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Level 37 get!
Ferocity up!
Resilience up!
Magic up!
Willpower up!
Speed down...
Awareness down...
Knowledge up!
Creativity up!

This trip around the sun's been strange for me, but all in all... maybe I'll get to complete another rotation.

Went to FTM, got sick, snotted all over my screen.

Not the kind of update you want? :P

Anyway, gonna be making a brand new lineup of buttons for upcoming furry cons, so anyone who likes my BUTTons, there's going to be a brand new lineup. The old lineup is still going to be available at a discount, but not my primary displayed items.

I'm looking to do more porn in the following year, but also get better at my compositions.

So that's my goal this year. Who's ready for it?

Anyone going to MFF?

Anyone need a roommate at MFF?

How about two?

Let me know.

I'm excited.

I'm making badges ahead of time too for anyone looking to get one.

Also being at the Artist's Alley.

Also have some space in my room for anyone who needs a place to share.

Yep. My printer is running and it's going well. I'm using a resin printer and printing tabletop-sized miniatures, or taller display miniatures good for painting and looking at on your desktop.

Interested in something like this? I can print something custom for you if you know the place to find it, or have the object file yourself. Depending on volume and print time, I can give you a fair price on it.

Also, I've put one of my TwV miniatures up on Etsy. As I get them all supported and printing properly, they'll all become available.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/101635.....ature-in-qipao

Okay, NOW I'm insane.

To get free art, you need to...

1: Be a member of my DISCORD channel.
2: Post something funny in the #havoc-chamber room.
3: Wait, or post more funny things.

When I wake up tomorrow, I will choose the person who posted the funniest thing in the room to receive a free colored sketch! (I'll also close the journal. Don't worry.)

Good luck.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Someone is getting 1 free colored sketch! ($10 value)
All you have to do is...
1: Join my DISCORD CHANNEL!
2: Get into #havoc-chamber
3: Chat. Post weird memes, say hello to nutty furries, talk about your favorite brand of cereal, I don't care.
4: I'll be streaming, and when I'm done with my first sketch, whoever POSTED LAST in the Havoc Chamber wins a free colored sketch!

So come, chat, win free art.

It's not a very active channel, so you've got a good chance of just showing up, saying one thing, and winning.

(Also, a stream is live.) https://picarto.tv/EdgarKingmaker

<_>

I left my job to draw art. So that means I'll be streaming a lot more... and I've reopened my Art Slave availability.

Art Slave is $80 to the first person who buys it! It's one 8 hour stream, or two 4 hours streams, where I just take direction from you the whole time.

After the first one, I've increased my Art Slave price to $120. It's a reasonable price when you request things that are within my wheelhouse. If you're looking for things I don't do all the time, then they're probably better valued as single commissions.
This was Art Slave Stream #1: 1 - 2 - 3 (Currently a $135 value.)
This was Art Slave Stream #2: 1 - 2 - 3 (Currently a $120 value.)
This was Art Slave Stream #3: 1 - 2 (Blood) (Currently a... $120 value, I think.)

Main draw of Art Slave is of course that you get to tell me just what to do the whole time! I'm quite dedicated... just ask anyone who bought one so far. :P

So, I have things worked out a little better at work, but I have this problem where I come home and I destress by playing video games, instead of drawing.

I know I have a few things I need to draw, but in order to finish something old, sometimes I need to start something new. (I'm that kind of artist guys, I'm sorry.)

So I calculated my days available based on management I've trained, and... well... let's not get too technical about that.

I made 15 prompts for GORETOBER to be claimed.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38507538/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38507538/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38507538/

The rules for claiming these prompts has changed. It's simple, but not entirely too simple.

In order to claim a slot, you need to be on my Discord: https://discord.gg/uezUDHG
On that Discord, you enter into the "bids-and-claims" channel and post what prompt you want, and how much you're claiming it for.
Every claim must be $20, or be higher than someone else's claim.
As long as nobody claims higher than you within 24 hours, you have that prompt!
I can then invoice you, you can send me your character, and I'll get it done within the month of October - OR YOUR MONEY BACK THIS TIME!
The higher the claim, the more characters and effort I'll be able to put into a piece. You can have a good idea of where you want me to go with a piece, but please don't be incredibly overly specific. I don't do well with that level of specificity.

As for the prompts...
The top row, in the white, are all "general rating" prompts. They won't include any blood, so they can be posted as General.
The middle row are all bloody scenes that include your character in the "still alive" condition.
The bottom row are all endings. The character used for these prompts will be dead.

For any of these to contain graphic nudity now it's either a +$5 fee for a temporary boost, or you can be in a $5 or higher tier of my Patreon.

For those of you who refuse use of, or just don't want to have Discord... sorry? Perhaps a friend can come claim it for you.

Questions?

Oh, well... I got promoted!

What's a promotion from being a store manager give you?

A second store!

My life is agony...

That means back to work for me! Good break for the purposes of a lot of art trades.

Currently queued I have... four YCHs to finish up, a comic project, and a physical commission.

Also, I've added a new permission for VIPs on my Patreon... for those of you waiting for my NSFW to return.

Yeah?!

COME GET SOME!

Ended up on team SPICE!

https://artfight.net/~EdgarKingmaker
https://artfight.net/~EdgarKingmaker
https://artfight.net/~EdgarKingmaker

How about I record a let's play?

Is there a game on my Steam list you'd like to see a lets play of?

https://steamcommunity.com/id/xenoz.....games/?tab=all

That's enough, apparently.

Electrical surge blew my pen display tablet! Meaning my UGEE Pen Display that I started using on 8/26/16 finally kicked the bucket.

It's service to me accounted for more than 500 images! No surprise, since more than 100 were done in my "free art every day" rampage!

So I'm probably out of the game for about a week until the new product arrives.

Since UGEE isn't in service anymore, it's time to move on to HUION!

Let's see how this goes!

Hey, go get a chance to get free art and maybe show some support for my new ask!

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36836656/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36836656/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36836656/

Winners were numbers ONE and THIRTEEN!

Which is RANDOM.ORG being an overly coincidental piece of...

Because those are both the first entrants on either site.

Starting up an ask!

Information here...
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36807349/

For people to see stream updates, what video games I'm playing, and of course... people who want to poke the hell out of me.

https://discord.gg/uezUDHG
https://discord.gg/uezUDHG
https://discord.gg/uezUDHG

So, if someone walks out one Friday, someone doesn't show up the next Saturday, and you end up having to fire them both, leaving you short handed and needing to work doubles, what does that mean?

HIRING RUSH!

Yup, went back to my Indeed account to hire some bodies. Hope they work out, because I'm scheduled every day for a week and a half.

Death by overworking.

The life of a store manager, when one employee walks off, and the other is sick with the flu, and there's another I gotta train.

Fun.

LEVEL UP!

NEW LEVEL: 35

When:
Every Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday
From 10 AM EDT until 6 PM EDT.

Stream will happen on Picarto, and be announced here just before it starts.

Cancellations may occur, but hopefully not too often.

With every Wednesday's announcement, I'll see if instead of art for Thursday ya'll want me to play a game from my Steam. Most of my games are fair game, except the ones revolving around sexual content. Some of my games I don't have the power to play and stream at the same time.
Lookit these games! https://steamcommunity.com/id/xenoz.....games/?tab=all

Ever since I've been in this business, I've been bothered by the way PayPal works. As a middle man, it works to get money from one person to the other. The only thing required is that bother people have a PayPal account and that someone pays their fee. This means the fee is paid for by the sender (transfer for a friend) or paid for by the artist (set as pay for goods). They can also handle refunds automatically, acting as the judge in between a seller's dispute despite the fact that the only part of the sale they had anything to do with was the transaction. PayPal also very neatly keeps all your financial information on file with their database... which if anything ever happens, (or gets confused by their server... three times... in two weeks...) their really terrible customer service is ready to just barely take care of your issue. Also, by the way, they hold onto your money in a digital wallet that you have to pay a fee to get transferred to your account, OR wait for almost a week to get it.

Ugh. PayPal also tries to dictate what we're not allowed to sell.

As an artist, I've gone to conventions, and as a tabletop game designer I've gone to shows. Because of this, I have an EIN, and needed a good PoS in order to take money at the counter. PayPal has a money taker, but it sort of follows their theme in that it's barely adequate. So I rolled around a little, searching for the right thing to take money with. Then I found Square. By having an account and an EIN, I can very easily run their free PoS, send invoices to anyone with a card, accept any form of payment at conventions and shows, and get paid directly to my bank account within the next business day without any additional hassle or fee. The last part's my favorite. Also, the fee is no more than the CC companies charge businesses to accept their card. This leads me to believe they really aren't making but a fractional amount with each transaction, if anything.

So I don't use PayPal.

I use Square. Square doesn't care what I sell.

If I ever charge you for a commission, you'll receive an invoice in your email to pay, and can pay with any credit card or GPay account.