Finally Got A New Bed! Saving Up For A New Mattress.

Finally got a new bed! Saving up for a new mattress.

This post is overdue, but I wanted to make sure it would hold up just fine before I got the word out. Thanks to everyone who's currently supporting me via Patreon and have bought some of my adoptables, I was finally able to buy myself a new bed frame!

I had mentioned the following in passing (and in older posts throughout the past), but that old bed frame really needed to go and thanks to the support bars that the frame itself has I was able to get rid of the broken box spring mattress as well. I didn't take pics of me tearing the whole thing down, so you'll just have to picture m or one of my OCs doing that in your head, haha. It's been two weeks since I've slept on it and it hasn't given me any problems whatsoever (though I'm still not used to it having more legs than the old one, so I keep stubbing my toes and bumping into them).

As far as beds go, all that's left now is to save up for a new mattress. I've seen a couple of good ones on sale in some flyers the past couple of weeks, but unfortunately, their sale periods have ended. I'm not entirely sure how much I'd need for one at regular price (plus I have to take into account multiple factors, such as whether the store's far/close to home, who'll help me bring it over, etc.), but I'd be able to buy one regardless of the situation if I had $700. If they happen to be on sale again once I've got that much money, I could put it toward new bed sheets, pillows, and toppers as well.

I'm still catching up with my backlog, but if you'd like to help me get a good night's sleep there are a few ways you can help:

Support my Patreon

Donate via Ko-fi or Paypal

Buy an adoptable OC

I'm planning to offer YCHs and sketch streams (ie. $60 for a personalized 2hr sketch stream) to help me reach my goal and future ones faster, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.If you're already supporting me, I can't thank you enough! And of course, I'm always open to suggestions on what I should offer in the future if you guys have any ideas you'd like to throw my way.

Here's the drawing I did for May's body type poll, featuring a hairy musclegut bear flexing his guns from inside his apartment.

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Streaming

Testing out how streaming goes with the new laptop. Might work on some patreon stuff if it goes well.

https://picarto.tv/Luxen

I’ve been rummaging through my old posts and I figured it was about time I tried my hand at making adoptable OCs. Some of these are characters I’ve made in the past that I’ve either only drawn once (or a handful of times) many years ago or that I’ve never bothered to draw/post in the past. There’s also a couple of new ones that were made just for this as well. I had to come up with a few of those on the spot last night, seeing as a few OCs were purchased from me before this post even went up.

The OCs available in this batch are as follows:

A. Ziant (elf)

B. Myantsuke (human)

C. Fernando Rapisco (soccer player)

D. Martial arts guy

E. Dude in a singlet

The pricing and options available for these are:

Adopt OC: $10 each

Color (original or change): +$5 (each)

Design changes (price depends on what it is): +$3-10 (each oc)

Bonus/Additional BW Sketch (in my usual style): +$10 (each)

Here are some examples of how a finished adoptable looks like (depending on what options you pick): http://luxalive.tumblr.com/post/173004225386/here-are-some-adoptables-that-were-purchased-by

If you purchase one of them and you want to have their name changed, that’s fine by me. Just be sure to let me know when you make the purchase or before the finished piece goes live.

It’s first come, first served. If you’re interested, please send an email to luxencom@outlook.com and we’ll discuss things through there.

Here's Xavier, an adoptable that was recently bought by @devon7601. Must be nice being that big and always having your trench coat open, showing off your pecs and abs along the way.

Internet’s back and regarding the current backlog

For those who don’t follow me on Patreon, I’d like to let you know that the power has also been restored in my home/neighborhood. There was a post at the time that went along with that announcement, but seeing as I was posting things from a terrible data connection, I was unable to log on/repost it easily everywhere.

If you’d still like to read that old post, feel free to take a look at the following link. As for those who are up to date, you’ll find an updated version of Volume 2 of my event log in the attachments of this post on Patreon.

Hey guys, I wanted to let you all know that I finally have an internet connection back at home. To be exact, the whole thing came back on the evening of the 23rd and it’s remained, for the most part. They’re still giving it maintenance around the neighborhood and any other areas where the internet line runs through, so most of the time the bandwidth speed isn’t that good and/or the whole thing crashes for a couple of hours. The same goes for the power itself… I planned to post this message last night, only for the whole thing to go out in a widespread area until today. It returned around 1:45 PM. I’ll still be writing stuff into the event log whenever I can, so you can keep tabs on what’s up over here if you’d like.

Now then, I’m sure you’re all wondering how I’m going to handle the backlog of Patreon content that’s built up due to the terrible circumstances that led to it. Well, that’s quite simple really. I’ll be handling the single-image polls first (ie. The body type and fanart ones) and once those are out of the way, I’ll get started on the growth ones. These drawings, just like any other monthly image I’ve posted in the past, will remain up here (early access/hi-res downloads, as usual) for a month since their completion. In regards to the fanart polls, I’ll be handling them a bit differently. Since these are some of the polls that usually take the longest to receive an answer/suggestion, I’ll be making a single poll consisting of all the already submitted answers from last year that I happen to fancy. You’ll be able to vote for more than one character as well (the same applies to the body type poll). For every month that the fanart poll was reached in my absence, there will be a fanart drawing that coincides with the votes from the poll, going from the most voted to the least.

These polls will be up later tonight (assuming the power doesn't go out again), so be sure to take a look again in a couple of minutes. I will also try to work on the pending tier rewards and commissions as fast as I can; I'm not pleased with what little progress I was able to make in regards to those last year and even less at the time of this writing (due to the whole hurricane mess delaying things even further). I'm still thankful that many of my current audience have been rather patient with me, but I do know that patience doesn't last forever. I'll try to keep you all updated on those when I have some proper progress to show.

Here's hoping I can get over this bumpy start of the year.