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End of Month Post - January 2020

Posted by Blokfort - January 31st, 2020


End of a month, start of a year. And, as usual, my posts will be fragmented and transitions between points will be hilariously jarring, but, I don't care, so let's get to it. (Maybe I should just add basic word-topic-points to each paragraph to make it easier?)


[Weekly Votes] - It feels pretty good to do the weekly votes now. It's easy to add new votes and to actually do the voted piece, there pretty much no headache involved for me at all now. The only problem now is the limited pool of characters or concepts to throw in as vote choices, which I am confident will expand as time goes on. I think I can comfortably say, that I can keep the weekly votes as an on-going project for a long while now.


[Comics] - I haven't made any attention to it until now, but I finally have at least a few 'pages' done of an on-going comic project: Eyes on the Prize. It's really nothing all that note worthy yet, but I'm thinking there will be around 40 'pages' of this by the time it's done. When will it be done? I have absolutely no idea. This is a point that actually scares me a bit, because I like to be consistent with certain things, and I'm worried that the consistency will change as time goes on (be it consistently good or consistently bad). It is ultimately a NSFW story though, featuring a young man about to enter an unknown world of high standards, and a duo of naughty thieving squirrel ladies (oho!). Go here for the comic: https://blokfort.com/gallery/eyes-on-the-prize-comic/ . Updates will very much be random, as I'm not terribly sure how to work that it in, schedule-wise, currently. I hope it's note hated too much!


[Patreon] - I've just updated my Patreon page (over at https://www.patreon.com/blokfort), And I think I feel pretty comfortable with doing a sort of month-by-month post of all the content done that month, is that makes sense. Currently I feel pretty comfortable with offering: higher quality pics, as sharing and posting these on other websites usually gets a warning of "it too big," so usually i post "posting res" sizes instead, PSDs in case people would want to see some of the inner workings of how I art, and full length time-lapses. The trouble I currently have with all of this though is that I'm not actually sure what the limits of Patreon are currently. I know many people use things like Gumroad, Mega(upload), OneDrive etc. etc. etc. to host their work but I just don't currently know enough about that stuff to say otherwise. So with that said, I will continue to throw most of the content on Patreon in multiple zip files for each section, until I hit some sort of limit, or something changes in the future.


[Content in General] - There are now currently 3 forms of a "sketch" for me. Placement sketches, which I throw on my SFW twitter(https://twitter.com/Blokfort) at least once a day (or if I miss a day, will do 2 the following day.) Placements sketches are super ugly, and usually done very quickly. I try not to get into too much detail with them, because they ultimately get either buried under everything else, or flat out deleted to make some layer space (darn you Procreate!). After placements is a rather muddy experience with either rough sketches, or sketch line-art. Rough sketches are a little clearer as to what I want to draw, and sketch line-art is, in my mind, quick finalization of the art piece in general. The process, unfortunately, can take a very long time, depending on how detailed the thing is. Currently, I think it takes around 1-2 hours to complete a full-body, sketch line-art, flat colored drawing of 1 character. I think to put it bluntly, I just don't have enough skill yet to go faster. (And to top it all off, "Clean line-art" differs from "sketch line-art" by being thinner, and more exact, I suppose. A much larger time sink.)


[What's Next?] - Iunno. I guess I'll just keep poking at the projects I have, do commissions when I can along with weekly voted content. Things are pretty OK at the moment really.


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