So I'm sure most of you have noticed that I've been focusin on Twitter uploads but I didn't really initially intend to. Y'see originally I just wasn't uploadin here outta laziness but then I decided "Y'know what? I think it's time I start uploadin everythin to my other platforms again!" and then right then that night was when my harddrive broke. I don't like havin things uploaded outta chronological order so I decided to wait till I fixed up the drive to get all the files back (and the Twitter uploads are at a horrid resolution due to the compression so I don't wanna grab those). I haven't had the time to fix it yet (I think it's just a connector issue so I just need to find a swap for that hopefully) and that was ages ago now so I think it's about time for me to kick that mindset or else these other accounts are just gonna sit in dust. So over the next probably month or so I'm gonna upload a couple things a day to FA and Eka's until they're caught up with my Twitter again! Hopefully I'll get one up right after postin this update :)

(For the context of my FA-only watchers I've been active a lot on Twitter)

Last Saturday night I got into hit and run car crash that totaled my car to the point of it being scrap. I won't go into the details for the sake of anyone who wouldn't want to hear about it but all in all with the state of the rolled car and some other factors I'm lucky to be alive at all. In the crash I did suffer a minor hand injury on my dominant hand that left me unable to draw, but with how stressed I've been since the accident the wound healed enough by the time I was in the headspace to draw again. Physically I'm fine now other than that wound that'll likely leave a scar, but with the state of needin a new car and how I'll have to deal with the insurance company I'm gonna be generally tighter on cash for a while which means soon I'll likely be switchin to workin full time. This is honestly the thing that makes me the most upset about the situation. Goin full time means less time for art, when this is what I care about more than almost anythin. I think I've said it before but, even if some people find it ridiculous, makin this kind of art really is my passion, and gettin to have people enjoy the work I make has been what I've wanted to do all my life. This isn't to say that I quit or that I'll be stoppin just that things might slow down. I don't ever want to stop bein able to draw for people so I'm sure I'll end up workin around it somehow but in that period of transitionin I'm not sure how active with it I'll be. For now I'm still workin part-time and I plan to get back up to speed by next week, but by next month I'm honestly not sure how things are gonna look. Like I said eventually everythin will probably return to some state of normalcy due to my own drive to keep drawin, I'm just not sure when we'll be stable in that.

Keepin it simple, I just really fell outta love with the whole thing and it has not been callin me back to it at all. If ya read the last journal you'd know what happened around it but tl;dr I was constantly gettin messaged over it and some people couldn't keep their hands to themselves. The whole thing has left a really bad lingerin taste in my mouth and it's resulted in me wantin to do orbs less in general, which I don't like. I don't really want either side winnin at this point and it don't feel right drawin one of em as the victor cuz I feel like I'm validatin some of the folks who had some kinda rancid behavior. I've been very tempted to draw up a final post where both of em get nommed by a character who wasn't ever in the bracket as a sorta "Nobody wins and now the tourney is done" deal but I don't think that'd satisfy anyone except myself. If it ever does finish that's honestly the only way I could see it bein done, for now I'm just lettin it sit there cuz it doesn't feel good workin on it. Figured I'd make a journal about it since I saw some folks questionin what'd happened.

(The rest of this is me complainin so if you don't wanna read that sorta thing that's fine)

This is for two main reasons, one bein that I’ve personally become very tired of Starlow. I hadn’t had interest in her since around the second round of the tournament but I wouldn’t be as miffed if it wasn’t for the constant messagin I’ve been gettin from people requestin me to draw her despite the tournament still goin on. For the past two or three weeks I’ve been gettin DM’s every few days, or every single day in the past week, where someone will ask about new art of the character. I haven’t experienced this with any other contestant aside from maybe 1 or 2 people for the more popular combatants, but with Starlow it feels like a constant drip of people. I know nobody messagin knows I’ve been asked about it multiple times but it hasn’t made it any less drainin. I still probably wouldn’t have gone as far as to delay the next drawin if some of those folks hadn’t decided to further press about possible future Starlow art even after I’d reminded them that she was still in the tournament and was likely to still be drawn. As a result, apart from the last art for the tournament and a commission I haven’t gotten to yet, I don’t think I’ll ever be drawin her again so please don’t message me about new Starlow art anymore.

Secondly, I’m gonna also need a break from the tournament due to the people who have decided to go as far as to openly insult and disrespect people in the comments of my posts about people’s votes in a tournament about fictional orb preds. If it’s layin that harsh in your mind I’d strongly urge you air out your grievances with friends or somethin privately instead of tryin to turn Twitter comments into a warzone. The usual highlight of my day, readin comments on my posts, has become less and less enjoyable as the final day of the vote drew nearer. I do not want to police my comments and replies but this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to doin so, please do not make me start that would turn my fun art account into a complete drag to work on.

The final art should be released in about a week, but it is not my main focus right now in the slightest. I’m gonna go make some art I’m excited to draw to pick my mood back up. If it isn’t released next week, it’ll probably be released in early July since after next week I’ll be out for nearly a week on a vacation.

To finish off I just want to apologize for complainin about a thing I made that many have passively had a lot of fun with, I just wanted to be transparent about the state of the next drawin and my experience with the project as of recently. Hope most of y’all enjoyed yourself durin the ride and continue to enjoy yourself as this train enters its final stop.

Just realized it's been over a year already since I started postin here. Feels so long ago now, hell that first drawin I have posted don't even look like anythin I post nowadays. I've really loved it here, y'all, which is why I'm happy knowin that I don't plan on goin anywhere anytime soon! This ain't my first ring in the online-rodeo but damn has it been my favorite, really feels like everyone here flocked in outta nowhere, which is pretty good for the ego, not gonna lie. Ain't easy on the nerves knowin there's this many of y'all here, hell I'm almost to 2,000 on Twitter, but I've pretty quickly adapted to it! Ever since I was a lil fuzzball I'd always wanted to entertain folks, put out content people can enjoy. Knowin there's so many of y'all out there partakin in my personal circus and doin just that feels pretty good. Even if it's small in relativity to other folks out there, that's still a hell of a lotta ya out there. Couldn't fill a McDonald's with all y'all without gettin a complaint about overcrowdin! I know how dingbat it is to say but havin this community of gut-lovers here kinda makes it feel like a lifelong fever-dream is comin true. There're people out there who wanna see my drawings of fluffy fat and I'm more than happy to oblige! I don't really see a future where I ever willingly give this up, really helps complete the soul runnin this show. Which also means you readin this right now are directly improvin my life just by checkin out my art whenever I post! All of this really is to entertain y'all so I can't really put to words how much it means to me when some dingdong with a poorly sketched ms paint pfp waltzes into one of my posts, leaves a like, then comments "Yeah I'd make out with that navel." This train has a lotta steam left in it too, got plenty of characters I still have to put to ink, plus a couple ideas for comics I still gotta workshop for a while longer, one of em bein a very long-form one I'm hopin everyone will enjoy! So I see this ride runnin on the tracks for a lot longer! Just hope y'all are prepared to put up with me for the rest of time. May our clowncar never stop rollin.

I didn't read this back to myself cuz I need to get back to some art so if somethin sounds strange it's just cuz I was typin with reckless abandon.

Just puttin this out there since I like transparency. Not sure how noticeable it is but I've been lackin pretty hard in motivation since like, right after Thanksgivin or right after Novemeber ended can't fully remember. It was probably more noticeable if you've messaged me on Twitter or Discord and noticed that I haven't been very online at all. Basically one big thing happened and then a buncha little things kept pilin up that just made me wanna do nothin but sleep on my crappy futon all day. This is an issue because, one I don't want there to ever be a drought of content even just for a week or two, and two I have Comms I need to get done and keepin folks waitin is a very bad thing to me. That art I just uploaded as of the publishin of this Journal was a quick spark for me to try and get back into the motion of things, drawin a thing I wanted instead of somethin that's been requested or Comm'd. Gonna try and keep the train rollin on that so expect another upload today. This really ain't nothin serious but I felt bad keepin some folks hangin so I figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to put it out there that I've just been feelin crappy lately, but that's somethin I plan on fixin very soon so look forward to more clownery.

Only 8 months after my first post on a fresh account, what the fuck. All 1000 of y'all are what makes this dingus account worth it y'know, the whole reason I keep this circus runnin is to entertain folks, it's what I've always wanted to do! Seein comments about what ya enjoy in the art or gettin to hear the reactions to folks seein me draw their characters, it's that bump that keeps me drivin this clown car! Not to mention all the dingus friends I've made while doin this wacky stuff. Even just a few years ago I never really even thought of it as a possibility but here I am now with a buncha folks I talk tummy with all the time! Pretty grateful things have run so smoothly so far with all this, for gettin to have all of y'all along to come to witness my travelin circus every now and again, for gettin to remember I'm not the only Bozo around here, all that sorta stuff. Sure hope none of ya are tired of the ride yet cuz this train is pumpin on full gas and we flew off the rails ages ago! I've got plans for more characters, more art, some stories, even a long-term comic series! If that all sounds interestin to ya then go ahead and stick around to watch the show! If not, well like I said the train is runnin on full steam and we're not hittin a stop anytime soon so unless you plan on jumpin off a runnin train you should probably just bite the bullet and stick around anyways.

This is about Snivy Week which you might not know about if ya don't follow me on Twitter so heads up.

Figured I'd offer up a quick explanation as to why I fell off on the sketches and started doin the Overgrowth stuffs. It was probably pretty obvious pretty quickly into Snivy Week that my drawin mood sorta dropped, but it wasn't outta loss of interest, y'all really hit it with some of these requests! Nah, basically what happened is I was tryin to draw some non-Snivy Week arts, testin out some new stuff, but the sketches of that drawin kept endin up pretty off from what I was tryin to do and it kicked me into an art funk. It was the first time in a long time I got hit with that bug of tryin to live up to your own art, since I'm sharin it with folks and all that. There's this sorta need to match up to or out-do your last drawin every time ya draw for an audience and learnin to kick that feelin is a pretty normal step for bein any sorta artist at all, but sometimes it tries to move back in and ya gotta evict it again. That was compounded with this was this sorta sense of "Oh I wanna draw this thing but I should be workin on Snivy Week art instead!" and when you're someone like me that basically works with motivation fueled by random inspirational sparks it kinda hurt my overall drawin flow so I'd draw less. With all this in mind I realized I'd need to do somethin about Snivy Week since I didn't wanna disappoint folks plus, like I said earlier, some of y'all got requests that make my neurons fire-off like miniguns and I really wanna draw em! So I figured this more drip-fed approach would help to get things back on track. I get to draw things other than Snivy Week requests, and I still get to pump out more grass snakes! This ain't meant to be a "pity me" sorta thing by the by, more just a general explanation because I like transparency. Don't worry about me and my art or nothin, drawin snags hit all the time it's just a matter of workin through em! Also in my downtime I've been playin a disgustin amount of Fallout 4 with the Vore and Vulpine mods installed and it's givin me ideas so maybe expect that in the future if I ever learn to draw snouts.

About to dump all my Twitter sketches into my Scraps heads up

I've been goin at it lately over there doin sketches, go check em all out
https://twitter.com/IcecreamSprink3

Just wanted to put a quick thing out there to explain why a lot of requests and projects have been promised but not delivered on yet. Just to clarify, this account is a way to share around my hobby, it ain't a job or anythin. In fact, I'd rather not get money involved at all, at least right now, mainly due to the fact that my art is completely driven by sparks of inspiration to do so. Basically, I only draw if I'm in the mood to do so. If a certain drawin doesn't drive me properly it comes out sloppy or shifts my mood to not wantin to do it at all. This is why things are left to the side for a while, they're basically gettin some shade until I'm ready to tackle them again. I'd rather do art I'm more passionate about at that moment so I can get somethin out. Everythin I've promised before will get done at some point, but that doesn't mean it'll happen soon. I'd rather keep talkin like this off this account, but it's been weighin on my mind so I figured I'd shove it out there. Expect more posts this week, I wanna try and get out at least one or two more drawings before the weekend.

If you wanna eat or get eaten by me in some art that's comin up check out this tweet
https://twitter.com/IcecreamSprink3.....09717332004871

The deadline's been hit, so if you hadn't gotten your submission in time's up. Put together the roster a little later than expected, but everyone who was chosen will be gettin a Note or DM notifyin them

Gonna be selectin the characters for the tournament tomorrow around 6-ish PST so this is your last chance to get your character in

So the winnin vote was to have y'all's OCs as the combatants so if you wanna try and get your character in the you can Note me here on FA or DM me on Twitter with your character and maybe a quick description of their personality. I'll only be acceptin characters with references and will be takin 8 overall. There won't be a vote on the characters or nothin I'll just pick my favorites, good luck.

Decided on a Pokémon theme for the tournament, check the poll to vote for what kind of Pokémon'll be devourin each other

https://strawpoll.com/polls/40Zmd0J5mga

AAAAAAA GOD FUCKING DAMNIT IT'S 1:30 IN THE MORNING AND I HAVE TO WAKE UP AT 6 BUT I JUST HIT 100 FOLLOWERS. Go to my Twitter and talk about what we should do for a milestone event, this is a threat not a request.
https://twitter.com/IcecreamSprink3

Click the link, dumdum
https://twitter.com/IcecreamSprink3.....24951946706945

Follow me on Twitter! Sometimes I might ask for certain characters to draw or maybe spots to fill in drawings

https://twitter.com/IcecreamSprink3

I'll be usin it to post sketches of future posts, sometimes, and post sketches that I never finished and are too bad to go even into scraps.

Here it is https://twitter.com/IcecreamSprink3

Just wanna make sure I hot the ground runnin and ask what y'all come here for and if there's anythin in particular you're itchin to see already. So just comment somethin here if anythin spikes your brain.

I do more sketchin than actual drawin, and anythin that it's lined and colored ands up in scraps, so I have a lot of scrap

I don't know why I made that journal almost a year ago but goddamn it is annoyin to see on my front page

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Okay, so, basically, I'm setting up this Account so I can get a fresh start. Hated how I acted on my old Acc and all the fun got lost is the shitshow. I won't name that old Acc, but if you knew it, you knew it, and it's not like I'm trying to hide my art style or sona so like, if you're here from the old Account, then you'll probably know on sight. Used to try to act all professional for some reason and had this delusion that I need to keep up some sort of image? That was all dumb, made that Account to have fun, so that's what I'm doing now. Don't expect me to act at all formal in anything ever, that got boring. And I was into more than just Vore and Fats, I'm into Vore, Fatfur, Candy-Scat, Gas, Paws, and all that sinful garbage. Imma draw what I want when I want to. Wanna make a request? I mean, you can, but I'm not gonna always say yes anymore, so prepare to see 'Nah, don't feel like it' as my legitimate reasoning. Also, if I don't feel like doing your request anymore, I just won't, so don't hold your breath on requests. Might inform you, might not, depends on if I care. Might make stories, audios, drawings, etc. Also, imma do something I've always wanted to do, review kink stuffs, like games or whatever. Maybe in Journals? Maybe in my Gallery? idk. So that's about it, Watch me if you want, if you like my uploads and stuff.