Commissioning additional H-scene art for HoHH

Some patrons have asked, so I thought I'd redo and update this post about additional H-scenes.

Originally, House of Hellish Harlots was planned to be text only. Then I did some research and figured out how to hack together a rudimentary GUI that allowed the addition of art. I found an artist, Marwmellow, who was good, affordable, and willing to draw all the harlots.

However, HoHH has a lot of sexy monster girl characters (about 80 currently, with the final tally planned to be just over 100). This means a lot of commissions. I set aside some savings to cover it and added the additional $5 and $10 tiers to help fund it (thank you to everyone subscribed at that level). I have enough to cover one 'pinup' piece per harlot and I currently have artwork for about 50 harlots (so again, even while 100 girls sounds a lot, I'm already halfway there).

(They're also good for Monster Girl Encyclopaedia-style profile pieces I really should be using more to promote the project!)

If you've played the recent HoHH 1.5 demo, you'll notice one of the harlots, Suka no-Hirudo, has some additional art. This wasn't commissioned by me. Smithlfarrel contacted Marwmellow independently to commission it. He graciously gave me permission to include it and I changed the code to be able to add it in.

Currently, I don't have plans to add H-scenes. Even with the additional tiers, I'm running at a (manageable) loss on funding the art. Ideally, I'll get this back later through sales/additional patrons, but if I don't, it's a loss I can eat and the internet gets more nice monster girl/succubus art. The priority is to give each harlot her own pinup art, and I have the funds set aside for that. Once that's done, if there is still some available funds left and interest in the game makes it viable, I might get some lewder H-scene pieces commissioned, but that has to be after all the regular pinup pieces are done.

However, if someone really likes a particular harlot enough to commission art of them 'in-action', as smithlfarrel did, the code is already there to add additional art to the game. I'd love to be able to put more actual H-scenes in!

Marwmellow is fine with taking on additional commissions. Unfortunately there is a hurdle to overcome here. Marwmellow is based in Russia, which presents ethical and logistical problems in paying him for the commissions. Since the last post I made on this, the website he was using for payment has been blocked by pretty much all of the regular payment processors.

I was able to find a workaround using cryptocurrency, which is his preferred method of payment.

If you are interested in commissioning additional pieces for a favourite character and the previous two paragraphs haven't scared you off!), the following is a rough guide on how to do it.

The best way to contact him is through Discord. He is on there as "marwmellow". We currently have a discord set up for HoHH (thanks Noeru!), so if you get on that (https://discord.gg/CPmWAFJpwH) and ping me, I can probably point you in the right direction.

If you don't use Discord, marwmellow's email address is marwmellow@gmail.com. So you might be able to get hold of him there.

The big sticking point is payment. If you're already familiar with cryptocurrency and have used it before, marwmellow will give you his wallet details and you can transfer to that.

I wasn't, but was able to figure it out (with the help of an IRL friend). I opened an account with a crypto exchange (I used Kraken), transferred some money into it from my bank account, and then transferred from there to marwmellow. Once I figured it out, it was fairly straightforward.

We are in slightly murkier waters here, so as with anything financial and especially with anything crypto - be careful!

If that sounds a bit too daunting, I'm fine with people going through me. I've been able to make payments okay, so if I receive the money, I can transfer it if people really want to commission something, but are reluctant to go through the crypto malarkey themselves. Hopefully, not too many. I can handle making a few $100 commissions on people's behalf. Any more and I'd start to worry people might see it as looking scammy! :)

There are options here. Slightly more complicated options than I'd like, but they are here!

The other thing is it's probably best, for now, to keep it to characters that already have their pinup art done. I know someone is eager to commission a piece for Temptacia. Fortunately, they shouldn't have to wait long. Her scenario should, finally, be out at the end of the month and I'm planning to make the next batch of commissions the round 5 'mini-boss' harlots.

Another question might be "What about other artists?". That's an option, although I'd want the styles to not clash.

The art above is the .webp preview of The Madam I've received from Marwmellow. I'm hoping to include her in some form of a title page as I need to get that done before I can properly put the public HoHH 1.5 demo out.

I don't know if this post will result in anything, but I was asked about it, so I thought I'd put it out. Any extra scenes I can add would be much appreciated, and that might start the ball rolling for me to expand the scope to 1 pinup + 1 H-scene per harlot (providing funds are there and artists are willing).

And if it doesn't, single pinups for each harlot is still an improvement over the original text-only plans. Anything more is a bonus!