UPDATE: Regarding Today’s Illustration! (Patreon)

Hey, babes!

This week’s illustration is turning out to be a real puzzler for me. I’m having so much difficulty drawing in the extra character at Klank’s rear. Earlier I reached out for suggestions on what species you thought the character should be and got some great ideas from y’all! But even after sketching out all of the examples a few times, I realized more and more that I may have drawn myself into a corner here.

Right now, I have 2 options:

1. I can keep trying to make this one work. I tried having him just riding a toy, but that wasn’t what I originally had in mind. One of the driving ideas behind the piece was to have him engaging with a character that the viewer can easily see themselves being. I’ve also been wanting to do more duo illustrations to up my character interaction pieces. It might take a lot of edits with what I have, but it could potentially be done.

2. The other option, and one I’m sort of leaving towards, is starting over with another illustration but with the same character and concept. I have an idea for another angle that would be much better suited for the idea I have in mind. The downside is I would likely be drawing it well into the evening, so it would be a much later upload than usual. As troublesome as that is, I’d much rather be late posting something I’m proud of rather than something that’s on time and feeling rushed.

Thank you for being patient with me. I take a lot of pride in maintaining a rather consistent schedule here with my Patreon for more than a year now. Having to make an update like this makes me feel a little bit vulnerable to be honest. But for me it feels like the correct thing to do is to be honest with myself and honest with you, too.

I think for now I’m going to sketch what the alternate take on the piece and share the sketch here for feedback. If you want me to keep going with the original idea, then I’ll do that! But if you feel happier with the alternate, I’ll move forward with that direction.

That sound ok? ??