May Mid-Month Update... and some THOUGHTS?! Please read!

heya folks! as is customary as we get into the latter half of the month and i shift into ANIMATION mode... i wanted to give everyone an update on what to expect/when things are comin out!

the rosalina animation is in progress! her lines and colors are mostly done but i'm still tweaking aspects of the animation itself, atm I'm shooting to finish it by the 25th! A little earlier than usual so you may notice some quiet in the meantime while I try to get it done faster! This is partly because on that day I'll be getting my "you-know-what" vaccine, and I'm pretty certain it'll take me out for a day or two, so I don't want to have to depend on those days afterward since I probably won't be animation-worthy for a bit. So that's the plan for that, hope you understand!

In the meantime between now and then I'll be doing the monthly stream though! Specifically tomorrow night (Friday 7EST), for similar reasons it'll be slightly shorter! Just three sketches this time because I don't want to get too bogged down in cleaning them up while I work on Rosalina!

As usual though I'll probably start the Shego animation on the 28th once I'm back up and ready, and I'll finish that up on the 31st!

Depending on if everything goes to plan I'll try to squeeze in another mayternity sketch prolly either right before the 25th or in that space between the 25th and 28th while I'm most likely sick lol. We shall see!

So that's my current schedule! In other news, I wanted to bring a few things up with all of you! 

Namely I was considering doing next month a bit differently, because to be a little frank I'm starting to feel a little burned out/in a rut with animating! There a lot of things I want to do, animation or otherwise, but it feels like every month just as I start to get into a creative groove, I have to drop everything to rapidly come up with some animation for the characters that have been decided that month, grinding for basically two weeks and leaving myself kinda dead by the end lol. And all this often on characters I don't /really/ have a connection with? Which I don't mind really, there's a satisfaction in making others happy and obviously on some level there's just a professionalism of getting it done. However, I worry it's starting to seep into my work and I'm just having less fun to be honest! 

Long story short, I'm just a bit tired from the grind of doing two animations a month every month! However, taking a full-stop break again I don't think would /really/ help, maybe that's just me being a workaholic! Instead what I was considering next month is not doing any animations, and instead just focusing on sketches! There would still be polls and streams like usual, but the 3 winners would instead all get sketches instead. This would just let me put out a little more sketches and be able to focus on bigger projects (smauggie, thanksgibbon, etc) without having to worry about the inevitable animation crunch at the end of the month. I may still animate however, but it would just be little things I did on my own and probably be a bit more experimental than a full regular animation like I usually do. Just a little bit of artist-soul-searching if you catch my drift.

So yeah, let me know what you guys think in the comments below! If it seems like people are receptive I'll confirm this is what I'm doing in another post later on this month, so folks can factor that in before the continue their pledges!

Anywho, hope you're all having a good week so far, and I'll see you all again tomorrow for the stream!