Hello FA!

Zmey and I have been busy with a lot of stuff: work and school, local art shows, and trying to figure out how to do our upcoming Patreon.

We are going to launch a joint Patreon one of these days, in hopes that we can get enough supporters to take the edge off the crushing poverty that comes from Zmey going back to college instead of having a job. (We are hoping his degree will eventually make us enough money to be worth it, but for the moment we are a single-income household.)

Planning this has taken a while, since I didn't want to start a Patreon until I felt that I could get myself to produce art regularly. I needed to get to a point where I was enjoying drawing again, and not being disappointed with the results so often.

And:

I think we've finally resolved the problem that was making the updates of The Tishen Transformation comic so few and far between.

See, I had been feeling discouraged whenever I tried to draw a comic page, because I feel that digital techniques work better for my comics than traditional techniques, and my digital drawing skills have been so far behind my standards for artistic quality.

But Zmey kept encouraging me, and, with a looooot of pushing, I drew more pages until I managed to find a system of digital drawing that didn't totally frustrate and disappoint me every time I did it.

So...

I have pages up through #43 drawn, as of the time of this writing.

I am going to post them, over the next several weeks.

But the drawing gets worse before it gets better. I tried lots of things, and not all of them worked well. It's not until page 43 that my digital comic drawing style actually starts to turn into something I like.

Luckily, that's also when the actual herm transformation happens.

So: Bear with me. And if you don't like my digital comic style now, check back when page 43 posts and maybe you'll like it better.

Anyway: now I have a technique that 1. I enjoy doing, and 2. I usually like the results of. So I foresee myself having a much easier time continuing the comic now! Once I get settled into a productive routine, we'll begin the Patreon.