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So...We're in Very Deep Fecal Matter.
10 years ago
To anyone who reads this, please do me a favor and read to the end; it’s quite important.
So, story time. Thursday morning, just after doing my morning writing and trying to get back to sleep, I get woken up again by my mother, quite close to tears, telling me it’s urgent and asking what money I have.
It turns out that we were so behind on our rent (like several hundred dollars behind) that we were in danger of getting evicted. Combining my remaining cash and what I had on my own savings (the money on my primary card, after I got paid, was going to the utterly ridiculous electricity and sanitation bills; and not even to pay them off fully, just to keep them from shutting us off), we had enough to satisfy the landlord and let him give us time to get it all done by my parents’ next social security check.
And after all that, we’re still behind, as the rest of it is going to various bills and my own checks go to groceries and such by the end of the month (I’m surprised I keep just enough to make my car payments). My brother having moved out and myself being the only working person in the household, they’ve bled me to the point of being flat broke week by week, and I feel that one more bout of misfortune would put us all out on the street at some point. It didn’t help that earlier this month I was out of work for a week and couldn’t get paid back for it.
Now…I’m not a person that normally likes to ask for help. Call it pride, stubbornness, or just unwilling to want to bother anyone…whatever you will, I like to try to make my own way out of my problems.
But it scared the hell out of me, that for a moment we practically had our feet forced out the door. So…I guess I have to swallow that fear I have and try to call out, and hope that we can hang on until we have a financial balance struck again.
Now, the good news is that I just recently got an issue I had with Paypal resolved. I have full access to it back, and I can do commissions again. And I don’t want to ask for straight donations; I wanna give something back. And exercise my art (and writing) skills in the process.
That being said…is there anyone who’d like to hire my talent in return for a bit o’ dough?
A quick run-down of picture commission prices: $10 for a sketch, $15 for lineart (Which is nice because one can color it themselves, just please credit me for the lineart if you post it anywhere :3), $20 for a colored and cell-shaded picture (extra $5 added for each extra character over two and/or a detailed background), and $35 for a lineless picture (Those are very fun, but also take a fair amount of time, so allow that for me to get it right). Simply pay me up front and give me a reference pic or description of whatever you’d like drawn, and I’ll do the best I can. =) For examples of my colored work, you can visit my page at http://risendecabre.deviantart.com/ or just peruse things here.
I do writing commissions, also! Price is 10 cents a word, or $10 for each page over 2, if a short story ends up going that long. x3 In this instance I may ask for a little up front and then the rest to match the end price after it’s read and approved of.
My only demand is patience. I always get my commissions done, but sometimes they may get stalled; in any case, I do send you a sketch via email before I color it to make sure it’s to your liking. My second only demand is that I can do tasteful mature work, but no porn. Nothing short of having to pay a ransom would make me that desperate. :B
If you don’t want a picture, then if you wouldn’t mind, just put a lil’ something in my tip jar. I have a donate button on my Tumblr page at the very top, here: http://the-risen-tide.tumblr.com/
And if you don’t want to send anything, then please, at least reblog this so it gets around. Like I said, I hate having to ask anything of my watchers, but even that gesture will…well, I can’t sugarcoat it. It may help keep us from gaining the status of “homeless”.
Thank you guys for reading, and I hope to put some good arts and/or writings up here soon. =)
So, story time. Thursday morning, just after doing my morning writing and trying to get back to sleep, I get woken up again by my mother, quite close to tears, telling me it’s urgent and asking what money I have.
It turns out that we were so behind on our rent (like several hundred dollars behind) that we were in danger of getting evicted. Combining my remaining cash and what I had on my own savings (the money on my primary card, after I got paid, was going to the utterly ridiculous electricity and sanitation bills; and not even to pay them off fully, just to keep them from shutting us off), we had enough to satisfy the landlord and let him give us time to get it all done by my parents’ next social security check.
And after all that, we’re still behind, as the rest of it is going to various bills and my own checks go to groceries and such by the end of the month (I’m surprised I keep just enough to make my car payments). My brother having moved out and myself being the only working person in the household, they’ve bled me to the point of being flat broke week by week, and I feel that one more bout of misfortune would put us all out on the street at some point. It didn’t help that earlier this month I was out of work for a week and couldn’t get paid back for it.
Now…I’m not a person that normally likes to ask for help. Call it pride, stubbornness, or just unwilling to want to bother anyone…whatever you will, I like to try to make my own way out of my problems.
But it scared the hell out of me, that for a moment we practically had our feet forced out the door. So…I guess I have to swallow that fear I have and try to call out, and hope that we can hang on until we have a financial balance struck again.
Now, the good news is that I just recently got an issue I had with Paypal resolved. I have full access to it back, and I can do commissions again. And I don’t want to ask for straight donations; I wanna give something back. And exercise my art (and writing) skills in the process.
That being said…is there anyone who’d like to hire my talent in return for a bit o’ dough?
A quick run-down of picture commission prices: $10 for a sketch, $15 for lineart (Which is nice because one can color it themselves, just please credit me for the lineart if you post it anywhere :3), $20 for a colored and cell-shaded picture (extra $5 added for each extra character over two and/or a detailed background), and $35 for a lineless picture (Those are very fun, but also take a fair amount of time, so allow that for me to get it right). Simply pay me up front and give me a reference pic or description of whatever you’d like drawn, and I’ll do the best I can. =) For examples of my colored work, you can visit my page at http://risendecabre.deviantart.com/ or just peruse things here.
I do writing commissions, also! Price is 10 cents a word, or $10 for each page over 2, if a short story ends up going that long. x3 In this instance I may ask for a little up front and then the rest to match the end price after it’s read and approved of.
My only demand is patience. I always get my commissions done, but sometimes they may get stalled; in any case, I do send you a sketch via email before I color it to make sure it’s to your liking. My second only demand is that I can do tasteful mature work, but no porn. Nothing short of having to pay a ransom would make me that desperate. :B
If you don’t want a picture, then if you wouldn’t mind, just put a lil’ something in my tip jar. I have a donate button on my Tumblr page at the very top, here: http://the-risen-tide.tumblr.com/
And if you don’t want to send anything, then please, at least reblog this so it gets around. Like I said, I hate having to ask anything of my watchers, but even that gesture will…well, I can’t sugarcoat it. It may help keep us from gaining the status of “homeless”.
Thank you guys for reading, and I hope to put some good arts and/or writings up here soon. =)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10066884/
...specifically Kamdan, the panther demon adventurer guy.
I'm also considering a writing commission but that will take more thought - not least to find a set of characters concurrent with Aisha. IIRC in some stories it's been hinted at that she might not be pure Being, but having her live long enough to be in the Project Future or Epsilon timelines would force the issue and that's something that's not for me to determine.
Best of luck!
Heh, as for the written commission; yeah, I doubt that Aisha'd be alive by the time Project Future happens. She's got a little Creature in her, demon specifically, but probably not enough to make far too much difference in her life span, another fifty to a hundred years assuming she lives to be the Being average of a hundred. I imagine Rynkura or a few of the other Creatures at the monastery would help keep her alive via magic, as that was shown to be a thing in DMFA canon, once Aisha gets over her pessimistic "I'll definitely die at this job" mentality. x3
I'd like to add more to Tales of the Risen one day, but it seems I'll also have to sit down soon and think of her extended canon, don't have it set in stone. But plenty of her friends will live long lives at least, not to mention her Undead brother, heh. We'll have to figure it out someday, it'd be awesome to have something of her still existing by then, it's just the having to keep it an accurate or plausible mostly-Being condition to think about.
Thank you very much for the signal boost though, even just that is a very big help. =)
I'd be interested in a colour commission, should I just post the details here or email them to you? (I don't normally commission people I don't actually know so forgive me for my ignorance on how this works.)