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No Rain:

We were supposed to get a good storm yesterday and just like the previous one, it went right around us...this would so far be the first year where we have not had a single decent storm hit our area. My parents 1 hr away would receive the brunt of it all. It's so dry here, the threat of potential fires being sparked in this state is very real. We did receive a tiny bit of rain last night, just enough to wet the ground, but that'll be desert bone dry by noon if something doesn't change. It's a bit worrisome.

EDIT: 18:49
XD Go figure, I complain about no rain and what does it do all day today after over 2 months of no rain...it rains! And oh Great Hearts was is much needed!! It's been raining on and off today, even a couple downpours and I can practically hear the plants sigh with relief. Maybe now everything won't look so dead and trees will stop shedding their leaves like its autumn already

In other updates we are currently at $160 out of $200 needed for the next merch drop!

You can donate a little to help out over on my Ko-Fi or join my Patreon for lots of additional content and help out that way too! 

Have a good week my readers, creatives, and dreamers!

Thank you for all your support

Ch 4 pg 29

 

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Almost Caught up:

I've had to adjust my schedule again to better help with a mix of things. There was an illustration I really really wanted to complete before this coming Friday. It was an illustration for the summer solstice festival Ligo as I've been trying to properly reconnect with my roots. It's been difficult to do so these past few years between moving, pets, family illnesses, personal stressors, and not knowing where to begin given I don't have a community to connect with anymore and ask questions. I've been blessed with being able to speak with my sister more often and slowly build things. The war has ruined my initial plans to travel this year to Latvia for the Song Festival given it would be unsafe for me to do so. Thus, we're planning our travels as soon as we're sure it'll be safe for us to do so. It may not be for the festival, but I will still go as soon as I can. The one bit of money I refuse to touch is that for this trip. I've been saving for this trip for a decade now so nothing is going to hold me back from going there as soon as I can. Safety does cross my mind though given what I have established here and I do not wish to place unnecessary burdens on anyone if something goes wrong in a way that could have been avoided. Thus, I tread carefully, but you bet I'm keeping an eye on things...a very, very close eye.

I'm ready to leap when I can!

In other updates we are currently at $110 out of $200 needed for the next merch drop!

You can donate a little to help out over on my Ko-Fi or join my Patreon for lots of additional content and help out that way too! 

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Ch 4 pg 28

 

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Almost Caught up:

Feels a bit like a miracle honestly. All of June's pages are done ahead of time. Subtle reminder that Patreon members are 10 pages ahead of the public. July's pages will be worked on this week as well and I'll be catching up on some other owed Patreon works. It'll be a busy week as I work out some alternative income while commissions are slow, so will also be working on that this week. At least a chunk of it, so that way I can get other things done too.

We finally had some rain here last night! It's been over a month since we had rain!! It wasn't the thunderstorm they said it would be, but it at least rained consistently for a few hours, enough to give life back to the plants at least and lessen the fears of potential fires breaking out. The smoke and haze had wafted here too for the past week, dropping out temperatures on the chilly side, which I honestly didn't mind but I couldn't go out much as it triggered my sinuses. 

I should be doing another livestream here this week too, have at least 1 illustration to work on and will also be working on a Pride Illustration this month as well while I figure out a new banner to use for my Patreon page. So yeah, staying busy at least despite the lack of work.

Also, as an update, we are currently at $75 out of $200 needed for the next merch drop!

You can donate a little to help out over on my Ko-Fi or join my Patreon for lots of additional content and help out that way too! 

The other goal we also currently have going on is that if I can also reach a 10+ page buffer, I will do a month where I post 2x a week. I'm slowly working toward that goal and hope to be ever closer. The goal right now is to aim for 2x a week posts for the month of September at the latest!

Have a good week my readers, creatives, and dreamers!

Thank you for all your support

Ch 4 pg 27

 

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Shifting Gears:

After a bit of thought and some rather much needed mental advice, which felt a bit like an epiphany to me given it was one of those things you could feel, but you couldn't directly identify as it's not familiar to you, sort of situation. It helped me a lot to see things I've been missing and feeling stuck on for years now.

It won't be easy to progress forward, but I know I want to and I feel the intense motivation to do so. So what exactly happened? What's in store for the future?

What happened: In the 10+ years I've been doing artwork for others, commissions, games, covers, etc. I never had a true time to slow down enough to realize that I wasn't growing the way I wanted to. Sure, my work load would increase, but at what cost? I wouldn't say those 10+ years were a waste, not by far, I learned a lot, but when you're stuck doing things for others all the time, the ability to do things for yourself becomes difficult. Things I wanted to learn over those years, I never found the chance to do. I've always wanted to practice my illustrations more, learn to study and create awesome story driven illustrations like I often see for ttrpg, but I never had the time. I was generally too drained, both physically and mentally to think about studies or go beyond watching videos on how to improve. When I started Parallel Rift, it was during a busy season too. Between work and PR, there was no room for my personal growth. 

So, after realizing this fact like a near slap in the face recently, I've come to accept this downtime in my life as a blessing in disguise. I still have my commission info available, but I've quieted down a lot on advertising for it. If something still comes, I probably won't refuse the job as the money I earn will be used toward building this new adventure of mine. What this also means, in this realization, is that I will be putting a lot more time into PR. I have some plans set in motion now, ideas written down and now just have to choose which to target first (other than aiming to post 2 pages a week). There's still no way I'm neglecting PR, so don't worry on that fact. This comic is my baby and my goal to make it books one day still stands. I'll be organizing my thoughts a bit more this week, finalizing some things, but otherwise Patreon will surely be hopping this month with content!

Have a good week my readers, creatives, and dreamers!

Thank you for all your support