I reached two milestones this week!

The first is I finally crossed over the $400 mark on my Patreon page. Thank you all my Patreon supporters! All the money I've saved so far helped a lot and made me feel less stress about my budget for the upcoming trip to Manchester for the Urban Sketchers Symposium.

The other milestone is I reached 20,000 subscribers on my Youtube channel! The channel gets around 80 subscribers a day. It's an amazing feeling because almost one year ago, there were only 90 subscribers each month, and now I get 2,400. Wow. I've uploaded more than 380 videos so far. One year from now, I hope I can create another 300 more. The secret to success it through relentless hard work.

What really amazes me about Youtube is, I only became more serious about making videos in July 2015 during the USK symposium in Singapore. One year later, now, the number of views I get on Youtube is almost reaching that of my blog that I have spent 8 years writing on. Wow x2.

Thank you all for your support! Alright, I've got to get back to work.

Mateusz Urbanowicz is an illustrator currently living and working in Japan. He creates background art for animation and occasionally creates interesting theme projects for himself, the latest being a series of watercolour artworks on Japanese shopfronts.

He also has a Youtube channel that features some tutorials where he talks about his process. Check them out at https://www.youtube.com/user/mattjabbar/videos