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November 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 —
I finished all the commissions in my queue, so I am free to do other things now. I don’t think I’ll open for more commission slots just yet. I have other things I want to try out, and right now feels like a good time for that.
One thing I want to try is selling more Your-Character-Here auctions. I’ve sold those here and there in the past, but never made a habit out of it. I think they could end up being a very helpful source of income for me! Up until now, I’ve sold YCH auctions mainly on FA, and those have worked very well for me. The last one I sold was on Inkbunny, but that one didn’t do as well as I was hoping. I got a lot of people asking me if they needed accounts on IB to participate, so I think I might not do IB for future auctions.
I want to try selling some YCHs on Discord. I’d probably make a channel for auction bidding and see how that goes. Yes, I do have a public Discord server btw. I’ll link that here.
discord.gg/b82WtKa
I’m also interested in animating a lot more than I already do. I’ve been inspired to animate after chatting with other animators recently. Every time I make a normal drawing, I think about how easy it would be to animate some movement for it. I started testing out making some animations in private and it’s been great!
I actually just finished the visuals for a 1.5 minute animation with like 6 scenes. I’m figuring out how I want to add sounds to it currently. I would love to see my income from subscriptions go up enough for me to live off making animations.
— Ideas —
Coming up with good YCH ideas is going to be interesting. For drawing in general, I usually sit down and just draw whatever I want to see, which tends to be a solo-focus on one of my characters. But a YCH needs to have room to see the other person’s character in addition to mine, because they’d be mating or something, and people like seeing their character’s face in the pic. The burden of coming up with the interesting ideas is on me now, and it’s challenging, but also fun.
Christmas is coming up, so I was thinking up some fun YCH ideas for that recently.
For the animation ideas I’ve been coming up with, they’re each only 1, 2, or 3 different loops, and they focus on a single character. The loops would also have some variation in them like blinking, closing eyes, changing expression, etc.
For examples, one is small Mila getting used like a fleshlight. Another is Lantha taking it in the rear. I want to do more penetrative stuff around the pubic area. I feel like I mostly animate BJs and stuff like that, and I want to try other things.
— General Updates —
I have begun removing my old art from FA in accordance with their policy update. Only the oldest artworks have been removed so far, but those were going to be the hardest for me to do anyway, because of my emotional attachments. Now that I’m past that, I can move on to removing the other stuff that needs to go too, which is going to be a lot.
I don’t know how long I have to remove them before FA starts having an issue, but I’m hoping they give me at least the same amount of time that they got to respond to my trouble ticket, which was about 3 months.
I recently got set up on Subscribestar, so anyone who wants to support me there can now do so. I set that up because I acknowledge there are people who just don’t use Patreon, which is where I have operated exclusively for my subscriptions and private content since 2016-ish. But since joining Substar, I have found other things I like about the platform. For example, I can actually post my content on the website. Patreon won’t let me post size-difference stuff because the characters look too cute/young, but Substar is chill about that. I’ll put a link to my Substar below if you are curious about signing up~
https://subscribestar.adult/milachu92
Lately, I feel on the precipice of change. I’m going to be potentially changing a lot of things for a long time to come. Making animations more, less slot commissions, more YCH auctions, using Subscribestar more, etc. I feel full of potential, and I’m at the crossroads ready to choose where to go. Let’s see what happens!
— 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 —
I finished all the commissions in my queue, so I am free to do other things now. I don’t think I’ll open for more commission slots just yet. I have other things I want to try out, and right now feels like a good time for that.
One thing I want to try is selling more Your-Character-Here auctions. I’ve sold those here and there in the past, but never made a habit out of it. I think they could end up being a very helpful source of income for me! Up until now, I’ve sold YCH auctions mainly on FA, and those have worked very well for me. The last one I sold was on Inkbunny, but that one didn’t do as well as I was hoping. I got a lot of people asking me if they needed accounts on IB to participate, so I think I might not do IB for future auctions.
I want to try selling some YCHs on Discord. I’d probably make a channel for auction bidding and see how that goes. Yes, I do have a public Discord server btw. I’ll link that here.
discord.gg/b82WtKa
I’m also interested in animating a lot more than I already do. I’ve been inspired to animate after chatting with other animators recently. Every time I make a normal drawing, I think about how easy it would be to animate some movement for it. I started testing out making some animations in private and it’s been great!
I actually just finished the visuals for a 1.5 minute animation with like 6 scenes. I’m figuring out how I want to add sounds to it currently. I would love to see my income from subscriptions go up enough for me to live off making animations.
— Ideas —
Coming up with good YCH ideas is going to be interesting. For drawing in general, I usually sit down and just draw whatever I want to see, which tends to be a solo-focus on one of my characters. But a YCH needs to have room to see the other person’s character in addition to mine, because they’d be mating or something, and people like seeing their character’s face in the pic. The burden of coming up with the interesting ideas is on me now, and it’s challenging, but also fun.
Christmas is coming up, so I was thinking up some fun YCH ideas for that recently.
For the animation ideas I’ve been coming up with, they’re each only 1, 2, or 3 different loops, and they focus on a single character. The loops would also have some variation in them like blinking, closing eyes, changing expression, etc.
For examples, one is small Mila getting used like a fleshlight. Another is Lantha taking it in the rear. I want to do more penetrative stuff around the pubic area. I feel like I mostly animate BJs and stuff like that, and I want to try other things.
— General Updates —
I have begun removing my old art from FA in accordance with their policy update. Only the oldest artworks have been removed so far, but those were going to be the hardest for me to do anyway, because of my emotional attachments. Now that I’m past that, I can move on to removing the other stuff that needs to go too, which is going to be a lot.
I don’t know how long I have to remove them before FA starts having an issue, but I’m hoping they give me at least the same amount of time that they got to respond to my trouble ticket, which was about 3 months.
I recently got set up on Subscribestar, so anyone who wants to support me there can now do so. I set that up because I acknowledge there are people who just don’t use Patreon, which is where I have operated exclusively for my subscriptions and private content since 2016-ish. But since joining Substar, I have found other things I like about the platform. For example, I can actually post my content on the website. Patreon won’t let me post size-difference stuff because the characters look too cute/young, but Substar is chill about that. I’ll put a link to my Substar below if you are curious about signing up~
https://subscribestar.adult/milachu92
Lately, I feel on the precipice of change. I’m going to be potentially changing a lot of things for a long time to come. Making animations more, less slot commissions, more YCH auctions, using Subscribestar more, etc. I feel full of potential, and I’m at the crossroads ready to choose where to go. Let’s see what happens!
— 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
Ninetales294
~ninetales294
How did you know you were ready to do comms? For me I’m not confident in my art and my skill enough to where someone wants a terrible art piece to look at. And how to do tie that in with income for living, without going to personal? Because with everything becoming more expensive sometimes I see art may not work for everyone but I wanna know how it is possible.
bressicles
~bressicles
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