picture diary #002

My beautiful princess <3

So.... blogging is hard. Hard to keep up with that is haha. So much happens in such large pieriods of time, that when I realized I needed to round up an entire month, I could barely remember what had happened. I'd been against making this a weekly blog type situation, or a... I blog when something happens blog but I also think it might be better and there might be more content, easier for me to document so we'll see how things go from here! Again, apologies for the lateness of this blog post but I hope it's good! If you're in this for the long haul and enjoy the coziness of blogging, stay tuned with a warm cup of tea (or coffee if it's late) and if you're in it for the updates and what's going on for Patreon, zoom down to the last paragraph!

ugh i love her so much

First thing's first....  Say Hi to Bonnie!  She's a 2 year old Cherry Bomb Royal Python (aka the fanciest name for a ball python. She's essentially a leucistic snake with red eyes, a Red Eyed Lucy, as opposed to Sessy who's a Blue Eyed Lucy. She's so friendly and curious and nice. I've had to deal with some medical mishaps that came up so she's being treated right now and I have to bathe her every other day essentially, and give her injections every 3 days but she's been so good and such a trooper. She hasn't bit or tagged me once considering all the handling she's gone through. I can't wait till she's more settled and not on medicine, I have some photo shoots planned for her -- and Sessy too! He's still super tiny right now so nothing planned for him aside from letting him enjoy his enclosure and hopefully upgrading him to a larger tank in a few months!

Sessy!

I have to hold off on designing Bonnie's tank right now too, since I'm having a hard time finding materials that I can bleach/disinfect and won't grow mold since my house is fairly humid. Finding cute items for snake enclosures is very hard, but I'm willing to keep looking!

Periscoping!

Apartment is coming along too, I got a couch which was the most exciting thing! Long story short, the people at the store broke one of the legs on this $530 couch, and gave it to me 50% off because of it so of course I couldn't say no. It's so pretty, it's this teal velvet colour and both my cats love it so it passes this apartment.

I've been so heavily inspired by mid century modern furniture because of decorating my apartment, and with that I really forgot how much I love the 1950's/60's animation style and as most of you have seen, I've incorporated it into my art a lot lately. The whole blocked out colours, simplified lines, angels and curves and fun shapes ah! I love it. I've decided to make my 2019 Christmas card designed in that style. I'm still working on the final look of it, but last year I did a girl skiing I wanted to keep it in tone with "A girl doing _____ in the snow." So I wanted to do Ice skating but I also drew some cute thumbnails of a girl by a fireplace so I'm not sure yet.

The little prince <3

Wow, as I'm writing this I've realized I want to definitely do shorter posts more often because I want to talk more about UPA and 1950's illustration cuz I discovered so much! I went on an antiquing trip with my grandmother and found all these old barbie 1950's vintage boxes and bags and illustrations and they were so fun and colourful that I definitely ran with the inspiration!





Oh! Merch launched this week and wow-- clown hats sold out! I'm still debating on whether I want to open pre-orders and then ship in February, since it'll take at least 25-30 days for me to even get the product due to the busy time of the year for the company I use. I don't know... I also don't want to deal with my online shop while I'm working at my current job which definitely requires more of my time and I've been spread so thin lately due to patreon + my shop + commissions + new job + moving and now the holidays and family this and that...

ZITA

missy peeeeee

It's hard too because I can't just be like "Oh I'm working hard I need to take a break!" I don't have that sort of luxury of money. If I'm not creating and posting, I lose patreons and followers and commission opportunities which means I lose money and I have bills to pay, pets to feed, etc; Freelance is a privilege but also a curse. I wish I could work and then take time off but the reality is I don't have that much money saved up constantly to do that, and the other fact is I can't just ignore these places and then return to them since the point of patreon and social media is to be consistent so people continue to see you and continue to support you. Mehh this is me rambling on how Social Media has helped me but also being my own "boss" and managing my own work can be hard. I'd be lying if I said having a job in an studio setting wasn't something on my list.

Outside my bedroom window (:

Anywhoooo, Christmas is coming which means gifts and I also have to save up some money for that! I just bought my mom a idk.. big? ish gift, something I've wanted to get her for ages but never had the money for and knew she couldn't use right away. I think she'll really like it! I'm waiting for her to say "Man I hate this thing.." and I'll be like, oh shit well good thing no one got it for you for Christmas! and then I quickly return it ;;;;;

Christmas tree shopping in vermont!

Alright so if you listened to me ramble for the last like 10 minutes thank you! If not hi, this is the part where I talk about what's going on and what to expect from Patreon! First off, the Alien NSFW comic won't be starting till next year, I HOPE January, but it might be later because a comic requires planning... script... thumbs... sketches etc; and I want this to be like a 20+ comic with screen tones and shading etc; So I will keep you guys updated but I don't anticipate anything till February at the latest. In the mean time, I'll post sketches and thumbs/process of how it's coming once I've decided on the plot and everything! I have it outlined and I'm starting script/thumbs but I have nothing to really show. I will be doing variants more often! One to two a month, and I'll let you guys help me vote/decide on who to do. And of course, sketches monthly. Nothing too big added to the NSFW side, but once the comic gets rolling, I'll probably most 2 pages a month + sketches/variant just so my patreon doesn't become only NSFW.

Family Recipe for Maple Squares!

I'll continue to upload stuff for my patreon as normal, sketches 1-2 times a month hopefully, I'm also going to start incorporating more warm up sketches and practice tho not too much of it since I honestly don't love showing my process too much. I'm also planning on purchasing Adobe Premiere again since the version I have is kinda janky and I don't feel like using a new program. Hopefully I can try to remember to record myself working more. I just am so bad at it since I often work in 2-3 segments, and will forget to record one or two of the times so I'll just have like one 35 minute segment of me drawing and nothing else and I can't really upload that. Also, whenever I record I always feel like people are watching me, so I mess up more like, how when you'd be doing something and once everyone was watching you'd mess up haha.

took the plunge got a pink christmas tree

I think I'll wrap it up here! I've talked enough and I'd honestly be more interested in shorter blog posts about specific things going forward so I'll see if I can't do a better job of that! I'm going away this weekend so I'll see if I can't take some nice photo's of up north doing Christmassy things!

Oh! Before I forget, some notable recommendations....

Music:

Wiggle -- Binki 

Automatic -- Miquela 

Softly Studio -- Youtube channel for a stationary shop! 

Reptilian Garden -- Youtube channel for reptile knowledge and help! 

Movie reviews.. Frozen 2 -- 0 out of 10 stars
Charlies Angels -- Ehh idk forgettable but cute, 5 out of 10 stars


Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!