Personal update and some brand new WIPs! (Patreon)

Hey everybody ♥

June has been a hard and busy month for me, as many of you noticed I had barely even posted or completed new pieces this month. I had difficulties to deal with both in my personal life and my dayjob that consumed most of my energy and the tropical heatwaves hitting the area where I live didn't help either. After feeling seriously exhausted both mentally and physically, I decided to take a much-needed break from social media in the past week. I have some constant mental battles to fight with alongside family issues...sooo recently I have noticed that once again I have started to obsess on numbers and external validation over focusing on my art, which is a very bad thing for my creativity in general, so I kinda had to hit the reset button again. This frustration about numbers and sales and money(which obv I need to survive this reality) caused me to fall into a weird pit of artblock where I actually have a lot of ideas but i just couldn't work on any of them beyond like a few minutes before feeling totally useless or seeing my art as garbage, and no matter how much I wanted to make progress on my book too it had the opposite result and I literally halted my own progress with stressing too much about it… So lessons learned everyone, take it seriously, but not TOOO seriously!  BUT with this little break, I had the chance to do some research of my own and think about a lot of things, so now I will come back with a slightly new posting strategy and hopefully much more frequent content for you all ♥

There will be also some slight changes in the tiers, that I will list below!

I also just got my hand on a new iPad Air so I used most of my freetime and energy to get acquainted with it. I tried two artworks on it, both attached above! I love how they look so far, I hope you like it too!

Thank you for all the support during this little hiatus and I’m so happy to see you all staying with me still ♥

Updates coming to the tiers soon:

The $7 ‘Battle Mage’ tier will merge into it’s neighboring tiers, while the $30 Founders+ tier will transform into a new ‘Art Collector’ tier with similar perks, but much more than before ;)

Tier 1 - Acolyte $1

Complete post archive access! Once you join a tier, you get access to all the previously posted content and digital rewards of that tier.

♥ Immediate reward upon joining this tier or any higher tiers:

Patreon exclusive wallpaper pack with 20+ artworks, for both desktop and mobile! ♥

• High-res WIP feed access
• Early Access: see new artworks at least 3 days before anyone outside the Patron fam!
• Exclusive Andernya Project content access(you will see sketches, full character sheets, maps, sketches, lore, etc as I create them)
• Suggestion Box: in the pinned “Suggestion Box” post you can post(and together we can discuss) your ideas about new artworks, new rewards, and practically anything related to Patreon, my art or the Andernya project! From time to time there will be some polls(for example about new rewards) you can vote in too.

Tier 2 - Enchanter $5

All rewards of previous tiers, and:

• Downloadable full-size artworks (jpg,png)
• Early access to full painting timelapse videos
• Automatic entry to all my giveaways and art raffles
  (You can join my giveaways on social media like Instagram where I usually host them)

Tier 3 - Archmage $10

All rewards of previous tiers, and:

• ArtCards

A6(10x15 cm) size, 2 sided premium quality photo paper with the artwork of the month; art on one side, sketch and thank you note on the other side. shipping every 3 months(3 cards with the artworks chosen in a Patreon exclusive poll)

• One Signed and Personalized A4 Print of your chosen artwork upon joining the tier
• 10% off of commission prices while you are a Patron

Tier 4 - The Founders $20

Join this tier if you want to support The Andernya Project with even more and help me finish my debut illustrated dark-fantasy book earlier!

All rewards of previous tiers, and:

Your name(or your chosen alias) will appear in the Andernya book(s) with a special thank you shoutout!

-in this tier for 3 months or less:
You'll get a digital copy of the book, and a discount on the physical version when published, and a character creator sheet to create your own character in the universe of Andernya(you can add your existing OC too if you can adjust it to the criteria). You will receive a bust sketch of your character based on your description!

-in this tier for more than 3 months:
You’ll get a signed hardcover copy of the book when published and extra rewards(like bookmarks, character cards, candles, and prints) in a special, Patreon exclusive Founder's box when the book is published.

Tier 5 - Art Collector $30

All digital and physical rewards of previous tiers, and:

♥ Signed A4 print and ArtCard every month (shipped in batches in every 3 months)

You choose the artworks for both print rewards!