ABOUT THE HIATUS!! (Let's just talk about feelings here... )

Hello, my dear Patreons.

I haven't spoken to you in a long time (this is going to start to become my default greeting, I think...).

What you will read now is a huge text about my health situation, it is not relevant to the progress of Patreon, but I think that, after so long, I owe some transparency about what happened to me that caused this huge gap of practically two years.

Well, as you've noticed, my Patreon has been quite quiet lately, although I'm still active and working, even at a slower pace. If you follow me on Discord, you already know that I'm dealing with mental health problems and I'm not very motivated and willing, this has been going on since the end of 2021, when I suffered emotional burnout and started therapy I didn't carry out, because, unfortunately, I neglected my situation and it ended up escalating into something much worse.

When I started this Patreon in June 2021 (my birthday present to myself), I was quite motivated to finally stop drawing only what my contracts required and start making things that both I and my audience wanted to see in my style of art, but in October of the same year, many bad things began to happen in succession that shook me psychologically in a way that I had never been shaken before. From grief, the stress of the pandemic, family problems, relationship, and even a distressing legal dispute, several things took my time, attention, energy, and sleep for several days, leaving me unable to even get out of bed to do simple tasks.

Fortunately, the bad things are over, and aside from my vivid memories of everything that happened still haunting me, everything is fine now... unfortunately, some of them didn't have a happy ending, but that's something which I am already learning to accept and move on.

With all of this, I just wanted to report to you that, although I have considered this several times during the last few months, I am not going to delete my Patreon and I am still interested in finishing the remaining packs and restarting the polls, streams, conversations on the Patreon channel on Discord and so on.

Although I sometimes forget, I am pausing the monthly Patreon billing every month, so that you, even if you are subscribed, don't need to be paying for a service and product that you are not receiving, so don't worry about that, I have a reminder on my cell phone to pause charging every end of the month until I return to normal activities.

I've been drawing since I was 13 years old and even today, at 30 years old, I'm still amazed by the number of people who admire what I do and by the many friends I've made since I received the nickname LLAMABOY. Many people come daily on my Discord, Facebook, and Twitter to congratulate me on some work they liked or even give me support, and that's the only reason I didn't give up on art and went back to working in an office or a classroom, which It’s my real academic background.

YOU GUYS ARE INCREDIBLE.

Finally, I will still work on the packs that remain to be delivered, which I will specify in the next post and Patreon will probably continue to be stopped for a few more months, as I still have other contracts and monthly jobs to maintain my income. I apologize again for the inconvenience and wait that you are going through, but it is coming to an end and soon this will be (for real) back on track.

I would also like to wish you a Happy 2024, may it be a year of improvements and achievements for all of us who live to achieve our dreams!

A very wet and saliva-filled kiss from your fatigued friend, LLAMABOY. ^^’