Hey everyone. I wanted to make a quick update on where things are, and any plans. First things first: I'll be away for the next week for sure as I'm attending Anime Weekend Atlanta con (as FSDB). I'll be back the beginning of the week afterward.

As for artwork here, I can't say I've done as much as I expected or wanted to do and you all fairly deserve. Motivation and enthusiasm has been in short supply, partly due to external factors like stress (and admittedly, the nerve wracking process of preparation for my first convention out of state) and feeling down about missing my own deadlines. I've got a lot of work to do on both myself and on the artwork end so I can deliver the projects I promised and still want to see completed. 

I hope to have some artwork up this month but I doubt it will be a complete project like a finished comic or animation. 

I'm not happy for having let folks down and it's certainly playing a role in how I feel but it's the truth and I'm not going to shy away from it. You all have been incredibly kind and supportive, and deserve a lot more. I want to be able to get back to making projects that are consistent and enjoyable for all. I hope I can do so after the con and I hope I can get things in order here for my sake and of course, for the fans and friends here (and elsewhere).

It's close to the end of the month and I realized it's way overdue for a status post! I apologize for not making a post earlier (at least on it's own) to keep folks updated. Now let's get to it: 

First, I know it's been a slow month. Reason being, I thought after my break and recovery I'd be hitting it out of the art gate guns-a-blazing! But: I needed to take things a little slower, something I didn't quite understand until much more recently. 

I have been working on some comic pages and sketches outside of Substar though; something some of you may have seen. But even then I haven't fully inked and lettered pages as quickly as I anticipated! And that kind of bummed me out? As I said earlier, I didn't realize I needed to give myself time to create and not beat myself up because I wasn't "fast enough." I laid into myself too much over my lack of speed and output and added on a lot of guilt in the process. That harshness with myself didn't help but I'm working on getting out of that unhelpful mindset. Still: I should've made a status post earlier, including about the art coming up. You're all of course owed that. Speaking of which...

I have WIPs for short strips that I'll be finishing soon, including a holiday related one. I'll post them as I finish the strips instead of holding onto them. Outside of the strips, I of course haven't forgotten about Shulkie x Venom and will be showing progress of that as I have it.

I'll try and keep to posting things at a good pace. I should've made this post after the first two weeks! But I was too concerned about finishing things fast before I showed anything. That was shortsighted and I didn't notice that I still needed a slightly longer break. But that break is about over and I'll be posting up things more often from here!

Thanks to those who've supported me while I've been recovering and taking things slow. But what better way to show my appreciation of that support than with some more artwork I love to create? :D

It's getting later into the month so I think it's about time for another update!

What's been accomplished: Much of the Chi-Cheeks Week and The PG x Toyman comic! I'm pretty happy with what I was able to do this month and I hope folks have enjoyed it. I was really focused on making sure to complete at least one project and I want to continue that trend going forward as I have a lot of ideas I want to work on!

Onto what's on the plate and what's next:

Outside the projects, some things in between are always to be expected. I've been happy with Chi-Cheeks week (almost done!) but I don't expect to have another "week" like it for a little while. Smaller strips and sketches (sketch studies?) will likely suffice in order to give me time to hopefully complete the projects on the plate next month.

Speaking of "themed weeks," I definitely have ideas in mind for others. What I've learned in the process is to make sure to complete the strips ahead of time. Then posting it daily. It took a little more time here as I didn't expect to add multiple strips/pages to so many of your Chi-Cheeks prompts, but I really couldn't help it. The ideas that came forth gave me lots of inspiration! But next time: I'll get it done well ahead of the week!

Last but not least: I've got what looks like a definite date for my small surgery. It'll be this Friday.

I've been advised to take about a week to recover (and no gym/heavy lifting for about three weeks, ugh!). So I may be out of action for that week. We'll see. Of course I want to be drawing where and when I can but I want to let everyone know of the "forced" recovery break. Fingers crossed the procedure goes well and recovery is swift though!

EDIT: While I expect it to take at least a week to recover, it may be a little longer, potentially two weeks depending on circumstances. (Really hoping it's a week though! I don't think I can enjoy not being up and about for so long!)

Hi everyone. This is a post on the projects and their status and where things are more personally.

Most, but not all, projects have been on hold for the last month. But I'm doing my best to try and get some requests completed and some other random things in the meantime so there will be some posts here and there at least.

Since May, I've been dealing with a health issue that led me to have little to no physical energy (anemia). Eventually I figured something was off and saw the doc. They think they know what's wrong but want to schedule me for a small surgical procedure to make sure. 

They did give some medicine that should help in the meantime and give me back some strength but in doing so it generally kills my "drive." Which makes drawing nsfw art a challenge. The medicine is temporary until I can get into some (light) surgery to hopefully deal with the health issue permanently, but it's taking more time than I expected.

Of course I hate this trade-off: either I have no energy and more sexy drive, or, I have some energy again and no drive. It's been killing me mentally, making me sometimes depressed because I know I *want* to draw so much. But I can't seem to do so most times. I always want to make art because I enjoy making it and not because I have to do so. But even trying to "force it" has been hard. 

I recognize this isn't what many of you signed up for and I completely understand if anyone wants to jump off for a bit until things hopefully improve with my health and allow me to return to enjoying creating art again. I'm hopeful I can get this remedied by sometime next month at the latest.

Now that the Granny comic is complete, it's on to the next projects. I was going to move forward with the She-Hulk comic but I thought I could also split things up by working on finally finishing PG x Fisher, too. The plan is to have these out in batches so we'd have a PG x Fisher post, then Shulkie x Venom, then PG x Fisher, etc. until finished.

I think this is a good way to have something for everyone while also getting a long-term comic complete. And I'm still going to work in between on getting other things done, like the Lady D animation, given how close it is to completion. 

I'll also be having some art streams over the next week. I'm considering working on an animation for all of those streams, particularly the one that was in the last character poll: Helen Parr. I've got something in mind for her (and Dash, of course!) and it might be fun to do most of the process, while on stream. I'll give everyone a heads up if I go forward with it.