Pepperly's Bulletins
I'm working on my website again, where I'll be hosting up my ToS proper, and I just want to announce a couple updates:
Two are pretty obvious:
+ The Client shall not create Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) or sell any part of the Work using blockchain without the prior written consent of Author.
+ The Client shall not submit the Artwork to any AI databases without the prior written consent of Author.
I'm not a fan of AI or NFTs for the most part and I don't want my art added to the databases if I can help it.
The second one is an ease-up on my ToS:
The Client may not profit from the artwork. Physical original paintings and drawings may be resold for original price minus wear and tear. Digital resales may not be higher than 75% of the original price paid, and the new Owner must be linked back to to the ToS when transferring images. Images must continue to be credited to the Artist in every case. The Client may not resell the rights to the image.
Will be trimmed to:
The Client may not profit from the artwork. Physical original paintings and drawings may be resold for original price minus wear and tear. Digital resales may not be higher than the original price paid, and the new Owner must be linked back to to the ToS when transferring images. Images must continue to be credited to the Artist in every case. The Client may not resell the rights to the image.
So, yeah, you can do full value rather than 75%; I don't care, and probably haven't for years. I don't remember who gave me this advice but I know it's not really part of the culture anymore. I honestly wouldn't have taken a figurative metal bat to anyone over it, anyway. Might as well make it official. Just don't flip a profit off my stuff (I barely do it myself /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\), and we're peachy.
It'll probably be a while before it's live but I'd like to announce it now because I won't remember when I finally upload all my pages lmaoooo.
Thanks for readin', hope you find some money you misplaced!
https://dotzines.itch.io/boss-rush || twt / tmbr
Not TH related in the least but I spent a not-insignificant portion of February working on my piece for this and I want to boost it, haha. Anyway if you like video games, spend a few minutes checking it out! It's free! (Also the itch page has more free zines of differing subjects. I'm in the Pokemon x Animal Crossing zine too, if you remember that.)
I scanned up my sketchbook to make an e-zine of this year's Inktober (I actually completed it!) If you like my stuff or just want to give me $2 (minus "tax") and get something neat in return, do take a look! It's got a mix of fanart and OCs and some random original things.
Global apologies for disappearing like I did for as long as I did. I thought I’d be back in less than a month, two at most, but it’s been … several very hard months.
Like I posted on my last journal, my mother got sick late in September and there were a couple of complications. Most of my time was being with her and worrying about her; I lost basically all my motivation for everything I loved as time passed. I don’t have any interest in my characters at the moment. Hopefully that’ll return. Drawing’s been… something else. I have a few things to scan that I did in bed when I couldn’t sleep some nights, but it’s not much. I want to get used to it again, now that she’s passed and I have more time again. I’ll probably do ArtFight this coming month since it’s right around the corner, get my habits rolling, and use those entries to do some fresh commission examples, etc etc.
I have half a billion messages to reply to. I’ll get to them in order of importance, but I’ll probably be a bit slow. Apologies for that too. And as I don’t have any motivation for my characters, I’ll probably mass private them as well.
A bit more detail for the initiated:
We expected her to get better, but as time passed, it was just “one more month and it’ll be better” but it was always one month away, or more, no matter how much time passed. We thought she’d be home for Halloween, then Thanksgiving (we had dinner at the hospital, fun times), then we hoped Christmas, then my birthday. All she had to do was walk and eat a bit better. By the time the year rolled over we were just hoping she could stand on her own, and gave up on her being able to walk again, as she had gone from just doing physical rehab to needing full nurse care. By this point she was almost in constant pain. She got real sick again in March, and spent two days in CCU and didn’t wake up at all. those two days We spent 8+ hours there every day she was there, hoping for improvements. The day before she was admitted, the physical therapist had given up on her completely.
When she woke up she wasn’t the same person, and it was suddenly downhill from there. She struggled to eat anything as nothing but yogurt and Ensure would stay down, had hallucinations, her energy level was like a rollercoaster and we’d never be able to predict it. She had lost over 50lbs in half a year and it kept going down. By mid-May they said to put her in hospice and/or give her a feeding tube. We went with the latter since we couldn’t afford the former (We applied for medicaid but it didn’t go through in time, but if it did she would’ve gotten hospice then), and we had hopes that’ll turn around. Less than a week before her surgery appointment she ended up passing away. The week leading up to that day she was looking way better, too. She was energetic and almost herself for a while, and it was amazing. She wanted to get up and walk, wanted to eat, wanted to talk to us. We were so excited. She then had a sleepy Saturday and passed away that evening.
It was really sudden, and though hindsight is 20:20 where we can kinda see where her health started declining before all this… we don’t have any guilt. We did everything we could that was within our power, stayed by her side every day, and then she was gone sooner than we expected. We thought we had more time. We have a wedding to attend this fall, we thought she would still be around for it. Dad expected another anniversary to come and go. Her candle burned bright and then… poof. At least she’s not in pain, but it still hurts for us. I’m going to miss her.
It’s been really hard. It’s been constant, rolling stress at home for months. It’s tapering off as things come to a close, her funeral came and went, I saw family I didn’t even know existed (one of which wanted to fight for the funeral plots). We’re learning to cope, but I know some days will be really tough; I’ll have to realize that she’s not going to be here for our holidays and birthdays. The holidays sucked with her sick, but with her being completely gone, when she was always the center of the festivities…
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tl;dr: been away, busy helping take care of sick mom, she passed away, I'm trying to function as a person again.
Hi, sorry for the sudden disappearance, but life has hit absolutely awful hard and I haven't really been home enough to do anything other than sleep and sometimes mope. I am beyond the point of exhaustion. I've been visiting my mother every day for hours on end as she's been hoping in and out of the hospital and rehabilitation homes, and we've gotten notice today that she possibly has cancer, which is completely out of the blue as she does'nt do the normal cancerous activities and we have absolutely none in the family. I'm exhausted; never home, and I cannot focus on things I enjoy right now. I'll be sure to sit down to do things I owe, but I'm just overwhelmed with life right now.
I hope everyone has a good holiday season; I'll be back as soon as legitimately possible.
If you or someone else is reselling an adopt and it has my art attached, and if the art has one of my big watermarks as seen [Here, current] or [Here, retired] and the reseller cannot reproduce the art without my watermark, there is a 99% chance it has no monetary value, and was obtained for free through a drawthread, request board, or artfight. Traded art has no monetary value, but will also not have my watermarks; but it can have art-value when participating in future trades. Most, if not all, "watermarkless" large art still has a small signature or small pixel watermark somewhere on the image; do not worry about those small ones. Pixels may or may not have value, please inquire if you want to double check, but larger pixels with watermarks do not have value, guaranteed [example],
I have also made a handful of free adopts/designs from the arthread boards, they cannot be sold or traded for any reason. Please check the toyhou.se permissions page on these, I believe I've marked all of them as regift-only.
Related, the only people who should see the watermark-free art of any of my designs or commissions or trades are myself and the persons who handle it. I heavily watermark all art that I post publicly, and art with my watermarks in character galleries were obtained freely. If a commissionee or someone I traded with reposted the watermarkless art without my permission publicly, I deny all responsibility for stolen art/characters.
I'm honestly kind of tired of reading about resellers bumping up prices, and people selling/trading designs they got from free boards, and honestly they should be considered scalpers. @ ___@
tl;dr As a guide, when shopping for adopts and my large, personal watermark is within a character gallery, it generally means it has no monetary value, and should not be counted when reselling/vouching a character. Traded art has no monetary value in terms of reselling or vouchers, but you may consider an internal value when participating in trades (as chibi/waistup/etc but not in terms of money). If a free design was acquired from a drawthread, it can only be regifted.
->As a small reminder, I do not allow any of my designs to be resold using vouchers, no matter the acquisition.
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This website looks pretty good! It might handle better than my current setup (which I'll keep up regardless, for fellow paypal-ers); even though I love my forms I keep not getting replies to my confirmation emails. :(a
[taken from here]
I thought this would be interesting to fill out?
Bolded = ultimate fav
Underlined = ultimate un-fav
General Feel
Do
- Nice silhouette
- Good amount of contrast (value/color)
- Bipedal
- Bright / Colorful
Don't
- Muzzles
- Beaks
- Greys/Drab palette with no saturated accent color
Species Preferences
Do
- 3-ish unique traits + interesting lore
- Memorizable markings
- Nice silhouette
- Easily clothed
- Cute
- Harpies
- Foxes
- Cats
- Toe Beans
Don't
- Sparkledogs
- Most CS animals, tbh
- "Closed species" that are a human with a single very generic trait tacked on (ie: kemonomimi)
- CS with every trait under the moon
- Goats/Horses
- Aquatics
- Insects/Spiders
Body Type Preferences
Do
- Pretty much anything, as long as it's "proportional"
- Seriously, as long as I can imagine it moving/balanced, it's probably fine
Don't
- Extra limbs
- Missing limbs (prosthetics are cool tho?)
- Body horror
- Extra eyes
- Hyper
Colour Preferences
Do
- Y e l l o w
- Anything + yellow accent (I'm serious)
- Primaries
- Blue + opposite value brown (light + dark)
- Floral colors
- Antique palettes
- Natural colors+markings of birds/fish/lizards
Don't
- Single hue schemes
- Super pastel
- Super dark
- Taste the Rainbow
- Pure Black or White
Marking Preferences
Do
- Gradients+ sharp markings
- Swoopy
- Freckles
- Natural markings of mammals
- Runes
Don't
- Markings with no "theme"
Accessories Preferences
Do
- Swoopy things: Capes, Cords, Scarves, Ribbons, long Coats, long Hair
- Scars
- Weapons
- Pockets/Pouches with things inside
- Magic charms
Don't
- Hot Topic
- "Kinky" accessories
- Sexualized anything
Miscellaneous Preferences
Likes
- Feathers
- Androgynous designs
- Wings
- RPG-styled outfits from "during the age of exploration" (see: Skies of Arcadia/Radiata Stories/U3P worlds of Star Ocean)
- Dandy, Venetian, Renaissance
- Light Armor
- Blind in one eye
- Girls who can beat up boys/monsters/whatever
- Boys who can be sad/weak
- Silliness
- Magical
- Anthro feet with open-toe shoes
Dislikes
- Hot Topic/Rave outfits
- Most cyberpunk, steampunk
- Lolita (Current/Japanese)
- Young kids/babies
- Old enough for me to have to figure out how to draw sagging wrinkles