SOME CHANGES IN THE NEXT FUTURE

As I said in the last post, here we are! First of all: I decided to pause my Patreon for August, since I'll be taking a much needed two weeks vacation, I have to get ready for a con and complete a couple illustrations for some projects I'm part of. This means your payments won't be processed on the first days of August, but will automatically resume on September. My Patreon will still be avaiable for page views and everything, though!

Now, let's talk about my decision to remove my 7$ tier about SFW request... or rather, group it with the 10$ tier. This means from August on there will be a total of 3 tiers, the first two unchanged and the 10$ one that will include the possibility of making a SFW or a NSFW request. The nature of the request will be up to you (maybe you'd like to request one or more charcters you don't feel like seeing in NSFW situations? Sure, no problem!). 

Talking about the reason I made this choice, there's more than one. First of all, I'm DYING to start working on my personal projects, and I'm finding it difficult when I have to reserve to Patreon 3 of the 4/5 artworks I'm able to draw in a month - I'm not really fast, sadly. Another reason is that I'd like to finally open my commissions, taking three slots at a time, and as I'm sure you can understand, I don't wanna make my clients wait for too long before receiving their commission - again, I'm a slowpoke enough as it is.

The last reason is the one that's gonna have the biggest impact on my life, so let me tell you a bit about my personal life atm. I'm about to buy an apartment with my boyfriend, and though I'm beyond happy about it (we deserve it after 6 years of a long distance relationship!), I'm dreading sorting all of my stuff, moving out and dealing with all the resulting changes my life will inevitably go through. I believe the actual moving out will happen around September/October, but I'll do my best to not let it have an impact on my remaining Patreon rewards (otherwise I'll simply pause everything for another month).

Still...

I'll be completely honest with you. Once I move to my new town, I'll have to start looking for a part-time job. 'Till now I was able to make a living with occasional works and support from my parents, but I wanna be able to sustain myself completely now that I'll live in my own house. I don't know how long I will take to find a job (sadly the level of unemployment is high in Italy), and until I do, I'll be able to keep giving my all to Patreon and y'all. But once I'll be employed somewhere, I'll inevitably have to downsize the amount of time I dedicate to drawing. Rest assured that I don't ever wanna stop drawing, but I'll have to set priorities. I'm a bit sad about it, and I hope you'll decide to keep supporting me even if I'll have to make some further changes to my tiers. All I can do is promise I'll do my best to thank you for the all the love you've given me for all this time.

With all my gratitude,
- Aira