2026 Early Recap and Thoughts. Important :)
Hello!
For those that are new, welcome. For those that have seen these recaps before you maybe surprised to see one this early but some stuff has been on my mind lately and I want to share some of my thoughts and direction I would like to go towards heading into next year even though we still got plenty of 2026 left.
TL:DR: Gonna focus more on patreon, Possible break from Fairy Brothel to do a small Monster Taxes story and then have it come back, Art packs are awesome, and I may only do discord streams for Doodles and Frog Lord rewards. And thank you to everyone that supports me <3
Spoiler alert I will still be sticking around and I'm not suddenly blowing up and leaving, I'll still be here for a long while. I won't lie though that the thought of looking for an industry job has been popping into my head lately but I don't think I could make the jump to do it with how much I like what I do now. I'm gracious for your guys support and I wouldn't be here without any of you, I don't think I say it enough but I really am thankful to everyone that lets me draw for a living, I'm kind of private about my personal life but just know everyday I wake up and I'm drawing within an hour of being awake at the crack of dawn and that's thanks to you guys.
That being said this year certainly has been a challenge for me, I've definitely felt I'm in a bit of a sophmore slump that I've been clawing myself out of until recently and really felt like I got my groove back. Granted this year has been wild both in life and in terms of THE ECONOMY I don't need to get into specifics but I've definitely seen the impacts of it and it's been a damper. Meanwhile online it seems like a lot of social media just seems to be getting worse and worse, Twitter especially as that's where a lot of my pain comes from. At the start of this year changes to both the algorithm and to it's messaging system basically killed it being used as a commissioning service, that's why you've seen me switch so hard to using a google form or discord, most of my commissions used to come from there, now about 2-3 a month do and that's not an exaggeration. I wish I couldn't care but when art is my living I'm forced to care at least a little bit, thankfully posting to instagram and focusing more on here and bluesky has remedied the situation but as a numbers person it's hard not to care about the numbers and that's where a lot of my strife earlier in the year came from, not to mention a lot of social media just sucks nowadays or sucks more then it used to.
As summer hit and I took my annual "I draw whatever I want for June break" I realized just how much more I enjoyed drawing for myself, doing the one off goofy comics, and making exclusives for patreon. I think in the coming years I'd like to shift my focus to doing work primarily for patreon. I'd probably still take comms though, there is a feeling I love about drawing something for someone and I don't think I could ever fully give up commissions. Stuff like the Art pack and character votes is something I absolutely want to do more of and I'm glad how much people seem to like them, that and exclusive comics. Though realistically this is a goal that's going to be long term, I don't expect patreon to be the only thing I need to do in a year or so but it's where I want to put my focus.
But enough about me, what about the projects
Fairy Brothel has been great, it's been fun to work off of the ideas you guys give me. While it's been fun I think I may put it on a small break in the near future to give myself the time to work on something else. As to what that something else would be it would maybe be Monster Taxes as I've found a little more love for that one off joke then I thought and I'd maybe like to give it a little run of it's own with Fairy Brothel coming back after that. I'd say this is all subject to change though as Fairy Brothel is a patreon exclusive comic. Maybe I'd do it where Monster Taxes is exclusive UNTIL it's done and then once it's done start posting it publicly and return to Fairy Brothel. I'd say this is all subject to change though. Maybe I let you guys choose what comic I do next, that's how Fairy Brothel started after all.
Art Packs! Honestly, very good. I've been really enjoying doing them lately and I can't wait to do more. I may need to put them on a better schedule then just whenever. Doing 3 pieces in a day can take a lot out of me and sometimes it's just not possible, maybe every other week? I'll think on it.
Friday streams. Still thinking about these. Friday's always been a sort of half day for me and I'm not always in the mindset or energy to be person streaming in the morning and afternoon's out of the question. I think I may keep Doodle streams and Frog Lord rewards streams but on weeks where those things aren't happening I may just not be streaming anymore. If anything is most likely to go it would be this and instead I'd maybe just try to pop into stream randomly in the discord maybe without the exclusivity to Patreon.
SFW, NSFW, and Comics. I'm starting to realize how tough it is having my socials be sfw while drawing a lot of nsfw for comms and here. Not really something I'm evaluating but something I've been feeling lately. I like doing both I'm never gonna stop doing one or the other but I think I definitely would love to do a more permanent sfw comic, outside of the funny Zoomer potato but I'm not sure what that would be yet so for now it remains a thought.
I think this is about it for the things that have been on my mind lately. Expect to see more around here specifically and once again sincrely from the bottom of my heart thank you for everything that you guys have supported me through, I truly couldn't be more grateful.