Deciding whether to work on new Clive ref or set up the guestbook for Mews asks today. Hmmmmm mm decisions

I feel like I should update Clive's ref. I don't technically need to, her design hasn't changed, but I look at it and it doesn't scream Clive to me

Finally buckled and bought the Rock Paper Pencil screen protector. And I have to wait eons bc it comes from the US grgrgr

Smile. Clean sketch is almost done and ready for Saturday's stream. I am *very happy* with it

Curving text in a faster program with limited tools. Don't recommend it Lol

For those who want to know the origins of the posters... This was the piece that made me realise I could do fun things with composition

I'm back on my promo art bullshit (I'm making a proper Live Now illustration for my weekly streams)

The drafts are cool, until you realise they don't save the media so if you're like me and want to set up drafts as a backlog for art to post, you have to do it from the device you made the draft on. That kinda sucks.

MY KOFI QUEUE IS DONE, I CAN FOCUS ON THE POSTER FULLY AND GET THE SKETCH DONE!!! YAY!!!

I really wanna be more social with people on here but unless it's scheduled I just don't have a reason to talk to people so I don't HAHA

Update: my back hurts from slouching over this thing. Six hours in, 2/3 of the way done. Haha..ha...

God I've missed making posters for other people. Making posters for me is fun too, don't get me wrong, but I get to work with things I wouldn't usually, I get to make a stupidly huge ref board again... It's just so fun

I'm glad I do examples for the member rewards because dear god I just found out that the idea I had for next month is gonna take too much time

Nobody's ready for the next Mews art piece. I've had to stop three times bc I'm too excited

I sometimes think about raising my prices, but I always choose not to. The world sucks, people don't earn enough, and if undercharging myself means ppl can get a tiny bit of happiness, that ultimately means way more to me in every single way

My trans awakening was my very passionate science teacher in secondary school who was a bit strange and eccentric and had the fashion sense of someone from the 50s... And he will never know bc I never came out until a year after I left HAHAHA

Me: I should establish a more healthy sleep schedule! Stop going to sleep at 3am lol Me at 1am: 👁️👄👁️ I could work on some owed art and start a craft project and maybe even do something else

Paper for the prints ACQUIRED, getting fancy paper is so exciting, what do you mean it comes in a nice box?!

I have so many things I wanna achieve this month, if everything I wanna do happens, this month's Kitchen post is gonna be a BEHEMOTH

I'm really thankful for the fineliner halfbodies I have been doing bc they have really helped me figure out how to just break things down into simple shapes

Got all my icons done WHEEE!!! Two little scenes, two member rewards and the popup fineliners left in my queue! Yippee!!!!

Yes, I did buy tape just for packaging prints, why'd you ask? (This photo is from yesterday, these are long gone into the hands of Mr Mail)

I have 70 files in my 2026 folder in Procreate already... Lord above, it's only January

Finding out that my comm advertisements do better when I just post four examples with no promo art? That's interesting!!

Realised the other day that Beacon tier can get their bigger pieces printed too now that I have the means to print stuff. This piece in particular I made for a friend last year as a commission, I can't wait to ship it to them tomorrow eeee

Still unable to message, rattling the bars of my cell aggressively. Let me send my sketches, damnit!!!!

I'm at the weird position where I may actually have to close my Kofi commissions until I've finished my queue which is like, not something that happens to me? Lmao

Weird quirk of my brain: if I make a piece I'm proud of and I don't immediately start creating something new, I get art block. Does anyone else get like this? I think not moving on forces my brain to fixate on it and then it's like "Whelp. That's it. I can never make anything better"

My new printer came... It prints so pretty,,, (not on the paper that I wanna use, this was old paper I had lying around)

Drawing all of my sonas together for an intro post (finally) and I'm amused that every single sona features blue and yellow in the design It's convenient for making this colour scheme cohesive, that's for certain!

Two weeks later... They all arrive today. Now the annoying issue is I can't take any photos until way way way later bc the only good source of light in this horrifically lit house is near the cooking hobs LMAO

It's amazing how I could crouch so easily a few years ago and now my knees scream at me any time I do. And it's not like I don't exercise, I do!! My knees just decided to become squeaky old door hinges lmao

I'm currently learning a new game engine for smth (Kitchen members will hear more about this next week) and it feels like coming home. I didn't realise how much I missed game dev until I picked up a game engine again

I spent all day yesterday tweaking a TH template to be more usable for all my characters. I'm taking my profiles seriously this year, everyone will suffer with the knowledge of my children

Lol... I only started listening to it yesterday...

Remembering why I don't do adopts and customs for ppl as I lovingly make a design for a pal... Not in a negative way! I just become attached to designs in an unbearable way LMAO

My sticker manufacturer has come back to me saying they're waiting for a replacement blade bc they're not happy w the way the stickers are coming out. Shaking the bars of my cage

Finally updating my Toyhouse after years of leaving it abandoned... It makes me realise how many stories I have

I already have plans for my Pride popup this year >:)) I haven't done one since 2023, that's crazy. Especially because the first proper commission opening I ever did were actually pride related haha

:] As it should be

In happier news, my prints have been dispatched WHEEE

Sometimes I think about the old drama of people being mad when new artists attempt to make things imitating their favourite artist's style. I just found it so comically obnoxious, like calm the hell down

HAHA okay, I wasn't questioning the authenticity of your dog, old-art-instructional-book

The origin of why I call Ian my darling eel is because when I was developing her, I listened to this song and I immediately was like *Oh, this is so Ian's vibe* youtu.be/sgO5oiUqM8Y?...

I've never been a fan of the daily guessing games that have spawned since Wordle. BUT Metazooa is great, doesn't make you feel dumb if you know absolutely nothing about classifications (ie it's still playable and achievable!)

I don't need to make another design but I wanna design a frog...

I find it really funny that last year I was like oh haha I probably won't have ideas for every month for the Gallery reward ... I have 26 ideas on my list of things I wanna do

I have no interest in fursuiting, but puppets... Man I would make puppets if I had the room

I do wonder what the manufacturer must think when I keep ordering single standees of these random furry characters. Do they know they're commissions? Do they think they're just my characters? I always wonder

The joy of doing standee comms this week is that I have absolutely nothing to show publicly until they get manufactured so it LOOKS like I'm doing nothing when in reality I've made 5 fullbodies hahaha