vampbyte

hi there! i'm really glad to hear you've enjoyed it even though it's been in purgatory for so long ^^;

it ended up on indefinite hiatus for a few reasons. it was a project i started immediately after graduating college (literally the very next day!) while i was still trying to get my work situation figured out and had a lot more free time to work on it. originally it was meant to be a lot shorter but (no doubt because of my inexperience) i drastically underestimated the length and kind of ended up in over my head with it. once it reached the point where it went on hiatus, i was feeling burned out and my skill level ended up mismatched with how RORY looked and was made. i thought i'd try working on it alongside a new project to see if that helped me channel those feelings productively, but instead it kind of just proved to me that i wasn't happy with how it was going and decided it'd best to shelve it. years have gone by since, and at this point it's so different from my current projects (which i already barely have time to work on sadly) that i don't see myself returning to it in the future.

another element is that tapas as a platform has changed a LOT in the time since i first started RORY and my other projects, and that has been a big factor contributing to my motivation/lack thereof. can't get into that too much, but i very much doubt that RORY (or any of my other projects, to be honest) would exist at all if the tapas of back then was like the tapas of today. probably will not be hosting any future projects on there sadly..

[shares appreciated!]

taking commissions for july! b/w gothic illustrations, portraits, surprise illustrations, and comic pages are all available for a limited time⭐

+ progress shots:

commissions are open for april!