Hello,

It's been a while since I last spoke to y'all.

For those who helped me in my previous journals situation, I deeply thank you for your support. Unfortunately, I still do not have an office space currently as for some reason the insurance company is really dragging their feet. It has severely affected my and my partners psyche, needlessly driven up energy bills (due to the wall being an outside wall and no insulation), and problem upon problem just keeps springing up in this house. I am rightfully pissed with the previous owners for their severe mismanagement and poor patch jobs they made just so they could dump the house onto someone else.

I digress. I'm writing this to officially announce I'll be taking a break from commissions. I don't know how long or short this will be, but once I deliver the last of the commissions in my queue, I'll be taking a very much needed break from commissions for a bit. This is for a few reasons:

1) The obvious first answer would be, I have not officially been completely without anyone in queue for a very long time, in fact I don't remember the last time I actually haven't had commissions to do? Either way, it's time for me to just breathe a little, draw for myself for a while without being fearful that I'm not prioritizing commissions properly, and most importantly I've barely focused on my animation studies for quite a few years now. So it's time for me to take that leap and improve on my passion and rekindle my love for animating again.

2) I've been working on a super secret project for a better part of a year now. It is almost time for me to essentially fully commit to this project I've been preparing for, and commissions would distract me from this commitment for a bit. Once I get my bearings, I will definitely be more confident to commit to at most two slots at a time. But until then, I will save myself from putting too much on my plate by minimizing my workload as much I possibly can. What's the secret project you ask? I won't reveal it quite yet. But I promise I will once I get going. Those who already know what it is however, SHHHH SHUT UP I GOT THIS, THIS IS OUR LITTLE SECRET FOR NOW OK?!

3) Last but not least, I joined a closed species discord server called Alladons (closed species by ThatAlbinoThing), and long story short I kinda became an Official Poucher Artist for them with two other amazing artists, and ThatAlbinoThing herself and Senior Artist Mute too??? And like, I'm surrounded by so many artists and an enthusiastic community, and just so much love. I've only been in this server for a year and I've been in such bliss since I joined, I'm genuinely so happy to be there. Point is, because I'm an official artist over there and I genuinely wanna focus on character design stuff more, I basically decided to sell my soul to the Dons for a while lol.

But don't worry, I will take commissions again someday, but basically TL;DR I wanna focus on me for a little while.

Thank you all for your continued support! Hope to see you all real soon ^^