Patreon Announcement- Please read! :D (Patreon)

Hello everyone! 

      I have a few things I would like to announce on here, thanks so much for taking the time to read all this.

         The first one is the big one. I was going to keep this a secret until it was done but I feel like I should probably keep you guys in the loop on it since it may affect you down the road. Earlier this year I was contacted by publishing company about making an art book, it's the same company that makes a lot of the art books you may be familiar with such as the 'Art of Loish', 'Sketch with Asia', or 'Art of Heikala' books. I've been so over the moon ecstatic to have my very first art book but it has definitely been a lot of work trying to put all the assets together and I feel so intimidated because I honestly don't feel like a good enough artist to have a whole book. I'm trying to make sure it's full of lots of tutorials I've seen people ask for over the years on how I make different aspects of my pieces (How to draw hair, how to color sketches digitally, how to make an acrylic painting from start to finish etc) as well as lots of encouraging inspirations for getting started. I also want it to have lots of fun new art in it that hasn't been seen before but I'm not sure how much of that is realistic. The deadline to get everything to them is at the beginning of 2022 and I've been feeling that pressure a lot, I really want to hand you guys the best possible version of this book and not something I hastily threw together in the background, so you may have noticed I've been much slower in my posting / activity than I'm used to. It may be that later this year I have to pause patreon all together, or else set up several months of rewards in advance with designs I've already made instead of producing new designs (pausing patreon would mean you remain a patron but won't be charged/recieve any rewards until I'm ready to release rewards again). I hope an art book is something you guys would be excited for too! I'll probably be coming to you with random polls on things like what to do for the cover because I feel so intimidated about that. If there's something specific you want to learn feel free to comment it below, if I see enough people ask for something I will try to see if it's possible to incorporate (anatomy is something I get asked a lot about but I never feel like I have great advice for anatomy other than to attend figure drawing sessions if you can, or take weird photos of yourself and use that).

The second announcement shouldn't affect most of you very much but I am disbanding the $3 tier on my patron, it's felt like an awkward tier for a long time and very few people use it anyway. The $1 tier will maintain the same perks as the $3 tier ( occasional early shop drop access and original artworks access) so if people still want those perks they can move down to the $1 tier. 

The final announcement which should also be good news is I've found a way to move my merchandise into a fulfillment center! This means my shop can be open much more regularly. Naturally I've been in charge in my own shipping from day 1 so this is sort of a scary move for me to let someone else handle it but the volume was getting too much and the merchandise was taking up my entire house so it was time to move forward with this. I'm hoping to get everything moved in around mid July or so, so sometime around the beginning of August the full shop should be back to shop! If there is something you'd like to see stocked in there let me know (certain designs as prints/stickers/keychains/ etc.)

So that's all for now! Thanks for reading, and thanks for your patience and understanding while I'm working on these projects! Hope you're all having a lovely start to your week~