foxyrain

Happy October everyone! I hope you all had a great September! 

I think I mentioned it several times on my Patreon and on discord but from this month, I'm going to be slowing down my workflow just enough to have regular breaks in between projects. For three years now, I've barely taken any rest and drew nonstop almost every day to produce as much work as I can. Even to this day, I just feel like I'm not producing enough work every month and I feel super anxious and worried if I take a break. I guess it stems from my lack of confidence as a creator that if I were to ever take a break, I'd fall behind other creators. So that's why I've been pushing myself to pump out as much work as I can every month which has been somewhat working over the past three years. Lately, though, I feel like it's taken quite a bit of a toll on me and my health. I'm not as active or energetic as I used to be which might not seem like a great problem in hindsight but I'm worried this trend will become something much more serious if left unaddressed. 

For three months, I've been having thoughts about decreasing my workflow to 4~5 works per month. Only now, I've decided that I should make a difficult decision and reduce it down to 5. Doing this will hopefully allow me a bit more breathing room each week to be able to enjoy a day to take leisurely breaks and work on living a healthier life. 

These are more or less the same things I mentioned before though, so if you'd like a longer read on my previous announcement, it can be found here. 
https://www.patreon.com/posts/special-72569663


That said, I'm still quite anxious about the rewards being reduced this month. So I'd like to take this chance to ask you guys for your personal thoughts on my content as an artist. 

If you could request an improvement from me that isn't increasing my workload, what would it be? 

I'd also take this chance to encourage anyone thinking of becoming a content creator to continue pursuing your goals and dreams. Don't ever be discouraged when you find yourself comparing other people's works with yours. It's not going to be easy and it will take a lot of patience so my advice would be to try and enjoy the act of creating even if the results aren't something you like. We are the harshest critics when it comes to our own work, take it as a step of learning by making mistakes. 

I thought I'd get that off my chest since I've heard numerous questions asking about how to become an artist. 

I hope you guys will have a great month and please stay safe. This month, Lucy from Edgerunners won the poll by a landslide so I'll be drawing Lucy AND Rebecca! Please look forward to me working on them sometime this month, I'll also be making dialogue versions for it. 

Here are this month's rewards! 

https://reine.gumroad.com/l/vol30extra/bisquedoll
[Gumroad Link will automatically expire after 14 days] so download them before they expire! 

Have a great day (and month), everyone!