Hello folks. A most busy month has passed for me, half of it more or less taken by post-convention sickness so art proper has been slower than I would have liked. This said all of September's patreon rewards have been completed as have some commissions been to be uploaded soon.

Now everyone by now has heard about the Patreon hack, the personal infos and messages leaked. At first some thought it was a Gamergate-sponsored attacked against Patreon for it's banning of projects meant to defame targets of Gamergate... since then, things seems to hint that it was nonetheless trolls trying to rile up Gamergate in the first place.
At this rate it matters little and with Patreon's own fault in their handling of security(a fault apparently shared by -many-, perhaps thousands, sites to a scary level, according to commenters on ars technica http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/patreon-was-warned-of-serious-website-flaw-5-days-before-it-was-hacked//)... what is done is done.

Some people are leaving Patreon.... myself I have to consider staying. Currently, even if small, it represent too large a chunk of my income to afford to drop it like a cold fish. If an alternative rise up, I will give it a look but at the same time.... there is no other alternative in the -now- that I know of for me to consider leaving right away is the truth. But I understand if friends and backers are moving away after the hack.
I just hate being made into ammunition for one's assuhole's trolling.

No to go back to the wider subject of art commissions...

I'll be frank, while commissions have been doing okay, finances wise things might still be better. I've mulled things over the last couple of month so while I do not intend to outright change my prices, I have decided to take commissions payments exclusively in US dollar for now on.

Payment in CAD will be refunded and an invoice in USD will thus be sent to commissioners who accidently paid in another currency.

Following on the subject of commissions I am updating my rules for TF sequences.

Basically I will still take sequences commissions.
However due to the logistic and effort they require over single images commissions, I will not accept more than one sequence commission per month. Status for TF sequences commissions will thus be stated on my profile whether I am open or closed to such comissions for the month.

Due to the long effort it takes to produces them, I put secondary priority over completing a sequence versus completing single image commissions which will receive first priority.
This is due to events multiple times in the past where the attrition of working on a sequence would limit my ability to remain productive on them, but my difficulties to feel like I could move on to other projects until the sequence was completed led me to suffer delays not just with the TF sequence but all other.

This said, once commissioned TF sequences WILL be completed within one month of being commissioned as a self-imposed deadline I put upon myself.

For clarification, I consider a sequence any work including 3 pictures or more.

In rare instances(such as receiving a particularly quick to complete sequence), I will work on more than one sequence in a month but never on more than one at a time. In such case, my profile and journal will be updated accordingly.