So I’ve been working on the next illustration release, which is the remake of the first release I made called TLC (it stands for Tentacle Love and Care). It has been interesting to balance work and pleasure. Right now I have no patrons, so this is strictly pleasure. I’m also in the process of applying to jobs, which has been endlessly frustrating. It has made me realize that I need to greatly improve the efficiency of my creative process, especially since I will hopefully be attaining a “real job” very soon, which will eat into my time. Therefore I have come to the conclusion that I need to make a schedule for my own sanity, something I have historically been incapable of. So here we go.

I want to post one work every month, one that has a lot of effort and rendering put into it. Along with this work, Patrons will get a bonus work that is tied to it. Whether it is additional illustrations or a short comic to add context will depend on what I feel like doing. For instance, the TLC remake will come with an additional illustration. However I also want to post other works, with a less strict basis, and will also push my artistic skills even more. These ones will be freely accessible or available at the Observer tier at most since I will be pushing myself on these the quality will likely suffer. This persona exists because it will allow me to practice and post my art. So I need to figure that out.

There are also some features I need to work on for this persona. For instance, my Patreon tiers don’t have thumbnails yet. I should do something about that. I’d also like to create a vtuber/rantsona puppet for producing videos with. This will take a while as there are other things that need to be done in order to further disguise my identity before I can start making videos. Mainly disguising my voice. I am trying to separate my real life self from this persona as much as possible. So before I’m comfortable with making those, I need to solve the privacy issues. I also need to nail down my rules for commissions. Another aspect to my work is my desire to make more wholesome adult content, and due to that there are several things I would be uncomfortable creating.

In addition to artwork, I also wish to practice my narrative writing skills. This is a pretty common practice, even to this day, for authors to write under a false identity to write erotica and smut. It was a good opportunity for them to practice and make some money on the side while they work on their safe-for-work stories. I’m essentially doing the same thing. I need much more practice writing compared to your average author, but for whatever reason I’m obsessed with the concept of documenting and releasing the work and process that goes into learning skills. I think I will start writing some smut at the end of this month, just as an exercise and hopefully post it along side the work for the month after. We’ll see.

I’m starting to ramble, so let me bring it back to some concrete goals I have for this month.

• Finish TLC and it’s additional illustration for the main release
• Release an additional short form comic that I came up with while working on TLC
• Create the thumbnails for my membership tiers
• Make the rules
• Start writing some smut

Well that’s everything for now. I think I’m going to start making these blogposts earlier in the month in the future.

Truly Yours

Ray A. Pounder