There were a few things I forgot to mention in my last journal about future plans. I also wanted to give some updates!
COMMISSIONS (UPDATE)
If money is tight, I’ll probably be opening for commissions at least once every other month in 2023, if not more. We’ll see! There are a lot of personal projects I want to work on, and I prefer to keep personal projects a priority if I can! I’ll post journals with as much lead time as I can regarding when I’m expecting commissions to open! Presently, I’m looking at how my paychecks and taxes look this year.
UPLOADING GIFT ART, ART TRADES, & COMMISSIONED ART!!
When I upload gift art and art trades, I’ll be sure to title and tag them properly, and on the sites that support folders, I put them in their own folder! I am honestly super danged thrilled that others are having fun with my characters! I’m super excited to share what’s been done so far!
I did briefly think about making another account, but nah! That’s too much work to maintain!
REFERENCE SHEETS
Regarding reference sheets, I have 3 female characters I want to do reference sheets for (Aura my puma / cougar / mountain lion, Diana my maned wolf, and Graphene Doodles, my Rule 63 gender-swapped version of my unicorn Graphite Doodles), as well as 7 male characters (Graphite Doodles my unicorn, Chris the mouse, Evan the rabbit, Kyle my red fox, Gabriel the squirrel, Trevor Dawson my wolf, and Bud Blaze, my MLP earth pony)! This means I have a total of more reference sheets I want to do (for now). I imagine this will take me well into 2023, given that it takes about two weeks per reference sheet. I’m hoping for May at the latest.
TRADES & GIFT ART
After my current round of reference sheets, I’ll open for some trades and gift art! I’m thinking I’ll spend at most a month on trades. I’m absolutely giddy, honestly! I’ve wanted to do trades for decades; I’ve had a lot of various internal and external struggles I’ve fought with and overcome over the years!
EXPRESSION PROJECT
Something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time is a better version of the 25 Expression Challenge. I’ve done a few challenges long ago, and I know I’ve done one recently-ish with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. BUT! I haven’t done one when I’ve had this much self-esteem, self-compassion, and self-efficacy! I feel like I could push myself well beyond what I’ve done before! I’m making a 100 Expression Challenge! You all are in for a treat!
TREMMIE & EVAN SERIES
After the 100 Expression Challenge, I want to dive into a passion project I’ve been wanting to start for 15 YEARS. I’m going to have a Tremmie and Evan sex romp series/comic! It’s going to be everything from sweet, silly, to hot and heavy and gooey! I want to give myself a fun challenge, and I think y’all would love it as much as I do!
SOFT SHADING
I’m also planning on dinking around with soft shading in 2023! I think I could make my art really pop with some quality shading and lighting!
POSSIBLY SELLING SOME OLD CHARACTERS AS ADOPTABLES
I am thinking of selling some characters as adoptables! There are 11 characters of mine that I'm never going to draw again, and I’m not going to combine them. I was thinking of making a ref sheet for each and selling the character that way! (The characters are: Callisto the skadger (skunk badger (spoken for), Sheila the Ringtail, Helen the spotted skunk, Heather the hedgevixen, Mindy the other, Shazzy the felox (feline/fox), Brook the swift fox, Yasmine the red fox, Jessica/Jessie the arctic fox, Ian the whitetail buck, Liam the jackal, and Nemo the snow leopard). I was also thinking I’d probably due ¾ front view and ¼ back view, and 1 fully clothed view, instead of the 5 views I’m doing for my own characters.
FUTURE REFERENCE SHEETS (MID-LATE 2023)
I realized that there are also characters I wish to keep! There are 8 characters in addition to the above that I want to do ref sheets for. Some are my wife Mistletoe's characters! She's not involved with the fandom anymore, but we fully support each other's interests! She sees how happy my characters make me and still likes furry and MLP art! (The characters are: Betsy, the arctic wolf (may change her name), Celeste the genet, Holly Graham, the red Scottish vixen, Josh the striped skunk, Marissa the mouse, Miriam the mouse (thinking of a new design!), Mistletoe the snowshoe hare, Rose Bunny the arctic hare).
PONIES
I still love My Little Pony a whole danged lot! I’m absolutely expecting to draw more ponies from here until the end of time, honestly! I’ve been into ponies (1984) way longer than furry fandom (1996); I still love both fandoms a whole lot! I want to do art ranging from general audiences to smutty!
HUMANS
Re-uploading my old art on my Tremaine account back in 2018 made me realize how much I missed drawing humans! There are many artists whose humans inspire me, and I want to practice drawing them! Once I feel I’ve got some decent progress made I’ll share some art!
LEARNING NEW STUFF
And, of course, I’m hoping to keep learning new things all the time! Goodness knows I’ve already learned so much since I started back on this path in May! Self-esteem, self-compassion, and self-efficacy have helped me a great deal in learning to take constructive criticism better, as well as learning to self-criticize with the aim of improving my art! I feel like as long as I make “having fun” a priority, everything else is so much easier!
DISCORD SERVER (MAYBE, EVENTUALLY, BUT NOT RIGHT NOW)
I’m second-guessing whether I want to make a Discord server. I’m still trying to figure out how to balance my time. I’m of the mind to put this project on the back shelf for now; maybe when I’ve grown my following for a few years I’ll come back to it. Like, right now, I’ll get the very occasional ping in Discord, but it’s mostly quiet. If it makes more sense to be able to communicate with a lot of folks at once sometime in the future I’ll probably look into it more.
STREAMING!
I am also planning on streaming eventually. My real concern is being able to split my attention between drawing and a chat! I think I’ll start after I’m done with my initial round of character reference sheets!
I do want to watch more streams, too, but I still have the same problem! I pretty much ignore the stream to focus on my own art. I feel like this is a thing I’ll need to jump into and play by ear, so to say!