Would you say you are a well recognized artist and that you like where you are, or do you wish in some time that a “change” would occur that draws in a larger audience? Also, mind telling us your journey thus far to the point where you are now? I’m a very big fan ^^

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Recognized. I guess so. (Going off just tumblr/fa/twitter numbers here…mostly Tumblr because of Smolder playing an absurdly big role in it. the audience/following count took a massive jump from 8k into the 20k+. But I’ve always felt pretty content with that. Smut or not, having your own character being the reason folks followed is a pretty nice feeling + bonus if they stay for everything else. even if I don’t draw her as often as I use or want to.)

Um, there’s a few things I want to “change” myself and want to try doing for 2018.

[1] Be more active on all the sites I post. (This is a given)
[2] Move away from being a “commission” artist.
[3] STUDY

I would like to phase out commissions. Not that I don’t like doing pieces for others. (I enjoy gifting pieces to friends, others who’s works or content I’ve enjoyed and it does feel nice making stranger’s DAY/WEEK just for creating a piece they wanted.) it’s been a rocky experience. I got to personally meet and work directly with some great clients that have been good to me, returning clients or funny enough even good acquaintances /friends.

For 2018, i’d like to move over to doing strictly fanart of shows/games/things I actually enjoy and personal pieces. (mentioned back before there are shows like “Working!!” I would love to do fan comic or two for. Zelda, Splatoon, League of Legends or whatever else even catches my interest and hopefully meet others with the same interests.)

Really want to turn 2018 into studying + self-exploration with themes, characters, backgrounds and ideas that always pinged my interested but I never got around to just sitting down and investing time into. (2017 was originally supposed to be the year of “STUDYING” first few months worked out but then I got busy/stress. So I would end up just turning to sleeping doing nothing for long periods of times or playing dumb games like league a lot.)

I’m on a far better foundation than I was a year or two ago. So hopefully that will make pushing for improvement (myself and art) will go much smoother next year.

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(dumb thing above is from personal studies and notes earlier this year when I was trying to get back into painting + learn the fundamentals. I tried, but gonna need to do better next year.)

How’s this year been for you in retrospect?

An uncomfortable emotional mess.

Personal family, friends, exfriends, ex, burning bridges.
Baggage I wish I dealt or simply KNEW how to handle a lot better than I had.

Overall, this year has felt like playing a massive game of “catch-up” as a 26-year-old who has never really experienced or learned a lot of basic (life essentials?) things people have already experienced back when they were 18/early 20′s.

Feels good having gotten some big personal goals out of the way. The Year was pretty alright, It sure as hell burned me out but it was far from the worse year.

idk

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I feel like taking another hiatus but I also feel like scratching an “art itch.” (personal art/study related)

Probably not the best thing to say right now, given got work to finish and I’m all set up. I finally got everything this year and then some. Got my own place, got a brand new setup and even working on a much better tablet. (Though, feels like switching over to a new tablet did more harm than good. still trying to get use to the size/adjusting to it. idk?? )

The plan was to binge owed commissions and stream until I dropped. (Get back into those 7-10 hour streams. Maybe even 24hrs again. Tried, barely stream for an hour or two because of art frustration / not liking how my stuff was coming out.)

There’s no stress on my back.

But I’m honestly stuck in a mildly frustrating art funk or rather an almost gloomy funk in general. (Nothing has happened, nothing bad has happened. I’m just, out of it.)

Not completely sure what’s up. But hoping to get out of it soon.

Might actually just scratch that art itch and see if it helps.

I remember you saying Smoldr wasn’t the character you liked drawing the most, so I’m curious, are you irritated with the volume of requests regarding her? (If you do receive a lot of it, maybe you don’t!)

Nah, I would just prefer drawing up and working out my other characters. Mostly the non-furry ones. (Smolder still among my favorites. just not as high as people assume because of requests/gift art.)

Also, some of the requests do kinda get stale after a while. Mostly because it’s usually the same requested thing/something I’ve already done/some plain idea. (another titfuck,buttshot, that’s stuff is…neatO but yea.)

Then there are the real degenerate asks. surprisingly the most interesting and creative ones. Still, degenerate as fuck. But ideas/requests i’d probably enjoy drawing.

But I still got work to do.