Weekly talk 301

Here we are and here we go!

Workflow:

Working on a one page comics comm, finished the rough this morning, only one pose i wanna rework a bit and once done we step on the line part. Not sure if i go really thin line or a bit of thiccness were it's needed, i think i'll work around and see how to do it properly to make it pop out at it best
Once done i'll work on the Halloween picture before moving on the rewards again.
Simple and efficient program i hope.

Wine ing

Started to play a chill gestion/management game recently, Hundred days.
It's really simple to resume, you own a winery and you're gonna make your own wine.
It's actually quite deep on the technical part. Quantity and quality of the grapes, different taste dependant of the type of wood you use in your barrel. Acidity, tanin, body, sweetness all taken account, as much as the type of grapes to see the different quality of your wine.
Idea is over time to make yourself known, extend, maybe try different type of wine, dependant of the soil you got in your region.
There's a bit of testing too, as you try to balance your wine quality, what if i pressure more this year, what if i try to mix it with a stick in the middle of the aging process, to mix the tanin and see if i can boost a bit the body, etc etc.
The lot is quite chill too and really fun.
Maybe am i biased, i m French, so, wine talk to me, but out of this i come from a highly Wine oriented region. When i was in highschool, each morning i had to pass by a winery, remember with some love the smell of the grapes pressured in the end of autumn, and the smell that slowly became sweeter and sweeter as it matured, and slowly charged itself with alcohol.
Sweet memories, and the game bring back some of those.
There's even a DLC that allow you to try to make a Wine in napa region (first region in game is Italian based) if you want to test American wine making!

Numbers

Trying to clear my mind out of the numbers making recently.
i remember talking to a friend about "how many views" "how many likes" and at the same time knowing it's not a vivid proof of success, but in the same time being kinda depress to see how much the social media seems to cast us down more and more and how the algorythm can fuck you up.
Numbers matters and don't matters.
I m not stupid, i know that more peoples seeing my stuff, is a good chance to make better money out of it. More peoples see, they discover your stuff, and they come to support. Most of you here must have discovered me though a site i own, my twitter, my bluesky, my hentai foundry etc etc. Or other way i don't manage, i remember some telling me of R34 or reddit, both site where i'm not really posting my stuff (exept a couple of time for the later, to try, not my stuff tbh).
So, what about numbers? Why do we care?
Well.. it's a tangible thing. I mean, i know you guys support and love my work, some are just here to grab a thing or two then ll go their merry way, and even to them i say thanks for your time and support!
But it's not my point, all to say, yeah you send messages, loves, little smiling emoji. And it's a lot!
but it's hard to quantify the 'fan factor"
numbers help. 500 likes, means at least 500 peoples liked it. It's simple. Indeed, it's biased, if 500likes out of 5 millions views.. might not be that interesting. Same, if the algorythm kinda kill your reach when you post a sfw picture, and boost it when you post warhammer porn. You tend to think peoples ll love only that .
All to say recently i was really deboosted on most site, not as much of likes/views count. And if i get that, it could be quality, i don't think i made the best works in last two months, exept a few pieces i really loved. I get too that it's just algorythm that didn't treated me the most fairly.
But still, it impacted my morale a lot. Or it's the opposite. October is a heavt month, lot of loved one passed away at this month in the past, and it can get heavy. And so i'm depressed and i see all with negativity enchanced.
All this babling to say that, damn, i try to stay away from numbers recently. Try not to watch them to close, not to go and look at the numbers too often. It's hard, like a bad habbit. Can become addictive, but i'm trying to escape it.
Trying to get a better mental health.

That's about it, sorry for the many mistakes in english in this one, i'm half asleep, digesting a big meal and it's kinda making my eyes heavy X)
Thnks for reading this far too

and c ya soon