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I'm Still Alive
3 years ago
Anyone who's been following me has to be tired of seeing these by now.
My life's been a total shit-show for the past decade.
So many issues with my family, my health, all the while I've been trying my hardest just to keep my head above water.
The pandemic sure as hell didn't help.
Last year I got overwhelmed again. I had a job but it was really unstable in terms of hours and it was getting pretty dangerous because of how tense everyone was about the pandemic. I had taken these two illustrations jobs so I could quit and work safely from home, and I ended up having to quit one of those too, because my mom got extremely sick. She ended up passing away before I could make the trip to see her. I was able to go to her funeral at least... But then right after I got back, my dad had a stroke. He didn't recover and also ultimately passed away too. I made another trip to be at his funeral as well. So not only did I lose both of my parents within months of each other I had to make 2 trips all the way up the coast back to back. All of this happened pretty recently, I only got back from saying goodbye to my dad in January. I was sick when I got back too so all around I had to take some time to rest.
Things have not been easy, but they're getting better.
I miss my parents, but in their absence, I'm much, much less involved with my family. Not to say this is good or bad but truthfully it means my time is a lot more free, now. I no longer have anyone I have to stop everything for at a moment's notice. So, with that time, I've slowly been picking myself up and getting back to things I had to leave behind before.
I'm not exactly sure where I go from here and I'm honestly really hesitant to even make plans anymore since it seems like every time I do something comes at me from out of the blue and screws everything up.
All I know is I'm going to draw and keep trying to make it work.
Thank you so much to everyone who has enjoyed and supported my art all these years. I'm looking forward to finally having a chance to create more again. I'm still aiming to finish all my previously taken commissions before considering reopening commissions, but I have been working on a potential order form for taking commissions once I do reopen. I'm hoping that won't be much longer, I only have 4 more to finish. Also I'm going to reduce Patreon to just one general support tier until I get back into the swing and can handle more. Those are pretty much the only things I have set in stone for now. I'm just hoping once I start working on things again it'll all start to grow and flourish organically.
Sorry for such a long message but thank you for reading it!
My life's been a total shit-show for the past decade.
So many issues with my family, my health, all the while I've been trying my hardest just to keep my head above water.
The pandemic sure as hell didn't help.
Last year I got overwhelmed again. I had a job but it was really unstable in terms of hours and it was getting pretty dangerous because of how tense everyone was about the pandemic. I had taken these two illustrations jobs so I could quit and work safely from home, and I ended up having to quit one of those too, because my mom got extremely sick. She ended up passing away before I could make the trip to see her. I was able to go to her funeral at least... But then right after I got back, my dad had a stroke. He didn't recover and also ultimately passed away too. I made another trip to be at his funeral as well. So not only did I lose both of my parents within months of each other I had to make 2 trips all the way up the coast back to back. All of this happened pretty recently, I only got back from saying goodbye to my dad in January. I was sick when I got back too so all around I had to take some time to rest.
Things have not been easy, but they're getting better.
I miss my parents, but in their absence, I'm much, much less involved with my family. Not to say this is good or bad but truthfully it means my time is a lot more free, now. I no longer have anyone I have to stop everything for at a moment's notice. So, with that time, I've slowly been picking myself up and getting back to things I had to leave behind before.
I'm not exactly sure where I go from here and I'm honestly really hesitant to even make plans anymore since it seems like every time I do something comes at me from out of the blue and screws everything up.
All I know is I'm going to draw and keep trying to make it work.
Thank you so much to everyone who has enjoyed and supported my art all these years. I'm looking forward to finally having a chance to create more again. I'm still aiming to finish all my previously taken commissions before considering reopening commissions, but I have been working on a potential order form for taking commissions once I do reopen. I'm hoping that won't be much longer, I only have 4 more to finish. Also I'm going to reduce Patreon to just one general support tier until I get back into the swing and can handle more. Those are pretty much the only things I have set in stone for now. I'm just hoping once I start working on things again it'll all start to grow and flourish organically.
Sorry for such a long message but thank you for reading it!
I really hope things will be better from here on too, so far it seems to be going alright. So like you said I'm just keeping on, with my fingers crossed heh.
I hope you stick it out and you come out well off on the otherside of your troubles currently/to come.