Hi again.  Sorry for the gap in updates, but things have effectively not changed – so that is basically why. The weather here has still been crap – super humid and stormy every few days, with the smoke from Canada blowing down every few days as well… such as today. I can’t get much done beyond what I have to on days where I have these weather migraines and such without doing anything to make it worse; and the past two months now have just been horrible. Not sure if its is just the wildfires or what – but I really hope it doesn’t stay this way much longer.

Hopefully I can get some time later in the month to make/post something, but we will have to see how things go. I am still around, and I want to get stuff done, but I am not going to put myself in worse pain to do so – that won’t help anyone.

Final note, the poll could really use more votes – and do remember that you can vote for three characters.

If you want to help support/motivate me in making more content, you can check out my redone Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already.

Hey again. Once more, I am back with a status update at the minimum – since I do not have anything final to post as of yet.

I have had effectively no solid time to put towards renders and such for like two weeks now… and nothing I have seems good enough and/or done. (I still want a render or two to go with the short story thing as well, but I have not been able to do that yet.) I kept waiting to post something here/on my site until I was sure that there was just no way – and the air quality today is even worse than yesterday… so June is just a wash all around, really.

The weather last week here was super humid and rainy/stormy for literally a solid week and a half – and then for the last few days, the air quality is somehow worse than it was earlier in the month; it was 191 AQI today – super close to the 200 threshold, which is flat out dangerous. (From the Canadian wildfire smoke again.. and by the way normal AQI is like 10-35.) I had migraines most all last week, and now this week I have the horrible air quality to deal with – which is supposed to continue for a while again. Apologies, but this is literally the worst air quality in my area that I have ever seen, and some of the worst/strangest weather to go with it; life is just not cooperating at all lately, between this and other real life things I need to get done.

I really hope to have a decent batch of stuff to post soon if the weather and everything stops being awful for a decent while. I will do what I can, and we will see how  things are going by mid-July – I will be back with some kind of update here next month regardless.

Final note of June – at least someone finally voted in the poll… so thanks to that person; but more votes would really be nice. I apparently have to just leave it up again… and we will see what happens in July all around. I should be back in a week or two with a status update at the least, but who even knows anymore.

If you want to help support/motivate me in making more content, you can check out my redone Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already.

Hey. Just wanted to check in and let you all know I am still around; the main issue has been that the weather has been nuts this past few weeks.

Last week was the worst air quality I have ever seen in my area in my entire life, (it got to over 160 AQI – “very unhealthy”, from the Canadian wildfire smoke) and then the temperature flopped around after all the smoke was pushed out – and only now is it stabilizing again. I have made minor progress on a handful of things, but nothing enough to post – and I have a bunch of crap that I need to check/manage this month also. (Patreon is forcing some new shitty page update late this month, and I apparently may have to redo my page… again – not entirely sure yet; but nothing Patreon has pushed out in the last few years has been positive.) We will see what the next week or two holds… there is just no way to know at this stage.

Side note – still no votes in the poll… which is not helping my motivation at all. (Still not exactly sure why there are no votes either.) No idea when I will be back, or what with – if anything; real life crap takes priority, and I just don’t have the time/energy/motivation that I did a few years ago.

If you want to help support/motivate me in making more content, you can check out my redone Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already.

Hi again. May has been a mess – and I wanted to post a status update last week, but there wasn’t anything of note to say yet; so I kept pushing it back in hopes that I could finish something to post here… and unfortunately I just have not had the time/energy to do so.

I have a handful of things in progress, but the written thing isn’t finished and most of the renders aren’t either – the one with the most progress just feels like it needs more… it is hard to explain to people that don’t create content. (It is difficult if not impossible to get something to feel “finished”… as most artists always feel like they can do more/better.)

The only time I can get for extra stuff these days is late in the evening/night, and I have either been too tired, busy, and/or had my weather migraines most of this month… again. (The weather here is in the process of going from 68 to 90 degrees in two days – again.) Honestly, I barely had time to even look over much of this stuff this month, just due to being busy with other things. (You can probably tell by my lack of normal weekly ish updates.) I even had a minor relapse of that cold/flu thing from last month – but it only lasted a couple days this time.

No votes in the poll on the right either… not sure what is even going on here anymore, if anything. I will almost certainly just leave it up for another month – so I may not be back for a while, and there is no way to know what may get done when at this stage… or when. I really want to get something for all this done, but things just have not worked out that way for a while now.

If you want to help support/motivate me in making more content, you can check out my redone Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already.

Hi. As expected, I don’t have anything ready yet, mostly due to being sick half the month; but other factors are definitely not helping either. (The weather here has whipped up and down 30 degrees twice in a week, followed by two days of near solid rain – very bad for my weather migraines.)

There are still no votes in the polls, so I have no idea what to do about the polls for next month – I do not know if the questions are the issue here or what the problem is… but it is not helping my already quite low motivation. Not even sure I should bother with new polls for next month… or maybe just cut it down to one.

I do not know when I will be back, or what I will be back with; we will just have to see what happens.

If you want to help support/motivate me in making more content, you can check out my redone Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already.

Hey again. It has been a while since the last update… but there isn’t a lot to say, really. Just wanted to check in and let you know I am still around.

I literally just got my hearing/smell/taste fully back yesterday, after being sick with something for two whole weeks – and while it wasn’t nearly as bad the second week, I still didn’t feel like doing much. So only now am I back to normal… I hope.

I really am not optimistic about anything getting done this month at this point, but who knows… I will likely post some kind of update before the end of the month regardless. We will have to see what the next week holds in terms of possible content, but I am not going to force anything if things are just not working out. There is always next month.

Also, for whatever reason, there are still no votes in the polls – which is really not encouraging either.

As per usual, if you want to help support/motivate me in making more content, you can check out my redone Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already.

Hey guys. Just wanted to stop by and let you know that I won’t have new stuff posted before Easter – I have had some weird/bad cold or something for 3 days now, and have been unable to work on much of anything, including renders. I do still plan to post something new this month, but it will have to be later – nothing I can do about this.

Needless to say, this is not how I hoped April would start… but maybe things will get better after this.

Still no votes in the polls here either – not sure why… but some votes would really be nice.

I hope to be back mid-month with something new… but we will have to see what happens. I will likely be back in a week or so with another update if nothing else.

As usual, if you want to help support/motivate me in making more content, you can check out my redone Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already.

Hey. I won’t bother writing too much here, but I don’t have anything finished in terms of new content at the moment – for various reasons. I honestly didn’t even look at any of it this past week, in part because I checked the votes in the polls last weekend to try and motivate myself a bit – and there still weren’t any. So… I didn’t see much reason to push myself if I wasn’t feeling like working on all this; hopefully April will work out better all around.

In other news, I have made further progress on various real life stuff, which is great; and I even went down to see the Cherry blossom trees in DC a while ago – which was really neat. Definitely check that out if you can.

Otherwise – I likely won’t be back for a week or so, since there is a 98% chance I will be leaving the current polls up for another month, as there are still no votes as of this post… still not sure why. (I had some minor issues getting access to my site earlier today, I am hoping that is not related.)

Hopefully I can get some new side renders ready in time for Easter, etc – as per usual… but I really can’t even say for sure at the moment. I should have at least a status update on or slightly before then, I would think.

As usual, if you want to help support/motivate me in making more content, you can check out my redone Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already.

Hi again. Sorry for the gap in posts, but there is nothing concrete to post yet, so I kept waiting in hopes I would get more time to work on finishing something for this project but that has not happened yet.

Effectively, I have been using most of my time to take care of various real life things that needed doing, and have made little progress on this content this past week in particular – but the pile of crap that has needed doing for years is much smaller now, which is very good. (As noted previously,  I have made a ton of progress in the past six weeks or so on stuff I have been putting off for years.)

I will be back with another update of some sort before the end of the month; not 100% sure what that will be just yet, but I am really hoping to have something more than just a status update before I start with the new side stuff next month. (It may be the little short story side thing I have been working on – but we will see how things go. I know people want images to go with it, but that takes even more time, etc…)

Other than that, I want to point out that the polls have no votes at all as of me posting this… midway through the month – which is depressing; so do please vote in those – they should be on the right and/or in the previous post. I do take these polls into account when planning new stuff, and it takes almost no time to vote, so I have no idea why votes are so low… but it definitely is not helping my motivation right now to see that happening.

As usual, if you want to help support/motivate me in making more content, you can check out my redone Patreon page here (as I said, more changes maybe coming soon): https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already.

Hi again. Sorry for the late update here, but I was hoping to have something more to post than just a status update – however, this is all I have for the moment. The weather has been crazy here this past week; we had gone from 80 degrees to snow in two days – which is horrific for my weather migraines. Not much to be done about that, but allegedly/hopefully the following week will be more stable – this current week it is supposed to rain all week… which isn’t great either. (Weird weather all around the country from what I have seen/read though.)

I have at least made a lot of progress with some real life cleaning, maintenance, etc. that I have needed to to do for… a couple years – so at least I got something done. (This does help everything else, believe it or not – as there are less distractions and less other crap to do.) We will have to see what next month may allow in terms of content, but I do not want to make any promises – I have the same 2-3 things planned at the moment that I have for two months now; but I need enough solid time to work on them. I also still haven’t come up with much else in terms of options/tiers for my redone Patreon page – though I am still trying to figure out something.

Anyway, I will be back in a few days with the poll results and some new polls – so do please vote in the polls on the right if you have not yet done so; they are taken into account and help let me know what you all want.

As usual, if you want to help support/motivate me in making more content, you can check out my redone Patreon page here (as I said, more changes maybe coming soon): https://www.patreon.com/redleatherart

Any interest, comments, follows, likes, votes, or support really does help. It is hard to keep making new stuff when nobody seems to care. Following me on DA/slushe/pixiv/twitter/whatever doesn’t cost anything – and that all does help spread the word about my work… so please consider doing some of that if you haven’t already.