Sorry for the silence, and thank you to Patrons for your patience!

I have a couple of these posts. I’ll fill in the blanks with each post.

Not gonna lie, 2021 was wack. It felt like I was taking hit after hit. Financially, Professionally, and Personally. Whether it was emergency vet visits, my clothes being stolen, or getting looked over for work, it seems like I couldn’t catch a break.

Luckily, I had a few gigs to keep me afloat. But honestly, I was so burnt out and checked out that even the simplest job seemed like a monumental task. I’m sure it wasn’t lost on my clients, and for that, I apologize.

There is another side to this for me. That as a worker, for over half my life, as a professional artist and yet still being a few bad months away from ruin.  I’m salty that all those years of work haven’t amounted to anything when it comes to equity. Something that would let me recharge my batteries.

This is largely my fault for saying yes to often, especially in the last decade. This has left me spent and too tired to work on any personal art. This then works up to frustration, and we all know that leads nowhere good. I just got greedy.

Daily I’m fighting anxiety and self doubt. I’m out to regain the confidence I had in my work prior to working Day & Night work-for-hire gigs.

Hence, I’m turning to Patreon, Twitch, Substack, & Discord to share new original work.  I’m finding it so easy to desktop publish from any device these days and I’m excited to share my work that isn’t cropped 1:1 (unless I want to!) and share thoughts via a blog. I’m really hoping to pick up steam and make my younger self proud.

I haven’t really promoted this Patreon (or Substack. or Twitch) on social media yet. This is still the soft launch phase.

Next post up shortly (for Tier 2 Patrons) .

Love,

Jose

22.2.09

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