RunawayDanish

Doodles & Commissions I've done recently + Notes on Taxes 2022

Quick bulk upload of all the junk that's been drawn in the last idk month or so? As I get my life back on track thanks to the new medication (we're ~18 days in), I've made some good progress on chopping down the big backlog. However, I've still got a lot to do, so I thought I'd go ahead and note:

1. OCT. Doodle Rewards will be worked on this week probably around DEC 1st

2. NOV. Doodle Rewards will follow right-after, last call will be Friday DEC 3rd

3. The Commission Queue is slowly being worked down! I have one that is paid and waiting on Commissioner Feedback, two I'm planning right after posting this, and seven still in the queue. I'm working on another private image sequence presently, but that'll probably get done Tuesday the 30th.

4. I have two pre-paid B/W Sketch Comms to work on, one for Xeros and one for Stinkies, I also owe Jak S. a single-character pin-up from that poll a while back.

5. A few folks have tapped out of the Patreon entirely as of late, I'm hoping I will remember to send them their doodle rewards. I know that Waffle and Avii are the main folks I'm aware of who had to tap out recently (this is more for my notes).

OK, that all out of the way, let's talk about what's coming up regarding my business and the Patreon. This is part of my standard practice of [Annual Transparency Reporting], which I know seems weird but when I joined the fandom there was a lot of fixation on profiting from the fandom. 

TAX SEASON 2022 is going to probably be a nightmare. I will let you all know how fucked it gets, if it gets fucked. I'm expecting at the moment to be paying down something like pre-deductions $5554 usd in taxes...before deductions. I was unable to set up Quarterly Filing, so this might be a coup de grace to my entire financial everything. I have a very, very small set of deductions I can do.

• Firstly, my Self Employment Tax figure is like, 2700. You divide that by two and deduct the difference (~1350) from your income tax when you are calculating said income tax.
• Secondly, an amusing 2017 Trump Administration tax law, the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" remains in effect as far as I can tell (will ask the IRS later), which may permit [up to] 20% of my business income to be deducted as a "Personal deduction", which would technically mean I could deduct an additional chunk off...
• But more importantly, thirdly, the Standard Deduction may be the way to go. Since my income is so low, the 2022 Standard Deduction of $12,950 would make my effective income for the year 5,050$ (assuming 18k income), meaning I would owe about 505$ in income tax. Doing this [instead] of my tax reporting would mean I'm mostly on the hook for my Self Employment tax.

So about that Self-Employment Tax, the scarier, 2700$ figure. There's a couple of business expenses I can write-off. Chiefly among them is a portion of my rent, which is a *maybe* I can write like 300$ off. I have other expenses I can call business expenses, which are I think my Renter's insurance, a pdf software purchase, and the computer I got at the start of the year, which could be up to about $2200 in deductions. If I get everything approved, well, that could put my tax debt to a fairly manageable ~$500 in total (but more likely, it'll only drop my owed by a few hundred).

Why talk about Taxes? Well, I think mainly, my journey through learning all of this information was unorthodox, required a lot of referring to many resources, and now I'm just trying to see how I can file. It's a mess, I'll still be consulting with some kind of professional probably.

Much love, more art to come!

We're almost to a full year of this chapter of Patreon Support

Thank you everyone. I know it's been a rough year, and I haven't done especially well at keeping up on everything. However, as I get out of this most recent rut and back into it, I am managing to keep pace. I want to complete works more aggressively, and thanks to spending all of Tuesday closing out my classwork for the semester, I should be hitting my stride this week, going into December.

October Doodle Rewards have I think 11 remaining, mostly larger project images that'll take one or two hours each. I'm getting a pair of commissions worked on today, planning two more tomorrow, and optimally, should be finally getting October's stuff done Saturday through Tuesday, and if I can manage to get my funding goal for November hit this weekend, I should be able to dedicate the first week of December to catching up on November's rewards.

The December Group Image will probably be planned out soon-ish (think first week December), I am gonna go big, probably something insane like a 4000x3000px canvas so I can fit the uh... 30 or so characters on. I wanted to do a freebee of some kind for those who've stuck around at the low tiers as well, but that might have to wait for now ;vvv;

Much love, thank you so much for your support.

Patreon Doodle Reward Errata!

Everything I can think of to put down regarding my Patreon Doodle Rewards for Interloper and Denizen tier backers.

Thank you so much those who are pledged, or were pledged, or are thinking of pledging. Patreon has literally saved my ass these last few months, I can't give back quite yet as I'm still recovering from the hit that the two months of lost time created, but I will be hopefully back to full speed ahead starting middle of December this year.

Cheers!

[My Commission Information is here, CLICK ME] 

Commission That I did + Other Junk

Full resolution files need to be posted lmao, I've barely hit my own performance metrics these last two months and I finally got the first big commission on the Queue done...

Also features doodles, warm-ups, and some on-stream sketch commissions!

A selection of Helmet Head Zano Peens!

Gay is stored in the balls. Stuff I doodled before bed today! Hi to anyone who signed up to see the full res owo

On Disruptions, Delays, and Depression

Hey everyone, I've had a rough week thanks to things getting really fucked last weekend. Things are working out, but I wanted to walk through what's been going on as of the last few months and why this entire year has had periods of boom and bust on my artistic capabilities and (by extension) success in keeping myself financially viable with patreon and commissions. This is a long article, so I'll include a TLDR and some quick acknowledgements and stuff first.

TLDR: 

• After a lifetime of untreated depression symptoms, I am finally arriving on direct action to help me. 
• I learned a lot about my disorder these last few months, and thanks to review of some records and some literature, I think I finally can treat the issue directly.
• I hope to start new medication in November which should resolve issues far more pervasive than "I feel sad and unmotivated". 
• I hope to be back to a functional state sooner or later, but we may not see me claw out of this hole until end of year, or well into next year. 
• Next May, I finally have my Bachelor's degree and can go back to work in my field unimpeded.
• If I don't manage to push this furry thing into a much higher per-month income, I will have to give it up and return to work.
• I have until June 2022 to recover from my illness and concentrate on my business. If I can't hit my goals, I will have to return to the workforce.

Shout-outs: It deserves to be said that ya'll who have or are backing me are the only thing keeping this art thing viable. I hope to make it up to you all somehow, and I hope I can keep this thing going for some time.

Full Version:

Disruptions: As many folks are aware, I managed to claw together a group effort to split rent between four people (Myself, Drake, Jack~D, and Lyle), and that took two months of intense house-hunting and misery to make happen. Even once we all got under the same roof, constant issues plagued the place we lived, as well as problems with our jobs / random bad shit happening. The most consistent crisis is everyone's cars literally falling apart, then usually catching on fire shortly after. Jack's car lost the Transmission Axel while it was driving casually, Lyle's PT Cruiser was lost when he swerved on a mountain road to avoid an idiot doing nighttime photography in the middle of the road, and most recently Drake's Jeep after a long life fraught with mechanical malfunction finally caught on fire from a faulty wire coil. Each of these things have resulted in me spreading myself thin to try and help out with various things.

I am on the Autism Spectrum somewhere. The more stressed I am, the more I both have physical ailments (somatic externalizing and stress-sensitive conditions like IBS) and psychiatric issues. I can't handle emotionally intense interruptions ontop of regular mundane interruptions, I'm battling my brain for focus and attention so much so that most of the days I don't work, I spend them dreading how behind I will be. Worse, I have to ritualistically "dope up" by consuming large amounts of sweets/ junk food, engaging in long conversations, and playing games to feel well enough to work. Just last night, at 4am, I felt fully able to work... when I needed desperately to fall asleep so I could make a doctor's appointment today. Unfortunately, I then slept until 3pm and missed the appointment. Adding to this mess is that I'm doing a class that mostly wastes my time, and requires me to be up at 7am to make it to class on-time. I can't skip the class, its so I can get my Bachelor's degree.

Delays: Things get pushed off far too often in my life. Just the examples above are only small portions of interruptions to my operating rules for my brain to work. Everything on my plate (commissions, patreon rewards, personal art, helping my roommates, doing housework, taking care of my increasingly poor health, doing school work, etc) is pushed routinely back plural days thanks to my condition and random events. Because my resilience to stress is totally tapped out thanks to damage from 2020 and the ongoing financial crisis I can't seem to shake (due to disrupted income), I'm also putting off important things like getting fillings in my teeth done or having my knees ultrasounded so I can have them treated for serious damage I got in college. I can't even stay timely on things I really desperately want, like talking to lawyers about possibly having zoop move to the US.

Ultimately, the delays in everything include that I might meet criteria for Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder, a sleep disorder commonly caused by ADHD. I've got medication for ADHD, but sleep is so disruptive in my life that it's a game of roulette. Briefly, when my ADHD medication was very new in May, I had some of the most productive sleep and a stable sleep schedule for nearly a whole month. My financial records also match this, with the best timely production of artwork and best sales occurring during May and June. But by July, the honeymoon was over and the stress was up, delaying things until August. August, again, was a highly productive month. Until Zoop came over, and my day-to-day was disrupted a lot. Zoop's sleep apnea results in very loud snoring, and my sleep quality was so bad that towards the end, I was wearing ear plugs and over-ear headphones to sleep. After he left, things I didn't manage during the month he was here came up, and I was crushed again under stress, anxiety, and disruptions. The result of which being this month, where from September 25th through to October ~15th, I barely caught the Patreon backlog up, and am still unable to complete paid for commission work.

Depression: Ultimately, this circles back to the reality that is my life. I have at any time since age 6 met criteria for treatment resistance Major Depressive Disorder. I bomb depression measures so routinely that it is clear I need treatment. I've known that the depression is existential in nature, that my internal motivation for seeking out things in life is poor, and that I am most motivated by wanting other people to like me / by helping other people / by doing service to a community. I wasn't healthy in my rehab job, but I always had an obligation to my team and my patients, and that made it easier to fight through the post-sleep delirium caused by excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexic symptoms. As I type this, my sleepy sensation is at about a 5-6 of 10 (0 = perfectly awake, 10 = moments from sleeping), and I've had 20mg adderall, a tall ass ice coffee, 20 oz of caffinated soda, and a small amount of food. I've been awake for only 5 hours, and feel like I could lie down right now and sleep.

The disruption this week from Drake's jeep catching fire not only caused my sleep schedule to get absolutely pulled out of shape so I could drive Drake to and from his work this week, but also my stress over the sheer impossibility of some of the financial elements of getting him rolling caused at least two major panic attacks. My panic attacks are existential depressive episodes where-in I hyper fixate on the utter impossibility of accomplishing goals when accounting for my present economic and functional impairments. Because Autism interrupts with my comfort and working mind, and depression and ADHD impair my ability to both work and tolerate stress, and the habits I use to appease my brain have caused me to become overweight and make worse my IBS and joint injuries, I've snow-balled into teetering on functioning in any adult capacity. Lyle's made it clear that I'm taking on too many responsibilities and need to take care of my health this week (in addition to everyone else close to me).

Dopamine Disorder(s): Dopamine is a neurotransmitter which is critical in the brain's function. We associate Dopamine with being a reward chemical, but Dopamine is naturally produced by your brain at all times in varying levels. When your Dopamine levels are low, the most typical result is depressive states. However, long time Dopamine Disorders are different in how they behave biochemically, and can be mistaken for "routine depression", resulting in misdiagnosis of the malfunctioning chemistry. Because most humans have Serotonin as a deficit brain chemical when they experience anxiety and depression, Serotonin Selective Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI's) are used to artificially increase Serotonin levels in the brain by limiting their re-absorption. Dopamine associates with Norepinephrine, and thusly, Norepinephrine and Dopamine Reuptake Inhibitors, (NDRI's) are used to do a similar thing to SSRI's, except with different neurotransmitters. 

Typically, you need to "fail out" of several Serotonin targeting medications (SSRI's, SNRI's, etc) before you can skip to NDRI's and other medications. However, due to having a failed SSRI treatment in fall of last year and now multiple reasons to suspect a Dopamine Disorder, it appears that the "household antidepressant" Welbutrin (Busproprion) is the most likely medical candidate for treatment. You see, when Dopamine is low, it can exacerbate a number of conditions. My post-sleep "fatigue limp" is resolved by doping up, indicating motor impairment caused likely by low dopamine levels. In ADHD patients and Hypothyroid patients (of which, I am both) poor sleep quality caused by low dopamine levels causes production to level off, resulting in unusually low dopamine upon waking. Routinely, I "slingshot" between being awake and asleep, with periods of consciousness where I experience near full body paralysis, inability to internally motivate myself to sit upright, and crushing feelings of my life being pointless.

Sleep is so traumatic because of this post-sleep delirium that I genuinely prefer to be fatigued by sleep deprivation over sleeping normally. Much of this makes sense when contextualized by Dopamine Disorders, because not only is the quality bad, but my brain is in desperate need of Dopamine to the point that my motor function is meaningfully impaired. It is uncommon, but when motor function is implicated in depression symptoms, it almost always means Dopamine is what is at fault. In Parkinson's disorder, Dopamine levels in the brain decline over time, as production simply fails. Eventually, Parkinson's victims develop neuromuscular tremors, loss of control of their posture, unusual walking, loss of balance and symmetrical movements, muscular rigidity, and eventually even full body paralysis. Parkinson's victims often die of infections, falls, or heart disease; all of which are usually sped up thanks to Parkinson's overall impact on their bodily motility.

Light exercise (such as walking a mile casually, on a cool night) can sometimes be so exhausting that I immediately need to lie down or do nothing but sit and rest for hours on end. Lifting weights is aggressively hard, joint pain I shouldn't have at my age is unusually ominpresent, discouraging exercise. As of late, my knees hurt so much I got a stationary treadmill because exercise biking hurts too much. All of these symptoms as it turns out are made worse because of low Dopamine, explaining why on days when I both feel productive and capable of exercise, I often can exercise without much impairment. However, I can immediately regret the exercise the next day thanks to feeling completely unable to exercise, or feeling sudden and intense pain associated with even mild exercise. A combination of dopamine disorder symptoms and anxiety make it hard for me to leave the house most days, and if I'm especially fatigued from the syndrome, I can have sudden and unexpected falls. I thought the falls and my odd gait/posture issues were only explained by fatigue, but the distress and odd severity of them is associated with other clear indicators of depression.

Since my depressive symptoms are at their worst and most unregulated due to stress, sleep deprivation, and disruption, it was easy for many years to write this all off as Autism, bad sleep, being grumpy, and being just plain unhealthy. However, despite having a heart rate of 87BPM last night, my blood pressure was picture-perfect. That doesn't make a lot of sense, but I was so exhausted for most of yesterday that it could make some sense. My body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure have all historically been known to dip well-below healthy metrics, with one heart rate measure when I was in my early 20's showing that I had 39 BPM and was just a few points over hypotensive crisis. My body temperature can sometimes dip as low as 96 degrees Fahrenheit, for no reason seemingly. The bias for these measures: I'm always having just woken up from sleep, often without any breakfast or coffee. The metrics trend upward a little if I've eaten / had caffeine, but because of their remarkably low baseline, I still end up in the normal range.

It's entirely possible that treating the Dopamine Disorder directly with a NDRI will cause me to both have better sleep and motor control (which both may alleviate my extreme body dysphoria, along with other difficulties), but also to relieve many symptoms caused by unhealthy living (sleep being normal for one would make it easier to exist with the rest of society). If this works as it may seem to, I might finally have a chance at participating in the 9-5 world the rest of the US labor pool does. The only reason I held the rehab job is because my 11a-7p (+/- 2 hours on either end) fit our assessment and office schedule roughly enough that my productivity at end-of-day made up for it. I also was a great clinician and researcher, so my boss didn't care if I had days where I came in late as long as I showed up for my obligations and got my work done. Sadly, very few jobs will even flirt with that idea, even with a sleep disorder diagnosis.

I hope that by December of this year, I've trialed the new medication and am showing improvement. I really want to make the Zevash Codex happen, but part of the delays to that have been this ongoing and catastrophic knock-on effect syndrome. I might also be already at serious risk of prostate cancer, and thanks to a testicular torsion, I'm supposed to have my testosterone levels monitored actively... and never have had that done in the literal decade since the injury. It's possible that my inability to build muscle mass, sex problems, and sleep disruption might also tie into that. Low T is bad for a statistically normative male, because it is involved in a lot of your body's processes. Related to prostate cancer and low T, I also lost a lot of respect for my family this week. Not only have they minimized my issues directly to my face and insisted "you just need to work out more", they also didn't fucking tell me until tonight that my father was on Welbutrin! FOR TREATING HIS DOPAMINE DISORDER. My father *also* had prostate cancer in his mid 30's, *also* has hypothyroid, and *also* has IBS. That all happening to him really scares me, I don't have a nice DOD job with a cushy 250k/year paycheck... I have like what? 3-5 years to get 80k ready for a fight against fucking cancer.

Suffice to say, I'm scared. I'm scared about a lot, and can't do anything about it until I'm healthy enough to just barely exist with the rest of humanity.

I'm sorry that I have to explain this all, that its caused such delays to my work, and that it ultimately is probably too much for anyone to really get beyond "shits fucked".

I really, really fucking appreciate everyone here on the Patreon. This financial support is all I have at the moment before I start begging.

Thank you if you read this all. I hope to have good news for you all in December.

PS: I'm 6 or 7 weeks away from finishing the last class for my degree. Then I have to wait until graduation in May of 2022 to have the paper.

September Doodle Rewards! (Updated one more)

Holy fuck ya'll, got these done in about 2 weeks, roughly. That's about ~25 images with a few warm ups and doodles inbetween.

August Doodle Rewards 2021 full Dump

Everything I did for August. I should be uploading everything for September by Monday this week, I hope.

Patreon Year #1 Finale (RE: June Pride Parade Picture)

Hey everyone, so as we all know the thing I wanted to do in June didn't happen. I was trying to fit it into my schedule but it just was not happening, I'm way behind on everything still and sadly it's gonna be another late month catch-up sprint to get things kosher before end of Quarter 3.

So, in the spirit of putting things off until the last possible minute, I'm going to instead do a large group picture set on Zevash Station similar to when my Patreon concluded in 2018, as a thank you for a full year of incredible gains and infinitely fucking patient support.

Ya'll are awesome. Those sub'd in December will be on the list of people to draw, Tier might determine where you're placed in the image (Denizens closer, etc), and I may have to focus on that image (since it will be massive) in the place of the month's Doodle Rewards. If that seems fine, we'll check in middle of November-ish to start taking names.

Sorry it's been a non-stop cluster. It's been so long since I've done website/writing stuff that I'm having to routinely refresh my thoughts on those. Have some placeholder images Jack will use to debug some navigation elements.

Remember the Price-Raise thing

Hey everyone you might recall I opened September with an ask for feedback on a new pricing structure, I forgot to roll for the winner, and did so tonight, and the winner was Jak S!

You can see the thing here: (CLICK ME)

Tonight I'm streaming work on Doodle Rewards, and will pick them back up Tomorrow. Then I'm gonna try to work on that MUCH BELAYED PRIDE PICTURE this week for-sure.

I've also got comic commission work coming up, and possibly something cool to discuss on Thursday. Sorry for the radio silence, lack of productivity, and such as of late. Zoop is literally in my room and that's very gay and distracting owo

Price raise on commissions coming soon. (PLEASE COMMENT)

Hey everyone, based on how business is going I am likely to raise my prices ahead of the next opening for commissions. The reason I think it's finally time is because I've shown pretty consistent increases in my artwork capabilities, and I think it's time to bump my prices up a little.

[Disclaimer: Price Increase will not go into effect until OCT 1st if it seems OK]

The main focus will be (like last time) on Base Pricing and Character Pricing. 

• Base price increased from $15 to $20 
• Extra character price increased from $7.5 to $10. 
• Detail-match outfits/armors will be $5 per character (previous: $7.5 for every 2 outfits/armors). 
• Shading will not be changing its pricing at this time.

I also will be offering Abstract (free), Simple ($5) and Detailed ($10) backgrounds, as I've slowly picked up more skills in creating backgrounds and not immediately destroying them by putting characters over them. You can click to see rough examples of what I mean by quality level.

I think my OC's will continue to be $5 as Extra Characters. I'll also knock $5 off the base price if it is a solo image with one of my OC's. Black and White images will continue to get a $5 discount as well. All $5 and up Patreon Backers will continue to receive a $5 off discount on commissions.

Complicated Characters: Upon seeing a character which I'm unsure or unfamiliar with, I'll be looking for patterns, fades, odd or unusual shapes, and so on. The charge is going to behave similar to the Detail-match outfits/armors, if I need to match details specifically.

Alts: Versions of artwork with slight changes to show progression are going to be fairly cheap. In this Example (CLICK HERE), the alt work is pretty simple. I'd be charging nothing for cum/dry/pre as those are easy, $5 for slight linework alterations, and $10 if I have to redraw up to 50% of a character.

The Monkey's Paw: I will continue to use the 3 strikes rule for edits and revisions, regarding major edits as per my discretion. Discretionary edits after the monkey's paw curls its fingers are $5 each per batch / within reason.

Pricing on Upgrades for Doodle Rewards: The new pricing will apply to Doodle Rewards as well, if you choose to get upgrades. I plan to touch-up the patreon some to help clarify the rules on Rewards, so people can see them easier.

My regular images are now in pretty large resolutions (3200x2400) and a standard-ish 4:3 ratio. You can continue to see them in full resolution here.

Example of Price Increase:

Say you have a picture with 2 Characters, colors, shading, and a detailed background (such as this one from before). Right now, the pricing looks like $35 (38.05 with tax). The proposed price increase would add $5 to the base price, $2.5 to the extra character price, and then $5 for the detailed background, for a total of $12.5 extra.

That would raise the price meaningfully, to $47.5 (51.63 after tax). With the alt version, it would also jump another $5, bringing the piece to $52.5 or $57.07.

Proportionately speaking, this is about a 33% price increase. What might happen is a distinction between low-resolution works billed at the current rate, and my high resolution works billed at the higher rate... but I'm not so sure.

Partly, I'm thinking that lower effort sketches at lower resolutions are not appealing to me right now. Certainly, though a nearly $60 of price for a two character picture with good background work, shading, and high resolution would justify the larger time investment (3 hours is optimistic if I am really taking my time).

If the pricing seems too expensive and the increases are too much, please comment.

At the end of the week (Friday, September the 3rd), I'll pick a commenter for a free colored character pin-up via role of the dice. There are like 40 of ya'll backing, so chip in your thoughts please!

Update as we move into September!

Hey all ya'll. We're live on commissions now, and my queue is slowly beginning to fill up (Check it out if you would like in, remember that $5 and up supporters can get $5 off of up to 3 images on commission each month).

(CLICK HERE) to head to my FA and send a note with your info!

JUNE Pride Picture is finally coming I promise! I'm hammering out a commission and probably 2-3 Doodle Rewards tonight as time permits. I hope to plan the image out on Sunday and pick at it between bigger works / doodle rewards this week.

August Doodle Rewards should be delivered by about midway through SEPTEMBER. Update on that all coming this Friday.

What's left of the JULY 2021 Doodle Rewards + Other Stuff from Request Streams!

Dumping everything I've drawn from Doodle Pack 6 so-far. Doodle Pack 5 is totally crammed fulla stuff and will be downloadable this coming weekend.

Zooptime!

Hey ya'll. I'm out of town starting tomorrow, the 20th, and then back to pick up my BF Zoop from the airport on the 23rd. I might be around a little during the 24th, but work won't resume properly until at least the 25th.

I'm opening commissions fairly soon, probably the 25th. Work will begin on the June Pride Picture that week, as well as some of the doodle rewards from August as time permits. Jack and I are still not quite ready on the Zevash Codex website.

It's looking like I will not be attending community college this semester. Working that out, it might absolutely FUCK my entire life up, because I'm a night creature and the grass is I might have to teleport well out of my way down to a bad traffic part of town at 7 in the morning...

The last of the YCH's (part 3)

As mentioned before, you can look at everything here: (Click me) 

August Schedule Update!

 I will be doing a late-night Patreon Check-In stream on Saturday the 7th (Approx: 9pm US/AZ Time, UTC-07:00), and an early-afternoon steam on Sunday the 8th (Approx: 3pm US/AZ Time) to do Patreon work. 

Hey all!

Tonight I will be streaming YCH work on the Zevash Station Picarto (announcement will not ping, check #nsfw-image-chatroom in a few minutes) and if time permits, will also be working on some of the Patreon rewards tonight. I plan to stream from now (10pm Az time) for about 4-6 hours, depending on my speed of work.

What's coming up on the Radar:

1. Request Stream #1 for this month will be this coming Wednesday, starting early ideally around 3 or 4pm US/AZ time.

2. Request Stream #2 for this month will be set for Saturday the 14th, starting at my usual hour of 6pm US/AZ time.

Patreon Pride Parade picture will be starting work soon. This weekend is gonna be a bit miserable as I get stuff caught up on July's doodle rewards. I hope to open commissions this coming Monday the 9th, as well.

Thank you for your patience. I really really appreciate it. Thanks to the YCH sales and Patreon backing this month, I've made nearly 1200$ right at the start of the week, which puts me within 300$ of my income goal for the month. If I manage to make another 1000$ in sales this month, I will officially have caught up on all deficits from the past 7 months!

I also will be updating the Patreon goals with updated comments about my monthly rent and other expenses. Thanks for being cool, ya'll.

YCH's so far (part 2)

The YCH's so-far

Just the first 9 (+1 alt) I've done so far of this YCH :D

Sign up today if you're interested, all backers automatically get $5 off! You can trade an Interloper or Denizen reward for it even!

First YCH template is up!

My very first YCH template form for commissions is going up later today! I hope to sell at least 3 of these before I take regular comms again.

Features include absurd resolution, options for easy hypno or X-ray of Zano's dong in yer bits, and ability to pay me to fuck a vagoo (also, what's listed in the sheet).

If this sells well enough, I may do future ones with Vore, Oviposition, Hypnosis, and yes even Zano bottoming owo  

Patreon Backers have $5 off their final price until Tuesday, August 3rd (1 full week of it being up).  

DM me if you're interested, I'm gonna pass out for a few hours and will reply once I'm up again :)

The Agenda: Last week of July

Okay ya'll, we're closing in on 7 days left which means *SCREAMING* but also, I need to lay things out transparently:

1. Finishing up commissions. I have a 3 character and a ref sheet to do linework / colors / shading on. I've got another I hope to be done with tonight as well that has kept getting revisions requested.

2. Busting out what I have from the current July Patreon Queue. Usually half get done in the month of, with the other half finishing the next month, so we're not actually behind per-say. Still, a reminder will go out as I think I have 13 / 27 prompts in.

3. The June Pride Picture is gonna get planned, and I'll get to work on it between other larger things this week.

4. The Zano Breeding YCH template is coming, I'm gonna plan it out probably Monday and get it touched up and ready ASAP so I can make some sales. The goal is to have it such that I can do like 3 or so with that template, and any periodic additional adds. It's not bad value, if you like being BREEDABLE and SUBMISSIVE.

5. Comic Planning for Xeros and Avii is happening hopefully this week towards the tail-end. I have two pages to plan and hope to have something tangible and charge-ready by the close of the week.

What it looks like for me: With about 840ish dollars from Patreon received this month (some 80$ was from last month), I'm shy of target by $660. The comics and some writing stuff I'm due to be paid for should push me to probably about $400 shy of target, which isn't catastrophic but is a major hurdle. I hope to work hard this week to try to catch up as much as possible.

Wish me luck. Zevash Stuff is currently on total pause, things have been too hectic here as of late :c

Last of June's Doodles + Some Misc. Stuff I did but haven't posted

New High-Res doodles, hope you all like them. I hope to work more on making this new high-res stuff happen with everything I draw, 'cause it makes things look a lot better.

Almost done moving

Holy fuck ya'll it's been a wild week. Last Sunday I was pretty sure we were about to have an awful time finding a house. Monday I got an immediate call-back and a walkthrough tour, spent Tuesday getting documents and application fixes together.

By Wednesday 7/14, we jumped through all the hoops and had a lease signed, with the paperwork over by 7/15 when the lease started. We've been moving in since, and it's been a wild ride.

One roommate's car tried to self destruct, the other has lost plural tires this week. Our internet currently can't reach the part of the structure I am in because it's a janky fucking set-up. I'll have a diagram up later this week to show ya'll how wack this building is. We're still figuring out internet but my computer is set up now and I do have a functioning connection.

We're paying for a really good connection and not seeing it right now, partially because the wifi has to pass through a solid brick wall to reach me. Plans are to run some ethernet cables in a jankfest the likes of which I've not seen before in my life. It involves running cables out windows, through doors, kinda deal.

Updates as they come. I hope to have the internet patched up and everyone settled so I can do a patreon stream this Friday.

Moving this weekend!

Howdy everyone, I just got approval to move into a new place. I spent the last two days organizing and getting everything done, anticipate artwork will not be worked on until Monday 7/19/2021 or later at this time. Thank you for your patience.

Like everything since June 20th or something

Holy shit sorry I've not posted lmao, enjoy all of these doodles!

July Schedule + Updates

Hey everyone, this month's schedule is completely fly-by-wire, I won't know when I can do things until it literally happens.

Plan is to Stream Friday. I'm sort of losing a lot of time to figuring out shit for this move and general ADD stuff as I adjust my medication dosage to try to get myself more able to focus. As of late, a wall has been between me and my artistic capabilities, due almost entirely to having shifted my moment to moment to solving issues with this move.

I should hopefully be settled soon, we have two applications out right now for two different properties, and I'm touring one such property tomorrow.

June Doodle Rewards: So sorry I've not gotten these done yet. We're a week into July and I've fallen completely behind. Will attempt some tonight.

Pending Commissions: I have 5 paid commissions needing work, not sure when they will get done but they need to be done soon.

Pride Parade Picture: I have everyone's names and refs who wanted in, but looking at how behind I am I'm worried this will literally not happen until August. If that's the case I'm very sorry.

The Zevash Codex + Website: JackD, our developer and my roommate, will be trying to balance website development with the move and his new very nice job that literally is more important than my little website. We plan to strategize development after the move, not before.

Locked Posts for Interlopers and Denizens: Because this website has minimal features, one of the problems is anything that was restricted to the $5 and up tiers did not automatically transfer over to the new tiers because they didn't exist when I specified tier-specific access. I'm sorry, I will address this soon, I have to fix *every post* with WIP access, and probably posts that excluded the public. That could mean hundreds of click-by-click non-intuitive fixes. No tools to make it faster, so I have to do it manually. It'll take time, sorry! If you want access to something in particular DM me on Discord or here through Patreon's website. Please sign up for the Patreon Discord though, it helps me manage this kinda problem easier.

As you can tell I'm really fucking behind right now, this move has happened in lots of stress-inducing stages which I've not been able to actually get anything done until literally last Friday. I'm a mess, too anxious and stressed to get anything done, sorry about that.

Tracking: June Repledge Notes

For those of ya'll who repledged during June and were charged $5 extra, I'm offering free background work this month. On the list:

Denizens:

• Aquilak
• Ashgar
• Aura
• Avii
• Drake
• Angrywolf
• Jak S
• Krilinius
• Noga
• Skeeva
• Xeros
• Zoop
• Jack D

Interlopers

• Addie Kilos
• Ashkor

RE: Interloper and Denizen Reprice!

Hey everyone, sorry I've been kinda slow on updates about this.

If you're in the Interloper or Denizen Tiers I got stupid news: I can't just raise the pricing with a simple click, instead you have to *re pledge* to the new, higher cost tier.

AGAIN, you will need to pledge to the new higher price Interloper and Denizen tiers.  They will be listed as "Interloper [Reprice]" and "Denizen [Reprice]". This is stupid, but it's apparently how patreon works.

I've opened the tiers up now but they will probably charge you the $5 right away. On July 1st, go ahead and pledge then and it should go according to plan. Please do so when you can, as I'll be retiring the old prices by end of July.

REMINDER: $5 PRICE RAISE ON INTERLOPER/DENIZEN TIERS JULY 1ST

Hey just to remind you all, Interloper and Denizen slots are jumping up $5 next month, and all new doodle rewards from July 1st and onwards will be colored. Naturally, I'm gonna probably not color what's being done from June without taking upgrades/banked rewards, but wanted to remind ya'll.

PRIDE 2021 picture is delayed while I close out this month. I hope to start work on it around the July 4th holiday!

WIP Notes

Recently I've been thinking about specifically the multi-hive Zevashi Roach factions in the Zevash Codex. There's a lot of narrative things but I have names now

Redbacks: The Conquest, a militaristic faction which went from humble live-on-the-land isolationists to a robust physical and combat prowess heavy faction which subjugates weaker hives and assimilates them into their rhetoric-heavy culture.

Greyscales: The Bulwark, made of victims of both the Conquest and Enlightenment, these middle hives have formed an uneasy alliance which grew into a unified culture of rugged determination and resistance to outsiders.

Purplescales: The Enlightenment, as you know, is not all good ideas and nice things. Manipulative and aggressively ambitious, the leaders of the Enlightenment use their knowledge and technological advantage to bully or pressure hives into following their lead.

I'm looking for ambient ideas on some minor factions, I want at least two additional minor factions per territory. I passively have ideas for Aquatic Specialists, Glider Specialists, as well as Subterranean Specialists. If you have interesting ideas, lemmy hear them, I'd be happy to entertain those!

REMINDER: LGBTQIA+ Parade Picture & June Doodle Rewards!

This one is for everyone (CLICK HERE), if you've not signed up on the LGBTQIA+ parade please do so, ideally include your character reference so I don't have to hunt them all down, thank you!

For Interlopers and Denizens, June Doodle Rewards are live (CLICK HERE), please get me your ideas as I'll be working on them through the month, thanks!

FINALLY: A REMINDER that the Interloper and Denizen slots are bumping up $5 at the start of July, in exchange for all Doodle Rewards having colors!

Thanks for the love and support. I got more news dropping sometime this weekend, regarding Deuterium and I's podcast: Wannabe Aliens!