Changes for 2023 (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

I'm making this note because things are going to change for the year 2023 for me (a lot) and for Patreon (a little).

As some people already know, apart from drawing, I have a full time job in a call center. This job is not great, but it has allowed me to live normally, to pay my bills and especially to offer very low prices for drawings, especially the commissions.

The job at the call center is very difficult mentally on the long term and, after 6 years without interruption, I begin to feel the harmful effects on my health.  

To give you an idea, if you combine work and drawing, I have been working around 70 hours a week for the last 4 years (when I started to draw). This rhythm also required a lot of sacrifice on a personal level.

So I decided to stop working in the call center and try to make a living out of drawing.  

Concretely this means that by 2023 the commissions will be permanently open at a decent price that I can live on. The price will start around 300$ USD...

If you find this expensive let me give you a little insight: I live in a country where the minimum wage is about $1300. Over a month I think I'll be able to draw 3 or 4 commissions for about 900-1200$ (without counting the taxes which get about 20% of this amount). Since I don't live in opulence, I think I can get by on a little less than minimum wage, but honestly, if I'm asking for $300, I wouldn't be living the high life.  

Since commissions will become my main income, the OC poll on Patreon will disappear by 2023. The fanart poll will still be available. The discount on commissions will still be in effect for subscribers.  

As usual, I'll be available on Discord, Patreon and Twitter if you want to give me feedback.

Once again, I would like to thank all the people who have commissioned me and those who have subscribed to my Patreon, your support has meant a lot to me.  

And I say GG if you managed to read this until the end 

See you soon!

Ultrabinou