[Announcement ] Change Of Schedule

PS. Picture above is my new schedule. I work and post artwork follow this.

Hello all of my beloved supporters, would you believe that it has now been 7 months now, since I decided to start my Patreon, which has enabled me to receive all of your support from your generous pledges and thus, achieve my dream of becoming full time artist? The time since then has just flown by so fast don't you think? My thanks for all of your support has never wavered throughout all that time, even until now, my dears. It is because of your support, which I have lived and survive on until now, made this entire journey possible, because of all of you.

But now...I have something to announce. As I write, I feel so bad that I have to declare it. I’m afraid to do this, but I have too, for my own sake…

For a while now, you have seen that I work on many projects and post many artworks in a short amount of time, nearly every day in fact. Comics, picture series, adventure logs, standalone arts, reward arts, auctions, etc. It makes people believe that I am a fast artist, that I have fast drawing and painting skills.

But the fact is...No...I don't have that talent, you might be surprised to know that I'm really slow when it comes to drawing and even more so when it’s in colour. But then how do I manage to post so much art? The answer is simple, yet sad. The reason being is that I spend my entire day, every day on drawing. Sometimes I even give up all of my extra time I usually reserve for watching cartoons or playing games or even eat and exercise, to instead draw for all of you.

One piece of artwork takes me around 5-6 hours to complete, depending on how hard it is. Some arts like colour comics or colour pictures can take me nearly 12 hours to finish. This would be fine if I only had to complete one work a day, but as you can see by my schedule, I usually aim to complete 2 or 3 pieces of art per day.

Since I became a full time artist, I started to work for two different crowds of people. One side is for those on my free site galleries such as Deviant Art and the other side is reserved for you, my Patreons.

At first, things appeared fine, as I started work at midday til midnight. But in-time, I was inspired to start more and more projects for both worlds and without even realising it, it had become too much for me. Sometimes I'm able to finish my work before midnight, but in other times, I can't even finish all of the work in time.

This happens when I have something in real life that interrupts me like housework, when going outside with a parent, helping their farm, etc. Or I maybe have extra work to do… like reward art. Or sometimes it might be simply be because of art block, and it causes me to work during the night, just to make me able to post my art just in time...

For nearly 3 months now, I have seen the sunrise every morning, the daybreak. But it isn't because I always wake up early, no…It’s because I have stayed awake until morning from working on artwork all night. Now, I sleep through my mornings, before I wake up at midday to work on more art yet again until the morning of the next day.

This cycle has become unbearable now and I don't think my health can keep up with me anymore. I start to feel sick from time to time, but I have always been afraid to tell all of you. Because I'm afraid that you will think I'm lazy, so I would work through it. No cold, fever or headache or sickness would stop me from drawing. Because I have always feared...I feared that I would be seen as not working hard enough to deserve your huge support. And that is why I kept it secret until now.

But no more...I'm sorry...But I don't want to see another daybreak anymore...My head hurts so badly nowadays, and all of the stress from not getting enough sleep is starting to suppress me from coming up with ideas. And now, even if I can finish work before midnight, I still lie in my bed sleepless until daybreak. It is starting to ruin my health somehow and I want to return to being healthy, happy and full of inspiring ideas for all of you.

.....I’m Sorry for talking too much, dears. But I just wanted to make it clear what was going on with me personally.

Now, I will finally announce this now, I am declaring that I'm going to change the schedule. Just to give myself more freedom, become less busy and to finally have more time for exercise, rest and to be able to do something fun to lower the stress levels on myself. Then, I will have my inspiration return to me in time, so that I may find some ideas for all of the future pictures and stories I want to tell…

Therefore, this is what I will change!!

For now on, I am changing the daily posting of "The Adventure Logs Of Young Queen" to once every 3 days!!

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.......D...Don't look at me like that....It might be hard to believe for you, but this one is the main reason why I’m always exhausted. You know...Because I have to post it every day, and also because I post it at midnight in my time zone…I only begin drawing each one around 2-3 hours before the time of post, since I have to wait for the last Patreon comments to trickle in first...

I believe it would be best, if I lowered the frequency of posting the Logs a bit, as it will most likely enable me to have more time to work on other things...but most importantly, it will lower my stress levels a bit, which will be better for me and everyone else in the long run... I Hope you all don't mind the change and I hope you all don’t think I’m lazy for doing this…. .////.