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@bunbundango.bsky.social

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They/She Digital freelance artist with a love of bees and fantasy. 🐇🍡 Commissions (OPEN) : https://vgen.co/bunbundango Contact: [email protected] Watch me work: twitch.tv/bunbundango

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Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 4d

Schedule for the week!! Excited to resume usual work hours, wahoooooo!! Personal Art Day on Tuesday, full-sized commissions on Friday and Saturday, and Hourly Sketch Commissions on Sunday as usual.

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 3d

5. Heroic Bobbie for RauMins
6. Kara Blahaj Hug

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 3d

Another batch of hourly sketch commissions!

1. Princess Leia Outfit Kara (2hrs)
2. Lavinia for LordSirRailgunDishwasher (6hrs)
3. Yari (6hrs)
4. Cat Girl Djinn for SuperPotatoes (6hrs)

They're still open for ordering on my Ko-Fi here!: ko-fi.com/c/60dac8521

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Aug 8

I usually go out of my way to draw out my perspective grids by hand but for certain projects I speed up the process by using this generator by Reuban Lara

reubenlara.com/perspectiveg...

if you find it as useful as me I encourage you to click the little Paypal icon at the top right to send a tip

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 8d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
1-800-307-7309
US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111
Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

Stripe

California: 888-926-2289
US: 877-887-7815
France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050
UK: +44 (0203)-901-7000

Visa

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911
US option selection: 1, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 3
Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
Aus: +61 1800 125 440
Phone (outside US): click here

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 4d

Schedule for the week!! Excited to resume usual work hours, wahoooooo!! Personal Art Day on Tuesday, full-sized commissions on Friday and Saturday, and Hourly Sketch Commissions on Sunday as usual.

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 7d

The PC is up and running again!! Test stream tomorrow to see how it hands OBS and VTubing, and if it seems stable enough I'll begin work on commissions! If all goes well, then Sunday I'll be resuming the Hourly Sketch Commissions!! WAHOO

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 7d

My computer's working again!!! Going to do a test stream tomorrow when I'm back from the library job to see how it handles all that.

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 11d

So this is usually when I'd make a schedule for the week! But since the past two schedules went to waste because of PC problems, I'm going to hold off until I have a working PC again. I will say I am hoping to be up and going again by the weekend... again. So here's hoping!

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 18d

Hhhhh. The new GPU arrived and it's too big for the case. The one I'm looking at ordering could be here by Thursday, but I'm not sure if I can have everything up and running by Friday like I'd hoped.

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 18d

Ack **and SuperPotatoes!!!

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 18d

And more specifically, thank you so, so much to Loaf, Lemon, ExtraHeretical, Allie, Meilo, Jade, Saffron, Rau, AlGae, Ruby, Auri, Alaric, Neo, Kichi, Cosprei, and The Muncher, and everyone else who gave advice for your help and support!!! I would have been extremely lost with what to do otherwise!!

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 18d

Some extremely kind individuals have helped support me to get new PC parts to resume work, and I am still overwhelmed by this. The new card should be here tomorrow, and I am aiming to be up and running again by Friday to work on some new commissions!!

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 18d

Schedule for the week! I unfortunately could not stream as intended last week as my video card started to die and kept my computer in a state of hard crashing every twenty minutes.

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 24d

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 24d

Oh hi! My commissions are currently open! Well, they've been open, but I really aught to post about it once in a while.

I don't have a set number of slots, but I keep my queue publicly available so my current workload is transparent: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · 25d

Plan for the week! Focusing on maintenance, the Primal Bun print, and Hourly Sketch Commissions this time. Model edits I might still do during my free time, but I want to try and get the print done sooner rather than later.

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bilvie @bilvyy.com · Mar 17

feeeees duuude. 5% already feels huge, then stripe/paypal is another fuckin slappp

if you're an artist taking comms online, PLEASE be exporting your paypal/vgen/stripe summary at the end of the year and claiming those fees as a deductible. i have somethin like $900usd of fees to report every year

a vgen commission quoted at $1200 USD.
the vgen service fee (5%) takes $60 USD.
stripe's payment processing fee (2.6% + 30c) takes $35.10 USD
stripe's international payout fee (2%) takes $24 USD.
leaving the artist to receive $1080 from the original $1200.

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bilvie @bilvyy.com · Mar 17

if you take any kind of income from paypal (comms, kofi, stream tips etc):

Activity > All Reports > Activity > Activity Report:
generate a balance affecting CSV report of the current tax year

then take the sum of the fees column, being sure to separate and convert different currencies.

csv file highlighting the fees column of a paypal report

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · Sep 9

Schedule for the week!! Aiming for four streams this week, working on the same projects. Streams will be about three hours except for Sunday's, which will be the usual 7-ish.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you're in this class, you can fill out this form to make a claim: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · Aug 26

Schedule for the week! Working on a private commission offline on Tuesday, going to try to finish the Jackalope Shrine on Wednesday, then streaming Friday through Sunday on the same projects as last week!

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · Aug 25

Oooh, I see. This news is less good.

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is good news

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 23

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

www.sciencedaily.com

Bun @bunbundango.bsky.social · Aug 19

Schedule for the week! I would've streamed tomorrow, but I gotta get my toe x-rayed in case of fractures so it's easier to do offline stuff Tuesday instead of Wednesday. Otherwise doing all the same things this week!

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Zachary Berger @zacharyberger.bsky.social · Aug 13

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.

TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!

Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963