Aenigma Essentia Comic Update Delay

I was unable to finish the page on time because I haven't been feeling too well lately. However, I've gotten half of the work done so far, which is drawing the characters and laying out the page. The other half that needs to be done is the shading and text. It will take a bit of time for me to do the shading as I plan to put some detail in the background for this page. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish this page by Thursday. Thanks for being patient.
Here's the preview of the page:

Colored Sketches and Zootopia Fanart

Wow, I've been busy lately and haven't been able to work on my art much. But do not worry, I've got quite a lot of stuff to show in this post.

I finally colored the sketches from my last post. Just a quick color on drawpile... I noticed I had a small problem with coloring on drawpile. When I tried to shade the two Everthianas, the colors became blotchy for some reason, so I had to redo it. It was weird how that happened. Oh well, at least I had no problem coloring Yejide. o.O

Aside from my sketches, I just recently watched the movie Zootopia with my hubby and loved it. I highly recommend folks to watch it, especially if you love animated films and animals. Anyway, I decided to create some fanart. I wanted to see some of the characters in my own style. ^_^

Here's Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde. It was a bit of a challenge to decide how they would look in my style. I did my best, especially with their hairstyle since they don't have hair in their original style/form. Ahaha... ^^;;;

Here's the lineart version of the piece as well.

I really like how this one came out... I was aiming for Shakira as a gazelle anthro... Or the character Gazelle from Zootopia resembling more like Shakira... Either works. rofl xD;;;

And here is the lineart version. ^_^
Well, that is all for today's art blog post. Hope you all enjoy my strange art. =P

Minor Artblock And Some Other News

Art Block
I had a bit of a minor artblock for the last couple of days and tried to fight it off by sketching my muse Everthiana. I also drew Yejide from Aenigma Essentia because I can. There's something therapeutic about drawing my AE characters... anyway, I'm just glad I was able to draw still despite feeling bleh.

I like how they came out in this sketch done entirely on Drawpile. Yes, I'm still practicing on this program. So far it seems it has all the vital tools a digital artist needs, and that's good enough for me. The only problem I have so far is the eraser tool, it just feels strange to me. There's nothing wrong with the tool, it just got a different feel to it and will take a while for me to get used to it...

I'm going to color these sketches and see how it turns out. I have a lot of work to do in terms of coloring because I have troubles with arbitrary things such as color. I also need to improve my shading as I tend to do it rather lightly or in a weak manner; I'm aware my stuff can seem rather bland or flat. I'm hoping to find a coloring and shading style that better suits with my own drawing style as well as get rid of my bad habits... >.<;

Webcomic Site Updates
I've recently made some minor changes to the webcomic sites. I decided to fuse the Gallery and Extras section as one. AEssentia and Omega will have the Extras section as most of the materials will be bonus material. R&C on the other hand gets the gallery as most of the stuff I post there are just illustrations. There's no bonus material for that series because of the nature of it; what you see is what you get and most of the things you see will be within the comic. Also, I'd like to mention that any news regarding my webcomic series will be posted here, so it will not interrupt with the flow of the comics. I've added this blog's link to each of the webcomic's menu.

Rika & Chivek Status
So some of you may have noticed I haven't updated the series since Valentine's Day. The thing is, I haven't been feeling very motivated to do the series since I have other projects to manage. I also have to be in a particular mood to do this series... either silly, goofy, not-serious, etc. By default I'm a serious kind of person, and so I feel much more comfortable working on AEssentia or Omega. The good news is that I am currently working on the next episode, hopefully it'll be out by this Friday night. Bad news is that the series will most likely experience frequent and long hiatuses... with or without notice.