Hey everyone, I’ve been trying to improve my Stickfigure creation and artistic skills and so I’ve been playing around with certain art techniques and ideas applied through Stick Nodes.

Today I was working with Block Gradients, which are essentially just blockier, layered colours to simulate a gradient. I’ve been writing notes and I thought I’d see if anyone was interested in reading them?

I just want to preface that these notes are written up roughly and then maybe refined before I share them, so if they sound like they’re trying to state facts rather than opinions or if I make any mistakes, that’s just an issue on my part.

If you disagree with anything said or if I’m wrong, you’re welcome to correct me. 💬

𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐍𝐨.? | 𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐧𝐞.

❗️ WARNING : This is an EXTREMELY long post with lots of detail about many things pertaining to myself and primarily Lemonline Studios. If you read this all, you are crazy, maybe in a good way, maybe in an odd way, only you’ll know ( mostly by if you’re a homie or not )

I don’t actually know the last time I made a genuine update post, since it’s usually for project specific stuff. On that note, I figured I’d try and keep track of it and start back at one.

I have a few things in mind that I want to discuss so I’ll go through each and try and break this post apart a bit so it’s easier to read. 💬

🍋 Lemonline Studios 🍋
This is my beloved, my child- and I believe in my child. 💓

Jokes aside though, the range of this brand for me- or better yet, the belief of how far it can go and what I want to make out of it, it’s truly something very special and important to me.

I don’t really believe in empty words of faith or promises toward belief without true action. So despite the praise I give it, I know I’m holding back on expressing just how far I believe it can go and what it can be for different people. Putting the faith and self-belief to the side for now though, I want to specifically discuss projects and what I have planned. 🌅

📖 PROJECT AGENDA : 📖

I’ve been unable to offer anything to LLS at this time due to personal restrictions that have directly hindered the progression of LLS, despite this, things seem to be getting better as of recent and I am optimistic about what I can offer to LLS as far as resource are concerned.

I have been studying and reading up on different sources of information that relates to how I can run and manage LLS and it’s only a start. Most of the insight I read up I have some idea on, but once I know I can offer certain resources, such as time and money, then I know I can begin to plan deliberately for what I know I can accommodate for. ✍️

Anyways, let’s talk specifics..

| Gaming content 👾
I’ve been putting gaming videos out for a little bit now, albeit it’s been some time since the last, but a big contributor to our regular content fill will be gaming videos. The idea is to find a better way to manage the process of: Recording > Cutting > Editing > Posting > Marketing so once I have figured something out, getting content out should be way easier. I have some great ideas and visions of what I want to do, but I get caught up on handling all of the details.

| Occasional animations 📼
These animations will serve as something a bit more meaningful than the regular content LLS will output, but won’t be huge. Given certain animations gain traction and there are plans for whole series or a longer animation, we will invest to said animation and give the people what they want. I have some animation ideas I already want to try out, but don’t want to lean into making full production projects out of, so these animations will offer free entertainment but also gauge the retention to determine whether to follow-through or not.

| Collaborative events 👥
As you may already know, we’ve recently been handling the Advertisement Collab 2K26, and whilst I’ve delayed it, I do plan on releasing it fully. The point here, however, is that other collaborative events are planned and since handling the Ad Collab 2K26, it’s given me SO much knowledge of what to do next time, so the issues this collab has won’t be likely to happen again.

| Informative content – Tutorials 🤔
While I’ve been bidding my time and trying to get some contributions in towards something productive, I have taken up Stickfigure creation again. This won’t mean that this is the focus for now and for a while, it just means that one of the types of content I plan to release will be informative. A lot of tutorials in Stick Nodes can be more of a vague follow-along than anything truly replicable or intuitive; not only will this content type cover this dilemma, but also will be sourcing knowledge from different creators and pursuits of creating within Stick Nodes, from Character creation, Art design, all the way to Animation itself. It’ll certainly be a larger undertaking, but there is plans to reach out to different creators and to begin real research into understanding how to create what you wish to create in Stick Nodes.

| Large-scale Projects 🔆
These will easily take the longest to produce as they will take a marginal amount of time to create and regulate, but also will likely yield the most out of our content. Some of these projects could be long-form animations or entire series, hiring specific talent is necessary here which will be financially steep and time consuming, not excessively so, but careful consideration will be applied here.

That about covers it for LLS at the moment, and primarily focuses on the blunt explanation of what I have planned so if it sounds underwhelming or like the same ideas, that’s mostly due to current circumstances, but moreso due to the confidenti…[Read more]