Hey all, hope you guys are all doing well, both backers and fans alike. As always, I'd like to start this post with my usual thank yous to Patreon Backers for their continued support. Love you guys!
VulpinatorAmanCalledDominik
Phew...so we got a lot to cover I guess. Even if I'm not confident as to how much I can get rolling in March alone. But let's start this off with a review of February.
Those who are frequenters of my Ask Blog "AsktheBellHunters.com", may have noticed a sudden vast uptick in answers at the start of February. This is because I wanted to clear up the backlog of Asks I had preceding the new year and didn't want to drag that out any longer, as well as I felt it was a good use of the time I had left at the start of February before one of my backers visited me from the 11th to 17th. That said, it wasn't all Netflix and chill when my good friend came to visit, and I did get some additional work done while they were here. Somehow despite all the museums and art installations, I also managed to squeeze in not one, but two sticker sets, one of which my good friend was given as a freebie to take home for putting up with me dragging ass around Colorado trying to keep up with them.
These sticker sets, "Spring Delilah" and "Secretary Ewe Emoji Head" should already be live on Patreon by the time I post this. Both sets will be five bucks a sticker, with the usual discounts per multiple buys. You can DM me directly as per usual if that's what you'd prefer. However, as for the future of public sale of these stickers, I'm going to be taking a stab at running my stickers on Etsy. I feel like they may get more eyes on them there based on... well my own experience scouring Etsy to be honest. That said, I'll still take sales outside of Etsy, as that's fairly easy to manage. Plus, I'll be able to manage the 'discounts' easier. Still, these new stickers won't be going live publically until I've got Etsy pages running alongside them. The old sale sheets also have to be 'future proofed' by removing the sales price so they can be adjusted on listings easier. I'll add a link to the store page to this post once it's live.
Another thing I'll be starting this month, and hopefully be able to keep running for the foreseeable future is....*Dramatic Pause*, a monthly raffle for a 1-2 character sketch piece for a random five-dollar tier backer! Basically, every month I'll be punching all the five-dollar tier backers into a randomizer, and whoever I roll gets offered a free 1-2 character sketch piece. I will announce the winner in either my monthly post, or a short individual post should I take too long to get the 'Thank you status update' post rolling, and contact them directly to begin the work. If they don't want a sketch or don't contact me back within three days, I'll re-roll the randomizer and move on the next person.
Winners will be removed from the randomizer for a total of six months to allow for a cool-down period and give others a chance at winning a sketch.
This month's winner is...
_YFC_!
So I'll be messaging YFC as soon as this post goes live to make sure they want to move forward with a sketch. Should it not work out, in three days or so you'll see a new winner announced!
Edit: The Raffle Poll has been postponed as It has been pointed out to me that 'raffles' aren't a thing I can do on Patreon. That said, I'll need some time to reassess what I can offer.
Okay, what next, what next? Oh right! So I'm also going to be dipping my toes into the whole 'adoptables' pool with the release of my first slew of adoptable gals. This time around it's 'Oops, all otters!', where we'll have four otter gals up for sale. Bidding will start at 50 bucks each, and I'll run it for about three days. Winners will receive the base drawing of the girl they bid on, isolated from the others with the 'color samples' cleaned up. If the winner wants a mini character sheet done of them after securing the bag so to speak, we can discuss creating one at a discounted rate. This would be a very basic 3 full body, one expression deal, and the original winning pinup would also be tacked onto the sheet. Anything more elaborate would have to be discussed further and charged accordingly.
This auction will be run exclusively on furaffinity, and should be live at the time of this post. The sheet featuring the girls will probably be posted to Patreon before this. I have linked the live auction page below.
Lastly...let's talk about upcoming work on the queue.
After all this clerical work today, the next thing I'm doing is writing up about 5-6 chapter outlines for 'The Family Vulpes', Basically to organize my thoughts and key bits I want to hit in each of the upcoming chapters so that I can start on the next entries. I also want to write up a rough outline for a new entry in the "Tales of the Bellhunterverse" series featuring Gus and Melly. After that, the next week will be focused entirely on drawing the next page of "Burrowed into my Heart" and "Savage love". I'd also love to have them done by the end of the week, but I can't make any promises there. Then after that, it's back to actually writing "The Family Vulpes" Chapters...
I've also got two little things I'd like to work on over the next few weeks...one simpler, and one more advanced, that I'll see where I can squeeze in health and workload allows. This would be an Inui from Aggretsuko sticker set, and a character sheet for Deirdre Black, my loch ness monster gal.
Lastly, life stuff...yeah, still dealing with extreme exhaustion and heart issues. Have an appointment in Denver at the end of March for a POTs specialist that will... hopefully lead to something. Also aiming to make some diet changes I'm hoping will contribute, seeing as the amount of exercise I'm doing doesn't seem to make a difference. We'll see how things shake out, and I'll try my best to keep you all updated.
Once again, thanks to everyone who's continued to support me, fans and backers alike. Fingers crossed things go smoothly for this month, and at the very least I can meet most of the above goals...Love you guys.
