My financial situation has gone from bad to worse, and I can't keep relying on odd jobs and draining my bank account to meet the deficits each month...
My loan payments will go dormant again next semester, but a few nasty things have happened...

• First, I was told we'd have around $3500 in scholarship for next semester, as part of the foreign exchange, so I PLANNED for that. What they DIDN'T tell us was that the scholarship money wouldn't arrive until January, whereas the $7000 for next semester is due in...a week and a half.
• I HAD to get a laptop, and due to how payment plans work/etc, had to get it immediately. (I need it for next semester.) The WEEK we went to get it, the store dropped from a 24 months no interest to an 18 months no interest plan (outside of sound systems..) so the payments are about $250/month.
• I'm finally progressing with commissions? ...but I definitely need to take more to make ends meet.

So, here's what I'm going to do.
I'm opening for commissions. $10 for headshots, $15 for waist up, and $20 for full body. I'll offer a discount for rough work (just quick colours slapped under the sketch) 25% off, or 50% off for just a sketch. So you could get a sketch headshot for $5.

In the interim, between classwork, I'll keep plugging away at work I still owe. I have a few confirmation sketches to send as soon as I can get access to a working scanner.

My priority is making the laptop payments. My loan payments go on freeze again next semester, and I'll be able to use subsidized loans to...pay off the unsubsidized ones.
Which sounds terrible (and honestly [i]is[/i]) but I'm eligible for a government debt forgiveness program in 10 years, starting whenever my butt enters grad school, so I just have to hope for the best.

I just want to move forward with my life after all of this... somehow.