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Happy Holidays, dorks :B

As usual, the Onedrive link for all the fun stuff. 

How is everyone's year going? Better than last?

I know a lot of artists have burned out this year (and last) and I'm pretty thankful you guys are sticking around despite circumstances. I have been approached by a couple people this year worried that I'll react negatively if I see them drop their pledges - don't feel like you have to hang on because I'll see you stopped subscribing, there's more important stuff out there and I'll always be here drawing when you're ready to come back around (or not, I do post everything publicly anyhow!)

I've got a lot of work on my plate with CT coming out in the next few months, and it's going to be quite the scramble. I do have to be honest, I actually discussed with LN whether I should pause or stop my Patreon to focus on the game more but he suggested I keep it open since it's still a pretty large part of my livelihood and if something were ever to happen to the game, I'd probably regret stopping it.

Still, between the two projects I've got a lot to do - I'll be doing my best to do my obligations here and there, but I do have to prioritize the game since it's such a momentous project for us. I've had to wear a lot more hats than artist since I started and the realities of game development have been a learning experience. I have a lot of anxiety around the upcoming release; I hope people like it :V

As for this campaign, it's not really a secret at this point that my overall creation of personal work has suffered in quantity since the game started going full steam. I'm not going to keep making apologies for that (I've made that post too many times), as that's just the way it is, and if you're still around I hope you understand that - but I did want to discuss the quality and content of the stuff I have been creating, if you have the time!

I'm curious if you guys have any opinions on how I've been doing art recently, I even have some specific questions if you feel like answering!

Do you like the sketches on the grey backgrounds? I did experiment with some colorful backgrounds a few months ago - did you like those better? Is the silhouetting of the characters helpful at all or did you like the much older stuff where I just left them the same color as the surrounding backgrounds?

How do you feel about all the text on each image? Too much? Are the images better with the more detailed stories? Do you like when I do massive text dumps almost turning them into captions occasionally? (I can't promise I'll never do them even if everyone hates them though.)

Does the quality of the sketch work feel better than my older work? Does my actual drawing feel like it's gotten better?

Should I focus more on single longer project at the sacrifice of lots of single images? I'm always torn because I hear people say they like when I do a lot of sketches, but then people wonder why I'm not doing more sequences. I could do more sequences but they are really big time investments for me these days. I do prefer the results of sequences myself, but they really do come at a time cost.

Any characters I've made that you liked and wanted to see me draw more of? I think I'm ok at making fun characters, but I never really flesh any of them out past designs or single use worldbuilding with a bit of dialogue or vignettes. I'm wondering if any of them seemed interesting enough to warrant revisiting.

Any other general feedback on stuff I've done? Stuff you'd like to see more or less of?

I think that's all I've got this time. I might think up more for next post. That's for reading, dorks, hope you've been enjoying the art - and here's hoping 2022's a better year for everyone :P