The Reality and The Plan

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Are you curious to what I’ve been up to?

Well, I typically keep my private life off the internet but circumstances have come to a point where I need to ask for help and that’s not fair without sharing a bit more about myself.
I know you see these a lot if you follow blogs around the tumblrverse on the regular so if you’re disinterested in more of these you can move on and I hope you don’t unfollow due to my posting.

As you know, I attended Bronycon recently and had a rather successful weekend. I managed to break even at my first con despite hearing constantly that I shouldn’t keep my hopes high. Sales weren’t particularly plentiful, but it was enough since I live close to Baltimore. At this time I barely made it to con by the skin of my teeth and emptying my wallet to do so. It was fortunate that I broke even or I’d be in even worse trouble now.

That said, roughly an hour after I got home I was evicted.

No, it wasn’t due to money. It was because an angry neighbor had no problem reporting “overcrowding” in my household to the county. Unfortunately, we had one too many renters and I was the most recent edition. To protect my friend’s family from eviction and the other two renters, I left the house without question within the same day. Due to some unique circumstances, I can’t live with family any longer so my only option left is friends or the street.

I’m stupid and prideful so of course I choose IHOP for their 24 hour policy and endless coffee while I figure out what to do.

Thankfully, my friend who I lived with, was angered at the decision his family made and how it was executed and stayed with me since. Right now his girlfriend is allowing me to stay at her apartment.

This bring me back to the present, my plans, and where I intend to be in the future.
I’ve done a good job so far at not asking for help. As most of you noticed that’s reflected pretty clearly in my sparratic updates. It’s been a rough several years now and I’ve handled myself barely so far but it’s finally come to a point where I literally have nothing left to fall back on and I need help.
My current plan of action is to move to a location where;
A: Jobs relevant to my expertise are more plentiful.
B: Cost of living and upkeep is cheaper.
C: Is condusive to starting a business.
The state that currently has ample amounts of the above is Washington state. I have friends there that can help me get started and the state is home to several game development studios and Amazon. The cost of living is roughly half of where I live right now, Northern Virginia. Lastly, it’s an excellent location for starting a new business.

The issue now is getting there. I’ll manage regardless because I’m set on doing this and I’m beyond changing my mind however in order to not barely live and move in 6 months, a year, or god knows how long, I’m asking for your help to get me there. Anything helps.

This September I’ll be running weekly drives and likely digitally publish my own art pack in order to give something back to all of you. The art pack will be released at “Pay what you want” with a minimum of free. I don’t want anyone to feel cheated with this.
For those that really want to help, I’m opening a Patreon as I post this. You can find more information on what I want to accomplish there. My goals are lofty but, now more than ever, I am determined to see my true goal to fruition.
http://www.patreon.com/GraphicLee

If you stuck with me this long, thank you for genuinely hearing me out, or being a fast reader.

If you normally just skip to the end;

tl;dr____Yes, I’m working on the stock backgrounds that I’ll be using throughout the following NT story arc. A complicated ordeal since I’m not accustomed to architecture or perspective. After that Sketch will see updates. Sometime in the near future I wish to open two more side blogs for funsies as well. They’ll be lower in quality I think but good nonetheless. 
Please reblog this for my sake.

It’s worth noting that I’m throwing my trust to the masses and keeping anything and everything on Patreon 100% open. Since it’s crowdfunded support, as far as I’m concerned the content should be freely available

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