Has this year been going by fast for you? To me it feels like someone dropped a brick on the accelerator and I'm left wondering where it is we're headed. Maybe this is the rubber band snap from time feeling frozen in the years after the pandemic? Or maybe I'm just losing my mind.

Anyhoo, I've been watching anime lately! That's fun, isn't it? So far the best show I've watched is Witch Hat Atelier, and if you look closely (read: at all) you might notice young Coco, witch in training, is here among us now. Less surprising is the addition of a Merry, because of course July is the home of Draw Merry Day, everyone's favorite day to draw everyone's favorite Stuart Gipp Original. Least surprising of all, a collection of Natashas and Bries for your viewing pleasure. I hope they grant you as much pleasure in the viewing as they granted me in the drawing.

Well, that's another year in the books. A lot of folks like to celebrate the end of the year with a look back at what they accomplished. Not me! It's already here for you to see, all the way back to 2022 or maybe even earlier. Other folks look to the horizon to talk about what is to come in the year ahead. Not me! I refuse to consider what might happen in the future. I exist in a perpetual twilight, trapped in a moment of time forever drifting into the future at the typical rate.

November started strong with quite a bit of drawing, then petered out a bit toward the end of the month. I drew Kei and Yuri from Dirty Pair for some reason. Quite proud of that one. I tried my hand at drawing a character with white hair looking up and to the left, which was the style at the time. I drew Natasha a bunch. I drew Merry and Jess from Merry Hell as Peridot and Lapis from the Steven Universe episode when Peridot was most egregiously tiny. Typical November stuff. My situation has grown somewhat more tenuous in the last couple weeks so looking forward I'm not sure if I will deliver much in December. This is fairly typical for me, though, since I do most of my drawing at work and they typically close down the last two weeks of the month for the holidays. I guess we'll see!

Well friends, we've reached the end of another month, which in turn heralds the start of another. I dunno about you, but I have been feeling the psychic pressure of all this to a greater extent than usual. My pep has popped, my verve has swerved, I couldn't even really enjoy this year's Mad Ape Den. There may be some delays as my capacity falls behind my commitment.

In the meantime, please enjoy the attached atworks that I have helpfully drawn over the course of this month.

Well, hello there. If you're anything like me (statistically speaking, you likely ARE me) then the last month has not been conducive to the production of creative works. This is a time of great upheaval, and even if you like what's going on in the world (statistically speaking, you do not) you would have to be incredibly naive to not be worried about what the consequences of these recent events will be.

But that is not why you come here. You are here to see the art I produced last month. It is not much. You have my apologies for that. The worst part is after a flurry of activity in January, I have not produced a new comic page since February 1st. At this moment I still have comics to post until mid April, so it's not yet a big concern. If I can get my nose back to the grindstone in March I ought to be able to complete the next scene of the story, which includes an introduction to the power of Artifice. Now, please click through and see my meager offerings to you, my gracious viewer.

It is widely acknowledged that August is not a creative month. Despite this, I have managed to produce not one, but several additional images of Natasha. Additionally, I have made progress with 3D backgrounds for reference and use with the free program Sweet Home 3D, perhaps I should share that progress in an additional post.
In addition to the standard assortment of Natashas we also see Virginia and Evangeline, Natasha hanging out with Stuart Gipp's Merry (Read Merry Hell), and an unnamed curly haired girl with glasses! Neat!