First Year in Patreon Anniversary Update!
Added 2025-06-11 12:00:16 +0000 UTCGood timezone to everyone! Officially the anniversary should be at June 14th, but I've been wanting to provide this update to everyone as soon as I could.
Blade/Patron Ranks Update
We initially started with 5 tiers, as I wasn't sure how to prep them first, but ended up unpublishing the later two and kept the first three.
But given what I've provided to all Blades over the first year, I'll be revising the benefits of the following ranks:
$1 - Blade's Tip
Will now have access to future HD + no watermark SINGLE-IMAGE art posts, as I feel as me not really doing WIP posts as often as actual art posts.
$4 - Blade of Shades
Will be the minimum rank for accessing Image Packs and art posts with multiple images, such as layered variants and/or art processes (sketch, lineart, flats, etc.), will also still have access to my older works.
$7 - Blade of Growth
Will still be the minimum rank to access all macrophilia/muscle growth-related content that I make (except WIPs), be it single-image and/or multiple images!
I'd still want to offer the monthly character sketches to both Blades of Shades and Growth but given how few the activity for it at the moment I'll be suspending it for the meantime until activity here will increase.
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Future Plans
I can't promise anything specific yet as I'm still trying to fix stuff both IRL and physically, but rest assured I'll do my best to be consistent with the Image Packs, and hopefully for more artworks too on both sides.
I've been focusing more on Original Character content lately too, and some fanart here and there, and I really appreciate the support for the former, with you guys being fond with Gurei and Chibi-ro for each side respectively, and also for my other OCs too!
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Thank You for the First Year Experience!
I've always contemplated if making a Patreon would be either make me look desperate as I suffered from event tabling fatigue + commission drought or nah, but I'm happy that I finally did.
I'm sorry I'm not as consistent as other artists when it comes to putting monthly rewards as my art drive has been really rough, as I've made this Patreon initially for those who would want to support me in my art endeavors, and hopefully that would help me while I'm still just relying on commissions as my sole source of income, and my family to support me still because of my lack of other income source.
Even then, I still appreciate every one of you who've been a patron, be it ever since from the start, or just to get a peek of what I've worked on. Thank you so much for the support during this first year of having my Patreon active.
Also I guess maybe some shout-outs are due haha, especially for MaPoppycock and Cezille07, for being patrons from the very start of my Patreon journey. Even if I wasn't as active as before in terms of even streaming or been quiet due to dealing with life stuff, you guys have been around from time to time, thank you!
I'd also like to thank all the other patrons too who has supported within the year, even if it's just for a short while:
carlos mejia
Courier1899
darkprinz
ixyhifffxy
Melvin Day
PeachyFox
Sen
Toadsevelt
TrazomGuy
VV-chan
Also for transparency purposes and as of this moment, I've only spent the saved up Patreon funds for the following at the moment:
A replacement to my apparently-broken Wacom Pen (Really urgent/emergency)
Monitor replacement (my first monitor started getting a dead pixel line and felt needed to replace it soon)
Saving the rest for the meantime for last-resort emergency funds
Who knows if my Patreon would end up becoming my primary source of income, but I wouldn't jinx it at the moment as I'm still trying to improve both in handling stuff + drawing, so thank you so much again for supporting this year!
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Life Update
I've finished my N5 Japanese classes last week, and will taking its certification exam next month! I've also gotten back to cardio last Monday after stopping it for a long while, and hopefully it'll help me both physically and mentally.
Also as you've noticed, I posted a month-long sale for my commissions on both sides, and I ended up currently working on 4 (with 3 pending as of this post, just finished the first one last Monday) so I've been occupied there.
I'm still recovering from burnout and my on-off slump, and yeah within the past year it was just too much for me and also dealt with summer heat + anxiety within the later half too, so thank you so much for the patience!
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Thank you for giving the time to read this too, whether you be a free member or a patron, I know I can just let out walls of text of just updating life and stuff haha.
I hope you have a nice day!
- Grey
