Hey Everybody,

   So over this month I've taken off I've been thinking a lot and I've decided to close up shop again on SubscribeStar. First, I just wanna make sure y'all know I'm gonna still be making stuff! This isn't me giving up drawing, or even any of the long term projects I started because of SubscribeStar. I'm sticking around! I just realized for a variety of reasons that SubscribeStar doesn't fit into my life super well at the moment.

     I started the SubscribeStar because I went part time at work and thought that the extra time I saved would be enough for me to be comfortable running a SubscribeStar. But, it turns out that having a kid is a lot of work! (big surprise!). Also having a kid made me realize how detrimental my lack of organizational skills is to my life and I've been putting a lot of extra time in trying to clean my act up in respect to that.. My wife also jokingly told me to add to this list that she needs more fuck time(she knows I'm available at the drop of the hat so that's a lie).

   This is all to say that I've stretched myself too thin and I need to have more flexibility to work on different things unrelated to drawing as they come up. I know, I could keep the SubscribeStar up and just say I get done what I get done. That's what I've been telling myself for months. But sometimes I need to disappear or do less work for months and I'm not comfortable just phoning it in for long periods of time.

     A couple of other things contributed to my decision as well. To be honest, I struggle in general with having the constant responsibility to others in the background and feel like I'm a bit more suited to producing a thing( art pack, comic, etc) and then that thing being available for purchase. Also, my audience is realistically not large enough at the moment to make SubscribeStar viable as a meaningful source of income. At the same time, SubscribeStar somewhat blunts my ability to grow my audience because the work I do for it can't be shared widely and that's how I build my audience.

   That all being said, I feel like running the SubscribeStar has been an indispensable experience . I've put in more focused work towards concrete projects and goals than I ever have before. I've identified things I need to work on both professionally and artistically in order to increase my chances of success. I've also become more comfortable with the fact that I need to engage in at least a bit of self promotion if I want to see that success. I feel like its all a momentum I'm going to carry forward.

     I want to thank all of you for your support. The only thing that made me struggle with this decision is the feeling I get from your support. I don't make much in the way of personal posts so it does make me very proud to know that even just a few people like my work enough to support me. So thank y'all for that so much! I'd like to particularly shout out Punished Venom Link and Antowan Batts, who have been supporters though and through, subscribing and commissioning me, but also offering lots of words of encouragement.

     Finally, the SubscribeStar will be left up for a month (in vacation mode so you won't be charged) so y'all can download anything you wanna keep before I depublish. Moving forward y'all can support me if you'd like by purchasing image packs, comics and stickers. None of that is available right now, but I've purchased a domain and I'll be setting up a website where all of that is available.

Thank ya'll so much and feel free to hmu on discord, twitter or wherever you follow me!

Love,

Hopeless Bohemian