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rancid-squids · 7 years

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On the (Near) Future

TL;DR- TSKHIU updates might be sporadic for the next month or so as I prepare for school and I try to recover from the recent burnout I’ve been experiencing.

I really hate to be one to admit defeat, but I think I’m starting to reach a “burnout” phase with TSKHIU. Over the past week, I’ve been horrifically slow with the next page, only working on it in extremely short bursts, and when I do dedicate time to actually working on it, I get distracted by other things or I fall asleep.

Usually, my schedule for pages is that, after the release of the most recent page, I have to finish sketching out everything (backgrounds and characters) for the next page by Thursday. As of yesterday, I am only halfway done with character bases. Which really sucks. The pages are a massive undertaking since I essentially put in almost as much effort into each panel as my regular drawings, but much to my dismay, I can say that, coupled with the burnout, I’m just not gonna have enough time in a week to finish it.

But does that mean I’m gonna say “I quit” right here and right now? Heck no.

I’d never be able to live with myself if I couldn’t complete, or at least get a decent way through, another comic that I promised I’d finish. We haven’t even seen the Stagecrew Kids heck up yet, and I can’t just quit before that happens.

What I am going to do, though, is just try to relax and give myself a slight break from the scheduling for the next month or so. I’m still gonna try and get at least two or three pages out within a month of making of this journal, but it’s highly likely those pages will be a bit spread out in their release.

I am gonna try and also share some “regular” art a little more often. I feel bad that I haven’t shared a single chunk of art this past week, and I feel like it might be good to let myself draw some smaller stuff. For this time, I’m gonna try and stray from logistical drawings like ref sheets or bio pics, or drawings for special occasions, and just have random squid kid art. What I’ll share of this caliber, I dunno, but there will be art.

I hope that having a small, less restrictive time period for myself will help me get back the “I actually want to do TSKHIU!” feeling I’ve been missing since page six or so came out, and I hope it’ll help me focus in real life as school starts again. And, of course, I hope it doesn’t backfire. I’ll try not to let it, anyway.

The end goal for the “break” is that by early to mid September, I get myself back on a regular TSKHIU schedule, with (hopefully) at least two to three pages uploaded between now and then and a few buffer pages to fall back onto.

And one last thing. I just want to say, thank you guys so much for tuning into TSKHIU these past ten(?) weeks. This little project has been a new level of difficulty for me to endure, but watching it expand into something slightly coherent is a pretty neat sight. I really don’t think I could have made it even this far without y'all’s support, whether it be through favorites or comments- just knowing that people are reading it and thinking of it as something decent enough to add to their favorites is really heartwarming to me.

Well. That got a little longer and sappier than it should have, but I think everything is in there. Have a lovely day~!

#admin post #not art #TSKHIU #just to reiterate #there will be pages #they'll just be uploaded randomly

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