Update stuff for July-August '26 (Patreon)

Let's get into it. 😤It's been a tough summer for me to be honest, but I'm still moving as best I can. I'm still working on that tentacle comm featuring Marie☆FD.

Things have progressed significantly since then, from this really rough and busted-looking loop...

To something that kinda makes me look like I know what I'm doing, I think, adding and adjusting stuff as I went:

Here's the problem; this thing has kinda gotten out of hand.I'm going over it with the client, but the issue for me is that I've kind of scope-creeped the hell out of this thing, and at this pace, it'll take forever to get done, which isn't fair to anyone, and not really reasonable if I intend to do more of these. I guess that's part of the learning process, figuring out what to put the effort into, but it's a hard lesson to learn. The loop has 15 frames in it (there's some trickery with reusing/moving parts around, but still) and I think we can all agree that it looks crazy...but it's too much, I don't have the ability to finish it as it exists in this state, so I have to sit with my client and work out what to cut and what to keep, which means this one's gonna take a bit longer before it's ready. 🙏In other news, there's still two other illustration comms I'm working on, one of which features the client's OCs and is in the final shading/detail pass stage:

This one's pretty close to finished actually, I'll bundle it with another illustration comm sometime in September to make up for the delays for this month, along with making an effort to post more WIP updates here in the meantime. I haven't had much time for other/original stuff, but I'm still drawing when I can find the time. I think I'll make an effort to just get to work on my OC stuff this fall, after I clear the comm backlog. Hope to see you there, take care in the meantime! ✌️