Hi, everyone. Smug here.

I need to come clean. I've been holding in a lot of negative feelings about myself and I think it's severely affected my art. In short, I typically rush my art out. I don't work on a character design first and then post it. I just draw a single rough sketch and then give it lines and colors and maybe a background.

It just feels beneath me now. And I don't mean that in a pretentious way, I mean that in a "This doesn't feel like the best I can do" sort of way. It's no wonder I've felt really disappointed in myself for a while.

So, I'm changing how I work. I am no longer sticking my head in the sand and barreling towards a finish. I'm going to focus more on fleshing designs and characters out, and then I'll post them publicly if I feel like it. This isn't my day job, but I treated it like it was and that led to a negative impact on my overall work.

This means my art will come out slower - much slower - but it will be better quality art at the least. I can only hope everyone else thinks that way, too.