Happy New Year!

First off, I hope you all have been having a Happy New Year and had a pleasant holiday season as well!

I'm so sorry that the last thing you all heard from me was about such a heavy topic. Things stayed pretty hectic for me for a couple of weeks since my mom's funeral with family coming and going and getting all the stuff she left behind situated. I spent the end of November and December processing things and its been rough but I'd like to say it helped a lot to give myself that time. Thank you all for being so patient and understanding ;; <3

To say 2022 ended up being quite the crappy year for me would be a heck of an understatement and I'm very eager to leave it behind. So here's to a new year and trying to make the best of it, hopefully!

Speaking of, I wanted to review how things are being handled with the patreon. For a while there was a lot of potential options and small changes I was considering making but in the end I've decided to only tweak a few things instead.

First thing is I'd like to re-add incentive for folks to boost the discord server by once again rewarding an additional star each month for those of you who are boosting. For those that remained boosters even throughout it not rewarding Stars I'm retroactively awarding star points for that, thank you so much for continuing to show support <3

Secondly, as I complete commissions I will offer additional openings through here for anyone interested. To show my gratitude to those of you who have supported the most, those with the most Stars get priority on securing a slot. I feel this is only fair and I'd really like to show my thanks to you longtime supporters.

Multiple character pieces featuring one of my characters or just an Azodic in general will always be available, however. In the future I'd definitely like to get my species out there more and perhaps even allow folks to make their own. BUT, for now, I'm mainly concerned with letting patrons who have been waiting the longest to commission me a chance to do so ^^

Anyway, one other small change going forward are that I'll no longer be offering .psd files of my work. The amount of time and organization it takes me to make those honestly just doesn't feel worth it as I feel its a niche offering that most people prooobably don't really care a whole lot about unless they themself are an artist? I also really wanna just focus on getting more work in general done so to me it makes sense to simplify my offerings to try and help with that. I'm open to feedback on this of course, but for now it's something I wanna try out.

Perhaps in the future I can think of something more appealing to replace that perk with (I'm open to suggestions!) but for now being a tier 3 supporter is as optional as ever :3

Anywho, I just wanted to share those adjustments with you all and thanks again to everyone who has continued to support the patreon, it means a tremendous amount to me - especially over these last few months.. Thank you so, SO much.