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2022 Summary
🕑 Added 2023-01-02 23:08:21 +0000 UTCSo, it's time to make another summary post but this time it will be a special one as it covers not only December events but a whole 2022 in total. Well, it was a very hard year, definitely one of the hardest years in my life. I went through different horrible hardships in my life, being robbed in 16 and losing my only laptop and camera, living with mice and drunkard neighbors sleeping under my door, having my mother losing her mind, and now the hall of fame horrible shit is topped up with that year's disastrous event, not a war but my own big mistake which led to that awful summer. Living without my own personal space is something I never expected to experience again, despite it was nothing much different from just living with your family, thankfully I was pretty close with those people. But still, friends is not the same as family, it can't last forever and I lived whole 7 months in a constant fear about my vague future which could turn out very bad. War also added its bits causing lots of troubles with payment systems boycott which forced me to act quickly to not lose my income and look for new solutions, make myself a new card and jump through some hoops to create a Payoneer account to be able to withdraw my Patreon money. But I overcame it all and I'm happy that you were always with me here, even when I was tired and depressed living in the middle of nowhere and being able to treat you only with just lame photos of my drawings. It's 3.5 months since I moved but it still feels like I only began to recover from everything what happened and started my new normal life.
I know I was already posting such stuff but I want to do it again and share the chart showing my total progress since my Patreon was created and the one showing 2022 progress separately. It looks very promising and encouraging, especially the last updates which fixed that little downfall of payments in December, I believe it will get only better with time. Your support means a lot for me and I hope it will help me to reach higher heights.
Speaking of which, I need to do some prognosis for the future and 2023 in particular. My Patreon support is very good but it's still not enough to live freely. I still depend from commissions a lot, especially now when I had no choice but to move to a more expensive apartment. I guess I need about 40 more patrons to reach the point when commissions will stop being mandatory shit and my endless routine, then I will feel absolutely free to draw commissions only when I will want it MYSELF to draw them but not when my life just forces me to draw them to satisfy my needs and simply make ends together infringing on myself in personal matters. It's not that I don't like the things I do, I love every commissioner of mine and I love every piece I make and very often it's me who comes first and says "Hey, do you want a comm from me?", I'm just obliged to do it when I have bigger things to fry and that's the sad thing. Comms are good but every good thing still needs its limit. Being 100% free can open lots of new roads to me and let me do many things I can't do now such as:
-Start making my own OCs, not just "one and done", the ones I can treat with love and draw them often, tossing them in my commissions, drawing them with my friends instead of my sona (I already have ideas)
-Drawing more hot sequences (yeah, it's been a long time since I did any as you can see :( it's sad )
-Start drawing my first comic stories (at least 2-3 page ones)
-Take part in a Fandom's life more by drawing more art for trends and such, like Skunktember, Foxtober etc. (commissions also prevent me from planning so much stuff as well)
-Finally return to sculpturing which needs A LOT of free time for concentration and money for materials of course
-Start learning 3D again. Yes, I said again because I already had a good experience in 3D modeling with Blender when I was 15 year old. I learned very fast and did some nice models, still a newbie material but furry art made with that skill I had would look really well, at least I could easily make some simplistic retro styled 90s CGI, you know, like these crazy NSFW bowling 3D animations which were trending in Twitter few months ago lol. I really want to get back to it but it also needs a lot of free time which I don't have.
But these are just my distant plans for far future and my big euphoric epic ambitions. I can't say with full confidence that anything of this is possible to make real in 2023 so let's talk about more real things I want to do no matter what that year besides all the random stuff I do spontaneously:
-Draw one art for St. Valentine's Day
-Draw more cowboy art in summer
-Draw as much Halloween stuff as I can do in October
-Draw more Christmas related stuff in December
Yeah, it's THAT simple and basic lol. Of course I can go further and start telling what exact characters I would like to draw but I think it's useless. My life in Fandom is very chaotic, every time I find some new furry characters which distract me from my old plans again and again so it's just silly to plan anything so deep.
