I feel like I owe every one of my watchers a bit of an Update.

Things are not abysmally terrible but life has thrown me many challenges lately, but I do want to address some things that I feel might be noteworthy.

First off I want to say that I am very appreciative of the feedback I gotten in regards to making adopts.

I appreciate the support there, it means a lot to me that I have an audience that is genuinely caring and supportive of ME of all people, not everyone has that in their lives and I want to be sure to cherish that and express my gratitude that that is something I have. Along with the fact that I feel I am one of the most fortunate furry artists on this platform due to the amount of people I have had supporting me being some of the most genuine and most friendly people I have met, and most of the folks I have met have been super sweet and while there have been ups and downs from time to time, at the end of the day, I am fortunate I have a mature minded audience with a mature perspective on things. You'd be surprised how many places I have seen have some of the most vile and unsettling people, and I am very fortunate to not have that be around me, I truly do mean that.

As for the adopts themselves, I am currently working on a set of FOUR Adopts all being of Charizard Designs that I feel might go okay (I hope).

Adopts are always a gamble from what I know, I don't do them often so I cannot say from first hand how I know about it, but from what I have seen, adopts can be a simple "starting bid and nobody else bids" or "Immediate Auto-Buy", so I will take that as a challenge to make designs worth folk's time and money. I do not want to give people anything I deem as "poor quality" or "cheap". I will do my best on them. However this does lead me to my next point I want to mention.

You may have noticed that as of the latest posts of mine on my FA Gallery, a LOT of them are Commissions of Templates. Reason being why I have been doing those for quite a bit of time now is because I have been in denial of the fact that I may be experiencing an art block, because lately I just have had no motivation to draw or do much else.

The templates are still something that I can say I worked on and done something productive, but they are quicker to make than a full illustration and I needed the more lax jobs to do, and yeah, this might be just my own mental issues kicking me while I am down, but it's been hard to do a lot lately just in general. I still am trying to do a healthy amount of commissions every month as I do sincerely want to be able to do Furry Art as a full-time thing. Furry Art at the end of the day has been my most satisfying job I have ever had, and while that does come with its fair share of caveats, it's something that brings me joy, fulfillment, and sure it does stress me out at times but what job doesn't do that. I feel so much better making Furry Art than making Little Caesars Pizzas or Building Props for Photoshoots. I love my big milky booba arts damn it! Anyway, my main point here, I have been trying my best to do comms as effectively as I can, it's been a bit hard to do so as of these past 30 days mainly due to the fact that my life IRL is not as pleasant as it was before, which....I won't get too personal with it but just a few things.

This might be a bit of a personal life problem so you can skip this one if you like.

I am 25 years old, I live with my parents in a rented home in California in a fairly middle-class part of town. My little siblings and I are all fortunate to have a roof over our heads and my siblings are both going to be adults soon as my brother is 17 and my sister is 15. I am mature enough to understand that I need to pay for my own things by now (which tbh should've been obvious sooner for me but it came better late than never I guess), possibly in the future take care of a family if I have one, and ensure that my family that helped me grow up is well protected and taken care of too. I do not plan on having kids and I am very close with my parents and siblings especially, outside of them though my family life ain't great, which I will not get into. However, lately my dad has been drinking extremely heavily. It has been affecting his health and it's been hurting my mom (mentally). I have lately been needing to be the new head man of the house as of late (outside of finances because Jesus Christ, a furry artist in California paying for a family a 5....yeah good luck), so I have been given less time to do my art than before, and while I am happy to help my family when in need, I am also commonly unavailable as of late, so my comms have been slower lately, but I am doing my best to not only try to ignore a possible art block, but also be as productive as possible.

IN OTHER NEWS THOUGH, have y'all heard about Twitter's new rule about cough actually wait I do not need to explain it because.....well.....just..wow.

Twitter just has been adding new implementation after new implementation after new implementation over this year alone and after hearing the last one that they were making about blocked accounts being able to see your stuff again but not interact, I felt cheated. I never really got on the hype train with BlueSky consistently, but this new rule made me finally snap and start using it much more than ever before. I will not stop using Twitter despite being as upset with it as I am now, it is still a site that helped bring me to where I am today with my furry art and I cannot deny that. It has helped me tremendously and I will not take that away from it, but things change with time. I will post on there and maybe retweet a post I like or two but you will mainly see me be more active on BlueSky where there is so less bulls**t to worry about. If you would like to find me on BlueSky, you can find me RIGHT HERE!!

Two last things.

I haven't uploaded on FA in a while (outside of the Templates you have seen in my gallery mainly), I will be uploading soon enough, hopefully before the end of November things will be up to date. I want to be sure to upload everything I have and made BEFORE I am to post anything Adopt Related with the Charizard Adopts I mentioned earlier. I do not want any of that to get Overshadowed, ya know.
Along with adopts (Which I know for certain I am doing), I also got into contact with JohnnyRealName (the lovely person who worked with me in regards to the Cherry MousePads), and he said that standees and possibly Plushies could be an option for me, but I am not too sure what market that would entail, but hey, if any of you have any interest, feel free to let me know, I am open to hear from y'all.

Anyway, I think that is everything.

Sorry about the very very long wall of text, I understand if you do not read the entire thing, or just don't read it at all, but just thought I would leave some updates here to be a bit more transparent with everybody here. Thank you, everybody.