Status report

Hey guys. This month has been quite busy for me again, and I've had some days of soreness, so I won't be able to finish all the pieces within the month, and I wanted to do a progress report to let you guys know how stuff's going.

It took me a bit to decide on what I wanted to do for the personal piece, so I actually have two going right now, one of them rather complex. More info about them below.

• The new batch of sketch commissions just went out. 4 clean sketchies with coloring.

• I'm doing a personal Peach piece inspired by the new Mario Kart. It has 2 outfits (biker and cowboy) + nude, and at the moment I'm like uh... maybe 65% done with it. The biker outfit is mostly done, but I haven't gotten to coloring the cowboy one, and the BG is only now taking shape. And I've had a bit of trouble with the head stuff, redrawing the eyes and bangs a few times. I wanna make her look nice, so I don't wanna settle until I feel it looks solid.

• I'm doing a second personal piece, a followup to that Inami & Shu piece, with them getting even steamier. I've been taking my time refining the sketch, and it should go into lineart and color soon.

• A saucy duo piece for Flargo, about to go into lineart soon. No BG or variants, so it should be smooth sailing from here on.

• Another duo piece with Chinatsu and Reina for Boppy. Took a long time to settle on the sketch, and it's a relatively complex piece with variants, but hopefully also not very bumpy from here on.

After I'm done with those two personal pieces, I was planning on doing Elegg next. Look forward to that.

In non-waifu news, I've also been doing a bunch of research and designs for new merch. I was thinking of making a couple hats with some classy designs. I recently got some fancy sports team hats for the first time and I've been inspired to make something that's comparable to these. I will show some mockups next month to gauge interest and see how many to order. Merch tier patrons will be able to redeem these with their history of pledges if they want. More info to come later.

Folks also expressed renewed interest in stickers, so I want to look into those too. Maybe bespoke chibi illustrations of the main girls for bigger standalone stickers.

In other other news, I have brought my instagram back from the dead. Gonna try uploading to it regularly for a while and see if it gains traction. So far, not much, lol. If you use it, check it out! https://www.instagram.com/kuroonehalf/

Reminder that I'm uploading to bluesky too. Give that a follow too if you use it. :)

https://bsky.app/profile/kuroonehalf.bsky.social

Okay, that's all I can think of. At the moment I think the plan is to focus on finishing Peach to try to get her done within the month if possible, and then the others later.

Thank you again for your continued support. I know stuff is rough with world stuff going on at the moment, so I extra appreciate the support.

Have a good weekend. ❤