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.

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EDIT: I've lowered the base price to 40 USD as a treat. Happy Halloween!

Halloween YCH finally ready! Any species, any gender, any character; doesn't have to be furry, and you can ask for adjustments to be made to the costume. Final piece will be flat color/minimal shading. Slots open until November 1, send a message if you're interested!

Note that as of this time, payments will be made through Payoneer due to ongoing issues with PayPal.

Additionally, if you'd rather commission me for something else, I still have 4 commission slots open right now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QrdsE7SaoBc8prGYks5XLTfUhH4lPJXcPSfGSql9688/edit

Need a character? Please check my toyhou.se for adoptable designs: https://toyhou.se/chess-and-snickers/characters/

https://twitter.com/chessNsnickers/status/1314528455401242626
A bit torn on what to make, so please vote!