Kody Okamoto
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Keeping Time x B-SIDE You
🕑 Added 2024-06-27 01:06:48 +0000 UTCI've had this idea in my head for MONTHS now but I've been unable to draw it because I just couldn't spare the time. Finally, now that I'm in between chapters of Keeping Time, I HAD A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN AND DRAW IT!
B-SIDE You is a really great webcomic with hundreds of pages already up by Kaycie D!
Aspiring musician and delinquent-in-reform, Danny Strife, strikes up a friendship with bookish teaching assistant, Alden Taylor, at community college. Danny educates Alden about his favorite subject – music – and Alden shows Danny a potential future at an amazing music school. As time goes on, however, their feelings for each other grow beyond friendship… and definitely beyond student and TA…
Kaycie and I clearly grew up around the same time, being influenced by a lot of the same culture and music, and so much of B-Side You is extremely resonant to me!! (I also love that Daniel and Danny share a name base, but have very different approaches to the way they use it...! Danny of B-Side You hates being called Danny Boy, but you'll see eventually in Keeping Time that that's what the Learys call Daniel. JUST LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT. I LOVE.)
Kaycie's art is incredible; she's SO good at really lively expressions and body language (I have a whole selection of hands she's drawn saved to my computer for ~inspiration~), and it was really fun getting to borrow her boys. I feel like a kid playing in someone else's toybox whenever I get to draw Denver and Daniel hanging out with other people's characters!
Anyway, if you need something to read while I'm hammering down the script/thumbnails for chapters 3, 4, and 5, then I highly recommend reading B-Side You!! It might scratch that itch of 'queer romance between dudes in the 2000s where music plays an important part of their relationship' for you!!
Comments
Yukiizura
Oh perfect timing, I just started B-SIDE You lmao. These four absolutely need a double date!
Kaycie Dunlap
How dare you draw kickass art AND say nice things about me, I can’t even believe this you KIND AND GENEROUS MONSTER (the hands thing might be one of my favorite compliments I’ve ever received 😭)
Amélie
Will definitely check this webcomic out soon! And I will take special attention to the hands, which is one of my fav things in art 😌💞 And this fanart is just so fun! I like seeing the more music nerd side of them!
