Important Update on the Main Comic

So a lot has been going on lately. You guys already know I've opened up a Redbubble  shop and its currently fully stocked with 9 stickers of the main girls  and 4 Wanted Posters. I released a big lore document about a new  territory in the world of MHFAP!, Mewtopia, and we've seen a surge in  catgirl OCs and interesting lore because of it.

One thing we  haven't seen, is the main comic. Why is that? Well, I've told you guys  already, my situation is worse these days financially and I need more  and more commissions to just get by leaving like 0 time for the comic.  But listen up.

The Redbubble shop is my first attempt to fight  this. If the shop does well, and say, 20 of my fans buy one sticker  then I'll have made passive income WITHOUT commissions. Meaning I'll get  money to fund my day to day life while still having that time I need to  work on the actual story. Ideally this will eventually sustain me more  as I have more and more fans but for now things are slow and I'm not  putting *too* much bank into the Redbubble store. I will only spend time  on new things for it as more demand is created for it... but I'll be  doing my best to promote it as the best way you can support me (besides  the MHFAP! Patreon), and hopefully we can start to get things moving a  bit more.

I feel like I've been... struggling not only with my  irl situation but with myself and how I've reacted to it as well. I  know I've come off as desperate for more help, and that I've painted how  bad things are multiple times... and while it's true things ARE bad,  and that I DO need all the help I can get, I feel like for the last few  months all the motivation and willpower I used to possess had been  sucked out of me and continuing on had become extremely difficult. I've  been much slower and sluggish in a lot of ways these last few months and  I don't know how much of it was my fault. I'm a man of ambition and  passion, and when put on the spot like that I just sort of lost it for  the first time in my life.

Some of it's back. I don't know if it's  most of it, but I hope so, but I just don't think it's healthy for me to  not at least attempt to be doing my best like I used to. But to start doing that again, we need to talk about the main comic.

I'm not sure how to proceed creating it, so I want to talk out some things and then ask a question of you.

I  can create a page of comic somewhat fast compared to other creators.  The sketch and composition takes under 2 hours. Inking maybe less than  an hour. Flat colors are handled for me, and another hour or two for  colors. But that's so much time for how little I have these days.  Especially for lineart- which is essentially wasting time drawing the  exact same thing a second time, and especially for coloring, which I'm  not even good at.

If this were the old me, who had more time  and funds available, I'd pass it off to a colorist and oversee it.  Which, hell, I'm still doing with commissions because I just can't  handle all the work I need to do these days. But even at the really low  price my assistants are helping me for I can't regularly pay anyone to  color a whole comic page and get it fast and at the quality I want it  at.

Not being able to work on the main comic is hurting me two  huge ways. Mentally and financially. Mentally speaks for itself, I'm  extremely unhappy to not work on the comic and it effects my morale  which has been at an all time low- lower than it ever has been.  Financially, how the hell can I capitalize on a story if no progress is  ever made on it? When I'm only able to put out filler/side content/lore  drops and say 'oh yeah, more comic is coming... when I get money... I  guess...'. It's a vicious circle that effects morale and makes me feel  bad that I have to explain over and over again.

But I've been  trying to think of a way to work on it again in a way that works for my  time and budget limits. So I want to get to that question I mentioned  earlier in this blog- as my fans.

Do you guys want me to Hunter x Hunter this shit?

For  those who don't know, in HxH (the manga) the author is notorious for  putting outright scribbles in its weekly magazine chapters (when it's  not on hiatus) and then the he draws a finished version for the volume  release.

Example - https://i.imgur.com/TnkSazz.png

Now-  I'm not saying I want to start doing scribbles. I'm asking if you guys  want me to start putting out black and white sketches as finished pages  similar to this.

And  then each page would have a message saying to pledge to Patreon to help  support me coloring it or something. I have actually been working on  making my sketches tighter and cleaner in general lately, to the point  where my colorist doesn't even need me to make finished lineart. This is  because I both hate the lineart stage and want to work faster, but if  you guys are interested in my releasing finished sketch pages, aka  Hunter x Hunter-ing it with the promise of color way down the line, then  I could feasibly start pumping out new pages of the main comic very  fast and very consistently.

But at least this way SOME  significant story content would be coming out, it just wouldn't be  colored. And hopefully with the increased amount of story more and more  people would understand why I need the support to color it.

As  far as the writing, page composition and sketching goes, that's the  easy shit. I can knock that out forever as far as I'm concerned. So let  me know if you think this is a good direction to head in.

In the meantime, there are ways to support me and help me make the comic faster right this second. Patreon and Redbubble.  Patreon is of course always preferred but I do not have much as far as  rewards go so I know it's not the most enticing, however, to get more  comic I can't stress enough I need money that doesn't tie me down to  commissions. Therefore the Redbubble shop is the 2nd best thing, and you  can get something for supporting me as well- I just won't get the full  cash you spend. Which is a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

If  you read this far thank you very much- I need you guys to give me your  thoughts and feedback. So please tell me your thoughts in the comments!