Around mid-2021, after getting frustrated with failing to even start a comic one after another, an idea popped up in my head. It's about a magical gunslinging cowboy devil girl riding dinosaurs in space.

Ever since then I have tweaked and experimented with how I wanted to tell this story. I've hit multiple problems of course, I've even gave it up at one point. But I really like the idea. So I kept going. I made a lot of drawings, plotted a bunch of disconnected and even contradicting storylines. A bunch of them made it in here. I was satisfied for a time. But a 2-part first chapter with barely any story is not what I wanted to make. I want something more, and so I got frustrated again. Made a new comic, this time I actually found a way to make comics in a way that I enjoy. Maybe I just cast off my pride and stopped trying to make the perfect piece of literature. But I was satisfied. For a time. Again.

I just can't let go of what I was developing for nearly 3 years. I have created lots of characters with unique stories. That's when I had an epiphany. I just want to draw characters. Telling stories was never the first thing that comes in my mind while thinking about comics. Maybe that's a bad way of thinking, but that realization is what made me want to start a "new" project: the Anastasia Project - where I just make character designs, put them in a grid, and tell a short story about it. It's going to take a while and I don't even know if I will be able to finish the goals that I've set myself up for this year because of it, but whatever. I just want to be happy. I know might stumble upon problems, but I want to be better this time and make it work.

Don't know if this news post is even coherent, but I want to put this here as a reminder of a new beginning.

I'll probably make an art thread about it, but I just don't know how to organize it yet :/