Holy smokes Batman!

I just wanted to say thank you everyone for the support. I really really appreciate this. Each new Patron is a bit closer to me being able to do art full time and quit my regular job. 

So I've had people over time tagging Sea.Ya.Later in my vids, even the merch packing ones, and it never dawned on me until today that they were trying to alert her to someone possibly  selling copies of her merch. Like they didn't see any the vids of her duetting me or talking about our colab and she uses my user name. 

I appreciate the loyalty of her fans. I had one ask if she knew about what I was doing, and yes she does. She had given me permission to sell some merch myself. I choose to sell the items she can't through the services she used. I did sell shirts for a bit, sold maybe 6, but 1, after the feels and costs between store envy and the drop shipping service, I actually lost money on those sales, and 2, I think it's better to just let her have the shirt sales. The sales of shirts and apparel merch seem to be doing really well for her and I'll do stickers, pins, prints and key chains. 

Also I do end up with extras in each order of items I get, and I package those extras and mail them to her. She can do with them what she wants. The last package was the extra key chains, metal Sharkie pins and some stickers. So we are in full colab with this stuff and working together. 

I have a list of new merch items she wants art for and I will be working on those this week. I honestly felt weird about doing merch to sell myself, but she had given me permission to do so. I also work with another tiktoker creating merch for her brand, but until she can get the shirt situation figured out, I can't share too much, and I don't have permission to recreate those images on personal merch. She paid for the image and owns the rites to it.  

I know this is a bit long. I wanted to be sure everyone was aware what was up. 

Original art from the Hell's Belles series will be auctioned off some day to pay for the book (we still need to figure out the details of where when and all that) and any extra will be put back into the franchise some how. 

I want to remain transparent and clear with everyone so I am setting this to public. If things change, for whatever reason, I will update. I really enjoy working with Sea Ya Later and she is bringing on other artists for more merch, and thats great. She is growing so much and the series has taken on a life of it's own. I know we both love to hear from the fans and we both try to work in suggestions brought to us both. 

I hope this helped and I hope you all have a wonderful day!