Bi-Weekly Report #18

... Already?

Good lord. Okay. Sorry. I've been plugging away quite hard on commissions! Not that the bank account reflects that. Stressful little timeframe we're in. Found a couple office jobs to apply for. Interview tomorrow. We'll see how that goes and what happens next.

In the meantime, uhhhhh let's do it!

GAME DEV

I figured out how the scroll bars work. They don't! There's a whole separate thing that has a scroll bar that does work built into it! So I'm using that now. It works great! And I have no idea how to theme it to make it match the rest of my UI elements, so I guess it's time to stop using overrides and actually... try... to solve... GODOT's UI theme editor.......

Also, I need to make a thing that lets you type a name and make a new profile so all of this has an actual point.

COMMISSIONS

Good God. This doesn't look as good as I'd like as just a list. It's needed reformatting for a while. Let's try something a little different.

Completed:

• PWYW x2

• Cloud Hop Blog Sticker: PNGTuber Edition
  An idle and speaking pose that could be used for either thing. Also, a fun experience in someone's reference not being up to date and learning how in real time!

In Progress:

• Vale's Christmas Gift
  Started, getting as far as the nudie base's outlines. Needs an outfit alt. Should be done Tuesday if all goes according to plan.

• Ottercat definitely not drowning Crysis
  This feels bottomless. When did every comic effort start to feel so bottomless?? Whatever. It keeps moving, bit by bit. I'm almost done. Almost.

• Haunted House YCH
  This has had two more dedicated sessions. I have finally roughed in all the paid slots, barring the portraits, and even added Kazziecat as a sort of lady in white situation to wander the upper floor for funsies. Last night saw me fleshing out the house's interior primarily, finally negating the need for the placeholder 3D model scene block-out that'd been present this entire time. This was actually a pretty drawn-out affair, and the background still has a lot of room for improvement, but it should be to the point now where I can start taking my rough sketches and exporting them into their own projects for individual animation.

• Sweater Trio YCH Results
  This one has not moved.

• Rabbit Ass
  This one never moves. I need to be scolded I think.

Upcoming:

• Lourdes trading card for Nikki

• Talonpaw surprise partner

• PWYW x 2

• Mark & Cupid (Target: Thursday start; due by Christmas)

As ever, I have been updating the queue, and my VGen is under review for verification. Thank you for supporting me over there!

Commission Me Here | Here's the Queue

AND THAT ABOUT DOES IT...?

I feel like I've been recovering from the slump and going hard, but then I look at this and the lack of posts on here the last couple weeks and am left to wonder if it's all just been in my head. That... doesn't feel great.

I've been thinking a lot about this and that. Orphan Wood's been dancing around in my head since ATLYSS came into popularity, because there's some overlap there and some things to look at and learn from one way or another. I've been trying to assess why I can never enter any sort of flow or state of enjoyment while drawing lately (it's pain, usually, or at least a persistent and unrelenting discomfort). I want to work on Thralls more but always end up losing the time when I think I'll get to do it, or feel like my priorities need to be elsewhere. It feels like there's always something going on, and my brain won't let me do anything until what's going on is solved. It's... not great. The fact I'm doing this before showering for the day is a rare bit of B before A for me, and I think that says a lot.

Regardless, I've been playing with different strokes and brushes and styles a bit. This one went over well on the Discord.

I wound up putting some blatant "someone else needs to do some of this shit, I cannot do everything, this is killing me" messages into the Bunallow staff discussion. The Christmas collection feels like another failed experiment all around, though I've at least got a few people who enjoy my design for Cupid and want to see more of her in comms and such, so maybe long-term having a standee of her will pay off. I don't know. I know that the first paycheck for about three months of work was enough to buy us exactly one meal through delivery, and I know that the amount of work I'd put in to earn that was above and beyond all expectation, so I am trying to step back a bit and focus on what needs done. We're broke. We have bills to pay. Work needs doing. I thought I was doing it.

Shit.