Nuki News #57 - Joy to the World

Long time patrons will know I made a post about this story over a year ago, which you can catch up on and read about the concept of here, as I won’t be repeating too much, plus there’s not much text on that post:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/joy-to-world-34320040

I have the good news that I’ve made some sort of progress on it since then- not much. Just more fleshed out concept art- and I realize I didn’t later share ref sheets I made either. So here they are! Don’t worry, this one won’t be very wordy either. Just discussing what I’m up to.

I didn't have a ref Sheet for Ethan yet, the younger rabbit, but I did draw him back in 2018!

I want to make this story in some fashion, maybe told wordlessly for a while, with images like this until I decide on a format for them properly. I think I’ll be making separate accounts on Twitter and FA when I do decide to share them. But not to worry, I’ll be sharing them here first and foremost. My motivation for this story is just to make it, as a purely personal creative endeavor,  that might find others who may enjoy it while I try to unravel it myself.

It’s been about 6 years since I last attempted a somewhat long graphic novel or comic. Nerves get to me. I seize up and get anxious about what I could do with them. But with this, I’m just focusing purely on feelings. No real words right now. Not until I’m comfortable again.

I am subconsciously afraid of putting a lot of time into something that won’t pay off, actually. Pokemon Beta, my first big comic I made, spanned multiple years(2011-2015) and I saw it wouldn’t take me anywhere even had I stuck to it till the end(that’s the risk of committing to derivative work that you don’t own). I am confident in that decision even now. But there was another comic in 2015-2016 I made that I am actively ashamed of and wouldn’t show anyone now. It was very much not good. And I spent a good year of my time on it. So to my brain, I guess it just went “eehh you aren’t good at picking your battles with these stories” and I decided to not keep making comics.

….I’m not committing to make this story a comic either. But that’s okay. I am focused on telling a story to myself, and share it online with yall- I have no interest in making a big ol thing. It can happily go ‘nowhere’ on a separate twitter account with 20 followers. That’s okay. I’d like people to follow it who want to read and know about it. I don’t want to split my main Twitter with fatfur art and this story, haha. So you’re likely to see more of this later! It could be next month, could be the month after- I’m only gunna work on it when I feel up to it!