2025 September Charity Fundraising Results

I had been hoping to get this post done last week, but it didn't happen, so I ended the last couple days' artstreams early to allow myself time to tackle it. It's October, which means it's time to announce September's charity fundraising results 🎉✨

Our charity of the month was Best Friends Animal Society. I always choose them for September because that was the month in 2022 when my husband and I first stayed at the vegan and pet-centric Best Friends Roadhouse, spent a couple days volunteering at the original Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, and adopted Kumo, Chappie, and Aoife 🥰

My husband and I with Chappie & Aoife during a lakeside stop on our roadtrip home 💖

My donation formula is $0.10 USD per unique Twitch viewer that month, minimum $10 and maximum $100. I only streamed during the last couple weeks in September, since I was out of town enjoying an epic vegan cruise vacation 🛳️✨

Still, twelve unique viewers watched my streams, which means a $10 donation to Best Friends Animal Society! As always, I opted to cover the transaction fee, too 😉

Please make your own donation to Best Friends, to help them help the animals! And if you can't donate, come on over to my Twitch channel, and bring your friends! Let's get that unique viewers count so high that we reach the 101 milestone; that will be the first time I donate more than $10.

Above is the recording of the last stream of September—during which I worked on my Hallowed Sun project—so you can get an idea of what my channel is like. I hope you'll join me this month; let's have fun getting creative and raising money for a good cause together!

That's all for September's report. Thank you reading all the way until the end, and for supporting Studio Mikarts and our featured charities 💖 Until next time, may you stay happy, healthy, and safe!

2025 August Charity Fundraising Results

Better late than never! It's time to share our August charity fundraising results! 💰✨

Every month, I choose an animal rights or vegan charity to support. For August, I chose Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary, because August 1st is the birthday of its inspiring founder—and one of my vegan heroes—Fiona Oakes 🥳 For every unique Twitch viewer, I donate $0.10 USD, with a minimum of $10 and a maximum of $100.

In August 2025, we had a total of 21 unique viewers, which means $10 to our charity of the month! Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary is located in England, so I made things simpler by donating £10, which is a bit more than $10, but all the better for the animals 🐖💕

If you can, please make your own donation! There's also a shop and other fun fundraising campaigns you can participate in, so enjoy taking a look around the website. You can also join me as a member of Fiona's Patreon 😄

If you can't donate, you can still help me help the animals by joining me on Twitch for some live artmaking and occasional gaming streams! Check out the video below to see the recording of my last stream in August 📺

Greater viewership helps my channel reach more people, while converting that viewership into monthly donations helps make my creative work more meaningful. By spending some time with me there (it's free!), you'll be helping two birds with one stone, as it were 🥰

That's all for August's charity update, but September is almost over, so there will be another charity update very soon! Until then, thank you for reading and may you stay happy, healthy, and safe 💖

New Illustration: ブンBuzz

I finally finished it! After 42 (yes, 42!) livestreamed work sessions, amounting to at least 85 total hours of work, I've brought my onomatopoeia bees to life 💪😎

Purchase prints and print-to-order goods here!

This is the eighth entry in this series, which will eventually be published as an artbook. My goal is to use beautiful illustrations of rainbow animals to teach onomatopoeia in both Japanese and English. The other animals so far are cats, frogs, crows, mice, owls, dogs, and cows. All of them are created using the same tools and methods, starting with sketches, then a final ink drawing on manga paper (AquaBee brand, so apt for this particular piece!) which is digitized and finished in Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint.

First batch of quarterly (versus monthly) Patreon rewards!

Last week, I produced and sent Patreon rewards featuring this piece! It was the first time I got to make full-size prints, in addition to the usual postcards, so it was a special milestone for Studio Mikarts 💌✨ I also added the piece to Fine Art America, where you can order prints on every surface from canvas to metal, and on a variety of goods like iPhone cases, towels, and ornaments! Please join my Patreon or make a purchase from my FAA shop to help support my work 💖

That's all for now, thank you for reading. Until next time, may you stay happy, healthy, and safe!

2025 May, June, July Charity Fundraising Results

I'm taking a new approach to blogging! Instead of monthly roundups, which haven't always been easy to stay on top of (evidenced clearly by my current three-month backlog 😅), I'm going to start posting in the moment and each post will focus on a single topic. I've been changing a lot about my workflow recently, which also changes what I have to share here, anyway. In other words, no more monthly roundups! Instead, I plan to share things like finished artwork reveals and Patreon reward announcements whenever they're ready. The only regular monthly post I plan to make is this one: my charity fundraising report 💸

Just yesterday, I finished making my donations to our June and July charities. Each month, I choose a pro-animal charity to feature on Twitch. I run a fundraising campaign on my channel to which viewers can donate, and I also make my own donation based on my unique viewers count for that month, which means you can help make a difference for animals without spending a dime 👌

First I'd like to share the donations made by Studio Mikarts viewers. Once again, the amazing Wolfaxe2 came through with a $15 donation to our May charity, Food Empowerment Project 🥳🎉 This is the second year Wolfaxe2 has donated, too! Absolutely epic, thank you so much!!

The rest of Studio Mikarts fundraising for this period comes from my unique viewers count. Here are the viewership numbers from May, June, and July:

We had 32 unique viewers in May.

22 unique viewers in June.

And 11 unique viewers in July.

It makes sense that the number was so low in July, since I had hardly any time to livestream 😬 The short of the story is, I had to serve as a witness in a criminal trial, which took time away for preparation—and to keep my stress levels down—and then I got sick afterwards! (I tried to keep the stress in check but it obviously wasn't enough...at least it's all over now 😮‍💨) But regardless of the low number, I always donate at least $10 (or equivalent currency) so I made those donations to all three of our charities!

Food Empowerment Project had their annual school supply drive for children of farm workers going when I donated, so our funds helped a very specific group of people this time!

Click here for more information about Food Yoga International.

Click to learn more about The Vegan Society.

My donation formula is $0.10 USD per unique viewer, so once we finally top 100 in a single month, I'll be able to donate more than the $10 minimum (not including covering processing fees 🤑) so I hope you'll help me out! Just watch one of my Twitch streams and encourage your friends and family to join! Click here to check my schedule and to follow me for notifications whenever I go live.

Here's a recording of the last stream of July, during which I started coloring my Hallowed Sun chibi using Copic markers:

Our charity of the month for August will be Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary, founded and run by my vegan athlete hero, Fiona Oakes! I hope you'll join me during my artstreams, help bump up my viewers count, and make a donation of your own to help the animals 💚 Thank you for reading and see you soon!!