Apologies for the long (YEAR LONG!!) absence folks; life happened aggressively (Good and Bad and all in between). BUT THAT SAID!

I'm in a much better space to get working on the regular again! I can't guarantee I'll make as much just-for-fun original content just yet as I'll need to favor taking on paid commissions for a little bit, but. I'm un-rusting the gears at the very least.

ALSO I may undergo a Username/Handle change soon. Due to funny-haha-awkward-circumstances in the-real, and the fact I also made Jacquesrabbit with little forethought, I'm gonna go through the process of changing up my online handle in these spaces. I'm gonna aim to make it a gradual transition, partially for my own sanity and also to just make sure folks know what's up.

So to make it big n' bold:
Jacqueskingrabbit ==>> SunshoRains

https://www.furaffinity.net/user/sunshorains

I apologize once again for the sudden and inexplicable ghosting; a mix of ADHD-Social-Anxiety, executive dysfunction, meeting lots of people, and life changes got in the way of me being able to make on the regular. Should be good now, though!

Commissions are open once more, so feel free to reach out if you want to claim any existing YCH slots, or even want an original piece! Saying hullo is equally welcomed.

HELLOOOO I am still alive.

I've been low-activity due to drawing-arm pains that are in the process of being treated. In the meantime, I've been waffling around and being indecisive about the direction I want to take with my art.

I do enjoy drawing Piss-Kinks, that will always be my comfort-kink, but I've also increasingly been interested in exploring more Dungeons & Dragons art, humanoids, and kinks outside of just-piss here. (Femdom, Gender-Play, Rope bondage, threesomes+, penetrative sex, Monsterfuckers, power-play, etc)

I'm torn between "Make a new account that specializes in semi-vanilla D&D humanoids kink art, and keep piss-kink posts to this account specifically"

Or

"Put everything on this account, humanoid D&D and non-piss-kinks, at the risk of a more direct link to my SFW account due to reoccurring characters. Also at the risk of alienating current audiences or potential new-audiences who do like the D&D fetish art without the gratuitous amount of piss, or straying away from immediate Furry audiences."

Does anyone have any thoughts? Experiences? Opinions? I've followed some artists in the past who "specialized" in a specific content only to drift away from it at one point, and my brain has been imagining someone going "Oh you like THAT comic art?? don't you know the artist also does XYZ and is gross lol" but maybe I'm over-worrying that aspect.

I've finished moving, my commission backlog is cleared up; I'm back to taking on commissions and orders as usual!

As usual, you can find my current "Shop" of unclaimed YCH's
Unclaimed YCH Shop: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....nclaimed-YCHs/

Feel free to ask about either unique pieces, altering existing YCH offers, or even YCH prompts. While I don't hide the fact that I Really Love Money, I actually do genuinely also enjoy the weird world of kink and catharsis. Feel free to ask me questions here or to reach out in Notes.

Also I'm still experimenting with a Tumblr Blog; while the porn ban does make it hard for me to post full pieces, it's been a nice place to shoot the shit and make piss jokes.
Tumblr: https://jacqueskingrabbit.tumblr.com/

While me and Paypal are barely on speaking terms, I will occasionally make use of the YCH Auction website YCH.art (or until a platform allows me to send in my own personal invoices or offers a non-paypal payment processing that works with Canadians).
YCH Art Auction Profile: https://ych.art/user/jacquesrabbit

I'm gearing up to be more active; both in posting new YCH prompts and likely show activity on the tumblr-blog. Feel free to reach out there too!

Stay hydrated ;3

I survived the move! I have something like a functioning desk and PC station now, HOORAY!

This also means my current backlog of art will get addressed. Thanks again everyone for your patience!

I got my apartment key! This week is going to be a lot of box-hauling and shifting of stuff, so I'll have no time to work on my current commission backlog. Thank you for your patience!

You've read that right, I've decided I missed the hellsite and so I've cracked open a fresh Tumblr. https://jacqueskingrabbit.tumblr.com/

I plan to post some of my completed works there along with other random journals, shitposts, and generally interact with folks in a low-effort and comfortably spontaneous way. I will likely have to do minor edits given the NSFW nature of most of my content, but I'm sure there's going to be workarounds. I would love to get to know the new Tumblr culture and how people are making use of the hellsite.

Also, my upcoming move is made official for June 5th. My output for art and responses to Notes will continue to be a bit slow and random while I'm juggling the effort of packing, resolving household shenanigans, the move itself, etc.

Your patience is ever-appreciated!

Long story short: Current living space sucks, and is being sold to a new landlord. I'm now wrangling a few other folks for a new place soon.

We haven't fully secured a new apartment yet -- so my time is getting split around with apartment-hunting, packing, and the general hassle of organizing a move. I haven't even fully unpacked from the last move, rip.

All this to say: turnaround on commissions will be a bit slower than usual, to my own frustration. I wanted to get the ball rolling, dang it! But alas, having a home is generally pretty important for working-from-home.

On the upside, once we do secure a place, I'm likely to do a batch of YCHs or have commission slots open to help with moving expenses. I'm hoping this will be the case around mid-May, if not sooner.

Huzzah!

HELLOOOOO everyone ~ I am still alive.

I still have a backlog of non-fetish commissions to work through, but rest assured, I'm planning to boot up the machine here too. Fetish-art has a way of just being oddly easier to do than the perfectionistic pressure of vanilla works.

For those of you that want to purchase YCH slots, I'm back to being open to accepting orders. Turnout may take a bit longer than my usual week-estimate, so I'm nudging it towards two to three weeks between updates, to be safe.

Original stand-alone commissions are selectively open, depending on the subject and resources/references supplied.

Unclaimed YCH Slots for Purchase found Here! https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....Unclaimed-YCHs

It's good to be back!

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In conversational topics: does anyone have recommendations for NSFW-Artist Commissioner Communities? I would love to talk shop with others who are comfortable discussing fetish work, and are able to give serious answers to methodologies, places to sell, platforms to auction on, and help keep up with news on that whole field.

With my client list now being empty -- I'm going to put on hold (hah) any further clients until I finish up my move for November 30th.

Once I'm settled in (possibly earlier!) I'll be reopening commission slots! For now, hold tight!

<3

Turns out I'll be moving in November. Life happens aggressively!

All systems back to normal. I'm still very busy and trying to clear out some non-NSFW commissions lingering on my plate, but afterwards I look forward to resuming upkeeping my little piss-shop here.

aaaaaa it's been years since I did any major move. It'll be the first time I get a non-family room mate, so that'll be wild.

My current commission list for this account is at 0 -- but any new orders may be on pause until the end of September! (Do save up though, I've been making a list of YCH scene prompts for myself. I can't wait.)

enJOY

I'll be visiting the fam in the woods now that I got the two vaccine shots -- commission work will resume monday!

Having dicked around with Commishes some, (https://ych.commishes.com/) It's defintively interesting, and definitively not as graceful as it could be. While the act of bidding is easy enough, the rest of the website is a bit of a nightmare to navigate. It did get me wondering, though.

Does anyone else know of interesting or accessible YCH auction platforms? I know there's manually posting and managing bids on different art gallery websites, but anything that can help be reclaim some time and keep from having to refresh/repost so much would be sublime.

If you have suggestions of places to avoid this is also good for me to know. I'm a bit fumbling in the dark in terms of artistic smut-hustle communities!

I got my second dose, WOO!

But also ow.

This is me complaining about wanting to draw but my head being too funky to be able to draw good. (This will likely not impact my usual schedule and work-rate)

Grr, squishy bodies.

:V

Hmmm wonder if I've time to draw regularly again. Let's find out!

So with a lot of fiddling around and testing of different systems, it seems Squareup works rather good as an alternative to paypal. The minor downside is you'll be exposed to the horrors of my SFW art account usernames, BUT oh weeeeeell. I'm sure ya'll survive that.

So from here on out, payment will be done virtually through Credit/Debit, or at least until I'm in a comfortable enough rhythm to upgrade to a system that would also accept (and convert) paypal payments to me.

Art commissions are open once more! (Written commissions still on hiatus.)

Apparently, updating your name and not having a valid photo ID (Because of the Pandemic) can get your account permanently locked down.

I don't know how to invoice my American and international clients at the moment. I'm in the process of trying to sort out this hot pile of garbage. Exchanges and financial stuff halted for the time being.

I'm open to suggestions/guidance, as I am a Canadian trying to navigate the world of international cash transfers.

Update: I've gone through the effort of creating an official business account with my banking app. While I won't be able to use paypal anymore, hopefully this will be a decent solution for future orders.

I want to do comics.

Specifically, I want to start making short-form smut zines, ranging from one page, to three, to maybe even eight if I get especially enthusiastic. One-paged pieces I may post freely, but I want to make little bundles to repeat-sell over time through either Itchio or Gumroad. They'll be cheap! Less than ten bucks a piece.

Thing is, I'm a bit low on scripts? Being a horny artist is tricky because any fantasy I have, I can just view in my own head and spend it that way without having to put it on paper.

BUT.

How about this? I want your scripts and story prompts. If you give me a story prompt, structure, or a scenario you'd want to see turned into a comic, and I like it well enough, I may end up making it. You would get a free copy of the story while I would put it up for sale elsewhere. I'm looking for things that range from three pages to a maximum of eight.

For ease of me figuring out my Notes, please insert "Comic Inspiration" somewhere in the subject line so I know it's not an outright commission request.

Right now I have one sfw and free webcomic I run, as an example of my storytelling; https://www.webtoons.com/en/challen.....itle_no=204543

ALTERNATIVELY:
If there's a specific comic you want me to do, and you want full creative control/coaching on what I end up drawing, I'm tentatively opening comic commission slots. 100$ per full-detail panel would be the rate, and 60$ if the follow-up panels have simplified details (no background, just talking heads, close-ups, etc).

We would be working together continuously from start to finish, with scripting, pacing, planning, etc. Due to the nature of comic complexity, I would want 30$ for the initial consultation process if we need to see how many panels would be required for the scene you have in mind. If you already have the entire idea on paper or paced through MS paint or some such, we can wave this initial fee.

I'm experimenting with this process, so only one slot will be open at a time.

I'm always accepting comic-prompts, though! FEED ME INSPIRATION.

SO I recently got my hands on a Surface Pro, which was awesome for doing art with! ... And, then it took a hard fall, the screen smashed, and as it turns out, even repairing the tablet at the shop, won't bring it back to a functional level.

It turns on, sure, but the Surface Pro 4 already had some minor issues with lag. Somehow, since returning from the shop, the lag issues have become so bad, I can't even navigate through the Surface's own files and folders without having to do a few hard resets. There's a lot of problems. It took 400$ to change the screen in the first place, and it looks like I may need to get a new device, anyway.

SO IMMA DO A FUNDRAISER!

It's my birthday on August 7th, too, so I'm hoping to turn this into a big-tablet-upgrade birthday gift for myself. Not just get a replacement, but an actual upgrade with the more recent versions out on the market. I'll consider it a success if I just reach 900$ Canadian (that's 670$ for you americans) but if I can get 1700 CAD (around 1270$ USD), I can get myself a refurbished sleek-and-sexy new tablet for all of my porn-drawing needs.

And I'll give you a deal! If you donate +$50 USD in my campaign, I'll keep track of the amount you've donated, and apply it as a discount to your next YCH purchase of mine. How about that? (Just let me know who you are and how much you've put upfront for me! I'll keep an excel sheet on hand.)

For now, I have a spare tablet I can use (not a big fancy surface pro, just a drawing tablet-tablet) and that'll tide me over for a little while.

I'll super appreciate any help, though. Ya'll haven't let me down, yet.

TABLET CAMPAIGN HERE:
http://fnd.us/81h125?ref=sh_a9PgJ8

The amount of journal posts with this theme is growing to be embarrassing.

SO HERE'S WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON.

I live in Canada. Pandemic hits. Government goes "Hey everyone stay home and stop working or work from home. But also oh shit you're broke, here have 2000$. But if you make more than 1000$ then give back our 2000$." Which had be like "YEAH OKAY COOL" but then puzzled over the "Wait you want me to like ... Not ... make money?? Okay then."

I took up sewing facemasks, and through that, ended up making a bunch of cash. I also had a few MASSIVE painting commissions that took up all my focus and time. They paid well, but I had to put all of my mental spoons and ability into juggling rapid-demand-orders for masks, painting commissions for an organization that had a very clear end-date of things that were due, and on top of the sort of ... Emotional Garbage that is dealing with a Pandemic.

All this to say: I apologize for basically ghosting off this platform for like, two months.

I had a lot I needed to sort, behind-the-scenes. I want to not just be a freelancer, but a successful freelancer that's able to actually support themselves once the government stops giving me safety-money. This will involve adjusting some things, and being brutally honest with myself about the amount of work I put into a commission, vs the income I make from said piece. "I could be making 10 commissions at 5$ a piece to get 50$ after putting in 10 hours, or I could make 70$ putting all my focus on one commission, for 3 hours", that sort of thing.

My art-based prices may see some inflation -- but I've been pretty good at being aware when I want to do an easy-and-cheap piece vs a bigger behemoth that would be well worth the triple digits in price.

My biggest hangup is the written fics. Writing is HARD, guys. After wrapping up my current written-fic orders, I may either close off the written orders for a while, or give it a really drastic up-price to make the effort involved worth-it. By contrast, I may occasionally dabble into writing more original one-shots, and maybe sell those at single-digit dollar amounts? I would be open to prompts and suggested-scenes, but the main content-creation and direction would be on my call. I'll have to see how I feel about that down the road, once I'm done wrapping up a few things, but that's where my mind's at, for now.

In more positive news!

I've been working as an intern to a beautiful art school that I'm very passionate about, before COVID hit. In exchange for volunteering there, I would be given a free art course on building technique. It was a very good trade. I got to know the school's admin, brush elbows with cool people, and all I had to do was clean some painter-studios and do some dishes. I loved it. COVID happening meant I couldn't show up to physically volunteer anymore, but the admin liked me enough to basically make an IOU-tab of hours I need to give back to the school when opportunity allows.
And then a surprising twist happened: a few days ago, the admin called me up, and straight up offered me a part-time job at the studio. It would be the same work I did as an intern, but now paid 14$ an hour, which is the most money in hourly-wage I've ever made that wasn't under-the-table or through commissions. The admin's very understanding about risks involved and wants to also ensure my safety. I start next tuesday. This is big, guys. This means I have more regular income security on top of my freelance-hustles, which is a huge weight off of my shoulders. It's going to give me some play-space to explore, expand, try new things, take some risks, and grow further as a creator.

(I say this, on my piss-kink furry smut account. This will never stop being fucking hilarious to me.)

Anyway. I'm still not fully at 100% all-systems go, but I'm upwards-spiraling back into my own workflow, and I'm hoping to be able to pick up commission work on here once again soon. OPTIMISTICALLY I'm hoping by next week I'll either knock out a chunk of the writing fic I owe, if not complete it as a whole, and then be able to pick up art auctions once again with a clearer plate.

Thank you all for your endless patience!

So I'm a big smut enthusiast, this much is evident. And I fucking love words. More than words -- I love text-based roleplaying with other writers I enjoy.

AND IT'S REAL HARD TO FIND OMO PARTNERS. Where are y'at, ya'll.

I got Discord, Tapestries, and while I've never roleplayed on F-List I heard it's a thing.

Guess who's fucking fed up with their own inconsistent procrastination habits IT'S MEEEEEEEEEEEE

So I have ADHD. I'm medicated for it, which does help to get things done and actually complete things, but ADHD is notorious for it digs its Quirkiness so much deeper than "hard time sitting still" traits. One of these traits is a higher emotional sensitivity and disregulations. I feel everything at 11 on a 1 to 10 scale. Which is great when it's good moods, but when it's bad? It's bad.

Procrastination is born out of the Bad Moods. Anxiety and fear locks you up from completing a task. I found that the less I care about if something is good or not, the easier it is for me to complete it. (Which is partially why doing a ton of commissions on characters that aren't my own -- was so much easier than making my own content.) But, the second I start to care? That I want to do a good job? Perfectionism sinks its fangs in, and I'm stuck in place without a paddle. I knew procrastination was happening, but everything I tried to get through it (forcing myself to 'paddle by hand', to Just Do It, to analyze how I got there, to envisioning the end, etc) just Did Not Work.

So I hired an ADHD-specific coach! We only had one session so far -- but she's been an absolute saint. For one thing, I didn't know my procrastination was so Perfectionism-Driven. Finding this, we could smash the keystone piece that was triggering my executive-dysfunction. By picking apart perfectionism and reminding myself that I can "loosely reach near the intended goal" in more than one attempt, I could ground myself back into action. The opposite of procrastination isn't forcing yourself to Do the Thing, but to be enthusiastic about doing the thing to the point that it takes actual willpower to stop yourself from doing it.

Canada's funny in how it's handling this whole Pandemic situation. I fall within the bracket of people that is being given funds to survive -- and it's more funds than what I made when I had a full time job. It's really surreal. I'm doing better than I used to be doing before the Quarantine. So now that the initial emotional crash is dealt with, I'm using these extra funds to fix my brain.

I have a bit of a backlog of commissions, tasks, and jobs to do (especially as I'm also sewing facemasks for my local community), but I'm hoping to be able to get back to the grind. And get back to it CONSISTENTLY soon. No more anxiety-driven procrastination.

Don't let Perfect kill the Good.

I don't know my exact estimated schedule of being back on the grind, but I'm hoping it will be soon. Stay tuned! And thank you for your patience.

For those hoping for posts/replies today, I took a terrible gamble with some frozen meat and lost. I'm gon' rest today, oop.

There's a dude going around with very short PMs who'll buy a commission but never actually pay, as a heads up. I'm owed 90$USD but it looks like it's not gonna come in. Damn.

He seems to go through a bunch of accounts pretty quick, as they also get banned equally quick. If someone sounds off or like a very weirdly difficult client, toss 'em out like yesterday's trash.

stay safe!

So as I mentioned in my latest comic-submission here https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35258919/ I! Have decided to go "Fuck it" on the day job and I'm going to see how far I can get by being active on here. (along with a few other SFW art venues, random contracts, and just ... Whatever hustles I can manage while freelancing.)

All I know is that I physically and spiritually cannot do the 40h work week anymore. I just. Cannot. I've tried the whole "Save for three months in advance before you freelance" thing, but that hasn't worked for me in the past five years when your'e shifting from minimum wage to minimum wage.

In the end, me working at these places was a disservice to everyone. To the employees that hire me, to my audience, to myself. NoOneLikedThat.jpg

So let's see what happens next. I'm going to be cleaning things up and replying to the long-abandoned notes. Horribly sorry about having fallen off of the face of the earth yet again, as I seem to have a terrible habit of it. This time, though, I want to go all in. It's time to fucking commit to trusting myself, for once.

If I'm going to fail, I want to at least say I tried my best.

ONWARDS!