ARNAOUTIS MICHAEL
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Status Update!
🕑 Added 2021-09-01 18:10:30 +0000 UTCHello there, hope you all have been good :)?
I would like to go ahead and give you a small notice on how come I came to be absent for the whole month of August and maybe will be for the month of September as well.
As I had previously mentioned I tried for this summer to relocate myself in my family's country house to try and combine work (drawing) and vacations (sea). I made the necessarily preparations some time back by buying a small working office and chair and was fortunate enough to be able to get an internet connection to where my country house is which is in a very obscure location. It was not the best net connection but it would suffice to Stream at least I thought. So somewhere around the mid of July I relocated myself and my PC over there. Plans where made and started putting them in motion. Plans such as PATREON updates, emoticons for future streams, commissions etc....
Everything was going ok for the first 2 weeks. But after that if you people followed the news (which I think went global from what I read) Greece went on to suffer from a huge fire catastrophy on multiple locations. Some of those locations were near me and we were in constant evacuation order in case the wind changes and the fire follows. I will not go into details on the matter.
Many places around Greece suffered from it. As I read afterwards many power stations and power lines were destroyed from the fire fronts and many areas (included mine) went to a total power blackout for 1-2 weeks until they managed to somehow patch it up. My area was also evacuated one night in the fear of a small fire that was started nearby. Thankfully the fire fighters managed to get it off before it expands. It was the first time that I was without electricity for over than 2 days and all we had to eat was dry food and water to drink XD...........ok ok bad joke.........
So how did things went from therefore after. My family members came over when things settled down to have some relaxing time for their vacations as well. Now you can say why didnt you "work" even though your folks were there? Well simple answer, even though they kinda know what I work on I do not feel comfortable doing so when they can openly see. And because with me working we would have less "space" to move around. And I am not kidding you on the space department, the house is very small to the point where 1 room serves as a bedroom for 4-6 people if we get tight in which we did XD...........
All in all the random blackouts continued as well with what seemed as sudden power cuts with also randomized durations. That happens even now that my family has departed since their vacations and work off days have ended. I myself will be returning back in the end of the month of September.
So after all this time what do I have to show? So far almost nothing.......barely 2x preview sketches for 2x commissions for which I haven't got a reply back yet and just a picture I barely made for myself just when I thought I could go back on working before the blackouts started again..................not a good month work wise.......
Hopefully this will change for the month of September that I will remain here else it seems that I will have to restart everything from October where I will be back in town >.<.......
To conclude now on something that I want to address to PATREONs only. I would like you to sincerely vote on the following. Me being myself I feel "guilty" for not providing any kind of content for this month and might or might not be able to provide so for the running one as well. I had the idea to compensate with freeze the PATREON payments for this month at least and maybe the following. I will not lie even that small amount that you provide me through PATREON does help but for me I made up my mind. My manager doesnt agree with me since it was not a situation I could control or prevent. So what do you think?
Please vote below and comment if you want and know that I will respect any opinion or comment regarding it. Thank you!
Comments
Miche-san
Ok I sure hope this doens't end in a draw XD......................because it will be an awkward situation for me XD.......
Miche-san
Thanks for the response as well Gwahar, as mentioned to Malhavoc I will personally deny donations :). We shall have some poll results within the next week or sooner though :).
Gwahar
People generally freeze it for a month or two but I would be happy to keep my pledge as a donation.
