No Pinup But Here's a Bunch of Reina Stuff!

November 20th, 2025

I was shooting to get a pinup done on top of start posting Reina stuff this week, but the Reina stuff wound up taking longer than I thought it would. Lot of design work needed to get done, then start drawing insert art, and then a cover! I actually threw away one of the insert drawings I had planned to do because I was running out of time and thought maybe 3 drawings in a 3k word story might be a lot. So I went with just two. Or three if you count my splitting one of the drawings to two panels as being three drawings.

So I figured I'd go ahead and show off what I got, from the finished art to some behind the scenes roughs and design stuff!

The Crimson Comet has been a nightmare in terms of trying to figure out the design for for the past, uh, several years? If you read the start of chapter 2 of Kat you can see one version of it that Cooper said looked too much like a fighter jet, but since I was on a time crunch for Kat and it wasn’t THAT important to the plot I went “fuck it” and went with that design.

Obviously couldn’t do that for the ACTUAL Reina story, could I?

The story since its inception was spaceships wielding giant swords, heavily inspired by Outlaw Star’s grappler ships. But, uh, coming up with spaceships is hard! And over the years as I worked on it new ideas would come and go. Originally it was just future space, then became far future fantasy space after multiple galactic apocalypses. Then after back and forth with Cooper the idea of the spaceships having a dragon aesthetic seemed cool and give it a distinct flair. And now here I am, having created a mech instead of a spaceship. Not quite spaceships with swords anymore, is it? Even so I think it’s still a lot of fun. But because of it there’s not distinct differences between regular spaceships and the ones that wield weapons and can fly about in space all willy nilly while typical spaceships are incredibly slow when it comes to turning around and stuff, making them unfit for close combat.

I also dumped some design work with The Sylvie Gang, multiple variations of the Crimson Comet, and some design work for Sylvie that I did months ago (bonus 16-year-old Kat’s mom included)! Hopefully this can give a bit of insight of the pain and agony that is me having to come up with designs and not just bullshitting designs as I typically do.

For those who haven’t read Galactic Dragoon Reina yet I hope you give it a looksie starting this weekend!

That’s it for now! See y’all next week!