Jane Doe Sketch (Patreon)

Old sketch for cool guy JohnDoe on tumblr, whose tumblr is really super duper NSFW.

So I'm trying to manage my costs a little better, I've been a lot more careful this month about spending on food, and reduced my groceries to roughly 20-25 dollars a week among other things. Cutting down on snack foods is good for a lot of other reasons anyway. I'm cutting off services I don't need, that I liked trying when I had a fair bit more funds. And I'm maybe being a bit more picky about the extra things I buy like watching movies when they come out or giving new comic books a try.

With that said, it's also really apparent to me that I haven't taken care of you guys in a while. I can't blame all that on depression, though it certainly didn't help. But it's totally true that the last three months have seen the first downward slide of pledges, not counting dropping the sketch commission tier. It's mostly my fault, but I also understand if your budgets are getting pretty tight.

It's something I need to be much more conscious of in the future. I actually suspect that, for reasons more than just budgetary, I'll be moving out of my apartment into much cheaper (but a less comfortable situation.) This isn't something I'm worried about yet, my checking account is plenty healthy. But it's really coming to my attention that I need to pay you guys MORE attention.

And I need to do more to grow my audience. You guys have supported me for so long and some of you have been incredibly generous over all that time. I can't expect you guys to shoulder that all by yourselves though, even if I was giving out the content you deserve. I need to get new people to join and add to the pool.