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A long hiatus

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So, I just logged onto my account for the first time since October, and I have over seven thousand notifications. The thought of digging through all those notification makes me want to go on another hiatus until next October, so I thought I'd just explain what's been going on here.


Firstly, I am not dead! Yay! There isn't anything wrong on my end.


I have been very busy lately. As you may know, I had a baby in August. The older she gets, the more attention she needs. I've had to put a lot of things on hold. I'm still drawing. I just haven't been posting much anywhere. It's been nice to draw just for myself.


I still don't think I'll be around much. I do plan to eventually coming back, but right now I have a beautiful little time sink that needs all my attention.

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Hello my lovely watchers! It has been a while since I did an update, and I have a lot going on so I thought it was time for a journal.

The biggest project looming on the horizon for me right now is the Unfledged launch! All the pages are completed and formatted. The only thing left to do is schedule the posts. I will be posting ahead of time on Patreon (link at the bottom of the journal). Until launch, this DeviantArt account is going to be all Unfledged all the time! I'll be posting new art with the Unfledged characters, and old art that hasn't been posted on DeviantArt before. It will be a lot of fun! I have been a bit less active than usual these days, but I hope to step up my activity a bit in the lead up to the launch :D.

Unfledged launches July 3rd, 2018!

Patreon Launch is June 19th, 2018!


Link:
unfledged.cfw.me/
Unfledged Cover Art - Take 1 by curiousdoodler
The biggest project in my life overall is my pregnancy! I announced on here a little while ago, but as my due date (8/13) approaches, my activity will decrease. Rest assured! Mountain Divide and Unfledged will continue uninterrupted, however, announcements about new pages may not be coming out as regularly. If you rely on Twitter, Facebook, or DA for links to new pages, those links may go away for a few weeks in August. I suggest a bookmark folder with links to the webcomics. Mountain Divide is updated automatically every Saturday and Unfledged will be updated automatically every Tuesday. Another option is Patreon. Patreon will also automatically update the comics at least two weeks ahead of the main websites. The extra nice thing about patreon is that you can set it up to deliver push notifications to your phone through the mobile app and/or email updates about new content. Apologies for the changes, and I do intend for them to be temporary. As soon as I start to put my life back in order with a new little human, I will go back to posting update links on social media for new pages, but I am certain that will take some time!
I'm Pregnant! by curiousdoodler
Finally, I am launching a new NSFW DeviantArt account curiousafterdark. As you may have guessed from my most recent poll, I have some NSFW ideas that I want to play with. Since I have not been posting NSFW content on this account, it feels unfair to watchers to change the content suddenly. However, I do need to practice drawing nude characters and some of my characters are a bit more raunchy than I feel I can draw them on a SFW account. So, I am basically moving Samsah and Delilon (gender swapped Samson and Delilah) over to curiousafterdark. Samsah just does not fit in a SFW world. I will post other NSFW pieces over there also. There may be an occasional cross post between the two accounts, with a censored version being posted here and an explicit version over there, but for the most part I intend to keep art exclusively to one account or the other. So if you want to see all my work, you need to watch :iconcuriousafterdark: along with this account. 

Here's the first post on curiousafterdark:
Samsah by curiousafterdark
That is all the news from me! Let me know if you have any questions :D

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I have started a sub-Reddit for CuriousDoodler projects. I thought about creating sub-Reddits for Mountain Divide and Unfledged separately, but decided against it. Neither project is big enough to sustain it's own sub-Reddit and, this way, I can make announcements that relate to both or neither project in the same convenient place :). Primarily, I'll be posting page updates there. I prefer the comment section on Reddit over the comment section native to my comic hosting site so Reddit will be a good place to talk about the pages :D
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Rules:

Answer 10 questions that you have been asked
Create 10 more questions for the others that you tagged to answer.
Tag 10 people.

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1. Favorite type of drink?
Caffeinated or alcoholic. Preferably both ;)
2. Do you have a preferred medium of art? (Digital, tradition, 3D even?)
For long drawn out projects, I prefer digital. It's easier to keep track of everything digitally and it's the medium I've been working in the longest so it's the one I have the most familiarity with. For just relaxing after work, I like sketching and pen and ink. If I have a lot of free time, I like to bust out the water colors :)
3. Whose an artist or some artists that really influenced your style? If you can't think of that, then one or a few whose style you're really into? (Or both these questions, if you'd like!)
On DA I love the work of StressedJenny and WildEllie My hands down favorite artist of all time is Jacques Louis David.
4. Dream job?
Internet content creator. How fan-fracken-tastic would it be to be paid to create my comics Smiley: Heart eyes 
5. Any pets?
A dog. Large. A mutt. Seven years old. My pretty girl, Bella Blue.
6. Favorite song? Or even one you're just really into right now?
At the moment, anything by Watskey.
7. What do you think is your personal favorite deviation right now?
Snails Pace by SarahCulture or  A caged beast by WildEllie or  Green fire by GreekCeltic hard to pick. I have a lot of faves ^^;
8. Do you like speedpaint/timelapse videos?
I prefer gifs where its super sped up.
9. Cheesecake: Yay or nay?
Hells yay.
10. Final question! What's your favorite season and why?
Autumn. Leaves. Nuff said.

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My questions Mwahahahahahahaha! 
  1. What's your number one highest priority goal right now?
  2. What's one thing you do everyday to drive towards your goal?
  3. What are your favorite pizza toppings?
  4. What's the perfect size for a dog?
  5. Where do you get your art supplies?
  6. Coffee or tea?
  7. How many books have you read this year?
  8. How does your answer to question seven make you feel?
  9. Pie or cake?
  10. If you had to become one fictional character for the rest of your life, who would it be?
I tag:
anniecoleptic PrinSessBun Obelis TurningTideStudio 


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I had every intention of ending Mountain Divide at the end of 2018. I have an ending written and drawn and I was going to pack up that world and move on to other stories. However, as you may have noticed if you read my status updates, I am not enthused with the idea of saying good bye to Lily and Mia. So, I have decided not to. I am plotting and have a first arc roughed out to continue that story for two to three more years. I'm going to call this year and next years chapters one story, Mountain Divide: Origins. The story that will be going out 2019 and on will be self contained. You won't need to have read Origins to understand what's going on, but it will be a huge help as the new series will be continuing where the last left off. I only want to separate it from Origins so I'm not forcing new readers to go back and read pages with art I'm not overwhelmingly proud of. 

If you're more interested in Unfledged, fear not! I have been drawing pages for Unfledged and Mountain Divide since July, and it's going well! I can pretty easily work on both stories at once, so I will continue with my Unfledged plans. Unfledged will still launch 7/3/2018. The only thing that might be slightly delayed is the ebook version which probably won't be ready on webcomic launch day. 

I hope this news makes some of you happy! I love Mountain Divide and I don't feel like I've told all the story I set out to tell. I hope that by splitting Origin and the next series, I can give myself a bit of a clean start without needing to scrap the story entirely. I'm going to bump up the art and writing quality for the new series. It should be fun!

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