update/check-in!

Posting has been a little slow this month, so wanted to put up a post to let you all know how I'm doing and what's been happening lately! 

The short answer: not a whole lot, but at the same time, I've been busy! January is that time of year where you have to do all that stuff you put off during the holidays, I guess. My work is back to its normal schedule though! I have been working on a lot of big projects this month, which is a large part of why there's been fewer separate pieces of art that I can post. I think that in about a week or so I'll have most of those big projects completed, and then more typical commissions will get completed and posted here. 

I also wanted to mention that I'm still working on the first January bonus poll winner (Raihan/Piers)! I had no trouble drawing Raihan recently, but for some reason I'm struggling with this one. I definitely draw masculine characters more infrequently than others, and I think I'm reaching a sort of skill plateau where I need to work harder to bring the quality of my masculine characters up to my current standards. Probably just means I need to spend some time drawing from reference! Sometimes, the best solution is just to scrap the sketch you were working on and try something different, too. So I'll also probably try some other poses before I push forward and finish the image. But in the meantime, thanks for being patient with me!

Lastly, I wanted to say that often I get backed up with messages and go for a while before replying, and I'm sorry about that too. It's a bit personal, so I don't talk about it on the internet too much, but I do have an anxiety disorder. The amount that it impacts my daily life varies a lot, but most often it interferes with interpersonal communication, like sending emails or things like that. If it's something urgent or involves an ongoing work project, I usually reply ASAP, but less urgent things get pushed into that little Anxiety Corner where all the procrastination happens. So if you ever reach out to me with a question and I don't reply for a while, please feel free to poke me again. I want to improve on this, but it definitely has taken some time to do so. 

That's it for now! Thanks for reading this far. I hope you're having a wonderful day/night and I'll see y'all soon ✨