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May 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 —
Of my current commission batch, I’ve completed 4 and 5 need to be completed now. I plan on getting the remaining 5 done in the next 2 weeks. One of the commissions I finished just got posted (Indoor Bird Watching). Another one I finished is an animated version of a commission I made last year, and I’m really proud of this animated commission. :3
After I finish my current commission queue, I will probably open for another YCH. I got a good rough draft of the idea already. I just need to clean it up and slap the starting bid and min increase numbers on it.
GHS3 is slowly coming along. I rough drafted more pages, and just finished coloring page 4 last night. Hoping to get more work done on that later today!
I also finished the story boarding for Warden’s comic finally. I felt like that was taking forever to get done. I started out the same way I normally do for comics by writing out the exact panel-by-panel contents of each page, but at some point realized that this comic has way more pages in it than my standard short comic commission. Therefor, I switched to just writing out what’s generally going to happen on each page. I don’t know how many pages we’ll have in the end, but it’s likely going to be over 20, maybe even 30! All depends on how we move forward from here, since I sent the story draft off for Warden to review~
— Ideas —
I’m still thinking about making animations, like I said last check-in. Before I can get to those, I want to work on my personal comic Pushing my Buttons. I at least want to write out the story up to the end of Buttons’ college experience, and then draw some more pages. Once I’ve done that, I’ll feel good to move on and make some animations for a bit before I go back and work on that comic some more.
And before I can work on the PMB comic, I want to finish GHS3. Now that I’m finished coming up with a story for Warden’s comic start-to-finish, the rest is just sorting out what’s already on the table, so I have more mental room to plan the PMB comic now when I’m not drawing GHS3.
— General Updates —
Last check-in, I mentioned coming back from a break and getting back to work. I actually found it hard to focus on drawing for a while there, so commissions were hard to get done. I realized the problem was that I straight-up hadn’t drawn much at all while I was off for 2 weeks. Drawing is like a muscle. If you intend to do it a lot, you have to make yourself do it at least a little bit on regular intervals. Like, I shouldn’t have dropped drawing altogether while taking time off. I should have at least kept up with drawing to a minimum degree, like making 1 or 2 small doodles each day. Cuz trying to draw again after basically not doing it much at all for 2 weeks was ROUGH. I had no drive. I was more interested in gaming. I had to peel myself away from gaming entirely just to get back on my drawing grind. And now I feel much better about that.
I am really enjoying my Patreon being NSFW again. I’m able to make early access posts, and post teasers to Twitter. I’ve gotten more supporters right away since making the switch.
I’m currently in Colombia for dental reasons once again. This time is for getting another brace attached to a tooth that’s crooked. They couldn’t attach the brace before because it was in an awkward position, but now my teeth have moved from the other braces, and it can finally get a brace put on to move it into place. Also getting a general checkup, cleaning, and cavities being addressed.
Oh have you guys heard FA is updating their policy on pokemon and digimon content? Apparently they’re going to remove content featuring characters from those franchizes and similar ones if the character has a certain body type. Like not just if the pokemon is canonically young, but if the pokemon just LOOKS young, they’ll remove it. I heard this policy won’t be in effect until July 1st. I’ve heard a lot of other pokemon artists are worried about this. I don’t blame them tbh.
I’m pretty sure a lot of my content will be dis-allowed from FA due to this policy. I am waiting to see what happens for a bit first. But if you see some of my content on FA start to be removed in the next 4-6 weeks, you’ll know why. I will try to keep my FA, so I will remove whatever I need to stay on the website.
— 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 —
Of my current commission batch, I’ve completed 4 and 5 need to be completed now. I plan on getting the remaining 5 done in the next 2 weeks. One of the commissions I finished just got posted (Indoor Bird Watching). Another one I finished is an animated version of a commission I made last year, and I’m really proud of this animated commission. :3
After I finish my current commission queue, I will probably open for another YCH. I got a good rough draft of the idea already. I just need to clean it up and slap the starting bid and min increase numbers on it.
GHS3 is slowly coming along. I rough drafted more pages, and just finished coloring page 4 last night. Hoping to get more work done on that later today!
I also finished the story boarding for Warden’s comic finally. I felt like that was taking forever to get done. I started out the same way I normally do for comics by writing out the exact panel-by-panel contents of each page, but at some point realized that this comic has way more pages in it than my standard short comic commission. Therefor, I switched to just writing out what’s generally going to happen on each page. I don’t know how many pages we’ll have in the end, but it’s likely going to be over 20, maybe even 30! All depends on how we move forward from here, since I sent the story draft off for Warden to review~
— Ideas —
I’m still thinking about making animations, like I said last check-in. Before I can get to those, I want to work on my personal comic Pushing my Buttons. I at least want to write out the story up to the end of Buttons’ college experience, and then draw some more pages. Once I’ve done that, I’ll feel good to move on and make some animations for a bit before I go back and work on that comic some more.
And before I can work on the PMB comic, I want to finish GHS3. Now that I’m finished coming up with a story for Warden’s comic start-to-finish, the rest is just sorting out what’s already on the table, so I have more mental room to plan the PMB comic now when I’m not drawing GHS3.
— General Updates —
Last check-in, I mentioned coming back from a break and getting back to work. I actually found it hard to focus on drawing for a while there, so commissions were hard to get done. I realized the problem was that I straight-up hadn’t drawn much at all while I was off for 2 weeks. Drawing is like a muscle. If you intend to do it a lot, you have to make yourself do it at least a little bit on regular intervals. Like, I shouldn’t have dropped drawing altogether while taking time off. I should have at least kept up with drawing to a minimum degree, like making 1 or 2 small doodles each day. Cuz trying to draw again after basically not doing it much at all for 2 weeks was ROUGH. I had no drive. I was more interested in gaming. I had to peel myself away from gaming entirely just to get back on my drawing grind. And now I feel much better about that.
I am really enjoying my Patreon being NSFW again. I’m able to make early access posts, and post teasers to Twitter. I’ve gotten more supporters right away since making the switch.
I’m currently in Colombia for dental reasons once again. This time is for getting another brace attached to a tooth that’s crooked. They couldn’t attach the brace before because it was in an awkward position, but now my teeth have moved from the other braces, and it can finally get a brace put on to move it into place. Also getting a general checkup, cleaning, and cavities being addressed.
Oh have you guys heard FA is updating their policy on pokemon and digimon content? Apparently they’re going to remove content featuring characters from those franchizes and similar ones if the character has a certain body type. Like not just if the pokemon is canonically young, but if the pokemon just LOOKS young, they’ll remove it. I heard this policy won’t be in effect until July 1st. I’ve heard a lot of other pokemon artists are worried about this. I don’t blame them tbh.
I’m pretty sure a lot of my content will be dis-allowed from FA due to this policy. I am waiting to see what happens for a bit first. But if you see some of my content on FA start to be removed in the next 4-6 weeks, you’ll know why. I will try to keep my FA, so I will remove whatever I need to stay on the website.
— 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.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10552819
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10553034/