Patreon Poll Winner Sketch and General State of Things

Hey everyone! A while ago Tempest won a neck to neck poll versus the Kirin. I still hope I'll be able to draw some Kirins having fun real soon but for now I'm working on this Tempest picture!

It's still a rough sketch so please bear with me. I plan on making a whole bunch of edits of her playing with herself. Like maybe a really big toy, maybe a watersports edit, etc. If you have any suggestions for toys, please write them in the comments here and I'll see what I can do!

General State of Things

As for a general update, as you might know I'm struggling with some health related issues currently. I have diabetic retinopathy and my eyes have gotten somewhat drastically worse over the past few months. Due to that I'm hopelessly behind with overdue commission work. It's taking me a while to adjust to everything and doing art is currently a little more difficult than I'm accustomed to. I've been closed for commissions for a while and won't take on any additional side work for the foreseeable future. Until my backlog is cleared. I apologize for the big delay and hope I can catch up with everything soon.

I am so incredibly grateful for all of your support and your patience. Meeting a lot of you at BronyCon made my year and taking to you guys on Discord or reading your comments or replies on Twitter or Derpi gives me energy. Thank you for being there for me and even if you just passively consume my art without interacting with me it means so much to me. Thank you. I would like to ask you to bear with me a little longer while I adjust to my new life circumstances.

I just hope I can keep on drawing for years to come and that my eyes won't get much worse for a really long time. I wouldn't know what I'd do with myself if I couldn't see anymore and I want to produce so many more pictures for all of you and for myself!

Sorry if this was a lot of personal info dump or a lot of info you already knew, but I thought it was important to keep you guys updated.

I am making steady progress with overdue art and finishing things up. The end of this week marks the last outstanding deadline for a project I'm part of. Once this is done I can fully focus on all the other overdue art and get everything done that much quicker. There are a lot of drawings I'm working on that I'm super excited to finally share with you!

Anyways, thank you for everything.

Rat


P.S. Please do let me know if you have an idea for some toy (or otherwise exciting) edits you would like me to do for this Tempest!

Also as a small reminder, I post more frequent updates on my Discord and in easier to reach over there. If you connect your patreon accounts with your Discord account you'll even get access to a Patreon exclusive channel on my server! Here's the invite link: https://discordapp.com/invite/6fhaa3U