wolfblade

Patron Pack & update

Published: March 29th 2015, 10:57:34 pm

Hey guys. Some of you are aware that I've been majorly dropping the ball lately. I've tried dialing back even more, tried spacing people out more, even had an entire week of downtime at the start of March, and I'm having to just accept the fact that I can't continue on like this. I'm going to try to do this month's Champion sketch stream tomorrow, and do my best to get through as many people as I can, and then I'm going to be on an extended hiatus. I've had FWA planned since last year, and recently someone offered to take me to BLFC. Rather than try to cram two months of work into five weeks around the cons, I'm taking the opportunity to have the much-needed hiatus I've put off for too long. In the meantime, Ultimate and Mega slots are being closed (I've already spoken to all those patrons, and if you're already scheduled, then nothing has changed). I'm putting a halt on all new work intake until I've had the time my wrists need to recover, and until I've caught up on everything currently owed. I will still be doing the Fetch-a-Sketch streams for Champions, March's will be tomorrow. While I will be mostly trying to avoid drawing/typing/videogames and stuff that adds to my wrist strain, if I do have a day where I feel up for it, I may do random doodle/practice streams during the downtime, which will be patrons-only. I will go through older work and find some unposted goodies to keep giving you guys patron packs while my new work output is cut. As this will obviously greatly diminish my income over the next few months, I may put up a simple YCH auction here and there if needed to keep all my bills paid. After this hiatus, and once I've caught up on all owed work, I will finally begin working on a bigger project, and the Patreon page will be redone to reflect that. While my primary goal for the near future is to do my own large-scale all-original-characters visual novel/dating sim game, I'm going to hold off on that. Since I haven't done anything like it, I will first be working on a smaller, simpler visnov project involving the anthro digimon rookiees Sanmer commissioned recently. So many people saw those pics and demanded DATING SIM NAO, so I'm going to give it a shot. I hope to learn from the experience so my original project can be better for it when I do that next. I don't know if I will resume offering the Ultimate and Mega level slots after this hiatus. As much as I truly love drawing for other people - I wouldn't have nearly 500 drawings from last year if I didn't love doing this - and as much as I hate not being available for that, the severity of the issues with wrist strain has forced me to accept a hard fact. I just can not keep doing as I've been doing, and I very well may not have too many years of drawing left at all before this shit just completely shuts me down. If I'm going to do any of the things bouncing around in my own head, I have to stop kicking them down the road. So to sum up: Patron Packs and monthly Champion Fetch-a-Sketch streams will continue, Ultimate and Mega level slots are indefinitely suspended after the current queue of them have been taken care of. I will be at FWA and BLFC and am always happy to meet people irl when possible, and the conventions and the time between them will be a hiatus for me to recover and mentally/physically reboot. Afterward, I will be fully focused on catchup of owed work, and then full-gear into the Digi-dating sim as a practice run project before doing a much larger original dating sim project. Thank you all again, as always. I hope most of you will stick around, but I understand if anybody feels like moving on. I'll just have to win you back once I'm back to full steam. Here's this week's pack: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sqik4p1xcmfjfc/PatronPack3-29-15.zip?dl=0