-looks at date of the last post on this blog- OOF IT’S BEEN OVER A YEAR this blog was always going to be a “post whenever” kind of blog but oops lol it’s a bit wild that the last thing I posted about was working on In Your Orbit, because I probably haven’t worked on it since that post jskfdhskj I switch projects a lot to avoid burnout anyway, but I’ve still been lacking focus in other areas too, unfortunately. I’ve been plugging away at Starglass Zodiac as best I can, but how monstrous that project is has worn on me a bit. Though that’s pretty normal considering where I am and the time of year. October-December is always hectic for me, and lately I’ve been using what’s left of my willpower and motivation to make holiday gifts for people, which has been draining in itself. Artists don’t sleep in December lmao I did a bit of a retrospective/update post thing back in July for Starglass’s 6th anniversary that talked about how slow the progress on that series feels right now, but... eh. That seems to be the thing I’ve been saying since forever so I guess not much has changed, but I am proud of the work I have completed thus far, at least. It is my biggest project to date too, so I guess that’s also to be expected That said, I’ve switched from that one for the time being, as a particularly long-standing depressive episode has got me in a weird mood. Luckily it’s not too bad with the intrusive thoughts this time, but I still find my mind returning to a different place this week. Or more specifically, a different story project. It’s called Demon Exchange, and you can read this post from 2019 if you wanna know more about it, but it’s basically the perfect embodiment of my current mindset, so perhaps that’s why it popped back into my head again. The two mains are basically two sides of my psyche that have to co-exist in the same brain so there’s that lmao I find it interesting that that particular story seems to come into much sharper focus when I’m depressed, but not every time for some reason. While I knew from the start that the themes present in it are related to that and the general absurdity and bad luck of my own life as well, but I honestly can’t remember the last time I thought about this series at length, outside of drawing Eva’s pet bat Kiki, I guess. I have no idea how far I’ll get with actually working on it, but I’ll do what I can while I’m thinking about it. I did a bit of tweaking to Eva’s design and did a sketch of her full demon form, so that’s something! It’s the odd duck among my WIPs for a variety of reasons, but the art style is the most noticeable one as this is currently the only thing I do that’s solely in greyscale with no plans for a colour variant. Normally I’m known for using absurd amounts of saturated colours instead, though I do really love doing B/W stuff too, the contrast hits so nicely and differently than in colour. Ah well, I get to play with pencil texture shading again so huzzah!