Mai WIP & Setting Goals

Hello again friends! I'm slowly recovering from the crunch for Emerald Dawn, but I can't help but talk about it again! 🤣

Biggest thing I wanted to say is I'm setting the 1.0 release of Emerald Dawn to September 17, 2022 (roughly 3 months from now). It's a significant date for me because I posted my first Rhea art back in September 17, 2019! So I wanted to make the 3rd year anniversary of drawing Rhea extra special with the release of 1.0 🥰🥰 This date is the public release, but you guys will get early access for about a week or so.

I said in an earlier post that I can finish the 1.0 version in 1-2 months, but that's a massive overestimation🤣🤣 Here's what my work week looked like last week, the run up to 0.5 release:

A combined total of 52 productive hours. If I'm like 5 years younger I'd do this shit all the time no problem. But at 31, I feel too old to be constantly pulling all-nighters lol So I'm gonna be reasonable with myself and give myself more time to spread out the work. Don't want to work myself to death or burn out in the process!

But I can't keep neglecting my other commitments! A lot of you guys are here for the sexy art and not necessarily for my art projects. And so for the next week or so I'm going to marathon finishing all the backlogged rewards (March, April and May, plus June.) And after that, I'll do my best to finish rewards while I'm working on Emerald Dawn, so hopefully I won't have to delay rewards for so long.

I'm going to post WIPs every couple days because I want to be more active and also because I have stuff to talk about ^^

Speaking of WIPs, I'm nearly done with Mai(she has a couple of variations)! I'm trying out a new style for rendering close-up's because I feel like my usual style is a little lacking on that front. I noticed this when I was drawing the Rhea CG's and I felt like I could do better. But I already drew some CGs and I couldn't really redo them since I was on a tight deadline.

Yes, I managed to circle back to Rhea LMAO I feel like everything I'm doing is so that I can draw a more delectable Rhea. It's a worthy endeavor in my book, at least! ^^

That's all for now! The next WIP is going to be Manuela ^^