Progress Is Progressing
a year ago
Yes, I am still alive and chugging along, lol. I might start writing Last Leg soon, but want to translate what I have so far for the CYOA into the actual CYOA, because right now its just raw text. I am 29 pages worth of text into the CYOA... and actually haven't gotten to a single choice yet. That is all just intro and explaining the mechanics. Some of it is collapsible text- so you can skip it, but no actual choices yet. The last part I wrote is the first choice- which is what you want to study up on and what you want to take with you. Depending on your luck you can get 4 or 5 skill points to put into Medical, Slight Of Hand, Deception, or Magic- the skills cap out at lvl4 Paragon. Which means you have enough points to put one into every skill or max out a single skill. Except Slight Of Hand which you start with lvl1 by default. There is also the Luck skill that rolls -1 0 or 1 every time you do a skill check. After you get to the end once and enter NG+ you'll unlock access to an enchanted die that removes -1 from the luck rolls, and getting to the end of the story a second time and using the die again in NG++ will cause your luck roll to get permanently stuck at 1, giving you a free level by default in every skill. And there is 5 items you can choose from to take along but can only pick one- vassal's clothing, shapeshifter's key, ward stone, mithril dagger, or universal key.
I technically started writing Last Leg already too but like... not even the full introduction yet.
I may also write up another regular erotica to release soon...ish. Down On All Taurs was the second place in the last vote, so that will be the next regular erotica I write. It isn't all regular horse centaurs either; the MCs are equine centaur but there will be other species in taur configurations too.
I also have plans for another TF sequence I wanna do, don't know when I will get around to it though. I kinda burned out pretty hard on the last illustration, haha. It doesn't look that complicated, but because there is three characters and all three are overlapping each other I had to do a TON of shading layers so they didn't interfere with one another and oh boy, that took way longer than I was expecting. Shape Of You part2 took me three entire days to draw. I don't mean I worked on it on three days, I worked on it FOR three days. As soon as I woke up to when I went to bed- except on the third night I finished a bit after dinner, so like 8pm. My brain was melting by then. Anyway, for the next TF sequence I wanna try to do MtF goat, but instead of a comic like the last two I wanna try just doing a sequence- three images; barely changed, half changed, fully changed. Then I can up the quality of those images. The horse tf was stylized and sketchy the whole way through with very basic backgrounds, the boar tf was super basic drawings with virtually no background at all except the very last image which was fully done up. This time I am just going to have the three frames but make all three a fully done up image. I am burned out right now from drawing and it will most likely take longer than I think again, siiigh, so who knows when I will do it.
Also wanting to try to do a random illustration of Keiko from my novel n legends of Keiko series- planned the image out eons ago but still haven't gotten to that, either. It would contain spoilers for the novel, but also the novel has been out for what, five, six years now? At some point the spoiler warnings have to expire, lol.
I technically started writing Last Leg already too but like... not even the full introduction yet.
I may also write up another regular erotica to release soon...ish. Down On All Taurs was the second place in the last vote, so that will be the next regular erotica I write. It isn't all regular horse centaurs either; the MCs are equine centaur but there will be other species in taur configurations too.
I also have plans for another TF sequence I wanna do, don't know when I will get around to it though. I kinda burned out pretty hard on the last illustration, haha. It doesn't look that complicated, but because there is three characters and all three are overlapping each other I had to do a TON of shading layers so they didn't interfere with one another and oh boy, that took way longer than I was expecting. Shape Of You part2 took me three entire days to draw. I don't mean I worked on it on three days, I worked on it FOR three days. As soon as I woke up to when I went to bed- except on the third night I finished a bit after dinner, so like 8pm. My brain was melting by then. Anyway, for the next TF sequence I wanna try to do MtF goat, but instead of a comic like the last two I wanna try just doing a sequence- three images; barely changed, half changed, fully changed. Then I can up the quality of those images. The horse tf was stylized and sketchy the whole way through with very basic backgrounds, the boar tf was super basic drawings with virtually no background at all except the very last image which was fully done up. This time I am just going to have the three frames but make all three a fully done up image. I am burned out right now from drawing and it will most likely take longer than I think again, siiigh, so who knows when I will do it.
Also wanting to try to do a random illustration of Keiko from my novel n legends of Keiko series- planned the image out eons ago but still haven't gotten to that, either. It would contain spoilers for the novel, but also the novel has been out for what, five, six years now? At some point the spoiler warnings have to expire, lol.
I wouldn't say I have lost my spark- definitely want to do more, its just the time sink and effort required to do it, after taking three entire days to do one drawing I feel like I have to scramble to get as much progress as possible in other things before even thinking about drawing again. Plus I am nervous about doing the Keiko illustration at all. On one hand I wanna try to capture the moment but also its spoilers for the novel, so will releasing it keep people from reading the novel because its climax was spoiled? Or will anyone even look at the image, because its associated to a novel that virtually no one looked at? *shrug*
I have a small txt file of drawing ideas, and a checklist of revisions to old art to make at some point this year too. Then my major writing projects and a looong list of regular erotica ideas piling up. Even if I didn't think of anything new; I have enough things planned to make to take up the next like, three years.