Hey everyone! Patreon will begin processing payments for my first group of funders on March 1st, so I just wanted to give a little report on this month’s work!
Here are a few more previews of the stuff patrons’ donations are going into making. This stuff will be posting on Patreon throughout March, but most of it will eventually be up here for free, so look forward to it!
Yay!
Also, I’ve already started planning future rewards for April and beyond, along with more original comics and fanart and extra bonuses:
I really really want to draw this coffee shop AU! But I realized that’s a lot of Hannigram and not a lot of Johnlock, so I’ve also started working ahead on a vampire AU Johnlock comic that I’m considering releasing alongside the Hannigram one. I’m going to work like crazy this month to try to get all this stuff done as far in advance as possible!
Also, I wanted to give an extra thank you to my first funders, so if your payment is cleared for March, you’ll be getting a Thank You card in the mail! This is only for the first group of patrons; I won’t be sending out this card again!
Finally, I want to talk a little about the future of this Patreon.
I’ve done some number crunching and I’ve determined that if I can reach a monthly goal of $3000 in completed payments, this Patreon will be sustainable. As most of you know, I’m attempting to do this full time, since there is no way I’d be able to run a Patreon with a regular job, so this and a small amount of freelance work are all I have right now to make a living.
I’ve given myself a time limit for this whole project, and so I’ve decided if I can’t hit that number by April 1st, then I will start to scale back or possibly shut down this Patreon and start looking for a full time position elsewhere.
So if you can fund me, even just $1 or $2 a month, it will go a long way
towards helping me reach the goal and keeping this Patreon running! This content is not just a reward for funders; they are literally paying me to make this stuff, and if I can’t make enough to live from making it, then I have to do something else.
I already have a lot of hope though; this Patreon already exceeded my expectations and I wouldn’t even be pushing into a second month if I didn’t think it had a chance. I’ll do my best this month to make it happen! Thank you so much to my funders for liking my work and helping me make more of it, and I hope we can keep doing this for a long long time!
ooc; So, I really, really passionately hate asking for things, and unfortunately, this is the second time in a year that I’ve had to post about veterinary bills.
This is Spice. She’s my dad’s cat, she’s almost eight years old, and she’s a sweetheart. She’s been really sick. A trip to the veterinarian revealed that she’d been retaining fluid in her abdomen and that her white blood cell count was through the roof. It all happened very suddenly. The veterinarian has diagnosed her with peritonitis in the abdomen, though we’re still not sure of the exact cause. There’s a chance it could be FIP.
She had to have an emergency surgery that’s required hospitalization at the vet’s. Our bill thus far is over $900.
Money has been really tight this past year and I’ve already almost maxed out my credit cards. My dad has been in and out of the hospital this year and hasn’t been able to work due to his disabilities. I’m his primary caregiver. I work two jobs and a good chunk of my money goes to covering his medications, insurance, and groceries. I sincerely would not ask for money if I didn’t truly need it. Getting Spice back to good health is so important to us. She’s a precious cat that we love dearly.
I’m willing to make graphics or do drabble requests in return for any money donated. Any little bit helps.
Help a VC fandom member kitteh out, show some $ love! If you can’t,
please reblog.
I know I JUST reblogged a $ignal boost thing in the last 24 hrs, and
I try not to do these too often for obvious reasons. I do know this person, the mun is a wonderful person with an enormous heart who has been called the “Mom” of our fandom on occasion for all she does to try to promote fanartists and encourage peace and friendship here, but that’s not a factor here.
I’m fortunate that I have a job, and can afford to be financially supportive
when possible.
What
if you were in this situation? Can you imagine the amount of strength it takes
to ask strangers for financial support?
TL;DR:
My point is this: All of this tumblr content you enjoy is free (aside from
whatever you pay your internet provider and whatever device(s) you paid for to
access it). I don’t have a ‘Donate’ tip jar on my blog. All of my content is
free.
If
you enjoy this stuff, please consider how little even $5 would be to pay for
the years of material I (and others) have produced for your pleasure in our
archives. merciful-death is offering to write drabbles or make graphics, don’t you need a fancy promo graphic? You do.
Take
that $5 (or more! *u*) and send it to someone whose life would be significantly
improved by it.
Like, if we were to meet one day, and you were to gush about how much you love my blog (bc you obviously do, I mean, c’mon, you know it’s true), would you pony up the $5 for a coffee to sit with me and squee over fanart in our coffeeshop AU? PUT THAT $5 TOWARDS THIS CAUSE.
will draw pretty much anything; quad/anthro/mecha/nsfw is fine. ask me if you’re unsure! not doing detailed digital paintings/traditional commissions at the moment, sorry.
please contact me via my ask box or email (keelish at hotmail dot com), the latter being the preferred option due to my inactivity on tumblr. :J
My details are fairly simple. There are three types I offer:
Sketch (samples A): $20 – $40
-Size: your choice -Background: Simple/none -Price range is for 1 to 2 characters -Line art only/colour: your choice
Drawing (samples B): $40 – $60
-Size: your choice -Background: yes
-Price range is for 1 to 2 characters
-Line art only/colour: your choice
Painting (samples C): starting at $60
-Size: your choice -Background: your choice -Characters: variable -Line art: n/a
Additional Info (important):
What I can do: any pairings from any fandom, crossovers, AUs, OCs
What I WON’T do: explicit porn and gore, geometrically complicated backgrounds
Please pay first
Digital art commissions only
Please have references and a clear idea in mind!
I can only accept Paypal, USD
The prices above are for personal use only. Please do not reproduce it for profit
Unless otherwise discussed, I retain all the rights to the image, including selling and exhibiting on Society6, Redbubble, etc. Commercial art must be discussed separately
Slots: ~3 (once they are filled I will temporarily close commissions, and then reopen them once some slots are free)
How to buy: If you are interested, please message me on tumblr or note me on deviantart with the option/picture you’d like your commission styled in. Then we can discuss it further via email.
Once I give you my email, please message me within 24 hours and establish a regular correspondence with me/check your email regularly. If not, I may have to either move you down the list or replace your slot.
If you aren’t interested, but have questions, please feel free to message me anytime as well. I will not assume that you want to commission until you yourself explicitly state that you do 🙂
Commission for a friend of Nicolas and Lestat from The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. (Which I used to be into as a teen really really hardcore, so this it was really fun to draw Lestat again.)
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