Hey, guys. Sorry I disappeared again directly after I said I was back. :-S It's been a very stressful time, and it does have to do with the pandemic, lol.
What happened was, right after I had gotten back into the swing of things, my fiancee lost his job. He was an english tutor to children in China. At the time, we were not aware of the reason why that job, and all the others like it had dried up, because the Chinese government was still keeping the outbreak of COVID 19 under wraps. Shortly after, all the domestic job opportunities near us also dried up, because of the economic shutdown. So, we've been struggling financially for several months. I've been intermittently very sick for two months, and haven't been able to work very much. I now have a chronic cough, and can't be hired by any of the essential businesses that are still open, because of the concern that I might be infected with COVID 19. I've been working on the Werebeast character as I could during that time, in the hopes that the proceeds from it would help to make up the shortfall we're having on our bills. I very much appreciate those of you who have placed orders with my site, every one gives me hope that I can survive this. However, I'm looking at losing my home in the next two weeks or so if I can't find the funds I need to keep it (now at about $1,500). If that happens, I will have to relocate to stay with relatives who live in an area where there is no real internet access, so I won't be able to continue to work on or support my 3d content or website. Should it come to that, I will notify the community before I am obliged to go dark again. In that event, I shall also probably have to disable my website, as I will have no way to perform maintenance on it, or offer support to customers.
I find it difficult to share hard news with anyone, including those closest to me, but (pursuant to the comments about having kept my gender to myself in the past, lol) I have learned that it is better to be honest and open with people, and I thought the community deserved some forewarning about what might happen to my products and presence in that community.
What happened was, right after I had gotten back into the swing of things, my fiancee lost his job. He was an english tutor to children in China. At the time, we were not aware of the reason why that job, and all the others like it had dried up, because the Chinese government was still keeping the outbreak of COVID 19 under wraps. Shortly after, all the domestic job opportunities near us also dried up, because of the economic shutdown. So, we've been struggling financially for several months. I've been intermittently very sick for two months, and haven't been able to work very much. I now have a chronic cough, and can't be hired by any of the essential businesses that are still open, because of the concern that I might be infected with COVID 19. I've been working on the Werebeast character as I could during that time, in the hopes that the proceeds from it would help to make up the shortfall we're having on our bills. I very much appreciate those of you who have placed orders with my site, every one gives me hope that I can survive this. However, I'm looking at losing my home in the next two weeks or so if I can't find the funds I need to keep it (now at about $1,500). If that happens, I will have to relocate to stay with relatives who live in an area where there is no real internet access, so I won't be able to continue to work on or support my 3d content or website. Should it come to that, I will notify the community before I am obliged to go dark again. In that event, I shall also probably have to disable my website, as I will have no way to perform maintenance on it, or offer support to customers.
I find it difficult to share hard news with anyone, including those closest to me, but (pursuant to the comments about having kept my gender to myself in the past, lol) I have learned that it is better to be honest and open with people, and I thought the community deserved some forewarning about what might happen to my products and presence in that community.
