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Commission Info

tldr; I do Digital and Watercolor, $30 and up for digital, $90 and up for watercolor, paypal only. Level of detail is what determines price, works requiring research will cost extra. I charge up-front at the sketch stage. Message me here on tumblr, or email me at [email protected] to discuss your commission idea!

nothing is off limits for inquiring about (I won't judge) due to this being tumblr I haven't included nsfw examples, but am happy to do explicit art, as well as most kinds of violence/gore. I reserve the right to refuse anything without explanation.

Digital Commission Info!:

All digital commissions include 2 rounds of edits, the first at the sketch stage (at which point payment is required) and the second is when it's finished. if further edits are wanted, they will cost extra.

$30:

$60:

$90-$120:

Watercolor Commission Info!:

All watercolor commissions come with one opportunity for edits, when the sketch is complete. Due to the nature of traditional painting, the types of revisions available after that are limited (we can always discuss options if something comes out in a way you aren't happy with)

Watercolor commissions start at $90 for a painting 6"x9" or smaller. Price includes US shipping, international will cost extra, I cannot ship to every country so check first. All watercolor paintings also include a high resolution digital scan of the piece.

$90:

$120-$150:

and finally the $300+ range:

Comic Commissions!:

Comic commissions start at $150 per page, digital, watercolor, traditionally inked, or marker.

Examples of my comics can be found at:

@illbehome (watercolor, 30 pages, half letter size)

The world was already a prison (traditionally inked and watercolor, 6 pages, full letter size)

#digital art #watercolor #commissions open #commission #my art #original art #fanart

queenlua

btw did you know Seattle now has a zine store

...b/c it totally does & it whips

some of my fave pickups from opening weekend:

94 feet and a peach basket by jeremiah wistrom: did a DOUBLE TAKE when i opened this one & was like holy shit i know that basketball court!!! i've BEEN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD!!! and the accompanying writeup was like "yeah i was eating a sandwich in boston's north end & did a double take when i turned a corner and there was a basketball court shoved right up in there?" and i'm like I KNOW THE SANDWICH YOU ATE haha

but yeah—beyond that initial shock of startled & delighted recognition, it turns out this whole book is a photomemoir of sorts, in which the author's taken all these (cool/interesting/from-unusual-angles/etc) photographs of random basketball courts in all these places he's visited, all across the country, and written up a little bit about the history/context/etc of each one, what it was like to shoot some hoops there, what brought them there, etc, and... just a lot of love & interest & local color in it, i really adored reading through the thing

it reminded me a lot of what i love about birding: like birding, i guess you can in fact do basketball Everywhere and just by doing it you learn a little bit about Everywhere in the process.

weird tigers by kiriska: AS ADVERTISED. 10/10 delightful. i love every weird-ass tiger in these pages

what horse are you? by aya borucki: i'm a friesian :)

ἄγχω (ankhō) by s. barnes: i love it when things are claustrophobic & paranoid & bad! spend the Night Before Battle inside the trojan horse with Odysseus, in glorious black & orange :)))))

i picked up a bunch of other zines too and spent too much money ahlgiehalgie... no time to photograph them all, but, there's unsettlingly-illustrated toxic fish! there's traumatized geese! there's surprisingly-affecting poetry! it's all good shit

so yeah!!! go check out the Paper Pusher's Print Shop if you're in the area, it's a cool spot

wrdnrd

I met one of the organizers this past weekend at the Seattle Art Book Fair, so i want to add a little more info about this cool shop! It's a pop-up shop as part of a Seattle vacant storefront project.

Address

1200 5th Avenue Seattle, WA 98101

Hours

Monday: Closed

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: 11 am – 6 pm

Thursday: 11 am – 6 pm

Friday: 11 am – 6 pm

Saturday: 11 am – 5 pm

Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm

Because it's a pop-up shop, sadly this cute little store has an end date. 😥 Visit it before...

September 15, 2026

mellific

print shop real!!!! thanks to everyone who came out to the paper pushers opening yesterday, it was so so so cool to see people in the space reading the books 💚

ALSO if you're a consigning artist and you want pics of your books in the store shoot me a message and i'll grab some for you!!!

#I absolutely need to visit when I can!!!#my zines should be arriving this week :)

hms-no-fun

in light of today's events, i want to share a story i was told during a study abroad summer in italy, where i took a class on the rise of fascism.

the picture below is the site of a mass grave. captive partisans were brought here by nazis, forced to dig, and then executed on the spot.

our tour guide, who was delighted by our group because tourists never ask about fascism, walked us forty minutes to this vineyard in the middle of nowhere. there were no signs on the road. us americans were worried about trespassing, since no one on the property was around.

he took us to this grove and explained that the partisans were young communists from the nearby town of arezzo. local land & business owners, even their parents and friends, had eagerly ratted them out because they saw nazi occupation as bringing order back to the region.

we learned that many in central italy still to this day see nazis as heroes and americans as villains, because the nazis got rid of those troublesome punks while the americans brought bombs and tanks.

then our tour guide informed us that his own grandfather was one of the partisans executed here.

he told us that the nazis lined them up one by one and shot each in the head, and more times in the chest. but human beings are hard to kill, and it was known that even this kind of brutality was survivable.

so they threw grenades into the grave, just to be sure.

this was standard practice.

nestled in the bushes nearby with zero fanfare stands a single solitary monument. there are monuments just like it all across italy.

what stuck with me was not just the cruelty of the nazis. it was the callousness of the turncoats, who never stopped believing that they had done the right thing.

whether by nature or nurture, there is a class of people who will always prefer death and destruction over a reduction in profits. they cannot be reasoned with. they cannot be taught empathy. they will watch young people shot, dismembered, and buried alive, and they will say that god is good.

there is no reform. there is no compromise.

believe what your eyes see. listen to what your heart tells you. we are surrounded by systems that exist to launder guilt and naturalize structures of oppression, so that we side against our senses.

but you know exactly what is happening. you do.

we are waking up from a dream of peace in the interregnum of a war that never went away. the fruits of our nation's conduct, a largely bipartisan project from the start, have arrived by the truck-full. it did not come out of nowhere. it's not new, or unprecedented, or even particularly surprising.

what it IS, however, is the present. it's not a history book. it's not a mass grave. it is happening right now.

and right now, this moment and each moment after, is the *only* moment you will ever own.

stories will be told about this era for years to come. but only we are its authors.

only you.

only us.

"a meditation on grounding techniques" November 14th 2025

#my art #watercolor sketch #sketchbook #watercolor #mental health #abstract art #I don't usually do abstract art but idk I was having a time of it! I put it as I was 'feeling some sort of way' and later identified that #what I was feeling was anguish #I think this will get a full scale painting based on it at some point because in a discord I also said this paiting was of “calm being held #deliberately with a great amount of effort“ and I think that #'deliberately with great effort' would be a sick name for a large abstract painting about grounding practices #thank you for reading my behind the scenes artist commentary in the tags. pls like the post you don't need to reblog it it's okay

angry-comics

it is #makeaterriblecomicday2025 so i have done that

#other people's art

it is Make A Terrible Comic Day, you too should make a terrible comic. right now. it can be terribler than mine, in fact, you should deliberately make it terribler and put it in a reblog and I will re reblog with your terriblest comic

#makeaterriblecomicday2025 #Make a Terrible Comic Day 2025 #comic #sketch #pen sketch #my art #original art

ethemreal

ferry north from Bellingham to Ketchikan

ethemreal

in and around Ketchikan

ethemreal

the ferry back home

#my art #original art #alaska ferry #alaska #ferry #pen sketch #sketchbook #plein air

ethemreal

ferry north from Bellingham to Ketchikan

ethemreal

in and around Ketchikan

#my art #original art #plein air #sketchbook #sketch #pen sketch #fountain pen #watercolor #ketchikan

ferry north from Bellingham to Ketchikan

#my art #original art #plein air #sketchbook #sketch #watercolor #pen sketch #fountain pen #ferry

apocraphelion

❤️😭 never did finish this sketch

apocraphelion

doodlemancy

Hey, so, Patreon is lying to you about Apple forcing their hand.

Patreon is getting rid of 1st-of-the-month/per-creation billing, claiming a new decision by Apple has forced their hand. This will hurt a lot of creatives, and their excuse is bullshit. Allow me to explain.

In 2018, Patreon tried to impose a new ill-considered fee structure on everyone that would have cost creators a lot of smaller pledges. They ended up apologizing for this profusely; they have now deleted this apology from their website and unfortunately I was unable to find it on the Internet Archive. This was shameful, but to their credit they backed off quickly when things got ugly.

Back in 2021, Patreon discussed plans to force all creators into a rolling bill structure and get rid of first-of-the-month/pay-up-front billing. The community once again very decisively shouted them down, and they had to walk it back again. This whole fiasco damaged the already shaky trust between Patreon creators and staff.

This week, Patreon announced that, along with extra fees, Apple's policies were supposedly forcing them to move everyone over to the rolling fee structure that they first tried to get us to agree to in 2021. Patreon will tell you they are not happy about this. As a person who spent a long time watching Patreon make terrible decisions, I can tell you-- they are probably very happy about this, because it's exactly the smokescreen they needed to do what they've been trying to do for years, which is pull ALL Patreon creators away from 1st-of-the-month and per-creation billing.

The spin in the news I've seen so far is "Apple bullies Patreon, boo hoo hoo poor Patreon". This is very obviously not what's happening. Mind you: Apple does suck, and they are doing something bad here. Fuck apple. But Patreon and Apple are BOTH the asshole in this situation; Everyone Sucks Here. Patreon has options: they can make the iOS app a reader app and do billing through the browser to avoid the restrictions and the extra fees (Netflix and Amazon, notably, both do this), or they can allow creators to opt-out of iOS billing if they want to use billing models that don't work with it.

It seems most likely to me that the Apple situation is a real fire that Patreon has chosen to use as a convenient smokescreen to do what they've been wanting to do since at least 2021, and maybe since 2018.

What do we do?:

They have a feedback form specifically about this.

They also have a creator discord.

And they have lots of social media pages where they probably really, really hope that this doesn't blow up again, because they never learn. The incidents I've described here aren't the only two other times Patreon has pissed off their creators. They know if they don't contain the noise it'll be harder to get away with it, so make some noise. They've done a lot of work to spin this cleverly so you'll have sympathy for them and they won't get the kind of backlash they know they deserve.

Please don't misuse these links and make threats or spam or something. All you have to do is give well-reasoned feedback. Patreon hates feedback. Make sure they get a nice heaping helping of their least favorite vegetable.