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[2021] 76094PV 369C 2646F 162W 49SUB
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So this is Christmas, and what have you done ...?
I continue to hate this song. I still hate this song. It stills make me feel like an utter loser and slacker because it really feels like that I have done absolutely nothing!
But we know that isn’t quite true. And on December 24 – every year – I go through my stats and figure out how well I have done by the numbers. And then make some vague promises on things for the following year.
So, here we go. 2021 in a nutshell:
PREVIOUS (2020): 67619PV 429C 1935F 119W 41SUB
NEW (2021): 76094PV 369C 2646F 162W 49SUB
Watchers: 162/119 = 136% of 2020.
Favorites: 2646/1935 = 136% of 2020.
Comments: 369/429 = 86% of 2020.
Page View: +8475 … compared to 2020 … +7029 … 120% over 2020
But now to NORMALIZE.
162/49 = 3.31 watchers per submission. 2020: 2.90, so up by .41 watchers per submission.
2617/49 = 53.41 favorites per submission. 2020: 47.19, so up by 6.22 favorites per submission.
369/49 = 7.53 comments per submission. 2020: 10.46, so down by 2.93 comments per submission.
2020: 7029/49 = 143.44 2021: 8475/49 = 172.96, so up by 29.52 page views per submission.
Of course, some of this is unfair because I have been getting some of my older and archaic stuff watched, favorited, or commented on as my gallery continues to build. But, still, interesting.
Conclusion: My stuff is being watched by wonderful people like you and I welcome all the new people who are looking at my stuff. I’m humbled, honored, and will continue to draw stuff and am glad that you like what I have made so far. I will do my best in the future to make some things that generate more comments and ideas worth discussing. 😊 You’re all fabulous.
GOALS:
So, now with everything reset in FA, it’s time to come up with the things I need to do between now and next Christmas Eve.
So, goals for the year coming up:
• Stop being a slacker.
• Complete the “How Not To Be Seen” comic by around April. April 1 perhaps. I’m nearly done as it is now.
• Sell art at FC 2022 and do some interesting art things. I plan to sell up to 4 pieces at FC 2022 so if you’re going to be there check out my canvas prints that I have on sale in the Art Show.
• Recover from the “I Suck At Doing Commissions” and do them smarter. Some of you might remember that I did some brief commissions with Nucleus Masks and I got swamped with them. I tackled them as best as I could but I did burn out. I burned out hard. I really do/did mean to continue and make more, but … things got insane busy and I never recovered from Nucleus Mask burnout. It’s only now that I’ve been able to do anything similar (the Deer Masks) and … either way, I’ll say I’m sorry now that this happened, but not sure if I should commit to completing them now or not. I do think that it is smart that I didn’t take money in advance. I think that’s a policy I’ll carry going forward.
• Either way, if I do commissions, if I am to do them at all, they’ll take a page or will be placed in my universe. My universe is very adaptive and flexy and I can almost fit anything/everything/everyone into it. But I won’t go outside of that.
• And speaking of that, I have a problem: People don’t know what my universe is. People have no idea what my creatures, my setting, my planets, everything are. And the thing is that I keep on promising I’ll sit down at a word processor and write it out – except I don’t think that’s the correct thing to do. I don’t think it’s the best way to do it. Something tells me doing quick videos might better but I don’t know. I don’t know how to even approach publication or communicate mass ideas to the masses. I suck at marketing.
• I’m going to refactor my livestreaming. It’s time for a refresh either way.
• Be true to myself. Stop pretending I’m not who I am for the comfort of others. This is really really hard.
• Be less annoying.
• Try being an artist.
• Don’t go crazy.
Well, that’s all for now. I’m sitting here watching A Christmas Story, like I did last year when I did this, and just trying to come up with ideas on how to do all of this. Maybe it’s time that I start asking for help. Maybe it’s time to hire people. Or something.
Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.
Now, I might have to go and draw more deer -- or rather, people being turned into deer with silly rubber deer masks and antlers secured by glue. Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Kyroraz.
I continue to hate this song. I still hate this song. It stills make me feel like an utter loser and slacker because it really feels like that I have done absolutely nothing!
But we know that isn’t quite true. And on December 24 – every year – I go through my stats and figure out how well I have done by the numbers. And then make some vague promises on things for the following year.
So, here we go. 2021 in a nutshell:
PREVIOUS (2020): 67619PV 429C 1935F 119W 41SUB
NEW (2021): 76094PV 369C 2646F 162W 49SUB
Watchers: 162/119 = 136% of 2020.
Favorites: 2646/1935 = 136% of 2020.
Comments: 369/429 = 86% of 2020.
Page View: +8475 … compared to 2020 … +7029 … 120% over 2020
But now to NORMALIZE.
162/49 = 3.31 watchers per submission. 2020: 2.90, so up by .41 watchers per submission.
2617/49 = 53.41 favorites per submission. 2020: 47.19, so up by 6.22 favorites per submission.
369/49 = 7.53 comments per submission. 2020: 10.46, so down by 2.93 comments per submission.
2020: 7029/49 = 143.44 2021: 8475/49 = 172.96, so up by 29.52 page views per submission.
Of course, some of this is unfair because I have been getting some of my older and archaic stuff watched, favorited, or commented on as my gallery continues to build. But, still, interesting.
Conclusion: My stuff is being watched by wonderful people like you and I welcome all the new people who are looking at my stuff. I’m humbled, honored, and will continue to draw stuff and am glad that you like what I have made so far. I will do my best in the future to make some things that generate more comments and ideas worth discussing. 😊 You’re all fabulous.
GOALS:
So, now with everything reset in FA, it’s time to come up with the things I need to do between now and next Christmas Eve.
So, goals for the year coming up:
• Stop being a slacker.
• Complete the “How Not To Be Seen” comic by around April. April 1 perhaps. I’m nearly done as it is now.
• Sell art at FC 2022 and do some interesting art things. I plan to sell up to 4 pieces at FC 2022 so if you’re going to be there check out my canvas prints that I have on sale in the Art Show.
• Recover from the “I Suck At Doing Commissions” and do them smarter. Some of you might remember that I did some brief commissions with Nucleus Masks and I got swamped with them. I tackled them as best as I could but I did burn out. I burned out hard. I really do/did mean to continue and make more, but … things got insane busy and I never recovered from Nucleus Mask burnout. It’s only now that I’ve been able to do anything similar (the Deer Masks) and … either way, I’ll say I’m sorry now that this happened, but not sure if I should commit to completing them now or not. I do think that it is smart that I didn’t take money in advance. I think that’s a policy I’ll carry going forward.
• Either way, if I do commissions, if I am to do them at all, they’ll take a page or will be placed in my universe. My universe is very adaptive and flexy and I can almost fit anything/everything/everyone into it. But I won’t go outside of that.
• And speaking of that, I have a problem: People don’t know what my universe is. People have no idea what my creatures, my setting, my planets, everything are. And the thing is that I keep on promising I’ll sit down at a word processor and write it out – except I don’t think that’s the correct thing to do. I don’t think it’s the best way to do it. Something tells me doing quick videos might better but I don’t know. I don’t know how to even approach publication or communicate mass ideas to the masses. I suck at marketing.
• I’m going to refactor my livestreaming. It’s time for a refresh either way.
• Be true to myself. Stop pretending I’m not who I am for the comfort of others. This is really really hard.
• Be less annoying.
• Try being an artist.
• Don’t go crazy.
Well, that’s all for now. I’m sitting here watching A Christmas Story, like I did last year when I did this, and just trying to come up with ideas on how to do all of this. Maybe it’s time that I start asking for help. Maybe it’s time to hire people. Or something.
Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.
Now, I might have to go and draw more deer -- or rather, people being turned into deer with silly rubber deer masks and antlers secured by glue. Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Kyroraz.
And how does your universe diverge from the BG one? Perhaps a wiki for it?
The universe I have includes BG. It's all big and inclusive with many properties. BG. Crimson. The Guild. The Rshast Dominion. The Commonwealth of Independent Systems, the Heirarchy. All of it is under the same envelope, physics, and mechanisms. It's all part of the same pie.
Merry Christmas, Tonya. Thank you for the yellow and pink latex uniforms. XD
I'll be compelled to do one about Wolfheim.
But I was thinking perhaps of doing something with some fast quick simple animations and doing it Hitchhiker Guide style.
Nice numbers, I hope you get more in the next year
and well, I liked a pair of your stories, however you wouldn't do more them if I they didn't got the atention your draws get... don't push yourself, you're doing good...
Out of curiosity which stories were those?
and
-Entitled Citizens are Entitled
and hey! when I looked for those stories I just saw you were a rubber ant (I liked that concept!) and this! <3
sorry for stalking :3
And it is okay XD. Stalk away. I made this stuff for funs.
both were stories that deserve at least a pair of parts more, well at least in my opinion
Kyro being a Guild worker and having all of this habits programmed into him was a lot of fun too.
I'm trying to figure out how both could be expanded ... or at least how the theme can be moved forward. Then again, Crimson does do both mechanization and reprogramming. But I sort of miss Ta'ep. I'm surprised about the second story being popular since it focuses more on the after effects than the actual changing of the person.
I think in the Guild universe, there should be a group of punks and concerned people who want to make a revolt or a protest against them (like the arrogant mad lady of that story) and then they fail or something
the other... I don't know... but it would be cool to see more!