Hey, yβall!!
Hope youβre keeping life safe n clean. Letβs get into what I got goin on this week for you!
WELCOME NEW PATRONS!!
First I want to thank πZaffytaffyπ for being the next top-tier patron!! Dude I canβt thank you enough for signing up for this particular tier. Given our current climate, it means so much that youβre willing to provide for me and all of my creative endeavors. Deeply and truly, thank you. :3
And the same goes for SwatKat, Regal, Sin, Roylee, JrSonic 2003, Stefan Vincent, and Ant for supporting me, too!! The kindness from people like you and all of my other supporters gives me the lift I need to keep pushing forward with my projects and challenges. Looking forward to another amazing month with yβall. UwU
WHAT TO EXPECT THIS WEEK
For starters, I want to thank all of you for the encouragement while I put together last weekβs illustration. I feel the restart was a super good move for me. While Iβm still in the midst of coloring it, I should have it completed today!
Thursday I had scheduled a 1-week vacation to go to Hawaii with my friends, but that had to be cancelled for obvious reasons. So my vacation has turned into a staycation! Thing is... Iβve had a really difficult time forcing myself to not work. I felt it necessary to keep working on my Patreon work during my vacation. This space has been so therapeutic for my creativity to flow more freely and focus on the projects that matter to me most. But part of that process is knowing when to take time off for myself. Knowing when to cool off is important if I want to keep creating content.
Iβve been thinking a lot about how I want to keep making content here and give myself the balance I need to stay motivated and healthy. Iβll be giving myself a week off Patreon every 6 weeks or every other month. On top of the work I do here, I also work full-time in the games industry as a concept artist. Itβs a LOT of work to do my job, Patreon, and my own personal projects at the same time. These breaks are something I need. I hope yβall can understand. ; w ;
In terms of what Iβll be doing this week, I have a concept for a hot-as-heck Minotaur illustration! I havenβt sketched him out yet, but Iβll definitely have something to share in time for WIP Wednesday! After that, however, Iβll be taking the week off to refocus and take a much deserved breather.
I hope yβall understand where Iβm coming from. A year and 3 months of solid, weekly illustrations and comics without a break isnβt healthy for anybody. Taking these breaks will help lift my mood, ensure newer projects can come in, and will directly impact the quality of my work. I want to make stuff Iβm proud of. Not for the sake of keeping a schedule, but for the sake of my own happiness and fulfillment.
I donβt say this enough, but Iβm genuinely thankful for the friends and the fanbase Iβve made over the past year here. Thank you for sticking with me and for genuinely the best group of supporters ever. ππΊππΊπ
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