This is gonna be a long read so TL;DR: Thank you all for an amazing 4 years, and I look forward to making more stuff!
Where to begin! This has been the most life-changing 4 years I’ve ever experienced, morally compromising even? There was a period in my life where I wasn’t really enjoying drawing as much as I wanted to. Growing up the way I did, I became quite the straight edge and felt like the things I wanted to draw were bad so I always stayed in a ‘safe’ zone of sorts. I respected my parents too much to even try to deviate from what’s ‘allowed’ in my mind. My art didn’t really go anywhere, I lacked motivation and direction, and on top of that, I’m in this miserable art boot camp during my freshman year of college. Overall I just didn’t feel artistically fulfilled until Summer when I decided to say “fuck it” and start Mr. Peculiar on Tumblr.
All of this started because I was frustrated. I had no outlet and I've always wanted to explore the ideas that were seen as forbidden. The drawing spark came back as I finally found something that I enjoyed. It was a morally stressful transition for me as I was afraid of what people would think of me. Here I am, this straightedge dork who went to a Christian school for 7 years, and all of a sudden I'm drawing fetish porn. Obviously I questioned whether I should be doing this, but did I really want to sacrifice creative fulfillment for arbitrary good boy points? After a few years of living in fear, I think I've come to terms with who I am. My friends still love me and my family treats me no different from the way they always have, and that helps me sleep at night. In fact, when I told my father what I was doing, he encouraged me to own my shit and keep going without shame (and to tell you the truth, I went back to my room and cried). To this day, I’ve learned to love myself first! I don’t talk a lot about my personal issues, but it’s been an emotional ride for me, and I want to first and foremost thank everyone for all of your support and encouragement to pursue what I enjoy!
Now that the sappy stuff is out of the way lets get into the real update!
There are a few things I want to address, things that are going to change and things that I want to change. I have a lot of things that I want to do in the new decade, but in the end, only time will tell. First of all, I’m going to change how I do commissions. I’ll no longer be doing raffles and instead moving to more of an attendance-based queue system. I’ll be making a proper comm sheet to clarify the detail. I’ll still be doing them on the weekend, 2 a day, but I’ll be choosing what I’ll be opening the commission Form to everyone! As for the things I want to do more of, I still plan to do comics throughout the year, hopefully, more Dandy Demon Chapters, and even shorter comics similar to the first part of Nutty November. I’d also like to do more animations. One of my biggest goals is to make a full short as opposed to just loops. Maybe more collaborations and more! Again only time will tell! There’s still a lot I need to figure out as I’m fresh out of college, but I have a good feeling about this coming decade! again thank you all for sticking around with me for this long!