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The 2025 Update
8 months ago
2025 Update Journal Time!
I'll ramble a bit about my characters, my goals for the year, and who knows what else. It's down below for your reading pleasure.
Character Updates
Over the Christmas break, I dug in and worked on designing and releasing the official first character sheet for my new shortstack dragon, Miette! Go meet her over here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59368996/ (NSFW, sorry, don't have the SFW version edited just yet). Miette fills the 'ice' element in my roster of characters, and with her designed, I just need to polish and release sheets for 3 more (Kiki: Light Element, Kozama: Dark Element, and a final character I haven't thought of yet for lightning/electric.) This isn't to say I will stop making characters after that, but having all 8 of what I consider to be the main elements tied to characters I've designed myself would be a great point for me to at least slow down and do something with them. Some kind of story, or comic, or project they're all a part of is my next goal after the characters are established.
For Kiki (https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....r/1389353/Kiki), I really like her design visually but I think it does need some fine tuning, especially in the clothing department. I'm fairly confident in my ideas about her personality, her quirks and her powers, and I think she'll almost certainly be the next to get polished up and have a character sheet.
Kozama (https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....1317594/Kozama), on the other hand... I like the idea of his abilities, but not much else about him right now. I remain uninspired with regards to where to take him and how to flesh him out as a character and not just a 'dark element bird'. I wonder if he might get a species change too, similar to how Miette started as a mouse from initial concept and ended up a dragon.
The lightning elemental character is nothing more than a jumbled mess of thoughts and ideas right now. I'd be interested to hear what gender / species of character you want to see me create though. Leave a comment down below if you have a thought about this.
Artwork Updates
I'm find I'm in a bit of a weird spot with my artwork lately. I still feel like I'm doing fairly good work, but more and more there's little things about my process and my style that are starting to bother me.
> I find my sketching to somehow be too clean and too messy at the same time, and it feels like it's taking too long but because I tend to scribble and make lots of strokes, it ends up difficult to clean up enough to post as just a sketch.
> Doing lineart and flat coloring things is such a drag for me. I don't like my linework most of the time, it feels like it's missing a bit of personality somehow and it's never clean enough. I'm also frustrated with my tools for putting in flat colors on a piece and can't seem to get the settings quite right on most tools. Due to this, I really don't like posting flat color drawings, and tend to spend more time than I should adding shading and effects to mask some of the linework.
> I really like shading and lighting and all that, but I struggle SO much to keep my workflow consistent and the same each time. It's leading to me forgetting or ignoring some of the later steps like backlighting, post processing, etc., either because I'm just not remembering to do them or I just want the artwork to be done.
> I find that after I'm done with a piece, the colors usually seem off, or not saturated enough, or... something's just not quite right about the overall feel of the piece. Maybe it's my monitors, or maybe I need to be adjusting something about how I'm lighting and picking colors in the shading/lighting phase. Hard to explain this one.
What's this all mean? I don't know, honestly. I need to somehow refine and streamline my approach to art and find the time to practice it, to be able to put out a consistent, quality work that doesn't take me months to complete. I despise how slow I am at making content, I've been drawing for long enough that I should be more comfortable with everything I'm doing, but I think things have gotten stagnant and I've slipped a little when it comes to some of the details. This doesn't mean I hate my work, because I don't, I'm just realizing that I gotta buckle down and learn how to work with more purpose and efficiency.
Because...
I Want To Do Commissions
That's correct, you heard it, and I've finally admitted it to myself.
There's a lot to do still, but I hope to start offering them this year, once I've worked through a few of the things bothering me about how I make artwork. I also need to decide a multitude of things before I start, like Terms of Service, pricing, what types / quality of artwork I'm gonna offer, making a list of what I'm comfortable drawing, etc. etc.
Slots are gonna be mega limited, especially during the golf season, but I'm hoping I can take 1-2 a month. Maybe more in the off season.
I'll share more specifically about commissions when I'm ready to start doing them. Till then, hang tight!
Cheers, and thanks for reading!
I'll ramble a bit about my characters, my goals for the year, and who knows what else. It's down below for your reading pleasure.
Character Updates
Over the Christmas break, I dug in and worked on designing and releasing the official first character sheet for my new shortstack dragon, Miette! Go meet her over here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59368996/ (NSFW, sorry, don't have the SFW version edited just yet). Miette fills the 'ice' element in my roster of characters, and with her designed, I just need to polish and release sheets for 3 more (Kiki: Light Element, Kozama: Dark Element, and a final character I haven't thought of yet for lightning/electric.) This isn't to say I will stop making characters after that, but having all 8 of what I consider to be the main elements tied to characters I've designed myself would be a great point for me to at least slow down and do something with them. Some kind of story, or comic, or project they're all a part of is my next goal after the characters are established.
For Kiki (https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....r/1389353/Kiki), I really like her design visually but I think it does need some fine tuning, especially in the clothing department. I'm fairly confident in my ideas about her personality, her quirks and her powers, and I think she'll almost certainly be the next to get polished up and have a character sheet.
Kozama (https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....1317594/Kozama), on the other hand... I like the idea of his abilities, but not much else about him right now. I remain uninspired with regards to where to take him and how to flesh him out as a character and not just a 'dark element bird'. I wonder if he might get a species change too, similar to how Miette started as a mouse from initial concept and ended up a dragon.
The lightning elemental character is nothing more than a jumbled mess of thoughts and ideas right now. I'd be interested to hear what gender / species of character you want to see me create though. Leave a comment down below if you have a thought about this.
Artwork Updates
I'm find I'm in a bit of a weird spot with my artwork lately. I still feel like I'm doing fairly good work, but more and more there's little things about my process and my style that are starting to bother me.
> I find my sketching to somehow be too clean and too messy at the same time, and it feels like it's taking too long but because I tend to scribble and make lots of strokes, it ends up difficult to clean up enough to post as just a sketch.
> Doing lineart and flat coloring things is such a drag for me. I don't like my linework most of the time, it feels like it's missing a bit of personality somehow and it's never clean enough. I'm also frustrated with my tools for putting in flat colors on a piece and can't seem to get the settings quite right on most tools. Due to this, I really don't like posting flat color drawings, and tend to spend more time than I should adding shading and effects to mask some of the linework.
> I really like shading and lighting and all that, but I struggle SO much to keep my workflow consistent and the same each time. It's leading to me forgetting or ignoring some of the later steps like backlighting, post processing, etc., either because I'm just not remembering to do them or I just want the artwork to be done.
> I find that after I'm done with a piece, the colors usually seem off, or not saturated enough, or... something's just not quite right about the overall feel of the piece. Maybe it's my monitors, or maybe I need to be adjusting something about how I'm lighting and picking colors in the shading/lighting phase. Hard to explain this one.
What's this all mean? I don't know, honestly. I need to somehow refine and streamline my approach to art and find the time to practice it, to be able to put out a consistent, quality work that doesn't take me months to complete. I despise how slow I am at making content, I've been drawing for long enough that I should be more comfortable with everything I'm doing, but I think things have gotten stagnant and I've slipped a little when it comes to some of the details. This doesn't mean I hate my work, because I don't, I'm just realizing that I gotta buckle down and learn how to work with more purpose and efficiency.
Because...
I Want To Do Commissions
That's correct, you heard it, and I've finally admitted it to myself.
There's a lot to do still, but I hope to start offering them this year, once I've worked through a few of the things bothering me about how I make artwork. I also need to decide a multitude of things before I start, like Terms of Service, pricing, what types / quality of artwork I'm gonna offer, making a list of what I'm comfortable drawing, etc. etc.
Slots are gonna be mega limited, especially during the golf season, but I'm hoping I can take 1-2 a month. Maybe more in the off season.
I'll share more specifically about commissions when I'm ready to start doing them. Till then, hang tight!
Cheers, and thanks for reading!
For the lightening element OC, how about a female snake, it would look cool for her to flare her hood when using the element.
A snake character might be something I look into, definitely!