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Starting 2019 I'm going to do 4 hours of request streams per month, and a wallpaper every second month (instead of 2 hours of request streams per month and a wallpaper every month.)

I'm not sure if this will be a temporary change, or longer term, I'll see how I go.

This means that the next wallpaper will be February, for Valentine's day :)

Explanation:
Up until now, when doing the sketch requests, I've been giving myself 10-15 minutes per character to get through the requests as quickly as possible. This often means drawing the simplest possible poses, not even thinking about a background, not worrying about the colour scheme etc.

It essentially means I'm not challenging myself, and I don't like that. I want to challenge myself!

This month, however, I spent more time than usual on the sketch requests (I gave myself 20-30 minutes) and it was so much fun!

I enjoyed it and I felt that I was learning, and I was proud of the results. I'd like to keep on doing this! I want to be able to add backgrounds if and when inspiration strikes, I want to be able to find interesting pose references and take the time to properly understand the anatomy, I want to be able to go 'oh I really like this I'm going to spend the next half hour cleaning it up so it can be something I'm proud to share with other people'

But I only had the time this month to put extra effort into the sketch requests because AM is on hiatus. This is not something I'll always have the time to do.

I've been mulling it over, and I decided to create that time, by only doing wallpapers every second month, and doubling the amount of time I spend on sketch requests.

I'm not sure if I'll do this long term, or just for a few months. I'll see how I feel about it, and how you all feel about it, and we'll see what happens :)

Comments

Anonymous

Ummm... i was always dreaming about a feline (middle-biggish, like a lynx or a jaguar) with wings! I'm not into streams at all, but it would be just so awesome if you played with that idea as well and enjoyed it -- but if I don't watch a stream, then I won't see it, eh... -- UPD ah! there are time-lapse videos! yay! ...but only if you yourself like an idea of a feline with wings :)

Anonymous

Oh, by the way! Walkingnorth, I believe you will greatly love this webtoon from discover called "Ghost Lights" -- one gay and one pansexual character, magic, beautiful art style (yay creatures unseen before) and puzzling philosophy behind it all. I just discovered it today -- and was instantly reminded of you -- and that's why I came here. The winged felines fantasy came later, when I read about sketch requests.

walkingnorth

I can't promise how well it'll turn out (I am not very confident drawing animals). But it's good to be pushed out of my comfort zone, so for sure I'll give it a shot! In future, please leave sketch requests under the post I made asking for sketch requests for the month, so that I don't accidentally lose track of your request :)