Updates and what i've been up to. (Extended Pause)

It's time to show what i've been working on, what i'm planning to work on and give some updates. If you simply care about the update, scroll all the way down :3

What i've been up to :

Since the start of October i've been warming up some overall hard surface modelling skills and just trying out if i'm able to create a full character that way. As seen above it kind of worked, but just on the surface, while i would say that overall the robot looks ok, from a technical standpoint it's a bit of a mess, but its good ! I learned A LOT during my work on this which was roughly 3 weeks. After that i did what i always wanted to do, learn how a sculpt organic characters. I took on a course which took me about a week to get through, once i got it finished, i took all the knowledge i could and stared working on something, it was a bit messy for the first 2-3 days, i've done about 4 torso sculpts which were all awful so i ended up deleting them lol so i took 1 day off, revisited the course in few areas and tried again. That time it was "better" but it was still awful as seen in the picture above, however it was a good start so i just took what i learned from that and tried again, now to the finished result, progressing accordingly. Got some feedback down the line and got it more improved, tried my best to get the head right with a lot of iterations and overall just trying to stick to the original design as much as i can. Body is still not finished since i'm still considering on how i should manage the fur on this guy (Azir from League of Legends for those who don't know). I'm currently sitting on a basic layout for his armor which im slowly working on. I'm hoping to finish him up till the end of this month but we'll see, it's a bit big project.

What i have in plans : 

After im done with Azir, i'm planning to go with one character from a really cool customizable base for a slim dragon made by CindyAAvelino, wanna give it a shot mainly because it's a pretty interesting design and will give me a nice challage before i start doing something way more hard. That's for a project number 2, project number 3 pretty much depends on how the current two will end up looking and if i'm worthy yet for something far more greater. If i'm not yet satisfied with those 2, i will most likely make Thresh from League, art by paja192. That artwork just convinced me to make him at really badly haha. That said, IF i am satisfied with the quality of the first 2 projects, i want to take on something really challenging and something that has to be done right and that is... Making Monster Hunter monsters but in Anthro form ! This is something i am really excited about and can't wait to do however its a really brave task to take on so i don't want to take on it knowing that i will fail. For a first monster i'm looking at Mizutsune and Zinogre art by FanSL_Art , mainly due to them having a pretty decent amount of art in Anthro form so i won't have to make a lot of guessing. Makes it a tiny bit easier. Those are pretty much all of the current projects i want to take on and big plan is to make the whole cast of monster hunter into those, with time of course, the cast is pretty big already. 

Now for the Updates :

Given that i have a really strong drive right now for making characters and can't really find much push to make my normal type of art, i will be putting the Patreon on Standby, what does that mean ? I won't be really active on here. I think even ya'll would rather see me do what i really enjoy at the moment rather than force myself into pushing out artworks. Me pushing them out regardless would just lower the quality and i don't really see much point in that. I will most likely post some stuff with the characters i make depending how happy i am with the final result. So for the time being i will be changing all the tiers to simply a Tip tiers. For how long ? Until i finish the current projects i have which would take around 3 months i would say, maybe shorter maybe longer, it will be clear from when i post the finished characters on twitter. If you want to support me regardless of that during this time, feel more than free to and i really appreciate the support <3 I also wanna say Thank You to everyone that kept their pledge still active despite the lack of content, ya'll the best <3

Short summary of everything : 

I've made a really good amount of progress so far and i'm really happy about it. I'm looking forward to what i will be able to make in 2021 and i hope you all are looking up to that too :3

I'm pretty reliant on Patreon since it's my only source of stable income however i'm gonna invest in myself by taking more of that time off to purely focus on what i have a really strong drive towards right now. Mental stability > Money, afterall so i'll be fine. I'm 100% sure that what i'm doing is gonna be more than worth it in a long run. Also since i am kind of stepping back from using game models, i might work with some of the other artists and hand them over some of the stuff i use, so the models won't go to waste. Still figuring it all out so bare with me :>