Published: October 20th 2019, 7:28:20 pm
Update: 31/Oct/2019
Just a reminder of all the changes coming next month for anyone that missed it.
The past few months have been rough on me. Family and financial issues, computer problems, art setbacks, and the unfortunately loss of a friend by his own hand have wore on my mental state.
Because of these and the stress they've caused, I'll be changing many of the rewards moving forward and I'll be canceling some of the projects I've been working on.
Judy/Katia animation
I'll start with the animation as it was the biggest project here. I've had to push through numerous roadblocks in order to make this animation possible and I've lost the enjoyment and motivation I had when I started.
The work I've done on it so far is going to be scrapped so I can start on a new project. The project will still be an animation involving the two girls, but because I'm no longer dealing with the same roadblocks as before, I'm going to start over with a new idea. Animation is less stressful and ends up looking better when I work on it at my own pace, so I'm not going to set a deadline or promise a release date of any kind.
Retsuko/Fenneko
This is a project I never fully planned out and shouldn't have promised anything big on. The idea was fun to me, but actually writing a story for them became more involved than I had time for. There may still be one off comics and pics for this series, but I'm not going to make promises.
Patreon rewards
There will no longer be a monthly poll. While I like the idea of drawing characters I'm unfamiliar with, it's hard to get motivated for them without a prior connection. I'll still be working on Fidget and Switch dog, but they'll be the last voted characters for a while.
There will also no longer be a monthly sketch reward. Unlike the poll, this decision comes down to the additional work the reward creates. I've enjoyed working on these sketches, but it only adds to the amount of art I work on each month. I don't currently have a reward planned to replace these, but the tier will remain as an option and discord role.
There will still be early release content, general content WIP's, and OC project WIP's for the various tiers, but I can't say how frequent they'll be or how much I'll release each month.
Some of the rewards may come back, but there's also a chance they wont.
Thank you
I'd love to finish all the projects I have going on, but I've dealt with my mental illness for a long time that I know if I keep pushing myself to finish projects that are stressing me out the way they are I'm going to have a mental breakdown and that wont be good for anyone.
You're support has made a world of difference for me and I'll be extremely grateful if you continue pledging each month, but I know many of you were here for the projects I was working on so I completely understand if you don't want to.
Thank you for all the support and I'm very sorry to those I may be disappointing.