A Glimpse Into The Future - Post College Amanda (Patreon)

Amanda and I had a BIG session yesterday...

Hello my wonderful patrons (those 124 of you who stick with me through thick and thin).  I feel like - well in fact I know - that I have not been uploading to Patreon as often as I need to in order to maintain and grow my patronage.  And that, each month, I am bleeding away 5-10 patrons from a high this year of over 160 - when I had that spiteful complaint and unfair suspension.  As you know, there is nothing I can do about the rules here and I have to stay within them, which means I can post modelling, pinups and portraits only.  This means that if I spend 1-2 weeks working at home on a set of peril pics then it just creates a silent period on Patreon.  I am not even allowed to post these images anywhere else and provide you with download links.  It may seem like I am less active or not taking Patron seriously - and I do see exit surveys saying 'Torqual3D was not as active as I expected'.  I really don't know what to do about this.  Maybe they will change their rules in the future.  Until then I want to thank those of you who stay.  The income I make from Patreon very literally helps me pay my bills.  I watch closely and I do maintain a spreadsheet of patrons and how much they have supported me.  Every contribution is noticed and appreciated.

Anyhow, that point covered (and let's not get into a discussion about it please, with people suggesting solutions)...

About once every couple of years I give each character a bit of an overhaul.  I spent a while with Amanda yesterday giving her a few tweaks to try and make her ever more wonderful.

This pic above is a vision of what she might look like after she left college and went into a soulless office job...  as you can see she has let her hair grow.

I think it would be very difficult for Amanda to knuckle down in an entry-level office job.  She'd find the work and the whole politics of the office to be mundane and stifling.  I also think that - although she might be popular with the men in her office - she would find herself isolated somewhat from her co-workers.  She is so brilliant she would make them look inadequate.  They would hate the long words she uses.  They would say that her skirt is too short.  They would look askance at her and mutter about her at the water cooler.  She'd be a little too innocent to understand why they didn't like her (jealousy and feeling inadequate).  I also think she would have to struggle with men thinking she is dumb just because she is pretty.  She might even be on the end of unwanted harassment by the office jerks.

After a while I think she would quit from the office job and vow never to work in such an environment again.  Then she would go travelling and possibly work for a charity overseas.

I think I have written enough now.  I am in a strange mood today.  Sometimes the world is a crappy place.  I wonder how Amanda would cope with it.  Not without some setbacks.

Right.  Back to making artwork...