Foraging: pgs 1-4

Premise/Background:

Edwin and Portia, long time enemies, have entered a 'mutually beneficial agreement' whilst their friends have begun dating... Portia has begun realizing this is entirely different than her past situationships. Movie nights, 'let's just talk', sleeping over, and more break a lot of her fuck buddy rules. While she reaffirm the rules, Edwin leans in, wanting to spend more time with her, and sharing his hobbies... like foraging. It's his inexperienced way of wanting more out of this relationship.

This is a big character exploration and trying to figure out what they both want. They're both infatuated with each other, but neither want to admit it out of mutual fear of rejection. Portia kinda bounds ahead, making the next move, and edwin is pretty steady and ready to follow, reaffirming. Portia went into this kind of like... this is a guilty desire, she's wanted edwin, he's unwittingly rejected her, she's kinda aware enough to realize this agreement is not a good idea? but she wants him too much to really put an end to it. She tries to remain aloof, like readying the exit if she needs to, where as edwin sees this as an in. He wants portia, and doesn't have the words to say it so basically is like 'how do I get her to want to hang out with me' and starts giving her the gf treatment, which portia likes, and quickly they are basically dating without actually dating. Edwin's a bit more mature than she is by the end of it, cause he works up the courage to admit what he wants, where as Portia is too scared... Abandonment issues yippee.

The hags have spoken! Since I haven't finished this comic yet, I am gonna release it in parts so y'all are not on starved for nsfw content. Right now, this is more of a cozy smut comic? I'm currently on page 20........

My new years resolution was to do a big nsfw project a month (along with smaller other ones) so either a big colored illustration, or a comic. I wanted to test the csp comic tool, and my test got out of hand.