Hard Drive crash (Patreon)

So if you follow my twitter, you might have noticed I was tweeting about some severe PC issues I had. Well, long story short, my HDD died, and basically wiped out 3 years worth of artwork. I did have some stuff backed up, but almost everything I've worked on is just gone.

My PC still functions, since I have my OS and other software installed on my SSD. However the HDD contained most of my files (ie artwork, pictures, videos, etc) is gone. I'm not 100% sure what killed it (other than general age and use), and talking to an HDD technician he said the cost to recover data is easily 4 digits USD.

This also means I lost a number of artworks that were in progress, which sucks hard.

This isn't the end obviously, I can just continue to draw stuff, and a bunch of artwork is still archived (like on patreon of course). But of course most of the master files (ie PSD's and Clip Studio files) are irrecoverably lost, which is really disheartening. Worse still is I also lost my big archive of reference photos and images, and that will need to be rebuilt.

This is also kind of shitty timing since I'm disappearing for about a week since my family wants to go on a trip, so I'll be gone until the 11th.

Anyway sorry for all this, I just wanted to let you guys know what's going on. Also remember to keep your data backed up with a redundant drive. Guess I learned the hard way....