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Year in review.
🕑 Added 2024-01-02 17:19:44 +0000 UTC2023 in review for patreon
Hey all. Here’s just a year in review. 2023 was a good year for me. Personally I might not have accomplished all the goals but at least I did do some and moved the needle on progress and improving myself.
Animation – This year we finished and released Big For him, a particularly sizeable entry into doing nsfw animation and that was big for me (hah word play). Moving into doing big scale animation entries is definitely the way forward for me as it perfectly hits that fulfilment, creativity and growth trifecta of producing art. Working on that project proved to be very educating and even with my blunt force approach it shed some light on a few things. With that said very excited with my next big project of Red Carpet Revenge. It’s definitely a bit overwhelming with it being 10 minutes and simultaneously having to learn more about animation, but the important thing is that I’m still having fun. Aside from that I did a couple of smaller animations and hopefully soon I can get some loops done as well, that will be fun. I think 2025 is probably the year I’ll learn blender.
Comics- Man, so many fucking comics this year. What definitely helped me is going for a very consistent and ‘clean’ style. Making comics in the more recent style of comics has just been better. I tend to get hung up on pages and will often overwork them, sometimes to their detriment. Going for a more visibly clear page with achievable styles has helped the comic machine go brr. I also feel more confident in the way I can present my ideas. Expect to see some really cool stuff in the upcoming year on that. Time of writing, this chapter of nickels is about to wrap up in 2 pages, after that I’m gonna take a soft break from the cute clown girl comic. I have some ideas about another original comic this year so that’s gonna be fun, and I hope you all trust where I go with that.
Streaming – When I first started streaming, It was a very fun experience of hanging out with an audience and having a good time while drawing some shitposty stuff, along the way it became a tool for me to work under perceived supervision cause my brain rot just doesn’t let me concentrate some times. I think everyone who came to my streams kinda knew it was a way to just see me work, more cynically I would say it was for clients to see if I was working on their stuff at the time. Getting micro managed while drawing was taking the fun out of it for me. This year I had a new approach of using on stream request donations. This worked out amazingly. I really can’t over stress how much I would get hung up on a project with trying to make it look just right and being paralyzed from even working sometimes because of being overwhelmed by mental health problems. Being put in the mindset of ‘Doesn’t matter if it looks unfinished, it is finished’ for sketch requests helps me alleviate those problems. I tend to dwell on commissions and obsess over minutiae a lot, having a less perfectionist mindset has coincidentally just let me draw more and naturally improve with that method. I also dabbled this year with trying twitch streams, the goal is to extend my online visibility and hoping I could be not just lemonfont, artist for hire but also lemonfont, artist personality.
Shapeshifter – So coming back to mental health problems and stuff, I might have a complex relationship with this series now that I am assessing it. Don’t get me wrong, I still love doing this series but I definitely obsessed and paralyzed myself with the details again. I really got hung up on identifying this series and what it is to me and you, the reader. Is it a serious story despite it’s fetishy moments that maybe disqualify that? Is it just a vessel but transformation opportunities that ruined itself with depressing, somber moments? It was hard to imagine that it could be both, you have a divided audience either way. I think I have the opposite of a lot authors struggles where they are wrestling their stories expectations away from their audience and more I need to wrestle myself into the story and think about I want to write it. What I’ve come to accept is that my beautiful mess of a story is perfect as long as it is true to how I feel. I’m also way past the point where I think If I were to end shapeshifter that patreon numbers will plummet, haha. I’m gonna try my best to get some more updates out and maybe this will be the year we can finally end it.
I think that’s everything you might want to know. I myself am doing ok, I gained a bit of weight that I’m hoping to get rid of with an improved diet. I think I’m also slowly going off Magic the gathering, Last year was just a shit show of things that went wrong with that game. I still love playing with friends but that’s about it right now. My wife and I celebrated 5 years of marriage with each other, we still love each other very much.
Let’s make it a good one, lads.
Comments
David Fenger
For Shapeshifter - it is what it is, and I'll enjoy reading it however it goes. Some stories just need to be their own thing, and if you try to force it, things just won't click.
