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2 months ago
Hey! Just this month's update, tl;dr at the end as always
Ended up going to TFS to meet up with some art friends. Posted some sketch pages on the personal account.
https://bsky.app/profile/lungpushup...../3lwnjnjjz3c2y
https://bsky.app/profile/lungpushup...../3lwnk7x2yrc2p
There's several pages of this stuff but idk if it's worth uploading, you get the idea.
Was fun meeting everyone, tho!
Status on backlog: The queue is down to about 20 slots (from around 50 at the start of the year). I think I'll be able to whittle off maybe 2-3 more names before the month is done. It feels good to be making more progress on it. Not out of the woods by any means but do feel like the weight is lifting a bit. It no longer feels hopelessly impossible. Should also be mentioned that a lot of these are between 50% and 75% level of completion, so it isn't 20 commission projects that need to be drawn from scratch.
Thinking I'll be able to approach OC art and patreon with renewed energy once it's taken care of. Still doing a patron suggested pic every month, but I'd like to start doing more of them, as well as finally putting out some of the ideas involving OCs I've kept on the backburner.
Also, I kind of messed up my monthly work schedule a while ago. The original idea was that I would do these monthly in-streams at the very start of every month, so that I could then take submissions for next month's batch around end of week 2. I would then spend the remaining weeks working on the backlog, with peace of mind because everything is settled and squared away. But what would happen is that I'd try to squeeze in stuff from the backlog during this first week in order to get at least a couple WIPs out during it, and this just had the effect of pushing the monthly in-streams out into the rest of the month, instead of staying in the first 10 days like I originally intended, which would delay the date of opening comms and cause unnecessary stress due to the shorter time to fill them. So, in the name of getting organized again, I'm going to go back to the schedule I came up with at the start of the year, first 1-2 weeks of the month will be for 2025 projects only and the remaining 1-2 weeks for backlog only. This will mean that during the first week or two of the month it will be unlikely that I have new updates. It's not ideal but in the grand scheme of things the turnaround ends up being the same (or shorter), even if the updates are less frequent. I'd like to thank everyone again for your patience.
Schedule:
Week 1-2: Monthly in stream comms + patreon pic
Week 3-4: Backlog
tl;dr
-did a lot of sketching at TFS, had fun!
-down to 20 slots left on the backlog queue, most of these are at some stage of completion, so it's actually less than it seems
-granted some of these are still pretty big projects, so it's still going to take a while
-also, screwed up my work schedule by trying to do too much at once, oops
-will be reverting to my original schedule from earlier this year, first half of the month strictly for monthly comms + patreon, last half strictly for backlog
-that's really it for this update
-oh yeah join the patreon :]
thanks and take care!
-smoke/sven
Ended up going to TFS to meet up with some art friends. Posted some sketch pages on the personal account.
https://bsky.app/profile/lungpushup...../3lwnjnjjz3c2y
https://bsky.app/profile/lungpushup...../3lwnk7x2yrc2p
There's several pages of this stuff but idk if it's worth uploading, you get the idea.
Was fun meeting everyone, tho!
Status on backlog: The queue is down to about 20 slots (from around 50 at the start of the year). I think I'll be able to whittle off maybe 2-3 more names before the month is done. It feels good to be making more progress on it. Not out of the woods by any means but do feel like the weight is lifting a bit. It no longer feels hopelessly impossible. Should also be mentioned that a lot of these are between 50% and 75% level of completion, so it isn't 20 commission projects that need to be drawn from scratch.
Thinking I'll be able to approach OC art and patreon with renewed energy once it's taken care of. Still doing a patron suggested pic every month, but I'd like to start doing more of them, as well as finally putting out some of the ideas involving OCs I've kept on the backburner.
Also, I kind of messed up my monthly work schedule a while ago. The original idea was that I would do these monthly in-streams at the very start of every month, so that I could then take submissions for next month's batch around end of week 2. I would then spend the remaining weeks working on the backlog, with peace of mind because everything is settled and squared away. But what would happen is that I'd try to squeeze in stuff from the backlog during this first week in order to get at least a couple WIPs out during it, and this just had the effect of pushing the monthly in-streams out into the rest of the month, instead of staying in the first 10 days like I originally intended, which would delay the date of opening comms and cause unnecessary stress due to the shorter time to fill them. So, in the name of getting organized again, I'm going to go back to the schedule I came up with at the start of the year, first 1-2 weeks of the month will be for 2025 projects only and the remaining 1-2 weeks for backlog only. This will mean that during the first week or two of the month it will be unlikely that I have new updates. It's not ideal but in the grand scheme of things the turnaround ends up being the same (or shorter), even if the updates are less frequent. I'd like to thank everyone again for your patience.
Schedule:
Week 1-2: Monthly in stream comms + patreon pic
Week 3-4: Backlog
tl;dr
-did a lot of sketching at TFS, had fun!
-down to 20 slots left on the backlog queue, most of these are at some stage of completion, so it's actually less than it seems
-granted some of these are still pretty big projects, so it's still going to take a while
-also, screwed up my work schedule by trying to do too much at once, oops
-will be reverting to my original schedule from earlier this year, first half of the month strictly for monthly comms + patreon, last half strictly for backlog
-that's really it for this update
-oh yeah join the patreon :]
thanks and take care!
-smoke/sven
