Thursday Witches (Patreon)

Thank you for being so patient about new stuff this month, everyone. I feel like I'm getting over a huge hurdle and things are coming a little bit easier.

I have no love of burnout  and I try not to be too self critical about my work because I don't think it actually improves it that much, just makes me feel discouraged from making more, which I know is the fastest way to improve the work in fact.

Sometimes I think we go through "seasons" of work where we can be more patient, analytical, experimental, free, focused and everything in between. Whatever season I find myself in, the best thing I can do to lead a more happy, creatively productive life is to align my current projects and goals with that season so I can keep working toward what I want to, but not fight the current so to speak.

I think after finishing a long project I'm moving into more of a self indulgent experimental phase. I keep thinking that all I want to do is draw the easiest things possible, like Nintendo characters, and simplify my drawing style for a bit so I don't agonize over details as much. I think in the future you're going to be seeing some more simple palettes, round, cartoonish forms and scribbly mark making. That feels like the best way to be able to keep making things for the time being.

Thanks for reading this if you got this far! 

The tl;dr version is: October was really long for me and I'm gonna tighten the reins creatively and make simpler things I know for a while until I feel like expanding my horizons again.

<3 W.