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VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE: Changing the Patreon
🕑 Added 2024-05-20 19:12:44 +0000 UTCAfter thinking on it incredibly long and hard about this and consulting friends and fellow artists, I have come to a decision: I will be changing the Patreon to be only a tip jar. This was not an easy decision at all to make, and it isn't the most ideal, but I feel this would be better for me in the long run. Reasons:
1. I feel I don't put out the same art I did before Patreon. I feel the expectations of creating a good product sometimes hinders what I put out, and I focus more on being a perfectionist about it. Yeah, I know I don't NEED to be, but it's just how I am.
2. I just want to draw what I want to draw and not be expected or asked to do one thing or another. I don't want to feel limited in my creativity at all at this point in my art journey, whether that be by my own Patreons or Patreon itself. Again, I don't NEED to to be, but my dumb brain thinks about it a lot. It's a reason why I've considered moving to subscribestar if I continued originally.
3. I can't relax with art and It's mostly lost the fun aspect of it. It feels more like a full time job with everything I have to do with it and promoting it. I want to feel that again. I want to have art as an opinion to relax with and have fun with.
4. The biggest problem at this time is just how much I work. So, I work at a job where I can basically do anything during it (of course while still doing my job very well), and that's how I've had time to do art so much for the last few years. While that sounds like a dream to do a job where you could do a hobby or even play video games on shift and get paid for it, what is NOT a dream is working 72 hours a week. It's only me and my manager pretty much at this point with limited help. Working 6 days a week, 12 hours a day eventually becomes mentally draining with the monotonous and repetitious cycle of it, and honestly I think I've kinda fallen into a depression because of it. I only have 3 hours to myself after work to myself before I need to go to bed, and the days I have off I spend just recovering from working so much and not really DOING anything. My memory is beginning to run (and my memory wasn't really good in the first place) to the point I forgot to pay my electric bill, thinking I paid it April when I actually did March. My birthday was spend in my car charging my phone because they turned off my power that day. It was not fun. I don't want to have something else expecting something of me at the moment, not right now at least.
So, what does this all mean for you guys? Well, I'll be probably lowing the tiers by a bit, the lowest being at $1. There will be no rewards anymore, and, as I said, it will become a tip jar. I'm going to be spending the next few days figuring out about the content already here, and seeing maybe about some artpack or something maybe, maybe not. All depends on how I feel. But, what is set, is that this change will occur starting next month. I know this is very soon, but I think this will be for the best for me. I will NOT be stopping art. That is VERY important to note. Thank you again for you all supporting me all this time! I might start a subscribestar as well as an option for people as a tip jar. One day, when I finally get my comic off the ground, I might really get down and dirty with a thing like this again. But, until then, I think I'll be fine with less expectations and more time figuring not just myself out, but what I want my art to be.
Thank you all for tuning in!
