Hey guys! Been streaming a lot more over on Twitch latley.

Gonna be live in just a minute here doing some end-of-month-art-crunching,

then maybe if I'm feeling extra spicy I'll continue my blursed Pokemon White (Randomized) game!! ^^

Hope to see some of you there!~

https://www.twitch.tv/corruptedcryptid

(Also a huge huge thank you all for 666 followers!! I'll do something special for you guys soon ^^ )

As a part of Thankmas 2021, I'll be streaming over on Twitch today, playing Skyrim for the first time in my life!

STREAM LINK: https://www.twitch.tv/corruptedcryptid

CHARITY/DONATE LINK: https://tiltify.com/@corruptedcryptid/thankmas-2021-wthe-sheepsquatch

Stream starts at 3:00pm PST!

I hope to see you there, it's for a great cause and hopefully everyone will enjoy laughing at my noob ass!

TDLR; I'm unemployed and feel like garbage all the time and would really like to stop feeling like garbage. May content is gonna be delayed also.

Okay so… here’s the thing. I haven’t been doing okay lately. I haven’t been doing okay in a while actually. I’ve tried to write this whole spiel out over and over again but I keep getting frustrated at my inability to describe why it’s been hard. I suppose the best way I can get the point across is that one year ago today, I graduated from college. All I wanted after was to get my foot in the door and have some kind of creative job. Maybe someday I could publish my own comics and be stable on that income if I got lucky. But then the plague came and wiped out my already miniscule chances of getting that stability.

Keeping this to a minimum, this past year has been rough. I’ve wrestled with clinical depression and anxiety/panic disorders the majority of my life and having a year of failures hasn’t exactly helped with me feeling okay about myself. It’s been so goddamn hard trying to manage well… everything. The reason content has been slow and inconsistent is because I’ve been burnt out for months. It just feels like no matter how much I overwork myself and how much I try, I can’t get anywhere.

But droning on and on about how much I hate myself isn’t the point of this point. The point is to say that I’m so fucking tired of feeling like this. I’m so done with having no energy to do things my mind labels as pointless, and certain recent events have led me to new conclusions of sorts.

Basically, I’m done waiting on someone else to look at me and my work and say “Okay, I’ll take a chance on you.” I’m tired of struggling to keep my head above water and I’ve realized that it’s time to stop screaming at the people on the boat passing by to give me a hand. Fuck it, I’ll just do it myself. It’s gonna suck trying to keep swimming in this ice cold water, but I've been doing it this long. I’ll keep treading water until something happens.

May content is gonna be a little late. On top of the stress previously mentioned I’ve been going through some physical medical issues too. I’ll do my best to get things to everyone when I can, but I’m tired of lying and saying that I’m okay through a fake smile and gritted teeth. I’m not happy with where I am right now. But some of the projects I took on a while ago to fill the void are ending soon, meaning I have more time to dedicate to Club Lamashtu and other content. The paychecks coming from those projects will make it harder, but who knows, maybe I can turn this dumb comic about fucking monsters into a makeshift life preserver.

Had it not been for the unexpected support I’ve already gotten thus far I would have drowned by now. I have an opportunity and I’ll be damned if I don’t see my one shot at doing something with my life and take it. So thank you for the support, no matter the kind. I hope I can make you all proud soon, and that I can produce something worthy of all your kindness and support. I want to stop letting my own self disappointment and currently unrealistic goals keep me pinned, and I hope to see you all there when I eventually can.

-CorruptedCryptid/Sage

I survived!

The power came back on a few hours after I posted that last update, but the internet hasn't been up or very stable until now.

So I apologize to those who commented or messaged me, I wanted to conserve what data/power I did have. I'll try to get back to everyone as soon as I can!

The house got kinda cold there for a while, but it wasn't anything a normal hoodie couldn't fix. But because of that the food in the fridge lasted longer than I had thought!

I still have/had to replace some stuff, but we don't need to clear it out, so no emergency commissions are needed.

Normal commissions are still open, I'm currently remaking my commission sheet to combine all the things I'm open to do (Have normal drawings, pin ups, ref sheets, comics, etc etc all on one sheet)

So... Yeah! Back to business as usual. If all things go the way I'd like I should (*knock on wood* x100) have my Patreon rework done by the end of the month and I'll have a CL upload schedule.

Oh, and more strip comics! Look forward to that ^^

Love y'all!

Quick update: the power has been out for over 16 hours now. I'm in the PNW and if you're in the US I'm sure you've heard of the huge ass rain storm that has been hitting us for like a week. Thankful to still have phone signal. Will update again once the power is back on because I suspect I'll need to open emergency commissions to restock the fridge. 

Thanks for the patience and support. 

See y'all on the other side.

Howdy hay! I have a lot of things going on right now so I'll cut to the chase-

I'm moving again! Thankfully not another cross country move, but a move nonetheless. So I'm kinda broke and especially need a bit of help getting some new boxes and totes (the last move kinda murdered all our current storage stuff lol). I made some themed commissions available for anyone interested/with a few bucks to spend. See below!~

(Student loan payments start in January and I'm still an unemployed loser! I'm very anxious about this, I was kinda supposed to have my shit together by now. So while I'm going to keep working on my portfolio and applying to industry jobs I'm going to push more into my freelance stuff. Meaning more commission stuff, comic stuff, and.. other stuff? Yeah, something like that lol. I'm re-working it right now but if you want to lend an extra super generous hand I have an open Patreon https://www.patreon.com/corruptedcryptid . No pressure haha)

EX:

Been a while since I posted one of these! I guess I just wanted to update everyone on here as to where I'm at and what I'm doing.

TDLR; My dumb monster comic is still happening, I just got busy with life and college stuff before, and my commissions are very open, please give me money I am hungry. Thank you to everyone who is enjoying my stuff though, I wouldn't have the confidence to keep pushing at it if I didn't have that support <3 <3 <3

-Club Lamashtu is still happening!!

The few pages I've completed I technically did for a class I was taking. However after that class was over, I didn't really have any time to produce more pages. College is hard. For those who manage to not flunk out while doing internships and extra jobs on the side, I salute you. You are far stronger than I. Anyway I graduated back in May, but since the job market for my field is a little more bleak then expected, I've been able to work more on personal projects. I've been doing the little comic strips in the mean time to get a good idea and practice on how I want the whole thing to look (ie- i'm trying to go more cartoony/exxagurated)

-Commissions are Open! (Edit: Temporarily Closed, Will Re-Open September 9th!)

As I said my confidence on getting a real job is slowly diminishing, so I'm worried about what'll happen if I don't have a stable job by the end of my grace period. So while the governemt still considers me unemployed, I think I'm gonna go ham on doing as many commissions as I can ontop of getting CL off the ground again. I would be forever grateful for any kind of support, wither that be through commissions, Patreon, or just continuing to like my dumb stuff.

Thank you to everyone who has watched me and liked by junk thus far. I'm sorry if I come off as whiny and desperate, I just love what I do but also have crippiling anxiety that will never let me rest or not worry about money/stable living situations/everything. <3

-CorruptedCryptid

Hi again everyone!

I'm chugging along getting my current queue finished, and just wanted to remind everyone that my sales are still going on!

I've been working far more now that I don't have college to worry about, and I'm sure the process will speed up even more when we get our furniture delivered (hopefully next week!)

Thank you all again for your support!

Happy Turkey day to my fellow Americans, happy Thursday to everyone else!

Also, thank you all for 200 watchers!! This is the most I've ever had.. literally anywhere, so I'm so happy so many of you all like my work enough!

Okay friendos, moving hiatus ACTIVATED

I've been cleaning and packing for like two days straight so I'm kinda late in announcing it, but YEAH TIME TO MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY!!

I'll continue work on my current commissions Saturday(maybe??), but work will be slow because I will be driving for most of the day! Planning to get to our new place around the 24th, but we won't get our furniture until the first week of December.. so still gonna be slow

BUT!! After we get to Seattle I will have literally all day to work on comms and junk so.. it'll still probably be faster than my work speed when I'm also doing college stuff lmao.

Wish me luck, I'll see n'y'all soon!

Edit: Day 7 of 9 of the roadtrip. Like the idiot I am, I burnt my hand with hot coffee the morning of day 1, so I haven't exactly made much progress. (I got a burn on my wrist, and a blister on the side of my hand that rests on the tablet/paper/etc when I draw.) Thankfully though I'm healed up now and will be getting straight to work when I get to the new place!! A huge huge thank you to everyone who has been waiting so patiently for me, once again your generosity saved our asses when it came to eating. My comms are still open if anyone was waiting, but I think I'll do what I did last time and just reserve the slot, and take the payment when I'm up to your spot in the queue!

Thank you again, can't wait to get back to work

Hello everyone! Long time no see.

I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to get back into the swing of things, but I’m happy to report that things are a lot more stable now than they were before, and I’m back to work! For those who don’t know, I was in a pretty scary situation in the spring involving a cross country move and an awful, incompetent, and scummy moving company. Long story short, they kept delaying, and we ended up paying double for about half our shit. We had to leave a lot behind, and pay way more than we could, but (knock on wood), we’re okay for now. 

Now I could totally start pouring my heart into a huge long thing, crying how grateful I am to everyone for helping me and supporting my stuff, because I am legitimately so overwhelmed that people enjoy my content enough to help, but I don’t want to bore anyone. So I’ll just say another huge THANK YOU!! To everyone who commissioned me, who spread the word around, or even just stuck around waiting for more content. I will forever be grateful, and will put everything into repaying this debt by putting my entire heart into my work. 

Now onto the future. Here’s a couple things I plan to do:

• Rework Club Lamashtu. I did the first 8 pages in a rush for class, and have since made some major changes to the environments shown. I wasn’t super happy with the pages I had done anyway since they were rushed (and also toned down to PG-13), and since I’m only a short ways in, I may as well change it now before I get too far ahead. I’m very proud of the work I’ve done for this behind the scenes, and I’m really excited to be working on it again. 
• Commissions will reopen soon! I have a new comm sheet up and ready to go, I’m just currently on break before college starts again, and want to breathe for a little bit longer before jumping back head first. I’ve kinda been working non stop since April, and this is my first real break since then, I want to let myself rest. 
• Redo my Patreon. I’m going to make tweaks to the tiers and add more content before pushing it more. I wanted to get it set up before the deadline (which was in the middle of the move), so I’m going to refine everything so I have something decent to advertise. 
• Set up some kind of upload schedule. I’m only a few pages into the CL redo, so I’m going to be uploading some of the commissions I’ve done in the past to fill the gaps. (This will probably change, but) Maybe something once a week? 

TDLR; Thank you for waiting for me during such a rough move. I’m back in action, and am working on more comics. Commissions will reopen soon, and am excited to be providing content again! <3

Thank you, 

Corrupted Cryptid