Heya all, finally got around to cleaning up and updating my Itaku page! It's now up to date with all my art, and more organized!

https://itaku.ee/profile/kaycee-verdant

Heya everyone
I got an important thing I wanted to discuss with you guys, so I really appreciate anyone who wants to stop by and lend a semi-serious ear

In regard to me making money off of my artistic hobbies, and advancing myself towards my future goal of game development, commissions immediately come to mind, I mean, plenty of people have asked and encouraged me already, and at this point in time all I'd have to do is draw a sheet to get some going.

However, I don't really want to do commissions. The idea of spending most of my drawing time on other people's ideas doesn't necessarily please me. While I absolutely love the idea of being introduced to other people's creations and being given the honor of putting my own spin on them, it's not something I want to subtract from my own personal development. I have my own stories I want to write and tell, a whole world of characters I need to populate and expand on.

I've been reading manga lately, and it's inspired me to attempt making a webcomic and make money off of that if I can. I was thinking of putting out a few chapters as a pilot to grab interest, and from then on I'd have a Patreon where subscribers can see new chapters a week early. But that's a much harder route, as I'd have to first attain interest from a large number of people before I can even suggest the concept of a Patreon subscription. While this will let me focus more on my own ideas and stories, it'll also set me in a poor position as 1) I barely draw my own OCs, and 2) I have yet to introduce the concepts of my fictional world to the broader public. I'd also have to get into the swing of writing often and greatly.

I think that making webcomics would be a good bridge into game development, as I'd be developing writing skills while also expanding my world, so I'd already have a sizable one to actually develop games off of. It does seem like a massive responsibly with little monetary payoff, though.

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I had the idea of doing comms while making the pilot chapters of the webcomic simultaneously, but that poses the problem of abruptly ending comms after the webcomic gets off the ground, which might upset people and turn them away from being customers. So I don't know if I should drop the idea of comms altogether and power focus on the comic or what.

What do you all think of this idea, in general? This is for the sake of my future as a creative, so I really appreciate any meaningful input

Dear artists,
What do you do when you have an urge to draw, but don't have any ideas on what to actually draw?

Welp, the people have spoken, thanks all for answering!
I'm going to post more lewd stuff here now alongside my more tame kinks, with proper tagging of course, starting with my most recent one. Thanks again!

Right as the title says, I'm wondering if you'll all be okay with seeing art of my other, more raunchy kinks, those featuring genitalia. I'm anxious because I haven't posted anything like that before and I don't wanna jumpscare people.
I'm going to leave this question open for a few days

Sooo since the start of the year I've been practicing with drawing with a pen and tablet instead of my mouse, that pic I recently uploaded: ( https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59477880/ ) was my first completed piece with it, I feel very proud :3

----This Journal, while posted on FA, is directed at everyone who has supported my art, or me personally!----

Heya all, I'm taking some time off from my break to write this Journal, both as a follow-up to my previous entries about a "big project", and as a thank-you and send-off to the year. I hope you'll read it all the way through!

-First, I want to address my project: I will not be finishing it. I am sorry, but between a mix of college burnout, family vacation, and the project itself being a complicated thing to continue for a reason I'll get to soon, I decided it's best for my health to stop it entirely, since I wanted it done by October, and was willing to push it to December, but the motivation is all gone. Now that I've said that, I can pull back the curtains and tell you exactly what it was supposed to be: A 5-page comic based on Ghosts and Japes (vore game that was trending during the spooky season, but I still play it cause it's genuinely good). It was intended to be a symbolic piece because at the end of it I was supposed to be willingly digested, implied to be a fatal end, only for me to reform happily as a ghost, saying I'll return to my body whenever I'm ready. It was supposed to be my way of.. graduating, from a person who just draws to a novice-but certified artist.
However!!! my philosophy about art has since changed! Both with my growth in self-confidence, and my interactions with other artists and their work. I now strongly believe that anyone can be an artist if they so deem themself such and create art, as art is the expression of a person's soul. To gatekeep myself from that right because of a lack of technical skill, is to deny myself my own creativity, blocking myself from free expression and instead seeking empty talent, which I don't want. I wanna draw because it's fun, and I love using it as a way to express my interests and such as someone who sucks doing that verbally. As such, if I do continue that project, it'll be for a love of the game itself instead of using it to further a detrimental ideal.
Sorry to everyone for keeping you waiting so long for nothing!

Well, not exactly nothing, I still got some art for ya..~

-Next, with the sobby apologetic stuff out of the way, time for the thank yous and send off!!
It's been a super long year, even if I just joined this site at the start of it, I've been drawing for several- started in 2021 actually! And yet, this year feels like the biggest it's been yet for me as an artist! With my self confidence getting better, and with me being able to actually see a steady improvement from the start of the year compared to the end of it instead of it just being stagnant, and it feels great!! I finally feel like an artist, and I've got all you people to thank for it! Everyone from close friends to just about anybody who supported my art, you're all the absolute best, and I thank each and every one of you for helping me send off the year with a smile!! This is honestly the best I've felt in years, I've struggled with self-worth my whole life, and I finally feel that changing as I take on a stronger sense of self!
I will be posting an artpiece I made as thanks after this goes up, as a replacement to that comic. Instead of a graduatory piece wrought from a need to prove himself, It'll instead be one of gratitude, thanking you all for making me realize what I always had: a creative mind with lots to share <3

Thank you all, Merry Christmas, And happy New Year!!

So... about my project the last journal mentioned. It's going good, I finished the first page just last night (will not post though as I want to send everything at once)
There's just one, small, minute, micro-sized problem though..

College
Pricking
SUCKS!

Cause of all the slaving away I've had to do between studies and assignments, I've pretty much only been able to work on it by depriving myself of sleep, staying awake long hours into the night with a body only moving through my desire to see this project done. These jerks are handing out tests and massive assignments over topics they couldn't be bothered to give a few classes on... pretty much had to learn everything myself! While a rewarding feeling academically, it eats away at my soul and gives me major stress..

So what'll I do about it? Well, I don't want to finish this project out of crunch time, this is something VERY important to me and I want to nurture with the respect and love it deserves. So, although I wanted to finish it during October, it doesn't look like I'll be able to do that, which is quite the blow to my heart since it does feature things befitting the season.. but ah well, at least this way I'll be able to work on it at a comfortable pace.

Having finished the first page, I'm now going to take a break from it, and resume drawing other, smaller things, start playing games again, and overall just taking more me-time. Thank you for reading, and I hope this doesn't quell any excitement the previous journal gave

P.S: If you happen to have a giant hammer, or a huge chunk of metal I can make into a giant hammer or 150 meter-long katana, do contact me. I'm taking a break from school one way or the other.

Disclaimer: Nothing's bad happening to me!! Nothing bad at all, don't fret it <3
It's just that I'm working on a pretty big, pretty personal project right now, and it's gonna take a while!! I've been working non stop for the past days on other things from school and such to get them out of the way so I can finally get started on it!

Hope you'll all like it once it's done, cause I've got a lot to say about it once I've posted it..
Take care till then!