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Monthly Report (February 2024)
🕑 Added 2024-03-07 06:29:14 +0000 UTCPreface:
Greetings my cherished benefactors. Allow me to give you my deepest heartfelt gratitude for supporting my art and helping me realize my passion. :3 I love drawing and I'd like to keep doing it for the foreseeable future. And thanks to your help, I'm able to sustain myself as a freelance artist. Sometimes life gets on the way, sometimes I don't get much sleep or I have to announce delays, but rest assured I will fulfill all of your rewards in due time. I hope that you guys stay with me and are able to support me in the long term, I'd be very grateful. In the event that you can't, please don't worry. Investing in art is a luxury and it's perfectly understandable if you need to use your money for other things. Don't hurt yourselves in order to help me.
February 2024 wrap-up:
Rewards: 8
Reward fulfillment: Completed
- Melusine pool episode - Fulfilled
- Kaho base sprite artwork - Exclusive*
- Violet base sprite artwork - Exclusive*
- Neru base sprite artwork - Exclusive*
- Character eye-catches promo artworks - Fulfilled
- Date with doki - Fulfilled
- Sultry Juna part 1 - Fulfilled
- Sultry Juna part 2 - Fulfilled
*Timed exclusive for Patrons until game release.
Bonus: 2
- Sultry Juna v2/v3/v4 - Exclusive
- Melusine v2/v3/v4 - Exclusive
Total rewards for February: 10
Misc statistics:
New supporters: 5
Pledge upgrades: 1
Pledge reductions: 1
Patron departures: 1
Pay, take and run: 1
Frauds/scams: 0
This was quite a productive month! Been a while since I've managed to sustain this output with the current quality of artworks. It's probably not readily apparent to many of you since the sprite artworks may look deceptively simple or you were used to me drawing "more" artworks in the past. Yes, I've wanted to address this subject for a while as I noticed some people seem to think that as quality and details in artworks increases, I should be able to do the same amount of art pieces. That's unfortunately, not how it works. As I add more rendering techniques, more details in backgrounds, better lighting and such, it takes me more time to complete artworks. I can most certainly reduce the bells and whistles, but after asking you guys multiple times, you said you prefer quality over quantity and this brings us here. For those concerned about time effective output please keep this in mind.
That aside, we got a ton of progress made on the VN project. Now every heroine has their sprite artwork and promo artwork to do some intial advertising. It was pretty heavy on my wrist to work on all those artworks in tandem but I believe it paid off and has attracted a fair bit of interest in the project. Overall it was a great month and I could even squeeze some lood exclusives. Hope you guys like the rewards!
Tough times are ahead financially due to global recession and the USD nosediving, but I will keep doing my best and delivering quality content for you guys. Thank you all again for your amazing reception and support. Thanks so very much! *bows*
Google drive link for February:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Lf0paWQjqW7lGEB-ckGUfidZtUpp8e0x?usp=sharing
Tiers 3 to 6 rewards in this post:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/february-2024-99775461
We're moving to March, guys and gals! :3
That's all for February's report. Any doubts or questions don't hesitate to ask!
Hugs and love to you all!
Many thanks for your continued support and let's stay together for a long time ;) bows
