On around October 2nd, I hurt my hand! There were quite a few days where I couldn't turn, lift or do anything else with my hand, otherwise it would ache or be downright painful. This hand was also unfortunately my drawing hand, so literally all forms of work had to be put on hold for about 3 weeks. I'm not even sure how I hurt myself either which is probably the worst part about it all. Even now, I can't quite put my weight on it like I normally could before the injury. But with all that said, I think it's recovered about 90% of the way there, so I'm back to doing art again!
Because of the injury, I wasn't able to get all the things done that I wanted. I wanted to be able to complete a few pages of the comic and of course any weekly votes, but instead I only got 1 comic page and 1 weekly vote done. The comic page went through a few hoops of "how do I even want this to end up looking" before I settled on something that I feel like I can replicate to the other pages easily. The weekly vote, which was for "Chained Ice Demon Kalta" I had wanted to put in more chains and maybe some shading for her, but ended up having to cut some of it out. I think it worked out in the end though, all the pieces seem to fit with each other fairly well anyway.
I think for the comic, I'm going to try a really basic approach to how it looks. Black and white, with some form of texturing and shading here and there, but not a lot. I already knew I wasn't very good at coloring, and when put under pressure to try and get it don't I was getting stressed and annoyed, and was starting to rush things. I maybe go back and fiddle with it a bit at some point, but for now it'll be black and white.
With the inclusion of the Comic making, I'm going to have to put weekly votes as a bi-weekly vote instead. I simply do not have enough time or energy (or skill) to be able to do a comic, a weekly vote, commission work, and whatever other fun stuff all at the same time. I would like to, and maybe I can work my way up to that point sometime in the future, but not now. Every Thursday will be the "due date" for both a new comic page, and a weekly vote post. Every Friday will mark either a new vote, or the beginning process of another comic page. I already have 30 pages all roughed out with some basic framing and potential dialog, and I plan to work on maybe 3 pages at a time, in terms of refining the sketches and segmenting my work a bit. For weekly votes, this means I can have an extra week to come up with vote choices, so it might even mean I can add another choice to the list, making a total of 4 vote choices! innthatfun? The next vote will be November 6th.
I will also be opening commissions soon! Please don't ask when / if. There's a page indicating that for a reason. (https://blokfort.com/commissions-info/)
Final note: Depending on how the next round of commissions go, I might be changing my pricing a bit!