Last call on art requests for the $5 tier (for a while, at least)! (Patreon)

The good news? Time for the 140-odd Patrons of the $5 tier to make their art requests for the rapidly dwindling month of June! 

The bad news? Starting in July, I'm going to have to discontinue the option of regular monthly art requests for the $5 tier (as I had to do last month for the $1 and $3 tiers), as I  find myself swamped with suggestions overall and increasingly short on worktime to draw 'em. 

I'm hoping to restart work shortly on Empowered vol. 12 with a bold and frankly bats**t new approach to the volume, and drawing comics on a full-time basis again is gonna take up pretty much all of my available time at the drawing table. (Ideally I'd like to finish the book by the end of this year, but that's almost certainly a pipe dream, barring a return to Empowered vol. 8 levels of productivity.)

With that task a-looming, I just don't have the free time for general-purpose sketching like these art requests. Maintaining a hardcore, every-weekday Patreon posting schedule—for the time being, at least—is time-consuming enough without adding on dozens of extra "mini-commissions" every month.  

Part of my rather weak rationale for continuing to take art requests en masse has been the idea of getting practice in working digitally. Howeva, of late I've had some severe g-d setbacks on the Clip Studio Paint front, and will have to put the hoped-for digital transition on the back burner for the rest of the year. I'll likely keep noodling away at the Cintiq in my spare time, and might well solicit further art requests in the future; they just won't be a guaranteed feature of this tier.

Wellp, at least I was able to keep the every-tier art-request bit rolling for over a year, even though that was mainly due to, uh, not  having much in the way of "day-job" work deadlines, a situation which is now changing. Hope you enjoyed the sketch sets, and sorry that I couldn't keep this option open for every tier. 

So, let's close out this feature with any character suggestions or situation requests you might have, oh 80-odd $1 and $3 Patrons! Could my own characters, or other people's characters, or more iterations of material I've already drawn here. Single-character suggestions would be VERY STRONGLY APPRECIATED, by the way, as I've had a vexing number of two- or even three-character(!) requests from the other tiers in previous months. 

UPDATE: As I'm developing the fantasy RPG romantic/sex comedy Party of Two at present, any suggestions involving the fetching half-orc cleric or her cantankerous dwarven companion would be very welcome indeed! (This does, of course, constitute an exception to the "single-character suggestions" bit from the previous paragraph.)

Thanks for your generous support, and have a good weekend!