I'm going to be taking a bit of a break before I fill slots again. My birthday is coming up on the 27th and I'd like to have a bit of a break after that for when my partner is finished with his work for the season, which is the end of May.

Will be filling Flat Color Friday slots for June through Patreon, but will not be posting the opening journal to fill regular slots for other commissions for another week at least.
The next time you see a journal from me here will be my opening journal - possibly around the end of the month. But I don't want to make any plans for dates just yet... gonna see how I feel after my queue is all finished and I've had a few days to de-art!

Just feeling burnt out. Having all of the gold tier commissions pile up at the end of my queue was a mistake... I'll be limiting the Full Render tier to 1 per opening going forward.
Don't get me wrong! I'm flattered to have so much interest in my most expensive tier, and it has been nice getting in the rendering practice. Very happy with how much progress I've made with how I render more detailed pieces. Doing these comms I've picked up some new techniques and a more refined perspective on how I like to render environments and it's been good! Lots of trial and error that there can be no replacement for.
I like to be working on something different all the time though (and like to fill slots as often as I can to give more people a shot at art from me) so it gets a little stifling having to put so many hours into the same pieces every stream day. But, that's totally my fault!

There's lots of personal art I've wanted to do too, been really wanting to try some more design work, namely trying out some Goopawb designs based on gemstones/minerals, real excited about that, just have had no time to do it.

So I hope I'll find the motivation to try those out and that some of you will enjoy those whenever they come to fruition! :)

Catch y'all later, enjoy the beautiful spring!