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4 months ago
To all who have sponsored and supported me,
Hello, my dear sponsors and fans who love and enjoy my art. A considerable amount of time has passed since I began my journey as an artist. During this time, I've genuinely been happy, and I can unequivocally say that I've become who I am today thanks to the love and support of kind people and those who genuinely cheered me on.
However, reality isn't always positive. As time went on, I grew older, but my income did not. Having chosen a path different from most, I was in a position where I needed to show stability to gain my family's approval, but I failed to do so.
When my family pressured me to seriously consider quitting art, I was speechless. Seeing my unstable situation, where I couldn't even earn as much as what ordinary people make from their labor, everyone questioned my choices with skepticism.
I've done a lot of thinking.
I've always considered having something I love to do as a blessing in life. However, when that blessing didn't translate into a skill recognized by society, its weight crushed my spirit.
It broke my heart to realize that the people who love me wished for me to stop drawing. But this wasn't resentment or hatred towards my family. It ultimately stemmed from my own shame. In a way, perhaps I didn't try hard enough, was too complacent, and settled for an easy life.
Everything came from my own shortcomings.
Therefore, I am writing this as a reflection. I will work harder and strive more. I will run without rest. I will endeavor to live as a human being who can lead a life at a level that is considered normal in the society I live in.
Because, despite everything, I don't want to give up on art or abandon the sole driving force of my life just because it doesn't bring in money.
In the future, I will diligently open commissions and strive to become a better artist, worthy of the support you've given me.
Thank you for reading this long letter. I am always grateful. And I am sorry.
Hello, my dear sponsors and fans who love and enjoy my art. A considerable amount of time has passed since I began my journey as an artist. During this time, I've genuinely been happy, and I can unequivocally say that I've become who I am today thanks to the love and support of kind people and those who genuinely cheered me on.
However, reality isn't always positive. As time went on, I grew older, but my income did not. Having chosen a path different from most, I was in a position where I needed to show stability to gain my family's approval, but I failed to do so.
When my family pressured me to seriously consider quitting art, I was speechless. Seeing my unstable situation, where I couldn't even earn as much as what ordinary people make from their labor, everyone questioned my choices with skepticism.
I've done a lot of thinking.
I've always considered having something I love to do as a blessing in life. However, when that blessing didn't translate into a skill recognized by society, its weight crushed my spirit.
It broke my heart to realize that the people who love me wished for me to stop drawing. But this wasn't resentment or hatred towards my family. It ultimately stemmed from my own shame. In a way, perhaps I didn't try hard enough, was too complacent, and settled for an easy life.
Everything came from my own shortcomings.
Therefore, I am writing this as a reflection. I will work harder and strive more. I will run without rest. I will endeavor to live as a human being who can lead a life at a level that is considered normal in the society I live in.
Because, despite everything, I don't want to give up on art or abandon the sole driving force of my life just because it doesn't bring in money.
In the future, I will diligently open commissions and strive to become a better artist, worthy of the support you've given me.
Thank you for reading this long letter. I am always grateful. And I am sorry.
Hey there, thanks for enjoying my artwork.
If you are interested in supporting my work, please consider being my Ko-fi or Patreon!
Your little sincerity and support are a great help to my creative work :)
Have a nice day, Always wish you luck.
https://paypal.me/JihwanMoon
https://ko-fi.com/dksk30
https://www.patreon.com/dksk30 
However, right now, commissions are all I can do, so I felt it was a priority to use them to secure my ability to survive. More than anything, through commissions, I've gotten to know many people and, as someone learning to draw, I've gained a tremendous amount of challenges and experience.
But one thing it's NOT great at is actual cashflow. Because it's like working an hourly job but even worse, since you have to go and hunt for a new employer ever few days or weeks. And unless you're WAY up there on the artist-in-demand list, it doesn't bring in that much. Whereas even a mediocre artist (and you're far from mediocre) can make pretty good money by doing art + x, taking that art and combining it with something else in a niche with good demand and decent margins. I think people, good people especially, get stuck in the trap of being too "honest" when it comes to work: "I do x labor and get y pay for it, and then do that again tomorrow." They want to be "fair." But the world isn't fair, and you're not going to be young forever. Figure out ways to work that are less rolling a rock up a hill and more spinning up a flywheel that keeps spinning and spinning. Build MOMENTUM that can keep carrying you forward, even when you're not actively putting more energy into it.
But of course, you have the skill and framework set up to do commissions right now, so by all means keep at that for the time being. Just start thinking about what other possibilities are out there, things you can experiment with without having to sink a HUGE initial investment in.
Perhaps you could fit in some faster to create and less rendered artwork to boost your income and give an option for someone with a smaller income