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10 years ago
kompyYo. Been a while. What's going on with you guys?
Me? Still chugging along at a snail's pace with overdue work. It's just two more left (I finished one, at least!), but I'm not sure I'll be ready to open up commissions again until at least one of those has been finished, finally.
The thing that gets me most right now, honestly, is the fact that I've not really had any time to work on any personal projects due to all the commissions I've been doing as of late and with just 5 bucks in my paypal at the moment, I very literally cannot afford to draw random crud for me if it doesn't bring in some kind of income, minor as it is. I've a donate link right above, sure, but I don't want to just prod people into giving me money for no good reason, I want to give something back. Usually I do that via commissions or the like, but it's been a bit of a struggle lately putting any real effort into stuff for me. I'm well aware my issue is pretty petty in the grand scheme of things, but this is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night, you know?
"But Kompy, why not Patreon? I thought you figured out what your reward incentives and stuff are already with that poll a while back?"
That is true, but two things: One, a couple of those reward tiers need tweaking and 2, more importantly, while I do have ideas for rewards settled, we've one more issue to deal with: What is the Patreon _for_?
Just drawing stuff for myself is not going to cut it as something worth sponsoring at a monthly basis or whatever. I need a project to actually get people at least interested enough to see come to fruition. I could well go the easy route with my Pokemorph characters, but as much as I've skirted the line plenty of times already with the whole copyright thing, a part of me fears making a Patreon dedicated to that would be going a bit too far. Not only that, but...I have original characters, old and new, that I'd love to draw and develop as much as I did my fan-stuff, but it gets awkward at times when you secretly fear no one giving a darn about them.
So what DO I wish to work on once I have a bit more time and/or income to let me be a bit less stressed out? Well, I have a few ideas, many of them fairly silly ones at that:
-More Satarnis stuff, period. Don't know what that is? do a search on the term here on FA to give you a small sampling of that. Shortest answer is that it's my oldest worldsettings/races of all that I'd love to get back to with the same passion I had when I was much younger.
-More of the unnamed "Apocalyptic Atlantis" setting (sea life hybrid anthros. Example: Azura). I have a few rough character concept ideas for what the race is like and I once did an interview meme with one of them that elaborates on the setting more, but that's about it so far.
-More of the Gargoli universe (zodiac-themed, gargoyle-inspired winged anthros. Example: Jyun (NSFW), Greek Team sketch, Chinese Team sketch. This is less a worldsetting developing thing as it is the silliest of projects: trying to develop the characters (particularly the Greek ones, though the Chinese ones also merit some attention) by using modern representations of how people portray the signs (stupid answer: I want to make drawings of these guys based of Tumblr's weird Zodiac memes, including the option to have people suggest which one of these to draw out next)
-Another 100-pic challenge, perhaps drawing out fanart of characters/shows I've never drawn before, be they faves of mine or of other people. No idea what theme or format I'd use to make it different from the Palette Challenge one from last year, though.
-Project 'Skyfall' (anthro bird universe. Example: Judas Basilisk, Crush On Phoenix (band)). Because birbs. And because I still owe you guys those bird characters you voted on not long ago.
-More Team Biozone art, period. This of course includes everyone that is considered part of this lineup, including Kompy herself. I don't need money incentive to draw these, mind, for reasons that should be obvious, but it couldn't hurt :V
-....yes, more Pokemon/Pokemorph stuff, because I can't quit...
-Fanart in general. Same reason as above.
And this is of course not including things like "make graphics/icons for my other online locations" and "stuff to put in the portfolio". I guess I could try again with the YCH/Adoptables thing but, honestly, it hasn't been working for me, especially since I have the worst luck with auctions.
But that's it for the random selfish whining for now. How you doing? You got any projects of your own?
Me? Still chugging along at a snail's pace with overdue work. It's just two more left (I finished one, at least!), but I'm not sure I'll be ready to open up commissions again until at least one of those has been finished, finally.
The thing that gets me most right now, honestly, is the fact that I've not really had any time to work on any personal projects due to all the commissions I've been doing as of late and with just 5 bucks in my paypal at the moment, I very literally cannot afford to draw random crud for me if it doesn't bring in some kind of income, minor as it is. I've a donate link right above, sure, but I don't want to just prod people into giving me money for no good reason, I want to give something back. Usually I do that via commissions or the like, but it's been a bit of a struggle lately putting any real effort into stuff for me. I'm well aware my issue is pretty petty in the grand scheme of things, but this is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night, you know?
"But Kompy, why not Patreon? I thought you figured out what your reward incentives and stuff are already with that poll a while back?"
That is true, but two things: One, a couple of those reward tiers need tweaking and 2, more importantly, while I do have ideas for rewards settled, we've one more issue to deal with: What is the Patreon _for_?
Just drawing stuff for myself is not going to cut it as something worth sponsoring at a monthly basis or whatever. I need a project to actually get people at least interested enough to see come to fruition. I could well go the easy route with my Pokemorph characters, but as much as I've skirted the line plenty of times already with the whole copyright thing, a part of me fears making a Patreon dedicated to that would be going a bit too far. Not only that, but...I have original characters, old and new, that I'd love to draw and develop as much as I did my fan-stuff, but it gets awkward at times when you secretly fear no one giving a darn about them.
So what DO I wish to work on once I have a bit more time and/or income to let me be a bit less stressed out? Well, I have a few ideas, many of them fairly silly ones at that:
-More Satarnis stuff, period. Don't know what that is? do a search on the term here on FA to give you a small sampling of that. Shortest answer is that it's my oldest worldsettings/races of all that I'd love to get back to with the same passion I had when I was much younger.
-More of the unnamed "Apocalyptic Atlantis" setting (sea life hybrid anthros. Example: Azura). I have a few rough character concept ideas for what the race is like and I once did an interview meme with one of them that elaborates on the setting more, but that's about it so far.
-More of the Gargoli universe (zodiac-themed, gargoyle-inspired winged anthros. Example: Jyun (NSFW), Greek Team sketch, Chinese Team sketch. This is less a worldsetting developing thing as it is the silliest of projects: trying to develop the characters (particularly the Greek ones, though the Chinese ones also merit some attention) by using modern representations of how people portray the signs (stupid answer: I want to make drawings of these guys based of Tumblr's weird Zodiac memes, including the option to have people suggest which one of these to draw out next)
-Another 100-pic challenge, perhaps drawing out fanart of characters/shows I've never drawn before, be they faves of mine or of other people. No idea what theme or format I'd use to make it different from the Palette Challenge one from last year, though.
-Project 'Skyfall' (anthro bird universe. Example: Judas Basilisk, Crush On Phoenix (band)). Because birbs. And because I still owe you guys those bird characters you voted on not long ago.
-More Team Biozone art, period. This of course includes everyone that is considered part of this lineup, including Kompy herself. I don't need money incentive to draw these, mind, for reasons that should be obvious, but it couldn't hurt :V
-....yes, more Pokemon/Pokemorph stuff, because I can't quit...
-Fanart in general. Same reason as above.
And this is of course not including things like "make graphics/icons for my other online locations" and "stuff to put in the portfolio". I guess I could try again with the YCH/Adoptables thing but, honestly, it hasn't been working for me, especially since I have the worst luck with auctions.
But that's it for the random selfish whining for now. How you doing? You got any projects of your own?
