Mrs. K's Art

My collected works, mostly from Patreon, gathered for convenient viewing. :) Consider supporting me at patreon.com/mrsk

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Patron Page Teaser: Bawk Bawk

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TFW Easter is in March

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Patron Image Teaser: Will Mew Be My Valentine?

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Sheeps

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Hoiho Ahoy!

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Teaser: Kiwi Birb

Patron page for December.

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Made With Love

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Campaign Update: Encouraging Better Habits.

Okay guys. After having a couple of months to test out what it’s like to try to run this thing during my busy season on my other jobs, I’ve decided to re-proportion the milestones. Further explanation of my logic can be found by clicking “read more”, but the short version is we’re scaling it back to three pages a month for now.

Here’s the longer version: for anyone not aware, I work, counting Patreon, four jobs. One of them is in schools, and one fluctuates based on client traffic (the other is only one evening a week). During the summer there was little to nothing to do for either of these, and that’s when I started my Patreon, so it seemed like a lot of pages would be easy. However at this point it’s becoming clear how difficult it can be to find time to draw when all of this is happening at once. 

Now, a coloring page takes between two and five hours to draw. Two for something easy, like the turkey I just posted, 5+ for things like the peacock or that gorilla family with the detailed background. That means to draw four pages I have to wedge at least eight hours of drawing into my month somewhere, which doesn’t sound like a lot until you try it when you’re already working ~60 hours a week. Also, doing four pages at two hours each for $20 nets an hourly wage of $2.50 an hour, if you draw super fast. I never really set out to make an hourly living wage right out of the gate here, but that’s pretty thin. 

The most distressing fallout of this to me is that it’s encouraging me to scrap quality for speed. I look back at the pages I’ve made lately and wonder why there’s so much blank space, why the poses are so boring, why the lines are so rough, and why everything is out of proportion. And the answer (besides me not being an awesome superpowered drawing machine) is that I’m rushing. 

So I just want to take a little of the pressure off of myself to hustle out product, so that what I do bring you can be better.

Thank you for your time. 

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Novemburds 4: ...is it safe yet?

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Novemburds 3: Ostretch

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Teaser: Moose and Burd

Patron image for November

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Novemburd 1: Owl

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Spoopy Ghosts

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Happy Halloween

hey its dat guy again

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Teaser Image: Going Batty

Patron page for October.

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Bumblebaby

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Three Little Monkeys