Thank you for checking out my work, everyone. If you want this to continue, I'll have to ask a favor.

The last time I asked for help, we were in a distressful financial situation and I was hoping to find help anywhere I could. Sadly we ended up losing our home, and all of our stuff –including the computer that I stored all of my work on– was put in storage. That was back when we thought we would only be in the extended stay hotel we were in for like...two weeks. That turned into over a year. And the longer you stay at an extended stay, the worse you tend to end up financially in the long run. Eventually we found a place to move...on Craigslist (I should point out that this wasn't my idea and I didn't know about it until the move itself). We almost got scammed, but we got out with a lot of money saved up, but my former brother-in-law wrecked all of our money while we were in a second (and more expensive) hotel. In addition to that, he lost the container I had featuring most of my better artwork. Once we moved into a place where I could once again save up, my nephew's babysitter, his grandmother, had to stop watching him daily because her husband suffered a stroke, and is now being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.

After about a month of me watching him, we were able to get someone to bring our beds and half of our couches (yes, literally only half) out of storage, but according to my sister, they got arrested or something and we're unable to get out in time for us to get the rest of our stuff. Since then the storage unit has been auctioned off. Around the same time, my phone broke, and was rendered unusable.

I had a lot of artwork that I had intentions of finishing and uploading. It's gone. Who's hands they're in I don't know.
I had a computer with files saved on it. With editing software. With a lot of my art saved as PDF files. It's gone too.
The last time I left a journal, I said I can upload using only my phone to edit images, only it would be more difficult. Well that phone is gone too. That includes the two 20-paragraph stories I had on that phone, that I've been working on for YEARS, that have repeatedly been pushed back due to life getting in the way of everything.

I'm the only person in my house who cares about this. If you want this to continue, I'm afraid I have to ask for help. I've been on hiatus for two years. 2018 was the only year in which I hadn't uploaded anything, including just scraps. I've had three low-paying jobs in that time and I haven't been able to put any of that money towards this. I've been living in extended stay hotel rooms and it's been going towards that. Right now I can't even get another job because I have to put my time into watching my nephew.

In addition to that, I've had no privacy since my phone was lost as I've been sharing my phone with my nephew. (My sister is very nosey and she's starting to lose respect for me [sad face])


Now, I'm asking for donations toward my Patreon. I'll be uploading more there from now on. When I get situated, I'll be able to upload more regularly here as well. I've also been thinking of creating a crowdfunding service on a website like GoFundMe, I just don't know if they allow for services like mine.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boyofenigma.....=h&alert=2


If I can raise $150-$200, I can at the very least get a phone and/or a laptop to do this on. A phone with decent storage to fit all my work on (as this has been a problem in the past), It'll still take long and be more difficult. I tried to do the coloring with only my phone and it is a nightmare. The final product always turns out terribly.
I can also recover some of the lost files in my wrecked phone(s), including the notes to stories and all that.
If I can get to $300 or more, then that's an entirely different story. I can afford to get other users to do half of the coloring for me. I can also get a much more well-functioning laptop to do work on. Maybe even a touchscreen one so I can finally start doing all my work digitally.

Once I get the work I already need to finish out of the way, I'll open up for commissions. This time only one-at-a-time. This will give me more opportunities to work on my own stuff.

I missed you all too!