general progress and plans for the comic (Patreon)

Hey 🌻

Here's a wip of a panel with VERY TINY SONS. I love to draw tiny panels~

Aside from that I want to talk a bit about my current comic progress and also about the general direction for the coming months.

🌸 The current status of the comic:

• I've storyboarded 50+ pages (around 9 scenes in total)
• sketched panels and set layouts for 22 pages (4 scenes in total)
• and I'm actively working on finishing 6 pages (scene 47)

I'm really proud of the progress ;;

🌸 Update plans:

for patreon: scene 47 end of February, if possible

for public: scene 45 end of February, depending on progress of scene 47

--> My goal for the next few months is to establish a set day for updates (for example: always on the last Thursday of each month), so I can schedule them in advance and you'll know when the comic updates!

🌸 Discord server plans:

The server will stay a little longer in hibernation mode, but I'm planning to open up new general (off topic talk etc.) channels for you! When the server is out of hibernation mode I'll peek in now and then again, especially on update days~ I will not be online as often as I used to, but I'm looking forward to talk to you all again!!

Otherwise, I'll just see how everything goes and announce things when they're ready. My plan is to do things in advance and work ahead, so that I have a buffer for times where I don't feel well. I'm making sure that I'm not overdoing it, too. I've made it a habit since early January to take two days off each week (usually on weekends), where I don't do things for the comic or work. I think the way I do stuff right now is a good direction.

What I've learned over the past months is basically: time isn't my enemy, time is my friend.

I used to think time works against me - everything is so fast and I'm so slow 🐌 But I figured I can use time for me in a certain way. I want to see time as some sort of stability? Time passes, that's for certain (I can count on it), so when I consistently do a little bit each day, progress naturally piles up. I'm able to build momentum like this. Over time... time helps me to accomplish what I want.

Of course sometimes I have doubts, too. That it's going to take foreeever because it's such a huge project and the ending is far away. But then I remember that there's still so much I want to show, and the best scenes are yet to come. And I get so relieved that it's not over yet.

Besides, I simply like to just be in the middle of something I enjoy!

Here's a quote that really resonates with me, too. 🐾

„I like the in-betweens. I like the time it takes to get somewhere.“

Hope you have a nice weekend! Thank you for reading all my rambles about random life stuff aaaa I love you 💙