Life and projects update (Patreon)

Ok let's go. I'll keep it brief and number each thing so it corresponds to one doodle. But the main idea is: Life hard, projects cool, will keep drawing.

1) First things first, for newcomers and actually anyone who may not be aware of it. Almost immediately "after" the pandemic I moved to Spain to study. I currently live in a country away from my family and lifelong friendships and I have to manage to study and sustain myself at the same time. I have support, have made new friends and have good times, but I always have to give at least my 150% if I want things to work. So overall, I'm usually stressed, tired and my life has not been stable for years. This is my last year studying here and I don't know what I'll be doing or in which country I'll be in six months, so that's been looming over me since December.

2) Last year I entered a free course to become an assistant at an ambulance. Yay for learning practical things! It also got me a social security number which is great, but it took a lot of my energy and time during the end of the year.

3) I had an accident on January 2nd, and had to deal with a sprained ankle for weeks. This made my course take longer to finish. It also hurt.

4) The worst part was the wrist and palm damage due to the use of crutches. If I used them too much (for having to go to doctor appointments, for instance) I couldn't even cut my food in order to cook, let alone draw. 

5) I also had some crucial family news that made things emotionally challenging and I couldn't help to get into self-isolating and silent behaviors.

6) I healed, managed to make progress, and was starting to feel motivated by the end of the month, but on February 1st my laptop got stolen. I lost a bunch of files and had a bad time overall. I've been lucky enough to have a friend who was selling hers at the time and who allowed me to take a while to pay for it, so I already have another one. 

7) It doesn't look like it because all the progress I made and am still doing has been focusing on recovering from these episodes, but I've been working a lot and, even if it sounds cliche, feel stronger now. I will keep going and I have ideas and inspiration and really want to make the best out of the months I have left studying in Spain. 

So that’s what’s been going on the last couple months.

Now, onto better news and things to come. This is my last year at the drawings school I’m enrolled in and I have to finish a couple courses with personal projects, one of them is a comic and the other one is an illustration project of any kind.

Remember the story of the female warriors who turned into anthro hyenas? (It’s on this patreons archive) I’m planning on revisiting that story and presenting the idea as my final project. I would love to share the process here and know your input. Today is the first day we’ll be working on the scripts and structure of our projects and I’m very excited. The other final project is about pretty much anything we want as long as it involves illustration. I’m thinking of launching a line of enamel pins of monsters for any monster lovers out there. Something that looks good, wether you love monsters in a kinky way or not. I still have time to think about this idea, but really want to do something monster related. If you have any suggestion let me know! I’ll be posting about these projects more as the dates come closer.

Aaand that’s it! I’ll be sharing more of my work and opening commissions soon. I’ll probably be sharing this on Discord as well, I’ve left it aside because during these times being social in general is one of my greatest difficulties, heh.

Hope you’re doing good or moving towards better times 💛. 

See you soon!