Im now at the 8th month mark for Chapter 2, and what do I have to show for it? Well I have 32 out of the 93 pages done, leaving me with 61 pages to go. And no, I am not up to the 32nd page. I have pages 5-15 and 17-37 done. I will 100% admit that I kind of messed up the production of this, in no part thanks to rushing into it when I probably should've given myself some time to re energize. But since I had only just finished thumbnailing it, I didn't want to let it sit for month or two and risk those thumbnails becoming incomprehensible with time. At this point, its clear that Im not releasing this chapter until ALL of it is done. I will go back to working on things chronologically once I begin drawing Chapter 3

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My Response to Watcher's Apology

Yesterday, Watcher released an apology video regarding their decision to move all their content to a new streaming service which most people cant afford even at 6 dollars a month. And personally speaking, I was pretty satisfied with it. I couldnt see them scrapping the streaming service idea entirely because its definetly too late in the game to do that, but they comprise on certian, like having episodes come out on Watcher the service, releasing onto Youtube much later, and having Patreon backers use the service for free (which I didnt know was not a thing for Patreon backers initially which is kind of alarming). I'd say overall, they did a good job with their apology. At least in my opinion. Im pretty sure others might look at it differently or maybe Im probably for forgiving people for who do bad things and thus more likely to be at the receiving end of a toxic friendship/relationship in the future......

I will say though, this whole situation has made going to back their old content (from Watcher and Buzzfeed) a lot more awkward. Its one of those things where a creator you like does something bad and watching content made before they did the bad thing wrong, and you cant separate the art from the artist because you liked their content for them mostly. Its kind of like when I rewatched old Achievement Hunter stuff right when the Ryan Haywood drama happened. Granted, what Watcher did was far tamer than that scenario. But its still bad, and portrays the guys in a negative light. Some people I've seen who've covered this, from Sensative Society to Jacksfilms (who released a parody of their apology literally within a couple of hours of the upload which I wont ever find not funny) have portrayed them as greedy for this move, and as someone who could view this from the perspective of an outsider, I can understand that. But like I had mentioned in my original post, I sympathized with why they felt like Youtube wasnt for them, but (like I said) this was the worst solution to that quandary they could've made. Speaking of commentators, I've also been avoiding that type of content just because how negatively effected by this whole drama. The fact this happened right around the time I was on a Buzzfeed Unsolved binge didn't help. This whole thing has made me so upset that I've just been avoiding sort of content revolving Watcher or Buzzfeed Unsolved period. I dont really know what else to say here, this whole thing sucks and I wish it never happened.

However, I think this is a feeling that will change, as time goes by and people move on from this drama. I think that Watcher will be able to bounce after this whole thing dies down, especially because this is not as bad as Ryan Bergara diddling a kid or Shane Madej........idk awakening into his demon form or something. But, I think this will be something that will haunt them going forward pretty much since the bad things you do online will stay online......forever

Dear Watcher....

This is going to be about the youtube channel Watcher and a recent video that they released earlier today, so if you dont watch the channel, or older content produced by Ryan, Shane and Steven at Buzzfeed, this is not going to make sense to you. This only going to be for those who are a fan of Watcher, or are fans of Buzzfeed Unsolved so if you are, that's great!

Earlier today, I got a video notifcation from the channel titled, "goodbye youtube", and it was definitely not something I wanted to see. There is a recent trend this year of youtubers retiring or taking a break this year and I was scared this was that scenario. And it kind of was but way worse. Basically, the guys over at Watcher are going to be posting on their new streaming service called....Watcher. And, no, it is not a late April Fools joke, that's actually what their doing. Initially, I was in a state of shock after I watched through the entire video. I, no joke, went through the 5 stages of grief upon viewing this announcement and was thrown through a loop to where I struggled to focus on sketching one of my comic pages. So much so that I actually made a deviant blog post about it the moment I finished watching the video (most of the content from this post will be copied and pasted from that blog so declaimer I guess). After having some time to absorb this information, I have to say that Im really disappointed with the guys over at Watcher. Like Im not mad to where Im completely done with their content but.......WHY!?

I think at this point in time that a lot of people, myself included, are burnout with the whole streaming boom we've had for the past 5 years in no part thanks to those greedy bastards at Disney....but thats another story. I miss the days when there were only 2 to 3 main streaming services and not 5 billion other services that you need to buy in order to watch a show you like that was on Netflix but it now locked behind a pay wall. Streaming services used by a novelty concept but are now not looked upon in the best light. So for the them to announce a streaming service now is definitely a bad look, especially because the content before was free to access. I feel like creators will always have an uphill battle when it comes to content that was initially free being locked behind a paywall, because you're potentially isolating your audience and bringing up the question of weather your audience if loyal enough to give you money to enjoy your content. Now, like I said, I love and respect the people at Watcher, but I dont know if I'm willing to take money out of my wallet to watch the next season of Ghost Files. Especially in this economy, where in some parts of the country a big mac now costs 20 fucking dollars, and with inflation going out of control.

Now its not like I don't understand why they're doing this. Ever since its founding in 2019, Watcher has always had troubles with money, with most of their shows not being profitable enough to make ends meet (I know that sounds bs because most of their vidoes get millions of views but this is coming from one of the founders Steven, in an update video from a while ago so idk, views probably mean jack shit in the grand scheme of things). And the fact that they started around the pandemic didn't help things either. Unlike Buzzfeed, Watcher is a much smaller company so any loss that happens is felt much more than if it was a larger one. In the video itself, they mentioned that most of their money came through youtube ads and sponsorships, which, while alright if you're an independent creator, may not be enough for a company. And then there's the fact that YouTube can remove or demonetize videos out of nowhere and for the dumbest reasons so its not a very stable sight to base your income off of. So I can understand why they felt moving on from YouTube was a good idea. But..........I think there were better ways of going about it than creating their own fucking streaming service. Like, in one of their update vidoes, they said most of their shows werent making ends meet so maybe cutting back on the production of said shows to make them not as expensive to produce would be a good solution. In their announcement vid, they talked about wanting to maintain their high production value for their shows without going under but (and I dont mean this to slight them) I dont think they understand why they popped off in the first place. For me, Im not watching Ghost Files or Mystery Files for high production value and fancy graphics, Im there for Ryan and Shane. Same reason I loved Buzzfeed Unsolved, which compared to those shows is much more bare bones. I get wanting to step up your production value from what you had at Buzzfeed but if you have budget out in certain places which would entail having a season that doesnt look as good as the previous season, that's completely fine. Im sure me and the rest of fans wouldn't have minded a downgrade because at the end of the day, the fancy sets and graphics are window dressing to why we're truly watching.

I also thinking letting us know ahead of time would've possibly softened the blow. Watcher is in a very interesting situation because there's a much closer relationship between them and their customer base as opposed to traditional companies. So they really could've been like "hey! We're thinking about having future content be on our own streaming service because doing business through YouTube is fucking us over. What do you guys think?". One explanation as to why they waited until now instead of a few months ago when this idea was sparked could've been because they knew they would get backlash and they were going ahead with the streaming service idea regardless of fan input, which might be the reason. But if that's the case, they probably would've had the comments and likes disabled from the start. Right before I started typing this, I checked the video to see if the comments were disabled and they are thankfully still there. Im someone who always wants to see the good in people (which is definitely a character flaw of mine and while defiently lead to me being at the end of an abusive relationship........another abusive relationship but lets not go there), so I think this might be the case of Ryan, Shane and Steven, thinking the streaming service was a good idea and not reading the room properly.

At this point, Im hoping that they dont do things that could make this situation 10 times worse: a) removing the existing content (Mystery Files, Puppet History, etc) off the youtube channel and having it on their streaming service. If you are going to have new seasons of those shows behind a paywall, at least have that content still up for those who want to support but cant purchase the service......b) respond to the critism in a negative way. I think things would be made worse if they lumped genuine fans who are concerned with the new direction with the trolls and haters, and double down on this new direction. Im hoping this situation ends up being a slip up that they can learn from and not being the beginning of the downfall of the Watcher gang. No joke, I think Ryan and Shane are the only youtubers who have avoided any sort of drama up to now. Youtubers I once respected over the years from Tobuscus to Leafyishere to H3H3 to Idubbz to even fucking Dream have all fell from grace in one way or another, and Im hoping the ghoul boys dont join that list....

Holy Jesus....its been a long time since I've posted anything here. In general, I've been having quite a lot of trouble keeping track of my socials and regularly updating to them. Im so busy drawing and doing other stuff that social media (outside discord) I just dont have time or will to devote to as much as I did before. Anyways, here's some WIP for stuff I've been working on recently :>

No! Movies like "Migration" are not flopping because they're Original IPs! (Rant)

So Illuminations most recent movie, "Migration", did not have that great of an opening weekend, making it another original animated movie not based off any IPs that failed at the Box Office like Wish, Elementals and Ruby Gilman Teenage Kraken. And because of this, I've seen lots of people get worried because this means audiences might not be interested in original and that studios might use these flops as an excuse to be more lazy and bank of existing franchises in the future. And while that last worry is a valid concern, that conclusion that audiences are not interested in original works is just completely dumb. In my opinion, the reason these movies flopped are not because they're original. Its because they were not interesting enough.

What are a couple of reasons why you would want to go to a theatre and see a movie, instead of waiting for it to come to streaming or dvd? Usually it comes down to your movie's premise. If your premise is strong, your story is going to get a lot more eyes on it. First impressions matter and if you don't give off a good first impression, its going to be a lot harder to convince people to give your thing attention. If you look at the trailers for movies like Oppenhiemer, Barbie and the few movies that did well this year, all of them gave very good impressions into what the movie would be like and it strong enough to bring people to watch their movies in the theater. In comparison, the 4 original animated works that were released this year didnt have that. Ruby Gilman just seemed like a cookie cutter adventure movie for kids, not bad but too generic to be memorable. That and it had a really awful art style, Im sorry. It probably would've worked much better in 2d but in 3d it did not look good. Elementals looked like a typical Pixar movie and where you have a forbidden romance between a fire girl and lava girl because *gasp* elements cant mix. If you asked an AI to come up with a generic Pixar plot, this movie would be the product of it. Wish is an interesting case because while it did have the moniker of commemorating Disney's 100th Anniversary movie to celebrate it, what really brought it down was how it looked way more unpolished than they're previous 3D movies, the really bad villian song, the missed opportunity to have it be in 2D (which honestly would've been way more eyecatching because we have not seen a traditional hand drawn Disney movie since 2009), and most general audiences being fed up with the house of Mouse this year. I find it really ironic that the year turned 100 ended up being one of their worst years finanicially. And Migration felt like one of those safe family adventure movies that would be straight to video and not be out of place in a collection of various animated dvds you had at your parents place.

Now I should make things clear that I have not seen any of these movies. I'm just going off the first impressions I got from the trailers and premises from these movies, and not from the actual story or characters. For example, I have heard that Elementals might have a lot more to it than what the trailers gave off so dont take this the wrong way. Then again, I have not heard good things about Wish and Ruby Gilman so maybe I might be on the nose a little bit. But do you see where Im getting at here? If my first impressions of these movies were poor, than what about the impressions of most general audiences? The fact these movies are original ips are irrelevant, if you're premise is not strong enough than no one's going to see your movie! That's why Im get annoyed when I see people think these movies being original are the reason why people are not seeing them. Like it doesn't matter if your movie doesn't come off as being good. And while I can get behind the fear of studios seeing these flops and double down on more souless cash grabs of IPs, its like those types of movies are doing well either. FastX, the new Mission Impossible movie, and pretty much 3/4th of Disney's line up this year (cuz their lazy) have not preformed well at the box office despite being franchises people are familiar with. Because when it comes down to it, all audiences want to see are good movies, with good stories and compelling characters and plots! Like look at Guardians 3! Sure its a franchise movie but its a really good story and possibly one of the last good movies Marvel will ever make. Hell, even that movie initially struggled due to oversaturated and bad most MCU entries have become. Sure, can souless cash grabs be successful purely because of familiarity and nothing else? Of course, but there comes a point where that method being as effective. Take Disney's Live Action remakes, which were really successfully in the late 2010s but stopped post 2020 due to more and more people see how lazy these movies are.

This is why I think we need to shift the discussion away from "original movies good, franchise movies bad" to "good movies good, bad movies bad". It doesn't matter if your movie is a sequel or a whole new original story, if its good, people will see it. Now there are exceptions where movies that regarded as classics now like Iron Giant and Treasure Planet were financial failures upon their releases. And I know that a movie financial success is not indicative of its quality, like Disney's lazy live action remakes for example. But this notion that a movie being original automatically makes it worth watching is just misguided I feel like. Because being original doesn't stop you from feeling and looking generic and derivative. Does it suck movies like Ruby Gilman didn't do well at the box office? Yeah but was anyone actually excited from the trailers? That's pretty much all I gotta say about this topic. Let me know what you guys think?

Brightline West will Change the Perception of High Speed Rail in America

(Yes I know this not related to art but I really wanted to talk about this)

Yesterday, it was announced that Brightline, a passenger rail company running higher speed trains in Florida, had received $3 billion of federal funding which will allow them to begin construction on their high speed rail between Las Vegas and Las Angeles area. And this will actually be a true high speed rail line with a top speed of 185mph (300kmh) on a dedicated right of way built in between the median of I-15. As someone who's been following this project and Brightline for 5 years, this news excites me because not only do I have the utmost faith that they'll get this project done within the 2 to 3 years projected, but I truly believe with the completion of this railroad, that public perception of high speed rail and passenger rail in general will change for the good. I know that's a loaded statement but here me out.

In the United States, we dont have any form of high speed rail. We have the Northeast Corridor, Brightline in Florida, and places in Illinois and Michigan where trains run faster than the national capped speed limit of 79mph, but not much in the way of true high speed rail like in France and Japan. In fact, we probably have the most outdated national passenger network in the world. That wasnt always the case, we used to have one of the best passenger trains in the world.....until the end of world war 2 however. With the rise of the automobile, car dependant suburbs, and a highway network, trains were seen as an outdated form of transport with the car being seen as the future. This wasn't exclusive to America though, as many 1st world countries 50s also had this mindset. To most, trains would eventually go the way of the canal.........that is until Japan stepped in showed the world that the train wasnt dead through the creation of the Shinkansen, the world's first modern high speed rail line. Many countries would follow Japan's example, including France, Germany, Italy, and others. But as for America.....its complicated. The high speed ground transportation act was passed in 1965 but not much came from it apart from Budd's Metroliner which couldnt meet expecations, and the UAC Turbo Train still holds the record of the fastest production train in North America at 170.8mph. Outside of that, we didnt really invest much into high speed rail and improving our rail system, outside of a few regions in the country. We continued build highways and sprawling suburbs. Because of this, by the 1990s we were far behind the rest of the developed world in terms of high speed rail. I mean there was the Acela Express, but its more of a high speed service than true high speed rail. And its because of this that the stigma of passenger rail being an outdated form of transport never went a way like it did in other developed countries, and honestly its even worse now since many of the people who were around during the glory days of passenger trains are no longer with us.

But why do we need high speed rail and, hell, better passenger rail? Arent passenger trains slow, dirty, outdated, and a boondogle for democrats to ship immigrants to low income people into the backyard of my mcmansion #notinmybackyard? (okay I promised myself I wouldn't get politcal here but the sad truth is that passenger rail in America is political, with the left being in support of it and the right being against.....its time like these where I do wish we had more than 2 voting options). The reason why need rail in general is due to the fact that options for traveling between cities are limited...outside the northeast. If you want go from Charlotte to Atlanta, Houston to Dallas, or Las Angeles to San Francisco, you either have to drive or fly. For driving, you're limited to one interstate between the cities and you'll mostly be in for a lot of traffic and headaches. For flying, you'll have to get to the airport, go through a painfully slow check in process where they have to make sure you're not terriorst, then you got into the fucking plane where you barely have any room and the window is so tiny, usually dealing with parents who cant shut their kids up unless they have an ipad in their face and Im pretty sure you can tell that I dont particularly like flying. These options can be pretty annoying but they're the best ones you got. Sure you got Amtrak but usually they only run one train between those cities with inconvenient hours and from some of them, Amtrak doesn't even serve them anymore. This is why a third option is needed. High speed rail and upgraded conventional rail can make these corridors competitive for travel, since they're too long to drive to short to fly. And it will be much more environmentally friendly as well which is a urgently needed in order to combat climate change. And one of those cities I mentioned (mainly LA and San Fran) are being connected by High Speed Rail at this moment.......and it wont be done until the 2050s at the latest... Time to talk about California High Speed Rail.

One of the biggest high speed rail projects going on the US right now is the California High Speed Rail, an ambitious project connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco with more connections in the future. You've probably herd of this project and if you have, it probably wasn't good. Despite being voted on in 2008, they havent really gotten anywhere in the past 15 years. Most of the construction is being done on an isolated segment in the San Jose Valley, a flatter and sparsly populated region with mid sizes cities, with little to no work being done in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The San Jose section is set to be done as early as the 2030s and is also over budget. Its this project that I feel has not only ruined the reputation of high speed rail, and added to the poorer perception of passenger rail in general. To most, high speed rail is soon as a boondoggle and a complete waste of tax payer money, and attempts to necromancy a form of transport that hasn't been relevant in the US since 1945. I know not everyone feels this way, but the truth is a lot of Americans are ignorant about passenger rail in general and cant really see the potential for it like most around the world do. And who can blame them! Like I said, the generation that believed in passenger rail, who around during its heyday are long dead, with the eldest generation having grown in sprawling suburbs and with car culture. They never got to experience what life was like before, and so base their world view on what they're used to, and passed on to future generations. Its why any proposals for high speed rail and improvements to rail in general have been shot down because they dont see trains as anything more than old fashioned, because thats what they're used to. That's what they are in most of the country. However, as stated in the title, I believe this can change, and it all starts with Brightline.

Brightline is a private passenger rail operator in Florida running higher speed services between Miami and Orlando. They've been operating since 2018 but it wasn't until September of this year that the Orlando extension opened. This rail line has been making headlines across the country with their sleek modern trains, efficient services, and changing the perception of rail in general. I've been following Brightline for a while and I cant express how blown away I've been. The fact that they got this project off the ground at all is an achievement, and the fact we have trains running at 125mph outside the Northeast is insane! Something like this shouldnt exist in United States. It should've been shot down thanks to NIMBYs and Republican Politicians, but they somehow broke the curse and actually brought a modern fast service that many people enjoy and is actually turning a profit. Its because of this that I have no doubt that Brightline will succeed in this recent project as well. Brightline Florida is good but its not high speed rail. Brightline's Las Vegas project is, and I am 100% confident that this will be the nations first true high speed rail line long before CHSR gets done. And when it does, it will change the perception of high speed rail in America as something that can actually be tangible, and not just a fantasy, and will help jump start and bring more confidence and support to other projects across the US. I think most people will look to Brightline when they think of High Speed Rail, and view the concept in a more positive light that California High Speed Rail will ever do. There has never been brighter future for High Speed Rail in America than there is today and I cant wait to see what's in store for Brightline and other future projects.

Also if you're a republican voter reading this, please dont get offended. Im just stating what I've seen and I know not ever republican thinks to the same

Random Art Thought

So usually I would make this a tweet but considering how.....awful twitter has become, I guess I can turn a multi tweet thread into a single post.

TLDR, I feel like critiscm is good unless its uncalled for. This may be an unpopular opinion, a hot take if you will, but please here me out. I am someone who isn't against critiscm at all. I understand its a crucial part of being an artist and rejecting any form of it can threaten to damage your reputation and growth as an artist. But for me, Im mostly fine with it as long as Im asking for it. Like I will ask for the help and advice in cases that I dont know what I'm doing or feel something is off, which is...well 80% of the time. But other times, I just want to draw and not have that be an issue, or post something on a discord chat, talk about it and not have to worry about prodding questions that put me in a very uncomfortable position, or if the person nitpicks shit without having any context. Its that type of critiscm I'm not entirely comfortable with. Im sure Im not the only one who feels this way, right? Like I'm not sounding like an Andrew Dobson when I mention this right?

Adobe Broke Photoshop in 2023 (October Update)

Back in July, I made a post detailing how bad Photoshop has gotten for me this year, which you can read here. But if you want a tldr version of it, following new years Photoshop stability and reliability has taken a nose dive with constant crashes that prevent auto recover from being as effective to glitches that make working in it a nightmare. Its been over 3 months since I made that post and I kinda wanted to do an update on how photoshop has been. Has it actually gotten better? Kind of but not really. In some ways, its gotten better, in others worse but generally not much has changed. I guess two positives that come to mind is that one of the afformention glitches I noted was patched up at some point in July, so I was able to update finally. Though, I didnt experience the backlash from not updating photoshop like I had in March (fuck you Adobe). And I havent been experiencing the left click lock as much, although thats more to do with me not doing certian commands that I found could trigger it than adobe actually being a good company and fixing it. There's a thread on the adobe forums about this issue, and according to one of most recent posts as of the 22nd, they run a photo company and have called Adobe support 5 times about this issue, and it seems that no one at Adobe knows about this glitch. Yes a billion dollar company who sells programs at inflated prices because they're "industry standard" knows nothing about a single bug that has been in the program for 6 months, but will gladly add in new features no one will use.

Now when I say things got worse, crashes started happening more frequently again in late September and Early October. But instead of happening weekly, they happened almost every fucking day. One day I would have a crash, the next day nothing would happen, before a crash happening the following day. And what was more crushing about this was that it happened while I was dealing with selections and flatting comic pages... whats funny about this is that not only can selections not be recovered if you close the file (even if you save), but can only be saved by pressing a seperate save button which has no keyboard commands. Which made these crashes more horrible than if I had been inking or sketching. Once again, I consulted the Adobe forums for help and once again, the solution was to update my gpu driver which was out of date. I don't think its the fact that I had already done this and nor that somehow, the driver I had been using since March was already out of date by September that makes this situation so ridiculous. But its the fact that I've pretty much had to bend over to change my pc just so I could run photoshop within the same year. In contrast to how things were before 2023 where I didn't have to do a single thing and photoshop ran fine. Its only this year that for some divine reason that the program decided to be shit to me.

So why was I still using it if it was so bad? It was because of my first Chapter. Around the time I had that initial post, I was still hard at work on finishing my comic's first Chapter which has taken me 4 years to complete. I had anticipated getting it done around that time, but due to burn out I ended up taking much longer, finishing it on October 13th. During those final few months, I decided that upon finish Chapter 1, I would be done with photoshop and moving onto a different art program for the rest of my comic. And that program ended up being Clip Studio Paint which I got as an early birthday present from my dad, following photoshop crashing on me two times in that day, the latter happening an hour after I took a break to calm myself down after the first crash....I wish I was making that up. I went with CSP due to the fact that most tapas artists I know use it and because of the many good things they've said about it. Its a pretty highly regarded program, and even if my motive for buying it wasn't because of Photoshop's "quirks", it has features that make producing comics much faster in CSP than in photoshop. So with CSP in my hands, you'd think the nightmare would be over, right?

You so, my plan was to use CSP for my comic starting with Chapter 2 but after spending some time in the program, I realized I probably wouldn't be knowledgeable enough or adapted to it enough just in time for me to start drawing Chapter 2 with a release date of early 2024. So in the end, I decided to wait until Chapter 3 to make the switch, while limiting myself to CSP for spur of the moment drawing ideas and illustrations. Yes, Photoshop has been a complete failure to me but I am way more experienced with it than with Clip Studio. I dont want there to be a potential quality drop following the most recent episode and I want to be sure I can use it before jumping into creating comics. This isnt like the switch from traditional to digital for my comic back in 2021, because I had already had more than a years worth of experience with photoshop and digital drawing by that time. Because of that, the switch wasn't as rough as it would've been if I had done it earlier. I was going to save this announcement for one my kofi 'comic corner' blogs (btw if you want to support me on kofi click here: https://ko-fi.com/kenthenugget) but Im making this post now so why the hell not. But for the time being, Im still going to be using photoshop for Chapter 2, and my character sheets of course. Given how long I spent on Chapter 1, you might think Im crazy for wanting to use the program for another 4 years but I don't anticipate this chapter taking as long, due to skill and because its much shorter in comparison.

Im not going to lie, I have mixed feelings on continuing to use Photoshop for my comic. On one hand, Im glad I wont need to worry about a potential quality drop but on the other, I dont know how long I can handle crashes and glitches that only seem to persist as time goes on. I'll just pray to God to give me strength during the drawing of Chapter 2 once I finish thumbnailing. Hopefully, I and photoshop will be able to last.....

The final part of Chapter 1 is OUT! Check it out!!!

Hey guys! I know its been a while since I posted on....well any of my social medias excluding Deviantart and FurAffinity. I've been quite busy with my comic and trying to get Chapter 1 done as soon as possible. Anyways this was a piece of vent art I made earlier this month after Photoshop crashed on me two times the day it was drawn. Both times happening while I was flatting (literally the worst possibly time to crash because you have to press a seperate button to save selections), with the second one happening after I had taken an hour long break because of the first crash. No joke, the program crashes, I take a break to cool down, come back ready to get back to work, and it crashes again! That was on the 12th and since then, I've had 3 more crashes, with the last two happening at eriely the same times. At this point, you guys are probably yelling "GET A NEW ART PROGRAM ALREADY!" Well, I have. As an early birthday present, I got Clip Studio Paint, pretty much the greatest art program on earth according to artists I've met in the tapas community. And from what I've seen, it looks promising, and probably wont require me to update my computer's fucking gpu driver 2 in times in a year just to run it (I never had to do that with photoshop until this year). However, for the time being, Im sticking with photoshop for the remainder of Chapter 1 and a handful of projects for it. I know that might sound stupid because I legit have CSP, but I dont know anything about using that program to its fullest potential, I do with photoshop as I've been using it for much longer. And since I want to release Chapter 1 very soon, I'd rather stick with an unstable program I know how to use rather than a potentially great program that I dont know how to use well. I dont have much of Chapter 1 left to work so I dont mind tolerating Photoshop for just a little while longer.

Also be on the look for future clip studio practice stuff down the line!

Can I just say how sad it is watching content creators loose all the joy they had for content creation and become sad, jaded, and depressed people who think they're morally above everyone because they became (and I hate using this term because of how polluted its become but it stands here) woke, and that everyone abandoned them or left them because of their change are just bigots who enjoy edgy content. I saw it happen to Quinton Reviews in 2018, then with Ethan Kliene in 2020, and it sucks watching it happen now with idubbbz. I honestly hope I don't end like them when Im older :(

And here's another piece of art I've neglected to share here: BOOBIES!

I've been working on this shirt cut collage of Julia for quiet a while now, and I only got around to working on it fully back in April, finishing it in June (my comic has prevented me from working on this fully). Now I know what your thinking "why are you capitalizing on a dead trend from mid 2021?". And the answer to that is Im not. I already did one of this back when the trend was still hot and I wanted to another one since I had a lot of fun with the old one. I would link the instgram post of it made at the time but the account that was posted on was hacked and deleted a year ago so I guess I'll link the DeviantArt post of it: https://www.deviantart.com/kendraws2002/art/Julia-Shirt-Cut-884453415