing an endless obligation with no built-in completion feedback, and it triggered a lot of executive dysfunction. I’m not trying to make any excuses here, just describing the difficult personal hurdle I am determined to overcome, both for my sake and for you, my wonderful supporters.
The second issue is my writing process. I spent months tinkering with story ideas and practicing comic scripts. It was fun and exciting to create each standalone script, at first. But once I finished a script, the mystery was gone, my interest faded, and executive dysfunction returned. Plus, a lot of the drafts where I had really fun ideas and interesting characters and situations but I couldn’t figure out how to resolve major flaws in the script still ran into that classic crossdressing fiction problem that, after the main character starts crossdressing, the story becomes indistinguishable from a story about a cis woman. On top of that, I’d often get too interested in an idea for the next project before I even started drawing the last one, and the cycle would repeat.
In short: lots of planning, very little doing. And it made me feel overwhelmed, trapped in my own head, instead of creating.
The experience has still been valuable though because the practice has taught me a lot about writing, pacing, characterization, how to build tension, how to arrange events to evoke a specific emotional response for the reader, and how to make characters we can care about.
And the good news is that I have a new plan. And I really think it’s going to work.
I’m shifting away from standalone scripts. Instead, I’m creating an ongoing series with no set ending. I want you to feel as excited as I do about what’s next because this new project feels like it’s solving so many of the roadblocks that have kept me stuck:
Having it be unending may sound like it would be a more daunting task but it means I also don’t have any specific goal I have to achieve. I can focus more on this page for this issue and never have to worry about how far away the end is because there is no end. Even when I want to tinker with a script for a new idea before I finish drawing the last one, it’s the same characters so it’s still the same project. Instead of a marathon, it becomes a playground.
We only need one setup. In standalone stories, a lot of time is spent setting up how a character gets into crossdressing. In an ongoing series, we establish that once and from then on, we can jump right into the good stuff, every single time.
These characters are adventurous, curious, and playful so the series can explore all kinds of different roles, sexy outfits, and kinky scenarios: maids, bunnygirls, housewives, sexy secretaries, bimbos, bondage, toys, ponyplay, and more. There will only sometimes be sex, but there will always be dressing up, roleplay, and power dynamics.
Since it’s a long-running series, I can develop the art resources for the settings and then reuse them extensively, which should make it much quicker to draw than if I had to make new resources for every new standalone story.
The characters I have come up with are very similar to the kind of stock character types I have used in a lot of my illustrations in the past, both in appearance and relationship dynamics, but now with more depth and complexity. I’ve already finished the full scripts for the first three issues so I know that they work, that they can easily adapt to new kinks and outfits, and I genuinely love these characters. Writing for them is pure joy. I hope that you’ll love them as much as I do.
I don’t want to spoil too much yet but I’m excited to share the character designs for the main cast of Issue #1! I have also just finished planning the layouts of the two key environments for that issue so I will start developing the backdrop art resources next.
Thank you so much again for being here and for believing in my work, even during the quieter times. I can't wait to show you what’s next.
Comments
Dov Sherman
I'll get back to finishing those other comics at some point. I just really want to work on The Kinkleys for now.
Chup
Honestly this sounds cool and may even be away for you to reuse older characters and excuse to vist them and see how they have been. I would love to see how Harold is doing.
Jay
Great to see you're back!
LP
I'm a longtime fan of your work, originally following you from when you were working on 'Lean On Me' with Jade Gordon. I believe in your abilities, and if there's a new method you have to do that works for you, please feel free to go for it! I'm excited to see where this new concept goes.
