What a horrible year 2023 has been... (Please read) (Patreon)

Ugh, were to even start to begin to explain...

The weather this year has been awfull. It has never rained so much as it did this year. I work as a bike courier as my daily job, so you might understand that bad weather affects me even more than someone with an inside job. An if it wasn't raining it was hot as hell outside during the summer. Making me tired and extremely unmotivated to do anything else in my free time, like art for example.

During the summer, my step dad had to be hospitalized twice for a sudden inflamation of his gall blather. Causing for a lot of stress in the family for a couple of weeks. His gall blather had to be removed, but the doctors somehow botched his surgery, which caused more inflamation in the next couple of days that could have killed him. Luckily the second surgery succeeded. He's doing fine right now.

Last September my pc crashed for the 4th time (even after it had been repaired by an expert since the last time it crashed), making me once again dependend on my laptop to do art. I really want to buy a new one asap, but I was too busy with other things (especially in December), so buying a new pc is now something on my "to do" list for 2024.

And to top it all off, my mother has been diagnosed with the worst kind of breast cancer last November. Thank god it did not spread to other places in her body, which increased the chances of it being curable significantly. She's undergoing heavy chemo therapy at the moment, but is doing just fine right now. I think I have never felt that much stress as I did when we were all waiting for the results of the MRI-scan and PET-CT-scan. You can probably understand that the relief was enormous when the results of those scans came back negative for any spreadings. The chemo therapy has to shrink down the cancerous lump to the size where they can remove it safely, and save the breast tissue.

So if you all were wondering why the artflow was so incredibly low this year (especially in the last few months), this is why. Let's just hope 2024 will be MUCH better. I recently bought an Android tablet (Samsung Tab S9 Ultra) to increase my art motivation next year. Now I am not bound to my desk if I want to make new pictures!