2019: detailed income and expenses.

I've made a small status post on DeviantArt, to give you all my "happy holidays": https://www.deviantart.com/leniotg/status/19437554

Here, I'd like to show you everything I've done since April thanks to your great support.

I really don't know how to thank you: even if I publish everything after around one month, because I believe in free culture, you all decided to support me. Thank you, really, it means the world to me.

That's why I want to be as transparent as possible.
I used to make detailed monthly expenses posts, but they required quite a lot of time, and so I decided to make better pages at the same time.

INCOME (after taxes): 2941,89€

EXPENSES: 3391,48€

• Hardware: 1931,59€
  This has been huge! I study far away from my hometown, but I spend there a few months every year. Before opening Patreon, I had a Ryzen 5 1600 with a GTX 1060 3Gb with 8Gb of 2400Mhz RAM (1st PC) where I study, and a Ryzen 3 1200 with a GTX 1050 Ti and 4Gb 2400Mhz of RAM (2nd PC) in my hometown.
  Now, thanks to you, my 1st PC has a Ryzen 5 3600 with a RTX 2070 SUPER and 32Gb 3000Mhz RAM. Let me highlight this: it's huge! I can do much more complex scenes, in a fraction of the time, and with much higher quality. The PC also feels much "snappier".
  The 2nd PC now has the Ryzen 5 1600 with a RTX 2060 and 16Gb of 2400Mhz RAM.
  Both PCs have much larger storage (these things take TBs basically), and better components overall.
  I also finally got a 4K monitor!
• Digital products: 1459,89€
  Daz3D and Renderotica: 1381,08€
  DeviantArt: 51,36€
  Comic Life 3: 27,45€

So, I basically went down by 449,59€.
But from that, I'll subtract 50€ of Daz3D gift cards that I haven't spent, and the 25$ (22,38€) of DeviantArt Core Membership for 2020 (it was on sale :D).
So, I went down by 377,21€ (421,45$) this year.

That's totally fine.
It's very fun to bring your own stories to life, and I was able to make many great investments.
Next year, I doubt I'll spend this much, because I already like these 2 PCs (but all of you that are tech-fans already know that this doesn't always last very long xD), and I'm starting from a much larger 3D product library.
Indeed, I opened this Patreon because, after 3 months of purchases, I always found myself with no money, because I've started in November 2018 to actually buy stuff to make TG stories.

Overall, I managed to dedicate around 700 hours to my TG stories this year.
I wish I'll be able to dedicate the same time, or even more, in 2020, and I wish for the quality (of both graphics and narrations) to continue to grow.

Thank you all very much.

Have a great day,
LenioTG.