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It's Troubling News (8/28/2017)
🕑 Added 2017-08-29 01:15:48 +0000 UTCEnd of $1 Quick and Dirty
As stated earlier this month, I will be getting rid of the $1 - Quick and Dirty Reward. When August 30th rolls around, I will be removing the reward level and it will be replaced with the $3 - Pandemic Explorer. Part of the problem with $1.00 monthly subscriptions, is the fees. Between what Patreon takes for credit card processing, and it's fee, the $1 reward became much less valuable, and honestly felt like nickle and diming for a single dollar. I know me taking away the $1 reward will be a deal breaker for some people, and I completely understand. Despite this, please continue to watch my Patreon page, and look for me on Furaffinity, Twitter, or wherever else. I still post my completed art on other websites... the only things I rarely post is my sketch work.
What the heck is going on with the Pandemic Comics?
I wish it were as simple as saying I got busy, but I am in a lull period with my personal projects... and honestly I feel unhappy with the current state of my own art. My health has unfortunately been in the toilet, and I've been going through what feels like a continuous depression. Part of that is despite the fact I'm living with my "mate", it's more like I'm living with a meh "room-mate", and honestly that's its own bag of popcorn to talk about.
That said; I've had ideas, I've tried "fleshing" them out, but I just can't seem to do it for some reason, like all the things I want to do are wrong, or the story I want to tell is lame, or half-assed, or it feels like a repeat of what I've done before. I don't understand it, and while I've come across hurdles of this type in my life, the one I'm at now is causing me a lot of stress and anxiety making it so much more difficult to get past. It's aggravatingly frustrating, and if I weren't so reliant on Patreon, or commission work I do, I'd just shut it all off and go on a long journey and find my peace again. Regardless, the best I can say, is I'm trying to do SOMETHING.
Working with a couple of friends I'm thinking about doing a 3-4 Panel shorts, and seeing what we can come up with. They are not easily available because Hurrican [steve] Harvey went through their area. So they have to deal with that.
Other News
In other news, I will be livestreaming weekly, as I want to give the $10-25 Patreon Subscribers a chance to influence what I draw. Keep an eye out for the PicartoTV link...and do not expect me to use Patreon's Livestreaming integration until they include PicartoTV, I'm not going to start paying Google for Youtube Livestreaming integration until they let me use an alias, and better control my channel and viewership settings. I want to be able to do R-18 (NSFW) and not get banned for stupid censorship reasons.
Comments
Kabbalist
Troubled, I'm with John: I've always enjoyed your work, and I don't think that it's been lame or half-assed. Whether it's repetitive or not I can't say without seeing it. ;-) I'm very sorry to hear about the problems you're having with your health and with depression right now, and also about the dissatisfaction with your living situation. With all those weighing on you, creative difficulties make sense. I'm nowhere near to giving up on you yet, though! Best wishes, and take care of yourself.
Troubled
Thanks, I'm just especially hard on my own work... it's just something I need to learn how to better handle.
Carson
I think you make some of the best comics out there right now. I never really felt any of them were half assed or you did it before. If anything, it's a really unique idea compared to a lot else out there.
