This is a bit of a random thing, but I am setting up a gofundme to help a dear friend of mine @yedgart / @zahkis-ffxiv in getting a new art tablet to replace the one she has that has been acting up. Hopefully this will help her as she is currently a full time artist, so her tablet is her lifeline.
I’m not asking for anybody to donate anything they can’t give and I understand if people don’t want to, but any little bit will help! Feel free to share this link ❤
I don’t like to bother and this is a long read, so I apologize a bit in advance, but I’m in a situation where I must do this.
Some of you know my situation and I know some of you really worry about it, but for those who don’t I’ll try to sum it up: Up until recently I lived in Venezuela, which as many of you know is currently a dictatorship where civil rights are trampled over daily and basic stuff like food, medical attention or even clean water were near impossible to obtain.
During the protests in these few past months I was pointed at with a gun by someone because people were robbing a supermarket near my apartment and I decided I couldn’t take it anymore so I took my little savings and went elsewhere. It was hard and I went through some hardships like government refusing to issue passports and highways being blocked because of protests (Nearly missed my flight), but I made it out in the end.
Sadly, now that I’m in another country, things are really looking up.
I chose Chile because of its inmigration laws making the whole process easier than other countries, at least for me as a Venezuelan. My plans were to rent a small place, work and well, survive just like back in Venezuela; I did find a small place with some basic furniture that runs me about $600 a month (Including water, electricity and good it goes up to about $850-$900 a month).
I know it doesn’t sound like much for many, but since I haven’t found a job yet and my only source of income is Patreon and commissions it’s been quite stressful, because Patreon’s income tends to fluctuate monthly and I get 2-3 commissions a month if I’m lucky and I’m already cutting down on food and eating twice or sometimes once a day.
Some of you might wonder why I’m not working I bet. Laws here state that I need a permit in order to work or be hired, said permit takes an average of 60 office days in being processed, and I’m still waiting for a response (It should take 1.5-2 more months according to some inmigration officers) because the Inmigration Department is currently saturated with work.
My mental health has deteriorated quite a lot these months, to the point were I suffer anxiety attacks almost daily, constant depression, my apetite has gone down a lot and I have stress bouts that give me strong headaches, all because losing patrons or barely getting any notes on my work.
I have asked openly others for advice regarding how to raise my popularity, which characters would people like to see, if they want me to see me try a new style or something, asking others for publicity, etc. I really don’t even know what to do at this point and I’m seriously wondering if my work is so bad that there’s nothing to be done about it, being honest I wish I could do anything else but this is all I have and I’m afraid of starving or ending up homeless, I’m in a new place and I don’t even have a safety net here or back in Venezuela. I can’t even go back to my old country anymore with the current shit going on.
The point of this post is just to ask of you to please share my work in your networks if you can, my Patreon ads or just my page (FB, Tumblr, etc). Tell your friends about it, spread the word, reblog if possible, so people know about my work and hopefully help me out by commissioning me or pledging on Patreon or something. Heck, if you don’t want to pledge or want a commission done and still want to help me somehow I could accept some aid via Paypal.
If you really can’t help in any way, not even sharing or hitting the reblog button in this or my work, it’s okay. I’m not gonna get upset or anything, just know that I’d be infinitely grateful for some help in these dire straits I’m in.
I usually don’t do this. But, it’s for my mother and we can use all the help we can get… if this can be shared as much as possible it would be just as good as donating.
Recently I’ve been in some dire straits financially due to some changes in my life, so I decided to open up commissions and do some advertising for my Patreon project, because I really need some help and I want to offer people exclusive artwork.
My Patreon project (Located atwww.patreon.com/doctor_anfelo ) consists of 2 monthly CG Packs of bara hunks from games, comics, etc; these aren’t sold or posted anywhere else and on average they contain from 16-22 images each (It depends on the character itself, this includes sketches, SFW, NSFW and PNG versions). On some months bonus art is given away to people that pledged for CG Packs too!
Commissions and the pricelist for them will be published soon, along with the amount of slots I’ll be opening for them.
If you cannot pledge or commission me, but would like to help, please reblog this so as many people as possible see this and signal boost this, I will be INMENSELY grateful to you for your help and support.
Also don’t hesitate to send me a message if you have any doubts or inquiries.
Thank you beary much for your support, Doctor Anfelo
Hey guys, give some love to my really good artist friend. He lives in Venezuela, so needs all the support he can! He did the very first art of Lyn’to that you can see on my tumblr. Thank you so much!
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