Convention season is over!

Which means I can spend more time on art! And that means more time to work on my visual novel!

However, I have a few other projects that have priority:

- Forever Young Eternity Book 5 art (25% done) - this book is due in the first quarter of the next year (2023)
- Pen-i Volume 5 art (due around May/June 2023)

I probably have 1-2 weeks between the release of Pen-i 5 and my (thus far) last planned convention of 2023, so that one is going to be tight. I have to have it fully done before the final comics are drawn, hence why I am starting this early.

Pen-i 5 is also the last volume of the Pen-i series, for now, because 1 volume combines 3 years and that means I'll have 3 years before the next volume. 

Forever Young Eternity book 6 and 7 are due in 2024 and 2025, giving me more time for that art and leaving me with time for other projects, art and whatevers. Will that mean I'll give priority to the Visual Novel? 

Nopes. Because forced art makes ugly art. I want to keep on working on this while I am motivated and that means taking it easy.

Anyway, I finished one scene and am getting closer to the end of 'Part 1'. I might be halfway now? Next up:

- Drawing a lonely house in the forest
- Drawing a door opening
- Drawing the inside
- Drawing the gruesome part
- Drawing a mirror
- Drawing the full body
- Getting clothes
- Drawing the full body with her new clothes
- And there's lotsa touching this and that, but hopefully I can reuse the touching-frames for that.

And that would conclude the end of part 1. But at least I finished the cute-lovely scene in the forest!




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