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(*Art Requests) This is totally a September Journal
🕑 Added 2020-10-02 02:02:13 +0000 UTCPatreon rewards for this month will be sent out soon, along with request fulfillments. :)
Also still working on September's SFW illustration, will get it on here sooon...ish.
Hi everyone! I hope you all have been doing well, it's also been a bit more than a month since my last journal. (And actually, this draft is from September, so... uh... cough.)
Patreon Art Requests Update
I talked about this before, but here it is. I'll be removing the personalized art requests for the $5/$10 tiers in January 2021. That's in 2 more months, so hopefully that's a good amount of time for people to make their decisions of if they still want to pledge or not. I'll leave it as a notice in the monthly rewards as well, since I know not everyone reads through my walls of text.
Question - Change to the Monthly Illustration
So... I don't know if any of you noticed, but basically I feel like the quality for monthly illustrations has gone down because I need to get them rigged/animated by the end of the month. I want to switch it to something else, where I'll continue with the monthly illustrations, but every 4 months, I'll either do another poll to see which one people want to see animated, or I'll choose it myself. I prefer this 'cause it gives me more time per month to make something that looks good, and when I animate it, I can at least make it longer than like... 5 seconds... hahaha. I'm not really sure if anyone cares much about this, but if you'd like to give me your thoughts on this, feel free to do so in the comments (or DM me on Patreon/Discord)!
TL;DR: Monthly illlustration poll stays. But roughly 1 animation per 4 months, instead of 1 animation per month. Would result in better quality illustrations & animations. If you have thoughts/concerns, let me know!
Gotta Get Better at Art
I really want to get better at art. I go through this phase every once in a while, where I start to realize again that everyone is improving more than me, and I need to continually put in the work to get better too. I have to start balancing the time I put into making commissioned art, personal art, and art studies. The support I get here helps me ease up a bit on sustaining myself and allows me to put more time and effort towards building myself.
I'll be scheduling more art studies in the week, that way I can put everything else on hold when I do them rather than randomly thinking in the day, "oh, I finally have some free time to do studies!" Plus it'll help me be more consistent with my studies.
In addition to that, I'll try to do more pieces that are outside of my comfort zone. Sooo... more interesting pieces to come, hopefully!
How's Life?
Life is okay... Maybe quarantine is starting to get to me, haha. Everything's fine, but a couple of things have been happening as of late that's been kinda bringing me down. But I'll do better this month! I really, really want to draw more, so hopefully I make more pieces this month. Thank you for being patient with me, everyone. :)
