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2 years ago
Hello! I know it’s been a while since I posted a journal despite me saying I planned on doing so, so I thought I should update you guys on what I’m up to. ^^
Since I posted my last journal, I changed my college major to art, and I’ve been learning a lot of things about stuff like composition and value. I think it’s been improving my art, but that also meant I didn’t have much time to work on pics, even commissions. I think it was easier to work on them when I wasn’t an art major because now drawing is 90% of what I do, and that ends up making me burn out more. I’m currently out on break from school, but I’m still a bit burned out from my classes. Luckily, next year will mostly be core classes I missed so it shouldn’t be as bad, but I should still try to pace myself.
I mentioned in my last journal that I was planning on creating some YCHs and opening a Patreon for anyone to donate towards my art, and since then I’ve only got one of those done. I currently have a YCH out that anyone can commission at any time, so if you’re interested in it, I’ll link it down below and I encourage you to reach out to me to commission it. ~
As for Patreon, I’m still having difficulties figuring out exactly what to do with it. A big factor now IS school. I may be able to maintain making small sketches for higher-tier patrons now while I’m on break, but I doubt I could keep it up when I head back to class. The only thing I know to do on there is to post WIPs, which I have a bit of a complex over, but that is one thing that my classes have been helping me with, so I’d say that’ll probably be part of it. I’m also considering opening a Telegram channel for patrons, but I don’t know if it would be better to do that or to have a public channel, even though I don’t intend on posting anything that won’t also be on FA. If I do make a Patreon channel, I will probably be art that’s released early and with no description, rather than exclusive content. If you have any suggestions at all for what I should do with Patreon, please feel free to comment below. ~ You might have something in mind that works, and I didn’t even consider it. ^^
I’ve always tried to add to my pics with writing, but I’m considering what route to go with that. I want to try to imply a story in my pics rather than writing long-winded descriptions of them to fill in detail, but I also like writing for them. It’s just that I’m not a writer, I’m an illustrator. It takes a hell of a lot more out of me to write than it does to draw, but it also feels like my pics are “naked”, I guess, when I leave them without a long description. I’m considering maybe opening an option to pay extra to get a story too, so I’ll have a little more motivation to write them, but I think my better option is to instead refine it. Write short tidbits in less time that’ll hopefully inspire the same feelings in people as my longer ones do and work to clarify what’s happening in the scene. I have a fairly large commission I completed while in school that I still haven’t posted yet because I just haven’t been in the head space to write the second part of the description, so this is an issue I need to solve, not just a minor headache.
I am planning on doing stuff for holidays, though, as you probably saw with my Halloween pics! My original plans for Christmas were to make 3 YCHs that’ll be open all month and one group YCH that’ll be finished by Christmas day and have them both released on the first to give me ample time to work on them, but as you can probably see, that’s behind schedule. Right now, with my current workload, that’s probably not happening at all anymore. With any luck, I’ll have a group YCH out within the next week or two, but that likely also won’t be done before Christmas day. This coming year, though, I do plan on preparing for holidays and having content ready leading up to them.~ Here is my current list of holiday themes, and if you have any you think I should include in them, please feel free to comment them below:
For Holidays marked with a star, these will be rather large, in that most of my content will be based around them for a time. Those not marked by a star are more aesthetic than they are themes. For example, you should see mostly Christmas-based content following Thanksgiving and Black Friday with only a few things that differ from the theme, while for St. Patrick’s I’ll probably release a few things surrounding it, encourage ideas that have something to do with it, but I’ll also be making general content not based off St. Patrick’s. My big issue with this is that many of the big holidays we celebrate are all within a few months of each other. That means from fall to the end of winter, I’ll be working around the clock and I’m afraid I won’t be able to keep up with it, especially considering that they fall near finals for school, but I guess we’ll see about that. I don’t want to skip Halloween or Christmas at all, because Halloween is my favorite, and people really like Christmas, but those are also the most troublesome holidays, so I don’t know what to do with that other than grin and bear it. I also don’t want to include Independence Day as a holiday since I do mostly hypno and mental stuff, and a lot of the ideas surrounding that are things like soldier-tf’s and nationalism brainwashing, and that’s a whole can of worms I want nothing to do with, so I’m just not going to include it and please don’t suggest that I do. It’s one thing to pledge allegiance after being brainwashed to a mind-controlling supervillain’s country, but It’s another to do the same with a real country, it can get weird.
So, I think that’s it for the most part! Just a few changes and ideas for the future.~ If you got this far, thank you for listening to me ramble and I hope you have a wonderful day. If not, I hope tomorrow will be better. :3
YCH: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54341176/
Since I posted my last journal, I changed my college major to art, and I’ve been learning a lot of things about stuff like composition and value. I think it’s been improving my art, but that also meant I didn’t have much time to work on pics, even commissions. I think it was easier to work on them when I wasn’t an art major because now drawing is 90% of what I do, and that ends up making me burn out more. I’m currently out on break from school, but I’m still a bit burned out from my classes. Luckily, next year will mostly be core classes I missed so it shouldn’t be as bad, but I should still try to pace myself.
I mentioned in my last journal that I was planning on creating some YCHs and opening a Patreon for anyone to donate towards my art, and since then I’ve only got one of those done. I currently have a YCH out that anyone can commission at any time, so if you’re interested in it, I’ll link it down below and I encourage you to reach out to me to commission it. ~
As for Patreon, I’m still having difficulties figuring out exactly what to do with it. A big factor now IS school. I may be able to maintain making small sketches for higher-tier patrons now while I’m on break, but I doubt I could keep it up when I head back to class. The only thing I know to do on there is to post WIPs, which I have a bit of a complex over, but that is one thing that my classes have been helping me with, so I’d say that’ll probably be part of it. I’m also considering opening a Telegram channel for patrons, but I don’t know if it would be better to do that or to have a public channel, even though I don’t intend on posting anything that won’t also be on FA. If I do make a Patreon channel, I will probably be art that’s released early and with no description, rather than exclusive content. If you have any suggestions at all for what I should do with Patreon, please feel free to comment below. ~ You might have something in mind that works, and I didn’t even consider it. ^^
I’ve always tried to add to my pics with writing, but I’m considering what route to go with that. I want to try to imply a story in my pics rather than writing long-winded descriptions of them to fill in detail, but I also like writing for them. It’s just that I’m not a writer, I’m an illustrator. It takes a hell of a lot more out of me to write than it does to draw, but it also feels like my pics are “naked”, I guess, when I leave them without a long description. I’m considering maybe opening an option to pay extra to get a story too, so I’ll have a little more motivation to write them, but I think my better option is to instead refine it. Write short tidbits in less time that’ll hopefully inspire the same feelings in people as my longer ones do and work to clarify what’s happening in the scene. I have a fairly large commission I completed while in school that I still haven’t posted yet because I just haven’t been in the head space to write the second part of the description, so this is an issue I need to solve, not just a minor headache.
I am planning on doing stuff for holidays, though, as you probably saw with my Halloween pics! My original plans for Christmas were to make 3 YCHs that’ll be open all month and one group YCH that’ll be finished by Christmas day and have them both released on the first to give me ample time to work on them, but as you can probably see, that’s behind schedule. Right now, with my current workload, that’s probably not happening at all anymore. With any luck, I’ll have a group YCH out within the next week or two, but that likely also won’t be done before Christmas day. This coming year, though, I do plan on preparing for holidays and having content ready leading up to them.~ Here is my current list of holiday themes, and if you have any you think I should include in them, please feel free to comment them below:
1. Valentines*
2. St. Patrick’s
3. Easter
4. Summer Fun (just a general theme for between April to July)
5. Halloween*
6. Christmas*For Holidays marked with a star, these will be rather large, in that most of my content will be based around them for a time. Those not marked by a star are more aesthetic than they are themes. For example, you should see mostly Christmas-based content following Thanksgiving and Black Friday with only a few things that differ from the theme, while for St. Patrick’s I’ll probably release a few things surrounding it, encourage ideas that have something to do with it, but I’ll also be making general content not based off St. Patrick’s. My big issue with this is that many of the big holidays we celebrate are all within a few months of each other. That means from fall to the end of winter, I’ll be working around the clock and I’m afraid I won’t be able to keep up with it, especially considering that they fall near finals for school, but I guess we’ll see about that. I don’t want to skip Halloween or Christmas at all, because Halloween is my favorite, and people really like Christmas, but those are also the most troublesome holidays, so I don’t know what to do with that other than grin and bear it. I also don’t want to include Independence Day as a holiday since I do mostly hypno and mental stuff, and a lot of the ideas surrounding that are things like soldier-tf’s and nationalism brainwashing, and that’s a whole can of worms I want nothing to do with, so I’m just not going to include it and please don’t suggest that I do. It’s one thing to pledge allegiance after being brainwashed to a mind-controlling supervillain’s country, but It’s another to do the same with a real country, it can get weird.
So, I think that’s it for the most part! Just a few changes and ideas for the future.~ If you got this far, thank you for listening to me ramble and I hope you have a wonderful day. If not, I hope tomorrow will be better. :3
YCH: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54341176/
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