4 months ago I announced a small price increase incoming... Unfortunately due to my current life situation and events I'm forced to increase them by a lot, like a WHOLE lot more... like 2.5x across the board.

tldr: I don't like this one bit, but I have to charge more or give up on the only thing that gives me purpose in life

Let me explain why and sorry in advance, it's a long story. Firstly lets start off with my health condition. Ever since I was 16 I was dealing with nearly constant psychosomatic headaches. Psychosomatic pain is basically your brain signaling you a mental distress. Like stress induced tummy aches for example which is how they started in my case, but because I was forced to ignore them and push through due to school, they eventually evolved. Tummy aches weren't too hard to deal with so my brain eventually switched tactic to induce headaches which were much harder to ignore. First I've dealt with them by using painkillers, but after a year or 2 of using them nearly daily (you shouldn't use for more than 2 weeks in a row, but I was forced to) I developed drug resistance which persists to this day (it's relevant). Those headaches got so bad that They've gotten me nearly bedridden for at least 5 years. The only thing that kept me going was this fandom and art it makes. Decision to pay this community back by doing the same someday was the sole reason I haven't given up on life. During that time I was diagnosed with severe depression which probably developed due to unresolved trauma (lots of bulling in previous school decided to resurface), regular highschool stress and constant sleep deprivation. This created endless feedback loop of Headaches make me unable to act > Not being able to act makes my depression worse > Depression is mental distress fueling psychosomatic headaches which is pretty much impossible to treat due to my (you probably guessed it) drug resistance!
It took many years of trail and error to find something that helped at all, but headaches got more manageable. This leaves me with 4 hours or so when I can work, but not every day. Sometimes headaches and depression are too much to handle.

During those 4 hours I'm trying to draw and work on commissions, but because I'm completely talentless (however despite that still perfectionist), it takes me over a month to finish a piece.

Familiy's good will is running out. Telling me to give up on art and look for different carrier. The problem is there is nothing in my life that I find to be worth doing or even that I'm fit to do with my conditions and skills other than art.
At the same time with how long it takes me I estimated that if I'd like to make a minimum wage in my country, I'd have to charge at least 850 dollars for a single shaded character with no background and it's not reasonable price for a nobody like me, but I HAVE TO make way more than I currently do to quell their disappointment cause for most of my life I was just a leech. Not by a choice but still, I hate myself for that more than anything.

I'm really sorry but this is why the prices will go up by 2.5x or so. As much as I hate it, I just can't go on like this anymore... It's do or give up and die.
Of course everyone before my first price change announcement still will get asked for about as much as they expected. I won't shaft you guys like that out of nowhere, but everyone after can expect things to go way up...

If you've read all the way here, know that you're a real one. Thank you *hugs*

With inflation and pretty consistently filled queue I think i have to increases my prices, at least somewhat.
Those of you who are currently in the queue (5th Nov 2025) aren't going to be affected so don't worry!
But everyone in the future, expect everything to be 10-15 dollars higher or so. Gonna apply the changes to the commission page once everyone in current queue is finished

Life has been rough, but I really appreciate all your support! With you it's a lot easier to not be giving up! ^w^

Looks like the motherboard was at fault. Scary! But I've managed to get my hands on exact same model so there was no need to reinstall OS or anything, which is great! There was some data I didn't had space for on my clouds and pendrives. Additionally customizing Linux to my needs and preferences took forever and I'm glad I didn't had to do it again.

Now I can get back to working on the commissions, so If you'd like a slot then send me a note! ^w^

When I came home from vacation I found out that one or my ram cards fried. Additionally there may be something wrong with the motherboard, but this is still something I'm trying to examine properly.
Unfortunately this is going to cause some delays. Ram is pretty cheap but getting new motherboard may force me to buy new processor, ram and maybe even power supply and at this point I'd rather get a full upgrade. The problem is I don't have enough savings if it will become necessary. I'm not gonna beg or anything, but I need time to get this situation fully figured out.

I've been hesitating for a very long time with making actual social media due to my poor mental health but in the end I came to conclusion that with my condition I can't really do anything else in order to try to support myself. So, I'm on BlueSky now! Consider a follow if this is your prefered platform. Don't worry though! FA is my home and I have no intention to move on anywhere :3
https://bsky.app/profile/kasloth.bsky.social

On another note. My Commissions were closed for a longer time than I'd like to, but burnout crept in really hard and I needed some me time (personal piece). If it wasn't enough, I've
had to move away from Windows 10 to Linux (because 10's support will end in few months and pc is too weak to ugrade to 11) and setting everything up to run properly took forever.

With all that being said, COMMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN! Please note me if interested ^w^

I've been open non stop for the past 2 years and been challenging myself every time with something difficult with no breaks in between or even had any time to work on my own projects.
Burnout started to creep in pretty hard and I need some time wind down, do something simple and get some work done on the ideas that have been rotting in the back of my head all this time.

I'll open again after I finish this one commission currently in queue and get at least one personal project out.

I really wanted to draw something for this occasion, but I've had no free time since last year QwQ
Still very grateful non the less!

Also I've made a itaku a while back and kept forgetting to announce it. Better late than never (?)
Consider to follow if this is your platform of choice ^w^
https://itaku.ee/profile/kasloth