Information regarding January Rewards!
Added 2024-02-03 08:52:10 +0000 UTC
Hello dear patrons! ♡
Since February has just begun, here's a tiny heads-up regarding January's rewards:
✧ Digital rewards for all tiers will be sent out → Monday Feb. 5th
- I'm currently finishing the SSR Tier poll winner (Ruan Mei) exclusive illustration and have still yet to finish the NSFW variant of Anila (Granblue Fantasy)
✧ Physical rewards for SSR Tier members will be sent out → At the beginning of the week of Feb. 12th
- Since I have to go to another city to print them out, I can't go as often as I'd like 🥺🙏
If you've been seeing my updates on twitter, you might have known about the hospitalization of one of my chinchillas at the beginning of the month and how the whole situation has been pretty hard on me (both mentally and financially) 🥺 which is why it seems like I can't catch a break since the end of last year... too much bad stuff has happened one after the other.
Hopefully, February treats me better, and I can be more productive and stick to my deadlines as I usually have done in the past.
I'm so sorry for the delays, I'm trying to do as much as I can as a one-woman-business 🥺
I appreciate your support, understanding and patience, guys. I really do ❤️
I'll work as fast as my wrist allows me and deliver everything asap!
Love,
Mei
Comments
Omg fiore, this message was amazing and i'm so grateful that you took the time to write it ;____; 🙏 every single paragraph was really meaningful, I appreicate every word. Thank you for helping me with advice, understanding my situation and hoping for the best for me, you're a dear friend whom i appreciate very much as well 🥺🥺🥺 the career i've chosen as an artist is tough enough already, that these past 2 months have only made it more and more difficult for me to keep up with the regular drawing pace I have... but knowing that people like you support me and my work really makes my days of hard work worth it, and make me not regret following this dream of mine. It's hard for me to juggle so many things at the same time, creating art, being my own social media manager, online store manager, graphic designer, secretary in a way who manages bookings, conventions, etc. it's all A LOT for 1 person to do but i've accepted it since i don't see myself doing anything that's not art. Which is why i truly THANK YOU for deciding that i'm one of many possible artists that you could be supporting in any way 🤗 thank you fiore
Mei
2024-02-06 17:58:09 +0000 UTCDon't worryyyy, no need to apologize!! You're doing great giving the shit the life's throwing at you 🙏 By the way, how's Mimi doing? I hope she's completely healed 🥰 I wrote it on Twitter and I confirm it here too: If February doesn't treat you as a queen like you deserve (indeed even better to compensate for January) it will have to deal with me!! 😤 EDIT: I read your twitter thread and here's the reply: Mei, I love your art so much, so it's easy to want to support you, but if I decided to do it the way I do is because of the magnificent person you are 😀 When I decided to do it I accepted that you're a person, not a machine, including all the problems a person could have 😄 This is a whole new work situation for you, and you can't control what happens to you, how it will affect you and how you will react to it 😔 How could someone be not happy with you? Sure you're a bit late, but you worked so hard for weeks, from dawn till late night, Saturday and Sunday included!! You had to work for your commercial deadline as soon as you came back from Germany, with all your personal problems and you always delivered what promised!! 💪 I would be unhappy if you were late because you were all day out instead of working, not because life decided to throw all possible shit at same moment. You can for sure use this situation to learn how to manage a similar situation better in the future, but please never ever put your work over yourself or your personal life, even if it's the job of your dreams, or that will be the moment you'll lose my support. If you felt you had to visit Mimi every day, then you did the right thing!! 😄 It's not your fault if shit happens, and try to force yourself to ignore it, it will make things even worse. At the end you could even hate what you love to do now 😟 Besides, you know it better than me, art is a process that takes time and inspiration. So: It's better to offer a fantastic late drawing or something neither you nor your patrons are happy with? There's no way personal problems don't affect your work life and vice versa: the best way is always to resolve every problem you might have, and only then you will really be able to focus on your job Maybe one thing you can do in this kind of occasion is ask your patrons about it: "Can I move the poll winner drawing to next month because......", so if your patrons say yes, you can avoid pushing yourself physically and mentally so hard 😖 Or perhaps you can rework the tiers to better suit your current needs, until you've been able to pick up the pace. Again, we're here to support Mei, the person, otherwise we would have gotten an AI software and a printer, if you need time for any reason, I am sure everyone will be more than happy to geve it to you!! You know well that no matter the situation, I'll be always there for you. We'll go through this all toghether, one step at time we'll make everything work 💪 Sorry if I gave unwanted advices, sorry if I gave opinion on your personal life, but I really care about you and knowing that you're feeling like this right now makes me really sad 😔 You said that maybe life hates you? Well I'll make sure that you always receive enough love not only to compensate, but to completely annihilate what life throws at you!! 😊 Don't let the initial difficulties intimidate you, everything will be fine and i'll never stop rooting for you 🤗 p.s. I sent you a couple of important DMs here on Patreon to explain something, they'll not steal you too much time🙏
Fiore999
2024-02-03 09:14:18 +0000 UTC
