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Vore Day, Comm Updates, Progress and Spam
General | Posted 4 months agoHeylo, it's 8/8, again! Love to see it, they keep putting numbers on the calendar man, you love to see it.
I'm celebrating with some spam of content. Get ready. it's gonna be, tentatively, 4 months of unposted art. Maybe more.
For folks waiting for their animated YCH comm, I have started on Batch 2 as of yesterday after a spot of stomach illness caught me slippin. But my guts are back in their proper arrangement, if twisted, and I'm back on that art grind.
Enjoy the spam, y'all. Make a musubi, it's yum.
I'm celebrating with some spam of content. Get ready. it's gonna be, tentatively, 4 months of unposted art. Maybe more.
For folks waiting for their animated YCH comm, I have started on Batch 2 as of yesterday after a spot of stomach illness caught me slippin. But my guts are back in their proper arrangement, if twisted, and I'm back on that art grind.
Enjoy the spam, y'all. Make a musubi, it's yum.
Art full time - What's the deal (Comment your thoughts)
General | Posted 9 months agoSo, I've been feeding myself and housing myself with art for a bit now, and you don't gotta tell me that my art output has slowed down. It hasn't factually, I've been drawing more than ever, but figuring out what to post, how to post it, and where is... A challenge. It's been good to know that I can support this, and I've been dealing with a lot of issues behind the scenes, but, I'm going to be taking a month off the owed work from patreon to focus on personal stuff a bit. Personal art, art of characters, the stuff I wanna do, and will be doing that going forward, occasional months off and the like, but I want some feedback from y'all here on this site too!
I've mostly just been uploading weekly sketch pages, I have been doing other stuff, but, I'm not sure if y'all would even care to see the sketches and stuff I've done outside that. I can put them in a folder or probably in scraps, that's easy enough, but figuring out how or when to do that and how to credit people, it's a pain! But, generally, be prepared for a big spam of uploads here in the coming weeks, and more generally be prepared for me to be posting more frequently in general, that's the goal anyways.
I'm also looking to start streaming more regularly, both arts and gameses, so... That'll ideally be happening. If you have any ideas of what days are best to do that, feel free to lemme know in the comments. I'm also planning to work on a personal project to update some of the characters on my roster a lil bit. Notably some of the designs people like that I haven't had any ideas for in a while (Like Dirk, for example) and some of the older offerings. These personal months will be opportunities to work on older projects, touch on older characters, work on some fun indirect funding options (I got some fun ideas for other YCHses and the like). But, if anyone has anything specific, be it a character to revamp or a concept to continue, lemme know, and generally be prepared for more art being shared!
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AND if you feel so inclined and wanna see some of it early, you can subscribe to me over on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/Hookaloof.....llyCoolPatreon OR if you wanna do a one time donation, I have a Kofi page that I probably should pimp more often (though some VERY kind and giving there already, so thanks to those people GENUINELY life changing.) https://ko-fi.com/hookaloof only give if you feel you wanna!
I've mostly just been uploading weekly sketch pages, I have been doing other stuff, but, I'm not sure if y'all would even care to see the sketches and stuff I've done outside that. I can put them in a folder or probably in scraps, that's easy enough, but figuring out how or when to do that and how to credit people, it's a pain! But, generally, be prepared for a big spam of uploads here in the coming weeks, and more generally be prepared for me to be posting more frequently in general, that's the goal anyways.
I'm also looking to start streaming more regularly, both arts and gameses, so... That'll ideally be happening. If you have any ideas of what days are best to do that, feel free to lemme know in the comments. I'm also planning to work on a personal project to update some of the characters on my roster a lil bit. Notably some of the designs people like that I haven't had any ideas for in a while (Like Dirk, for example) and some of the older offerings. These personal months will be opportunities to work on older projects, touch on older characters, work on some fun indirect funding options (I got some fun ideas for other YCHses and the like). But, if anyone has anything specific, be it a character to revamp or a concept to continue, lemme know, and generally be prepared for more art being shared!
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AND if you feel so inclined and wanna see some of it early, you can subscribe to me over on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/Hookaloof.....llyCoolPatreon OR if you wanna do a one time donation, I have a Kofi page that I probably should pimp more often (though some VERY kind and giving there already, so thanks to those people GENUINELY life changing.) https://ko-fi.com/hookaloof only give if you feel you wanna!
Unemployed - Here's what comes next!
General | Posted a year agoHey, so, I got fired from my job.
The reasons for this are many and obnoxious, but basically I made the gamble of asking a company that's on the precipice of failing for more respect. I asked my boss to make less demeaning, disrespectful jokes about my sexuality, or about my coworkers, and he fired me for it. Sad, but not something I didn't see coming.
The past few months or so, the changes happening at my (former) workplace had me thinking this was likely, but this happened a lot faster than I expected. I worked at this place for nearly 6 years, and now I'm stuck with a few different choices. I could try and find another spot to work in that same industry, but I don't really want to after the recent issues, so I'm gonna try and see what I can do as a full time artist. This is gonna come with a few big changes.
Firstly: I'm gonna take a couple days off. I've been taking too long with those YCH animation comms, those are still in the works, I'm done with about half of them, done in the order of payment, if yours hasn't been finished just yet don't worry it'll be up soon, promise, but I just gotta take a couple days and not draw. I was trying to push past everything and keep drawing but I'm just spinning my wheels.
Second steps are going to be updated comms sheet, with accurate pricing, and some sort of public queue people can check to see progress and open-ness, as well as starting up a Patreon. I could just open my patreon up generally but I wanna make sure it's set up for success, has rewards that people want, that sort of thing. I've got enough cash saved up that I can successfully keep myself afloat for a bit, but I don't plan to take more than a week before getting this second step accomplished. In the meantime, I'll also be posting stuff I've got drawn that I haven't shared yet, for whatever reason or another.
Third more long term steps, merch, physical goods, that sorta thing, definitely something I'd like to branch into doing, have little booths in artist alleys at conventions and stuff, doing comms at cons, that stuff. I think it'd be fun, and might be profitable, but since it takes setup cash and everything it's a long term goal.
But, first things first, I'm taking it easy, finishing the last of those animated YCHs (or at least most of them), then comm sheets and crowdfunding stuff, and finally I become the next Hyena Agenda. Not actually, but that's the order of events.
In the meantime, if you'd like to support me with a one time donation while I'm getting set up, I do have a Ko-fi, it's not immediately necessary but if you wanna support me you can do so here: https://ko-fi.com/hookaloof
More updates and details to come soon!
The reasons for this are many and obnoxious, but basically I made the gamble of asking a company that's on the precipice of failing for more respect. I asked my boss to make less demeaning, disrespectful jokes about my sexuality, or about my coworkers, and he fired me for it. Sad, but not something I didn't see coming.
The past few months or so, the changes happening at my (former) workplace had me thinking this was likely, but this happened a lot faster than I expected. I worked at this place for nearly 6 years, and now I'm stuck with a few different choices. I could try and find another spot to work in that same industry, but I don't really want to after the recent issues, so I'm gonna try and see what I can do as a full time artist. This is gonna come with a few big changes.
Firstly: I'm gonna take a couple days off. I've been taking too long with those YCH animation comms, those are still in the works, I'm done with about half of them, done in the order of payment, if yours hasn't been finished just yet don't worry it'll be up soon, promise, but I just gotta take a couple days and not draw. I was trying to push past everything and keep drawing but I'm just spinning my wheels.
Second steps are going to be updated comms sheet, with accurate pricing, and some sort of public queue people can check to see progress and open-ness, as well as starting up a Patreon. I could just open my patreon up generally but I wanna make sure it's set up for success, has rewards that people want, that sort of thing. I've got enough cash saved up that I can successfully keep myself afloat for a bit, but I don't plan to take more than a week before getting this second step accomplished. In the meantime, I'll also be posting stuff I've got drawn that I haven't shared yet, for whatever reason or another.
Third more long term steps, merch, physical goods, that sorta thing, definitely something I'd like to branch into doing, have little booths in artist alleys at conventions and stuff, doing comms at cons, that stuff. I think it'd be fun, and might be profitable, but since it takes setup cash and everything it's a long term goal.
But, first things first, I'm taking it easy, finishing the last of those animated YCHs (or at least most of them), then comm sheets and crowdfunding stuff, and finally I become the next Hyena Agenda. Not actually, but that's the order of events.
In the meantime, if you'd like to support me with a one time donation while I'm getting set up, I do have a Ko-fi, it's not immediately necessary but if you wanna support me you can do so here: https://ko-fi.com/hookaloof
More updates and details to come soon!
Life Updates and Self Reflection
General | Posted a year agoHey, been a second. How about a life update?
TL;DR I'm willing to open for commissions again, every so often, but I'll be more choosey and more picky and whatnot. You can skip the below infodump, it doesn't matter, but I solved my brain problems I had around accepting money, turns out money wasnt the problem I was and my brain was, but that's fixed, ANYHOOT, enjoy this madness.
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So, last time I made one of these, it was to announce that I was stopping commissions, because I was incapable of holding myself to any sort of standard or valuing my work or treating paid work with any degree of professionalism. My brain internalized that as a bizarre like... personal promise, melodramatic and bizarre, but came with the caveat that if I couldn't fix my brain I'd remove the temptation to overwork myself, and remove I did! But it turns out, after a lot of working and thinking and a smidge of introspection, the root of the problem revealed itself to me.
You might find this hard to believe, but I hate myself very very deeply and fundamentally. Hated me for my entire life, and not for unfounded reasons, but as I fixed them and grew and improved the hatred never left. And the reason it never left is that I never stopped this bizarre pressure release valve in my head.
When I first started drawing, I did it for other people. I did sketches for my friends and that helped me. Everything in my life I've always done for others. Codependency, not relitigating that, but there was a side to that I dared not acknowledge. That being that I could feel good about myself by how MUCH I gave others. That I did so much art, that I did what people wanted, that I never said no, that I undercharged or just did everything for free, I could fight back my self hatred by focusing primarily on just how good of a person I was for doing those things and giving others so much and blah blah blah.
But it became this toxic feedback loop, where I would feel bad, so I'd do something nice, and feel so good about it, that I'd leeaaaaan into the martyrdom, I'd give more, a truly staggering amount, and then say something absurd like "I don't need to sleep" or "My hands are for other people" or some bizarre statement. Then when I felt bad because I stretched myself too thin, the only thing that could reinflate my sense of self was to give other people more.
But I don't need to do any of it. I don't have to feel bad about who I am, nor do I have value only when I can provide it to other people. I am a hard working, innovative, talented and driven artist with fun novel ideas who can work hard for myself or for others, or not work hard, or work a little bit.
Part of the sona change is due to that. That recognition, that acknowledgement, the contradiction wrapped around myself pulled at like a ribbon on a gift box, it comes undone and what stands below, the truth behind all that, subliminal, invisible, unthinkable, anew.
I'm not interested in whether or not myself holds up to scrutiny, I'm a weird cringe weirdo and always have been, but I'm not gonna hate myself about it anymore. Or hate myself because I feel it's owed for hubris expressed. So I'll resume taking comms every so often, but be more discerning, and won't be worried about not taking a comm I dont want to because it might hurt someone's feelings, which I used to weigh so heavily in my mind it was truly absurd.
All in all, this is a good change, a wise and just acknowledgement, a promise, a simple phrase, all this metaphorical artist crap that doesn't matter. All I know, is I like drawing weird fetish porn for weird kinky people, and so I will continue to do that.
Stay tuned!
TL;DR I'm willing to open for commissions again, every so often, but I'll be more choosey and more picky and whatnot. You can skip the below infodump, it doesn't matter, but I solved my brain problems I had around accepting money, turns out money wasnt the problem I was and my brain was, but that's fixed, ANYHOOT, enjoy this madness.
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So, last time I made one of these, it was to announce that I was stopping commissions, because I was incapable of holding myself to any sort of standard or valuing my work or treating paid work with any degree of professionalism. My brain internalized that as a bizarre like... personal promise, melodramatic and bizarre, but came with the caveat that if I couldn't fix my brain I'd remove the temptation to overwork myself, and remove I did! But it turns out, after a lot of working and thinking and a smidge of introspection, the root of the problem revealed itself to me.
You might find this hard to believe, but I hate myself very very deeply and fundamentally. Hated me for my entire life, and not for unfounded reasons, but as I fixed them and grew and improved the hatred never left. And the reason it never left is that I never stopped this bizarre pressure release valve in my head.
When I first started drawing, I did it for other people. I did sketches for my friends and that helped me. Everything in my life I've always done for others. Codependency, not relitigating that, but there was a side to that I dared not acknowledge. That being that I could feel good about myself by how MUCH I gave others. That I did so much art, that I did what people wanted, that I never said no, that I undercharged or just did everything for free, I could fight back my self hatred by focusing primarily on just how good of a person I was for doing those things and giving others so much and blah blah blah.
But it became this toxic feedback loop, where I would feel bad, so I'd do something nice, and feel so good about it, that I'd leeaaaaan into the martyrdom, I'd give more, a truly staggering amount, and then say something absurd like "I don't need to sleep" or "My hands are for other people" or some bizarre statement. Then when I felt bad because I stretched myself too thin, the only thing that could reinflate my sense of self was to give other people more.
But I don't need to do any of it. I don't have to feel bad about who I am, nor do I have value only when I can provide it to other people. I am a hard working, innovative, talented and driven artist with fun novel ideas who can work hard for myself or for others, or not work hard, or work a little bit.
Part of the sona change is due to that. That recognition, that acknowledgement, the contradiction wrapped around myself pulled at like a ribbon on a gift box, it comes undone and what stands below, the truth behind all that, subliminal, invisible, unthinkable, anew.
I'm not interested in whether or not myself holds up to scrutiny, I'm a weird cringe weirdo and always have been, but I'm not gonna hate myself about it anymore. Or hate myself because I feel it's owed for hubris expressed. So I'll resume taking comms every so often, but be more discerning, and won't be worried about not taking a comm I dont want to because it might hurt someone's feelings, which I used to weigh so heavily in my mind it was truly absurd.
All in all, this is a good change, a wise and just acknowledgement, a promise, a simple phrase, all this metaphorical artist crap that doesn't matter. All I know, is I like drawing weird fetish porn for weird kinky people, and so I will continue to do that.
Stay tuned!
Commissions for the Foreseeable Future
General | Posted 2 years agoI won't be doing them. Ideally ever again if I can help it, but I can't guarantee my heart won't go psycho again, I can guarantee very little in life, but that's my goal.
I love commissions. I love to do them. I do them well. I don't think I charge too much, I deliver on them promptly, and when I do not deliver on them promptly, I communicate the reasons explicitly, quickly, and endeavor to make restorative gestures when I fail to meet the standards I hold myself to. Which is rare! I think in my history as a furry commission artist I have done an excellent job with few missteps, an A- performance if I were to personally evaluate, and truth be told some of my BEST work is commissions, because they're good for getting out of the comfort zone and I work exceptionally hard to please others.
BUT, I get weird about them. I get really serious about taking them and how to post them and attribution and find it veeeery hard to say no when people ask if I'm open (Unless its for animation comms, I'm usually very opposed to those). So I always take too many, don't afford myself breaks because I pride myself on quick delivery, and always ALWAYS wind up burning myself out. I tried to put them off last year but had to take a couple big ones to cover medical expenses... And then just kept quietly taking more because people kept asking. It started to feel like if I said yes to one person, but "I'm closed" to someone right after, I was playing favorites, that I was derelict in my artistic duties, artist be thou for the people, I had a mission to always do as much art for as many people as wanted it and were willing to pay! Which... obviously wasn't true,
But the more I take the more it starts to feel like I HAVE to take them, like it's a promise, but somehow more important than a promise, because money is attached. And I see horror stories of other artists who just take the money and run, or deliver subpar work, and even though I love the whole process top to bottom, commissions genuinely can make people's dreams come true (Or feel that way), but it's not worth it in the end for me. If I can't fix my brain then I'll just remove the temptation to overwork myself.
I'm healthier now, I'm more financially secure at my day job, and I don't really need the money! Other than the occasional fundraising effort, or maybe a YCH thing, I'm going to try my best to keep drawing as just a fun hobby, unless what I'm selling is like, a longform finished comic, which I make on my own terms (Something I do wanna do!) I won't be taking any specific commissions. That's the intent going forward, it might change, who knows, but for the foreseeable future into forever commissions shall be closed!
Sorry if you were waiting, I just can't do them responsibly, so I won't do them!
Give your money to artists who need it instead of me, my art will continue regardless!
I love commissions. I love to do them. I do them well. I don't think I charge too much, I deliver on them promptly, and when I do not deliver on them promptly, I communicate the reasons explicitly, quickly, and endeavor to make restorative gestures when I fail to meet the standards I hold myself to. Which is rare! I think in my history as a furry commission artist I have done an excellent job with few missteps, an A- performance if I were to personally evaluate, and truth be told some of my BEST work is commissions, because they're good for getting out of the comfort zone and I work exceptionally hard to please others.
BUT, I get weird about them. I get really serious about taking them and how to post them and attribution and find it veeeery hard to say no when people ask if I'm open (Unless its for animation comms, I'm usually very opposed to those). So I always take too many, don't afford myself breaks because I pride myself on quick delivery, and always ALWAYS wind up burning myself out. I tried to put them off last year but had to take a couple big ones to cover medical expenses... And then just kept quietly taking more because people kept asking. It started to feel like if I said yes to one person, but "I'm closed" to someone right after, I was playing favorites, that I was derelict in my artistic duties, artist be thou for the people, I had a mission to always do as much art for as many people as wanted it and were willing to pay! Which... obviously wasn't true,
But the more I take the more it starts to feel like I HAVE to take them, like it's a promise, but somehow more important than a promise, because money is attached. And I see horror stories of other artists who just take the money and run, or deliver subpar work, and even though I love the whole process top to bottom, commissions genuinely can make people's dreams come true (Or feel that way), but it's not worth it in the end for me. If I can't fix my brain then I'll just remove the temptation to overwork myself.
I'm healthier now, I'm more financially secure at my day job, and I don't really need the money! Other than the occasional fundraising effort, or maybe a YCH thing, I'm going to try my best to keep drawing as just a fun hobby, unless what I'm selling is like, a longform finished comic, which I make on my own terms (Something I do wanna do!) I won't be taking any specific commissions. That's the intent going forward, it might change, who knows, but for the foreseeable future into forever commissions shall be closed!
Sorry if you were waiting, I just can't do them responsibly, so I won't do them!
Give your money to artists who need it instead of me, my art will continue regardless!
Weird low res images?
General | Posted 2 years agoIdk why half the stuff I uploaded the last few months was like a third of its intended size, but that's fixed now. Sorry about that! Now you can read the comics!
End of Year Personal Updates and Art Stuff (Spam Incoming...
General | Posted 2 years agoHello! It is December! Boy I fell off keeping this gallery updated properly, sorry about that! I am planning a massive spam update of like, 100 different pieces, get ready, its absurd. But in a cool way.
I have not stopped drawing, I just stopped posting to a few sites because I find tags annoying and descriptions difficult so social media which asks for zero effort gets my priority. On top of the fact I just... Kinda like to draw just for myself? Like, I think there are easily, EASILY, over 40 drawings I have done, finished, completely rendered and then... Posted nowhere. I'll try and change that so folks can see the stuff but honestly I think its kind of a healthy adjustment. There is no question of "Do I draw for attention? Wealth, Fame, Power?" the answer is no, I like all those things, but I like to draw pretty pictures.
This year I've also had a fair share of personal and professional issues. Besides my heart going berserk and the difficulty of trying to make sure my brain was treated to be able to function more normally (Didn't take, still a weird lil guy), I've learned to try and advocate for myself better in professional settings. I took on too many commissions in the emergency moments and have been struggling with that obligation for a while, some reasons for the delay are my fault definitely, others are just sort of environmental factors, but regardless I intend to do very much less in the way of comms in the coming year. Nearly dying and having to make a bunch of rapid lifestyle changes under duress doesn't make for an exceptionally relaxing time who knew! I also had to learn how to set some personal boundaries and express myself more clearly, I'm kind of an idiot in an emotional intelligence way (And the regular way), so it's exceptionally easy for me to be taken advantage of and it is not even due to the ill intentions of the people doing the advantage taking! At least I don't think so.
All the same, I think this was a good year! Its easy to focus on bad stuff like "Hypertensive Crisis" or worry about future bad stuff like "I wonder if my heart issues this year will contribute to ventricle hypertrophy in the future", but I've gotten better at comics, I've experimented with my art style a lot, it's been good, very good! Next year will be even better!!
So yeah when I post like literally over 100 pictures in a day or so dont be surprised
I have not stopped drawing, I just stopped posting to a few sites because I find tags annoying and descriptions difficult so social media which asks for zero effort gets my priority. On top of the fact I just... Kinda like to draw just for myself? Like, I think there are easily, EASILY, over 40 drawings I have done, finished, completely rendered and then... Posted nowhere. I'll try and change that so folks can see the stuff but honestly I think its kind of a healthy adjustment. There is no question of "Do I draw for attention? Wealth, Fame, Power?" the answer is no, I like all those things, but I like to draw pretty pictures.
This year I've also had a fair share of personal and professional issues. Besides my heart going berserk and the difficulty of trying to make sure my brain was treated to be able to function more normally (Didn't take, still a weird lil guy), I've learned to try and advocate for myself better in professional settings. I took on too many commissions in the emergency moments and have been struggling with that obligation for a while, some reasons for the delay are my fault definitely, others are just sort of environmental factors, but regardless I intend to do very much less in the way of comms in the coming year. Nearly dying and having to make a bunch of rapid lifestyle changes under duress doesn't make for an exceptionally relaxing time who knew! I also had to learn how to set some personal boundaries and express myself more clearly, I'm kind of an idiot in an emotional intelligence way (And the regular way), so it's exceptionally easy for me to be taken advantage of and it is not even due to the ill intentions of the people doing the advantage taking! At least I don't think so.
All the same, I think this was a good year! Its easy to focus on bad stuff like "Hypertensive Crisis" or worry about future bad stuff like "I wonder if my heart issues this year will contribute to ventricle hypertrophy in the future", but I've gotten better at comics, I've experimented with my art style a lot, it's been good, very good! Next year will be even better!!
So yeah when I post like literally over 100 pictures in a day or so dont be surprised
Updates and Stuff
General | Posted 2 years agoHey there! Been a bit since I updated folks here or updated my gallery.
I've been doing a lot of work, a lot of art, and a lot of health improvement stuff, so it's about time to post a little info about how life has been going!
Firstly: Health! A few months ago, I almost had a heart attack/stroke! Blood Pressure was at an average of 185/120 for almost half a week, which in Blood Pressure terms is "Hey, so, you're gonna die" levels of pressure. So I spent a while dealing with that, lots of testing, healthy lifestyle changes, all that good stuff. Got on a medicine that helps with Blood Pressure, and also spent all of my money doing it! But as of recently it's at an average of 118/62! So... Yay!
Secondly: Art stuff! I did have to take some emergency comms, so you'll see those posted soon! In total it waaaas like, 29 individual pieces, as well as a comic page! Some of them will not be shown for privacy, but all in all the art has been continuing, and its some of my best stuff I've ever done! I will not be doing Voretober this year, I still like the idea, but I've sort of outgrown the challenge. "Do one drawing a day" is my bare minimum usually, and trying to do more always winds up being more effort than its worth. So I shant! Sorry for those who like when I do it, but it's not happenin' this year.
Thirdly: Mental health and assorted other things! I got a diagnosis of ADHD, and got a treatment for that, so that's been helping me do stuff! It's not a fix to all of my problems, obviously, but it's helpful! And so I'm going to be going and working on programming and learning about other things, things which I had an interest in but struggled with because attentions are bad. Also wanna make longer form content, comics and long animations and everything therein. Maybe 3D! Who knows! Beyond that, I would like to try and be more communicative with people, respond to more comments, ect. I always forget to do that.
So... Yeah! Hookaloof update! More stuff to come, a lot of cool things, some new stuff some more of the same and all that goodness!
I've been doing a lot of work, a lot of art, and a lot of health improvement stuff, so it's about time to post a little info about how life has been going!
Firstly: Health! A few months ago, I almost had a heart attack/stroke! Blood Pressure was at an average of 185/120 for almost half a week, which in Blood Pressure terms is "Hey, so, you're gonna die" levels of pressure. So I spent a while dealing with that, lots of testing, healthy lifestyle changes, all that good stuff. Got on a medicine that helps with Blood Pressure, and also spent all of my money doing it! But as of recently it's at an average of 118/62! So... Yay!
Secondly: Art stuff! I did have to take some emergency comms, so you'll see those posted soon! In total it waaaas like, 29 individual pieces, as well as a comic page! Some of them will not be shown for privacy, but all in all the art has been continuing, and its some of my best stuff I've ever done! I will not be doing Voretober this year, I still like the idea, but I've sort of outgrown the challenge. "Do one drawing a day" is my bare minimum usually, and trying to do more always winds up being more effort than its worth. So I shant! Sorry for those who like when I do it, but it's not happenin' this year.
Thirdly: Mental health and assorted other things! I got a diagnosis of ADHD, and got a treatment for that, so that's been helping me do stuff! It's not a fix to all of my problems, obviously, but it's helpful! And so I'm going to be going and working on programming and learning about other things, things which I had an interest in but struggled with because attentions are bad. Also wanna make longer form content, comics and long animations and everything therein. Maybe 3D! Who knows! Beyond that, I would like to try and be more communicative with people, respond to more comments, ect. I always forget to do that.
So... Yeah! Hookaloof update! More stuff to come, a lot of cool things, some new stuff some more of the same and all that goodness!
Content Going Forward
General | Posted 2 years agoHey gang, thanks for reading this cool journal
I'm kinda burnt out still, SO I'm, for the first time in the like half a decade since I started drawing, re-evaluating my work output, and I've realized. I've been drawing too much, for too long. And taking on too many big projects, and I haven't really learned how to like... relax. Just draw for fun, not draw because it's what I'm supposed to be doing because I'm an artist. It's lead to some really unhealthy habits, bad sleeping, bad work life balance. SO: I'm taking a step back, not going on hiatus, but learning how to better balance my desire to be an artist with the requirements of being a human.
Part of that is, postponing big projects. I had a few in the pipe I was working towards, programming stuff, big comics, LONG animations, stuff like that. I still wanna do them but I need a break from them. Been working to improve my mental and physical health as well, seeing doctors about my horrible horrible blood pressure, and that's gotta come first before I return to the quarantine production mode where I bury myself in my tablet for 18 hours at a time.
Another part of that is postponing commissions, I've been putting more work into my actual IRL career and that's come with cool stuff like promotions, and with those comes money, and with money comes the lack of need to take commissions. SO, until further notice, completely stopping taking commissions. I know I've talked with folks who have been excited to get comms from me, but I gotta postpone those pans too, just... can't do it. As far as I know, I don't have any outstanding commissions I've taken payment from people for, just plans or ones I've sketched out, but no actual currency has changed hands, if that's not the case DM or Note me and I'll get that taken care of. Current plan is to maintain that course for the rest of the year and re-evaluate later. I'd still like to do Voretober stuff at the very least BUT we'll have to see.
Sorry if this is a disappointment to any folks! But I felt that I owed it to the people waiting in the wings for my next big game project or next giant animation or their chance to comm me what the current plan is. Things that will continue:
-The Mokomo Pirates blog, since that's just kinda casual fun
-I'll probably make more characters and do stuff with existing ones as ideas come
-Animations, but they'll be smaller scale
-Lil fanarts and stuff
-Some trades that I still had in the works
-Fun stylistic experiments and stuff like that, pixel stuff, lineless art, ect
-More comics endeavors
But... Yeah! Don't work too much, don't draw literally every day for hours at a time for years at a time it's not healthy.
I'm kinda burnt out still, SO I'm, for the first time in the like half a decade since I started drawing, re-evaluating my work output, and I've realized. I've been drawing too much, for too long. And taking on too many big projects, and I haven't really learned how to like... relax. Just draw for fun, not draw because it's what I'm supposed to be doing because I'm an artist. It's lead to some really unhealthy habits, bad sleeping, bad work life balance. SO: I'm taking a step back, not going on hiatus, but learning how to better balance my desire to be an artist with the requirements of being a human.
Part of that is, postponing big projects. I had a few in the pipe I was working towards, programming stuff, big comics, LONG animations, stuff like that. I still wanna do them but I need a break from them. Been working to improve my mental and physical health as well, seeing doctors about my horrible horrible blood pressure, and that's gotta come first before I return to the quarantine production mode where I bury myself in my tablet for 18 hours at a time.
Another part of that is postponing commissions, I've been putting more work into my actual IRL career and that's come with cool stuff like promotions, and with those comes money, and with money comes the lack of need to take commissions. SO, until further notice, completely stopping taking commissions. I know I've talked with folks who have been excited to get comms from me, but I gotta postpone those pans too, just... can't do it. As far as I know, I don't have any outstanding commissions I've taken payment from people for, just plans or ones I've sketched out, but no actual currency has changed hands, if that's not the case DM or Note me and I'll get that taken care of. Current plan is to maintain that course for the rest of the year and re-evaluate later. I'd still like to do Voretober stuff at the very least BUT we'll have to see.
Sorry if this is a disappointment to any folks! But I felt that I owed it to the people waiting in the wings for my next big game project or next giant animation or their chance to comm me what the current plan is. Things that will continue:
-The Mokomo Pirates blog, since that's just kinda casual fun
-I'll probably make more characters and do stuff with existing ones as ideas come
-Animations, but they'll be smaller scale
-Lil fanarts and stuff
-Some trades that I still had in the works
-Fun stylistic experiments and stuff like that, pixel stuff, lineless art, ect
-More comics endeavors
But... Yeah! Don't work too much, don't draw literally every day for hours at a time for years at a time it's not healthy.
I definitely overstretched with those animation comms
General | Posted 3 years agoHoo buddy, I'm working through them slowly but surely, if you got selected I'll have reached out to you (and if you haven't I still have your submission saved if I do a round 2 of these!) but like...
Woof. I took like 9 slots and it is a LOT of work, and animation requires a very specific environment for me to focus on it, so it likely won't be "End of february" like I was hoping for but maybe a few will be ready by then! Everyone else I appreciate your patience
Woof. I took like 9 slots and it is a LOT of work, and animation requires a very specific environment for me to focus on it, so it likely won't be "End of february" like I was hoping for but maybe a few will be ready by then! Everyone else I appreciate your patience
Animation Commission Experiment
General | Posted 3 years agoHey gang! It's time for "Hookaloof thinks commissions for complex things like animations sound like fun" time. And as such, I'm gonna be doing some! Tummy shrink/digestion animations in the same vein as this one ( https://twitter.com/Hookieloof/stat.....435722753?s=20 ) , for a base price of $150, featuring full coloring and full sound between 30 seconds to a minute in length!
Since Animations have historically been a huge pain commission wise I've been hesitant to take them, I'm gonna be instituting a google form to try and organize ideas. I'm gonna be picky with the initial batch at the very least, ideas that have lots of good references and clear directions will be prioiritized over more nebulous descriptions or super complex poses/angles or ideas with lots of camera work (AT LEAST INITIALLY, THOSE ALSO SOUND FUN BUT I DON'T WANNA KEEP PEOPLE WAITING FOREVER)
Additionally, since I'd have more experience drawing these, any of my characters or characters I've drawn a lot of (Toriel, Mae Borowski, Ankha, Kass, Marie Itami, Loona, any of the One Piece furries, ect) will get a $40-50 discount on the total price. This is mostly because I'd feel bad charging full price for someone to commission something of my OC or some other character I'm experienced in drawing. If it's easier on me, I charge less money, simple as! Don't let this change your idea for anything of course, if you got your sights set on some majorly complex thing with your super complex character or something like that, submit the idea! I won't delete any responses and if I choose to take your comm later I'll let you know!
The initial price is based off single character pieces with relatively simple backgrounds, if you want more characters or more detailed locations, camera work, ect, that's fine! I might just need to add a little extra surcharge to the total, but I might not if the other characters are simple or in the background or anything like that!
You can fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/84g6Pwo2Wr5nSrkP8
If your idea is chosen, I'll contact you by Monday with my decision, I'm gonna be taking 7-8 or so, maaaaybe more if there's just a ton of them I want to do, with the end of February being a tentative deadline.
Since Animations have historically been a huge pain commission wise I've been hesitant to take them, I'm gonna be instituting a google form to try and organize ideas. I'm gonna be picky with the initial batch at the very least, ideas that have lots of good references and clear directions will be prioiritized over more nebulous descriptions or super complex poses/angles or ideas with lots of camera work (AT LEAST INITIALLY, THOSE ALSO SOUND FUN BUT I DON'T WANNA KEEP PEOPLE WAITING FOREVER)
Additionally, since I'd have more experience drawing these, any of my characters or characters I've drawn a lot of (Toriel, Mae Borowski, Ankha, Kass, Marie Itami, Loona, any of the One Piece furries, ect) will get a $40-50 discount on the total price. This is mostly because I'd feel bad charging full price for someone to commission something of my OC or some other character I'm experienced in drawing. If it's easier on me, I charge less money, simple as! Don't let this change your idea for anything of course, if you got your sights set on some majorly complex thing with your super complex character or something like that, submit the idea! I won't delete any responses and if I choose to take your comm later I'll let you know!
The initial price is based off single character pieces with relatively simple backgrounds, if you want more characters or more detailed locations, camera work, ect, that's fine! I might just need to add a little extra surcharge to the total, but I might not if the other characters are simple or in the background or anything like that!
You can fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/84g6Pwo2Wr5nSrkP8
If your idea is chosen, I'll contact you by Monday with my decision, I'm gonna be taking 7-8 or so, maaaaybe more if there's just a ton of them I want to do, with the end of February being a tentative deadline.
Currently Dealing W/Covid, Making some Project Adjustemen...
General | Posted 3 years agoHey gang big news, well sort of but most folks won't care/remember any of these projects regardless
First is: I'm turning my patreon off. I've been bad at using it and don't feel right continuing to take money from folks if I won't be keeping up with my promises. I'll reopen it later, but with a better workflow and changed tiers and stuff.
Secondly: I'm also gonna be cutting the Gooey comic down to 26 pages, and a long form animation for the end. Because it's just... It's gotten so insanely repetitive. Making a long form comic is fine, but 40+ pages of the same toony vore goofs loses appeal. You wouldn't want it that long. Especially with the less obvious legendary pokemon prey. Like what can I fucking do with Cressalia? Or Unex and Azelf? Especially in a comic with no dialogue because Gooey is nonverbal.
Like... It'll be better if I cut out the fluff and only go with the interesting ones. I'm including all the fan favorites, legendary birds, Ho-Oh Lugia, Swords of Justice, the Lati's, Some Ultra Beasts, Zeraora, Yvetal, Groudon and Kyogre, and a few others, with the animation focused around Mew and Mewtwo. So chances are your favorite legendary prey ARE included, don't worry but like... trying to do half is bad. Plus I was adding more than the original drive necessitated because I *Thought* I had good enough story for each but the pages are just repetitive.
So... Yeah, If you want one included and donated and it isn't lemme know and I can do a single image of it at some point, but as it stands, too much work for too little payoff.
Thirdly: Uh... Voretober! That's still happening, so look forward to it!
First is: I'm turning my patreon off. I've been bad at using it and don't feel right continuing to take money from folks if I won't be keeping up with my promises. I'll reopen it later, but with a better workflow and changed tiers and stuff.
Secondly: I'm also gonna be cutting the Gooey comic down to 26 pages, and a long form animation for the end. Because it's just... It's gotten so insanely repetitive. Making a long form comic is fine, but 40+ pages of the same toony vore goofs loses appeal. You wouldn't want it that long. Especially with the less obvious legendary pokemon prey. Like what can I fucking do with Cressalia? Or Unex and Azelf? Especially in a comic with no dialogue because Gooey is nonverbal.
Like... It'll be better if I cut out the fluff and only go with the interesting ones. I'm including all the fan favorites, legendary birds, Ho-Oh Lugia, Swords of Justice, the Lati's, Some Ultra Beasts, Zeraora, Yvetal, Groudon and Kyogre, and a few others, with the animation focused around Mew and Mewtwo. So chances are your favorite legendary prey ARE included, don't worry but like... trying to do half is bad. Plus I was adding more than the original drive necessitated because I *Thought* I had good enough story for each but the pages are just repetitive.
So... Yeah, If you want one included and donated and it isn't lemme know and I can do a single image of it at some point, but as it stands, too much work for too little payoff.
Thirdly: Uh... Voretober! That's still happening, so look forward to it!
Taking some commissions! [FULL]
General | Posted 3 years agoHey everybody it's me your favorite wacky internet dude.
Opening up for 6 commission slots because I need some extra funds, they'll be full color with backgrounds for $60, no animation comms at the moment.
If you're interested comment below, first come first served! (Reserve the right to refuse if i feel the idea isn't necessarily a good fit tho)
Slots:
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Generalsalert
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EnglishWeasel
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GooBlueBerry
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Madax
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SlickDratini
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staticthepikachu
Opening up for 6 commission slots because I need some extra funds, they'll be full color with backgrounds for $60, no animation comms at the moment.
If you're interested comment below, first come first served! (Reserve the right to refuse if i feel the idea isn't necessarily a good fit tho)
Slots:
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Generalsalert-
EnglishWeasel-
GooBlueBerry-
Madax-
SlickDratini-
staticthepikachuShort Cooldown
General | Posted 3 years agoHey everyone after going for like a month straight with zero breaks my body is shutting down and I gotta take a little bit of time. When I return, I will be focusing on a number of projects, those being
-The Gooey comic (Yes it's still being worked on it's just WAY more work than I thought it would be and I'm trying to make it real good)
-Voretober stuff
-Other comic projects
-Owed game from raffle (If you like hungry kangaroos, you'll like this!)
-Another game featuring sharks with big boobies
-More Toriel
-More animations at some point
-More streams
And that'll carry me through to 2023. I doubt I'll get it all done in 4 months BUT you never know! Regardless, see y'all in a bit.
-The Gooey comic (Yes it's still being worked on it's just WAY more work than I thought it would be and I'm trying to make it real good)
-Voretober stuff
-Other comic projects
-Owed game from raffle (If you like hungry kangaroos, you'll like this!)
-Another game featuring sharks with big boobies
-More Toriel
-More animations at some point
-More streams
And that'll carry me through to 2023. I doubt I'll get it all done in 4 months BUT you never know! Regardless, see y'all in a bit.
Taking a very short break
General | Posted 3 years agoAs luck would have it right after taking a bunch of commissions I got super burnt out. I've finished about 6 of the ones I've taken, that's about half. But I need to rest up for JUST a bit so I'm not gonna be drawing for like, till the end of May. Not a long time but still worthy of mention for those lovely folks who gave me their money. I'll be back in action soon!
Trying a new type of commission Feat. Gotemom
General | Posted 3 years agoHey everybody, I like drawing Toriel, you might have noticed that. I also need money after spending tooooo much at FWA. I have a lot of projects I am doing right now, but few of them pay the bills, SO I will be doing something special.
I'm gonna open up for discounted, full color commissions, as long as those commissions in some way involve Toriel. If it has Tori in it, it's $40. Want her with a big full tum? $40! Wanna commission her giving your sona a hug? $40. Wanna EAT the goat mom? Can't say that's the way I'd want it but hey, still $40.
I'll probably open up for regular commissions here not too far in the future, but if you want a discount and like the goat mom, now's your chance! This is probably gonna have absolutely zero people interested lmao, BUT IF YOU ARE pass me a note or leave a comment! I might do this again later if I have brainworms for another character.
I'm gonna open up for discounted, full color commissions, as long as those commissions in some way involve Toriel. If it has Tori in it, it's $40. Want her with a big full tum? $40! Wanna commission her giving your sona a hug? $40. Wanna EAT the goat mom? Can't say that's the way I'd want it but hey, still $40.
I'll probably open up for regular commissions here not too far in the future, but if you want a discount and like the goat mom, now's your chance! This is probably gonna have absolutely zero people interested lmao, BUT IF YOU ARE pass me a note or leave a comment! I might do this again later if I have brainworms for another character.
Hey I'm gonna do NSFW stuff now
General | Posted 4 years agoLet me be clear: Most of what I make is "NSFW", it's fetish art, not for kids or for the workplace, but what I mean is I'm gonna be in the future drawing more anatomically correct nudity and sex junk. I'll tag these posts with [NSFW] in the title, just so you know to avoid it if that's not your shtick or what you've come to expect from the Hookaloof Brand™.
Goodra comic thing
General | Posted 4 years agoJust a heads up the donations have resulted in the comic now being 40 friggin pages long. Which I'm stoked about! But... it might take a little bit.
Hoping to have it all finished by the end of the year though! Stay tuned!
Hoping to have it all finished by the end of the year though! Stay tuned!
Twitter 5k Giveaway/Raffle
General | Posted 4 years agoHey friends and phenomenal buds, I'm doing a giveaway over on twitter for hitting 5k (Because fuckin'... I can use a software to pull winners from retweets but on this site I have no clue how to raffle), so if you wanna win some free art or potentially a lil minigame or a text-to-speech thing of your character, head on over here: https://twitter.com/Hookieloof/stat.....51343942967297
New Platform!
General | Posted 4 years agoSince it's fixed, everyone go follow me on Pillowfort, I may be putting some exclusive stuff up there sometime that FA doesn't support as well natively
https://www.pillowfort.social/Hookaloof
https://www.pillowfort.social/Hookaloof
Subject: Hi now on Spotify!
General | Posted 4 years agoHey everyone, fun update this time, after procrastinating my ass off on this long overdue necessity, I got my podcast up on Spotify for easier listening! Make sure to check it out if you haven't yet, it's a real cool show with real cool artists telling real cool stories!
https://open.spotify.com/show/0VMCt.....1gPhl70GyoLDM2
https://open.spotify.com/show/0VMCt.....1gPhl70GyoLDM2
More Desktop Poly Updates (Tired of my whining yet?)
General | Posted 4 years agoHey y'all, I feel like every couple weeks I make an update as to why I'm nearly a fucking MONTH behind when I was hoping to be done, but I like attempting to be transparent. I got the covid vaccine almost a week ago (I'm pretty lucky in that regard, where I live has a pretty robust medical infrastructure), but my luck ended a few days after that when both my dayjob exploded with new business to be taken care of, followed by some pretty severe side effects. If anyone is curious as to why I've been doing so much personal art/gifts and stuff, it's because I'm not super duper comfortable doing commission stuff while sick (And also because snorlaxes are basically circles, very easy to draw). If the sickness causes my quality to dip, I don't wanna push through and deliver a substandard product, though it's not like I've done NO desktop poly stuff, just had a production kerfuffle. Hope folks understand! I'm hoping to get over this as soon as possible (Trust me, I'm not having any fun running a nutso fever and being unable to eat).
It feels like I have an unending parade of excuses as of late lol, but it's just been a spot of bad luck unfortunately. I promise to deliver on the thing as soon as I can! Then you can all blame how lame and disappointing it is on the hospitalized family members/the infected tooth hole/the ice storms/the covid side effects, instead of my beginner programming skills.
It feels like I have an unending parade of excuses as of late lol, but it's just been a spot of bad luck unfortunately. I promise to deliver on the thing as soon as I can! Then you can all blame how lame and disappointing it is on the hospitalized family members/the infected tooth hole/the ice storms/the covid side effects, instead of my beginner programming skills.
Another game delay update
General | Posted 5 years agoNow that the ice storms are gone and my family members are no longer hospitalized, I've got this majorly infected tooth and a big cool ulcer. I'm still plugging away at the project but IDK when it'll be finished, I've got a lot of dentist visits and stuff ahead of me, but I'm continuing to work dilligently!
Desktop Poly Update: An ice storm happened real bad
General | Posted 5 years agoHey everybubby, Hookaloof here: Every time I tried to work on the game in basically the past 3 days, the ice storm cut the power and I lost a shitload of progress, or the lack of internet kept me from pulling up character references so a lot of the work I did I had to go back and edit for a while, it was a huge wash.
Whenever I tried to make anything new it'd suddenly cut out and really suck a fuck. So it won't be out by end off February probably
Whenever I tried to make anything new it'd suddenly cut out and really suck a fuck. So it won't be out by end off February probably
4K Followers Animation Giveaway!
General | Posted 5 years agoSo continuing my surprising art account growth, hitting 2k followers here and 4k on Twitter, I'm hosting a little giveaway of jorts over there! Instructuions are included in the tweet linked below, good luck all!
https://twitter.com/Hookieloof/stat.....052658177?s=20
https://twitter.com/Hookieloof/stat.....052658177?s=20
