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5 years ago
So a little has changed since my last journal. All the fears are still there and worries because at any moment, everything could be pulled out from under me. But a few things have happened.
My cry for help did reach a few wonderful people and have helped support me and my art. I've even opened commissions not just on Patreon but here as well. I don't have a set rate listed but I might update that soon since commissions will always vary in price due to what is desired.
What has saved me is when one of those wonderful people who joined my patreon was one of my former bosses at Dragon's Eye Productions. Some of you furres out there might have heard of it and I do mention I used to work as a pixel artist for an online game but never really mention which game. I mainly don't talk about it because after so long working for them, the loss of my mother and own personal reasons, I could not stay. It was a tough time in my life and had to move back to my hometown. After my loss, I tried to better myself, tried to do the "adult" thing and get a normal job and for almost seven years, try to make my life stable again. It didn't work.
Then I had the unfortunate situation of my back giving out after doing gruelling retail jobs for that simple seven years. My back will never be the same and I don't have the money to get a doc to fully fix it. I've lived with aggressive arthritis of my lower spine and hips for a few years now but I can't even do any physical work. So because of this, I went back to the one thing I was good at, which was art. But I had been out of the spotlight for so many years, I had to start at the bottom again and I'm still nowhere near where I was decades ago.
I started with comics, and haven't quite hit where I want to be as of yet with it. Commissions have been helpful in making bills along with my Patreon account but I was still unable to afford what I need in the way of medical and food. A bout with pneumonia last year made sure I now had a compromised immune system. So I am always afraid to get corona virus.
But because of my former boss talking to me again, I was inspired to finish some old pixel art that I had never finished when I left the company back then. When I offered the avatar up to give them since it had been one I personally wanted to complete years ago, him and his crew agreed and wanted to offer me more pixel avatar work on a commission basis instead. So suffice to say, I have a consistent art job once again. It won't net me a mansion in the hamptons(which I would never need anyway XD), but with it, I can afford my bills and meds and food finally. It's all I ever wanted.
So here's to enjoying art and being able to make some money again to afford what I need and grow my name whether it be in pixel art, comics, or commission work! I'll try to keep positive in this unsure time...
My cry for help did reach a few wonderful people and have helped support me and my art. I've even opened commissions not just on Patreon but here as well. I don't have a set rate listed but I might update that soon since commissions will always vary in price due to what is desired.
What has saved me is when one of those wonderful people who joined my patreon was one of my former bosses at Dragon's Eye Productions. Some of you furres out there might have heard of it and I do mention I used to work as a pixel artist for an online game but never really mention which game. I mainly don't talk about it because after so long working for them, the loss of my mother and own personal reasons, I could not stay. It was a tough time in my life and had to move back to my hometown. After my loss, I tried to better myself, tried to do the "adult" thing and get a normal job and for almost seven years, try to make my life stable again. It didn't work.
Then I had the unfortunate situation of my back giving out after doing gruelling retail jobs for that simple seven years. My back will never be the same and I don't have the money to get a doc to fully fix it. I've lived with aggressive arthritis of my lower spine and hips for a few years now but I can't even do any physical work. So because of this, I went back to the one thing I was good at, which was art. But I had been out of the spotlight for so many years, I had to start at the bottom again and I'm still nowhere near where I was decades ago.
I started with comics, and haven't quite hit where I want to be as of yet with it. Commissions have been helpful in making bills along with my Patreon account but I was still unable to afford what I need in the way of medical and food. A bout with pneumonia last year made sure I now had a compromised immune system. So I am always afraid to get corona virus.
But because of my former boss talking to me again, I was inspired to finish some old pixel art that I had never finished when I left the company back then. When I offered the avatar up to give them since it had been one I personally wanted to complete years ago, him and his crew agreed and wanted to offer me more pixel avatar work on a commission basis instead. So suffice to say, I have a consistent art job once again. It won't net me a mansion in the hamptons(which I would never need anyway XD), but with it, I can afford my bills and meds and food finally. It's all I ever wanted.
So here's to enjoying art and being able to make some money again to afford what I need and grow my name whether it be in pixel art, comics, or commission work! I'll try to keep positive in this unsure time...
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