Update Stuff For May '25

A little late for a "mid-month" check-in, but fuck it, let's get to it 😤

I kinda ran myself ragged last month, so this month is gonna have 2 illustrations. Here's some peeks:

First up, here's this one of Layna Lazar:
Wasting time on extraneous details, as always. This one's totally done & the full thing will be part of this month's drop at the end of the month.

Next up, this one featuring StrifeyEN & SizzleVTuber(my first monster girl comm):





This one's kinda complex, so I'm giving myself until the end of the month to really focus and get it right. The final image will be in 16:9 wallpaper dimensions, too, so there's that to look forward to...!

I've come to the conclusion recently that there will never be a perfect time to start working on personal projects/goals...so I'm gonna make an effort to start squeezing in an hour or so a day after making progress on these last few comms to work on some stuff I've been kicking down the road, so to speak. All of that kind of stuff will likely be kept here, to keep me from having to engage with the social media nonsense and focus on making what I want, not what'll get engagement, I guess.

This includes things like the stuff I mentioned in the last check-in, along with some long-time goals that kept getting delayed to make time for comms, like working on multi-page comics/doujinshi, designing OCs, or animation.

As for immediate plans, I've got 2 comms to do in June after this other one for May, then my backlog is clear. I'll probably take a few weeks off for art after that(...who am I kidding, I'll probably be posting again within a week), then I'll get into some stuff I've been putting off, before likely opening comms again sometime in July or August. If I end up planning to take off longer than a week after comms are done, I'll announce a billing pause so no one gets charged if I'm not uploading anything.

Also, for everyone that saw it, what did you think of that illustration for Anduo Games? They told me at the start it'd be for a small graphic in the background for their newest game they're working on, but I still went all-out on the details😅 I included the video they sent to me of a test animation they made using the illustration, it's kinda crazy to think my artwork might end up in a commercial product released on Steam in any way, really.

I don't get a lot of opportunities to draw things like that, so it was fun to be able to do something with more mechanical complexity featuring restraint themes, at least before the client asked me to keep the detail/complexity down. They were pretty easy to work with though, and I really enjoyed working on that one, I hope I get to work with them again.

...now I wanna draw mecha & weapons...someday maybe...😔

I hope you enjoyed the sneak peeks with this update! See you at the end of the month with the completed sets, take care until then!👋