This is how things are with me atm

Hello folks, I figured it's time for an update.

I won't go into the effects of corona and the fear-mongering the media and my government gets horny on or any of that stuff.

I took a 2-week break because I was burned out. In the meantime I got a few messages from people anticipating more of the comic, as well as their commissions (naturally).

I suppose those weren't the only ones noticing the slow speed I still seem to have; it's something that has been bothering myself for much longer even.

This year I took in 2 entire books with about 85 pages of handwritten notes to refine my anatomy skills and I have been looking for other methods to get my work done more efficiently.

The Cera and Angel pics are the first results of these new findings of mine. If any major differences to previous work was obvious, I think more people would have pointed it out, which just did not happen ~ a goal reached as it seems to me.

However I have to say that I've been only at this for a few years on a more professional level. I am not good, I still lack practice, the knowledge I acquired still needs to sink in more, which has finally begun to happen, fortunately. My works from 2007 to mid 2017 were 100% amateur.

Some techno babble about what I actually mean because I feel the need of pointing it out:

• I abandoned the super clear ink-lines, other artists who are better than me aren't doing it this way either as I noticed, so one very time and brain-power consuming method is gone
• I use my sketching method for the clear drawing, which seems to maintain the flow and dynamics much better
• I do the shading and lighting free-handed as well, much like the sketches, which also got rid of the rigid dead-on precision I had before with the stabilized lines

Before I adapted only the things I listed there, I actually often suffered physical pain in my head and back due to the extended tension and concentration the old methods required. Hopefully these are on their way out now.

A more complicated ink (for 2-3 characters for example) took up to 7 hours sometimes, same for the shading and lighting. I don't even want to go into the economic consequences of that.

So... Not sure what else to say after this, if you read the above you know what's been happening.

I know you want to see me doing the naughties now, especially the comic ~ I want the same I can assure you.

Personally I think I'm at a point were thinking about stuff and planning around is done; I need to finally put stuff out now to actually show my capabilities and what I'm about as an artist.

Commissions and comic-work will resume this week, I suppose it's proper again to do this on certain days.

~Trias