Happy 2025, everyone! (Patreon)

I sincerely hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season/break. Always nice to get a little refresh. My break was pretty hectic, a lot of travelling around and guests over, so maybe not the most restful, but it was fun.

My back's feeling better (knock on wood!) and for the most part I feel up to drawing. There are just a few adjustments that I'm making to my work schedule.

1) I will be working on commissions/adopts/Patron requests from Monday to Thursday. On Fridays I will work on Patron requests only - to avoid losing a day of the week for getting monthlies completed - but otherwise will use Fridays for personal art. I want to avoid burnout, which I was creeping steadily towards.

2) I will only reply to messages regarding work (commissions, Patreon, etc.) from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST/GMT-5. I've had the habit of answering messages at all hours of the day and night, which sort of feels like I'm working round the clock, which isn't the best. I need to have more defined work hours. I will not be answering work related messages on weekends either. Only on weekdays.

I'm looking to better manage my stress. I've always been very open about the fact I suffer from GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) and am chronic depressive. I don't have the best mental health, but I take medication and try to do my best, which means needing to be more...hmm...stringent when it comes to work. I prefer being lax when it comes to things to avoid stress, but in doing so I've somehow managed to make things more stressful, haha.

All this to say that I need to start focusing on standardizing my work schedule. Ideally, nothing will really change, I'll just function more like a regular job.

I'm intending to resume work this week. ( :

All Patrons in the relevant tiers may DM about their monthlies. And those who already have, I'll be replying to you later today.

I'll have a new poll going up shortly. And for adopts this month - I'm thinking of offering customs. Will get a post about those up sometime soon too.

Thank you all again so much for supporting me the way you have! You are all amazing and I truly can't thank you all enough for your generosity. Wishing you all the very best!