MintySpirit
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So Sorry Where Was I?
🕑 Added 2024-12-15 00:04:40 +0000 UTCHi guys, it's been a long time, hasn't it?
I'm so sorry for the inactivity, not only did I post almost nothing in October, I posted absolutely nothing in November, and now it's half way through December, and i just cameback. What happened?
I wasn't planning to disappear in November, but every day my sleeping habits and mental health were getting worse, and I didn't want to touch the digital brush at any time.
If I'm back it's because everything has improved, right? as far as my health is concerned, yes. But if you have seen my Twitter you will know that something happened.
As soon as I got back to drawing, had some wips and an image ready + an Exclusive Edit, my laptop just died. Exactly the problem was in the hard disk, where it technically works but can't boot. Seeing how specific and expensive it is to have it fixed, I concluded that it wasn't worth it, at least for now.
So...that means all is lost? Nou
Across the year i was using two Laptops. The first one I used it from 2021 to August 2024. Because of an accident where a glass of water fell on it made the keyboard stop working, but everything else works perfectly.The simple solution was to buy another keyboard, I just bought it just yesterday, epic. So right now im using that laptop.
About the second laptop, this one I received from a friend, as a gift, it was already used and was not perfect but it was a gift after all.
When the accident with the glass of water happened, I started using this laptop. From August to December, and its end where the death of the hard disk 2 days ago.
That means that the files from August to December of this year 2024 are lost, maybe forever.
This affects mostly the Legendary Tier where for some reason the last time I updated the PSD Files was on July 31st. And now there is no way to recover those PSD's.
All of this makes me feel bad as an artist, it's like, a month with almost no content, followed by an inactive one, and also content that is now missing could have been avoided if only I had given it to you guys on time.
There was no real reason to holding the PSD Files for up to 3 months to deliver them all at once.
About the month of inactivity... although it was never in my plans, and when I realized I had a big problem, the month was already ending, so I thought, it was not worth updating the patreon that month if it was already ending and my mood still wasn't the best, but even so many of you were still paying the subscription. If only I had realized that I wasn't going to do anything that month, I would have frozen the Patreon as soon as possible.
It feels like a scam...you know?
Although technically Patreon is more of a way to support me than anything else, with little extras to return the favor it's like...maybe most of you just pay to see the content rather than to feed the artist.
For those poeple I can only offer between two things.
-The content for the month of December 2024 and January 2025 according to your suscription for free. Just for the people who cancelled their subscription from November 1st to December 15th.
Or
-The subscription Money Back, according to the suscription ofc.
For those who want one of those options you can contact me on DM here, Discord, or Twitter, so I can discuss it and eventually deliver the option you want. (Perhaps the Money Back option will take until January or later in December.)
And obviously, a sincere apology because, it's not just the fact that I feel like I failed you with the expectations of new content, but with myself as an artist because, I let myself be defeated and instead of facing the problems I left them like that, and ran away.
Sure, it was only a month, and I'm back, better than ever and motivated to create content but, it doesn't justify disappearing with the money of November.
Unfortunately there is nothing I can do other than, as I said, offer you two options in the form of a compensation or refund.
Apologize and
Be better
Although no one has yet criticized me for all this, the truth is, this is something that at least leaves me wondering a lot.
A big part of why I didn't want to draw in November was about compare myself so much with other big artists, not only in quality but with the ones that can do good work weekly, or even almost daily, and I can barely offer you guys like 2 or 3 such simple pics per month...
But really letting myself be defeated and doing nothing solved any of that? of course not, I made everything worse.
I just want to be better than that, I will try my best, although sometimes I feel that my best effort is not enough. Trial and error, learning little by little is important in this artist's way.
Thank you very much to everyone who has supported me, monetarily or not.
And to those who stayed here on Patreon.
As I said, nobody has really criticized my decision to disappear for a whole month, but I was never comfortable with that, not even now that I see things more clearly.
Anyway, I will do my best to give you content, and although yes, I lost many of my few wips, files, and some already done pics... i don't give a fuck, lets do those again, and maybe better.
Love you guys...
Also
Knowing that in January this whole MintySpirit thing will be about 7 years old, it motivates me even more to not abandon this project and try to do my best.
Seeya soon-
-Minty
Comments
Aurelio Sepulveda
Hopefully things get better for you and thank you again for keeping us informed and I hope you and everyone in this community has a good holidays coming up and stay safe always.
