BIG POST: New Animation + I'm STUCK lol + Hi!

Why, hello! How are you all doing? Staying warm? I hope so! ⛄️

Now, I must warn you- I've been absolutely, utterly, beyond STUCK. SO, instead of pretending I wasn't and that I have spent the last week vibing with everything I've made, I'm going to bring you on the little journey I went on this week! (a very dramatized version haha!)

**We'll come back to the above video shortly!!**

SO... remember those ice skating frogs I was so excited about? Well, that's where I started my doodling adventure last week...

And, well, I've been drawing frogs the same way for years, but... I have been feeling quite inclined to give them more of a vintage-y feel- think Cuphead! SO, after completing these, I gave them a revamp!

Can you tell the difference? Maybe? Well, feeling decently satisfied in the direction they were headed, I decided to embark on the ever-daunting task of drawing.. the setting!

Normally, by this point, I'm feeling like I'm in a groove! I almost can't WAIT to color and finish bringing the idea to life, but,, this time,, 30 HOURS LATER, noooo, I was this emoji 🫠 !! BUT, I continued pushing through,, and spent another four hours coloring...

Only for it to look like this? No,, absolutely not. Something is just not working. Alas, I scrapped it,, for now! But, I felt WARMED UP (lol quite an intense warm up that was!) and very determined, so I got to work on the above video! We're coming back to that video now haha-

Feeling rather,, worried that I'd suddenly lost the ability to draw (hehe jk), I hesitantly started drawing these bears, bears that meant a lot to me, that I wanted to make super special-

and, to my surprise, I loved 'em! Hooray, the excitement to color had returned, but!! I knew that I wanted to make this an animation of sorts and had the idea of drawing their little home in the woods, so next was tackling that- something else I despise- drawing BuiLDiNgS... but..

Something happened!

It turned out as I'd hoped! We were getting somewhere 🥹 I added a bit of color, a bit of a blurred filter and there it was! The finished video you see above! (I'd add it in here to keep things chronological, but I'm unable to add video mid-Patreon post, so just pretend it's right here, okay? 🥲)

And, well, that brings us to the final endeavor I completed late last night,,, the ice skating frogs!

Having given it quite a few days, I decided to come back to work on them. AND!!! AHH!! FINALLY!! I don't know what changed, but I just loved the funky vibe of them upon revisiting!!! Will I return to the giant drawing of them? Maybe, maybe not, but the sticker version? Done!! 😎

Oh, and I fully finished Mr. Moose too, in case you missed him-

(drawing this sweater was so much fun- coming up with all of the tiny patterns!!)

Okay, well, that's kind of the entire journey, I guess! I'm so sorry it isn't the most exciting of stories, but I've felt so much stress this week trying to make things worth sharing with you, so I thought I'd simply share my big week of trials and errors! Thanks for coming along- I'm feeling very, very inspired now, so I'm about to dive head first into more makes, and I can't wait to share those with you ☺️

Now, as far as physical rewards go, I wanted to do something special this month and add some extras in!! To celebrate the end of the year, we are doing a double postcard + bonus sticker month!

Rewards:

(front and backs hehe) 

TWO, little wintery postcards!! + the (glittery) ice skating frogs sticker air + a bonus moose in his favorite sweater sticker!!! 💜 AND, in case you missed my update about shipping due to the changes Patreon has made- these will be going out the first week of January 🌨️

Oh my goodness, sorry for bombarding you with an entire novel today! I'm off to DRAW! Big time!

Have the most wonderful weekend!

Oh, and this silly lady, Miss Sweets says hey- I visited her this week, and she's too precious not to share!

 -Aub