Update February 2023

     Thank you all so much for sticking with me and continuing to support me financially. I now have two day jobs so I didn't really have a chance to work on anything since the New Year rolled over. I have a lot of things to talk about and update you on. If you are interested in one topic more than another, please use Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on Mac) to jump ahead.

Whatever happened to Fairy Rings?

     After a long time of soul searching and a lot of crying, I have decided Fiary Rings is too big of a project for me to do on my own without creative support. I don't mean FINANCIAL support, as that was never a factor. I mean that I need more hands on deck, I need professional feedback, I need assistance and encouragement from OTHER ARTISTS who want it to exist as much as I do. 

     This fucking breaks my heart because I sincerely love and adore this idea, it means a lot to me personally and I still want to bring it to life and see it through to the end. It's just too big. While I was in school I had the exact type of support I needed, which included in-person meetings with people who knew about it already and could help me continue. After school was over and I lost that structure, I burned out extremely quickly on it. I thought I could make it exist on my own through the power of my love for it, but...

     When I am more established, after I save up money to maybe move away from my current day job and into creating things professionally, and maybe even after I have enough tmoney o pay other people to work with me... I'll try again then. Until then, I will focus my free time on taking my art career seriously. Starting with making my own portfolio website.

By the way I have a website now

     I have made a website to host things that are more serious and related to my career as an artist. It so far has a link to a game I was Art Director on while in school, and the visual development images for Fairy Rings as well as the first pages of it. After that, I am planning to make two particular new pages:

Exploring the WRECK rule

     Based on Red Van Buskirk's original "WECC" Rule introduced in their video The Steven Universe Rant (now unlisted for reasons I completely understand), I received their permission to expand upon it and explore it with my own take. The WRECK Rule is a framework designed to help me and others study good fight scenes and make our own scenes even better. I also gave it a better acronym that turned the aspects of the framework into a word related to fighting.

     This will be hosted on my website when it is finished, perhaps in different installments though idk about that. It will not be the only new webpage, as I also intend to share:

Sonic Lore for Charlie

     So my buddy Charlie doesn't know much about Sonic the Hedgehog, and I asked him if he wanted me to fill him in on Sonic lore. I told him I would make a new powerpoint to explain literally all of it. I guess he thought I must have been joking or something because he said yes, and I am now committed to seeing this stupidass project through. For Charlie. 

     It will be fairly detailed but adheres STRICTLY to canon information (primarily introduced in the video game series, but also including the IDW comics and the official Youtube animated shorts). In order to make this a reality, I am working in sections and being extremely judicious in what information to get into detail about in the powerpoint. 

     I've also been calling it The Charlie Post in my head because it's a funny way to visualize the final product.

HSETAU

     HSETAU is currently on hiatus because I am making a video game for it. I believe you already know this?

     How the fuck Andrew Hussie accomplished making video games for the original Homestuck in a timely fashion while still making fucking daily updates is a mystery to me, I legitimately have no clue how they did it without damage to their psyche or health in some way and tbh perhaps it didn't leave them as unscathed as they want to portray. Anyway I've been struggling to get it done. My skillset is better suited toward the meditative act of thinking about a painting or a comic page and creating a final image for it rather than the careful finagling of tilesets and sprite proportions so that everything looks like it exists in the same plane of reality. 

     Anyway it's got multiple people involved in it and I will get back to it when I can. In the mean time there really isn't anything I can do because none of the suggestions I have collected from the site it's hosted on are suitable, so the story is in deadlock until Rose's Voyage is complete.

THAT'S EVERYTHING OKAY BYE AND THANKS FOR READING