Finally, 2021 is over... (Patreon)

Hey, folks.

Yes, I guess this is one of those end of the year topics in which you vent endlessly about how happy you are that this damn year is over now, and how it's time to look up to the future and hope next year to be, at the very least, just a little better. I can't say I've got much reasons left to be that optimist, though.

2021 has been just another extension of dreadful 2020. And its last stretch has been specially taxing on me, considering all the late circumstances. I've been under a lot of self-imposed pressure, external circumstances have messed with my schedules over and over again. The last straw for me has been my father's decease, and the incoming legal battle we've still got left to hold against his widow.

I've tried my best not to think too much about it, to keep my mind distracted and my creative spark working hard to not let my father's death being meaningless. But, in the end, I'm just a human being, and I feel like I've ran a non-stop marathon for days. I'm exhausted, soul-drained, and even having one single positive thought feels like an extremely hard task to me.

But this is not going to be my end.

I want to persevere in what I like and enjoy. I want to find back the strength and passion I had for drawing and storytelling. I want to be the guy you folks enjoy supporting. I want to be everything you enjoy from me, and some more.

I have no idea what is 2022 going to have in store for me. I don't really know how long is going to take me to fully recover from this deep impact in my soul. I have no answers, only a strange uncanny feel of void inside of me that not a lot of things can really fill.

But, at the very least, I want to repay your kindness with art. 

I'm sorry if this new year speech didn't sound too passionate or inspired. I'm being as honest as I can possibly be. And I can't deny the fact that I'm mental and morally exhausted. But my greatest hope is that there's no evil that lasts forever.

Hoping to see you guys all along for this new 2022 trip. Thank you kindly for being there at all times.

Happy New Year.