Primary creative focus: Developing plots into something actually writeable. I got a slightly cackhanded system down for that but it should make it much easier for me to sit down and commit to long projects. Old method of rotating plots weekly/monthly is no longer viable because of that so I will be focusing on 1-2 main plot at a time from hereon out. I will still be drawing for other plots and writing unresearched drabbles when I wanna but I cannot write novel size stories using the monthly rotation system I previously had. 

I would like to release these stories with illustrated chapters. I have done a style test for those recently but need to repeat the test on my iPad too. Illustrations would look something like this:
Image of Jasper and William, OC's for my WW1 story. Art was done for a prompt event around WW1 OC's in a server I'm in.

I do have future pipeline ideas involving animatics/odd animations for when those stories are written and light comic work but ye. That's a future thing once I've done a much needed skill glow-up. I'm developing these stories as SFW (though will still likely be rated mature to heavy themes) and but do have plans to release a SFW and NSFW version so folks can choose if they read the clean take or the take with smut on the side.

Primary project: WW2 story. I have plenty of research to pull off this story as a novel and enough outlined it's reasonable to aim for 50,000 words for the Spitfire part of the story alone. 100,000 words for the entire story following Hendrix and Beck through the entire war is total goal. Still need to tidy odd research notes so they're more coherent, I'm starting to outline the Lancaster part of the story.

Secondary project: WW1 story. Whilst I'm not quiet ready to get the scenes into an actual writeable outline I do have enough research done and I write enough 1917 fanfic with more planned it's actually worth me having this project as a secondary regardless. If there's interest, my Ao3 (where I'll also post original works alongside TH) is here.

Other plans: Stories I'm still feeling out vibes and tone for and figuring out what I want to write about.

1. Age of Sail: follows Naval officers Francis, Owen & Archie through 1804. Potential to become a small series. This one's set to become next writeable project I'm intending to focus on once I've written the first half of the WW2 story.
2. Sci-Fi/Historical: Follows WW1 Army soldiers getting thrown out of their timeline and into a starship in the the future. May have a whole thing with time agents subtly changing history. I don't really know what I want from this except exploring concept of people from past reacting to the future so this one is on deep back burner whilst I hash that out for now.
3. Battle of Jutland: Follows naval officers through 1916 with heavy focus on Battle of the Jutland. Also has potential to become a small series.
4. Dieselpunk: Loose idea around biplanes vs zeppelins. Dunno if gonna be WW1 alternate history or more inter-war, dunno how hard I'll go on the sci-fi part of Dieselpunk.
5. Ancient Rome: Dunno what focus will be but I do wanna look into Ancient Rome sailing & ship warfare techniques for it. 

Future Pipeline (ideas waiting to be greenlit, may end up merged or played as AU's of existing ideas): 

• Georgian era sailpunk thing
• Sci-horror involving a recent cargo shipment 
• WW1 round 3 but with different characters & focusing on enemies being forced to work together

Burnout/hiatus notice: I haven't been doing much in terms of art due to 2 year burnout caused by irl reasons.
Some of it is admittedly on me for unhealthy time blocking and pushing too hard to make most of leave whilst the rest is due to ongoing irl stress. I should be enrolling into uni for real this September as long as I don't get hit with another admin error on intake dates/getting pushed back to Covid uncertainties again so it may take me a while to settle into a revised system that'll help me to avoid creative burnout in the future. I do have sketches and some finished stuff I'd like to share but I'm looking to build a backlog for a buffer before I post again.

But once I get a better suited system set up I should be able to go back to being semi-regular. At east until I hit my first sea phase. I have been getting back into things with odd sketches but I need to learn to draw on my iPad and I'm gonna pick up graphite drawing again too. Learning curve does have potential to slow me down a little. I'm gonna use those WIP sketches done digital to help make it easier to learn up Procreate (though any tips/pointers/brush recs are very welcome! I'm most interested in recreating my pencil liner brush & primary shading brush from Sai but dunno how doable that is. Or at least getting something close to it.

Main art focus: Learning backgrounds, how to do cinematic colour, learning to tell a story with posing. All things I'll need to get down for illustrating these projects & future pipeline projects. Naturally will be doing more work on anatomy, poses & other problem areas that I can handle with an all round art glow-up.