LaPorte Caves

Bravo to all! Three cheers each to Circes_Cup, Lowerbase and Twitch! Wait a tic... *checks watch as it's been more than a week. Well we'll give Circes a cheer in advance.
Woodclaw ~ I would like to throw my hat in the ring for keeping the images out of the main text of the story, maybe in a linked appendix or gallery. These images are FANTASTIC but the power of the mind is strong and I take pride in being able to imagine with the best of them, so when I run across someone else's vision smack dab in the middle of mine it's a bit perturbing. I have to close my eyes sometimes. This has been especially problematic on the S.W.R. series. So many differing visions, none of them living up to the unparalleled splendor of agent Wendy that dwells in my occipital lobe.
So it is with this story as well. Lowerbase, I know your real name you crazy fuck, and you have been a top notch contributor of female growth content and fantasy on par with the absolute best. Top 10 probably. Is he reading this? From sunny Brazil? (I think...) Anyways I'm glad to see he's writing stories again and obviously has been working on his rendering skills. All of those pre-transformation shots are AMA. ZING. and are works of art. They fit perfectly with the story and I think the face is pretty nice for Julia. In terms of the "After" photos I suppose every female muscle fan has their individual ideal that they like to imagine, and I must admit I sometimes mentally tailor the dimensions and numbers in Circe's stories to fit my own ideals but my basic deviations are in size and mass, maybe thickness and roundness? I have read way too many muscle growth stories over the years.
However, one of the benefits of illustrations, if done well, is that they can skip one or two layers of neurons and hit on a more visceral level. I prefer to read the story on my own terms, and then also visit the images on my own terms. I apply my own images when reading the story, then when looking at the images apply my interpretation of the story. Alan Moore had a good description of it in "writing for comics," where you dwell in the image and imagine it going forward and backwards, extending in time. He described renaissance paintings in the same way but I suppose for Alan Moore Superman and Madonna are interchangeable.
This is how I do it. It's not for everyone. Maybe if you just put links in the story instead of formatting in the whole image you could get the best of both?
Speaking of which there are multiple illustrations by different artists for the same story, so what do you do when they overlap? It's disconcerting to stuff so many visions in one spot, the occipital lobe is not a commercial kitchen. Twitch, your illustrations of Julia the mermaid are super nice, and I love the confidence and poise you've given her. I never would have pictured her as so tan but then again that's what the rest of my message is about! You've given her a great roundness and fullness and that tail is realistic! I imagined it as more of a piece of sporting equipment so there you go!
Circes! Where's that update?! Ha ha ha ha...... *twitches nervously

Ljin wrote: Amazing arts! Thank you so much for sharing. And so happy to hear there are more chapters to come.


By the way, in my mind, I picture their bodies close to this. (NSFW)

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Jebriodo of course. One of the best and that character is amazing, the teenage valkyrie. I forget her name. This is also much closer to how I imagine the characters.
Hey let's start a kickstarter campaign to get Jeb to illustrate the entire story! HA HA H AHA

Lanthid the Teutonic Teen. Ha ha ha yesss what an amazing vision of power. His pictures of her are so good. For the record my vision of the womanly mass in Circes world is not quite THIS extreme but my it's a compelling argument.

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twitch99 wrote:

circes_cup wrote:

Woodclaw wrote: Very nice work, although from your descriptions I always imagined Ruth being much larger at the shoulders.

Admittedly, there are some differences between the literal descriptions in the text and the way these bodies are rendered. But some artistic license is necessary with this story.

Specifically, there are two problems with a literal rendering of my text. First, it's easy to fall into "shrunken head syndrome", where the body's musculature begins to dwarf the head and the hands, which do not grow. Secondly, it's very hard to render clothing on these bodies generally, and it gets harder the more extreme the curves get. We didn't want to be in a situation where a simple t-shirt began to look like a sack full of potatoes. In summary, these women are supposed to be built and beautiful at the same time: maintaining proportionality and looking good in clothes can certainly be part of that balance.

I don't mean to suggest that Lowerbase has landed upon the only way to render the figures. For that matter, Twitch99 took a much more literal approach, which I also really really enjoyed. But I consider Lowerbase's choices to be valid as well. I signed off on these choices at an early stage and am thrilled to have his contributions.

I can only say WOW!! to the images that lowerbase has made, his skill is amazing. I look forward to more of his renders, his stuff is incredible.

I can attest to the clothing problem that circes mentions, I dabble in 3D art using DAZ3D, and most of my women tend to be very large and getting clothing to fit my amazons is always a problem. As for the shrunken head issue, DAZ3D does allow the head to be scaled up, but getting the head and body proportions to look good is not always easy.

I have a few images of Julia that I made and will post them on my deviant art page, twitch99.deviantart.com. I do not have close to the skill and mastery of lowerbase, so I will not be posting them here.

Look forward to more images and chapters.

Thanks for all your effort circes.

Cheers,

twitch

Brilliant Work Twitch! Would love to see the scene where Julia lifts and turns the drowned outboard motors with one hand whilst the men look on agawp; "That would have taken all of us all day to do what you've just done" Awesome Work Circes and Twitch!

The re-writes continue. I know what I want to say, just can't find enough time to on paper the way I want it. Sorry for the false start, as they say in track meets.

Regarding the inclusion of the pictures in the middle of the stories, I'd like to have both illustrated and non-illustrated versions available on the internet. On the illustrated version, Lowerbase might even format it entirely, meaning that fonts and text flow and background colors would be coordinated, like a story book. Moreover, if Twitch wants to generate a few more images, I'm open to having a second illustrated version as well. The more the merrier.

I feel very lucky that the story has been the subject of even a single image, set aside multiple images.

Now, to be fair, the Admins at SWM have not received any inquiries from me about posting multiple versions of the same story, so I can't presume that they are willing/able to do that. But we'll figure it out. Right now, I'm just focused on finishing the chapters.

Hi Circes, just a suggestion - it might be worth having the illustrated story on your DA account and the non-illustrated version on here. I'll try catch you online about a couple of photos and a short scene I have back on Earth for Julia. I did post it here earlier last week, but pulled it off the site before I could clear it fully with yourself. It's just a silly little number and only one short paragraph, but was fun to write!

Monty wrote:

Brilliant Work Twitch! Would love to see the scene where Julia lifts and turns the drowned outboard motors with one hand whilst the men look on agawp; "That would have taken all of us all day to do what you've just done" Awesome Work Circes and Twitch![/quote]

Thanks Monty. Here is Julia draining the motors. A few more on my DA site. No men to awe, as I have not created any other character but Julia.

Enjoy,

twitch

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Awesome, Twitch! Re-reading chap7 - it reads even better with your fantastic images!

Hi Circes do you have any news about the next chapter?

Everything is alright CIrces???

It was my mistake to promise new chapters back in December. They aren't ready.

I do work on this when I am able, but that's not very often given everything going on in my life.

I try my best to keep this fun for me, since I have no other reason to do it. And even as the story grows into something longer than I had originally planned, I'm trying to keep it true to my original intentions. Those are the only promises I can make at this point. The chapters will be ready when they are ready.

I guess it comes when it comes. But it's nice to know you're still around, circes.

Good stuff! I remember feeling a bit of pressure when I was writing. Take your time! Enjoy the story and make it worth what you are writing! I really can't give you enough kudos for what I've read so far. ☺

circes_cup wrote: It was my mistake to promise new chapters back in December. They aren't ready.

I do work on this when I am able, but that's not very often given everything going on in my life.

I try my best to keep this fun for me, since I have no other reason to do it. And even as the story grows into something longer than I had originally planned, I'm trying to keep it true to my original intentions. Those are the only promises I can make at this point. The chapters will be ready when they are ready.

Don't worry about that. I prefer that you are ok with your life. Take your time.
Best wishes

Woah! I just seen ch12 (rev) and ch13 hit the library! Going to love this! Thanks Circes!

AuGoose wrote: Small typo in part 13. I think. Could be some word play considering Julia's body .

It was the first of eight orgasms her would give her.

Fixed, thanks.

I concur.I'm liking the new balance you have found Circes. Three new chapters in one day! You'd think it was my birthday!

OK, it's finally done. I'm posting three new chapters in place of the original Ch 12, and have a few more in the works.

For those that have been following this story and asking for more, I appreciate your sticking with me over the last five months as I took the time I needed to make the changes I wanted.

Some of you have wondered whether something you said on the forums, or something somebody else said, caused me to send the story in a different direction. That is not the case. Everything I've posted in the last few days is true to my original intentions for the story, and in fact, my original Chapter 12 was scrapped precisely because it was not true to those intentions. Moreover, I can promise you that the remainder of what I write will also be true to the story I want to tell. There is nothing that anyone can say that would steer this story away from that.

I'm sharing these thoughts with you because I want you to know that you are free share your honest opinion on this forum, without fear that your comments might send the story careening off in a detrimental direction.

One logistical note: the original Chapter 12 will remain in the Library here, labeled "12 - OLD", or something like that. Having left it in the public domain for five months, I did not feel at liberty to simply take it down. For those of you that liked the darkness in the original 12, do not despair. There is more darkness coming.

Thank you to Woodclaw for all the help with cleaning up the formatting and getting this stuff posted so quickly after submittal.

Hope you all find something in this you can enjoy!