Update & News (Patreon)

It's time I did an update. I feel like I've lost my focus a little.

I am working on Arkuatica issue 13, currently on pages 3&4. Maybe it will be completed in April. I'll post the first page along with the cover, when I've made the cover, for my top tier patrons on the Arkuatica Patreon. I don't know when that will be, but issue 12 members of the Discord from my namesake Patreon, have seen the first page already. I don't know if I'll keep posting the pages for them, in the comic, like I did with issue 12.

After Ark Issue 13 and 14, I have an origin story for the octomer, Ko. I've had it in my head for maybe 2 years now, but had no plans to do it. It should show you how he started out, and how and why he got to where he was, turning other merpeeps into statues. You'll also get to see where Krey, Tauvey, and Neru came from and how they got stoned, too.

If I can do a few more coloured sketches for next months roundup, it should be a fun one. If you look at last months roundup, I can tell you that 8 of the 10 pictures, were born from either peoples commissions, or from talking with people. I get my ideas from you! Remember that. :)

Later this year, perhaps, I will get a new computer. That's something I'll have to save up for. In some regard, I made the mistake of buying a laptop in 2015, which means I can't really upgrade the graphics card, or add storage, or expand the RAM, or swap a motherboard to enable that, etcetera. Few of you will know this, but sometimes I will use Blender to augment my commissions, by creating material references, (The shininess of something, or how to shade an object) and currently, It's cumbersome to use, as I need to be able to work in rendered mode, and I just can't with the GTX960m I have. As such I have to swap back and forth, in and out of rendered mode, and it's slow to render, so I can't iterate fast enough. This is holding me back, a little, I feel. So next time I'm getting a cased desktop PC, so down the line I'll have a path to upgrade along the way. 

Not sure where I was going with that one. Please stay my Patron forever? XD