《Shovels In Spades》Hsiao-Han Artwork + Announcement Reminder
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As I announced in Davido Hamilio's artwork post, I am currently on holiday in Prague with the Royal Road staff and won't be back until the 30th of this month.
As far as chapters are concerned, that means none this week and only 1 next week for all of my stories. While I am here I am going to try to write a handful of chapters, but they'll only be posted to Patreon since I'm behind on the goal rewards over there and this is a good chance for me to work towards fixing that during my holiday instead of taking a random hiatus from public releases to do it.
So yeah, I'll probably post a character popularity poll for this story in a few days since we haven't had one in a while and there's no better time to post it than now.
I hope you enjoy the art and please don't bully me for taking a (liberal) break.
Hsiao-han Art
I'm personally not 100% content with this art, but I am a rather nit-picky person and the art certainly isn't bad, just not what I imagined. I'm sure I'll get it redone by someone else given time, though I am happy with some certain aspects of it, the gauntlets in particular.
Your thoughts?
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