Prophecy of the Circle

I was asked earlier this week to make a mention of a fellow webcomic – Derideal – in a good ole’ fashioned link exchange. As I kind of miss the old days when everyone had a little Recommended Reading List like I do and link exchanges were far more common, heck to the yeah I agreed. I haven’t read all the way through this one myself, but I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read. The artist has also been commissioned in the past to draw art from Prophecy of the Circle here, and you might remember the pieces he did. They’re some gorgeous work, and that’s from a few years back already. That would be these two from the Fanworks page:

Derideal is definitely worth a look!

And for the future, if any other comic creators are interested in doing a link swap like this, I’m more than happy to check things out.

The final piece in my batch of commissions again went to WDG as a companion piece to his first character design. She’ll be popping up in the story somewhere alongside her mate, likely on one the docks of Tieke City.

Thanks again, WDG!

On that note, due to some chaos in my workplace that’s taxing me much more than usual (and the usual state of my being is already pretty taxed so that says something…), I think I’ll put off the next batch of commissions for a bit. I’ve stopped the monthly suggest-a-sketch posts for the same reason. When things calm down again, though, I’ll get the suggest-a-sketches going again on Patreon and for commissions I have two or three folks who expressed an interest but couldn’t get a slot last time for one reason or another, so I’ll be asking them first when I open up again – batch two will be another patrons-only one, but after that I’ll branch out to the public as well. That said, if all three take me up on the offer at Patreon, then there’ll still be one slot free on the next round. If you’re interested and you’re pledging, let me know and I’ll pop you on the waitlist!

Life’s been rather chaotic lately… but I have been completing those commissions! The last one was finished up this past weekend, and this one, for the amazingly supportive Rubje (seriously, man, thanks for everything) is already in his hands. Again, sorry for not getting this up here sooner, but I’m doing it now. It’s time. It’s definitely time.

I love this character. He gave me a little bit of personality run-down for him and a bit of backstory and he’s going to be so enjoyable to work into the story. I can’t wait to map out those cameo appearances.

Here’s his part two. I stuck to my guns and made two for everybody:

 

I’ll get the next two up here shortly. I just want to not bombard you guys with posts at the moment.

Apologies for falling off the face of the earth there for a while. Things got a bit hairy at my 9-5 job again over the last month or so. There was a bit of a spate of spontaneously high turnover and next thing you know we’re all under enormous pressure and picking up slack we can’t carry and all coming home exhausted. It’s actually still not great there and it’s not looking like letting up for a while yet, so I’ll try my best to keep from showing my tired, but by way of explanation… that’s what I’ve got. I’m working on finding better footing, but in the meanwhile things have been tough.

I just wanted you guys to know.  I also couldn’t help but notice that I outright lost a couple of patrons, both from the $5 tier. Not downgrades to lower tiers, but outright losses. And honestly, that’s fair. If you came for the more ambitious goodies like world-building and stories then things have been pretty disappointing around here,  and I can agree with that. It disappoints me, too. I just want you all to know that I’m always trying to get back to where I was – capable of doing more – but nothing’s been predictable, all I can do is try my best to stay ahead of the curve, and I haven’t been super successful at it. I keep on gaining headway only to lose it again just as quickly. I’m doing better, though. Building a buffer of comics helped a little and it means fewer hiatuses, but I’m still running into the problem that I only really have energy during the week to make those comics and none of the extras and it’s the extras that I really want to make.

Working on it, working on it. I’m terribly, honestly so sorry that the whole process has been so slow.  And I thank those who are sticking with me.

It’ll get better. I’m pretty young – turning 33 in a couple of weeks, and I’m still pouring what I have – as little a reservoir as that is currently – into art and into finding better ways to make it. Things will change. Things will get better. There is no way that this will all stay the same forever.

So again, to those who are still here, I thank you. To those who no longer are, I’m 100% sorry if I disappointed you, and I understand, and I wish you well.

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