August 2023 - Progress Update and Sketch Dump
Added 2023-09-01 19:00:03 +0000 UTCHeyyo Everybuddy! so my first full month of me making my primary living as an artist was a success. I made a few hundred dollars more than I spent on all my living expenses (a term that should not exist, but we live in capitalist hell, so here we are)
August was a good month overall. Hypnagogia hit its 1 year anniversary, and we finished Chapter 2 this month, so some big things happened there. I was gonna do like a big patreon post about it, but I forgot. oops. And Commissions were popping, primarily focused on the 3 different comic coms I got in the works, all of which are around the halfway point of completion by the months end. Twitch and MBAW! didn't get really any special focus this month but there are some new developments worth mentioning come September.
For September, I do know it will be a bit more challenging from a finance point because I am going to have to take a full week off to go to my Sister's wedding (the 20th-27th). So we will see how that goes. Obviously my twitch streams for that week will also be cancelled, but that should be no biggie for the overall schedule. there are however 2 big changes/announcements I guess I plan on making starting in September.
First is more of a personal thing but I am changing my self imposed rules around my Daily Doodles, to now allow coloring/polishing up a previous doodle to count as a my Daily Doodle if I so choose. I have an ever growing pile of sketches, a good chunk I think would be cool to make into more finished pieces, but I also need to be somewhat efficient with my time and prioritizing Commissions as those pay my bills. so opening the dedicated time i set aside to Daily Doodles for more general personal art I think is a good call.
the Second, and more important change, is an ultimatum I have set for myself regarding My Boyfriend's a Werecat! which has had development on it be stalled for like over a year now, I have decided to force myself to give one final shot at actually starting development back up on the game. If I can't do that, I am scrapping the entire game (making the unfinished builds and unreleased assets patreon exclusives) and reworking the story into a webcomic on like Webtoons or Tapas or wherever. Since ultimately the story of MBaW! is the more important part of it to me, and the things that keep holding the game up is art asset issues (literally too much variety to easily handle and work on). I don't know when I will start work on this final attempt, as September maybe a bit strapped for available time to do this, but the attempt will happen before the year is out!
I'll leave yall on the year 1 anniversary pic I made for Hypnagogia! :3
