TL;DR I wrote a bunch of Bullshit, if you just wanna vote on some ideas I have to help me prioritize patron interest, there's a poll attached (Multiple votes!) with some ideas I have, skip to that if you wanna, vote for whatever content you wanna see more of the most, and for everyone else the unimportant rambling type stuff is below the break!
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Hello! It's the start of a new month and that comes with it all sorts of things. We're officially unofficially out of summer and into fall, idk when it's officially autumn every day, but it's a contemplative season, so in that spirit I'm coming to you with reflections, one on the past and some lessons I've learned going forward, one on the present state (the shortest), and one on the future, which is what the poll attached is about! Which should be fun!
For the present, I am... Kinda sick, still. Idk what with, but I got hit with some weird stomach issue I thought and still might be food poisoning not anything more serious, but it threw off my drawing production schedule. So, no sketch page for last week, we'll have the voting in a few days and something produced shortly after. I feel a lot better now, and I haven't puked in at least 24 hours, so, milestone!
As for my observance of the past, I must admit, I have struggled with proper motivation and workflow, I took too long to get my art game under control and let my owed stuff queue BALLOON outta control, and for that I am sorry. Folks have been waiting a long time. Some folks still are, tbh, but, outside of a few niche cases I've delivered or followed up on most of the people who have commissioned me or who I otherwise owe art. I'm really trying to totally close that off before I take anymore, and I will 100% be staying on top of that shit. There will be more consistent sketch pages, there will be more Juno and Persephone more quickly, there will be times where I fuck up and I make similar mistakes and apologize, and I hope you will be understanding when I do, but I promise I will never knowingly repeat a mistake, and I will be doing a LOT better recordkeeping from now on. That said... I think this near year of full time art has made me a better artist, so, I'm more eager than ever to keep it going. I hope you'll stick around for the ride!
AS FOR THE FUTURE!! I have... Basically had to take a year to kinda get my hand on my life, and it's still nebulous. So some of my bigger plans I've had to push back but otherwise, I got some plaaaans, some of them small some of them large all of them potentially in the works, so, below is the FUTURE PLANS FOR DEER CONSIDERATION list, vote for as many of these ideas appeal to you! Voting for them is no guarantee I'll do anything in specific, but, now's your chance to direct me towards what of my scatterbrained ideas. If you wanna see it, vote for it, if not, skip it, all anonymous, non-binding, just a general benchmark.