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GrayscaleRain

Weekly Schedule Time! (5/8)

Hallo peeps!

I hope you’re all doing well!  

As you may know, I got rather sick last week and I just couldn’t bring myself to do... more or less anything.  A combination of physical sickness, emotional and physical stress, financial shortages and creative burnout make a nasty cocktail.

So I took a week and tried to relax the best I could so that I could recover some of my creative juice and get back to things.

So I’m back, more or less!  I’m going to be going back to my normal routine, with streams MWF and comic work on TR, so that I can keep up everything I’ve been working on.

I’ll be able to manage, and I thank the lot of you for being patient with me.  It means a lot to me.

Announcements and Business

As usual, I would like to send out my thanks to everyone who supports my Patreon!  

I’ve gone and made the changes to my Patreon as I’d said I would.

There’s a more concise statement (that I might refine in the future) and I’ve removed the lifetime rewards and adjusted the goals.  As I said before, the lifetime rewards were kind of... basically bribery and while I don’t regret trying it, they just weren’t responsible from a fiscal perspective nor a manhour perspective.  Also, I didn’t get a lot of response back when I messaged people about them...

If you are eligible for a lifetime reward and want it, please let me know.  I will not advertise them in the future, but it’s only fair that if you joined while I was offering them and qualify, that I give them to you.  Please message me if you haven’t already.  This is the last time I’ll mention them outside of Patreon.

My ultimate goal is to be able to support myself with just my comics sometime in the future and every little bit is a step to making that happen.  If you like Various Happenings or just like my characters in general, then anything you could put towards it would not only mean a lot to me but it would directly help me in making more of the things you want to see!

I’ve got ideas for things that I’ve discussed in various public chats and that, but I need to get things straightened out before I can work on any of it!  My plan this month is to work extra hard to wrap everything up nice and neat so I can move on to the future!

Speaking of chats, the poll for a forum vs chat ended up OVERWHELMINGLY favoring a Discord chat.

I guess I’m just an old fogey. ^v^;

Now, there IS a Fox Saliant Studios/Various Happenings discord channel!  It’s not public just yet, but if you want an invite, you’re free to message me to get one!

Sketch on the Spot is a-go!  It will be at 8PM EST, on Friday, as usual! ^v^  See you there!

I’ve talked about the stuff for SotS and my commissions before, so here’s a cut/paste of what I said.  If you already know about it, feel free to skip forward.

After I clear out my commission queue, I’m making an important change to my commissions/SotS arrangement.  It’s become clear to me that I cannot adequately do the comic, do commissions and run SotS all at the same time.  I want to keep the  comic updating regularly so that means I’m going to have to drop either doing commissions or doing SotS.  So, since I don’t want to do either of those permanently, I’m going to run them in two month blocks so the people who want SotS get a chance to get those, and the people who want bigger commissions get a chance to do that. That way I’ll get to see what’s more profitable and  I won’t be super swamped all the time and keep having to put things off or make changes.

When I get close to getting done with my queue, I’ll put up a poll so that you all can decide which you want to go first, and then I’ll settle in.

I wish I could maintain both, but since I’m trying to keep up the comic once a week, I need to be able to focus stuff down and doing SotS & the comic means I only have one day a week to do anything else if I don’t want to edge into stuff with friends and family on the weekends.

Now just to be clear, I’m not STOPPING doing either. Not yet.  I’m just giving them their own space so I can stay on top of things.

So we’re going to give that a shot and see how it goes!

Commissions, Paid Work & Patreon Items

Midnight’s Masquerade [INV-165]

Working on the background stuff!  I’ve split the thing in half so that I can work on it more in-depth without tanking my RAM in SAI.

This is my priority!  I’m not going to work on any other commissions until this is done!

You can view the whole thing so far HERE (Caution - Mature Content!).

I thank Middy for giving me this opportunity and for everyone who’s pitched in to it for contributing to the piece and my finances!

HOWEVER, this is the second of these I’ve done and in both cases they’ve taken months and dramatically blocked up my ability to complete other things.

In the long run, it’s just not worth doing as the manhours quickly overrun what is paid in, even with so many people pitching in for slots.  Therefore, I will not be doing another one of these in the future.  

If someone wants a large picture like this, it’s up for discussion, but it will largely depend on how available I am at the time and the rates will be comparable to my general prices with no reduction.  They simply take too long and are too unwieldy to encourage.

This, of course, is not a slight against Middy or any of the people who have been asking about this sort of thing in the future.  I’m just keenly aware of my limits and this sort of thing is simply too much for me.  I’m sorry.

We’ll get it done, though, and then I can look into burning through the rest of my pieces.

Sauna Mishap (Shaze) [INV-191]
Finished!

Toewiggles (DthB4Dshnr) [INV-192]
My sketch not exactly what was specified.  Will attempt to resketch.

Character Sheet (Remixer) [INV-196]
Not started, need info! Please send!

Personal Care (Shaze) [INV-182 to 185]
Not started.  Will begin once #191 is paid for.

SH Nurse Pin-Up (Patreon)
Blocking & Sketching completed. Inking next.

EDB Icons (Patreon)
Not started yet.  Information acquired and ready.

Scarlet Icons (Patreon)
Not started yet.  Information acquired and ready.

As always, if I forgot something, let me know!

Commissions are still currently CLOSED.  I’ll make an announcement post when they open up again, though!

To Do List

Update Patreon Goals/Mission Statement/Tiers
Post all the past SotS stuff that I have yet to finish posting, frickafrack!
Compile all this year’s SotS into an easily downloadable package for Patrons
Update the Hall of Friends!
Update Patreon Banner
Update TopWebComics Banner
Update Tapastic Thumbnails

And then, as for the schedule…

Weekly Schedule [5/8]

Monday (5/8)

STREAM: SotS Colors
#165 - Background Work (Colors & Shading)

Tuesday (5/9)

Various Happenings: p.49 (Lines/Inking)
#165 - Background Work (Colors & Shading)
Post: Old Sketch on the Spots

Wednesday (5/10)

STREAM:   #165 - Foreground (Colors & Shading)
Post: Old Sketch on the Spots

Thursday (5/11)

Various Happenings: p.49 (Values/Finishing)
#165 - Foreground (Colors & Shading)
Site: Financial Stuff & Hall of Friends

Friday (5/12)

STREAM: Sketch on the Spot!

Milestones & Highlights!

Let’s see how things are going!

As of right now:

Tumblr: 2140+ Followers
deviantart: 246 Watchers & 17.8k Pageviews!
Inkbunny: 604 Watchers & 86.4k Pageviews!
Patreon: 15 Patrons - $70/month
Comic Website: 177 Unique Views Per Week (Average)
Tapas: 35 Subscribers / 2.3k+ Views!
That’s a lot of numbers!  

I’m flat broke at the moment, but hopefully SotS will make up for that some this week and keep everything stable while I wait for past stuff to come in and hack away at my current work!

Everyone’s been really WTF on the last two pages, which makes me happy. XD

I was looking forward to freaking people out and it seems that things are working as intended.  Hopefully that continues to be the case!

I noticed I got a bit of a surge on Tapas, which is nice!  Hopefully our audience continues to grow! ^v^

As always, if you want to ask me questions about my work, feel free to e-mail me at sali(at)foxsaliant.com or pm me either here, or at my deviantart or inkbunny (links are below).

If you want to help me out, feel free to visit my Patreon or check out my website over at Foxsaliant.com for general info and donation links!

Thanks for listening, everyone!  I’ll see you around! ^v^

~Sali

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