EarthnAshes

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CREDITS:

Armorwing (Artist Showcase):

https://www.deviantart.com/armorwing

SaffyreArts (Artist Showcase):

https://www.facebook.com/SaffyreARTS?mibextid=ZbWKwL

A shoutout to Kyrit for being selected as community member of the month! Thank you so much for being a part of this community, and congratulations!

PyritKyrit (Community Member of the Month):

https://www.deviantart.com/pyritkyrit

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You can support my art and join my community via Patreon!

https://www.patreon.com/earthsong9405

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Another month, another newsletter! As a side note, all the events listed are hosted in my community discord! The only one that's completely open to everyone is the hangout streams. :]

More from me to come soon! :>

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CREDITS:

Sylph264 (Birds and the Boofs artwork):

https://linktr.ee/sylph264

Dani-Kitsune (Artist Showcase):

https://www.instagram.com/danikitsune/

Pokelobo (Artist Showcase):

https://www.instagram.com/pokelobo9/

A shoutout to Obieros for being selected as community member of the month! Thank you so much for being a part of this community, and congratulations!

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You may support my art and join my community via Patreon!

https://www.patreon.com/earthsong9405

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Well well well. It's been a long time, huh? :)

Heyoooo everyone I have returned from the dead! As of February my hiatus is officially over, though I will still be slow to allow myself to ease back into having an active online presence to make sure I don't burn out again. But in the meantime; my first newsletter! One of the few things I've been cooking up over the last couple of months. owo

Figured it'd be a great first post on most of my social media. I've been up to quite a bit; I may do a much more in depth text post about it later, but until then I hope ya'll enjoy this first entry!

More from me to come soon! :>

HEYOOOO Ya'll! I could've sworn I posted about this but when I double checked I apparently hadn't. So to clear that up real quick:

I am currently in a HIATUS.

The hiatus actually started a couple of months ago but I forgot to post that here; I apologize for that! With the sole exception of commissioned artwork (which I'll resume scheduled posting after Christmas) and commission slot openings for income, I will be relatively dormant on all my public socials in terms of fanart, aus, original stuff, the like. I currently don't have a concrete date of when my hiatus will end, but it will likely be mid-to-late February as a soft timeline.

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New Year Changes:

With the coming of 2024 and a shift in perspective, I've decided to make a few changes in how I conduct my work online with the goal of creating more without nearly as much stress. I don't think I wanna handle another burnout like I did this year x_x As such, some of those changes are as follows:

-Patreon will be my new main art hub. All of my public galleries (Deviantart, Tumblr, Twitter, Blusky) will be relegated to hosting mainly my commissioned work, with the occasional OC piece or fanart/headcanon art. Patreon however will be the opposite, and will exclusively host all of my artwork and creations unfiltered: OC projects and original works, fanart and headcanons, WIPs and unfinished art, AUs, fanfics and written pieces. Basically EVERYTHING I create will be posted on Patreon for the sake of having it in one easy and accessible spot. Most of this will be accessible to the $1 tier, but tiers $3 and up will receive additional benefits such as:

-Access to my discord community

-Sneak Peeks and early access

-Monthly Newsletter

-Permanent Commission Discounts

-Design and Lineart packs

The new tiers aren't up yet so the info hasn't been updated as of today, but should be visible by Jan 3rd 2024.

-I will be opening an online store. I planned to do this much earlier in the year but things got in the way of that idea, so I will be doing so in 2024 instead. The store will be relatively small and hosted on my Ko-Fi, and will have cheap merch (stuff like buttons and stickers, prints) and digital products (P2U design packs, lineart packs, character bases). I'd like a more passive source of income and a much more affordable method to be able to nab some of my art :>

-Tentative return to convention vending. It's been roughly 4-5 years since I've last vended and sold my art in person, SO I'm placing the personal goal on myself to attend at least 1 convention as a business venture! I don't know which convention that'll be yet, but if I manage to snag a table somewhere I will definitely let ya'll know! :]

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Aaaaand that's all I have for now. Lemme know if ya have any questions or concerns, but otherwise I hope ya'll have a safe and enjoyable holiday! Thank you so much for your support, I'll talk to ya'll soon! :]

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER COMMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED!

Thank you so much to everyone who applied! I will be going through the orders and choosing them soon, so please keep your eyes open on your respective DMs!

In the meantime, this post will be deleted within a week as a headsup! The next time I open commission slots will either be for a short special, or sometime in late November/beginning of December. I'll letcha know; until then thank you again everyone for the support; I appreciate ya'll, thank you!

Have a good rest of your week everyone! :>

Prices | ToS | Examples | Order Form:

https://earthnashes.carrd.co/#PRICES

Alternatively, if you'd rather you're free to DM me here or via Discord with your order!

Quick Examples:

If you want early access to slots as well as live updates for openings, specials, newsletters, sales, and more please feel free to join my Newsletter Discord HERE!

I got very longwinded so I put the rest under the dividers. But TL;DR of this update:

-Once my current queue is done, I will be taking an indefinite hiatus from accepting commissions. There will be exceptions in the form of sporadic specials and Patreon-exclusive slot openings.

-There will be a “final hurrah” special I will very likely hold for maybe a month before that hiatus comes into play. Will be the final time I will accept commissions before hiatus.

-Hiatus will be spent focused on personal projects, overall art improvement, and content creation. I miss making headcanons man as often as I did, man. ;w;

-Hiatus will, at most, last for the rest of 2023. More likely, though, it’ll last only a few months, but regular commissions will return with certainty uwu

So ye! :]

But if you want the long version...

This week is Deload week for training before my PR tests, which means I am taking a recovery period from weightlifting before I go back to hit them goal numbers hard as I can. And with it comes a coincidental introspective on my career as a freelance artist so far.

When May rolls around, it’d be 4 years since I quit my day job and took on commissions as my official primary means of income, and making my art my near entire source of income. I’ve definitely taken commissions long before that, but it was very much both amateur and part-time for the most part with my focus being elsewhere: either on school, or a job.

4 years of being able to independently live on my own thanks to the support I receive from everyone is more than I can ask for. But it is also a decent amount of time to be drawing for others!

Lemme counter that though by saying I’m not actually sad or upset about it or like. Need any sort of condolences or anything of that sort. Quite the contrary; I love doing commissions! Money is a factor in it, yeah, I’d be a fucking liar if it wasn’t; I have to eat and pay those pesky bills to make art. But a large part of why I love commissions is because I very much enjoy drawing for people. To me, being given a commission is being given the permission and trust to handle a small fragment of the person with care. I’m given a glimpse into who the person is, what they like, what stories they have to tell. So I try to give them my best foot forward and produce a piece they’ll enjoy. I personally find the entire process of creating for others very sweet and fun and it makes me happy that I’m allowed the honor of drawing for someone. :)

But through a lot of trial and error I’ve also come to remember how much I enjoy drawing for myself too, and how much I miss it. I don’t really draw for myself much anymore. I don’t really have the time to, mainly, but that’s largely my own doing. Past rookie stumbles biting me in the ass, living and learning. ;w; But I’m only bringing it up now because I am finally getting fucking close to finishing the queue I have, and with it comes the decision of taking an indefinite hiatus away from taking commissions.

The hiatus will at minimum be a couple of months, but I’m hoping I’ll be able to take it for the rest of the year. Got a lot of plannin’ to do if I intend on taking it that long! One such thing is doing a “last hurrah” special. The commissions will have to be simple and small so I don’t like, destroy myself in the process, but the idea is to take as many simplistic commissions as I can before I go into hiatus. It’ll be the official final time I’ll accept orders on mass before it’ll become very sporadic at best, at least until I bring the hiatus to an end.

Another is finally making an official store front for merch. Already have ideas of what I’d offer; most of them will be small and relatively cheap, and others would be like P2U designs and refs you could use for OCs ;w;

Lastly is more time spent on energy toward my Patreon and streaming; more early access, more character requests, more comics, so on and so forth. uwu

But ye! In closing, I’m just lettin’ my brain do the big think and I wanted to let ya’ll know the basic going’s on. As such, as you can imagine I will likely not be terribly active with art posting for the next few weeks outside of commissions I've completed ;w; I’ll still be around if you have questions and what not, but ye!

Sorry for talking you ear off, and if you made it this far, you should treat yourself no cap. Thank you so much everyone, I’ll talk to ya soon! owo