[Important] About the future

It feels like yesterday when I was trying to learn how to use patreon, I remember getting so excited when people started to join and willing to support my job (I still do!) but can you believe it's been almost two and a half years?

In a couple of weeks it's going to be two years since the last time I had a formal job, as some of you may know I used to have a part-time work in a bakery, I liked it but the payment wasn't enough, that's why I decided to open this patreon in the first place. until then I was drawing on my own, posting in tumblr and taking some commissions from time to time, but after I opened my Patreon It was a hard couple of months balancing it with my part-time job: if I wasn't selling bread I was at home drawing, barely taking a day off, and people didn't understand why I was doing that but the answer is very easy: I love drawing

I'm very aware that my skills are very limited, but that doesn't make my work less worthy, I have pride in my work.

At the time of this post I'm currently 27 years old, I had many differents jobs in the past before the bakery, I can say that at some level I loved each one of them besides everything, but no matter how nice the workplace could be there was always something that ended up making me hate it and eventually leave it

I don't want to hate drawing, I don't want to stop doing it.

I have seen many artist friends that have lost their passion over time and currently have other works or just force themselves to  draw things they don't like for the money, because they need to live

And I don't want that for my life

It's no secret that in a personal level it's been a hard couple of months, there has been days were I can't even hold the pen or come up with the energy to focus on drawing, I could easily blame depression for this but the reality goes further than that: I need to reconnect with my passion for art while I still can.

I love to draw fat guys, it's not just a job, I don't want it to be just a job, it's a part of me and my identity as an artist, but the truth is that I feel my energies fading away, so in order to recharge I have decided that during May I will be pausing my patreon

At this point in time I have a long list of drawings to finish: February and March's poll results, March's request and suggestions and that is without mentioning the commission work I have in the side. I'd like to say that you shouldn't worry and that everything will be ok until then but I can't be that irresponsible

In order to properly being able to finish all this work before my future hiatus I have taken the hard decision to pause all monthly activities during april, which means no new  poll, request or suggestions, it pains me to do so but I must. I will understand if you don't want to remove your pledge for april

Now, to try to avoid this situation in the future, changes must be made (this will apply starting in June)

• Activities such as monthly request and suggestions will only be available for patrons in the $5 tier or higher, so patrons in the $1 tier will not be able to participate anymore (I really appreciate your support, but if you allow me to be completely honest it's just not equivalent to the amount of time and energy it requires) Have in mind that even if you will not be able to participate you will still be able to see every new post as usual
• As a result, both results of the Patron's Suggestions will be colored in future sketches
• Monthly polls will have a maximun of 4 characters in the final cut (preliminary polls, like the one I did early this march, will be available for series with a large cast more often)

I trully hope you can understand why I'm taking this decision, making this post was very hard and I probably will not be feeling very good after I post it, but I need to do this while I can, because I don't want to hate my work, I will not allow myself, there is so much I want to draw, so many guys to fatten up!