SweetCanvas Update (and more)!

Hello everyone! I know it's been a while since the last update on SweetCanvas but rest assured things have been steadily progressing!

Firstly, and this is probably the biggest piece of news, we have a new background artist! 

• Due to some scheduling complications the last artist will no longer be working on the project but thankfully I was able to find another one relatively quickly and our schedules match up perfectly! 
• @Omorphia1 is our new artist and he is highly skilled! He's started working with me this month and I'm already very impressed with his output. On top of that I feel like his style of backgrounds work very well with my style of character art so all in all I feel like this was a very positive change! 

I will be posting some of the work he's done here for bronze patrons and above as time goes by but here's a small look into what I have so far from him :

I hope everyone will look forward to his contributions to the visual novel!

With that out of the way, the second update is that I now have almost all (lets say 99%) the music I will need for SweetCanvas!

• I believe I've said this before but as the scenarios panned out in writing I became aware that in order to create the best possible and most immersive experience I would need more... Now though I finally have what is definitely the bulk of the music I need to score the entirety of the VN
• The majority of my spending has been going towards this since the start of the project 2 years ago (I couldn't have done all this without all of you) and finally I can move away from this and really speed up the rate of commissioning BGs instead! I'm a big believe that music can make or break an experience so I've been going out of my way to get the highest quality music I can!
• There are currently 378 pieces of music! For reference the Muv Luv OST in it's entirety (including Alternative) has 369 pieces of music. While the VN will not be as long as the whole of Muv Luv I have made sure that each girl has their own unique sound to their route to best reflect their individual personalities!

There are multiple genres of music from multiple artists in the SweetCanvas soundtrack. I have posted some teaser videos here before but none for the character specific songs, I have been posting those on discord in the general Patreon channel so you can check them out (and more in the channel) if you're interested in a sneak peek into what SweetCanvas will sound like!

[Music Teasers 1]   [Music Teasers 2] 

Finally for SweetCanvas news, I'm going to be working on sprites again soon since I have almost all the roughs done for them. Now that I have backgrounds it will be easier to paint them in context so that they feel organic so look forward to seeing that soon!

I will be updating the progress bars soon to more accurately reflect where we are currently soon!

The last updates have to do with Patreon itself so I'll keep them brief :

• Tags have been added to a majority of recent posts so that it's easier to find something you might be looking for (sketches, timelapses, PSDs etc). I haven't gotten around to everything but I will be continually going back and tagging things as time goes on
• I've added annual membership as an option for those who are looking to pledge long term! There is a 12% discount on annual pledges so I'd encourage any consistent Patrons to look into it!

That's all for now, thank you everyone for your continued support, SweetCanvas wouldn't be possible without all of you!