Snapshot Sunday - April 23 (Patreon)

Hey there patrons! 

Small update this week, as I didn't really do a lot of drawing this week! Though I guess you can make the argument of starting and completing the finale for the growth drive in that time frame is an acceptable amount of work, but the lack of other sketches even just for fun is notable.

Though I did do a sketch of a character concept I was in the mood for. A shortstack cowgirl with a massive chest. I want to keep sharp and avoid drawing all my characters with the same basic body-type of towering muscular goddesses (though I DO enjoy it), and an area I really want to practice on is making characters that *feel* their size. A lot of my characters are usually in the 10-12 head proportional range, and so I actually lack a ton of confidence with more realistic proportions because of it, so my goal to try and ease myself into being more confident and comfortable with it is to try and push the other extreme first (though jury's out on if I succeeded with this first attempt). I think she still needs more work but I do like her concept overall!

But the long and short of why there's not more this week is I consciously took more time off from drawing to keep risk of burnout low. The last thing I want to do is run into the situation I did last March where I finished the growth drive, then struggled to really draw anything meaningful for the next two months.

Funny, I actually just went back to check on the snapshot posts from around that time to see if that was actually the case, and I realized that I haven't even been doing these for a full year, as the first snapshot update was in May and, unsurprisingly, only a few weeks later that year's Macro March Growth Drive finale pic was in one of the updates. So yeah, like I said! Don't want to run into that kind of burnout again! 😅

Anyway, next week should hopefully see me back in full swing for art stuff. As always, thank you all so much for your support, and I hope you have a wonderful week!