I've done it!
Welcome to my new and improved, Freddy Fazbear... wait nu aaaa
Welcome all to my new shop/hub!
After a lot of time adjusting everything to suit my needs, and playing a LOT around in the store editor, I present to you my new store/hub~
https://payhip.com/TheSigmaArts
It won't only be a store, it will also second as a link hub and a blog so you can have my updates much more readable~
Both my Gumroad and my Ko-fi will go down from this point forward.
DO NOT FRET, all the content previously posted on Gumroad is currently being posted on Payhip, with the exception of my Feet model, as I'm working on v2.0. People that have purchased v1.2 on Gumroad will be given a free v2.0 update once it's posted, don't worry~
So yeah, exciting stuff~ Funny to have this rebirth/renaissance around Easter haha~ But it just kinda happen, but I think it's nice~ I have many cool things in plan and I can't wait to work on em~
Have a good one, and if you like, pay a visit to my store~

I have my computer, and my computer is finished! Took a while and I'm exhausted, but I'll take the next few days to prepare to reopen work~
Have several new tools to try out, and a few open things I wanna address, but I can safely say, I'm happy to be back~

A lot, actually, both bad and good, but all stressing tbh...

I had a huge problem with my motherboard, with a scammer on Amazon made me lose basically an entire week all by themselves, then threatening me, on Amazon chat and direct call (that they can't do), but that's been dealt with. I had my money back, and a new motherboard.

The other day I had my first appointment with the organization dealing with trans stuff here in my region. I have all prerequisites and we only have to do a couple more appointments to exactly know what I want to achieve, and then bam! AND yesterday they already called me back to have my next appointment. So overall, quite excited °v°

Lastly, I will get a hold of my new pc today! I will spend the weekend putting every program and setting to their former selves.
Thank you for the wait, I plan to work full force once I got everything back, and will definitely do a special of some kind... 🥰

Additional thing, since I couldn't miss out on yet another thing, I am moving away from Gumroad. I was late to the party, like always, but their changes on the fees are too much and so I'll be rebranding on Payhip. Prices will remain the same, will just need a little time to move and bring everything on there~

So yeah... quite the weeks ey? But oh well~ I can't wait to get back on work, I feel rusty as hell 😆

Hyello everyone! So uhm... my pc is dead! Fortunately, I was just ordering parts for a new one, but it still sucks cause I have to close commissions. Tomorrow I'll retrieve data and will be able to send excuses to the people I that asked commissions.
Will retreat also the ones I did in this month, so I'll be able to still regularly post them. Sucks a lot I have to close them with this little notice...
I was also planning to maybe do a lil growth drive with lil ol me, but looks like it was never meant to be...
Oh well, my new pc is gonna be a beast! And I could have never bought it without everyone's support and commissions. So thanks a lot! And sorry for yet another set back...

5000 watchers on DA??? And in 15 days I'll start the process that will get me to hrt?!?? And the model is better than ever before!?!?
WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY !?!??
AAAAAAAAA
I have nothing ready to celebrate, so I'll make sure when I can, I'll make a super good one!!!

I wanted to keep making videos to update you all, but the model is taking too much of my time to work on anything other than itself and comms.
Updates are, the model is going great. Using drivers and geonodes is making it absolutely great~
I will probably contact a few people in the macro community to either test the model or help me out since I'm very new to geonodes. But goooosh I'm so happy already, this is turning out *great* >w<
Now, other good news, I am doing some work irl in order to become a fully fledged professional artist by law standards~ It's all going smoothly on that part, and I think thanks to your amazing support and commissions, I think I can finally afford to make myself a new pc~
Onto less better news, yesterday was my first visit to the endocrinologist. They were very kind and all, but basically it was a useless step, and I have to go through a whole different process before going there. This *minor* setback is making me gonna wait probably months.
So yesterday I wasn't the happiest . _ .
Luckily, friends and peeps kept me company, and hugging pearl the trans blahaj helped a lot~
Thank you guys I love you all very much!
Hopefully next update is gonna be a video cause aaaaa I wanna do mooore!

This year I have nothing ready to commemorate the year. It had some big ups and some big downs for me. I met some incredible peeps, and felt like I've personally grown tenfold!
Thank you so much for such an overall great year!
Hope you are ready for what I have in store for next year 😉

In the following days I'll work hard irl to create my dream room at home so I can finally start working again, open commission, and possibly do many many more animated status updates~
For now just know that I wore leggings on all big family events, and skirt and earrings (these for the first time ever) in at least one~ Small steps to hopefully going the cutie route~

Thanks again to my sibling being way more active in the community then me, they told me that this week is #AceWeek! Hopefully I'll be able to finish my first ever decent 2D animation within this week~
Dunno what to say except...
Happy Ace Week! 🖤🤍💜

I'm learning 2D animation to do animated status updates going forward~ I'm having fun! Will probably manage to finish it within this month~ Still, I'm very surprised Blender can be such an intuitive 2D animation software~

First, the spicy stuff: commissions will be opened... tomorrow! I got a fancy new easy to read sheet with cool graphics, and will move all the payment to Gumroad~ They will exactly open tomorrow, 8 UTC~

Today I went to a consultation for laser hair removal. They confirmed both my best hopes and my worst fears. So, currently getting some info on how I would go about doing HRT before then~ I even have great bib boobs and fat ass genes in my family so... hope it will also help me on that side as well~

Other than that, new D&D books bought! Exciting new announcements in the Nintendo Direct! New nail polish bought! Still very new to them, but... I think I did a good job for my 2nd ever nail polish~ Also tried and made it a litte more colorful ❤️

Oh forgot to mention! This or next week a nice package will arrive... may or may not include very, very tiny tinies...

Also OMG! 3000 twitter followers!? *totally not psychologically prepared for this* Well, might do a few polls there so you can choose what you want me to do this time for this milestone~

Hyello everyone~ I'm working on some stuff to get commissions and work up and running again and I want you to contribute and give me feedback on my next decisions~ So if you don't mind, read through my next planned moves in the following form. Thank you~❤

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1.....rm?usp=sf_link

...there's also a part for some feedback on possible new irl videos so... you can also give me feedback on that...

Hyello everyone! Extremely tired Sigma here~ Sooooo? I'm in Sweden again! And now for a long ass time! I wanted to share my experience in moving here, what will happen in the next few (hopefully) days, and larger plans for the future.
First of all, my experience with Flixbus (skip ahead for the organization and future work stuff). For those who have read some previous status updates will know that Flixbus already wasn't too sincere with me, but I was hopeful that now that I had all my stuff and could easily go to Sweden with all of it I could- no... it was a terrible experience to say the least. I took two busses, one from Milan to Hamburg, and the other from Hamburg to Copenhagen. Shoutout to dad, sibling and friend that brought me to Milan in the first place, thank you so much for your patience~ Now... everything was almost good from the start, I had the free wifi, I was comfortable, I made friends with the girl in the seat next to me, but then... there was Switzerland... not being in the EU, my phone said that for internet, messages, and calls. But why the matter with the internet? Well, from the moment we went to Switzerland, the wifi in the bus just... stopped working! For the whole journey until Hamburg! FUN! Then, at each stop we were always slow, we were stopped by the police at the border with Germany AND a guy was taken by them... ok... the seats after all that time were uncomfortable, the bathroom was cramped and disgusting... awful overall. From Hamburg to Copenhagen things started well again. Internet was working and worked for the whole journey. But then again, the bathroom was cramped and horrible, I was LOCKED inside the BUS without the AC on and without phone or internet while going on the ferry... why? Cause they bloody told us all the orders in either German or Danish... helpful! FUN! I didn't die, but they were angry at me, not at their own incompetence of spending literally 5sec more to tell us that it was an order... or either spending another 10sec to make sure that everyone was off the bus. I mean, it's not like I was hiding, and I'm not that small. They have no excuses. At all for this. Then the border with Denmark they made us get out of the bus, remove our luggage, place ourselves in a line, side by side like in a shootout, under the beaming hot sun, with our luggage in front of us to check for documents and drugs; made us return the luggage in the bus, return ourselves at our seats, and wait... for 15min... without AC... in a hot bus... because they were checking a couple. After all that it should end... but NOOOooo. In Copenhagen, my phone decided not to cooperate anymore and shot off my internet, at least I could call my cousin and that was the way I found the right train... oh, did I mention that there are no elevators in Copenhagen Central Station? I was alone, tired, afraid, without internet, in the middle of the hot station with 3, THREE, large suitcases... having to go down TWO FLIGHTS of stairs... FUUUN! At least then it was all smooth saili- NOPE! My train got cancelled and had to wait another one that every 10min had to stop for permissions and cause it was tailing a slower train... So... hahaha... it REALLY sucked. I was really dehydrated, super sweaty (not in the sexy way), very very tired... cause I didn't mentioned... but I haven't slept (as in going to rem mode, the true resting one) in over 40, I'm not joking, fricking, hours. Once I arrived I had my flatmate and cousin help me, I stayed still for around an hour, after which I went straight to getting a shower, and then coming back here, a bit hungry, but charged up enough to update you all~
Honestly though, there was one specific thing that kept me going: the amazing fauna on the bus~ I got a chance of witnessing a tomboy goddess who went shoeless with socks for most of the journey, met her in both my busses and even had her place her feet on my seat so... happy, but not too much since I couldn't enjoy anything in the past day...
Ahem ahem, now, onto the organization for the next few days. Until my uncle returns to Sweden with my new passport, I can't really go forth with much, but I'll say this: until I get my hands on a new desk, I can't use my computer. For the next days I'll be using my small pc, I'll get to know the city, order a few things online and getting a couple of books. After my uncle gets here, I'll be making sure everything I do, me living here and working here online with a vision for the next expansions and projects, will be legal and work following Swedish law. Will be a little boring and probably a bit long as a process, but I'll get there.
Now, onto long term projects. After the PayPal announcement, I think I will, in the future, make a poll to ask all of you for potential changes in the way I take commissions. Until now I used PayPal no problem, but the dang web crawlers could be a problem. The question would be to either take continuous risks for what I want to be a nice career OR find a solution. The solution I found was Gumroad. I already have it, it handles VAT on its own (which would greatly help me handle stuff without taking wrong turns or pay extra), the more I use it the less its own tax would be, I feel like it would work pretty well~ There would be, of course, a small compromise with any potential commissioner: having a not so straightforward payment (Gumroad payments are more like Amazon's if you don't have an account connected with PayPal) and having to pay VAT, which is something that at one point I would have to ask either way. Additionally, I was planning to also have Gumroad as the main site for donations as Ko-Fi is very nsfw unfriendly. There are still plans for various upcoming membership platforms openings, but for that you'll have to wait a little more (I'm just a smol little sad boy just arrived in an entirely different country, give me a little time 😉)
In conclusion, and to sum up, I'm alive and mostly well, my break will be longer still, hopefully by September I'll be up and running even more than before, there's some thinking to do with future commissions... ah yeah, fuck Flixbus, the journey was really terrible.
P.S. Damn guys, I've seen the amount of support you are giving me and it's incredible! I still hardly believe in what I can see. Thank you thank you, thank you so much for everything, sorry for having you wait a little more~

Things have been going well~ Today was a very good day, connecting more with mom, showing off my art to her (yes, ALL of my art to her), her not really understanding fetish as a whole, but embracing this aspect of her and me being asexual while still having fetishes which was... very endearing and loving of her *geez I'm going to cry* BUT ANYWAY, I'm also done with the passport, everything is printed, everything is ready, in a week I'll be in Sweden again, for long this time~ Very excited, still a bit busy, but man, we're doing giant steps here (get it? cause... macro micro? hehe... ok I'll stop) So, I've been well, will update again especially once I'm there, I hope you'll like the things I'll post in these few days before the move~

Hey guys, still alive and well. How are you doing?
Been pretty busy and will still be in the next few days. I have prepared some stuff I hope you'll get excited for for vore day and onwards till the day of the move.
Had a powerful and emotional discussion with family but thanks to it being done with our fantastic coach, it actually got through to them and we're starting a new page in life and adjust our lives so we don't constantly hurt each other for no reason. So, win win.
Also, since I'm being a good boy/girl, I'm getting myself some very nice books to read once I'm in Sweden so, getting happier too~
I know I'm arriving late since it happened in one of my busier days but, I watched the new pokemon trailer. Lemme say, I'm honestly pleased and positively surprised on what they're is doing, very nice ideas, new characters, and pokemon, I'm honestly dumbfounded.
BUT, the game still looks dead, it has very very VERY horrible shaders. Like, it looks worse than SwSh somehow... Still don't have hopes too high since this trailer made me excited for a bit hearing the news and then frown the second I looked at anything.
Between some framerate and sluggishness I don't know how much of it is because of compression or they still have troubles with optimization (I'm honestly more for the latter at this point). But hey, Fidough is genius, and Cetitan is bonkers and I fricking love it. Time will tell~

Hyello... how are you guys doing?
I'm updating you all on my situation to explain why am I so inactive and why commissions are not opened already. So... a bunch of stuff happened:
As the date of my move is getting closer, the amount of problems and preparations is only building up. I figured I couldn't work on commissions during this time since I am going to prepare a lot of stuff, documentation, buying stuff to finally move. My mother, grandparents, and a friend got Covid and so I also had to do a bunch of stuff for that as well. More problems and discussions rose when mother returned, all a big pile of useless fears and preoccupations of her that I'll have to sort out together with our coach... so more stuff to do and psychological draining. My Flixbus told me after I got the ticket I couldn't pay to take with me an extra luggage for... reasons? So I also have to move with limited assets... BUT, the absolute worst thing at the moment is the climate. I. am. literally. melting. It's 28-30°C in my house, and it's also swampily humid. This in tern is draining all my remaining energies to do anything. I'm trying to keep my mind busy so my brain at least doesn't boil, but it really is inhospitably terrible the climate here... really, really, REALLY, can't wait to move. I also delayed doing this status update cause I wanted to at least show you something cute and cool I bought, but no... FedEx had to block their pipeline in France getting my package stuck there... good thing I spent extra so that it could arrive sooner...
However, as always, the amount of support you guys are giving me is the thing that makes me keep moving forward. Though very slowly thanks to all the above, I'm learning new techniques, and I was able to add many interesting models to the list of those available for commissions. Speaking of which, I still plan to open them again, though of course they will be severely postponed. I'm now guessing a very end of August, firsts of September reopening date. Once this weather settles a little down, I can maybe be a bit more active before the move, and I plan to keep you updated on my move as much as possible.
Thank you and sorry for delayed commissions ~Sigma

Hyello! Super excited today~ Why? Cause I finished the model of course! But! For anyone who wants to see a preview before the model comes out, or wants to check out its features beforehand, the manuals for both the full model version and material-only version are available right now, for free!
Check em out here: https://thesigmaarts.gumroad.com/l/.....tModel_Manuals
Let me know what you think, and I'll see you with the full release on July 1st!

Hyello everyone! I've returned home after my "vacation" in Sweden. The return wasn't great, I'm still recovering from some built up tiredness from that "vacation" and waiting at home was a super hot, humid environment filled with bullshitty family stuff. But... I got a place in Malmö! And I'll have 2 cats!!
So um... very good overall! I will return swiftly to Discord in the next 24 hours and catch up with all there, while I'm slowly going over new projects and restart working... and hopefully opening commissions soon 😉
Thank you for the wait! I'll see you soon!

Also! I noticed I'm close to 4000 followers on DA (you guys are CRAZY!!!1!!11!! ❤❤❤). Was wondering what would you like to see when that day comes. A growth/shrink drive (3d or 2d)? A particular continuation of something? Or something else entirely?

Hyello everyone~ Sorry again for the lack of content recently. I'm in the airport waiting for my flight towards Copenhagen~
I couldn't resist anymore, so in the next days I'll post some pieces I've worked on the past weeks.
Towards early to mid July I'll officially move to Malmö (hopefully) so expect return to much content and a reopening of commissions~
Also also, on Twitter I'll post any cute stuff or sketches I'll do while I'm in Sweden~
Thank you again for understanding, take care~

Hyello! Sorry for the hiatus, but it been hard to focus on drawings and renders while checking and contacting people for housing AND not collapse from family discussions. But either way, I'm doing fine~
From the 11th I'll be in Malmö for a week checking homes~ After that I hopefully would have found a nice and cozy place I can call home and will start moving out asap. Once the move will be done, expect me to return at full force with content and also opening commissions~
I'm learning a lot these days, on how to make my renders and drawing better, with new found tech and programs~ However, the other day, when I wanted to render something I discovered that the mesh of my feet model was completely destroyed, and all shape keys were asymmetrical...
That and the fact the material were terribly optimized, made me start reworking the whole model. Making materials clearer and simpler to use~
Also... I might have added another 50+ shape keys... hope you won't mind (planning furry options 👀)
Plus, most of the displacement textures were imported badly by me from very pricy scans, that would kill my finances if I'd ever want to publish this model, so if anyone would be interested in creating masks/displacement textures for me (paid of course) that would be awesome!
If anyone's free to make displacement textures or anyone wants to ask anything about the model, feel free to DM me~ From today onwards I'll try being more active online, as well as starting some work when I can~
For now at least, thank you all for your support 😉👍🏻

Hyello~
Not a day passes without some difficulty here, however, something good did happen. I did coming out with both my parents! Because of that I felt empowered and got charged of positive emotions~
Because of that, I updated the info and profile picture (done in CSP!)
Also hi! I'm doing coming out with you all too~ Bigender, all pronouns, asexual. My current project (project APOCALYPS) is for me to get into shape and have the body I've always wanted. Nothing too major, I just want to be cute 😉
Small update but important, at least, I think? Nothing major will happen, just a change of image~ Hope y'all doing fine, good always everyone~

Hyello! Good always everyone~
Lots of stuff has been happening at home and especially in my mind. I have some news on my situation and what I'll do in the future~ There will be a lot of decisions that I'd like you to give me feedback on, so that we can find a good result everyone can be happy with~
Disclaimer: nothing dire! everything's good!

To start off, this past month, as well as this one, I'm trying my best to clear everything up within my family, especially when it comes to my sexuality and gender identity. I fortunately have amazing friends and a kind sister that are super supportive of my current project (Project APOCALYPS) of living my own life better, especially with my body. Expect a full on coming out status update and some little changes to the profile soon, at least as soon as I finally come out to my mother. Now, with my psyche out of the way, let's focus on things that are more central to my future plans for my content.

I decided I'll drop out of university. I got into university just because I thought I could learn some interesting things that could broaden my knowledge to serve as more fuel for my art. It backfired completely. Lessons were boring and uncaring, exams were dreadful and stopped me from doing anything I held dear, I learned little to nothing new. Of course, I will never stop learning, as I want to improve myself further every day, but this is certainly not the way to do it, at least for my case. Of course, if I ever find courses that interest me, whether they be courses that give off certifications (like those my parent o-so-love) or those very interesting and fun courses on Skillshare (not sponsored yet), I will surely take those classes and learn all from them~ And without the dire need to pass some useless university exams, I can finally have the time to return to do things I lost along the way (like finally catching up on anime and finally continue learning Japanese!!)

Thanks to my motivational coach, who's super lovable all the time, I realized I wasn't taking seriously my work here, nor I was giving my art the centrality in my life I was saying it had. I was getting anxious about my work, especially for the future, and ended up procrastinating a lot in certain aspects. So, I starter reinventing myself, thinking more realistically on what I want to do and achieve, plan out things in an organic way, and overall getting pumped for the future instead of looking at if full of worries. So, I'll now share with you the changes and introductions I thought of, as well as my plans for this brighter future:
First of all, a change in commissions must be made. The prices were not descriptive of the amount of work and customer service I provided, nor there was any way for anyone to know exactly what kind of work I was truly providing, what the customer service would entail, and what were additional options. Additionally, thanks to the experience with March commissions, it was clear that many of the sheet's info were not easy to understand, or were completely misunderstood, so a change of the sheet itself will definitely be done. Here's what I was thinking:

https://sta.sh/06v1h5suk9m

Prices changed quite a bit, but the choices were made taking in consideration the perks and customer service I already provided, but wasn't clear I did provide. Additionally thanks to the asterisks and bonuses, commission info should be a lot clearer to read now. May expand or change stuff still, especially depending on the feedback I receive from you on this various changes~ Of course as I'll grow and learn to do more stuff, I will expand and rework this sheet to include all the things I can provide~

Onto more exciting stuff~ I'm planning on opening some accounts on membership platforms! I passed all yesterday analyzing and reading through Terms of Service to look for the best platform I could get in. These were my results:

https://sta.sh/01fsljsvllx3

As you can see, I'm thinking of opening up a Patreon, FANBOX, fantia and expanding my Gumroad (I was really, really impressed with this one, and super happy to learn what I can do here). Of course these are the ones that will work for me the best, I'm not saying that they won't work for someone else. Also, about the dubious characters: I had my fair share of comments (especially on some Pokémon and Little Nightmares content I've been doing) telling me that such content is "illegal" and that I shouldn't do this kind of content off of "children". I'll say this once so that I will hopefully never need to say it again: they are not real, they are imaginary characters. They do not have age, and concepts such as "underage" do not apply for them (that is why I labeled them "dubious"). As such, any type of content with them is legal. Plus, I don't and won't do explicit scenes with any character whatsoever. Each person has their own opinion and things they are not comfortable seeing. I have certain fetishes or characters I cannot even see, cause I literally have a gut reaction and risk vomiting (i.e. some of the stuff I do not do in commissions for example) or still dislike very much. However, I do not lament that fact in the comments of such content. I don't stick them to a cross. I just skip that content. I just like these characters because of the interactions they show and their designs, not because they are "minors". The fact they are "underage" at all never crosses my mind when making this content, because for me, it is not important. If you don't like it, I totally understand, but if so, just skip me and move onto better artists and pics~

*Ahem* After that little digression, let's focus on what will I do on the membership platforms. Will I move onto there, never to return to DA, Reddit, Twitter and FA? No, I would never do that. There will always be free content here and on the other sites for all to enjoy. Membership platforms, for me, are a way to create early access or bonus content, allow myself to live off my art alone and truly become independent (hopefully also going away from here, finding a nice home somewhere else) and thank people who support me. On that note though, it was pretty hard to think of the tier system... especially at this stage in which I have to start all of these things. Here's what I thought of for now, let me know what you think, what you think I could change/remove/add from each tier, and if you have some quirky ideas for the names~

https://sta.sh/026gbunulg3s

Lastly, here is a project for the further future: streaming. I would love to stream, doing art on stream, maybe play games, definitely do music etc. I yet have to think of a nice plan for streams and without me being at peace with my own body, but stubbornly wanting to show myself on stream, I'd have to wait until I change some stuff through the aforementioned project APOCALYPS. But anyway, I checked mainly two platforms and did something similar to what I did for membership platforms:

https://sta.sh/0iy64bfjpod

Will need to contact the support on all these sites for the dubious characters, but I'm positive because of my no-explicit policy.

Thank you all for reading through this, let me know your thoughts on this stuff and if you have any questions, feel free to ask them and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities~

Milestone Poll!
Here we are! As promised, I'll do some special polls for achieving 3K on DA, 2K on Twitter, and 250+ on Fur Affinity~ I can't thank you enough~
For each question, choose the one you wish to see the most~ Only the first question is required, the other ones are for more details~

Here's the link to it: https://bit.ly/37byBav

Today it will be the last day the Milestone Poll will be open in a while! If you want me to know on what I can improve, drop by and tell me~

I had a great time doing commissions, but because school is approaching and I still have a lot to go through, I will be closing them for now.
All the ones I already answered will be done eventually, but I won't take on any more.

Hello~ Today I finally received some news for my exam. It was supposed to happen tomorrow, and I would have been finally be free from Wednesday onward to return to being more active, and work on lots of things. However, I was informed that my exam will happen on Thursday instead. Sorry for being inactive all this time, will definitely make up for it after the exam is done (also thinking of reopening commissions shortly after). Thank you for your understanding~