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They/Them, Neurodivergent, disabled, and queer small business selling stickers and hand painted minis in Victoria, Australia 🎨🌈🐦 https://vivsemporium.carrd.co/

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If you are new to my page, hello and welcome!

I am Vivian (they/them), a queer and autistic Australian/Melbourne-based artist who can't for the life of them stick to one hobby.

I'm a small art business owner of VivsEmporium, where I sell painted ttrpg minis such as Warhammer and Dungeons and Dragons minis, alongside digital art commissions, and stickers!

You can find me on Vivsemporium:

Instagram, Etsy, and Ko-fi

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you like my work :)!

Future projects/goals:

▪︎ Dioramas/environmental pieces for tabletop games with dnd scale system.

▪︎ A3 posters

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Another commission complete!!! All packed and ready to go to their new home! Painting horror-themed minis are always so interesting as you get to experiment with uhu glue, gloss varnishes and blood effects. Scorpion creature is definitely my favourite once I found the colour palette, just found myself having a lot of fun with the gradient of humanoid to scorpion. We already have another order lined up and OH BOI!! Its going to be so exciting!! All of them are also horror themed, large minis where some reach 8cm+ in height, and are very detailed. So keep an eye out!

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The dire bear!!! A quick and fun mini project that I completed this month. Still staying in the theme of this month it seems: tongues, teeth, and grossness. Finally treated myself to a new gloss varnish, so got to play with that too for the mouth and blood.

Fingers crossed my mini bases arrive this week, as I have a lot of chocobos (7 in total) that are ready to stand on bases and to have their photos taken.

May still touch up on the bear later on, but for now, i'm happy with how they've come out.

Sculpted by Mammoth Factory’s “Frostwild” collection

3D printed by Print3dChaosAU

Hand-painted by me

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OH AND LASTLY FOR TODAY: It's my 2 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳!!!!

Yaaay!! So proud to be sticking with VivsEmporium and with Tumblr 💜✨️ love you all so much!

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Todays post is of some of the work back in September and November with a regular commissioner of mine. This lovely individual has been supporting my business for a year now and is an absolute joy to work with. 

Currently painting monster minis which im really excited to show to all of you, and also have some fun projects that may potentially include some MASSIVE sculpts which will put my skills to the test.

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Wood paint pot racks out! Acrylic point pot racks in!!!! Say hello to a pretty and new aesthetic 🥰✨️💜

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Its that time again for another post! Staying with last weeks theme of tongues and grossness, we have the trapdoor mimics! Any sort of mimic mini is a favourite of mine to paint, and one that falls into regular rotation with keeping up with stock numbers. Speaking of, I have put through an order for SO MANY MIMICS!!! I will be sharing those to everyone when they arrive <3 Every mimic that I paint, comes as a set with both their mimic monstrous self, and their unassuming “im just a piece of furniture” mimic Sculpted by Epic Miniatures: a part of their Bandit Camp collection 3D printed from resin by Print3dChaosAU Hand-painted by me

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I had completed these two demon slugs back in August 2024, and now that im out of hiatus, its time to show the miniatures i’ve been working on :) I have a regular client who bought these from me before they were put up on Etsy. Might have to print and paint these again to show them off to Etsy and also just to play around with such a fun model. The last image is from my regular These were super fun to work on and was my first time using uhu glue as realistic strands of saliva. The green sections on the mini base have a glossy varnish for some extra grossness, as well as mouth + tongue Sculpted by Dragon Trappers Lodge and is a part of their The Yokai Lodge collection: with these minis named Hunger Spirits 3D printed from resin by MinosMakers Hand-painted by me

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Firstly, I would like to apologise to everyone who follows me on Tumblr, I went through burn out and some health problems in September 2024 and have had a lot of trouble to keep on top of my social medias. So, lets be transparent and give you all a reintroduction and get back in the swing of things.

Hello! I am Vivian, the creator of VivsEmporium! I started this business as a hobby project in January 2023, and started working on dnd environmental pieces. Not long after that, the craft hyperfixation kicked in HARD and its been ever evolving since. VivsEmporium delved next into miniature figurine painting with Warhammer AoS, then Dungeon and Dragons themes alongside Final Fantasy Chocobos and character minis. With the word emporium, I want it to introduce more mediums and experimentation, so that will be what this year includes; whilst still sticking to its roots of minipainting.

I have always been a creative person and have needed a creative outlet in order to stay sane. Ontop of that, I am disabled who depends on NDIS and DSP to get by. I am neurodivergent and have chronic pain conditions that have impacted the majority of my life: Fibromyalgia, HSD, CFS, chronic migraines. Meaning that working your definition of a job is something that is near impossible to me. So instead, I started up VivsEmporium to build routine and create pieces for others to enjoy!

There are downsides however and ones that force me to go into hiatus. I experience pain flares, which just amplifies my daily symptoms. This deeply affects my already weak hands that are always in pain, and can't push through like I normally do when in a flare.

Thankfully, October 2024, I started seeing specialists that take me and my condition seriously. With this, I am actively seeking help to strengthen and improve my quality of life after years of medical gaslighting.

With this support, one of my resolutions is to be more active and be more vulnerable online. Sharing experiences, showing progress, and just experimenting with the platform a little more.

Lastly, I do verbalise it on my personal instagram account, but I will here too: Free Palestine, ACAB, and wear a mask not only for your own protection but for those around you too! Covid is still very much real!  PS: The plushie is a giant anteater named Hamburger. If you see me vendoring at cons, he will be with me! Also i've thankfully transistioned out of the splint now and into a widget, which is like a wrist velcro cuff thing to support my hand instability!

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22 days remaining - Final Fantasy stickies with:

Half-body moogle - inspired by Final Fantasy 9's moogles

Full body moogle - inspired by Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals: Echos of Time.

Tonberry - whose design usually stays the same or has little variation.

With all the chocobos I paint, it was only fitting to get these three professionally printed to bring with me to markets and cons!

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Had a little infodump sesh on instagram stories after posting my sacoglossa sticker! So also sharing here so you don't miss out on my chaos <333

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Day 24 - The mascot of the sea slug superorder: Sacoglossa, is the Seabunny / Costasiella kuroshimae. The telltale signs of this particular species are their vibrant green bodies, pink cheeks and their floppy and distinct rhinophores (bunny-like ears which helps them navigate and sense food).

This superorder is special as they can photosynthesise as they eat the plant’s chloroplasts which is the organelle for energy production with help from UV rays of the sun.

There are 115+ species within this superorder and I have designed a few stickers, but this guy is the only one who has been professionally printed so far :) with me discovering Vograce, I really want to make some sticker packets and make it interactive and educational for the buyer.

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August is HERE!!! This means that I will be regularly posting my wares which you will find at Conquest Games Market and on my Etsy store, alongside a countdown to the market. Day 26! I design stickers when I have fallen into nature and game-related rabbitholes! So here we have the Sunfish (Bump-head Sunfish – Mola alexandrini) and the Red Ghost Crab (Ocypode mancrocera). Both printed from Rad Stickers <3 I do have more to come that will be professionally printed soon.

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With Conquest Games Market quickly approaching (31st of August), I have decided to put Etsy on holiday mode starting from August 1st and will be reopening on the 2nd of September.

This is because I am the sole artist of VivsEmporium and minis take me a significant amount of time to complete. To have enough merch for Conquest, I need to be building up with stock to prepare for this event. During this Etsy hiatus, my socials will still be active and will be sharing progress updates and completed minis that you will see on the big day!

Changes will be made to my Etsy once it is open for buyers again, such as removing stickers that have yet to be professionally printed and haven’t been doing well compared to others. This will make room for more sticker designs that I am very excited to make and show off to all of you.

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This Chocobo is a commission for someone who found me on Tumblr! This lovely person asked for a birb that entailed experimenting with brand new paints – SMS Colour Shift Galaxy that shifts from blue to purple, to get that interesting iridescent oil slick effect. 

Modelled Epic Miniatures and is a part of their "Lost Paradise" collection.

Printed by Print3dChaosAU

Handpainted by me

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Introducing you to the Faewild Stag! This mini is extra special as it's my first collaboration with Miniporium who has a 3D printing business with so many goodies, that I will definitely be using more of his services in the future. Go check out their website https://miniporium.au/ IMPORTANT INFO: Sculpted by Mini Monster Mayhem 3D printed from resin by Miniporium Hand-painted by me Standing at 95mm in height and placed on a custom 50mm base

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Introducing you to the Leocorn!

This mini is extra special as it's my first collaboration with Miniporium who has a 3D printing business with so many goodies, that I will definitely be using more of his services in the future.

Go check out their website https://miniporium.au/

IMPORTANT INFO:

Sculpted by RNEStudios and part of their 'Monster Hunters Vol.2' collection 3D printed from resin by Miniporium Hand-painted by me

Standing at 95mm in height and placed on a custom 50mm base