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Taken from pickles FA journal
Discontinuing Family Tensions
2 days ago
Oi, this journal entrys going to kinda suck if you're a fan of the comic but I'm hoping I can get across why, and my future plans.
I think the biggest reason is that the passion just isn't there anymore. After four years, it's hard to find the energy to keep it going. Theres so many other things I want to work on but drawing FT ends up taking up so much time. I want to say I can could tough it out and draw like 4 hours of FT a day and then 4 hours of something else but eventually I hit a hard limit when my wrist starts to hurt too much, I take a couple days off and lose the entire momentum. I'm also mentally in a way different place than the last couple years. When my partner was going through chemo and everything was in lockdown, or after my partner passed away, it was way eaiser to just bury myself in the comic/artwork and ignore things. Things are alot different now, I've made a whole new friend group, I have a new partner and I've been going to a BJJ gym for almost a year. I feel a lot happier, but all of these new commitments require a lot of tiem as well.
Next reason, finances! Every other month it takes up about a week to 12 days where I make no income and usually end up hurting my wrist trying to hit a deadline. From 2018 to 2020, my income stagnated because of how much time went into the comic. I was barely making a living wage from art and when i picked up shifts from my old job to cover the gap, I would lose a bunch of time that could go into the comic. This year I cut back on how many comic pages were being drawn and focused more on commissions, and I've hit several financial goals that would have seemed impossible two years ago. I don't wanna sound all money hungry but I like being able to pay rent.
The comic itself is so far behind where I wanted it to be. That entire section where they go to the creek was supposed to be drawn and posted like two years ago. A big chunk of this is due to poor planning,because when I started the comic I didn't have a plot outline or a defined schedule. There would be a scene I wanted to draw, but the pages building up to the scene would end up becomming 20 more pages to do. If you're jumping into doing a big project, for the love of God please put time into setting up a foundation and a timeline, it'll bite you in the ass really hard later on.
The comics been very fun to work on, it was my first huge long term project and It was really fun getting feedback from readers and having a small group of people who checked in and followed the comic. It helped me alot with drawing and getting work done. It's an easy benchmark to look through the first 30 pages and then look at the current pages to see how far I've come and where I've improved or still need work. I didn't really want to be another artist that makes another massive project and then discontinues it halfway through but I just don't want to work on it anymore.
With all that in mind, here's the plan for the future!
There's still about 8 or 10 pages to post, which I will do throughout November. Unfortunately it's definintely going to end on a cliffhanger. I will be drawing a bunch of pinups of the characters fucking around, because a very consistent comment was people just wanting to see some sex, so I'll be doing that. Probably like 20 pics or something over a couple months.
In the long term, I'll be splitting the time to do more TF/vore/nullo art. More stuff with the Hendersons. I'm entering a phase where I really want to draw cute Himbo's in trouble (I don't think it's a phase lol), and I already have one short comic done featuring alien/abduction/nullification that I'll be posting publicly in a few months. I'm also hoping to get into animation. I bought the software for it like two years ago and haven't touched it yet, so I'm hoping to change that real soon and get out some horny stuff.
It was fun while it lasted. If enough people are interested, I'll make a journal entry describing what I wanted with the long term story of the comic.
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