No use ruminating about that now, just take advantage of this motivation and think of more ways to diversify my art. At least I'm not back to zero and I have savings to keep me slightly afloat today.

Though this is giving me conflicting feelings bc I also had a job to think about before and applications these days but I guess I shouldn't be too hard on myself for prioritizing that bc I think making my art to be my sole and main income would have been a bad choice.

Have I made a patreon a year ago I could at least have 1 subscriber right now lol.

Alright, what's less more enticing is that I might bump my membership up to $2 bc I'm currently setting my patreon acc right now and I completely forgot about the fees...

I know this sounds less enticing but I'll either try to expand more with my public art or think of anything else that I could privately offer.

As much as I don't like putting my works behind a paywall I also think it's a waste to delete them. Also I already have a ko-fi, and I don't think I can do the same with patreon. Having a patreon acc without anything to offer doesn't feel like a good deal for me even if other people are doing it.

Basically the warmup sketches that I do before I proceed with my full illustration of the month. I don't often publicly post them and there are times where I even delete them to save space.