askpitchpatch:

When I first started out on Tumblr, I had only been drawing digitally for a day. Yes, I had never in my life used a tablet before, and it had been years since i stopped drawing on paper. I hoped that making an askblog would help me get interested in drawing again and that it would help be improve. Since I had no idea what i was doing, I did not know what ‘pressure’ was on a tablet, and all my drawings looked like this, 12 june 2012

This was the day pitchpatch was born. I had no idea what i wanted to do with the blog and no plot what so ever. I just did it because I hoped I would improve and have a blast. And i did <3

31 august 2014 I made the latest update of my comic, still a little rough around the edges, but that only because life took me in a direction i never thought was possible. I actually have to /rush/ my updates in order to update at all. Why? Because I got what almost every artist dream off. the chance to LIVE OF MY ART. The picture you can see below is what i make when i actually take my time shading and lining. theres a huge difference, right?

By the start of 2014 I no longer had school, and therefore no income. I had a little job as a call-in teacher and I helped out in the daycare for a bit of money, but the /real/ money I lived from and payed rent with was from commissions, like the one above. I could not be happier. It’s hard work but I’m so THANKFUL that I can earn money doing what I love and I still can’t belive I have been living of my art for almost a year! It’s amazing! It’s hard work, but amazing.

But nothing good comes without some bads.. In order to live of my art, I have to earn min. 400$ a month to pay rent, not included food or electricity. thats around 16 shaded commissions. that either means I’ll have to do 2 haded commissions a day, for a week, or make at least one each other day. every commissions take between 1-2 hours. It might not sound liike much work, but withh sleep, sidejob and ordenary housestuff (I lived on my own with my boyfriend a month ago) It actually adds up a lot. including electricity and food, transport money, catfood and a small bit for myself to be comfortable It means I’ll have to do the double. so yeah, That means at least one shaded commission EACH DAY.

The moral of my story is. Please don’t pester an artist for not updating fas enough. Please don’t pester an artist for promised giftart. Please don’t pester and artist for arttrades. Some artist REALLY want to do all these things, but they /CAN’T/ because every hour they don’t use on commissions means one hour they will have to work later, in order to live. They haven’t forgotten about you. They are jut terribly busy making money for catfood or rent

Thank you for reading and thank you for sharing ^^ I’m VERY thankful <3