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March 2023 Check-in
2 years ago
~Milachu's Journal~ Heya there~
Just wanna do another lil check-in. More updates on:
- the state of my commission queue & what I plan to work on
- what I’m thinking of working on
- any other updates
- and let any of you all ask open-ended questions you’d like me to answer.
— Commissions & Plans —
So I said in my last journal I said I was using Trello to help me plan my work again and it was super useful for me. But for a lot of February and early March here lately, I haven’t been nearly as productive, despite still using Trello. I’m not entirely sure why, but I have a few culprits.
- First is that I haven’t been streaming. Streams are usually how I force myself to sit down and work on commissions for a few hours.
- Second is that I’m in a different environment right now. I’ve been house-sitting and dog-sitting for fam the past couple weeks.
- Third is that I haven’t been drinking as much coffee lately. In January I pretty much quit coffee because it was causing me headaches and emotional problems (the caffeine created a mental fight-or-flight anxiety response that I didn’t recognize). But after some experiments where I had some coffee again and I got a lot of work done quickly, I’m starting to believe it will be somewhat necessary for commission-work reasons.
I will change one factor at a time and see what works. First thing I’ll try doing is re-introducing some small amount of coffee to help me get my work done. I’ve been tracking my work using a time-tracking app for the past week, so I’ll keep using that instead of streaming for the coming week.
Commission requests just closed. I’ll be sending an email to everyone who applied so that everyone gets feedback this time.
— Ideas —
Since last I journaled, I’ve made thumbnails for 11 of the 18 pages that will be in the Glory Hole Stories 3 comic, plus sketched a title page. Also I colored the title page and page 1 of the comic. That’s coming along great! I’m thinking about how to distribute it, because art is my job and I need to eat. I’m thinking about selling the comic on gumroad or something (I set a price on the site, each person who wants to read it pays the price, and then they get reading access to the entire comic). I’ve never sold a comic like that before and I’d love to try it out.
I’ve been hanging out in Braeburned’s streams lately, and man.. watching him make comics is inspiring to me. One of these days I am gonna get a drawing from him, or at least get one of my characters featured somewhere.
Oh! And there’s this really helpful artist I’ve been seeing videos of lately. He makes short tutorials on how to draw different kinds of things. I highly recommend checking out some of his videos!
https://twitter.com/mitchleeuwe?s=2.....ZMuD4-fegO_1CQ
— General Updates —
I finally uploaded the unposted pages from the comic with Rod and Buttons (lol)! Took forever but I did it. I still have a lot of other drawings to upload to FA/IB, but I’m not too worried about when I post them. The half-posted comic was the main thing bothering me.
My birthday was on the 22nd of February and I got a lot of birthday wishes from people, and I really appreciate everyone who came to wish me a special day - thank you! ^^
— Feedback —
If you have any feedback you’d like to give or questions you’d like answered, feel free to ask. Suggestions, technical stuff, how I do certain things, if I’m okay with something, anything.
Just wanna do another lil check-in. More updates on:
- the state of my commission queue & what I plan to work on
- what I’m thinking of working on
- any other updates
- and let any of you all ask open-ended questions you’d like me to answer.
— Commissions & Plans —
So I said in my last journal I said I was using Trello to help me plan my work again and it was super useful for me. But for a lot of February and early March here lately, I haven’t been nearly as productive, despite still using Trello. I’m not entirely sure why, but I have a few culprits.
- First is that I haven’t been streaming. Streams are usually how I force myself to sit down and work on commissions for a few hours.
- Second is that I’m in a different environment right now. I’ve been house-sitting and dog-sitting for fam the past couple weeks.
- Third is that I haven’t been drinking as much coffee lately. In January I pretty much quit coffee because it was causing me headaches and emotional problems (the caffeine created a mental fight-or-flight anxiety response that I didn’t recognize). But after some experiments where I had some coffee again and I got a lot of work done quickly, I’m starting to believe it will be somewhat necessary for commission-work reasons.
I will change one factor at a time and see what works. First thing I’ll try doing is re-introducing some small amount of coffee to help me get my work done. I’ve been tracking my work using a time-tracking app for the past week, so I’ll keep using that instead of streaming for the coming week.
Commission requests just closed. I’ll be sending an email to everyone who applied so that everyone gets feedback this time.
— Ideas —
Since last I journaled, I’ve made thumbnails for 11 of the 18 pages that will be in the Glory Hole Stories 3 comic, plus sketched a title page. Also I colored the title page and page 1 of the comic. That’s coming along great! I’m thinking about how to distribute it, because art is my job and I need to eat. I’m thinking about selling the comic on gumroad or something (I set a price on the site, each person who wants to read it pays the price, and then they get reading access to the entire comic). I’ve never sold a comic like that before and I’d love to try it out.
I’ve been hanging out in Braeburned’s streams lately, and man.. watching him make comics is inspiring to me. One of these days I am gonna get a drawing from him, or at least get one of my characters featured somewhere.
Oh! And there’s this really helpful artist I’ve been seeing videos of lately. He makes short tutorials on how to draw different kinds of things. I highly recommend checking out some of his videos!
https://twitter.com/mitchleeuwe?s=2.....ZMuD4-fegO_1CQ
— General Updates —
I finally uploaded the unposted pages from the comic with Rod and Buttons (lol)! Took forever but I did it. I still have a lot of other drawings to upload to FA/IB, but I’m not too worried about when I post them. The half-posted comic was the main thing bothering me.
My birthday was on the 22nd of February and I got a lot of birthday wishes from people, and I really appreciate everyone who came to wish me a special day - thank you! ^^
— Feedback —
If you have any feedback you’d like to give or questions you’d like answered, feel free to ask. Suggestions, technical stuff, how I do certain things, if I’m okay with something, anything.
