Hello all,

Don't worry I'm not going anywhere. This is more a state of the bunion [boooooo]

First and foremost, I'd like to thank all of you for your continued support over the years. It has meant a lot to know that there is an audience for my content and my weird ideas, and I appreciate you all.

Life has been difficult lately - which I'm sure it has been for most of us these days. I got laid off in March, but before that my career and income had stagnated despite the workload getting bigger and bigger. I am on the hunt for a new fulltime job, one that can afford me a better living situation and other new opportunities.

The same can be said about my creative content. I've enjoyed the work I've produced for all of my commissioners, but lately it's begun to feel like I'm more spinning my wheels than growing as an artist. And it's taken a lot of introspection to understand how I got here, but I've narrowed it down in a few ways:

1. I'm taking on too many commissions at once, fracturing my already ADHD-riddled attention span into too many shards.

2. I'm not leaving any time for personal projects, so all my own personal dreams are sitting on a shelf collecting dust

I could talk about being pidgeon-holed into niche content, but that's my fault for not being more selective and just saying yes every time somebody wants to commission me. I'm flattered, and I want to make everyone happy, but I need to focus on making myself happy first - at least for a little while.

So, here's what we're gonna do...

I've paused my Patreon for the month of July. I may do it for the month of August too, remains to be seen. I will be rearranging the tiers a little bit, providing rewards that are more concrete and more deserving of your support. This will likely come in the form of behind-the-scenes stuff, but it will coincide with new releases as I am not organized enough to remember WIP Wednesdays. Nothing concrete yet, but I'll see what Patreon has to offer these days.

On the topic of tiers, I will be shutting down the $20 tier, and I will not be offering any tiers in the future that come with a reward commission. It just disrupts my schedule and adds undue stress, which is my own fault.

Secondly, and this is probably more significant, I will be changing how I receive commissions. This is probably going to be a work in progress because I owe it to everyone who has paid me already to finish their commissions, which I intend to do. But in the future I will be limiting my commish basket to two lanes - large and small projects. I will only take one of each at a time. And I will start considering myself a commissioner too, so there may be times I'm just working on stuff for myself.

Finally, I will be cutting a few commission types out completely. I will not be offering VRChat avatars, or any avatars requiring work in Unity, in the near future. I simply do not have the bandwidth to catch up with my peers and offer comparable quality. I will seek out a plan to work with other avatar artists, but it will not be showing up on my commission menu any time soon, if at all.

I'm sure this is a lot to take in, and I apologize for the long diatribe. But change is in the air, and that's a good thing. I hope you see it that way too, and I once again thank you for all your support.

And I promise, exciting things are on the way!

Love,

Whiteshadow Hare