Streaming - Over

Streaming - Over

Gonna work on a few drawings and whatnot. Feel free to stop by!

https://picarto.tv/Luxen

Edit: I mistakenly uploaded Bud with the wrong colors (I was exhausted when I posted this), sorry! It's fixed now.

RL Issues - First time here? See the original post here

I already graduated on the 7th, though it seems I'll have to wait a while until I receive my diploma (they only gave out the diploma cases during the graduation ceremony). I'm not entirely sure how long that will take, but I'm guessing it could be quite a few months... After having graduated, the rest of my family is slowly becoming more intrusive into my personal life and decisions and/or inducing pressure in regards to the whole being jobless situation: I don't have a job and the only way I make money is via commissions and on the rare occasion, by selling my shirt designs. Commissions have always been my main source of income, because unlike shirt designs, I get paid in full and directly (where as shirts, I only get a really small portion and have to wait for a month to get paid, assuming I even sold anything). I'm hoping that doesn't get out of hand, but knowing how things tend to turn for the worse for me, that'll probably be sooner than I expect. My bro and his friend are still at it, as usual. For those who haven't read my earlier journals, these two people have been bugging me nonstop, whether it's homophobic jokes, constantly bringing up stuff from the past, belittling me, and so on.

Growth Drive is a Go!

Because moving out is a pretty big choice and I'm pretty desperate as it is, I have decided to work extra hard on the growth drive this time and will be using two characters instead of one so both sides of my fans (fat and muscle) are able to participate! My first two growth drives years ago started with human and half-human characters, so this time I'm starting it out with anthros. That doesn't mean everyone else has to miss out though, as one of the milestones will unlock a set of human characters.

This time, each $1 = 2lb that will be added to both characters (ie. There's no need to donate $10 twice if you want both characters to gain weight). There will also be options available once again, such as where most of the weight will be gained and whatnot. Each character will have their own respective options in the poll that will be available alongside each drawing.

[Donate Here] [Growth Drive Poll Here]

Below you can see the milestones available this time:

Reach $30 per week to unlock NSFW (weekly drawing only)

Reach $50 per week to activate x2 multiplier

Reach $80 per week for a bonus drawing (initial duo only)

Reach $100 during the entire fundraising period to unlock a bonus duo of human characters

Reach $140 per week to activate x4 multiplier; unlocks x2 as the default for subsequent weeks

Reach $160 per week for a bonus drawing (bonus duo only)

Reach $180 per week to unlock NSFW (bonus drawing only)

*NSFW versions, when unlocked per week, will be posted separately to avoid issues with the donators who are only interested in the SFW/original drawings.

There will also be a few raffles available, some of them being options I don't currently offer as commissions:

I will be using random.org to pick the winners, starting from the highest tier, so that all winners are picked accordingly. Please note that you can't win multiple raffles!

Sketch (donate $1 or more)

Lineart (donate $6 or more)

Lineart + Color (donate $10 or more)

Bonus drawing with initial duo (donate $20 or more)

Animated drawing: Idle or Pose (donate $30 or more)

Bonus drawing with bonus duo (donate $40 or more)

Bonus drawing with both duos (donate $60 or more)

Animated drawing: Growth (donate $70 or more)

*All bonus drawings will feature a single character chosen by the winner hanging out or doing stuff with the specified duo of characters.

*If for some reason the winner is only interested in having a single character from the duo show up instead of both (ie. only likes chubs or muscle instead), then that's fine. Just be sure to let me know when I contact you.

*The above may also apply to the winner of the drawing that features both sets of duos in it.

*My list of things I'm willing to do/don't also applies to the raffle winners. If you can't comply with these rules, I'll unfortunately be forced to hand over the raffle to the runner-up.

Earning Progress

Since the first post I had made in regards to my situation, I have received 5 commissions (3 being from a single person, mind you) and 0 donations. I'm not taking into account previous commissioners that were from before I made that post, since it obviously doesn't work that way. With these commissions alone (and tips from said commissioners), I have currently earned about $111. If I count whatever I had remaining from previous commissioners, I have saved up a total of $154. As of starting these moving out savings, I will not use any of this money for anything other than the plane ticket (or shipping items I can't take with me on board, assuming there's enough leftover for that later on). I have taken a few of my things to the pawn shop last month and had received about $100 and with what remains from my birthday money and the little amount I received on graduation day, I have $140. Unlike the money that is strictly for commissions, this one is used for food (when there's nothing to eat at home or happen to be out late) and to help ship my stuff after I'm sure that I have earned enough for the plane ticket. I still have a few things I can sell, including my own TV (so no console gaming, but I'm fine with that), and will take them to the pawn shop next time I can. Everything that is currently on my item sales list cannot be sold to the pawn shop, hence why things have been a bit slow in regards to selling my belongings.

Reblogging for the day followers.

Been working on this since the sale ended. At first, it was gonna be part of a short and quickly done sketch comic depicting him being unable to use the Machinist job because it’s part of the Heavensward expansion (which unfortunately I didn’t get enough commissions for, so I had to pay for it myself; trying to make that money back so I can resub). This would have been part of the 3rd panel, with a really corny line: Guess I’ll have to fight with these “guns”.

The sketch was too good to just throw away, so I finished it up. Took longer than I though since once everything was done I felt like trying out my hand at backgrounds again since I’m usually avoiding or replacing them with colors and patterns. It’s loosely based on an old screenshot I had taken in Ul’dah.

If it weren’t for the fixes or adjustments that took place during the lineart itself (and the bg stuff mentioned before), I’d say I finished this a bit faster than usual.

Anyways, his name’s Frioh Ehterno and he’s my current roegadyn main on FFXIV. Siren server.

Here's a quick drawing of a shark because I couldn't fall asleep. Enjoy.

Here come the Week 1 results. Bud and Ron seem to be having a rough business week, but at least it means they get to have their break early.

$1 = 2lbs (or 1kg for those who prefer kilograms instead)

[Donate Here] [Growth Drive Poll Here]

For more details, such as the milestones, raffles, and why this growth drive is being made, please check out the following post. P.S. From now on, the human duo unlocking milestone is cumulative throughout the whole fundraising period. Only $95 left to reach it!

P.S.S. I wasn’t feeling so well and some things came up in rl, but I was finally able to finish this up. Sorry for being late with the post.

Call for help - Moving out

Some of you may be wondering where I've been lately, whether you're a friend, commissioner, or the occasional watcher; I'm here to clear that up now. Lately, the power over here in my neighborhood has been going out constantly, sometimes for the whole day, multiple times throughout it or just once out of nowhere. My laptop doesn't have a battery, so it's obvious that it'll turn off without giving me a chance to save my progress and I'd rather not buy another one since I've been thinking about replacing my laptop at some point (sd card port is getting worse, colors turn inverted on whatever I'm watching if it goes into sleep mode [oddly enough, it fixes itself if I exit fullscreen and atm hasn't affected anything else but videos], usb ports are slow and unpredictable sometimes when it comes to transferring stuff to and from tablets [sometimes disconnecting itself in the process or giving off an error when transferring a lot of files to it], being slow sometimes and so on) since I've already had it for about 4 years if memory serves right and I'd rather invest in a new one than pinpoint each and every issue by replacing parts because I'm pretty sure that would be more expensive. 

Besides that, I've been dealing with depression and stress mostly caused by my family and one of my bro's friends (aka the jerk from one of my previous posts). This has been an ongoing thing throughout my whole life (the family stuff to be exact) and while I was in elementary/high school it was tolerable to an extent (being compared to other kids, forced to lose weight when I was little, having my ankle burned with the cigarette lighter, etc.), but every year it has gotten worse and to the point that I simply can't take it anymore; I've already reached my limit and broken down quite a few times during this year. I'm not sure how long I can keep this facade up in rl before I break down in public...

Not only has this been affecting me mentally, but it's also affecting my health; I've been losing my appetite and as such, have been eating less than normally would or feeling like I don't want to eat at all. There's also been a significant lack of sleep, personal space, and privacy during most of these days because of my family (ie. fighting between themselves, being belittled, asked/told/forced to do chores or watch over things when I'm clearly asleep, people barging in to look for/grab things, etc.)

How you can help

A friend of mine has agreed to let me move into his place, but the problem is that I need money to buy a plane ticket (the ticket is around $378 last I checked), luggage bags and for shipping anything that doesn’t fit or can’t be taken during the flight to his place in advance (hoping it won’t be too expensive). You can help by either getting a commission or donating, which will count toward a growth drive I have been planning for a while (there's a raffle and unlockable bonuses this time!). If you want to get something extra, feel free to buy some of my old stuff that I no longer use; whether you live in Puerto Rico or not isn't an issue, unless I'm not making any income from those sales. If you do live over here though, please let me know if there's a pawn shop or local store that does take in retro games or any of the items on the list, because I'll probably have to leave behind everything that I'm unable to sell in the event that I’m unable to ship it to my friend’s place.

I still need to iron out the details for the growth drive, so in the meantime check out the following links:

Commission Prices Donations Items for sale

P.S. The current commissioners are important to me and I’m still trying to work on your stuff whenever the power’s not going out or flickering like crazy. I will try to send out updates as soon as I can.

Current list:  @bm0321 powerplayer (FA) Verace (FA)

Moving day

I know this is just some pretty wishful thinking, but I'd like to move out as soon as possible after graduation day (June 7th). Hopefully I'll receive my diploma by then and not be forced to wait it out for months like a classmate of mine had to do last year when he graduated. Since this is the first time I'd be moving, I'd like to know if there's anything I have to do in regards to my Paypal, bank account, and medical plan (or anything else in particular?).

If you can't participate, please spread the word to help me make this happen. I'd really appreciate it.