So recently I've kinda been hit by financial troubles again due of the change in medical compensations.
And cause money's tight in family overall, I have been getting more and more trouble with stretching my pennies
While as my commissions are basicly always open, I have been thinking of doing some sort of special sale
But what kind of sales are people intrested in?

Discounted special style/way?
YCH?
Bundle offer?
On stream special sales? like pay what you want?

I'd like to knooow.

Nothing more fun than hearing "I've never seen anything like that" from 2 nurses when you have mysterious red spots all over on your belly and legs.
third older nurse however clarified that the spots do not look anything like pox styled or allergy styled spots, so its most likely from the current flu traits weird ass shit factor causing some sort of skin irritation on older scar tissue or similiar
Just gotta keep eye on em and immidiatly call if they begin to act weirdly, but I think I got off with a scare?

Annoying tho cause my enterpreryereyrership has been starting off so sluggish due of this flu start and now this.

time to make it this year even lewder

Thank you all for the happy birthday messages
things went alright that day
c:

I am gonna have a muffin with a match as a candle today
and some coffee
cause december sucks for birthday parties timing wise, I really wanted to get a good meeting with ol highschool and college mates for once but bluh, another party was on top of my plans and rest of the timings sucked too, bluh.

So I’m gonna do another type of party today.
Later today I’ll aim to start streaming at 5PM (gmt 0), or so, atleast somewhere near the europian late/day evening times, before night.
But I’ll do bit more special stream and mostly do events during it;
-Request raffles!
-Suggestion rounds, a lot of em
-Trivia rounds.
and so on, like mostly silly thingies. Lot of raffles.

Also cause I have some steam stuff I personally have no use for I will also raffle/trivia some steam gifts;
- 1x Talisman digital edition
- 3x 100% orange juice
- 1x blade kitten
- 1x doom2
A lot of TF2 items I can give via trade for people who still play that, the reason I have these steam games for this raffle is cause I quit TF2 and I had a giiigantic inventory in that game, as I was an addict. I still have lot of TF2 items I couldn’t get rid off that are mostly cosmetics, taunts, stranges, etc. I can give bundles of those too if there are people who play it and would prefer some HATS HATS HATS.
if you do not have steam or already own any of these games, you can ignore this part.


so yeah, I guess this could be one type of party.

Things are getting lot easier and brighter for me now that I hit the hard limit on med spending and I get drastic level of compensation
Like seriously high, I basicly get them nearly free
Schools also easened up a lot task and hours wise
maybe I can focus on finishing lot of long due works now

no slot limits for now

I have reupped my commission rates and tweaked things up
In general, my rates vary with the piece in question but simplified it'd go bit like this;
waist ups; sketch 3$, full colour 15$
fullbody no bg; sketch 5-6$, full colour; 20 -25$
fullbody detailed up with BG; sketch 10$, full colour 35$.

I do my commission via paypal
If you wish to commission me note me up

DO's and DONTs;

In general, I am willing to try draw lot of things and I have nothing against trying new things. Work safe art is almost everything goes as long as its not hate art or illegal or so in those lines.

as I draw lot of nsfw content, it means I do take nsfw commissions, so just to note, there is where I have some no gos;

instant no-no;
-loli and other things in same vein with child like character in sexual ways.
-Guro and other very violent acts in sexual ways.
-scat (piss, poops, pukes and sewerage like that and related stuff are big no-no for me)
-Inflation
-MLP/Ponies related(sorry, just can’t and don’t want to get involved, even if sfw)
-highly Feral/straight out animal/zoophilic things
-vore (just kinda creeps me out)

when it comes to nsfw art, I also ask to make sure the owner of the character is okay with the commission if you’re commissioning me to draw someone elses OC in sexual way.

also note that even if something isn’t instant no no, I might not always be able to draw absolutely everything and there are some fetishes and the like that can be difficult for me to pull off or have some borders I do not wish to cross.

So I have now received my new computer
Set it up
Recovered the files
and so on

I just need to tweak up my tablet, streaming and few more programs, and I should be able to function properly again
I hope

and then begins the penny counting

my main computer finally decided to go dead.
ram started acting up and then motherboard.. which led to absolutely unusable experience with windows going haywire..
and it seems its not worthwhile to try replace parts cause how outdated it is so..
RIP.

I’ve managed to setup and clean up my laptop tho, and its functioning at acceptable level so far, but it definitely cannot do as much as my old desktop..

I’m glad I took backups when the first blue-screen appeared but my usb harddrive cannot hold everything I had, but at least I got the most important ones.

I ordered a new computer that should arrive shortly and I am able to pay for it piece by piece each month and my sister gave me enough pity to help me pay for it
tho, things will get rough now, I have basically now sunk to the counting pennies level, so I really have to pray that there wont be any expensive events a head, or I might not be able to pull through.

So yeah, until I get the new computer and manage to sort it out, I wont probably be arting or streaming as much and I am not really able to do much about commissions or other things either.

things just really went hell

So the depressive cycle decided to hit on the most important timing and just ruined the week.
so my activity plan and art spree didnt go completely as I planned, I did get some stuff done but nowhere near as much as I hoped
regardless, I will eventually post my updated commission info and keep up with other improvements as I go
I'll just put more focus on my weekends from now on

Alright so I got a nasty ass huge bill with worst timing in the book and I need to take care of it and not be 100% broke afterward
Thus I will aim to do a lot of commission related sale stuff the coming week where I have the time and I will also aim to work on my patreons outlook and promoting it more on the same time.

In general I hope to do more, more activity and try to push myself forwards art wise, as I wish to be able to be something that people might see worthwhile to use a few pennies on to get something out of that they like. So I hope to attempt to rack out some more finished works and not just be sketch city that I have normally been so far.
and when it comes to nsfw commissions, I might even attempt to see if I can push my normal greylines/rathernots a little bit, if I am able to. Though ofcourse, I won't touch my instant no no's.

So uhh, time to see how this will go. More energy to the art, woo!

so I finally got my studies arranged and accepted to one stage lower study line than my earlier
Normally one might think this is bad or something but in my place it's pretty awesome cause the old line I was in no longer excists in my area and I ran out of time to study in the old place anyway, and with all other issues I had, this was a big relief.

now I can put my old studies to use and get a degree that is actually useful for getting a job than my basic degree and this one non degree of bit of pieces I have

tho this ofcourse means my schedule now gets full and Ill have to hold back artistic wise but I'll probably still be able to squeeze time depending on how stuff goes, I mean, a lot of stuff is still out in the open and there's lot of stuff there that I already know so my schedule will probably have a lot of holes that will give me freetime, and maybe the whole getting more active might even inspire me more, who knows?

but yeah.

and holy shit t feels good not to be drained by the heat for once

Had fun and exhaustion
gonna be recovering for a bit now

Also Im gonna try keep things more sorted out and up to date nowdays
So i'll aim to update my tumblr, patreon and the likes to make things neater in the near days
Also
I'll aim to try schedule my streaming bit better and try announce em bit more earlier for better timing and the like
for exsample I am going to aim to stream today near 20:00 gmt 0, or atleast during the europian evening times.
I cannot really say for certain for the time but hey, should give better heads up than my usual stream whenever

Well I’m going to this big finnish metal event with my friends this weekend and won’t be back till sunday or late saturday
So no activity for me till then
I hope all goes alright cause there’s bit of tension in the group at the moment

I've been on these meds for a while now and they've been a huge help
Like holy crap, I feel so so much better and things have been going smoothly, and the dosage isn't even set to full yet
Slowly raising it up 10mg at a time.

but it has a nasty side thing; this med is expensive.
Like shees, I've used way too much money on this med and I'm starting to get broke soon

So I am more willing to do commissions than ever before right now cause I don't wanna be flat broke
otherwise things might get bit tricky

2 weeks till I get to med test the adhd meds
I am already excite cause holy shit if I can finally actually sit down and finish something without getting so easily distracted I could finally get some full potential out like aw yiss

why must time move so slow

just curious

So all the test results came in;
Seems I'm fine, no damage to kidneys or anything similiar, hormone levels and everything are normal, so this blood pressure isn't due of diseases, meaning its most likely genetic + lifestyle mess up according to the doc
Pills got changed to something my mom phrased as "the heavy altillery", and they are also cheaper than the other.
but most importantly I was told that there should no longer be any risks at testing the adhd meds.
So once these new meds drop the pressure enough, I should finally get to that med testing and maybe I'll finally break this witch circle of depressing due of lack of focus

Yay

https://www.patreon.com/CactusHege

If you wish to support me I would be more than grateful for it.
I know some people don't like artist using patreon cause they fear them becoming pay per view however I will not add anything that you wouldn't see for free eventually in there so no need to worry about that, basicly I'll add WIPs for stuff underwork at best.

So yeah,

I'm kinda gonna have a rough month coming and financially its probably gona be kinda hell.
So I'm thinking I could open like 10$ commissions or something soon
or put up one of those silly tip jar things? dunno.
I'm kinda postponing the patreon plans for quite a bit tho cause I happen to be europian and there has been a tax thing for virtual goods thing that patreon falls under and patreon refuses to do the tax thing automaticly so I might get in trouble for tax evasion or something appereantly.

*shrug*

If there's any intrest it'd be nice to know

This a bit of a personal I guess
Well a little history:
I've kinda always suffered from unable to focus on things which has left me to hustle a lot.
Like its probably rather visible on my drawings too, and it definatly has had a big impact on my school work, cause I'm having seriously trouble actually getting enough credits to get out of college already, not to mention my grades arent he prettiest either.
Luckily, I finally got a diagnosis (ADHD what a a suprise) on it that has given me a help from the school side and they plan to put on the meds..
..Plan to.

A rather nasty side thing was found out, cause the meds tend to raise blood pressure and do other things like that they wanted some measurements, I've always been pretty hard to get a good measure from but after getting used to it they got about accurate measurements.
..the number wasnt pretty and my doctor is seriously worried on how is it possible for me to have such high blood pressure at this age, considering my diet isn't even that bad as it is.
That reaction alone was scary, so they had to post pone the med testing and now they are gona consult a specializist to find out what could cause it and how to work on lowering this to a normal levels.

now this is gona be a financially hell, cause like, I have to pretty much start a diet, they are most likely gona put me on blood pressure controlling meds and appereantly the adhd meds are bit costy too, so when that time comes and I have a cocktail like that a head, I don't think my money's going to be enough.
Luckily my mom said she can help with the meds which is a big help.

and once more im just, scared about this. Its good they caught on to the blood pressure issue cause it appereantly is not allowed to get any higher than it currently is. And it really scares me. It just does.
And all the wait for finally getting to experience a mental relief for not having to use all resource on focus alone just gets blown further and further away

This is just really getting me down and I had to get this out of my chest cause im just so worry ridden now

huppy new year

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During this to end of december I'll be doing full colour drawings for 8$ a piece and sketches for 2$ a piece
If you are intrested do send me a note.

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There we go.

like for december just cause i dont know tho my commission side has never been too active to begin with
just wondering if theres intrest. :V