Let's goooooooo

Thank you all so much for the huge response to the Maid for May event! I'm very excited and getting to work on it right away!

Full disclosure for the sake of transparency, this event is a bit of a stunt to rejuvenate my Patreon, as I feel like things have been pretty lukewarm in that regard for the last few months. I haven't been able to provide for it as much as I'd like due to issues surrounding my unstable work/life balance that I hadn't been able to sort out until fairly recently, and I feel really ashamed about not doing as much as I should. I very much want folks who wish to donate every month out of their desire to see me pursue art actually see that art being made, and I feel embarrassed for not being able to hold up my end and leaving several projects and promises in the dust.

However, my confidence as an artist and creator has been on the upswing, marked by a ton of progress in different degrees -- I left my largely dead-end day job and have focused a ton on fixing my work/life balance, I'm attending school and feeling like I'm progressing and learning a lot, I've completed a lot of long-overdue commissions (some private, some seeing public release soon!), overall I feel like my work ethic's improving, and my morale is high.

A list of things I have slated to get on my schedule following this month's event:

• Additional commissions -- I currently have a few projects slated to get to soon!

• FRIENDS ON ANOTHER SIDE chapter 3, with updated art (nothing drastic, I just am gonna do a light retool of how I draw the series to make things easier for myself)

• The RPG VR animation!

• I also wanna see if I can return to some abandoned projects and finish them -- one project I'm eyeing the completion of is that THINK PINK comic with patron-based votes to determine the outcome.

• A few other misc. pet projects I'm interested in my free time!

I know now times have been tough for everyone with the (gestures wildly with my arms to signal "all this"), and to be completely honest, I've had many concerns surrounding my future through however the community around me fares -- I often think about how I can only be "the fresh new guy" once and wonder if this is it, and that trying to ask for more is too much, especially given how I know some folks around me aren't in such a great space right now for all the various reasons there are for not feeling great.

But despite everything, what I've always felt unwavering in my confidence in is the fact that I WANT TO CREATE. Coming up with ideas and making them into art is a part of me that's existed all my life throughout all my hardships and joys, and I have no doubt that it will continue to be a part of me forever. Whatever those beyond me decide to do with it -- dote it, consume it passively, ignore it, actively condemn it, etc. -- is all up to them. Up to you.

Thank you all for indulging me. Let's get some work done! :D