Half Year in Review

Hey, everyone! It’s your friendly neighborhood FloofyMcdragonrawrs, here, and man has it been a long couple of months! First off, I’d like to apologize for not being as socially active on here as I’d hoped. More than one person has commented that I just seem to show up, post, then bugger off every day xD And while that’s certainly been true, it’s mostly because the effort inherit in making a new postable drawing every single day is a substantial time commitment, and hasn’t left me with much left over in the tank, so to speak. Not to mention I’ve been doing all sorts of other things, on top of that!

Jeeze, this past half year has gone quickly… It feels like just last week that it was April 1st, and I was posting my first drawing up here for everyone to see! But no, six months have passed, I’m up to 112 uploads as of the writing of this, I’ve accumulated 518 watchers so far, and I spend most of my time on here wondering where the heck all you silly people have come from! It’s been interesting, suffice to say. I’ve had ups and downs about my art, and posting it on here, as is my nature about anything close to my heart. I went through some pretty considerable stylistic changes, around the middle of the Quarter, as anyone who follows my art probably noticed, and while that’s certainly a step in the right direction, I’ve got a long way yet to go!

As some of you may have noticed, I haven’t been… super active, this past week. I haven’t been posting, or commenting, or really active on FA at all. No, you silly floofs, I’m not dead, or quitting the fandom, or whatever, I’m just taking a short break to process everything I’ve learned from Q2 and Q3, and make decisions that will affect the last quarter of the year ahead. Anyone among you who knows me personally will know that I’ve been really unsatisfied with where my art is since… May, or thereabouts, hence the stylistic revision back in August, and I’ve been gathering information and advice for how I can remedy that, going forward. While the daily posting thing was certainly a useful and interesting challenge, it also severely limited me in terms of… content diversity, suffice to say. I had to pick subjects I could do quickly enough to post, so it hamstrung my ability to work on bigger projects that I’ve wanted to undertake, but which flatly can’t be completed at a rate of one per day… or at least not by me, yet, anyway.

Which brings me to the quarter ahead. I’m thinking I’ll aim to cut back on the daily 1-2 character pictures in Q4, and the daily uploads as a result. Instead, I’m going to put the effort I would have put into fast, daily stuff into larger, more elaborate pieces with multiple characters, larger sketch pages, comics, paintings, and that sort of thing! These are all things I’ve been meaning to do already, but haven’t, so I’m figuring… now is probably a good time to get into it! I’ll still of course be doing the simple diaper-pinups that are my usual fare, but they’ll probably be relegated to filler-uploads for when I’m pouring my effort into bigger, time-sink projects, such as a comic. As a side note… COMICS ARE HARD o.o In terms of upload frequency, the drop won’t be that drastic. I still plan to do 2-4 uploads per week, depending on the size and scale of whatever I’m working on. Many, many people have told me that my art looks cheap, shoddy, and thrown together… so this is me trying to remedy that! So you can stop saying it, please!

Alright, I think that’s about everything I wanted to cover! Sorry for the wall of text, but, to everyone who’s read this far, here’s some questions and a treat! I’m going to be doing a 500 Watcher Kiriban raffle, sometime in the near future! So stay tuned ;3 Let me know what you think about my shift in content-direction, and if you have any preferences in terms of what you’d like to see more of, or less of, or what have you! I don’t always reply to comments, because I’m shy and have social anxiety issues, but I read every one of them!

Cheers!
~Kodikins