Published: October 1st 2024, 10:40:36 pm
Time for another monthly summary post, thankfully this time I'm doing it without big delays.
September doesn't look like a very productive month but for a reason. As I already mentioned in one of my previous posts, I was going to start new physical art piece and I actually started working on THREE PARALLEL PROJECTS. I don't know what got on me this month, the itch to finally work on something that is not a flat pencil drawing or a pixel art was unbearable and since I'm a sick individual with split focus issues I got myself thorn between trying to do several things at once. And so, I spent a lot of money on glue, paint, wood, paint and wire, spent a lot of time I could spend on some extra drawings and commissions but it's still very far from having any decent results. There's still some good progress and I'd say my itch was a bit satisfied as all the new processes are very therapeutic so this time was definitely not spent in vain but it will take a lot of time for any of these three projects to get finished. I'll try to push one of them at least because it's a bit spooky themed and would be better to finish it before November for Halloween, I was keeping the idea of this project for years and always imagined it as a Spooktober piece.
I was trying my best to moderate the time I spend on physical projects and drawings that are important to do for my Patreon so let's sum it up.
-I had some swell complex stuff done in September, starting with Bulking Season Going Well 3/3 in September 2 that had 29 versions.
-Then simple bonus part in September 3 with zero extra stuff except textless version, still was important to finally finish it, it was one of the forgotten drawings from 2022 that I still haven't finished but now I'm one step closer to this goal.
-The same day I also posted new little text adventure styled pixel art with Zed and Mark.
-Next there was a long pause caused by me starting preparations for my physical projects, finishing personal Bazil piece in pencil and working hard on a big commission for Tate posted only in September 17, a big scene with one of the hardest backgrounds I ever did, lots of details, special effects and 27 versions.
-Since Bazil piece was already done in pencil in the first half of the month it took less time to finish and was posted in September 22, no less complex project with difficult background, nice lighting effects I usually suck at and whole 43 versions! Mainly because of this artwork's remarkable feature of me trying to replace Bazil with my real self for the first time, hence why many versions got human alterations. It was definitely a very exciting and new experiment for me.
-Then in September 24 I did Astro the Something concept art, giving myself the 5th OC to work with.
-And then the very last day of September was celebrated with another early Spooktober piece of Dirty Rat, the character I already drew for Halloween 2023 and very much wanted to try new smoke inflation concept on. This artwork had 36 versions which is pretty rad too.
And so, I did 7 posts in September! 4 of which were big artworks with a plenty of alts. Wow, I actually didn't think I did that many, I completely forgot that September actually started with the last parts of Arnold sequence. Considering I was spending hours riding to building stores from time to time and then working on all these projects it's actually a very saturated month, not to mention that I still suffer from social exhaust with people constantly distracting me in socials and leaving me unable to focus on art at least for an hour in some days. It felt different for me like I did very little content, no wonder I didn't lose many patrons.
So, we're entering Spooktober! The most anticipated month for me and I really hope it will be even more productive than September, I'll try my best to use some self control and put off the other physical projects and focus only on one that is intended as a Halloween piece, all for the sake of drawing more horny spooky stuff as long as it's still relevant. I have a plenty of old backlogged Halloween ideas with characters like Wayne from Hotel Transylvania, Lockjaw Pooch from Clayfighter, Junkyard from Toxic Crusader, dog ghost from Chip & Dale 2 game for NES and many more. Dogs dogs dogs, it's always dogs and wolves with me! And also gremlins. Yeah, I'm dreaming to finally draw some Gremlins smut for years but never find enough time and I obviously can't promise that I'll do all these ideas in just one month, don't forget that I need to do at least one commission to survive and it's gonna be this comm with me and my friend horribly distorted like in my recent Bazil piece, the idea I planned to do in September but ran out of time. I might try to use November as an extension of my personal spooky season, the way I always try to do it. So, huff, it's gonna be a busy month! Hopefully.
There's one last thing I need to tell, I don't know if any of you noticed it but now the sizes of my artworks original files became way smaller. I honestly don't know why it happened, I didn't change any settings, image resolution is the same and the quality looks the same too but now it's about 15-20MB instead of 60-90 which is a GREAT difference. Respectively, compressed 1800 pixel wide versions are even smaller now too. Surely it's only for the best to have smaller sized files, it's just a bit strange. So, I'm just warning you so you don't have to worry thinking if my artworks lost in quality or something.
That's all for September summary! Just as usual, big thanks to all the new folks who decided to support me, thanks to all the old ones who stay with me, your support means a lot for me and I hope it feels like being paid back well for you!