I've been meaning to revamp some of the promotional artwork I was using on my various galleries for a while now; here it is, finished at last.

I posted this publicly ahead of my usual embargo because I really wanted to get it done and uploaded everywhere as my first completed project for the year. I uploaded it at an even higher resolution than usual, so you can pick out more of the details if you'd like. Given that 2021 was bringing with it a lot of new and important things for me, I felt some pressure to make the first drawing really count. I figured it'd make sense to work on something important that I'd been meaning to do for a while.

As you all know, unfortunately a lot of unexpected things cropped up last month and slowed me down a fair bit. Aside from that I also had to keep up with commissions and help with maintaining things around the house on top of all of that too. It didn't work out quite as planned, but I'm still proud of pulling it all off reasonably well.

With that out of the way, I'll be shifting focus back to my regular scheduled kinky programming as soon as I can. I'm really excited for it - as always, thanks for sticking around in the meantime.

Lines!

Now comes my faaaavourite part. I really want this to be my first finished and published piece for 2021 but we're already into February and I've got so much other work to juggle besides.

Might try fast-tracking this to get it out of the way and put it behind me. For now, you get to see the linework!

Several years back, I had made some art to promote my redirect page, as well as the fact that I'd set myself up on various different sites following the major FA outage that same year.

Since then I've been experimenting with other platforms as they've phased in and out (or effectively banned me off of them with policy changes), and it's high time that I make a new one for the job and to tie in with the new candy shop theme I've been repping for a while now.

The idea is a callback to the alchemy idea I had been playing around with for Choco years ago, as referenced in his original refsheet. I figured it'd be something that could work very well within the context of the candy shop, namely making and experimenting with new candies - especially ones with unusual flavours and, shall we say, interesting effects.

Last week, I spent a bunch of time finalizing my commission pricelist, making the last few adjustments and additions following the last batch I took. I now have my full set of standard options ready for business.

I still have some other work left to do before I'm in a position to reopen my queue, but consider this early-early notice that it'll be happening sometime soon. This'll let you decide exactly which option best suits your budget.

Please note that I've set a minimum price of €20 for any single commission. This should only come into play when applying discounts to the "Quickie" sketch tier and, in some cases, the Simple sketch tier. Do keep this in mind if you were aiming for one of the cheaper options.

My custom artwork tiers aren't anything new and work much like most other commission artists' tiers do, so I don't think there's much explaining to be done there. However, I've added a new category I'm calling "Lucky Draw," which has two (technically three) special tiers included:

"Grab Bag" artwork is pretty much a repackaged version of my old Patreon art rewards. For those of you who are unfamiliar, these are timed art slots based on simple prompts. You provide one or two characters along with a few basic themes or kinks with which I will come up with an idea for a piece of artwork. At Tier 1, I will work on the piece for half an hour; at Tier 2, I will work on it for an hour and thirty minutes.

This kind of commission is ideal if you're lacking ideas or prefer to leave it up to me, and often results in work at a higher level of detail than custom tiers of a similar price. You may later upgrade any of the artwork you get at this tier at my usual custom commission rates if you are particularly happy with the result.

"Quickie" sketches work much in the same way, only further simplified. You provide a character for me to draw and an optional theme, and I will draw a quick, loose character sketch based on that. These sketches cannot be upgraded.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and I will be happy to help.

Here's another very involved project finally ready to ship. I'm not calling it finished per se, because I had the idea of using this to promote the site a little more directly, and getting some more mileage out of it by making it a "living" piece of art.

I put in some extra work off-stream this week, just giving it that final layer of polish and reorganizing the layer data so that I can easily add, change, tweak or just swap out various elements of the storefront to keep it a little interesting month to month. Keep an eye on what changes each time I upload it, and see what you can spot.

I'm really proud of how it turned out, and I hope you like it too!

During this week's streams I decided to revisit my pricelist artwork, and hopefully bring it close to completion. Most of my time making the background was actually spent making special brushes to create the randomized contents of the candy jars, which was a fun way to go about it.

The work I put into making the brushes already saved me some time in making this background come together. However, I'll more than likely be using them again in future when I swap stuff around to make variations of the pricelist, like for bespoke commissions or advertising my site.

I plan on adding some items in the front display case, another few details on the counter and background, and with a touch of shading it'll be done!

Here's some more progress on this piece! Here's a very well-stocked shop for your perusal.

At last, here's the finalized version of my updated price list. I wanted to make some accompanying artwork to make it a bit more presentable, as you can tell, but the informational content is what matters for now.

Just so you're aware, I'll be opening slots for Coloured sketch and Flat coloured lineart tiers in the next batch of commissions.

It doesn't specify in the pricelist yet, but the base price may be adjusted depending on each character's complexity (or conversely, their simplicity).