Hey everyone! I just realised I never posted this to FA woops.

So as I posted the other week, I've moved out to a new place. The wall of text below was posted to Patreon, and I'm posting it here so you all know what's happened. Once you've read below, I could really use your help. Any commission ideas you have, if you have the money for a Patreon subscription or if you'd like to donate to my GoFundMe, any financial support I can get at the moment would be really appreciated. I'm trying to figure out what my next stage of things is, it's likely I'll need a new job that pays better than the freelancing, it's just a case of finding something I can actually enjoy (my previous attempts have been hell D:).

I'm pretty sure you've all seen from my social medias, but all the same I owe you the info here too.

Last week [two week ago at the time of posting this to FA], an argument with my dad turned into me getting kicked out of the house. After some yelling, I'd packed a bag with whtever clothes I could grab, stormed out the house and wandered around crying my eyes out and trying to figure out what to do. A lot happened from there, maybe I'll write out a blow-by-blow some day, but right now it's not really important information. So many friends leapt up to help me, giving me money for a train to stay at their place for the weekend, some sending money for food etc. One friend, while not knowing what was going on at the time, happened to offer me a spare room to potentially rent out. They just happened to have the idea of renting it out and offered it to me first while I was still wandering around town trying to find a place to stay.

Since then, things have gone well. I had a great weekend that really helped keep my mind off things and process what had happened. Obviously trying to keep names out to respect people's privacy, but yeah. A few friends have been taking care of me. They treated me to just a great weekend, some great meals, a day out in London to the furmeet where I got to see people I know who were all seeing how I was doing. They took me shopping for some new clothes and I look fucking hot in them. I really have the most amazing people in my life and I can't thank them enough for everything. I'm getting all teary eyed again aha! It's all been so overwhelming the amount of support people have given. Renting a minivan to move my things, driving 3 hours up the road and 3 hours back to help me move. My partners regularly checking up on me and all the help they provided at such short notice despite our timezone difference. One was still awake when everything happened and they were just on the phone to me for I think an hour? Finding local resources for me that might be able to help while I just cried and was too upset to figure out what to do. I don't think I could ever really repay all of this.

Just... Thank you everyone who was involved. Whether you were part of the rescue crew, have sent money in the gofundme or sent me your well wishes. It's all helped so much in keeping my head above water and leading to a better future.

I've moved into the new place now. It's a nice little room, enough space for all my things and a little extra. I've got a couple decorations up, and once I get some updated furniture things will be good here. I feel like I can start to heal here and that's really important.

It's in the Southampton area! I already know quite a few people here, so social circle is looking good right off the bat. If you're here, I'd love to hang out. Now that I have a place to myself, I can host people. My housemates are really nice. I'm off to a good start with them, they like my cooking and feel I've brought some good ideas to the table that can make things more organised for everyone. One also plays guitar, so I have someone to jam with.

Things are worked over with my parents too. They regretted threatening to kick me out, and if I didn't have a place to move to they no doubt would've let me stay. I've talked over them about the CPTSD (look at me, actually saying that out loud, I've always avoided doing so because I didn't want anyone to be more concerned than they already are) and how much it's been affecting me. How it's been difficult to communicate with them because of it. It's really affected my relationship with them, and I'm hoping some space and some healing will lead to a much healthier relationship with them going forward. One where I'm more able to communicate, and one where they're more patient, more attentive and listen more. It already feels that way so far, so fingers are crossed!

I also finally came out to them as non-binary! My dad had said he'd seen some letters sent under my chosen name here and there (things mistakenly sent to me under it, was very annoying) and had some vague ideas something was going on but nothing concrete. Mum had no idea. Tried explaining to them what non-binary is, that my name is Kari. And they're really supportive of it. Their information is low, and they'll need an adjustment period, but... Yeah. I'm finally out to them. Also out to my sisters too.

My dad's last words before I left out the door was "go be amazing" and it's getting me worked up every time I think about it. Things are looking bright going forward and I can't wait.

If you can help, please consider one of the things below:
DM me for a commission.
https://www.patreon.com/kitefox
https://gofund.me/5f8d725b

Hey everyone!

So, the past week for me has been an... emotional one. I've not been able to post about it here on FA because I couldn't remember my password aha, but if you follow me on social medias or in my discord you probably have some idea of what's happened.

An argument with my parents turned into me being kicked out of the house. Don't worry! I'm okay. My amazing friends have given me a roof over my head over the weekend and a stroke of luck came my way to give me a more permanent place to stay.

I'm going to do a more detailed write-up of what's happened once I'm more collected (i keep welling up with tears throughout the day ;_;). My parents regret threatening to kick me out, have come to understand my problems and plan to do better for me and my sisters. I'm also now out to them as nonbinary!

For now though, I could really use your help. While I get back up and running, I'm going to need some financial help. That'll likely mean opening more commission slots in the near future. But, you all also know I'm already behind on my backlog as it is and taking on more work is going to be tough. I'll also need to find a better paying job in order to cover the new expenses.

I've always been hesitant to ask for help, but I need to swallow my pride. I have a GoFundMe setup to keep myself afloat. Just enough for my monthly expenses, food and essentials. New housemates are fine with deferring charging me rent for a bit, but obviously I don't want that to become a problem all the same.

If you have anything you can spare to donate towards just keeping me afloat while I get back on my feet, I would really appreciate whatever you can afford.

Thank you so much everyone <3 damnit I'm welling up again.

https://gofund.me/2265673b

So, I've started this whole thing on Twitch of drawing an entire sketchbook out from front to back on stream, just fill the whole thing. Day 2, Twitch announces "hey we're allowing artistic nudity now!" so I'm like "oh hell yeah, I have the perfect piece in mind for this" so I start drawing it out. You've all probably heard about how catastrophically this went for Twitch and they've now reversed that change. I got hate raided by getting mass reported by bots and they suspended my account for 3 days, but it got reversed the day after.

Anyway, yeah. It was literally that I found an untouched sketchbook and decided to turn it into this little stream project. If you want to come watch and check it out unfolding, I'm streaming it most weekday evenings.

https://www.twitch.tv/kite512

Hey all!

I'm finally almost caught up on my outstanding backlog, and as such I'm feeling more confident about opening more slots. If you're interested in one, please DM me ASAP and I can get you on the list! <3

Prices can be found here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52871275/

I'll also be offering some other variants including Telegram stickers soon (I have a new style for those that I'm feeling freshly invigorated for) so keep an eye out for those.

And don't forget, I have the new merch store as well :D I'm adding more stuff there! https://kite-in-colours.myspreadshop.co.uk/

EVERYONE, LOOKIE, IT'S GREAT

After however long of putting this off because I was too busy, or had no ideas, or this that and the other, I FINALLY HAVE A MERCH STORE.

I'll be posting up a whole slew of cool designs that I hope you'll all like enough to buy something of. I'm really excited about this!

As of typing I've got one design up, but I've got more in the works that will be up very soon and I'll be posting them here :3

https://kite-in-colours.myspreadshop.co.uk/

Hey everyone,

Twitter's going down like watching a train wreck in slow motion and I want to expand the sites that I upload art to, so I'm going to start remembering I have an Inkblot I made a while ago, and also I got a Bluesky! You should go follow me on those <3 You can find them in the linktree down below.

https://linktr.ee/kiteincolours

I'm just gonna set my commission status to open

Still need to be making enough for monthlies plus saving up for next batch of meds, the sooner I do that the better :X

I'll sort out a graphic soon!

About this time last year I made a post about taking on a second job.

It's... Been hell. Retail is awful. I haven't been able to find any balance at all between the two jobs, to the point where I haven't taken on any commissions in months. I'm months behind, unable to catch up, unable to get enough time in the week to work on commissions at a good speed. Hell, this past month I haven't managed to do any drawing because of the Christmas period. I'm now exhausted, deflated and honestly I think a little depressed about being at this job still. It's completely taken over everything and there's very little I can do about it right now because I've got things to pay off. I need to pay off my bike, I need to pay off my credit card, finish paying off my phone, pay off a graphics card after having to emergency replace one with a loan. Also apparently HMRC are still convinced I owe them money despite repeatedly telling them "no, you fucked up, I shouldn't be punished for this" so I'm going to have to ring them about that because apparently they still haven't gotten the message. But it may still be that I'll be forced to pay for it, which is fucking absurd.

Anyway, that's what's holding me back at the minute, is trying to pay shit off. So I'm thinking of throwing up a few YCH auctions. I don't know how much, but enough to get me out of here at last.

Would people be okay with that?

I still have outstanding commissions and taking on a YCH auction at this time would probably not be a good look at first glance. But ironically, if I can get enough money to pay off my debts and get out of retail, I'd actually be able to get to those sooner as I'd be working on my art full time again.

I'm in such an awful position honestly. I'm desperate to get out of this.

And its reveal went in the most chaotically Kite way possible.

I started this over a year ago now but I've been so inundated with *vague gesture at everything* that it's taken me forever to finally finish it. I recently got it rigged by KaideArt (you can find here, go support him his work is fantastic: https://twitter.com/Kaideart https://www.twitch.tv/kaideart/) and then finished up the texture for it, got it looking like my usual art style and everything.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1619860463

So while I've managed to break that art block, I'm still in a tough situation. I'm honestly just burned out at the minute, but there's too much to be done for me to be able to take a break from everything. I'm struggling to get time off at work, where I've had to take on more hours due to this cost of greed crisis as well as us being short of staff. I'm so tired. My body hurts. I'm just not cut out for something this physically exhausting but I can't just quit because I need the money.

Art is going to just have to be... Comes as it does at the moment. "Ready when it's ready." I can't offer any definitive times for when things are going to be complete. I'm so sorry.

Fuck. I just want to go back to doing art.

If you're able to afford even just $1 a month, please consider my Patreon. I feel bad for pushing this, but in retrospect it feels like not having done so more is probably in part what's left me in this situation to begin with. www.patreon.com/kitefox

I really need to remember to post these kinds of updates here. I kinda just flood my Twitter with random shit going on, so I forget to post in other places that aren't so instant.

Basically, because of a cascade of several things, including the second job becoming stressful to me, struggling to get through my commissions leading to stress that they're taking too long and thus leading to them taking longer, money, how chaotic the year has been with several major events chaining each other back-to-back, I've hit a point of complete burnout now. Not on art, just on commissions. I've been struggling to work on commissions for a while now and I've hit a point of just... too much stress.

At the minute I am really struggling.

I'm so sorry this has spiralled so far out of control. I've been trying to keep my head above the water and it's left me just... So burned out. I haven't been able to work on any personal projects in months, I've not touched the comic I've been wanting to do for so long. All while taking on a second job so I could pay off my debts.

I love doing art and I'm not giving it up for the world. Commissions right now are really daunting though. I'm just scared to open them, look at them, I feel exhausted from it and I've just hit a point of burnout where I just need to take a step back for a bit. I want to do some personal projects again, but because of the second job I just don't have the time. The second job itself isn't... Bad. Like, the work is easy enough, I can just go full brain off, stick on some music or audiobook or something and get on with it. But it's not fulfilling, the hours, the starting time of 5am, it's all eating at me.

I just want the freedom of freelancing back too. Friend's birthday next week, I almost wasn't able to go because of my holiday for it (just two days mind) being rejected, but the Sunday is a day I don't work anyway so I guess I just get a train on the Saturday. Similarly, Rise Against are playing in London in November and there's a chance that'll get rejected which I'll be extremely upset about. Fuck.

I'm so fucking sorry. I just wanted control of my life back.

So TL;DR I pre-ordered a Steam Deck ages ago and I was expecting it to be around September-October time, thought "great, that's plenty of time between then and now to save the money!" But uhhhh it just popped up that it's available *now* and I have only 48 hours to make the order :X

So uhhhh would anyone like a commission? If so, DM me.

Edit: All slots sold, thank you!

Hey everyone,

While I've been able to post about this on my Discord and Twitter, I unfortunately was unable to update here.
So, last week me and some friends went on a hiking trip that turned sour when I had to be rushed to hospital. The TL;DR is that I came down with appendicitis and had to have my appendix removed. It was in a bad state (at least hadn't popped thankfully) and I've been in the hospital recovering for the past week now. I was discharged yesterday evening and am currently taking it easy.

I'm gonna take a day or two breather and then get on with more artwork. I'll thankfully be well enough for Confuzzled, albeit probably light on the drinking, so I'll still be attending that.

Thank you everyone for being so patient with art, I've already had a lot of setbacks over the past year and this certainly didn't help ;-;

ON THIS DAY
ON TRANS VISIBILITY DAY
https://twitter.com/KiteInColours/s.....P7ICyVXIcikDWA

Hey everyone,

Just realised I never posted about this here. So at the start of December, I was at a point where I felt like the only way I could get on top of things was to get a second job. A part time thing, the job itself isn't too demanding so it's just something I can do for a few hours a day and earn some extra money, aat least earning enough to keep myself afloat. The purpose is so that I can put taking in more commissions on hold while I clear my current list, so that while the ones I currently have may still take a while, future ones will be much faster. Over Christmas, I was of course taking more hours because of how busy the store was so through December I wasn't able to get much artwork done, but it's started to stabilise now.

To everyone who has an outstanding commission from me, I can't thank you enough for the patience, 2021 was such a tough year. I feel... Really defeated about having to get a second job at the moment, I really didn't want to have to resort to it so that I could stay on my artwork full time. I'm constantly having to remind myself "this is temporary, it's not forever." But with how the pandemic has gone, as hard as I tried I just wasn't able to make enough to meet how much I needed to make in terms of income. I really tried to, but every time I was in a position to start taking on enough commissions per month to sustain me something would happen that would slow me down and I'd be right back to square one. I'm still not 100% sure I've made the right decision with getting a second job, but I've not really been left with much choice. So please bare with me just a little longer.

I just want to make art for a living.

Just realised, I've mentioned this a few times on my Twitter and Discord but I've not updated you guys here yet x.x

Basically, I've been having some health issues lately. I've been having stomach pains that have been completely draining my energy and making it difficult to sleep or focus on any work, so work might be a little slow as I try to work around this. Fuck, I'm sorry. Things have been slowed down enough as it is this year and this really isn't helping. I've closed off commissions for the time being so I don't add to it further.

Thank you all for being understanding, I seriously cannot stress enough how thankful I am of how all my commissioners have been so patient this past year as I try to get through this.

I think I can open a couple of commission slots today. Just a few, so I don't overload again. But if you're interested, please message me <3

Hey everyone!

As the title says, I've added a new tier to my Patreon. Monthly character sketches for a $20 tier! They'll coincide with the theme of the monthly polls. The slots are limited to 5 at the moment, I'll expand them as I get more comfortable with the format.

www.patreon.com/kitefox

Hey everyone,

Just posting to say im closing commissions for a little while so I can catch up on the currently outstanding ones. The plan right now is to just be doing YCH auctions to keep myself afloat on monthly expenditure until I can finish the commissions currently in queue. I've been overworking myself lately, to the point where I'm forcing myself over the past two days and over this weekend to take some time off (and apparently spend that entire time playing New World, if you wanna join my company o3o I'm on the EU Central server Pavlopetri and I'm looking to start a war!).

I try to communicate as best I can, I'm sorry if it's not enough though. But I do have every commission saved on my trello, so you're not being missed out, things are just taking longer than I'd hoped and like I said just overworking myself along with everything else going on it's just been a very tough year.

I've mentioned this before, but supporting me over on Patreon massively helps to alleviate a lot of this. I'm trying to post as much as I can on there and once this commission list is reduced I can start going back to the monthly polls and hopefully add more on there too. I've got things as low as $1 a month, it's a small amount but collectively it really does help. Support on there would also give me enough time per month to actually work on the comic I keep harping on about too. www.patreon.com/kitefox

I cant overstate how thankful I am of all my commissioners for being understanding of all this, I really do appreciate it x.x I've been very stressed over it all lately(hence the few days break), so... seriously, thank you.

Hey everyone,

Just notifying you that I have commission slots available! If you're interested, please drop me a DM. You can find my price sheet here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40266025/

So I just submitted the appraisal pathway thing to GenderGP and booked in the first consultation. Got other things to do for it as well of course, but the first step has actually finally been taken now that I'm getting close to actually moving out into a place of my own which was the one thing I was waiting for.

It's actually happening aaaa ;///;

Spent the past few days working on this and OH MY GOD IT LOOKS SO GOOD

https://twitter.com/KiteInColours/s.....532459011?s=20

I'll definitely be doing these as commissions some time soon, I just gotta work out a few things with it. But for now.... AAAAAAAA

If you wanna see her in action, come hang out on my Twitch channel, I'm streaming weekends 5pm GMT https://www.twitch.tv/kite512

So, I've been very clear about this in the past, but in case there is anyone who somehow missed the memo: If you support Trump, support what just happened in the US, support nazi/supremacist/fascist ideology, or support Johnson and/or the Tories here in the UK, get the fuck out and don't come back. You're not welcome here.

Hey everyone,

First off, happy new year! I hope it turns out better for you all than the trash fire of 2020. I've got some things planned for this year, hopefully I can get started on them and have them for you all soon!

My cpu cooler packed in a few days ago while I was cleaning dust out. Not quite sure what caused it, but the tl;dr is im RMAing it and I've got a replacement on the way. I was hoping it'd be here fast, but unfortunately that's not the case as the earliest I can get one is January 6th so unfortunately I won't be able to post anything until then.

I'll be streaming on twitch from my xbox though, so come hang out with me there https://www.twitch.tv/kite512

Clip Studio Paint introduced timelapses in their latest patch so I'm trying to incorporate them :3

I'll have an advance viewing up for Patreon, then public release probably 2 weeks later.

Here's how it looks:
https://twitter.com/KiteInColours/s.....963743232?s=20

The quality is lower than what I'd make the final one as, I just lowered it for testing purposes for this little snippet.