Hello my lovely Patrons! :D

The first batch of pledges has now been processed, and I just want to say a huuuge THANK YOU for your pledges! Seriously, it helps a lot <3 It's been really motivating so far to just have started Patreon, and financially your pledges has helped remove at least  some stress off my shoulders, and for that I am very grateful <3 less stress and worrying means more time to draw! And I'm really feeling that creative flow coming back :) I've written many more pages on my "SPIKE" novel, both in the form of ideas and notes and whatnot, and in the form of actual chapters. And let me tell you, it feels GREAT to write on it again ^3^..I have been working continously since August 2014 on re-starting (fixing), improving and mapping out the entire novel. The whole plot is done, the major plannings and scenes are all in place, and all the pieces of this massive puzzle is coming together quite rapidly. It's honestly very exciting for me to work on my novel lately, and I just can't wait to finish it so I can finally show it to you guys!

I've been up all night working on some new pieces of the puzzle that presented themselves, metaphorically speaking ;) and after having written a little bunch of pages, I began doodling and drawing. One of those drawings turned out to keep me up until sunrise because I had so much fun working on it. I drew it on an A3 sized sketchpad, using pillows as a desk, so it naturally ended up looking different up close than I realized it did once I'd taken a photo of that drawing. Let's just say some photoshop adjustment magic was required.. XDBut I'm curious to see what you guys think :)Also, this will be uploaded to deviantart very soon too. I usually wait a day or so before posting them there, but I just can't help myself this time, sorry ^^;

The drawing is of Charles, and I titled it "inconspicuous" - because once in a blue moon I give my drawings actual titles XDIn the older version of SPIKE, the 1st draft chapters on deviantart, there's been a lot of plot holes and logical errors that I've had to fix. I've also had to add a lot of things that I either had done too little research on back then, or it didn't cross my young mind to think of those details at all.. So yeah, I've done some thougrough 'restauration' of the old chapters. And Charles, who's been the character I always had the most trouble with 'getting to know' has now got enough depth, details and story to quite frankly fill a small novel of his own. He has become a fully fledged character with all details in place. Heck, he even has a job now! Charles is not just some mysterious, shabby, unemployed drunkard living in some dilapidated spooky shack in the middle of the woods - which is how it used to be and which also made no sense. Charles actually has a life now, a seemingly successful one, where he uses the idea of 'hiding in plain sight' to avoid any suspicion towards him and Spike. Charles was always supposed to be an intelligent, gentleman-type of guy who could charm anyone out of their shoes, so to speak. But my earlier SPIKE-chapters showed him as no such thing. Charles was supposed to be inconspicuous in every sort of way, and for once he's finally starting to become just that. To anyone but Spike, mind you. I think that is going to make Charles come off as more dangerous - because you'd never suspect him of doing the things he did to Spike unless you were the one he was doing it to.And in this drawing, I wanted to try and show that 'new' side of him, the Public side of him, you know?We who know him for what he's done to Spike might look into Charles' eyes and get angry at him because we know what he's done. To anyone unfamiliar with Charles though, they might have nice things to say/guess about him instead. I have received comments on drawings of Charles that I've done from people who didn't know him as a character, and the compliments they would give him ranged from 'nice' and 'handsome' to 'sexy' even. This is, I think, a clear sign that I'm doing at least something right with this character. If you were introduced to Charles for the very first time and had no knowledge of what he does to Spike, or even knew Spike lived with Charles at all, 'child molester' would most likely not be the first word that came to mind. And that is exactly what I wanted Charles to be like; inconspicuous.  And that is exactly why he is so dangerous. 

--- so yeah, that was quite a wall of text, huh? XDTLDR version; portrait of Charles in his work clothes / formal casual wear.

again, thank you all so much for your patronage <3 It really helps :)