Working on Muscle Avenger vs Uberfrau

I had thought about doing a giantess comic next, but started to work on the next installment of Muscle Avenger - where she takes on the Uberfrau, and just got into that once I started, so I'm going to push forward and get it done, then circle back afterward to do a giantess comic.

I'm posting a sample page from the Muscle Avenger vs Uberfrau comic here.  I hope to finish the comic within the next couple of days, and then work on a giantess comic to post at begiantess.com before the end of the month

Had to redo Uberfrau. Again.

I'd mentioned in a previous post that when I started the Muscle Avenger series up again after a long hiatus, I updated the Uberfrau to be based on Victoria 4 instead of Victoria 3.    I had to update her once again today, this time because my quadcore finally gave up the ghost and I migrated everything recently to my six core machine.  The Uberfrau had been residing on the quadcore so I had to update her from scratch.

The images here show what I came up with.  She's going to be going toe to toe with the Muscle Avenger in the next comic I do for strongandstacked.com.  Look for that soon .

Big Fake Boob Star Issue 02 has been uploaded

 I just uploaded the second issue of Big Fake Boob Star to strongandstacked.com.  It's a story of breast expansion by breast implants

Have been busy lately with my day job and other stuff so it took me a while to finish this one.

Next up will be second issue of gentle giantess for begiantess.com and then next issue of Muscle Avenger for strongandstacked.com

Am going to try to make a lot of progress on those this week.

Gentle Giantess Comic is Uploaded

Its been far too long since I updated begiantess.com, so I finally uploaded a new comic there today.  I'd had a request for a gentle giantess comic since I'd done so much dominant stuff on that site for the last few updates.

The story I came up with involves a girl who wants to get into modeling.  She realizes she's going to need to be taller with bigger boobs, so on a lark she orders a growth supplement off the internet

It works far better than she'd expected. In fact she becomes 45 feet tall with blimp sized boobs.  This shakes her up and also she ends up inadvertently scaring people as she walks around the city

She's a gentle soul at heart and lucky for her a police officer falls in love with her and decides to help her .

I'm planning on doing at least two more installments of this comic and the first one is up at begiantess.com right now

BNB-ART.COM gone without a trace

Yowza!

 There are sites that appear and vanish.  Some that are around for a long time, but finally succumb. Others that still exist but simply cease to be updated.

I think about all this when I am working on my own sites.  Right now strongandstacked.com and begiantess.com are still afloat, and my current plan is to keep them both going for a long time.  But many other sites with similar or related themes have come and gone over the years

One site that had intrigued me with its possibilities was www.bnb-art.com.  I'm a sucker for the combination of big muscles and big boobs, and this site had that as its main theme.

Back in 2009 I got an email from the webmaster of bnb-art.com asking me to participate in a banner exchange with him :
From: "inquiries@bnb-art.com" <inquiries@bnb-art.com>
To: content_creator@strongandstacked.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:49 PM
Subject: Banner Exchange Request

strong and stacked,

I'd like to exchange banners with your site. My site is 
www.bnb-art.com which offers original breast and bicep morphs. I've 
already put your banner on my site on the entrance page below the 
enter/exit buttons. My banner link image is attached. Thank you.

Regards,
bnb-art.com

When I saw the banner he had sent me, I got pretty excited .  Women with massive boobs and bulging biceps - awesome!  And I do enjoy clothed images - there's something about a woman stretching her top to the absolute limit that I find intriguing beyond belief

So I went ahead and linked to his site.  Not long afterward, the site vanished .  Looking around the web, there isn't much to show that it had ever existed.  A google search turned up the few images I'm showing here in this blog post and I have the original banner image the webmaster sent me, which I'm showing here too.

It's a shame that whatever had been on the site is just gone.  It seemed to me like the site had potential.

Just Finished Muscle Avenger Issue 03, Giantess stuff up next

Over the memorial day weekend I ended up working on a muscle/FMG comic.  I'd wanted to do some giantess stuff, but it turned out I was all set up to work on Muscle Avenger Issue 003.  So I went ahead and did that.

The story arc for this series is that the Muscle Avenger makes her way to the evil Uberfrau, and I do intend for the two of them to have a muscle girl on muscle girl titanic showdown... but I wasn't able to advance the story that far yet.  Instead this issue focused on the Muscle Avenger having to contend with some other obstacles in her way

I'm going to shoot for the next installment being one where Muscle Avenger and Uberfrau meet .  But before I do that, I have to do some other things.

First up, I absolutely have to do a begiantess.com comic.  In the next couple days.  It's been too long since I updated that site and I am doing a gentle giantess comic for that site next.  So that's what I will work on starting tommorrow and hopefully have done in a couple days

After that, I need to get back to some BE material for strongandstacked.com, and I think what makes the most sense is to do a part 2 of the recent BE via breast implants comic that I posted a couple weeks back

Commissions Purchased BY Me For My Sites: Hard to do

 I've had a couple of requests from members of strongandstacked for me to commission artists for material to be put on to the website.  I'm not talking about people asking me to do commissions for them.  Rather I'm talking about people requesting that I commission third party artists to create material for Strong and Stacked

Now I'm not completely averse to doing it - but I have done it in the past and I figured it's worth explaining that given the relatively small profit margin that exists for my websites, its tough for me to commission other artists to create material for the website.  Not impossible, but tough.

Stone3D Muscle Girl

Stone3D FMG Sequence

THE ECONOMICS OF IT

I wrote a post a while back about the economics of running my websites http://strongandstacked.blogspot.com/2013_02_01_archive.html .  Looking at what I've been getting lately per month - I make about 350 dollars or so per month.  Not retiring on that any time soon certainly :)  But its a nice little augmentation to my day job income

Now when commissions of third party artists come into the picture, they eat up a substantial chunk of that 350 dollars.  And that's what makes it hard.  I think what I can do is save up a certain budget for commissions and try to pay for one every few months .  But given the income level of the site I just can't do it very often 

Stone3D Muscle Girl

OTHER SITES

I don't know how other sites manage to do this more often.  Maybe they just have a far larger base of members and also they charge more for their site.

Take a site like Amy's Conquest http://amysconquest.com .  From what I can tell, that site is purely driven via artwork etc that the site owner commissions from other people.  I myself have created some content for that site in the past. 
Now its true that there is some very impressive drawn art on that site.  The monthly fee for that site as of this writing is 19.99 per month.  There must be an impressive member base though to keep that website afloat.  Because commissioning all that artwork that fills up the site is not cheap.

Another example is Bad Girls Art http://www.badgirlsart.com/ .  Again, I believe that site is filled with content purely commissioned by the site owner.  Well, except for the text in the comics. I think the owner commissions artists to do the artwork, then he writes the dialogue in the comics .  I absolutely love some of the artwork on the website.  That combination of big muscles and humongous tits.  But I'm sure it doesn't

Saxxon's take on Ms. Muscles

Loernor Muscle Girl

Stone3D Boob Girl

Stone3D Muscle Girl

 come cheap to commission.  And again, the site is charging more than I am.  24 USD per month. 

Also I noticed that badgirlsart forked off a separate site bga-library.com where they move older material.  So they only keep a subset of the newest stuff on badgirlsart.com - if you want access to the archived older material, you have to sign up for a completely separate site bga-library.com.  Maybe doing that generates enough income for the site owner to be able to afford commissions.

Now contrast those two examples of sites with purely commissioned content with something like Tigersan's Fem Power Xtreme.  Tigersan is the sole content creator there.  He doesn't have to commission anybody.  So he saves a lot of money by just creating the stuff himself.  I'm in a similar situation.  Well, I should clarify.  I'm nowhere near as talented as Tigersan is at creating sculpted custom muscle women and exquisite renders.  He is a real virtuoso at all of that.  But where we are similar is that we create the content for our own sites.

In my case, unlike Tigersan, I have commissioned SOME artwork in the past.  It's probably worth discussing that

COMMISSIONS I'VE BOUGHT

So my primary go to guy in the past for commissions has been Stone 3D.  And if I start commissioning content for the site again, he's the first person I'll definitely contact.  As a side note, if you want to commission him for anything, check out his deviant art page at http://stone3d.deviantart.com

Stone has created several fantastic comics for my website.  And at a very reasonable price.  However, given the slim profit margin I described above, I haven't been able to come up with money to commission him for anything recently.

It's certainly not his fault.  He never overcharges me and has incredibly reasonable rates.  Its on my end of things - I end up using the modest profits from the site to do a few things.  Some of it is investing in software and tools/models I use for content.  Some of it is just paying my monthly bills...

But at the end of the day, I just haven't had a lot of cash lately to spend on commissions.  Given that I've had requests specifically for more stuff from Stone, I plan to try to carve out some piece of the budget to commission him soon.  But its not easy for me given where the finances are

Now Stone has been by far the most prolific commissioned creator of content for strongandstacked.com in the past.  But I have occasionally turned to other artists/creators.

I've commissioned Saxxon before to create some line art.  He's very talented, but I found that given my budget I could afford like 5 line drawings in a month.  That's it.  I ended up kind of putting them into one of my comics.  But it just wasn't enough content for the site for me to justify to myself being able to pay for it in the future.

Femfortefan is another artist I've commissioned, and like Saxxon, he's very talented.  But again, I was finding I could afford like 6 drawings in a month. 

I commissioned a few other artists too, but in the end I decided Stone3D made the most sense for amount of content created per dollar spent.  He does fantastic stuff too.  I know that he was cutting me a bit of a break on his rates, and in return I've tried to promote his stuff and his deviant art page on my site.

I may commission him again in the near future but like I said I'll need to save up to do that