#ihara talks

[lihafel]

what happened to your drawings? they seem to be becoming repetitive and loosing their charm, it seems like they had alot of personality before and now it seems like you post them for the sake of posting something. sorry for anon post i dont really have a tumblr

Ugh, that’s such a good question. And I feel like you’re absolutely, totally right.

It’s a problem I’ve been running into more often - evident since December’s blog died. Getting out of college, getting more responsibilities drained so much of my time and energy, and my motivation and creativity took a heavy toll. 

I have so much trouble experimenting or studying, and instead I just keep staying in my comfort zone. I let myself get upset about it, but it’s only because I’m not putting in the effort, which just keeps looping me back to this repetitive, cutesy nothing. I keep hoping that life will give me an opportunity to go back to living something a little less tiring and stressful, so I’ll manage to actually feel like drawing more often again, because I miss it. For self-proclaiming drawing as my biggest hobby, it kinda sucks when there are days at a time where I never even pick up my pen.

It’s all on me, and I fully realize that if I can’t take more initiative and fix how my life has been going, then I’m just going to keep stagnating like this. I appreciate the support that I continue to somehow maintain, but I recognize that I need to do more than nothing at all. And I can completely understand the more recent negativity I’ve been having directed at me. Sorry guys, I know I’ve been nothing but a huge downer these past couple years, aha~

Thank you for the input, I appreciate you saying it like it is!

     ~ iha

[lihafel]

Hey, I saw the beer-maid you drew and I was wondering if I could make a short comic based on that? If so, does the beer-maid have a name?

If you mean her, then that’s Myrrah. She’s a stock character I use for games that let me make custom characters, and is not actually a barmaid. This was just for the outfit. But yeah, go for it! My characters are fair game for shenanigans.

[lihafel]

omg where can I watch cute loli dog she's so adorable I can't handle it

Late reply!!!

You can find the precious loli dog in the film Dofus – Book 1: Julith.I have still not managed to see it, nor do I know where to find it off the top of my head, outside of France, but I do plan on seeing it one day!

IT’S ON STEAM

[lihafel]

For the sake of transparency:

Hello hello! To those unaware, I'm going to be keeping commissions closed for a bit. After going through my backlog from the winter, I decided I needed to give myself a little break and try and work on a couple of personal projects. Ideally, it should only last a week or two, and I'll definitely be announcing when everything is all opened up again.

As far as the future is concerned, I'm going to be reworking a few things. One, in particular, involving raised prices. I know, it's not great, and it probably won't be very much of an increase. I'm still going to be open to haggles and bargains, but it's money I need to make, time I need to spare, and work I need to invest. I'm also going to a bit more strict enforcing what I will and will not do; feel free to contact me for specifics, if you happen to be curious. An updated list of prices should be up soon, to replace the old list, alongside particular strong points that strike my fancy. This is still up in the air, but for now, I'm going to start taking slots in sets of three: one active commission, and up to two in reserve, hopefully even keeping a public list. To better streamline the process and avoid spreading the wait among multiple people. If communication or finances break down during a commission, I will take care of it on an as-needed basis.

My Patreon is going to be slightly overhauled as well, seeing as some past responsibilities have grown to be impractical for me to manage, that will be soon amended as well. And if anyone has any ideas for perks and rewards for Patron pledge amounts, feel free to voice your opinion, or if there's anything pushing you away from my Patreon, let me know, so I can help to make it more accessible and worth your time!

Thank you all so much for your continued support, I super appreciate it. And if you have more specific questions regarding anything, or just want to leave a thought, please feel free to send an ask or whatever. None of this is set in stone at all, so we'll see how things go.

~ Iha

[lihafel]

Honestly, your art was the thing that inspired me to start drawing. Ever since I saw the very first December post, I kind of fell in love with your cute style, and its wonderful to look back on it and see how you advanced as an artist. I know self confidence issues can be a sod, hell, I compare all my art to other artists the same way, but I just have to say thank you for being a great artist even if you might think otherwise, and that you'll always have somebody loving your work, flaws and all.

That’s 40 pages of stuff, from almost four years ago. Geez, I miss those days.

I’ll admit, there was plenty of change between then and now, but I feel like the change was most radical when I really got into Wakfu late into  2013. That was a huge transitional period in my art, when I completely just overhauled everything I did. Considering I like to erase the memory of my art from before the Wakfu age, it’s definitely something to see how it’s changed. And even then, that brings me back to my thought process of how I felt my art would just naturally change and grow and improve as time goes on. Because I know, by no means should I try and rush it, but at the same time, maybe I’m putting a little too much faith in the flow of time.

Nonetheless, I appreciate the kind words, and the four-year-long support. And I’m super glad that I could help you pursue art~! ♡

[lihafel]

Fun Fact: Seriously going to try and start moving all the brainstorming and commenting and venting over to my Twitter. This is supposed to be the Ihara Draws blog, not the Ihara Complains About Things blog.

Hopefully that will help me keep thoughts and content quality a bit more organized. Just a little heads up for the people that happen to care.

[lihafel]

What would you say is the sexual preference of your characters? Like December, Freja, and Astrid's?

December is gay as fuck. (Tho she is known to have a fetish for futa.)

Freja is straight, but also kinda keeps herself sexually repressed, in light of respecting her late husband. Poor thing.

Astrid is totes pan. Bonus points if they’re younger than her.

April is probably more on the bi side. but I’m not totally sure? I haven’t done much with her in terms of world-building for awhile, but bi is a safe guess.

And then there are all sorts of other characters I have, with much less development, so that’s about as far as I can go.

[lihafel]

Does the rule of squeezable thighs work with chub males body's too?

Absolutely.

Chub in general is hit-or-miss for me, personally, but this rule totally applies to boys, girls, and all, of all body types and sizes. More to squeeze, more to love~