Hello to everyone, I have a big update to give today so let's get to it.

If any of you have been keeping up with me through my journals you've seen that the last few years, and more importantly the last few months, have been a financial and logistical nightmare. I'm way behind both on work as well as submissions. I seem to have dropped off the map and gone dark but this isn't the case. Most of my interactions are done through Discord now so it hasn't been very observable to the public. As far as the work is concerned I'm in a terrible loop of having to take in new work just to be able to work on what I take in. This keeps me from progressing on backlogged work and this is horribly unfair to those that spent their hard-earned cash to buy product from me.

What I need is a way to make income outside of just what my two hands can produce. With enough Patreon support I could manage this but to be fair I'm not expecting this. I feel that I have severely and irrevocably damaged my reputation with everyone so there's bound to be a lack of faith in me for this. In order to remedy the problem I'm going to have to make changes to the way I conduct my business and how I handle the public. So I'll be listing a few things to help with this.

First I must make an announcement. I have started a Youtube channel! I don't know how to link the channel itself so here's one of the videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNL7dmOQX2M&t=665s

The channel is going to be art related. I'll be posting videos of safe for work images that I produce with commentary, tutorials, FAQs, etc. I'll also be doing guest spots where I will have other artists join me as well as customers who are willing to talk with me while I work. I'm not sure what this can do for me but I'm hoping that in the future I can somehow monetize this.

I'm passing control of uploads to the awesome  shyala in order to start getting images in the gallery. This should bring my work back into the light so that's a very good thing.

This week I will be contacting everyone currently on the waiting list for commissions in order to touch base and make sure everyone knows they have not been forgotten. I'll be focusing on getting rough sketches out for anyone who hasn't had any kind of update since purchase, then proceed with images that already have some work done on them. This is going to mean pushing myself to a painful level but it's what needs to be done in the meantime until I can claw my way out of the current rut I'm in.

I will still need to run nightly streams so this is something that won't change, sadly.

From here I'm talking with people who have offered to help with some of the legwork needed to get things back in order and I'll be seeking some input from everyone via polls. I have a deep sense of regret that things have gotten this bad but self-loathing doesn't help. I need to take action. I'd offer to start operating more social media but to be honest I think social media is not the way to go. I'd rather have my work speak for itself and handle public interaction through chats, streams, and comments.

For now this should get everyone up to speed on things and I'm gonna get some sleep (on Vixie's schedule so I'm up nights now) I'll see you guys soon!

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Nate