Changing how requests and wallpapers work (Patreon)
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TLDR
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 :)