JUN2024 - All-Patrons Poll and Update!
Happy Pride, all! I hope your June is wonderful and happy and constructive and warm. Thanks for sticking with me on this journey we call life and supporting my livelihood in a way we both stand to...
Zestibone posts
A Special (Throbbing) Treat~!
Hey, all! Please enjoy these super cute artworks that I'm SUPER proud of! Get ready for polls soon! Thanks for your patience!
Besty,
Zesty 🐾
2024-06-07 05:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostMAY2024 - All-Patrons and Special Poll Results!
Hey all, thank you for voting! I'm so happy to introduce our newest pair: Sixty and KV! This is my first time drawing living vehicles and I'm SUPER EXCITED ABOUT IT. I have yet to figure out exactly what I'm doing with them, but I think for the time being monthly polls might focus on their advent...
2024-05-25 02:55:55 +0000 UTC View PostMAY2024 - Special Poll!
Thanks as always for your continued support - it means the world to me and allows me to keep doing the stuff I love for y'all. Let's cut to the chase with our poll!
POLL: For a new short series, which of the following species should I design a character for?(this will lik...
2024-05-21 02:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostMAY2024 - All-Patrons Poll!
Howdy, all! Happy May! Please excuse the later-than-usual post this month - I've been pursuing my driver's license and driver's ed lately and it's been suckin' all my time away. But I'm here to give you your much-deserved poll! Thanks as always for your continued support.
Oh...
2024-05-21 02:46:19 +0000 UTC View PostSWIRL&CAKE Physical Preorders Now Available!!!
Here we are: Finally, we can preorder physical copies of SWIRL&CAKE, a comic made very much with your help! If you'd like a sexy little memento of the support you gave and polls you participated in, all in one cute little package, please invest in a copy! It's only 14.99USD before taxes and s...
2024-04-30 23:31:05 +0000 UTC View PostAPR2024 - All-Patrons Poll Results!
First and foremost, thank you all for your continued support, and welcome to all our new patrons!
Wahh, where does the time go? I'm happy to present these daki designs to y'all! They still require much time and attention before they're ready to be printed on pillowcases, but the majority of...
2024-04-30 23:23:49 +0000 UTC View PostAPR2024 - Special Poll Results!
Aaaaand they took FOREVER, but I'm excited to share this with y'all! Lemme know which one is your favorite!! (Thanks again for your continued support - new dakimakura designs coming soon, thanks to this month's all-patrons poll!)
Besty,
Zesty
APR2024 - Special Poll Results (WIP)
EDIT: Oh shucks, Patreon decided to smoosh the resolution... so I've just added new images of them individually!
Welcome to all new patrons, and thanks again to the continuing ones! Your support is immensely helpful and I'm doing more and more research behind the scenes to keep both Snowed...
APR2024 - Special Poll!
Thank you again, as always, for your amazing support - I wanted to use THIS poll as an opportunity to do something different from usual. As it's April (and even the Fools' Day as I type this), I wanna do something decidedly funny for once. However, you guys get to choose what form that takes - le...
2024-04-01 16:51:06 +0000 UTC View PostAPR2024 - All-Patrons Poll and Update!
Thank you for your continued support, as always! We've also recently had a bunch of new folks join us, so - welcome!
Happy April Fools', y'all! I don't much participate in it, so don't worry, the below stuff won't be at all funny. Sorryyyyyyyyyyyyy.
As for an update -
BONUS: Creative exercise...
Remember this January reward? I saw it among my files and thought to revisit it, give it a bit more form and vibrance. I like both versions for different reasons. (the bright one is the new version). What do you think?? Which is hotter to you??
Besty,
Zesty
2024-03-29 18:09:24 +0000 UTC View PostMAR2024 - All-Patrons Poll Results!
You wanted dakimakura designs, and YOU'VE GOT 'EM! They took a maaassive amount of work, but I think I can rest comfortably with them at the state they're in (for now). What do you think? Would you love and hold (and love) these pillows?? (Yes, Swirl's pillow would be a more standard size pil...
2024-03-28 01:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostMAR2024 - Special Poll Results!
Our highest-tier patrons voted to see Swirl in a painted pin-up... so here's our shortstack among the cinnamon buns from which he got his name! Look yummy, don't they? ;9 (All characters depicted over 18 years of age, as always!)
Thank you as always for your continued support! I'l...
Sweet Leaves: Snowed In With You (Official Announcement!)
Production has begun! "Snowed In With You" is a 48-page graphic novel featuring 3 couples (Colson + Sebastien, Nico + Brook, Jo + Peach) and their intertwining Valentine's Day. Contains explicit M/M content and suggestive F/F content.
Although we hope to eventually publish it with Fen...
2024-03-13 21:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostMAR2024 - Special Poll!
So, now that I've got your attention...
Thanks as always for your support! Lately I've happened upon a bit of a new art style that works particularly well for pin-ups! In the spirit of that, I'd l...
2024-03-13 20:57:18 +0000 UTC View PostMAR2024 - All-Patrons Poll and Update!
Howdy, y'all! Thank you as always for your continued support! I have some quick updates for you this month, and as always, a poll!
- I'll be attending TFF starting tomorrow! If you're there too, feel free to say hey!
- Work on my collaboration with TanukiDad, Sweet Leaves, ... 2024-03-13 20:51:06 +0000 UTC View Post
FEB2024 - Poll results!
As requested via the all-patrons and special polls - I've drawn some bears (and a secret special Zesty) for ya, and practiced lining and lighting and other rendering techniques!
I decided to try clothing folds because my next comics will have a lot of different fabrics and I thought the sk...
FEB2024 - Special Poll!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support! Here's a recap of the all-patrons poll:
In preparation for my work in general, but mostly for future comic endeavors, I made it my New Year's resolution to study art more. Which area should I tackle first? (Higher pledge patrons can desi...
2024-02-06 02:03:42 +0000 UTC View PostFEB2024 - All-Patrons Poll and Update!
Happy February, folks! Hope all is well with you and yours.
A few things I feel you should know!
- I've submitted the (probably) final version of Swirl&Cake to my publishers, and it's seemingly on the edge of getting printed. As this is my first time, however, it could take mu... 2024-02-06 01:23:31 +0000 UTC View Post
JAN2024 - All-Patron Poll results: Goofy BuiXTyph
This month y'all get a cute sketchpage of bui and typh! Lemme know which sketch you like the most? I don't usually draw dancing, but...
I'm also trying to establish their relationship dynamic! What do you think?
- Zesty ♥
2024-01-30 19:40:30 +0000 UTC View PostJAN2024 - SPECIAL Poll results: Pokemon Mystery...?
Adventuring with friends is a journey worth putting your ALL into... no slacking off, unless...
Thanks to all my higher-tier patrons for your votes and support! ♥
2024-01-29 23:54:53 +0000 UTC View PostJAN2024 - Special Poll!
And for y'all special patrons out there: thank you again for all your support. Please choose your special image reward this month to be released for all patrons: of the three pokemon regions below, which would you like me to focus on in a fun 3-5 pokemon orgy piece?
2024-01-18 02:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostJAN2024 - All-Patrons Poll!
Happy new year, y'all! I've been taking the first bit of January to give myself a break - here's hoping you're treating yourselves nicely, too!
As for this month's polls, I'm not quite ready to get into Swirl&Cake2 content yet, and new Sweet Leaves stuff may be around the corner, but un...
2024-01-18 01:46:43 +0000 UTC View PostJust a Rope Away... 💦💦💦
Check out these two cuties, Nico and Brook - seems they're getting along... swimmingly? 🥴 💕
They'll be featured in the collab comic, Sweet Leaves, that I'm doing with @Tanukidad on Twitter (tanukidad.bsky.social)! I'm super psyched to work on this with him and am looking forward to s...
DEC2023 Patreon Exclusive: ZESTY RESOLUTIONS
Hey, y'all! Thank you for your patience - I told you that in place of a poll this month, I'd make something meaningful for you all. (No, it's not porn, I'm sorry ahaha)
I thought this would be a good time to reflect on my artist practice and think of ways to help it grow. Now that I'll be ...
Another Dec. Update??
Hey, happy holidays all! Thank you for reading and responding to my last couple of posts, it helps more than you know.
I've been mulling it over for a while - I really always want to post a poll each month, but this month has been really, really tough for me healthwise - further, now that ...
I NEED YOUR HELP!!! (Please reply (again!))
Hello again, y'all! Thank you for all of your wonderful responses on my last post - they're super duper helpful and enable me to do my best work. With that in mind, I'm calling on all of you again: if you could ask Swirl, Cake, or the author one question about themselves, the story, or th...
2023-12-19 03:32:20 +0000 UTC View PostA little survey... (please respond!)
Hey again! Hope you've been enjoying the new cover art! I had a question regarding the printed version of Swirl&Cake.
I was told I need to fill out an additional few pages (8-ish?) to finalize the book for printing. I'm trying to think of fun stuff to put in there, so I'm considering s...
NEW S&C COVER ART!!! (And update!)
Happy December, y'all! Look above for an awesome WIP for the printed version of Swirl&Cake! Been working really hard for the past three days on it - let's hope the editor likes it!!
Sorry I've been absent the first half of December, I've been getting SLAUGHTERED by COVID since MFF... s...