Artwork and Patreon changes
Hello everyone! I just wanted to take a moment to share some changes and updates regarding the artwork I’ve been posting, and my Patreon page.
Future artwork will be patron-exclusive
Firstly, I’ve made the decision to make most, if not ALL (future) bonus art patron-exclusive again.
To those who have been enjoying my artwork for free thus far, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your support over the years. However, I need to prioritize my livelihood, and this adjustment is necessary as I take a more serious approach to my work. Don’t worry, some future artwork and commissions, and all past artwork will still be publicly available. On a related note…
Free trial enabled for $1 and $3 Tiers
I’ve enabled free trial features for the $1 and $3 tiers. Didn’t notice they added this feature until now.
Patreon page cleaned up
As for for my Patreon page, not much of a change actually. Mostly I cleaned up the About and Tier descriptions a bit, and removed the rewards that I wasn’t really applying. Will probably make the About page and Thank You message nicer in the future, maybe a Welcome video too? I may also remove some of the Discord channels related to some Tiers that are unused.
$10 Tier is NSFW
Lastly, the KitTen ($10) tier. I haven’t been doing much with it at all so… it’s now officially the NSFW tier, so expect some monthly NSFW artwork from now on. Past NSFW artwork will still be available for the $5 Tier. Tooootally not partly caused by my friend which has been introducing me as a “porn artist” to everyone he meets, and since I already made the leap to mark my Patreon page as NSFW so MIGHT AS WELL
RIP Reddit (2005-2020)
(say what you will about Tim here, but I like that he summarizes stuff pretty well)
Sort of political, but this is more about censorship, which I just reaaally hate for some reason. Sane people should hate censorship anyway.
Imagine if Discord admins replaces me and BlueDavrial with mods that hate Cat Nine. Pretty insane right?
If you didn’t know, Reddit has actually started to quarantine a few of these “problematic” subs a while ago. Then just recently, they’ve started warning if not outright ban people for UPVOTING (similar to likes in FB/Twitter) posts in quarantined subs. Don’t need to be smart to know this marks the likely downfall of Reddit.
Now, you don’t have to like these problematic subs, but the world’s going to shit with some people actually believing free speech is problematic. Not to mention, this move is probably caused by the upcoming US election this November, and I expect even more censorship or election interference shenanigans as that month approaches. Great job ignoring the rest of the not-US world Reddit!
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I liked Reddit for the memes, interesting subs and posts, and extensive collection of “reference” materials. Not gonna miss all the karma whoring, bots, agendas, double standards, racism against whites, and censorship though.
So enjoy Reddit while it lasts, maybe even upvote some of those “offensive” posts to get banned as a badge of honor. Artists and connoisseurs start saving those “reference” images before they get purged; who knows when they’ll get declared problematic in the future! Hopefully, a less cancerous alternative will show up to replace it… or not! In any case, I’ll be ready with my popcorn as I r/WatchRedditDie.
Restarted A Lazy Blog
I’ve been itching to blog again, so here’s A Lazy Blog, Take Two!
I’ll be posting about:
- personal stuff
- random stuff
- cool stuff
- rants
- memes
- unrefined, practice, and warm-up sketches. I didn’t want to flood my other websites with these
I prefer using WordPress for “content” like these, so if these look fun to you then feel free to sub/follow. I’ll only publish really big or important posts to Facebook, but I’ll definitely share most of them to my Twitter.
I also won’t blog about finished artwork or comic-related updates like with my old Tumblr, so go sub to Cat Nine or my other social media for those! Or… make it a monthly update of all the stuff I’ve drawn that month. It makes sense to post them here after all.
Speaking of which, I originally did import the older blog from Tumblr. I changed my mind since most of them are old (because of the first panel comic updates) or Tumblr-exclusive, so they looked out of place here. And I didn’t want to have to edit 200+ posts too, so I might as well start from scratch.
If I like blogging enough maybe I’ll get a proper lazylonewolf.com domain, but that’s just another yearly expense. I could’ve made a subdomain at Cat Nine, but lazylonewolf.cat-nine.net doesn’t look great to me.
More likely I’ll just abandon or forget about this blog again, but hey
(Off to a good start with the memes eh?)
Apps and drivers I use
I'm getting a bit paranoid right now since my hard drive or Windows 8 already crashed two times recently, and corrupting a few important files (like page 198!). Thankfully that page has a copy in a system backup, but one of the bonus art's is permanently gone because of the corruption. I didn't care about it that much, but still! And who knows about the other and older files... hopefully said system backups got me covered.
So I'm just posting here the apps and drivers I use just in case my computer buys the farm or something. If it gets corrupted again, I'm seriously gonna consider buying a Samasung 1TB SSD that one of my patrons suggested.
Kinda bothered about all of this since my 1TB Firecuda hard drive is just about to reach two years old (5 year lifespan/warranty), Defraggler and SMART check says the drive is ok, and latest corruption happened while I was making a system backup.
Anyhoo, here's what I use:
Apps
- Spotify
- VLC
- ClipStudio Paint
- OpenOffice
- Evernote
- XnView
- Steam
- CCleaner
- Defraggler
- Java
- Discord
- qbitTorrent
- SeaTools For Windows
- BitDefender
- MalwareBytes
- Adobe Flash
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Acrobat
- Google Chrome
- Google Backup and Sync
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Mozilla Firefox (optional)
- FileZilla
- 7Zip
- PostyBirb
- GeForce 1050
- Wacom Intuos 4 and Cintiq 16
- LG Hub
- Sunday Comics BB
- Manga Temple
Shop and commission page finally up, so if anyone is interested, please head on there!