Now I have a profile on Toyhouse, thanks so much to the wonderful  HavetheTouch Thank you <3 — https://toyhou.se/Leprzilla If you’re there too, I’d be happy to see you and check out your pages. For now, I’m not very active there and only managed to set up Laura’s page and a bit of my profile, but I want to try to change that, do the same for Pan and the characters from my stories.

Second important announcement: I'm considering creating a Telegram channel, but I need your opinion on whether this is interesting and necessary, so I've decided to run a small poll on all my active media: https://strawpoll.com/wby5QNNojyA (It should run until around mid-European evening on the 9th of March).
I've been thinking about creating a channel for a while, as I have friends who aren't on FA, Bsky or other sites, but follow other artists on Telegram. But I didn't want to create another platform just for few people, even if they are friends, because it's already very hard for me to manage the ones I have. But if there were many people taking part in the survey, then I'll try go for it. After all, there would be much easier for me to share WIPs and various thoughts there than on Bsky or Tumblr.

That concludes the important part.

If you're reading this, I have an important message for you: you're a sweet bun and I'm sending you a hug! Seriously though, you're amazing, thank you all so much for your support. I've been meaning to find a moment to thank everyone who reads, watch, shares, favs and gives any kind of feedback on my work! You're my heroes! Thank you so much! <3
These thoughts feel like a belated New Year's journal, so I'll also share my plans for this year (aside from Toyhouse and Telegram, which I mentioned above).

First and foremost, I'm currently working on finishing Laura's ref sheet (yes, it's taken me 6 years), and by the time you read this, it may already be posted. I didn't make her for so long because I wasn't entirely confident in her, as I once noticed that her design overlapped a bit with other cobras. When I created Laura, I didn't look at them or try to copy them, but I'm afraid that those details were subconsciously imprinted on my mind and ended up influencing her design. That's why I kept thinking about making the ref sheet after a redesign, but I never found the time to think about it, and time went by... And here we are in February of this year, when she's already 6 years old, and she still doesn't have a proper reference.
Over the past year I've received a few unexpected gifts of her from  HavetheTouch https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59116563/, vvvvvvvvvvw on Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/vvvvvvvvvvw/.....0?source=share, and a little sketch in my DMs from  Lihaph, and in 2019 I commissioned  FelanGrey https://www.furaffinity.net/view/33994762/. What they all have in common is that they had to draw them based on my artwork. I feel bad that these people had to scour my gallery and examine every portrait of her to draw her accurately, so I've decided to put the redesign plans on hold for now and draw her as she is, the way I've grown used to and accepted her.

After finishing the ref sheet, I'll continue to do various drawings in between two big planned projects: 2 comics and job hunting (yes, I still haven't found one, but I can't put it off any longer).
In order to make 2 comics this year, I plan to do them in black and white. In terms of story, they're not going to be very deep, but I hope they'll entertain you and brighten up your evening. I'd compare them to B-movies of the 80s, like Hawk the Slayer. They'll also be shorter than the previous one - this time they won't be graphic versions of stories, and I'm writing scripts for them as comics, with no more than 30-35 pages each. I'd also say that these comics are training for something bigger in the future. At the moment, the script for the first one is half done.

And more about Eanor: I finished writing an unplanned novel at the beginning of February. It ended up being 76,610 words. I don't know what to do with it <_> I mean, I don't want to leave it just for friends to read, but translating it would take a lot of time. I thinking about publishing it on local market, but my co-author for the setting isn't in the best shape right now. However, another friend of mine found the time to read it, and he said that it wasn't a masterpiece and that I failed to convey one important idea, but he still found it interesting and fun to read. I thought about turning it into a visual novel or something, but then I'd have to rewrite it to accommodate the branching paths - it's probably easier to just write a new story for such a game (which I hope to make one day). Still, I'll definitely illustrate it at some point, just like my previous story.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading! If you have any questions or suggestions, I'd be happy to read and answer them!