I want to apologize for the lack of art recently, being mostly ArtFight posts, sketches and character references. I forgot to do an update post earlier this year so now is as good a time for one as any, I figure.

In the earlier part of the year I really wanted to keep working on animations, but I'm so particular about my linework and making things look right that it turned into a whole ordeal and by the time I got to coloring I didn't even really like the style I drew the animation in anymore, even though I'm proud of how the motion turned out (you can see the uncolored version here on my BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/fuzzikayu....../3lqxjoc7nmc2s )

Animations are so time-consuming and I ended up wasting so much time on this that I wound up decompressing with the character compendium afterward, a collection of illustrations for many of my characters (of which I have 60 listed and ended up doing fifteen sketches with ten of those turning into complete images that have been posted here). This was intended to help Patrons in my Discord have a quick reference of my characters for asking questions, matching faces to names, etc. It was fun but it's not really "engaging" art that's good for growth or that people really care about unless they're invested in my worldbuilding and characters.

Then came ArtFight which took up more time, and *also* has the downside of being much-quicker art, usually stuff that I don't feel comfortable posting because I try and hold my public-facing art to a high standard, so I only uploaded a couple of the saucier ArtFights that I had time to put a little more effort into.

All of this is to say, I've been spreading out these uploads over the past couple weeks so I at least have something to post while I build up a backlog of fully rendered art which I'd like to continue to be my bread and butter. And at that, I've been successful. I have four fully rendered images completed and am currently working on the next one with the goal of being able to post new art continuously every 1-2 weeks. The twofold advantage of this is that 1) It gives me a lot of breathing room to just work on images at a pace that feel manageable and 2) it builds up over a month of backlog to encourage folks to support me on Patreon.

Finally, starting this week, I'll begin sharing these completed works (many of which are favorites of yours that you asked to be upgraded from sketches to fully rendered art), which the goal of having a continuous weekly or bi-weekly stream of fully realized art plus the opportunity for folks to see what's coming a month early over on the Patreon. My animation aspirations aren't dead, I will most likely finish the Rilohn animation at some point, and I have an Aisha and Kibo one I really want to get to, I just need to find the time to work on them that doesn't interfere with my current flow.

Again, apologies for the strange upload schedule and lack of fully rendered pieces, but it was in service of setting up this change to uploading that should start paying off very soon. Thank you for your continued watches and support and please, as always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions 💜

You can see a preview of the current four full renders (as voted on by Patrons) in my scraps: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62248902/

Also, to keep my gallery clean-ish, I sometimes restrict posting sketches and WIPs to BlueSky so you can often find extra goodies there that aren't posted here on FA: https://bsky.app/profile/fuzzikayu.bsky.social

Lastly, thank you to all my Patreon supporters for their input, recommendations, questions and interest in my characters and world and, of course, keeping me afloat 💜 You can find my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/Fuzzikayu , which gives access to everything (polls, Discord and all chat channels, WIPs, hi-res art, early access, alt versions, etc) starting at the Anu'Kayan Outlander ($3) tier. Your support pays for my healthcare!!