Changes for 2026: The Comic (Part 1 of 2)

Hi everyone! I hope you had a good holiday.

I want to talk about some changes and goals I have for 2026. I’m writing this in two parts so it’s two smaller walls of text rather than one big one.

Back in June I started focusing full time on Perspective Shift. I’ve been really happy with how much I was able to get done. I feel like I’ve gotten over the hump (hah) of the exposition and a lot of the more difficult and detailed scenes in the middle.

While I said I’d be focusing on the comic to build momentum and get more pages out, I had another reason for working on it so much.

Over the past six months I’ve been running a bit of an experiment. I wanted to see if posting the comic more regularly would drive more traffic and, in turn, more income. I gave myself a fairly modest goal of what I was hoping to hit, and gave myself until the end of the year to see what would happen. Despite all the extra work I've been putting into the comic, not only did I not hit the goal, my income from it has gone down.

I don’t think this is a reflection on me or Perspective Shift. This seems to be more due to the overall state of the economy and the world in general. People just don’t have as much disposable income as they used to. Things like Patreon subs and spending on furry art is going down as people try to make ends meet. In talking with other artist friends, this seems to be the overall trend.

Unfortunately Patreon doesn’t make (and has never made) enough for me to live on. It’s nice extra income but I still need to make up the difference with other things. Sadly this also means I can’t justify working on the comic full time the way I have been. It’s an enormous amount of work and it’s just not paying the bills for me.

Aside from that, I’ve had a crazy desire to work on other art again. You’ve probably noticed I haven’t really drawn Pulsar as much lately. Or posting much extra art at all. This is because I’ve been putting nearly all my time into the comic. Whenever when I finish drawing it for that day or that week, I’m often creatively drained enough to where I don’t feel like doing any other drawing.

I really miss drawing Pulsar. I want to do more self-indulgent art with him! I’d like to do another image pack in 2026. And I’ll probably do some more sketch commissions. I have some other commissions ideas I’d like to try too. And I want to bring back 3D. I just need to creatively shift gears for a bit.

So I’m going to be returning the comic back to how I’d been doing it before. I’ll be working on it one day per week, which gets me about 2 pages per month. I still want to continue making progress because I’m excited for the rest of story and some of the plot points that are coming up. The best thing I can do is to just keep chipping away at it. I think it’s likely that once I get closer to the end, I’ll do another sprint to get it all wrapped up.

I’m sorry to everyone who’s signed up specifically to see more of Perspective Shift, only for me to announce now that I’ll be doing it less. I gave it a really solid effort over the past six months. But unfortunately it just didn’t turn into the subs or the income that I needed to justify spending so much time on it.

And to everyone who’s been a long time subscriber, thanks for sticking with me :>