Various announcements as a result of the schedule and character recruitment

Thank you for your continued support. This is NaeNae. 🤔

Following the previous post, in this update I will provide details on the upcoming schedule, the results of the character recruitment, and various other announcements.

🗃️ Announcements

① Resumption of Activities
After the break in March, I will return to my regular activities starting in April. I appreciate your support.

② On Holding Certain Plans
Regarding the previously announced “Disease of Can't draw White Background” and my plan to study 3D, those plans will be put on hold for now.
My new objective is reaching 400,000 followers. Since this is a hard challenge, I have decided to focus on what I can do at the moment.

③ Regarding Update Frequency
Related to the above, in order to increase the update frequency, after drawing all the characters selected from the character recruitment (detailed below), I plan to update illustrations with one or two difference. The updates will likely resemble the previously uploaded Asuna illustration.

🗃️ Results of the March Character Recruitment

First, thank you to the three participants.
According to the guidelines stated on the announcement page, if the total number of recruited characters had been six or fewer, the project was scheduled to be canceled.

However, regardless of the lukewarm response, in order not to disappoint those who participated, I have decided to select and draw half of the submitted characters—that is, three characters.

The selected characters are as follows:

Ægir (Azur Lane)
Amagi CV (Azur Lane)
2B (NieR: Automata)

🤔 Response to a Question Received

Q. Perhaps consider making a roulette for the future? This way every suggestion has at least some chance at being picked.

A. When I held a vote in the past, I struggled with it quite a bit. Such a method is vulnerable to someone influencing the results by using multiple accounts, and if I were to intervene, it would amount to a perfect crime.
Moreover, if someone were to begin doubting me—or if I started doubting my fans—there would be no way to prove anything, which could severely damage trust.
Therefore, I decided not to hold a vote, and the same reasoning applies to using a roulette system. Even if I went through a thousand trial-and-error iterations to select only the characters I desired, who would ever know?
For these reasons, even if I might receive criticism for not choosing specific characters, I determined it was better to make the choice myself.
That concludes my answer.

🗃️ Schedule Information

Regarding the monthly schedule, there are no changes from the previous announcement.
However, as for the near future, there are approximately four commission requests scheduled.
In terms of timing, it is highly likely that work will proceed in earnest around late May or mid-June, during which updates may become somewhat more challenging.
Nonetheless, I will do my best to minimize any impact, and I hope you understand if there are any delays.

🗃️ Changes to Post Expiration

Each post can be viewed with all rewards under the 500yen(5$) plan for two months after publication; afterward, the post will expire and be changed to be exclusive to the 2000yen(20$) plan.

The posts currently available are scheduled to be changed to the 2000-yen plan exclusively on June 1.

For the illustrations posted in April, the viewing permissions will be changed collectively on July 1.

And, the illustrations posted in April will be organized once in May, and a new post will be made. Those who wish to download the files will then be able to download all the April works from that post.

🗃️ Announcements Regarding Patreon

There are some planned changes to the Patreon supporters’ channel on Discord.
Currently, I upload images as soon as they are completed, but from now on, when posting on Discord, I plan to post them all at once, in line with the posting schedule for each site.
This is to alleviate the inconvenience of having to receive multiple files due to the file size limitations on the Patreon platform.

🗃️ Using the Patreon Store Feature

Artworks created before April 2025 will be sold as an all-in-one package, while illustrations posted afterward will be sold in packages of one for every five pieces.
The pricing is expected to be $50 for the all-in-one package and $10 for each five-piece package.

🗃️ Changes to the Plans

The 10,000-yen (100 USD) plan and the 500-yen (50 USD) plan have been discontinued.
Moving forward, I will maintain the 500-yen (5 USD), 1000-yen (10 USD), and 2000-yen (20 USD) plans.
For character requests, please submit them via the pixiv request system on my pixiv account.

That concludes this announcement.
If you have any questions or if anything is unclear, please feel free to leave a comment or send me a DM.

Thank you for your continued support.