Things have been picking up for February! I’ve been starting up the con season, doing commissions, and more art! If you want to keep up with my tasks in real-time, you can follow me on Twitter and Instagram! I’m also cultivating my new Ko-Fi page for tips, so stop by there as well!

Most of early February was preparing for Northwest Indiana Comic-Con, the first con I’ve had in years due to the plague. My Cat Stickers are a smash hit there, they sold even more than my comics! I’ve been working on new commissions, both traditional and digital as well! If you want more detail of the process of making my commissions, you can read in depth on my website.

Blackmask is still in progress. My programmer, Adam's been tackling stuff like swimming, lock picking, and music currently. As I've mentioned before, there's enough art stuff and mechanics to make a demo, so I don't need pixel stuff for a while.

Most of the game function stuff is in my programmer's hands, so I'm in the writing phase of the demo's story. Since the game loop stuff is still in flux, the most I can do is make broad strokes plot scenarios. I've also been pondering myself about if it's worth it to scrap the monochrome Game Boy look and put it in color. I can rock the monochrome, but I'm sure I'll have to put the game in color sooner or later. Maybe I'm biased to the art style since I got used to it. I'll figure things out.

Finally, I bought an iPad and Apple Pencil for my birthday! I spend the first few hours, downloading apps that my Android phone has, such as Google Docs and Toggl Track. But I purchased the app that I bought the damn machine for: Procreate.

This Owlbear piece is my first painting created completely in Procreate. The sketch stuff is okay, but I feel like I got lost in the weeds fighting with my default brushes. I'll write more about my experience with Procreate in a future blog posts.