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A Look Back At 2021 & Plans For 2022
🕑 Added 2022-03-30 21:03:50 +0000 UTCI know it's really late & I apologize, but it really took some time to fully prepare everything.
2021 Was a Tough Year
2021 has been one of the toughest year. There were just a lot of stuff occurring at the same time aside from being burnout. Family members seriously getting sick, things flopping, & other personal stuff. It's like when stars rarely align except it's not good things.
Anyway, let's set all those aside and talk about the plans.
Adjusting Focus
Last year has just made me even more aware of things, my parents are getting really old so going forward, I really want to focus on being able to help them, I still have plenty of time in this world to work on my personal projects so I can do those slowly or later on. Can't say the current financial situation is that good too, so I'll be focusing on that part.
I Was Planning To Move Out Last Year (I Also Got a Faster Internet now!)
Late last year, I was planning to move out due to the benefit of being able to stream without noise and have better internet, but luckily, we managed to avail the faster internet at the current place I stay although it was costly to make it possible *laughs*. Faster internet really does help with productivity, I remember when I still had slow internet, I couldn't even properly watch tutorials, research, attach/upload documents, and stuff.
I'm still planning to move out this year , but I'll have to make money first as it's not simply
a case of just moving out.
Shifting Priorities, Commission full-time As Main Priority, Artbook Production Sustainability, & Draknier Story
about 80% of my problems at the moment are rooted on money, and continuing the pacing of the work of artbook and the money I make from it has no longer become sustainable, but it doesn't mean I've given up on it, it's just that I'll also start doing commission full time as my main priority, second would be the artbook & a new content I'm still considering (which I'll elaborate more later on), and thirdly, the draknier story project. Technically speaking, I'm always doing the artbook content since most of my personal artwork I post on my SNS are going there, it's just that it'll take time for them to be compiled into an artbook.
Release of artbook will no longer be a monthly thing, but whenever it's ready, I don't know if how many artbooks will I be able to release this year or maybe 2, 1, or might even reach next year. I've already set the patreon not to automatically charge, but for when I'll only release the artbook. On the good side, this also means that I'll have more time to work on the artbook, and be able to experiment with the artworks.
Regarding The New Content I Just Mentioned, It's "Emoji/Emote Packs"
I've considering to create emoji packs, unfortunately, patreon does not allow different tiers to be charged independently so I couldn't integrate it here and since my jrpg content is diverse, it might be for the better since some may not be familiar with certain character. The emoji pack will focus on 1 character, e.g. 9 emojis/emotes of pyra from xenoblade 2 or 9 emojis/emotes of Edelgard from Three Houses. This content will be outside of patreon.
It's also a subject that I'm interested to stream.
Reorganizing Protagonist Tier Discord
I'm also planning to add 'unsung protagonist' category for supporters who insisted and were passionate to support monthly without rewards via another patreon account .
Draknier Story Project
The best that I can do so far at the moment is working on the lore, world building, story, and creating characters, and occasionally do a bit of studies on the side (3D softwares, game engine, game design, & etc.). There are cases that I've considered just writing a novel, prototyping the script/story in RPGMaker, or something just to make something out of it... however I've decided to just set the project on my mind as a 'hobby project' instead, it's easier to work around it, treating it as a hobby than as a potential commercial project. Circumstances were different few years ago, I just don't have those luxury anymore.
So yeah, Draknier Story is never going away, I feel very alive whenever I work on it *laughs*.
Plans For Streaming Content After Moving
I'll talk about it once I'm close to moving or after I moved, it'll probably take quite a long time before I could move, but I'm excited for the new content. For the mean time, it'll just be the usual "me playing a game or drawing without voice".
Will I Be Less Active On Social Media?
No, it was only for the past few weeks (as of the time of this post) since I was primarily focusing on preparing things, one of it is the commission form.
Commission, Where?
As for the link to the commission site, here it is: ( https://gofelem-commission.carrd.co/ ). Please do not spread it at the moment, just fulfilling my promise to my supporters about the notification of commission opening, and i still have to fulfill the newsletter/commission inquiry I had set up since 2019. I'll announce the link publicly once I've worked on the list, which may take months. For non-supporters or people who did sign the newsletter form, if you found it via the search engine or through this post, there's nothing I can really do about it, feel free to access it *laughs*.
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That's all for the update today, thank you for your time and have a good day!... I really want to start playing Pokemon Legends Arceus, but I haven't finish Trials of Mana yet *laughs*.
