I got a lot of commissions this week so progress might be a bit slow next week.

Report Summary:
- commission progress
- new and returning YCHs
- raffle updates
- Mahou May (late) sketches
- sticker progress
- writing progress

Business:
- Pride YCH icons: Back to being 5 USD, but still available!
- New YCH: Grimace Shake Sketch YCH; 15 USD. Ask about the 2 USD secret menu!
- Brought back a TF Treat, Bubblerum Bombs, now permanently available!
- Sticker sale: Last 2 still available!
- July's special offers: Any commission that fulfills any one of these conditions is eligible for 20% off base price. Subscribers get an additional 5%-50% off depending on tier. Please be sure to wait for confirmation on price before sending the money.
- Tentacle Drive: Things have gotten a bit busy again so I might need to extend this past August. Sorry for the wait!

Goals:
- 39/1000 USD per month from subscriptions.
- 1868/2000 USD earned for my art raffle goal! The prize for the big raffle is a fully lined piece with a complex background and up to seven characters. You can enter the raffle by buying any of my work: Commissions, stickers, adopts, etc.

Raffle Updates:
- Realized it would conflict with the tentacle drive, so the seasonal subscriber raffle has been moved to September 1. The prizes are a custom cel-shaded image (simple background, maximum 2 characters) OR a custom flat color image (simple background, maximum 3 characters.)

Finished Works:
Previews: will be publicly posted after July 15.
- Sketch commission (OC comic) for PEnfys, "Sweet Boy"
- Witch commission pack for doot, "Puppenspielerin"
- Sketch commission (OCs) for Dante, "Battle With War"

Subscriber Exclusive: staying here on subscribestar.
- WIPs for PEnfys's OC comic "Sweet Boy"
- Ahegao version of Penfys's OC comic "Sweet Boy"
- WIP lineart for Sepulchure
- WIP lineart for Sweetie Bell
- 3d draft for a birthday cake YCH
- WIP draft for Ratchet's color freebie
- WIP thumbnail for Dante
- Remthalas candy gore WIPs
- WIP sketch for aicarom
- Karkat and thistle sticker draft

Public: Posted this week.
- Pride Icon YCH (OC) for fangirlAnxiety
- Barbie and Ken YCH (DragonFable) for SyntacticalDoodles: Poor Serenity has no idea why she's here or why Sepulchure is here with her. Seppy knows but he's not admitting it to the court.
- Barbie and Ken YCHs (OCs) for 7yd1a.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for corrupted.stars: Had lots of fun with this one, this OC is gorgeous.
- Pool Pinup YCH (OC) for Ratchet: Was supposed to be on hold but now it's done because it was Bikini Day on the 5th.
- Mahou May sketch 24 Puppet. This took a bit longer than I expected it to, mostly because of her hair.
- Mahou May sketch 29 Beast. This one is based on a nekomata. Six more designs to go!

Art WIPs:
Commission WIPs:
- Monochrome commission for Jennifer (Aethy): Paid July 4.
- Flash sale sketches (OC TF comics) for Ratchet: On hold until the painted freebie is done.
- Flash sale sketch (trollsona) for Ratchet: On hold until the painted freebie is done.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for chelcat: Not started yet.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for bpdfishprince: Not started yet.
- Magical girl commission for Ratchet: On hold until the freebie is done.
- Pool Pinup YCH (OC) for GothicGuttz: Not started yet.
- Pool Pinup YCH (OC) for bpdfishprince: Not started yet.
- Grimace Shake Sketch YCH (OC) for meetbawlz: Paid july 3.
- Grimace Shake Sketch YCH (OC) for Calopex: Paid july 5.
- Grimace Shake Sketch YCH (OC + TF) for Aicarom: Halfway done!
- Monochrome commission for King Mordred and JustAPolitoed: Not started yet.
- Full sequence TF for greycait: Paid july 4.
- Full sequence TF for Aicarom: Paid july 4.
- Lined painting commission for doot: Just sealed this deal so it'll take a while to get to it, but I'm pretty excited about starting!

Other Art WIPs:
- Muse freebie (flat color) for Ratchet: Drafted! I need to refine the details soon.
- Muse freebie (sketch) for Ratchet: A pair to the muse freebie; thumbnailed but needs to be drafted.
- Bard freebie (sketch) for Madame Hardy: TBD; I should probably remind them that they haven't requested anything yet.
- Next puella adopt (21 - Wolf-walker): No progress this week.
- Chromian adopts: No progress this week.
- Beta trolls and flowers stickers: Drafted Karkat.
- Soul gems and flowers stickers: No progress this week.
- Khvorost in shibari: No progress this week.
- DragonFable major arcana: No progress this week.
- Tentacle Drive milestone art: No progress this week.
- Magical Girl Sketches: Five more sketches to go!
- Birthday cake YCH: My birthday is in a couple months so I'm making this early, since the background is slightly more elaborate than my usual choice for YCHs.
- Remthalas candy gore (full color): Someone was kind enough to point out that my reference images for my commissions were a bit old so I started this to update at least the lined paintings. Currently at the detailed draft stage.

Writing Updates:
This week's preview is from the outline of Yakuza Magical Girl.

Series:
- Marzipan part 2: Milk And Honey: Added a couple more paragraphs; the sex scene is progressing smoothly!
- God Will Understand part 1: Written about 300 words.
- Yakuza Magical Girl: Things have slowed down here, so unless I get inspired to work on this some more, I'll probably have to send a different preview the next time it comes up in the queue.
- Strange Saints and Odd Orders: No progress this week.

Standalone:
- Krampusnacht: No progress this week.

Other Writing:
- Started writing a short fic for The Untamed called A Cat In Cloud Recesses, based on a dream I had.
- Finished House Rules, a platonic (mostly) fic about Cysero and Warlic getting used to living together.

Actually got quite a bit done this week!
Report Summary:
- commission progress
- adoptable progress
- writing progress
- new YCH offers

Business:
- Regular commission prices: I've lowered the prices for pretty much everything so if you're interested in commissioning me, please take a look! The main prices now go from 20 to 100 USD.
- Pride YCH icons: Still 3 USD until July 7th. Get them while you can, after that they go back to 5 USD.
- New offer: Pool Pinup YCH; it's a bit simple but it was kind of a spur of the moment thing. 20 USD, with 5 USD add-ons!
- Sticker sale: Last 2 still available!
- Shibari commissions: Still available!
- Barbie (And Ken!) mugshot meme YCH: You can now change the hand position for character A.
- July's special offers: Live! Any commission that fulfills any one of these conditions is eligible for 20% off base price. Subscribers get an additional 5%-50% off depending on tier, so please be sure to wait for confirmation on price before sending the money.
- Completely forgot to make an announcement here: Magical Girl Commissions are still available.
- Tentacle Drive: Still working on the milestone images, but until further notice, planned for August!
- Knot A Problem: Finally published for real! You can get it here on Smashwords for 3 USD. I'm hoping to get another installment out sometime this year so wish me luck! (And hopefully I can get a cover for that by the same artist.)

Goals:
- 39/1000 USD per month from subscriptions.
- 1484/2000 USD earned for my art raffle goal! The prize for the big raffle is a fully lined piece with a complex background and up to seven characters. You can enter the raffle by buying any of my work: Commissions, stickers, adopts, etc.

Raffle Updates:
- Realized it would conflict with the tentacle drive, so the subscriber raffle has been moved to September 1. The prizes are a custom cel-shaded image (simple background, maximum 2 characters) OR a custom flat color image (simple background, maximum 3 characters.)

Finished Works:
Previews: will be publicly posted after July 15.
- Flash sale sketch (OC TF comic) for Ratchet
- Madoka soul gem sticker

Subscriber Exclusive: staying here on subscribestar.
- None this week.

Public: Posted this week.
- Barbie and Ken YCH (DragonFable) for valorousOwl. I messed up a layer on Notha's goggles so she went to jail twice.
- Milf vampire OC sketch for PEnfys.
- Zarbon (OC) for CurseOfBoredom.
- Pool Pinup YCH example. I didn't expect to be so possessed by the spirit of poolside relaxation but here you go.

Art WIPs:
Commission WIPs:
- Sketch commission (OC comic) for PEnfys: Having some trouble with the last panel.
- Sketch commission (single) for Dante: No progress this week.
- Flash sale sketches (OC TF comics) for Ratchet: Thumbnailing the second one. This is the second out of three.
- Flash sale sketch (trollsona) for Ratchet: On hold until the painted freebie is done.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for corrupted.stars: Not started yet.
- Shibari YCH (OC) for chelcat: Not started yet.
- Barbie and Ken YCH (DragonFable) for SyntacticalDoodles: I've sketched out Sepulchure because he's a bit complicated, but this should be done in a couple more days.
- Barbie and Ken YCHs (OCs) for 7yd1a: Got the sketch for one half down!
- Magical girl commission for Ratchet: On hold until the freebie is done.
- Pride Icon YCH (OC) for fangirlAnxiety: Not started yet but I plan to get this done today.
- Pool Pinup YCH (OC) for GothicGuttz: Not started yet.
- Pool Pinup YCH (OC) for Ratchet: On hold until the painted freebie is done.
- Pool Pinup YCH (OC) for bpdfishprince: Just got this so I'll get started on Monday.
- Witch commission for doot: Thumbnailed!
- Monochrome commission for King Mordred and JustAPolitoed: Just got this so I'll get started on Monday.

Other Art WIPs:
- Muse freebie (flat color) for Ratchet: No progress this week.
- Muse freebie (sketch) for Ratchet: TBD
- Bard freebie (sketch) for Madame Hardy: TBD
- Next puella adopt (21 - Wolf-walker): No progress this week.
- Chromian adopts: Finally drafted! Just three of them for now, the ones I saw in the dream. I might post them with some of the info I remember from the dream soon.
- Beta trolls and flowers stickers: Adjusted some details on Sollux and gotten started on Karkat. I'm sketching these out before I get any color in there.
- Soul gems and flowers stickers: I've finished Madoka's sticker! Next I'm working on Kyoko's.
- Khvorost in shibari: No progress this week.
- DragonFable major arcana: No progress this week.
- Eridan AU painting: Actually shelfing this until further notice; I have a lot on my plate.
- Karkat and Aradia AU painting: Ditto for this one.
- Tentacle Drive milestone art: All thumbnails done! I'll actually get started on the art on Monday.
- Magical Girl Sketches: Surprising myself, I started working on these again. The last ten or so should start cropping up soon, but probably not with any regularity like last month. The sketches already up are up for adoption, though; they're Offer To Adopt until I finish the set, upon which I'll start trying to figure out prices.

Writing Updates:
This week's preview is from Milk And Honey.

Series:
- Marzipan part 2: Milk And Honey: Adjusted some phrasing but haven't really added anything yet.
- God Will Understand part 1: No progress this week.
- Yakuza Magical Girl: Figured out a couple more story beats. I'm still outlining chapter 5; I plan to have at least 10 chapters outlined before I get back to drawing.
- Strange Saints and Odd Orders: No progress this week.

Standalone:
- Krampusnacht: No progress this week.

Other Writing:
- Nothing posted but I've been working on some fanfics here and there. It's Camp NaNo again so hopefully I can get some stuff out!

Hoo, it's been a busy week.

Report Summary:
- Finished commissions and some freebies
- Commission progress
- Some special offers
- Reminders about adopts

Business:
Business updates:
- Cherub adopt still available now for slightly reduced price, but I'm no longer offering the ref sheets. Buyers can still get the color adjustment and color guide, but ref sheets will have to come separately.
- May's special offers for commission discounts are live! They are Oviposition, Homestuck, and Aquatics (mermaids, kappas, fishfolk, etc.)
- Still figuring out when I'll do the egg drive and how. I'm thinking June if I have the time, or August if I don't.
- Fixed up the adoptables on my buymeacoffee page and made my commission info a bit clearer there too. https://croutoncomms.carrd.co/
- Lowered base sketch prices, raised base everything else, and special offers over on buymeacoffee. If you can't pay upfront, we can do a monthly 10% installment after 20% down payment.

Goals:
- 25/1200 USD from subscriptions.
- 441/2000 USD done for my repeatable art raffle goal.

Raffle Updates:
- Starting August 1 and then every four months, I'll run a raffle for paying subscribers; the winner gets either a custom cel-shaded image (simple background, maximum 2 characters) or a custom flat color image (simple background, maximum 3 characters.)

- The repeatable raffle prize is a fully lined and shaded piece of custom art. All add-ons are available for free. Entry into the raffle is automatic after someone purchases something from me.

Finished Works:
The following will be posted after May 15. In the meantime, here's some previews!
- Finished the flash sale sketch commission for Nuglette!
- Finished the flash sale sketch commission for 7yd1a too; this was a little trickier but they were online so I had an easy time being motivated.
- Finished Gam's Dirk-in-quicksand commission!
- Finished Gam's flash sale sketch commission too; I don't know the character but he's not having fun.
- Finished Madame Hardy's subscriber freebie! I made it match some older art, too.

Publicly posted this week:
- Forgot to post these pics of Tsukiko that I'd edited a while ago. I think the leotard is much cuter than the separate pieces she used to have.
- Did some Mahou May sketches; might clean them up into proper adopts in the future. Planning on doing a sketch a day, but I might miss a few days, probably. So far I have up to five, so that's a good start!
- WIP but spooky Kabuki troll I'm sharing.

Art WIPs:
Commission WIPs:
- Adding more details and bodyparts to anonymous's cel-shaded commission.
- Drafting a new flash sale commission for PEnfys of their OC.
- Drafting a flat color commission for shipyarn.

Other Art WIPs:
- No update on the next Puella Magi adopt.
- Nothing new re: merch.
- Artist for "The Turnips of St. Judith" got back to me! I can't show the image just yet, but they're making good progress!
- Haven't been working on Somnarine's ref this week.
- More Mahou May sketches to come; they've all got the same poses to save time but hopefully I can vary them up more later.

Writing Updates:
Series:
- Marzipan, focusing right now on Milk And Honey, has had no progress at the moment but hopefully will next week.
- No progress this week on Magical Yakuza Girl but I'm thinking of trying to be more faithful to the dream that inspired it; maybe that will fix it.
- God Will Understand has been broken up into three parts because I ended up thinking of three major sex scenes. I've outlined the overarching plot, but I need to outline the individual parts.

Standalone stories:
- Meanwhile, I've condensed the plot of Naughty Little Helpers to just being about Knoell getting fucked and transformed by Krampus. If I ever write someone getting fucked by Rudolph it'll have to be some other time.

Other writing:
- Camp NaNo project about gay middle aged space pirates still being vaguely entertained as a thought.
- Yasmina the Minigame Witch character sheet still on hold.

Changed some things on my BMAC and carrd. "The Lost Goddess" is now free because I'm not interested in it anymore but someone might still enjoy it. Meanwhile, I've changed the previews for "Knot A Problem" and "March of Robots 2021".

https://croutonknight-gallery.carrd.co/

Happy New Year! I unfortunately have had some Complications in my home life come up. Still working on commissions, subscribestar still up, still selling stickers and stories; I just have to speed up my plans of moving out this year. Might bring my brother. Definitely bringing the cats.

If you can help support us at this time through any of the presented options, I'd be very grateful. No gofundme or kickstarter because I don't have paypal, but I'll keep working on commissions. Currently still working through my queue as well. 

Commission info: https://croutoncomms.carrd.co/ 

Various other things for sale: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/croutonKnight/extras