Thank you. | Update (Patreon)

First of all, for those who have pledged for the month of August, your pledge has been successfully processed. As for the reward, I am still working on July's reward and unfortunately the one for August will have to wait until then. Thus said, I would like to apologize for the delay once again.

Second of all, I want to take this time to talk about some things that's been on my mind for quite some time now. It's nothing serious although I felt like I needed you guys to know how I feel.

When I first started my Patreon, I didn't know anything about this platform, and it took me a while to get a grasp of all the features and things it could offer. I really wanted to make the best use of it, but at the same time I felt that my current capabilities at that time wouldn't justify the use of this platform. I didn't want people to pledge for something that they would regret putting their time and money on. Maybe other people wouldn't think of it that way, but that's how I felt when I first started. You could say that part of the reason is due to my lack of self-esteem. This is why I never asked for anything more than a dollar. And even now, it wouldn't really matter if it were only a dollar. Just the fact that people out there acknowledge my work and are willingly helping me, it just really makes me happy.

Art is something that I always leaned on my entire life, and pretty much the only thing I was good at. When I was in kindergarten, I would spend my days drawing random objects I see within my reach. When I was in high school, even though I had taken music lessons throughout my whole 5 years of scholarship, I would still draw on the side. That's when I first discovered my love for anime. When I was in my first years of college, I didn't opt for an art oriented course, but rather for an emerging domain which is multimedia. This is precisely when I told myself, this is not what I wanted to do, that what I wanted is to draw for a living. I never took art seriously up until that time. I dropped out of college (which was a really bad idea to be honest), saved enough money and quit my part time job so I could focus my entire time on drawing. I realize how hard it is to achieve something on your own. Sometimes it even made me question whether I made the right decision or not.

However, it's not about whether it was right or not. It's about whether your decision is bearing its fruits or not. And if it isn't, find a way to make it work. Because life isn't linked through a single thread. Whichever path you choose leads to the same end. It's about how you could make the best use of that path, and lean on to it. While the path I chose wasn't really the most ideal in a rational sense, I really want to make it work. I opened my Patreon back in April, unknowing whether it would ever reach out to somebody, because let's be honest : at the time I was a nobody, and still am as of now.

Today I have a total of 14 patrons. It may seem like nothing for most people but to me, like I said earlier, it's 14 people who willingly offered their support as they saw potential through my works. And to all my previous and current supporters, I would like to thank you all again from the bottom of my heart. You may have seen me saying thank you at multiple occasions, as it may have appeared as an empty emphasis, but each of those times were my honest and gleeful feelings.

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TL;DR : Thank you for your support throughout those 4 months. I will continue to work harder, and improve within each and every piece I work on. If you haven't already, consider sharing my artworks to your friends and whatnot. ^^

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Also what's coming in the future :

• New Patreon Tiers ($1, $5, $10 respectively);
• New Patreon Introduction;
• New stuff that I might have forgot, haha.