I am two months shy of releasing a youtube speed painting illustration at the start of each month for three years. Well, I am still doing that. However, I had some issues with the latest illustration itself and then youtube is as usual unreliable. So it released on the second rather than the first. I think from now on, I am going to focus on illustrations that focus heavily on a single character. The background on my latest speed painting simply took too much time. The issue isn't that it's just painting it, it's the editing afterwards to remove all the times that I look at references. This latest speed painting itself may have taken me 80 to 90 hours.
Now if this was all I had to do, I wouldn't have minded it as much. However, I am and have been working on a project I'm writing that's very likely going to fail. However by the small chance that it succeeds, it needs a certain amount of my time every week. I'm in that weird creepy place where I am optimistic and realistic at the same time.. it's.. it's weird. A lot of its work is going through some final stages and if things go smoothly which a lot of the time don't happen, I might finally find out if this was all worth it or all for naught. I have been working on this for three years and the last year has taken a lovely amount of my time. I've cooled off even on freelance work for some time for this reason.
Anyways, the last speed painting, the last two-three days I wasn't having fun and that's not why I do this. I always do things that I love, that's why I put an average of 60 hours a month on a project that makes me zero money. I don't monetize any videos. Of course I do have in the back of mind my mind that if a video blows up, it could open up a lot of chances for easy freelance options. That doesn't escape my mind. Anyways, I will be focusing more on characters for my illustrations to save me 20 hours worth of time.
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