Status Update: Extreme Burn Out, Commissions, The Future
2 years ago
Got an important update. There's...a lot to detail about it, coming up and over time, but to put things briefly:
- I'm extremely burned out, and as it turns out, have been burned out for a very, very long duration of time.
- My absolutely unstable living and financial circumstances has left me emotionally, mentally, and creatively exhausted. The pressure of them all has led me to vastly overestimate my abilities.
- The constant mental toll of the pressure and obligations of my commission backlog, in addition to my constantly unstable conditions, has left me unable to function in my artwork. I've overestimated what I could bear, and its left me creatively paralyzed and terrified to craft at all.
- I'm throwing in the towel, in regards to effectively all uncompleted commissions and owed work in my backlog. All but a very select few of them are going to be cancelled. There will likely be no more than 4 or 5 exceptions, at the most. I'll be contacting my clients for those select few shortly, and privately.
- I'm going to be trying to raise funds in order to offer refunds for all of my clients who commissioned me. If you wish to have a refund, please DM me with what you commissioned before, what tier/quality it was, when you commissioned me, and how much you paid. I'll add that to a tally of how much I owe back.
- My effective income is going to be coming exclusively from Patreon and Donations for the foreseeable future. For raising funds to give refunds to the people I owe, and for my own living circumstances. It might be a very long time before I consider trying to do commissions again, in any form, and even if I do, it'll likely be in a much more limited format than how it had been up to this point.
- I'm taking a long break, to mostly try to regain my passions and drive. It's gone to the point where I felt so terrified and overwhelmed with everything around me that I couldn't function. Being on the edge to the point of having panic attacks and dread over myself has been a regular occurrence. It's left me unable to advance or craft works that I could be happy and passionate about. Multiple projects and goals left unfinished and uncompleted. I need a refresh.
- I'm going to need help. More than ever. I'm not gonna try to hide that anymore. I'm, frankly, in very shitty and taxing situations on the regular. I'm exhausted, and I can't keep trying to handle everything by myself anymore.
- Lastly, I need to give a big apology to everyone. I'm sorry that things had to get to this point, I'm sorry that I couldn't uphold the promises, obligations, and responsibilities that I made, that I tried to provide a service that I could not provide. I never meant, in any form, for things to go this far south. Believe me when I say that at those times, I really, truly felt, that I was capable of this. I greatly apologize for my oversight. I should have done this a lot sooner, and I'm sorry it took me this long to realize that.
There's been a whole lot that I've had to deal with and bear, for a long period of time. I'm very sorry that it's led to things going this south. I've been living in absolute, constant stress having to manage a lot that it's led to me being absolutely drained. I thought that I could power on through but it never worked out that way, and eventually by the time I started feeling terror about trying to do anything creative, it set in just how screwed I was.
I'm sorry, I'm very sorry. I'm especially sorry to everyone who's been waiting on stuff from me, stuff that I owed them, for a long, long period of time. I'm sorry I couldn't muster up the energy to make it work out. I never meant for it to go this bad, and I'm so, so sorry.
- I'm extremely burned out, and as it turns out, have been burned out for a very, very long duration of time.
- My absolutely unstable living and financial circumstances has left me emotionally, mentally, and creatively exhausted. The pressure of them all has led me to vastly overestimate my abilities.
- The constant mental toll of the pressure and obligations of my commission backlog, in addition to my constantly unstable conditions, has left me unable to function in my artwork. I've overestimated what I could bear, and its left me creatively paralyzed and terrified to craft at all.
- I'm throwing in the towel, in regards to effectively all uncompleted commissions and owed work in my backlog. All but a very select few of them are going to be cancelled. There will likely be no more than 4 or 5 exceptions, at the most. I'll be contacting my clients for those select few shortly, and privately.
- I'm going to be trying to raise funds in order to offer refunds for all of my clients who commissioned me. If you wish to have a refund, please DM me with what you commissioned before, what tier/quality it was, when you commissioned me, and how much you paid. I'll add that to a tally of how much I owe back.
- My effective income is going to be coming exclusively from Patreon and Donations for the foreseeable future. For raising funds to give refunds to the people I owe, and for my own living circumstances. It might be a very long time before I consider trying to do commissions again, in any form, and even if I do, it'll likely be in a much more limited format than how it had been up to this point.
- I'm taking a long break, to mostly try to regain my passions and drive. It's gone to the point where I felt so terrified and overwhelmed with everything around me that I couldn't function. Being on the edge to the point of having panic attacks and dread over myself has been a regular occurrence. It's left me unable to advance or craft works that I could be happy and passionate about. Multiple projects and goals left unfinished and uncompleted. I need a refresh.
- I'm going to need help. More than ever. I'm not gonna try to hide that anymore. I'm, frankly, in very shitty and taxing situations on the regular. I'm exhausted, and I can't keep trying to handle everything by myself anymore.
- Lastly, I need to give a big apology to everyone. I'm sorry that things had to get to this point, I'm sorry that I couldn't uphold the promises, obligations, and responsibilities that I made, that I tried to provide a service that I could not provide. I never meant, in any form, for things to go this far south. Believe me when I say that at those times, I really, truly felt, that I was capable of this. I greatly apologize for my oversight. I should have done this a lot sooner, and I'm sorry it took me this long to realize that.
There's been a whole lot that I've had to deal with and bear, for a long period of time. I'm very sorry that it's led to things going this south. I've been living in absolute, constant stress having to manage a lot that it's led to me being absolutely drained. I thought that I could power on through but it never worked out that way, and eventually by the time I started feeling terror about trying to do anything creative, it set in just how screwed I was.
I'm sorry, I'm very sorry. I'm especially sorry to everyone who's been waiting on stuff from me, stuff that I owed them, for a long, long period of time. I'm sorry I couldn't muster up the energy to make it work out. I never meant for it to go this bad, and I'm so, so sorry.

LapisHusky
~lapishusky
Take your time. One must put mental & emotional health first before anything else most times.