https://www.twitch.tv/mastafran

It's a fresh start, and I'm working hard to determine my goals for the new year! Stay a while and listen!

I’ve lost track of what I’m doing with this Ko-Fi Page. It’s been months since I updated it, so I don’t blame anyone who supported me in the past that stopped now. Now, I’m debating about keeping this page or abandoning it all together.

Incentives

My biggest failure is not no knowing what incentives I could offer on Ko-Fi. I fell off of early access content because I’m unfocused. Blackmask development notes and blogs are tough as there’s not as much I can talk about as a pixel artist that I haven’t mentioned in my Twitch streams. I’m not familiar with programming enough to explain or teach what my programmer does. The most I'm working off of is lore stuff I post on my sketch posts that's in a vague pile of ideas and themes I want to explore. But lore dumps aren't storytelling. I haven't made any narratives that are cohesive for anyone and I'm insecure about making a blunder of what the story I want to tell.

Keep or Drop?

I don’t know if I should keep this Ko-Fi page or start again? It costs me little to maintain and I already have the page. I wonder if it's better to move myself to Patreon where there’s more people who know about it and are there. There's still the matter of a real game plan of what I even do with it. The easy thing to do is to restart early access stuff and discipline myself to finish artwork in a timely manner. I can worry about the other stuff alter.

Conclude

There’s so much to learn about making this art thing work. I’ll admit there’s times when I want to abandon my online activities on favor of direct real life events. But, I know I’d be shooting myself in the foot. Perhaps if I take more time to step back, I’ll know what I can bring to this table.

https://www.mastafran.com/a-review-of-tiny-sketchbooks/

I've sketched on a variety of sketchbooks for the past few years to keep myself drawing even when I'm strapped for time. Here's my selection of pocket sketchbooks that I recommend to jump start your art journey wherever you go!

2024 went well with my pixel art. I wanted more pixel art done in general, and while it's not as much as I'd like, it's still more than I made last year. Here's to another year of pixel pushing!

Click the bellow links for the full art starting from top left clockwise!

Gift art for Penbee of her OC Quill

Personal Artwork of my OC Puma, who I'll finally name, Paula.

Gift art for Sirjoey the 23rd's of his OC, Baara

Personal Halloween Animation of my OC, Claudia the Cat Witch

Princess Peach re-sprite that was a thing for a short while.

Gift art for AVArtwork of his OC, Luna

Commission for Scarlet Rose of her sona, Rose Gold

Commission for Ta'kom Ironhoof of his sona

I had a tighter run of streams where I streamed weekly. As usual, art streaming is more important to me as I fell of playing Demon Turf, and Balatro is on my phone now. It's tough to make these streams exciting as I never know what to talk about while drawing.

While I'm used to drawing and speaking on camera more I did the previous year, I don't have an extreme passion toward doing these streams beyond being accountable to a drawing schedule.

There's times I think I'm spending too much time being distracted by "trying to be entertaining and it takes away from my drawing process. I'll give this another year before I drop out of streaming.

Until then, you can follow me on Twitch to see my weekly art streams. If you want me to do some other things or collab on a stream, I'm all ears.

https://www.twitch.tv/mastafran

Halfway there to completing six of these pixel art commissions! I'll finish these before the end of year mark my words!

My status report:

1) NBD-Dog (Working on Backgrounds)

2) TideMistory(Animation Blocking)

3) Kyowai (Complete)

4) ScarletRose (Complete)

5) ABananaMan (Animation Polishing)

6) Jonathangee (Complete)

2 Down 4 to go!

Here's the latest status of my commissions!

1) NBD-Dog (Working)

2) TideMistory(Working)

3) Kyowai (Complete)

4) ScarletRose (Polishing)

5) ABananaMan (Working)

6) Jonathangee (Complete)

https://www.twitch.tv/mastafran

It's been a month since I started these commissions and I'm seeing a potential finish to some of them.

How do artists, crafters and creators tackle the perilous journey of selling their artwork. They go over their origins creating their works, the mental fortitude of being an independent artist.

Speakers

Melanie Silver

https://melaniesilverart.com/

Shauna Aura Knight

https://shaunaauraknight.com/

I chat with Rick Heinz and Tim Akers to discuss Publishing and self-publishing. They talk about how they started, how they maintain their careers, and overcoming the challenges of being their own creator, publisher, and seller.

Speakers

Rick Heinz

https://www.rickheinzwrites.com/

Tim Akers

https://www.timakers.net/