Weekly Update: #27

Happy Friday (or whatever day it is for those in another time zone)! 

Since last week's update, I am please to announce that the book resurrection project is now 1,594 words closer to completion than it was before. Still loads more to write, but that's my primary project for next week so, hopefully, next Friday I will be able to report a great deal more success in the rewrite. The current total word count stands at almost 41.5k. Lord willing and with the help of copious amounts of tea, that word count will be much higher by the end of next week. I already have next month's chapter installments for both An Inkling of Magic and From the Ashes ready to go, so that gives me basically the whole week to just work on reclaiming what was lost.

Other writing news, if you haven't read it yet, September's chapter (draft) of An Inkling of Magic switched to public yesterday on Patreon (and, if you have, I hope you enjoyed it!)! Additionally, chapter four of From the Ashes (a high fantasy, fairy tale retelling) posted on Monday.

Okay, so, this week, I've largely be focused on my digital art. And, I'm very happy to announce, I've finished one of my paintings! Alas, not the creature paint (still way to many scales to paint before I'm able to make that announcement), but another painting I've had in the works, but had to set aside during show season. I'll be sharing it (and a new seed story) with subscribers on Monday before it goes public later in the week. New patron-only merch for it though is already available on my author website! Prints and public merch will be coming next week on Red Bubble and Art Station.

And I've already started a new painting! Yes, I know, I still have the creature paint to finish and the second character portrait from AIoM to do, but I've had an idea for a painting for the last week or so that's been screaming at me and it's only been getting more insistent the longer I put it off. When ideas are that loud in my head, I find it's generally a good idea to listen to them. So, I started working on it after I finished the other one and already have a pretty good rough paint done blocking out pretty much all of the main compositional features of the piece and have already begun work on fleshing it out. Sneak peek screenshots coming soon! Also, it's being made to fit 8k resolution so, if I'm happy with the results, I'll be making it available to subscribers as a wallpaper.

Although I haven't started it yet, I have been doing some preliminary thinking on how I want to to the second character portrait, but will likely save actually painting it until October. However, I do plan on compiling my reference images for it this month so that I'm ready to go with it.

I think that about wraps up this week's update! It's been a fairly product week and I'm hopeful that that continues as I've a whole of work to still do!