Wellness Update and Animatics (Patreon)

Hey team! Important preface before reading: I'm not dying. The health issues I mention are largely impacting my comfort and quality of life, but not my life itself. I don't like worrying people, but it's important my patrons know where I'm at.

With that out of the way, my health problems from the start of the month have unfortunately persisted all throughout and have really disrupted things. For those unaware, one night about three weeks ago, my leg suddenly swelled up very painfully with no provocation. I went to see my doctor who sent me to the hospital to make sure it wasn't a blood clot. I was in and out for a while as they ran a bunch of tests. In the end they didn't find anything concerning, and said the pain was muscular and should go away in a week or so. 

That hasn't happened unfortunately, and instead it's kind of this constant ebb and flow that seems to get aggravated by both sitting still for too long and by exercise. This makes it really tricky to draw for any more than an hour before I need to change positions, and also to do my usual routines around the house. Some days it feels much better, but then it will come back with a vengeance, so it's hard to tell if it's actually improving. Worst part is really just the anxiety that the random pain causes my brain. I've got a followup appointment next week where hopefully they can narrow things down a bit more and help me out.

Not trying to blame myself, but it's possible that a lot of this was brought on by how hard I push myself with my work here. I normally spend about 70 hours a week drawing and animating. I love drawing and animating, so it might be that I simply don't notice that I'm overworking myself, and now my body's paying a price even though I thought I was treating it well. Depending on what the doctor says, I may switch up my next large project to a less ambitious scale. Still the same type of erotic content, but I am deeply considering a focus on full color shorts that are more around 30 seconds in total length that are tightly built around a single joke or premise, rather than multi-minute epics like my last two projects. 

Anyway, that's all for now. I do still intend to release Texas Holdem Part 4 by the end of the month, even though the final results won't quite have the polished man-hours put into them I was hoping.

I'd like to reassert that I'm staying very positive! I was overdue for a little hardship after these two years of easy-street tiddy-drawing. It'll pass as all things do, just sucks to be in the middle of it right now.

Thanks again team!
More soon!