Patreon Live!
Hello my darlings!
My new patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/kayfedewa if you would like to give it a looksie!
Let me know if I'm missing anything or if you have any suggestions.
Well, maybe see you there..!!
Patreon Re-Launch
Hi friends,
Thank you for all the warm welcomes back! I would like to relaunch my Patreon. It would be in support of my general art-making
for now - I do have plans to do comic work at some point but I'd like to to get the patreon rolling first.
So I'd be posting things like commissions and my personal art and sketches.
Id like to get a general feel for if any of you would be interested in supporting something like this. I'd also like to get your thoughts on what kind of benefits you like to see patreon creators offering.
Here is a list of what I'm thinking of currently offering, at various donation tiers, listed lowest to highest:
1) Early posted art - posted to Patreon a month before other platforms
2) Sketches, Concepts and WIPs, behind-the-scenes writings
4) High resolution images of work
5) first dibs commission slot
6) Colorable, usable lineart templates
7) Exclusive adoptables
8) Personal blog/journal Access
9) Invite to private channel in BBA discord server. Personal availability for for drawing crit/guidance, char design consulting, redlines, tool use, tutorials
10) invites to livestream & chill
11) (top tier) Custom Icon (200x200px)
12) (top tier) Icon featured on main patreon page every month that you've donated, with a link to YOUR art or social media
Is there anything that you think would be cool to offer as tier rewards?
Let me know your thoughts. I appreciate it!
2022 Check in
Hey DA friends,
Missed you guys. I wanted to check in and say hey because some people have been asking about me, wondering if I'm dead. Well, I'm not! I'm doing OK. I'm going to spare you details because the truth is that it's always going to be some degree of Not healthy - just sometimes better and sometimes worse. I accept that now.
Now it's about finding a rhythm. Trying to continue to carve out space for art among everything else. I've been going back to my roots (pre-BBA) with some new (old) line drawing styles. Having fun with that. I'll be updating my gallery with some stuff I've done over the past couple years - which isn't much, as I didnt have access to digital tools for a while and was using ballpoint and newsprint. Then those sketchpads had to be thrown out due to becoming contaminated with mold particles that were causing problems for me.
My old PC which contained the last of my digital pieces was sold and i was too unwell to make backups so i lost a lot of work. Im in contact with the person who has the machine though and at some point will try to recover some of the art.
In the meantime Im thinking of trying to hang out around DA more. Im pretty socially isolated and being around other artists is really motivating to do more art. I'd also like to take some commissions because I had to leave my other jobs again recently.
Feel free to Note me or comment and I will do my best to reply. Thank you for keeping me on your watch list and for opening this journal to read it. I appreciate you.
Love,
Kay
November2019 Update {commissions closed}
Hey DA friends,
I regret the long disappearance. I hope no one was too worried about me. I had to leave my home for a good while and didn't have computer access to do digital work.
I've grown so tired of how much space this battle has taken up in my day to day life. At this point I feel like I have lost almost an entire year of living - being unable to pursue and explore what I want. Being unable to direct my growth in the areas I'd like. Its true that during that time I have continued to heal and have regained a good amount of functionality - I am so much better than earlier in the year - but it is slow going and I cant keep everything on hold indefinitely until I get back to feeling 100%. It might never happen. So I would like to just try to start recovering some of my old life now and part of that involves making art again (to the best of my ability)!
The next comic page is 1/2 done. Having been unable to do much work for a long time, I am pretty hard up for cash so i was wondering if anyone would be interested in commissions. Character sheets (cell shaded or flats)
Some examples:
60$ - paypal
I think I'll probably only take a few of these to start. Shoot me a DA note if you're interested with an image of your character + a description. Any preferred pose or specifics.
Thank you for continuing to watch me. In each of our lives a unique war is being waged and I hope you are gaining ground in your own.
I love you!
~K
Health Update - May 2018
I am so sorry for my long silence. I see so many kind and supportive messages left for me. I really hope I didn't worry anyone too badly. You are so sweet to care about my wellbeing and for that I thank you with my whole heart.
I have been struggling so very hard to keep my head above water. In such a state of fear and panic, my sole focus has been on survival. I have been unable to come on to DA to post an update, despite the important role that working on this project plays in my life.
As you may have surmised, my condition has drastically worsened since my last update. You may also recall in August 2017 I made a similar journal entry, putting the comic on hiatus while I tended to my severe health crisis. I have a very aggressive disease that I worked hard over the past 2 years to get into a "remission"-like state, so that I could function normally.
All in all, 2018 was a good year. Especially starting in May of 2018, I really started to get back to living as normal and functioning human being with very minimal daily suffering. The last few months of 2018 were nearly perfect. I found within myself a whole, spirited person again rather the ghost I'd been living as.
Unfortunately, at the beginning of 2019, something went wrong and it all began to fall apart. Slowly at first, and then rapidly.
I just want to say that I miss you, and I am working hard, to fight this again and get my life back. So desperately I want to do be able to do again the things I enjoy.
Remember that post from August 2017. Because I was very sick, and I came back from that. And I am that sick again, maybe even sicker now but I was able to come back before. I think, I hope, I can do it again.
Thank you so very much for the wishes you leave me, and for your continued support through the tumultuous times Ive had over the past couple years.
I love you, and I love what we have spent years making together in the form of the BBA.
Please enjoy your summer for me. Appreciate and take care of your health. It's amazing what we take for granted...
~Kay