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[Announcement ] Change Of Schedule
🕑 Added 2016-01-23 16:52:13 +0000 UTC PS. Picture above is my new schedule. I work and post artwork follow this.Hello all of my beloved supporters, would you believe that it has now been 7 months now, since I decided to start my Patreon, which has enabled me to receive all of your support from your generous pledges and thus, achieve my dream of becoming full time artist? The time since then has just flown by so fast don't you think? My thanks for all of your support has never wavered throughout all that time, even until now, my dears. It is because of your support, which I have lived and survive on until now, made this entire journey possible, because of all of you.
But now...I have something to announce. As I write, I feel so bad that I have to declare it. I’m afraid to do this, but I have too, for my own sake…
For a while now, you have seen that I work on many projects and post many artworks in a short amount of time, nearly every day in fact. Comics, picture series, adventure logs, standalone arts, reward arts, auctions, etc. It makes people believe that I am a fast artist, that I have fast drawing and painting skills.
But the fact is...No...I don't have that talent, you might be surprised to know that I'm really slow when it comes to drawing and even more so when it’s in colour. But then how do I manage to post so much art? The answer is simple, yet sad. The reason being is that I spend my entire day, every day on drawing. Sometimes I even give up all of my extra time I usually reserve for watching cartoons or playing games or even eat and exercise, to instead draw for all of you.
One piece of artwork takes me around 5-6 hours to complete, depending on how hard it is. Some arts like colour comics or colour pictures can take me nearly 12 hours to finish. This would be fine if I only had to complete one work a day, but as you can see by my schedule, I usually aim to complete 2 or 3 pieces of art per day.
Since I became a full time artist, I started to work for two different crowds of people. One side is for those on my free site galleries such as Deviant Art and the other side is reserved for you, my Patreons.
At first, things appeared fine, as I started work at midday til midnight. But in-time, I was inspired to start more and more projects for both worlds and without even realising it, it had become too much for me. Sometimes I'm able to finish my work before midnight, but in other times, I can't even finish all of the work in time.
This happens when I have something in real life that interrupts me like housework, when going outside with a parent, helping their farm, etc. Or I maybe have extra work to do… like reward art. Or sometimes it might be simply be because of art block, and it causes me to work during the night, just to make me able to post my art just in time...
For nearly 3 months now, I have seen the sunrise every morning, the daybreak. But it isn't because I always wake up early, no…It’s because I have stayed awake until morning from working on artwork all night. Now, I sleep through my mornings, before I wake up at midday to work on more art yet again until the morning of the next day.
This cycle has become unbearable now and I don't think my health can keep up with me anymore. I start to feel sick from time to time, but I have always been afraid to tell all of you. Because I'm afraid that you will think I'm lazy, so I would work through it. No cold, fever or headache or sickness would stop me from drawing. Because I have always feared...I feared that I would be seen as not working hard enough to deserve your huge support. And that is why I kept it secret until now.
But no more...I'm sorry...But I don't want to see another daybreak anymore...My head hurts so badly nowadays, and all of the stress from not getting enough sleep is starting to suppress me from coming up with ideas. And now, even if I can finish work before midnight, I still lie in my bed sleepless until daybreak. It is starting to ruin my health somehow and I want to return to being healthy, happy and full of inspiring ideas for all of you.
.....I’m Sorry for talking too much, dears. But I just wanted to make it clear what was going on with me personally.
Now, I will finally announce this now, I am declaring that I'm going to change the schedule. Just to give myself more freedom, become less busy and to finally have more time for exercise, rest and to be able to do something fun to lower the stress levels on myself. Then, I will have my inspiration return to me in time, so that I may find some ideas for all of the future pictures and stories I want to tell…
Therefore, this is what I will change!!
For now on, I am changing the daily posting of "The Adventure Logs Of Young Queen" to once every 3 days!!
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.......D...Don't look at me like that....It might be hard to believe for you, but this one is the main reason why I’m always exhausted. You know...Because I have to post it every day, and also because I post it at midnight in my time zone…I only begin drawing each one around 2-3 hours before the time of post, since I have to wait for the last Patreon comments to trickle in first...
I believe it would be best, if I lowered the frequency of posting the Logs a bit, as it will most likely enable me to have more time to work on other things...but most importantly, it will lower my stress levels a bit, which will be better for me and everyone else in the long run... I Hope you all don't mind the change and I hope you all don’t think I’m lazy for doing this…. .////.
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Comments
Sorden
I'm supporting you because I like your work and would like to contribute to you having a chance to do what you love. Watching you burn out is definitely not on my list of priorities, and from what I can tell from the other comments, neither is it on the list of your other patrons.
Dragonflame
Vavacung, I really think that this is for the better of you and your patrons! Of course you need some free time! It must'nt be, that you even ignore to sleep, that is not good for you and either your patrons, because you are getting sick and we are losing an very talented artist! So I'm really glad that you made this choice and I hope, that you will get your sleep and your freetime soon!
Quinten Motley
You defiantly need the break and good luck.
Senf12
Make a 35 houres week just like me! dont be worryed i Support you! You Are a still a great artist and i love your art
Cylestea
its ok my queen take your rest you need it
Zosimos Wreden
I agree with all the others. It was a step in the right direction. Don't worry, we all know our queen isn't lazy. ^^
FramedPixelStudio
If you're a full-time artist, doesn't mean, you have to work all day! You'll just work yourself to death that way O_O You need some time for yourself, or you'll start to hate it. So relax and cheer up! 8)
Mitch
Now that you have liberated yourself from your fear, how does it feel? Are you glad you faced your fears and have now seen how appreciative and caring all your Patreons are? I knew they would understand, and now so do you. I am extremely glad you did this in the end after we talked about your health for the last few days, I am happy that I was able to edit it into the presentable state you wanted first before you posted it. You believed you were lazy because you were comparing yourself to Professional Manga artists, but know that it appears your Patreons don't think your lazy one bit. Now you can rest and have beautiful nights of well-deserved sleep. May you return to being healthy, happy and inspired.
Justin
You're doing the right thing. Just because you're a full time artist dosen't mean you have to over work yourself.
Karl Kornel
I think that is fine, but I do have one question: Does this schedule mean that you will have no days of not drawing? Will it be OK for your health if you do not have any days to rest?
Julius Costa Peters
well you may have reached your full time artist milestone but it does not meant literally you have a life to live and is better to live a healthy one than a unhealthily you will see that you will be more creative with both mind and body well rested
Magical Trevor
No, it is *good* that you're making this change. Full-time shouldn't be working over twelve hours a day! I cannot speak for everyone, but I for one am more than willing to be patient for art, especially if you've been working this hard so far. Your health is more important than a moment of entertainment for us. Thank you for being willing to tell us what has been going on, and for making changes to make things better. I would feel so terribly guilty to know you've been working yourself to the bone, not taking time to enjoy life for yourself. Thank you for making the new schedule. :3
Senf12
it's fine i'm agree what you say, do what you can but do not overexert yourself
Darkaito
i dont think your lazy at all for this, i think your health is more important. and i found it awesome that my OC Midnight Moon was posted on this announcement <3
DaveBlack
It's Ok. ;3 It's good that you realized in time, I didn't realize it and I ended in two months on sick leave for overwork.
Philip
I don't see any problem at all with the new schedule. You'd have to be a machine to keep up your old schedule indefinitely, and I don't think anyone's perfected a cyborg body yet. ;-) Take the time to preserve your health, that way we can look forward to a lot longer supply of goodies in the future.
UxieKnight
Like I thought I it was nuts uploaded that log everyday. So its completely fine if you delayed the log I'm just glad that you're so dedicated. Also don't stress yourself so much if you need a break take one to everyone who gives you a problem about it they can just shut up. I never said anything cause I didn't want to be nosey.
Gunmetal Gator
Do you believe your loyal fans will find it affront that you are relaxing your art schedule due to health reasons? You are wrong about that. I am sure everyone cares for your well-being more than constant art being posted here daily.
Mikhail Gorodetskiy
Of course we don't mind! Overworking is bad for you health. There was even research saying 40 hours per week is an optimal working schedule.
Duke Of Donuts
It's fine, I have always thought it was pretty crazy that it was posted so frequently. I don't see it as laziness, but slowing the pace to reasonable race. It's kinda like cross country, if you blow all your energy at the start of the run, finishing the run will be super difficult.
