studies + thoughts

Some recent news from the past few weeks: I went to NY to visit my family, came home and found out I had covid, so I stayed home for a week. It was very mild thankfully. The worst was honestly the couple extra brain fog days I had. I've tested negative and hope I don't get it again! I've also been playing a lot of an early build of a new game that will not be named.

I think I'm in an art block or burnout now. here and there i do some studies to take the pressure off and warm up to the bigger things. I haven't felt very creative lately, for making new original drawings or fan art illustrations, just been cruising with my existing ideas, and, that's ok I've come to realize.

I'm going to be tabling again at Erie Comic Con this year in Sept as my efforts to get into larger ones outside my city have been unlucky and need to keep applying for, but I still want to make some new illustrations to sell, mainly Disco Elysium, X-men '97, HL, + SIGNALIS are some ones I've been itching to tackle. Ive got a handful of long term projects in the making. I find them comforting in a way as I already know what I have to do and the objective and I enjoy long game and process of making a project. Not to say I don't enjoy making smaller works, it's a little victory and I can post it online. Though, posting to social media has been tiring lately, now that I have to take several minutes (about 30min or so) to Glaze things before I post them, I sometimes don't even get to finish the process as my CPU is pretty old and I'm using it while Glaze is running in the bg, or I forget and I shut off my computer before the image as processed, so I don't even bother posting them. This coupled with other feelings has really put a damper on my motivation to post or show things publically. My initial thought is I can probably still post things non-Glaze'd on patreon, but honestly, patreon is not even safe I don't think. Pirating sites are still out there last time I checked and eventually make their way into getting scraped. I really don't want to have to do that do you guys who subbed as i trust ya'll aren't scraping my work. Yet, Glaze is such a small thing I and others can do to protect our work, I just haven't developed the habit yet. It's sad we even have to do this, but it's necessary if we want to continue to share our work and find work.

Thank you for reading and I appreciate your support!