💚 HELLO AGAIN FRIENDS!! 💚
I'm so sorry I didn't post anything for so long. 😭💔 Long story short, life happened. Nothing crazy, nothing terrible. I just... I was only able to do "the daily grind," and nothing more. :/ All my energy was spent going to work and thinking of what I'd eat afterwards. I guess it was a low-energy period.
So, no progress on the comic since my last update. March was purely a month of no creativity, and April I was able to do more creatively and return to my artistic focus.
I have greater news still: we're starting again. 😅😅 Whilst working on the comic for y'all, I sat down with my wife to figure out the next steps for the story - because I was heckin' stuck. And she looked at it and was like, "Oh of course! You just need... to... uh..." and she, too, joined me in the stuck-ness.
The issue, she concluded, was that we were forcing a story from a one-beat picture I'd drawn. We created something of a story for it a while before deciding it should become a comic, so when I started storyboarding, in a way we were out of the headspace for this story and needed to move on.
I'm thinking of adding the storyboard for it on my patreon, that way it's there but not on main for people to get confused on. I also don't have enough to make patreon worthwhile, so this is more a future thought than immediate. Let me know your thoughts. 😊
SO. We've been doing more deep-dives into the monster world we've created. Now that my dear Ice Queen's health has significantly improved, we're able to do more together, especially on a worldbuilding level. I AM SO STOKED FOR IT!! 🤩🤩🤩 I am excited with the changes we're making. We heavily referenced and were inspired by the Monster Girl (Munsume) Encyclopedia, but now we're really buckling down to make the creatures our own, using the Encyclopedia as name inspiration and which myths or folklore to look into.
All this to say that there will be more delays to the next story, as we decide what it is, but I hope it'll still be worth it because we're able to put in so much more effort and make the stories connect in more intimate ways than before.
I'm sorry I haven't shown you all the nitty-gritty details of this process, but in all honesty, after completing Bloating Princess, it's been a time of healing and decisions for my wife and I. During this comic, we had accidentally learned that I had been underfed for a long time (my mental energy was suffering most of all), and my wife began her transition. Creating stories was hard as we both coped with trying to implement large changes to ourselves and support each other, in addition to regular life.
Now that we have healed in many ways, especially physically, the time for decisions is upon us: how to build the world, what stories we'll make, which arcs will be the "main" arcs, where it will all go, and of course which fetishes to indulge. 😜
This will, unfortunately, take more time, but again, it's to make these stories better.
THANK YOU to everyone who has checked in during this hiatus of healing and continued to wait for the next story to begin. I appreciate all of you SO MUCH!! I don't want to let you down and I want to keep making stories for you!
I will continue with my monthly updates and since there is more to discover, discuss, and decide, I might add more details to my updates as well, so you can see more and maybe be more involved.
As another peace offering, I've added some of my recent monster sketches to the Gallery I know they won't be a complete tide-me-over, but at least it's something new and concepts that may or may not inspire the stories. 😁
I APPRECIATE YOU FAM! 💚💚 THANK YOU!
- tSGE
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