#commission update

[creek-ink]

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

available slots: 🌑 🌑 🌑 🌑 🌑

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

[jeypawlik]

Open for Commissions 2025

Commissions are officially open! Slots are limited and Patrons & VIP members get priority. I want to draw stuff for you! Order on Ko-Fi | Commission Info | Trello Board If you’d like something not listed please email me at jey@topazcomics.com [ID: Image 1; Commissions by Jey, promo art of Jey's commissions showing four black and white illustrations as examples one of just the lineart, one with haftones, and two with a watercolour style toning. Link: ko-fi.com/jeypawlik/commissions. Image 2; three more examples of commission illustrations all three show just lineart with hatching. With menu pricing: $60, base price includes: 6x9", 300dpi, 1 character, lineart with solid black tones and hatching, no background. Image 3; three more examples of illustrations the first shows a multi-character scene with a background and done in halftones, the second is a character design sheet, the last is a watercolour style toned illustration with a full background. Menu reads: Add-ons, $60 each extra character, $65 background, $150 new character design, $25 halftones, $50 greyscale watercolour tones, $60 9x12" page size. Image 4; two last examples, one of a full body character doing a fun pose, the second is two characters smiling at the camera like a selfie together. Text reads: Terms, prices are in USD. Will draw: ocs, fanart, nsfw, ships, furries, fat characters, detailed backgrounds. Won't draw: robots, gore, ocs that don't belong to you, pedophilia, incest, hate. Not for commercial use, AI datasets, or NFTs. 2 revisions per piece. I have the right to refuse any commission. For anything not listed email jey@topazcomics.com /end ID]

[egg04]

[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 :)

[killjo-q]

2 day seminar workshop is done wahoo but mygohd ive only had like 8 hours of sleep in almost 2 days djdhd my head hurts so bad i think i might catch a cold in the next few days too i can feel it in my sinuses e-e… It was a good experience though, many learnings. My public speaking was chlleneged, i was talking for like 7 hours, ive never had to talk that much in my life gosh…

Anyway, commission update!

i might be uh sick and resting for 2 or 3 days but will continue working on comms again when i feel less ded. Gonna hopefully finish all the remaining and still ongoing ones before january (or before christmas ig … i want to just sleep for the holidays…)

[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]

Got all of the emails scheduled for the Tumblr of Darkness Secret Santa art event, and I finished my write up for @porcelainseashore's Secret Santa event! Phew. It's been a weird couple of days - we're all fine here as much as we possibly can be. I'm just grateful to have everyone in my life. Ahh. I am also going to official close my quick-sketch commissions for the holidays as well! I have some big projects coming but I will try and reopen everything come January!

[cyliph]

Hello everyone! My Ko-fi is now live. Commissions are now open! Add yourself to this pinglist if you want to be the first to know!

All donations earn a lil sketch!

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[tdillustrates]

coms open sooooon 😈

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

[bootpoot]

for those waiting on a commission my finals have been completed!! so by next month everyone should have their commissions completed!! thank you so much!!

[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!

[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!

[vaninakan]

Regarding plushie commissions:

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Hey guys, small update regarding plushie commissions and their status. After I finish and ship my next commission, I am putting them on an indefinite hiatus for a while and I don't know when they're gonna open again. This is due to multiple factors beyond my control that have made the experience more difficult for me to keep going at this time. Those who know me very well have very much seen the signs over the past couple months, but my declining mental health and my unhealthy home work environment have been big reasons as to why I am making this decision. This is by no means the fault of anyone here, just to make this clear. I love you guys so much and appreciate your support on my craftsmanship. However, at this time I don't think I can healthily work on them on a consistent pace, not without horrifically mentally hurting myself more than I have been. This does not mean I am quitting, I just think after this month, I need some time to breathe is all. I hope you all understand and thank you for your support. I hope to come back to them once I've fully recovered, and I look forward to bringing more of your ideas to life. But until then, take care. <3

- Vanna and gang

[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!