An update and WIPs

Hey everyone <3

So, bit of an update for you all. I'm finally starting to get back on track with getting artwork done after a few weeks of struggling to be able to. I took two weeks off just after Confuzzled to relax after... That whole month. But since then I've been struggling to stay focused on artwork and I've been struggling to post WIPs here since because of it. I really should get tested for ADD or something because this struggle to focus on... Any task has been prevalent for a while now. It's affecting my job here and the only reason it's not affecting my second job is because I'm physically walking around I guess. But even then, I really need music in my ear to stay focused for that. Fuck, even as I'm typing this I am trying not to get distracted by other tabs open. My room is a mess again after I forced myself to spend like... 2 days cleaning it, all because I wanted to reshuffle and clean my drawers and now it's all been sitting on my floor half done and I am struggling to stay focused on it.

I'll be honest, I am really stressed. I'm trying to pay off things and I so desperately need to get out of my town. For those that know me, you know I really don't enjoy my life in this town. Just yesterday, I went to the LondonFurs meet and all I could think about was "I could be living in a city that has all these things and I'd never be bored again." I have plans for moving to London and I am praying that I can make enough money from art to make that happen. On that note, I cannot thank you guys enough for sticking with me here on Patreon for so long even as I've struggled. It's really helped keep on top of things and I am trying so fucking hard to keep up.

When I first started this, I wanted the WIPs to be a daily posting, but sometimes I have days where I feel like I've not managed to get enough done to justify posting a WIP. It feels like it's a case of "well there was a few new lines here but that's it." So I ended up not posting them and sometimes that feeling could go on for days, so it would be days of not posting any WIPs even as substantial progress had been made over those few days.

So, I'm gonna start posting WIPs on a weekly basis instead. A batch of everything I've been working on that week. Hopefully that'll help with posting them more regularly, as well as not leaving me feeling so anxious and stressed about it all the time. There's a lot of things going on right now that are leaving me stressed and anxious about artwork in general and I'm scared I'm on a one way ticket to burnout at this rate, so I'm trying to shuffle things to keep on track with it. 

Speaking of, I'm finally getting to the outstanding sketches for the $20 tier. I cannot stress how sorry I am for how they've fallen behind and every time I think I'm able to get them caught up with, it ends up not being the case (in my defence for the last time, my appendix did try to kill me.) But now I've gotten a few pieces finished that have been stressing me out with their length of time waiting, so I can set aside a few days to get caught up on all of these sketches.

Similarly, I'll be keeping back up with the monthly drawings as well. I'll keep those to just drawings of Kite doing various things at the minute, I'm not sure I'm ready to return it to the voting system just yet, but I do finally feel I have the time again.

Finally, the WIPs! Below.

(The above one was a gift for a close friend, I drew this during my two week break because apparently I don't know what a break actually is :L)