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☹︎ No Ai/ML: I do not consent to any of my art being used for such endeavors. Period. ~ FA Journal TOS
FA hasn't changed much, but I don't have my barrings just yet. Might take me a bit, but at least for now all the regular stuff should be pretty functional.
Firstly I'll have to consider if I want to migrate the rest of my gallery here from Weasyl. As for a while now I've intended to only use FA for my Sweetnsimple style and related art. Figured it was a good idea to have a dedicated spot for one particular style I do. Things are changing though.
Next I have to decide on workflow. Commissioning. I can either use the Journal or a regular dedicated Gallery post? This is undecided. I'll have
SelfDugGrave to help me out and work through eveything like usual.
For now we will continue to use a public queue as that's working well. Both for us, and you!
We will still use Mastodon and Weasyl as backup galleries, but likely not promote commissioning over there anymore. At least not as the primary focus. After all even split between two people, this is pretty challenging to do 100% manually. Absolutely no automation via Postybirb at all.
Closing this out without much fluff. We're slowly gaining our trackion back here after hitting 400 followers on Mastodon (at the time of writing) so it sort of feels like starting over. I guess it's like that for everyone whenever you shift platforms. So here's to our somewhat new beginning!! ☕
Firstly I'll have to consider if I want to migrate the rest of my gallery here from Weasyl. As for a while now I've intended to only use FA for my Sweetnsimple style and related art. Figured it was a good idea to have a dedicated spot for one particular style I do. Things are changing though.
Next I have to decide on workflow. Commissioning. I can either use the Journal or a regular dedicated Gallery post? This is undecided. I'll have
SelfDugGrave to help me out and work through eveything like usual.For now we will continue to use a public queue as that's working well. Both for us, and you!
We will still use Mastodon and Weasyl as backup galleries, but likely not promote commissioning over there anymore. At least not as the primary focus. After all even split between two people, this is pretty challenging to do 100% manually. Absolutely no automation via Postybirb at all.
Closing this out without much fluff. We're slowly gaining our trackion back here after hitting 400 followers on Mastodon (at the time of writing) so it sort of feels like starting over. I guess it's like that for everyone whenever you shift platforms. So here's to our somewhat new beginning!! ☕
First I have added all the missing entries: here.
Next I updated the kan-ban board visually: here.
Lastly I have added two new "milestones" to help track the current YCH event for March. On top of that I have made dedicated area for the "bigger pieces" that may require more than 30 days to complete.
For anybody who reads this in the future: We use git (or GitGay) to manage a public queue. This is our solution to a Trello alternative. It's a lot easier for us to use. All you ever need to look at is the "kan-ban board" this will show off progress and the order where you are in the queue (loosely.) - What I mean by that is it tracks a simple: Backlog > To-Do > In Progress > Done
- Backlog: is mostly for me and everyone starts off here, this is my reminder to push your spot to "to-do."
- To-Do: more or less means we've collected your refs and added them into the art program to work on in advance.
- In Progress: This means your piece was started even if only a rough sketch was done.
- Done: Often there is a small window where affeinatedcultist pokes me to post all finished pieces across all of our socials. (often I just link FA) This helps with records of where I have posted, and where you can easily find a link to wherever you need to find stuff. At the moment it's just FA.
Bonus: I used to make a whole row of all platforms including a few hidden ones. This was very taxing on me to do, and often took around 2 hours to complete, start to finish. Even with my handmade templates, no matter how fast I was, this wore me down fast. More so when doing multi-posts for anything that has alts, or part 1, part 2, etc. This was not fun for me.
My solution was to cut back and simply use FA as the main source now, and this always includes all the other essentials (bluesky, mastodon, ko-fi).
Thank you for reading, hope that wasn't too complex!