#commission update

[creek-ink]

I have 5 slots open from now till June 30th! get them b4 they're gone!!

available slots: 🌑 🌑 🌑 🌑 🌑

art examples

(everything watermarked as groovy-goth-gators is atleast 2 years old!)

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[ID: OP's 2024 sona giving a tired thumbs up next to all-caps text saying "Semi-Emergency Commissions. Please share, thank you." /End ID]

Hello everyone, please donate to my ko-fi or Cashapp if you can (tips are also open on my Tumblr posts). Whether it's tips, buying my adopts, or commissioning me. My mom had a stroke recently, hence my inactivity, and my dad has been visiting her in the hospital everyday. We're lower on money than usual since neither of my parents can take overtime, and replacing the broken fridge too.

I'm using the money now mainly so I can pay for groceries and food delivery, therapy/medication, and paying back friends and family I still owe, so that my parents can focus more money on bills and such. I'm unable to get a part time job at this time, so this is what I have. Any amount helps, thanks.

[eliotlime]

End of September Update

Just as a heads up, I'll be closing my commissions after the first week of October (06/10/2024) just so I can focus on other projects! If you'd like to order a bug from me or get any of my other regular commissions now's a good time to do so!

(Bugstyle | Regular Comms)

I made a really brief post on twitter about what I'm up to but since tumblr supports more text I'll just go into more depth on what projects I'm working on at the moment and general life updates!

I used to write blog posts on wordpress for school and it's just hilarious that I stopped doing that considering it feels like I was born to blog!

In general, I've been trying to crawl out of this very odd mood swing-y state I've been in for the past year. I've been semi-public about it but I graduated with a degree in animation same time last year and have sort of been recovering from the absolute burn out of that as well as watching the animation industry essentially collapse just as I left college.

I'm hoping to get into UI/UX design this coming October and try to piece what little control I have of my life back together. I don't really know what I'm doing to be honest and it feels like I'm just pawing in the dark with a lot of this stuff.

In lighter news I've been trying to get into something I've always wanted to for years which is comics! I'm not sure how much I can speak about it at the moment but I just got into an anthology which is very exciting.

I applied to shortbox last year but didn't get in :( but fingers crossed I'll get in next year! On a related note I've made a Cara profile which I'm using as a comics portfolio and archive.

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Those of you who've been following me for years know that I've had a webcomic project called, Happenstance (which I've restarted endlessly for about 10 years at this point). While I don't really have a concrete update of that for you guys I will say that the story is more or less fixed and whatever version of it I have now is most likely the version I'll proceed with in the future.

I did try to get the ball rolling with this at the start of the year with a pilot comic but it made me so miserable to work on it I abandoned it and started making an unrelated zine instead haha

I do have plans on finishing this eventually and it'll be up on my itch.io and gumroad like everything else!

Speaking of the zine, I'd just like to thank everyone who purchased Cute Thing! I think for my first independent book project it did pretty well! It was incredibly embarrassing and nerve wrecking to promote it but I'm glad I did it.

I don't know why there's an 18+ warning on this considering this zine is pretty tame.

I guess it also helped that that stupid ass diary comic i made blew up at the same time so I got to shill my wares in relation to it. Even though I think it gave me some kind of psychological damage but every time i gain minor internet fame i shrink back into my shell anyway, this is just the first time i really felt so much.. vitriol from randos lol.

It's just hilarious it overlapped with whatever guilty gear obsession I had at the time as well. Thank you to everyone who stuck around and uh.. sorry! I walk wherever the wind takes me and it's frequently towards my own characters.

But! Speaking of Guilty Gear, I am working on an Abacelsus zine I briefly talked about on twitter a couple months back. The title is sort of pending at the moment and while I did say it might be free as a digital download, I'm probably going to charge a couple of dollars because of how much effort I'm putting into this.

On the plus side that means I'll probably be putting more effort into it! I'm aiming for 24 interior pages of stuff and hoping to release a digital version of it by Halloween 2024!

I'm trying to work on more prints and stickers for conventions as well and I never posted about my convention escapades here all too much but you can check out this instagram post for what I had up the last time I boothed!

That's kind of all for the stuff I'd like to get done within this year but other projects that I'd like to aim to get done by 2025 is a continuation of my Cute Thing zine that I'm aiming to collate by Valentines Day, hehe how romantic.

There's nothing terribly concrete for that at the moment but I do know I want it to have more pages than Cute Thing. It's called My Boy and yes it's named after another Car Seat Headrest song.

I've got a lot of irons in the fire and another iron is that I'm also planning a 4-panel comic series for my band characters that I've posted some pilots about before!

Pretty messy planning but most of my long form stuff looks like this.

A 4-panel comic series is just less intimidating than a fully coloured webcomic series (Happenstance) that I know will be finished decades later. I've also seen a lot of webcomic artists I've beloved just.. abandon their years long project and it's kind of scary to me that will definitely happen to me!!!

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The long and short of it is that I've got a lot of projects and a majority of it is not making me any money. I'm extremely lucky to be surrounded by people that support my work but it gets hard to just do all of this by yourself with no guarantee that it'll go anywhere.

Patreon's a beast I've tried to tackle but it's kind of an ass of a website to use so I'll probably try to use ko-fi a bit more. I've kind of never really liked the subscription model and really do prefer to launch curated PDFs of my work every few months, but again I'm really just clawing at the dark and grasping at anything I can.

Let's wrap up this long post by mentioning that I might want to give streaming a shot! I used to stream a little when I was a teenager but I'd like to give it another go!

I don't think I'm going to have a dedicated persona or vtuber avatar but a small little png-tuber would be frankly hilarious. Maybe something casual to start of with, it gets pretty lonely spending everyday working on images alone.

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Thank you for reading! It's an extremely long post to all but say that I'm scared but working on projects still! If you'd like to support me, here's my ko-fi page and while I'm working on getting more stuff on there here's my itchi.io & gumroad as well.

As I mentioned before I'm closing my commissions on the 6th of October to work on my Abacelsus zine so if you'd like to get a bug or any of my regular style commissions now's a good time to do so!

(Bugstyle | Regular Comms)

I'm hoping to make more update posts like these in the future and not psyche myself out every time because they're really good for me to collect my incredibly jumbled thoughts. Thanks again to everyone who's followed, supported or even just looked at my stuff it really means the world.

If you have any questions or just generally want to talk to me about my characters, my DMs and askbox is always open! Any professional enquires can be shot towards me email as well: eliotlime@gmail.com

XOXO, Stay weird!

-Eliot :)

[krakenshaped]

Quick Commission Update!!!

Hihi! Just a small update! I'll be opening icon commissions starting at £10 in order to make a little extra money. My Palestine commissions are still open! And I encourage everyone to continue donating esims and supporting the cause the best they can!!

If interested, check out my Ko-fi!

[crownleys]

Hi everyone! I'm opening for some special Halloween commissions this week! This will be my last round of open slots for the year.

Commission listings will go up on Friday, October 4th. If you're one of my Ko-Fi subscribers, you get early access starting today!

Find my Commission Info over on Ko-fi!

I have also created a post updating my pricing for background illustrations, which is also on my Ko-Fi. Thank you all so much!

[sillybun33]

made a ko-fi goal for a new laptop (the one i have rn is starting to turn dookie eugh)

no pressure if you can’t, reblogging is just as much helpful ^_^

[crownedinmarigolds]

Working on a bunch of commission stuff this evening and I was working on some quick colors just to get an idea down and this brush fucking rocks!?!? Love it.

[tdillustrates]

coms open sooooon 😈

(acting confident but literally scrambling to find out how to do this lmao)

[backseatfishing]

while i'm here, just a quick update on the status of commission openings: i... have no idea when i'm opening them again yet -_- unfortunately i was dealing with some pretty severe back pain for the last month+, so i've barely been able to draw or do anything at a computer beyond what's needed for my day job (i also can't play stepmania until it's healed which suuuuucks since that was my main form of exercise, now it's just walking a lot). that's also had a pretty major negative impact on my mental health, too, understandably. it is improving and is significantly better now! but i probably need a doctor to figure out why it's persisting at this point, since every time i think it's better it flares up again, lol.

so yeah, commissions will resume when my body stops falling apart, i guess. i'll post about any upcoming openings advance here and on my other socials when that time comes!

[randommothxd]

Art commissions are open again!

READ IF YOU'RE PLANNING ON COMMISSIONING ME

How much money are they?

all art commissions are free!

Why are you doing this?

I realize I haven't drawed anything (if you don't count Unfinished things and doodles) for a while and I'm scared I might get art block so I'm deciding to re-open these art commissions!

How long until they are closed again?

They will be open until some time November

I do warn you,sense school and everything,the art may come in between 0-4 days after you commission. My art normally doesn't take that long to make when I'm just making it for myself.when I'm drawing for another being,I like to make it as perfect as I can to try not to disappoint you.so please don't be mad if your commission takes a while to finish.

Anything important?

PLEASE tell me if you're comfortable with me posting your commissioned art.

If you are comfortable,I will post the art with a signature on it.but i will give you,directly,one without a signature.i don't want my art to be stolen but commissioned art can't be stolen,per sa.

Boundaries

if you ask me to draw something that I'm not comfortable with (and I wrote it in the "no" section.of course,things happen and I may grow uncomfortable with something that wasn't already in the "no" section.in that case,I won't blame you and I'll just tell you that i can't do that) I will probably just remind you that I won't draw that but if you still keep asking me to draw it after I explain,you will get blocked and/or reported (depending how rude you are)

Slots open

As of now,0/3 are open.when a slot is open,i will make a separate post sayying "1/3 open!" "2/3 open!" Etc etc.if you ask for a commission while these are closed,your request will be fulfilled but only after a slot opens.

How many can you ask at once?

You can ask 1 at a time.any more is overwhelming to me

[temeyes]

C/MMS CLOSED (for now!)

gAHH slots full, amigos!! thank you so much to everyone who was interested, i love you all!!

will reopen again once i'm done with the current batch, thankies so much again for the love!

[egg04]

Howdy :]]

Commissions are back up, slots open!

Had some issues setting up Ko-fi and stuff, but this is a way easier structure for me to manage than previously now :D

More options to be added in the next couple weeks, but for now, here! ★

Please read my terms in each commission!

[roebeanstalk]

general commission info/process update

Howdy y’all!

tl;dr:

-Commission prices are increasing to account for cost of living, increased quality, and more. -Those with colored sketches currently outstanding are being upgraded to my new "Standard Commission" as a thank you for your patience. -A new Patreon tier has a 5% commission discount as a perk. -I've adopted a new workload management system where I focus on 5 pieces at a time, and reload the workbench on Mondays. My Trello has been updated with general info on this.

The whole update:

I am raising my commission prices. This has been an incredibly difficult decision to make, but it is ultimately for the best for myself, my clients, and more.

Since I’ve started doing commissions regularly, the amount of time I want to spend on any particular piece has grown, but I haven’t had the time due to a large workload. With this price increase, I’m able to spend more time on each commission and create work at a quality that I am happy with. I’ve found myself working back and forth with clients more, creating more technically sound drawings, and being happier overall with my work. That being said, the prices I have been charging are not enough and often work out to less than minimum wage.

I have added a new tier on Patreon that gives a 5% discount on all commissions from me, in addition to all the perks on my $5 tier.

Pay What You Want commissions are something I have loved doing, and I want to be able to continue to do them moving forward. I love being able to offer a more affordable, sliding scale commission. This allows access to folks who might not otherwise be able to commission artwork from me. The price increase on my commissions will also make this more sustainable.

In addition to the price change, I have recently adjusted the way that I handle my queue. I have a “Workbench” which contains five things that I am working on currently. This allows me to focus on a smaller amount of projects despite how many pieces are in my queue. I can specialize and give each piece the attention it needs. Each Monday, I refill the workbench to 5 pieces by pulling them from the queue.

I’ve been doing this system for the last few weeks, and it has been a revelation. I am much calmer while working, and I am able to work back and forth with clients in a more personal way that feels really fulfilling. I’m also less likely to be super worried about everything I have on my plate, by focusing on a smaller portion. My work quality has increased from this alone.

My new Standard Commission is an upgraded version of the colored sketch commissions I was offering before. Those who are on my queue for colored sketches have been waiting for a bit, and I am so grateful for their patience. It will still be a little bit, but I am excited to deliver them good quality commissions. As a thank you for their patience and to slightly make up for the time, I’m upgrading all colored sketches on my queue to the new Standard Commission. This means a bit more back and forth, making it a piece we’ll both be happier with.

With all of these changes, I am hopeful that so many other things about my work, my life, and more will improve. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me through commissions, donations, kind words, follows, reblogs, everything. It means the absolute world to me, and I am so excited to keep pushing forward.

<3 Robin

[wyrm-with-a-why]

The PayPal fee may affect my prices actually.

[trapdoornumberthree]

I'm taking limited commissions for fun-sized little guys! They're $10 USD and can be of just about anything you'd like- you, your oc, your favorite guy from a show or game [though i may turn down some fandom content, don't be afraid to ask!] Please be aware some designs may have their details simplified somewhat. Characters can have props by request, as long as they're not overly complex.

You can check out more examples of what this style looks like on this adopt post!

Please DM me to order ^^

[sillybun33]

i was planning on taking a break until the end of july, but we’re running low on food and don’t have enough money rn, so i’m gonna take 3 slots, boosting is appreciated <3