June 2024 summary (Patreon)

Time to sum up everything what happened in June. It was another not very productive month and this time I have nothing but myself to blame as the only event which pulled me out of my hermitage was this short trip to Moscow to give a lecture. I don't know why it's so hard for me to work no matter how much I try, I honestly tried my best to free as much time for working as possible, I haven't been playing any games or watching any movies for, I guess, 2 months in a row so far, I was fencing myself off from answering many friends of mine to avoid distractions and yet I did only 4 artworks one of which doesn't even have any edits at all.

Maybe it's all because of my sleep schedule which was very broken these two months, no matter how much I tried it was impossible to go sleep earlier than 3-5am and waking up in a middle of a day, now it's getting back to normal by itself without much trying, it feels like if these periods are like ebbs and flows I can't do anything about but just wait for it to over.

Gladly all that stuff doesn't affect my Patreon too much. It's June already which means 6 months since I shared my progress graphs here so it's time to show what heights we reached together.

As you can see, your help is not in vain and it still helps me to become a more and more successful artist, it's very nice to see that steady growth of followers and income, and it's very encouraging too, good to have such a serious proof that I'm on a right way and just have to keep going this way, especially considering what crazy stuff I'm posting here, having it accepted by people is especially important for my mental state. Twitter for example is not really helpful at encouraging, if I had only my Twitter page I'd probably start to believe that I'm forever doomed for stagnation without any chance for progress.

Recent months doesn't show any serious growth here but it's fair considering my lowered productivity and all the side stuff, not having an increase is better than having a decrease.

Speaking of Patreon, as you can see, one of my posts was removed for violating Patreon rules :( The one I did for Father's Day. It's a bad sign but at least it wasn't a ban or something. Still, it means I have to do something. It's still too early to move to SubscribeStar, I checked out differences between two platforms and it turned out that besides just being less popular, SubscribeStar also has higher platform fees and its minimal amount available for withdrawal is $150 compared to $10 on Patreon which is important for me because sometimes I have a need to withdraw my funds 1-2 extra times in a month outside main payday in a first day of each month, this way my income can split into smaller parts which are less than $100. If I move to SubscribeStar I'll be unable to deal with unexpected financial issues that easy. So, I have to stay here for now and try to deal with Patreon conditions to not get more warnings which can end with permanent ban.

So, to sum up the results of June, I drew inflation art with Decker, Lucky Luke commission and guys from "Get A Job" short, all had a good big set of alts, and one Father's Day art with Volk which didn't have any edits, not the worst amount of content but still just a bit better than a very minimum. I hope it will get better in July since my sleep seems to get better too. Right now I'm working on a big pixel animation commission, it's coming out really good and I'm sure you're gonna love it. I also missed 4th of July this year which is a shame but I really didn't have any ideas on what patriotic stuff to draw this time. And sadly I haven't started my inflation sequence with Volk inspired by the piece I got for my birthday but maybe I'll start it this month, I'm still thinking about it.

Thank you for all your support and devotion!

P. S. I forgot to tell about my lecture in Moscow, surprisingly it went really well and was visited by a bunch of furries which is very nice after zero of them arriving on exhibition opening, I guess the permission to come in fursuits had a decisive role here haha. As I expected, meeting irl furries for the first time was pretty exciting, however I was very limited in time as train tickets were bought beforehand and had to hurry like Cinderella to not miss my train so we didn't have any time to talk outside lecture time at all but still it felt like a success for me.
If you haven't seen the photos you can see them here:
https://x.com/BRacoondog/status/1799579114048737415