SO, starting Tuesday I'm gonna be going out on a road trip with two friends down to Florida. They are gonna drop me off so I can see my father for a few days while they go do other stuff around the state.

I've been making a huge effort as some of you know to knock out a lot of older projects I've had lingering and I've finished a lot of my backlog. (Stuff happened in April that was sort of "wake up and get to the next level" sort of thing as I got too comfortable and complacent. I've Been making it a point to not lag out on smaller stuff either. Been breaking up my weeks into "new wave/Old wave" sections to keep a nice flow. And it's been working out great. I'm pretty happy with my personal progress.

SO, that being said, I'm still taking work with me on the trip, but I have no idea how much time I'll have each day to do work, but I'm still gonna try.

I'm gonna look for another small wave of either sketches or more pixel stuff and might post up a form thingy again so I have a lil bit of new small stuff I know I can still do while I'm away.

Thinking on if I wanna do sketches or more pixel art stuff for my trip. I don't wanna overload just in case I end up with not too much time, so just taking some smaller projects and I wanna try to use some of the time to work on my game updates for the month as well.

Also, sorry about the triple post on the other shit about the policy. It really doesn't affect me like it is other people, aside from maybe a handful of things that might get flagged from the stuff I've seen, so, I just can't post certain things here I suppose. I just think it's an important conversation to have about where lines on such things are drawn, but this isn't my site. So I'm done talking about it unless something wacky happens. I understand the WHY it's just the HOW that bothers me. I just feel bad for some folks that are being told they can't post their bread and butter stuff. It's at least a good reminder to branch out because you never know what might happen.

So yee, I might drop in a post for a handful of quicker coms to take on the trip with me.

Storm knocked out power at some point this morning and its been dead all damn day. So posting will be delayed until they fix this shit.

Posting from my phone. Annoying.

EDIT
Net is back, came back at some at some point a couple hours ago, before I got back in from a thingy I had to do tonight. I'll postin stuff tomorrow at this point, lol.

Just a lil personal update post.

I know I missed last week's weekly dump of old sketches. They will be comin up again over the next couple of days. I was just a lil out of sync for that last week.

Good stuff is that it feels like something has clicked in my brain the last week or so, I've been on a tear hammering out work, much better than usual lately.

I recently put a lot of much needed work into my game material and my Mugen/IkemenGo patreon will be gettin a nice update at the end of this month.

I also finished 2 animation commissions recently on top of the work for my game. I've been unusually focused, even more consistently than I was on ADHD meds. I donno if it's the b12 I've been taking that finally hit my brain, gym routine also helping my brain or what, but I'm loving it.

I've also decided that I will be pickin my parttime job back up. After 2 1/2 years of goin solo off of just my art, I've opted to pick that back up. I'm only goin for like 2 days a week tho. I want the extra money, and I'm trying to resist too sharply raising my prices on peeps that wanna commission me. I also want the extra wiggle room to reduce the commission grind a bit, I wanna shrink my commission load a lil bit and give myself more time for personal projects, like my game. Either way, the extra income will help me save a lil more. It's just nice to leave on great terms and be well liked, cuz I got rehired right over the phone. Hahah. It'll be good to get out of the house a lil more as well and just work my gym time adjacent to it. It'll help me avoid burnout too with the art-grind. Because I know I'll still have bad days where I can't focus for shit.

I'm restructuring my price listing for certain things. Sketches in particular.

Sketches as I've been doing them, are now raised to $32, from $24 and I'm calling those "polished sketches" now. I'm gonna be reverting back to how I was doing sketches in the beginning for cheaper again at $20, will decide that by the weekend when posted open for more. The base level of sketches will be rougher, but I've honestly been putting WAAAAAYY too much work into sketches; over time doing more and more work and not really pricing for all the extra work I've been putting into the pieces. I felt anxious about raising the prices or lowering my quality of them after doing it that way for so long, but I NEED to stop that. I think I found a reasonable compromise to that problem.

But yeah, some of my prices will need to raise a bit, because even with this new found focus, some projects still take me a much longer time than I'd like, and I need the time spent to be worth it for me personally. Like I said though, I'm trying not to go tooo high on folks.

I think that's about it for now. I'll post more stuff in soon.

Just announcing another dump of old sketches dropping in. Another 2 months worth of sketch commissions from 2021 still.
Today and Tomorrow at 12pm and every couple of hours based on grouping, to prevent flooding.

Just a quick lil post here to let you all know that I'm gonna start streaming regularly. I'm not certain exactly how often, but it will be happening.

The main reason is that, while I always feel an awkward pressure while streaming, I think I NEED that pressure to help me with the ADHD stuff I mentioned in my New Year journal. I need to be pulled a bit out of my comfort zone. I think the idea of eyes being potentially on me will help me stay on task better.

SOME STREAMS WILL BE PATREON EXCLUSIVE. I'm not certain exactly how I plan to schedule this yet, but it will be an added perk for folks on my "After Dark" patreon. I'm gonna figure out something for keeping the archives for patrons as well, if they can't watch live. I want there to at least be something special as an extra perk.

I might also start using my mic for these so I dont have to stop drawing as often to type. I'll experiment. Who knows, I might even chill on stream and game for a bit while chatting. Most likely the Binding of Isaac, Streets of Rage 4 survival runs, and some IKEMEN GO (Mugen) stuff for those.

I'll be doing most of the NSFW streams on Piczel again, but I'm considering trying Youtube for some of the SFW stuff, like workin on my game and such. Unless folks would prefer Twitch.

If you have a preference for either YOUTUBE or TWITCH, let me know, I'll go with either one folks tell me they prefer more. I have accounts on both.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW ME ON THEM:
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs.....KTwG1RaSTyAfIw
TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/vinvulpis
PICZEL (NSFW): https://piczel.tv/watch/VinVulpis

The only drawback to Twitch is that they don't keep the archives forever. Only for a few months with Prime. So, I might still use the Youtube for archiving the streams maybe? Guess I'll see. BOth of them make monetizing a pain in the ass, but if folks would like to support my streaming efforts, I'll have SOMETHING setup for them.
I used to use Picarto, but their servers don't like me and constantly dropped my streams. Piczel was delayed, but stable.

I'll keep you all updated on that soon!

ALSO, yeah, missed the posting schedule this week because I was away from home, but this coming week, my art posting shall resume as planned.

I hope everyone has had a great holiday season and has a happy new year!

2022 was a up and down kinda year. Some good , some "ehh" but nothing really terrible. I've ended this year with two major quality of life upgrades to my health though. I've also started my gym habit this year as well. It's a major boost over 2021 when I thought I was in trouble with cancer (myeloma). Thankfully it seems like that stuff fixed itself.

I have some plans myself this year. I'm entering this year with two major quality of life improvements having finally had that annoying cyst removed from my ass, and then finding out about my B12 problem and how much it SEEMS supplementing B12 has improved how I feel on the day-to-day. My last major hurdle to over come is still the ADHD problem and figuring out how to focus and balance my projects and time better. I'm still having issues with that, and I hate how much better I was while on meds for it, but the heart issues they caused was enough to make me stop. But I'm determined to figure out a new solution. There's GOT TO BE something I can figure out, supplemental or otherwise. I've been hoping that with the continued pushing at the gym that'll help take the excessive energy edge off and some research and the docs think it will, I just haven't seen it yet.

So with that, I'm looking to this new year with optimism and feeling great that I'll keep improving myself. I've finally started going back to the gym post-surgery recently and I feel great and back up to speed on that, if not even better as I feel SUPER into working out when I'm there, like 2 hours almost every day. (I just need that when I'm sitting down trying to focus, hahah)

That's always been my problem tho. I'm much better being physically engaged in stuff. Sittin down and trying to work at a desk is a nightmare. And I hate it, cuz art, animation and game designing (and music making) is my PASSIONS but my brain likes to fight me on it. Hahah. I've been so full of positive vibes and energy this month and I feel like I'll get it locked down for good in a healthy way.

IMA DO IT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER >:O

With all of that said, I'm probs gonna post in tomorrow after some sleep and lil new years sale for commissions (sketches and full-color stuff) that I'll run for a lil while to brig in the new year. I'll run the form for a while and let folks drop in and probs do the forms in waves as I have time to get to them. I wanna let folks take advantage of the sale. :3

I'm gonna be away on a lil trip for a few days with a couple of friends as a lil new years thing, but I'm taking work with me to do, so I'll still so some sketches and such while I'm out. I'll be back home Wednesday.
The following week I'm gonna start locking down a schedule plan of sorts, something that I've tried many times, but I think that my issues with b12 mentioned before were creating problems where I fell off mentally. I wanna make sure that at the very least, even if I'm still juggling stuff slowly, I wanna make sure everything on my list gets the attention it needs without putting any one thing off too much. I'm keeping a lil work-list tool thingy now too to spread out my "to-do" in a visual way I can track everything.

Ima stop rambling now! Thanks all for following and supporting me and being awesome in general!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

SO YEAH, I'M POSTING STUFF. Sorry I haven't been, I've just been so distracted with other things and I kept forgetting in the cluster. I don't wanna just keep posting adverts for commission slot sand such. I wanna actually give my account here more material.

I just sat down and scheduled two months (Feb 21 to Mar 21) to post in over the next 2 days. I started it off by posting a bit this evening.
The rest of Feb 21 will drop in tomorrow starting at noon and Mar 21 will drop in on Friday.

To avoid a flood, I scheduled them to auto-post by week, every 2 hours, each post every 2 minutes.
So some will drop at 12PM, the next week will drop at 2PM, then 4PM and so on. (ET time)

I just don't want folks to get a solid wall of my stuff dropping in, so I wanna space it out well enough. Expect like 3-5 sketches to auto-post in at each point.

I will do the same for next week for another 2 months of old sketches and try to keep up that pattern until up to date enough.

Folks on my patreon still get everything the month of, and all my old sketches are already available on there.

Once I'm caught up, everything I post here will be about 1 month behind what Patreon gets. (in most cases)

I will try to post some stuff sooner here on occasion so not everything is behind a delayed pay-wall, but will see what I end up doin with that.

As for the other stuff aside from sketches, like animations and color illustration work, I'll be going through my archives and picking stuff at random to drop in. I only more recently started naming ALL of my files with dates. So I'll just gather up stuff to post in whenever.

Well, according to the surgeon, the wound is almost closed up completely. he says it's just a lil shallow thing at this point. I got a look at it myself with my phone, but it's still icky lookin, mostly because of all the new skin that's still growing back in around it since they had to remove skin around the area too.

I got the okay to actually take normal showers again, thankfully.

Still a bit annoying to sit normally, area still feels like sore/itchy or hits me with a throb of pain if I sit too long without leaning to the side. I'M ALMOST AT THE FINISH LINE THO. WOO. so maybe in like 2 more weeks or so I'll be able to return to normal activity.

My sleep pattern has been a total mess this whole last month since the surgery. I'm already a light sleeper, so I've been up and down at all sorts of weird times, but it feels like I'm finally starting to stabilize on that front too.

Another side note that I learned from hematologist is that I've been treading the line of being vitamin b-12 deficient. Which likely has been effecting my memory, focus and mood stability. So started taking a vitamin for that for that and will see how that improves things. That very well could have been making the adhd stuff way worse.

Also, sorry I'm a doofus I haven't posted in stuff when I said that I would. I fell off track with that. I'm gonna trickle in some stuff this week and give myself reminders to make a posting schedule.

So yee, I'm in a pretty good mood.

Mau mau.

I posted that I'm open for a few sketch commissions here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50092904/

Posting as a follow up. This call was a lil quiet on reception. :o

I could use 2-4 of them this week.

Form was closed and full up, forgot to updoot this journal on it.
Thankies

Soooo I've been eyeing up a few tablets to make the replacement I mentioned I'm gonna need to make sooner or later because of these dysfunctional pens.

I've kinda narrowed down to 3 possible ones based on pricing to size/value. The current one I have is a Yiynova MVP20U so it's 19.5 inches and I'm using that as my baseline size. I'd rather not go smaller, but I really dont want a huge one either. something about 20inches is ideal.

Shopped around newegg and amazon for sale prices and this is what I've found.

This HUION might be the winner as it's the same size and at a good price.
https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Grap.....en+artist+22%2Caps%2C67&sr=8-17-spons&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.08f69ac3-fd3d-4b88-bca2-8997e41410bb&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGZfbmV4dA&psc=1

I've also been eyeing up two others based on sale/coupon pricing.
A slightly bigger HUION with a good coupon, but I donno if the whole 2 extra inches is really worth it.
https://www.amazon.com/HUION-Graphi.....en+artist+22%2Caps%2C67&sr=8-18-spons&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.08f69ac3-fd3d-4b88-bca2-8997e41410bb&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGZfbmV4dA&psc=1

Lastly this XP-PEN is the first one that caught my eye:
https://www.newegg.com/xp-pen-artis.....0044-_-Product

I don't need the special or "pro" versions with all the buttons, I have a razor keypad for all my special functions.

So of these, anyone have suggestions as for which you think I should go for?

LIKEWISE, would anyone like to commission me to help fund the new tablet? I'd like to try and grab one these weekend to catch the sale pricing. I've just been waiting to see what the best prices I can possibly get this weekend, as it seems like the best time to snag a new one.

I say commission because I feel weird just asking for "donations" and want it to feel worth it to folks giving me money to help out.
Note me or contact me via telegram or discord if you'd like to work out a commission to put towards this thing.

Thankies!

PS : Also, post-surgery healing is still slowly going along well. Pain is pretty much gone and I'm able to sit well enough to do stuff. Still can't wait to be fully healed so I can actually sit normal.

PPS : Gonna seriously start posting in stuff again. Likely gonna go an upload dump tomorrow (since my aunt canceled holiday plans x..x) of some stuff and try to do one every Wednesday as a catch-up posing thing. I think scheduling it as a routine will help me get more regular with it.

So, I got a call today with some good news. They didn't need to go deep at all to remove the cyst, so they didn't need to pack it, it's just an open cut I gotta keep covered. Which means I should heal pretty quick from this.

I feel great, even yesterday with the fresh (literal) butt-hurt. Hahah. When I'm walking around, I don't feel a thing, it's only really apparent when I sit.

I'm so glad to have this stupid thing GONE. Feels silly to be so excited to just be able to SIT normally once I heal up. but yeah, thing was gross and caused pain just sittin on anything without enough cushion.

So yee. Doing well. Gonna try to resume doing art and stuff today, just need to sit in a way that lets me stay comfortable.

Just posting ahead that I'll be gettin a lil thing done that I honestly should have gotten taken care of years ago.

I'm gonna do my best to resume art works for peeps once I'm lucid again (and rested) have no idea if I'm gonna get enough sleep, so I might just pass out once I get back home.

Gonna also try to actually POST STUFF here again over the next couple of days depending on how I feel.

It's nothin huge I'm gettin done. Just something stupid on my tailbone area I need rid of. I might just be loopy from whatever they give me. Will just need to make sure I'm able to keep comfortable at my desk to draw. So I'll be fine.

SOOOO, pen #3 for the Yiynova tablet I use to draw just decided to up and die by over heating out out nowhere and stop working.

As a warning to any artist out there, I'd not recommend gettin Yiynova, or at least any model that required this fuckin pen:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B.....UTF8&psc=1

I STILL have the first one that it came with, but the power saver mechanism in it broke, so I gotta unscrew it to save battery, figured I'd get a new one and save it for backup. (good thing did)

The replacement pen OUT OF THE BOX had a pressure issue where it ramped way too hard with no way to fix it. The company was nice enough to at least send me a replacement for that one when the pressure issue became unworkable and it died while I was tinkering with it.

#3 came, and it worked just fine... for 1 year and 1 month. and today it apparently killed a relatively new battery while idling, and went to replace it, and the pen got hot within seconds and died.

Very good. Just what I fuckin need.

Looked at some reviews of it and seeing a ton of similar complaints now. so it's not just me having awful luck with them then.

So I'm using my original backup for the time being and will have to sort out what the hell I'm gonna do with this sometime next month. I already had to custom cut glass for this thing cuz t he glass it came with scratched up way too easily. This custom glass have been good for 2 years and not a single scratch.

At this point I'm feeling like it might be time to just get a new tablet, but I really don't have the money for this shit right now. But I'm at least gonna shop around and bite the bullet and buy one more fuggin pen next month to hold me over while I save up for a new tablet.

Any good tablet suggestions anyone might have?

Tryin real hard not to legit be ANGY right now. >:(

Thankfully I have the still functional disfunctional one to work with.

I'M GETTIN OOOOOOOLD.

Did do anythin to nutty. Just a quiet day chillin. I didn't really plan anything tho.

I'll be at Furpocalypes tho. Birffday con for me. X3

I dun really like pushing stuff like this (I feel like an e-beggar, dunno), but I wanna mention again that I have a new patreon. This one is separate form the game stuff (Mugen/Ikemen) as I'm sure more folks are just generally interested in my art/animation work as is. Fighting game stuff is more niche, I know.

I recently had to get a new computer, my previous rig was almost 10 years old in terms of the hardware and such. I needed to update both hardware and the old Win 7 that I clung to for years. This new one as 11 on it. Big jump.

It's not a super high-end machine by any means (it's a workstation for art before anything else, and I dont really play too many games, let alone anything that needs a mega graphics card), but I wanted somethin that was gonna last me a while and has upgrade potential for a while, so I'm like 900 set back.

I'm also just generally trying to build up a better savings for some possible future changes and am considering returning to my old job in a couple months to speed up that process.

I'm askin that if you like what I'm doin, please consider becoming a patron here:

IS NSFW, 18+
https://www.patreon.com/vinvulpisafterdark

I plan on posting to it 2 to 4 times a month with WIP stuff and early posting there for various works. I also have a bunch of massive art and animation bundle packs on there, some of the work I haven't posted. The highest tier (the animation tier) also gets a bundle of selected random doodles and unfinished stuff I've done that I may consider returning back to finish, it's just that commission grinding and trying to make my game stuff makes finding more time for that stuff difficult, along with the ADHD and bouncing between projects (and new ideas for personal stuff).

Down the line I might figure out other stuff to add as extras, but I wanted to get it started. (Also might start a discord down the line... maybe?)

I'll just leave it at that for now and not TL;DR. I appreciate the support!

I kinda just wanted to touch on a lil of what I've implied in my birthday journal.

I'm relieved to find out that the weird shit in my blood lowered again. Shit with my plasma levels "kappa/lambada ratio" is abnormal, it's high, the kappa in particular I think it was. Over the summer, it had been steadily rising and had a sharp jump in September, which made the doc send me in for x rays because it was an indicator of a kind of cancer called myeloma. My plasma levels are still abnormal, but it had dropped back down to where it was in the early summer and my x ray came back clean, just with some incidental stuff about damage to my spine I'm apparently "too young" to have. But a life of manual labor and lifting caused that. It would explain some of my back pain in recent years.

SO, I'm super glad I'm cleared with that. Some of my blood is just weird, but seemingly stable, so they aren't too worried. Some of the weirdness is from the weird type of anemia I have (which is mild) some shit called beta thalasemia. Basically, a bunch of my red cells are tiny, but my body shits out tons of them to compensate the lower oxygen capacity. That doesn't explain the weird shit like the plasma, and my spleen apparerntly being a bit enlarged even after increasing my folate intake, but otherwise, it's probs just normal for me to have slightly abnormal levels if it's stable. I'm gettin it checked again in the winter for them to check on it again later on.

TL;DR : I might have had cancer, recent shit points to me not having it. Good.

The only thing that remains is my weird heart issue that I'm still waiting on. Whenever I workout doing anything that's heavy on cardio, I get these weird palpitations when my heart rate hits a very specific point. They have no idea why it's happening. They were originally going to dismiss it as anxiety, but the stress test picked it up when I finally got to do that.

My resting heart rate is low, it was 65, even on stimulant ADHD meds. They switched me off to a different thing to see if it has any positive effect and 1 of the 2 cardiologists wanted me off of the stimulants. The funny thing is my resting heart rate is in low 50s now. Hahah. (60-80 is supposed to be the normal range). But active life stuff and riding my bike often could be why my resting rate is low.

It seems to take more effort to trigger this weird shit, but it still happens, even being off the stimulants. MRI found some shit (finally) but I have no fuckin idea what all the info on it means, other than that there is something weird with one of the ventricles and suggested "sarcoidosis" as a possibility, which based on reading I did, can maybe be treated to make it go away.

Ionno. It hasn't killed me yet. And the med change at least lets me work out more without it happening unless I go into lunatic mode with the cardio. The last session the palpitation also felt weaker... so maybe better? I'm just speculating outcomes at this point.

I've actually felt much better mood-wise on the med change too, so maybe it was generally for the better.

Aaaaanyway. I'm try to get back to posting shit this week. Gonna dump some sketches again along with 1 or 2 animations or other full-color art I think I never posted.

Thanks for reading my bullshit. Hahah

Yuh, today's mah birffday.

Honestly haven't been in the best spirits lately. Kinda dealing with some possibly bad pending medical crap lately, but I donno for sure yet what's goin on with all that. Buuuut, I'm trying to keep myself from moping too much about it. I'm just kinda up and down.

Gonna relax with a few local friends today (and hope it don't rain out the fire) and TOMORROW I'm gonna do a birthday sketching stream. It's been awhile since I've streamed and it's largely because of the butt mood I've been in, but I should really get back on it and not be a butt like that. I usually like to stream on the day of my b-day, but it usually falls on a weekday, so since it's on saturday this year, ima stream tomorrow. I also gotta not be a butt and post more work again.

So yuh, (post) b-day sketch commission Stream tomorrow.

WELP, ended up not being all that bad, at least here. Hope other folks effected by this thing got off lucky too.

Just ended up being lots of raaaaain. The wind has been pretty tame. Looks like it lost power pretty quick as it got in close.

Also, I have no idea how my last journal got posted twice. Lol.

Hoping the power don't get wrecked for several days if it ends up being bad. I can't work on anything without it. It's gonna drive me nuts not being able to work on commissions or anything for several days.

It's due to start in my area soon. So, yay~

Like the title says, I'm not feelin up for streaming tonight. Feeling a lil blah and don't think I have the stamina for a stream tonight.

That said, you're still welcome to inquire about gettin a sketch from me, at the usual $15 per character rate and usually rules and I'll do them within a few days.

Ionno. Just one of those off days where I'm feeling a bit "out of it" and don't think I can comfortably commit to streaming for 3-4 hours tonight.

I may do a make up one mid week on tuesday or wednesday, but unsure.

Sorry for no stream tonight. Blep.

I just tipped 8000 watchers here.

My main twitter is almost at 1000

and my alt (NSFW) twitter is gettin very close to 1000 as well.

Good shit.

As the tittle says. there's a youtube channel... that's posting... seemingly random videos with one word in the description of most of it's videos.

From what I looked at, they seem to be usenames from what or where ever.

But, a bunch of the recent videos... a lot of them.... just have "VinVulpis" in the description.

From random Earthbound giygas related videos.... and then shit like, Tom and Jerry "AMVs" and "YTPs" (which are barely edited, low effort).

...

Why is my name on a video of Tom and Jerry set to Bring Me to Life.... WHY!?



I'm spooped.

I saw something about this being an "archive" channel? Do they think I made that!? Hahah.

The hell is goin on?

EDIT:
So there actually kinda is something I made on there.... but that has a different name on it. Years ago, I made a ambient piece as an arrangement to the Giygas final battle in Earthbound. I had long since axed that piece because I didn't like it anymore and went through a 'phase' where I hated my older work and didn't want it representing me anymore. ( Just move my old work to scraps now) I just looked and yeah, that old song didn't survive that old purge. It's very odd. It's apparently popped up again mid last year as "Giygas HD."

I didn't make the video, only the song. A couple people took the song and put visuals to it.

This channel has a bunch of random Giygas videos on it, with my name on it, some of them literally just sounds from the actual game and weird mashups...

So, this channel I guess started randomly taggin me in Giygas videos because of that...? That don't explain the rest though.

So, I've stated this before, but I'll say it again as a prelude.

While I have a patreon for my MUGEN WIP content, I do plan to release the "finished" versions of characters once they are at that level.

I cannot say for sure "WHEN" any of these WIP characters will be released for free. While I don't think $5 is a huge ask for a month of updates from me, I understand and have no issue if you don't want to. That's totally fine, I get it. Please don't ask or nag me about when that's happening for any of my characters. I've been gettin this a lot more lately.

Being a butt and complaining about how long it takes me to get the finished, free character out also don't help. If you're that eager, toss $5 to my patreon for that month, get the in-dev update and leave. It's exactly why I'm putting out WIP versions with rough unfinished animations, so I can focus on the gameplay of them up front, making the WIPs functional before pretty.

I don't even expect anyone to stay in continuously. I even give out free months to subscribers when I under-perform and feel that I haven't made any major updates, and I simply don't want people paying for what they don't get.

Plan and simple, I'm one guy, with ADHD, who's making 900+ animation assets per character on top of other things like code, testing and anything else I need to make for the characters. I also have other obligations, like commissions, which help pay bills and shit. I have to put a lot more time into that, and I'm certainly not exactly the best with consistent speeds. I've gotten better over the last year, but I'm still learning how to be quicker and more focused.

If I was gettin a significant amount of money to put a huge dent in my bills, I would absolutely put a lot more time into the game work, but I don't currently. What's feeding me is what I have to work more on. Commissions are exactly that right now.

Shit's a lot of work, but it's a passion project for me and something I really want to do. I ask for a small bit for early access as support if you like what you see. You aren't entitled to my work for free. I could just as easily just keep the work to myself like I did for years while I played around with the first version of Jeibu that I never released. I later refined my mechanics and made Gejhi, who I did release. I'm also going to be doing MORE work on Gejhi; updating his animations to a bit higher quality. I was going to do this before release, but I also didn't wanna delay him any longer and I wanted to get on to making more of my critters.

So, please dun be a butt.

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I don't want to send the wrong vibes here. I've gotten lots of supportive comments and such far, far more than anything nagging and negative. It's just an increase in this sort of stuff that's been popping up more that made me want to address it.

Seriously though, thanks to all who have been awesome, and especially those who are contributing to my patreon to help fund the time I've been putting into it. <3

NOTE: When I say "use my critter in your work," I'm referring to art you make. It DOES NOT allow for you to just grab my assets to use in anything you'd like. Especially not making any merch with my characters.

Just a lil silly post as, I figured it was kind of obvious by how many commissions I've done that had my characters in them, some peeps still don't know, or where afraid to ask, so here's an official statement on using my characters in commissions or your own personal art.

- I'm generally VERY open to having my characters featured in commissions you get from me. I enjoy mingling them around with others. It's fun. And I often give a bit of a discount to soften the cost for more than 1 character stuff on single buyers, and it's a lot of fun. So it's welcome. :3

- You are also welcome to draw my characters, if you'd like. I ask that you poke me before hand or that you at least show me what you did before you post it anywhere, because I may not want my characters associated with certain things.

- The DON'Ts are cub, diaper, watersports, scat, gore, snuff and vore (digestion, hard vore. Some kinds of "soft," toony vore might be okay).

- I'll also post most gift art of my characters, if you'd like me to. (Provided that I approve of the subject matter) Also keep in mind they will be posted in my scraps, which still shows up in peeps sub notifications, to keep my gallery focused on my main line stuff, but links to who did it will be provided.

-While I am open to having my characters drawn, please respect my input given about them. I do have a lore for my characters, so I may lean towards having certain characters shown a certain way in some stuff. I MIGHT be particular on certain details about them, like, on the anatomy and design details, but overall I want you to have fun, so I'm not gonna be super strict about it.

- You can also reach out to me in any way I have listed, either in notes here, or via Telegram or Discord to get more information about characters of mine that interest you and I can outline details about them.

- I will also ask that you link and credit me if my characters are in your posted work.

So that's the basic gist. There's probably other notes, but I'll add them when I think of them.

Happy New Year.

I was planning to toss up the first stream of the year tonight, but other shit ran kinda late and it'd be not as well placed this late based on the trends I've had.

SO, Sunday evening about 6pm EST I'm gonna stream some live sketch commissions. I might consider doing them more often on Sunday as sometimes it seems easier? I have a variety of new plans and schedules I wanna put myself into with stuff. I'm experimenting with some of it still.

More on that in terms of New Year stuff...

I kinda don't like the cliche of New Years being the excuse to do things, but I figure after a bit of a weird December it's a good time to try some plans to schedule myself more and manage my ADHD better with some structure. I tend to fall off of my plans quickly because of said ADHD and I tend to have mixed weeks of great progress on things, and others of feeling useless and gettin little done. I'm also generally disorganized with my projects and tend to finish them at different speeds very inconsistently.

I'm trying to set myself up with 4 hour blocks where I block out distractions and focus on a chosen task for that block, and do two of them a day. I've been trying it so far and when I do zone in, I get a good amount of stuff done, but sometimes I drift off on the second block, kinda running outta steam. I'm at least gettin in one solid session a day now. gonna figure out how I can optimize it to not trail off when I need a break to walk around and stuff. So far it's generally better than I've been doing. I also need to set myself up with a posting schedule, which I've also been bad at. I have a ton of stuff I can post and I just haven't. Gonna pick a day next week to queue up a bunch of stuff on PostyBirb and let it do it's thing, posting a couple things a week or somethin like that. Along with the dozens of sketch commissions I've done from my streams. I don't like mega dumping stuff. So I'll set it up to post things over time.

I'm eventually gonna set up certain days for certain projects ahead of time, maybe at the start of each week so I focus on whatever I'm doing in a set order, but varying enough to avoid burnout on anything, which is another problem I have when I push my mind too much on any given task.

I've also started regularly working out mixed around these "blocks" either right before one or after one which has been helping a bit along with helping to loose a lil weight I've put on since fall and picking my meals a lil better. I wanna loose the 20 I put on over the fall by spring. I gained and lost before, so I'm tryin to turn it around now before I start to feel like butt again. I like to draw me some round critters, but for me IRL, when I gain too much, I start to physically feel different and I especially feel it when I'm out and active. I know I tend to put on weight when I feel very mentally blah, so part of it is that I'm TRYING to stay in a positive mindset, but 2020 gave plenty to make that real hard and I have no idea what to expect for this year. I'm at least trying to make the best of the situation that I can and try to stay optimistic. Cutting the distracting information overload from the internet also helps a lot.

I am happy with some of the growth I've had this past year in spite of all the poopie. I've gotten over 7k total watches here and I am putting out more work than I have before. I've been doing okay since I've gone full-time artist. I plan to expand on this and work more on my productivity and get more work out there for peeps.

Thanks all. Stay safe. And maybe see ya Sunday on my stream. :3