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Hi everyone I wanted to address this personally before the year’s end, and before I post my final finished artwork for 2021 in the following days. I’ll be taking a hiatus from working on Spunkbug art for a few months in early 2022 next year. The specific time away is yet to be determined. This year’s artlog, with primary focus on polished pieces rather than sketch art, was personally the hardest to get through and the hardest to feel satisfaction progressing and finishing.


This year’s experience began with a personal situation that happened for two months. I’m not going to go into detail on what it was. The time I normally would have to progress on art fluctuated wildly. A lot of weekends and nights I had planned to focus on art were cancelled or had to be put off, forcing art I had insisted I’d finish soon at a glacial pace. Money was wasted over workaround plans that failed in action. A screaming match or two happened during this time. Record heat waves hit just as things were calming down.


Dual-Promare was planned to be the first to be finished, for March. In the end it was finished later into the Summer because of the aforementioned setbacks. I was really excited for it but the project didn’t track well. Dual-Promare’s traction on DA for instance was abysmal. After it was posted, I had two demanding pieces also in the works (mentioned below.) I began to doubt myself if the time I was trying to find to complete them would be even worth it. The drive to finish those two was gone. It was not an enjoyable process working towards completing them. It’s been a frustrating year personally and I didn’t enjoy it as much as I wished. I’m burnt out on developing new art for characters too.


This month, December 2021, you’ll see the finished results of both the Kim Pine piece and the Helluva Boss comic. After these release, I’ll be on hiatus.


I had ideas for 2022. A satirical narrative on supremacy plus the wealth for health in multiple pieces. A novella was briefly considered. Even thought of opening commissions for the first time. But I can’t do it. I’m spunked out. I want to start next year off later and with a fresh slate. When I return to working on art soon I hope to start artwork I would once again feel motivated and enjoy finishing. I will still keep in touch with mutuals on Discord and update the Twitter account. I’ve been considering doing a “yard sale” of characters and designs I’ve no longer been using, so keep an eye for any news on that soon if it’ll happen. Some long-used characters like Sublime the Slime might be there. December 2021 will also be the very last time I’ll be updating the old Tumblr page. There will be no more updates on there after the year’s end.


Thank you all so much for the support throughout 2021. If this year was also miserable for you personally, celebrate your holidays loudly wth friends or family and tell the year (and 2020 if you feel like it) to fuck right off.


2022 is shaping up to be very rocky too. The Omicron variant is going around, keep your masks on and keep washing those hands. On Twitter there will be a mid-term retweet thread for my American followers at some point this year. We’re in this together. Weirdos like me, you, all of us.


Here's one little tease below for something guaranteed for 2022. It was originally planned for this year's end.

Thanks. I’m out, night night.

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If you want an update on what's to come for next year, please read! 

2019's focus this year was to focus less on Doo--I mean, Spunkbug artwork and more of what I do outside of it, which has been very successful. The art I've done this year has been fewer than usual for this account but have been mostly consistently strong pieces I wound up being happy with. Two of this year's pieces have been ideas saved for years that I finally wound up getting around to doing (Perky's house and The Fraternity). As nice has this been for Spunkbug, I'm looking to do more for my personal work sometime soon which I'm not entirely certain when exactly that will be.

I opened a Newgrounds account very early in the year, where I'll be able to post any uncensored art of my work should things get especially spunky after it's finished thru linework. The Tumblr has mostly been a ghost town since the algorithm purge, with the site's former owners now selling it off for astronomically less than what they paid for initially. Artwork is still being updated on there but less of a focus, while "Scrap Dumps" are continuously posted here on DA and occasionally individual sketches are shared on NG.

NEXT YEAR’S PLAN

2020 I hope to get as much as I can done for both Spunkbug and my personal side when I have the time to, but it also depends on my scheduling and whether or not I can fulfill dedicating to art streams and progress. I don't want to put too much focus on one over the other unlike last year, but some Spunkbug art might need to be finished off-stream if the moment calls for it. This year I'll also be trying at doing more "rough un" art, where I'll be finishing certain pieces in a polished sketchier form rather than in full background and linework polish. I've tried this before with "Sanity Hacked" (Spooky Mansion) and "My Bugs" (Nightmare Before Xmas) and it went well. This method will result in a bit more artwork should all then initially planned pieces for 2020 be fulfilled early, I have back-up art on the side in case it happens too.

Here’s a taste of what’s coming! 

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THE NAME CHANGE!

For years I didn't feel like putting together a Twitter for Perky, Goldie, or any of the other characters here. I didn't feel like spreading them out to every corner of the internet and who knows how long I'll want to keep doing art for them? Other size artists joined on Twitter and spoke favorably of it, so I finally decided last Fall to try opening one for Dook-spunk specifically. But my personal catch was that I'd, after ten years of tip-toeing around the size/macro community, get a full name change. The DA username was overdue for a renaming as well, having last been updated in years when I was branding myself under a simpler name. So, Spunkbug I am now! It was a username I wanted that could be simple for friends or close in the community can look up and a fresh name after years of retooling or adjusting familiar names I had used over the years.

I hope you all understand and thank you for reading, I hope you continue to follow and inspire into the new year.

Thanks!
-Spunkbug

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STREAM LOG
09/02/2019 - The Fraternity (tiedowns)
09/07/2019 - The Fraternity (tiedown finish), Bonk Monk (blocking), Ruff Nightmare (blocking)
09/13/2019 - The Fraternity (lineart, finished offstream)
09/21/2019 - Daniel Phanatos (blocking + tiedowns)
09/26/2019 - Daniel Phanatos (lineart + finish)
10/01/2019 - Sketch session
10/05/2019 - Perky Home Invasion (tiedowns) + sketches
10/08/2019 - Bonk Monk (tiedowns) + sketches
10/12/2019 - Perky Home Invasion (rough cleanup)
10/19/2019 - Perky Home Invasion (lineart)
10/25/2019 - Perky Home Invasion (background)
11/03/2019 - Perky Home Invasion (background progress) + sketches
11/09/2019 - Bonk Monk (rough polish) + Ruff Nightmare (blocking)
11/30/2019 - Ruff Nightmare (tiedowns) + Bonk Monk (background start; lineart finished off-stream)
12/08/2019 - Bonk Monk (background progress)
12/14/2019 - Bonk Monk (BG + shading? progress)
12/23/2019 - CHARITY sketch session 
12/28/2019 - Charity sketch session PART 2 (finishing leftover requests)
1/12/2019 - Perky + Marvel Runaway Interview + DC Titans Go (blocking)
1/18/2020 - Marvel Runaway Interview (tiedowns)
1/25/2020 - Runaway Interview (ruff cleanup) + DC Titans Go (tiedowns)
2/8/2020 - Perky Valentines (tiedowns) + more?
2/15/2020 - Marvel Runaway Interview (finish!) + DC Titans Go (lineart finish)
2/16/2020 - Geekettes Drive-Thru (blocking) + Goldie Carrie (blocking)
3/1/2020 - DC Titans Go (background + finish?) + sketches
3/8/2020 - Geekettes Drive-Thru (tiedowns) + Gashi Gashi (blocking) + NYMPH JAM (thumnails) 
3/15/2020 - Nymph Jam (blocking) + Alice and Alex (blocking)
3/22/2020 - Perky Valentines (background and finish?) + Geekettes Drive-Thru (tiedowns finish)
3/27/2020 - Nymph Jam (tiedowns progress)
3/28/2020 - Alice and Alex (tiedowns) + Nymph Jam (tiedowns finish)
4/04/2020 - Geekettes Drive-Thru (background + finish) + maybe a bit more?
4/25/2020 - Nymph Jam (background + finish)
5/2/2020 - Gashi Gashi (tiedowns)
5/16/2020 - Sketch session
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Hey! Our sketch session last night for charity (donating to SOS Amazonia = sketch request fulfilled) raised $56.5 dollars from the six drawings done. It will total to roughly $227 Brazillian real once converted there. I just donated an extra $50 dollars, counted with the amount from last night it will total to well over $400 real when converted.

The sketches as usual will be saved for sharing later in sketch sets on DA, one or two might even be posted on Newgrounds on their own.

If you still would like to donate to SOS Amazonia I’ll share the link below, the rainforest isn’t going to put itself out.
The slogan “can’t someone else do it?” won’t work either.

doe.sosamazonia.org.br/en

Feel free to also spread donations out to these organizations as well:
www.institutoterra.org/eng/
amazonwatch.org/donate
wwf.panda.org/

Later this year I might do another charity stream, the next sketch session next month will be a usual freebie request session. It’s fun being an altruist.

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If you want an update on what's to come for next year, please read! 

So a lot of work I wanted to do professionally this year outside of Dook-spunk didn’t get done, a lot for Dook-spunk was getting done and way ahead of my initial 10-drawing plan for the year. It affected my personal drive and public attitude knowing that as much as it was nice to work on Dook-spunk art, I should really also focus on what I want to really work on myself outside of it. Dook-spunk is currently well at almost 1,300k followers on Tumblr while the DA account has over 1,900k and I want to adjust focus next year, try to work on some interesting things and help myself. 

NEXT YEAR’S PLAN

There will be way less activity and art on Dook-spunk than it has been as of late. 2018 finished off with about 15 or so finished pieces of art of varying degrees of effort. For 2019 my initial drawing plan will be only about 7 pieces this year, sketches on the side will still be periodically worked on and will be posted in the usual “scrap dumps”. This will go into affect next year after I finish my last two planned drawings for this year.

Here’s a taste of what’s coming! 

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THREAT OF THE ALGORITHM

Also, at least for the Tumblr account - there’s a terms of service change that could affect the site’s finicky algorithm in how it tracks down pornbots and real porn. The system is designed to not support real pornography but already proven thus far it’s been affecting some of the NSFW artists who already had our blogs self-branded out of “Safe Zone”. (Size photo-shops are real children are fine on DA if you’re wondering, you questionable freak)

What will go into affect for Tumblr after this post goes live is that I will delete some of the more smuttier posts and sketches and will leave complete Pieces of Scrap sets on DA only. Before the TOS changes this year I was starting to lean on the idea of getting into a little more smuttier art than I normally would, guess that idea is mostly going out the window for this website.

SOCIAL MEDIA

I have a Discord server and Newgrounds page now if you want to keep following Dook-spunk anywhere else than Tumblr. Both sites I will periodically drop in and update now and then - as well as manage the Discord should something go iffy, though again with my New Year agenda I won’t be devoting attention as I would’ve this year.

Here is a link to the Discord server:

And here is the Newgrounds page: dookspunk.newgrounds.com/

I hope you all understand and thank you for reading, I hope you continue to follow and inspire into the new year.

Thanks!
-Dookspunk

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