Scribbles and Grimdark

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Arrrrghhh, I'm back to the land of working internet connection (I hope so). Gollum from Soviet edition brought you more stone dragons - working with serpentine is very sensory satisfying for my brain, so I'm making my own creature-shaped worry stones to distract myself. I hope this post will be published im so tired of all the blockage bullshit

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I don't want to come here with any sob stories or too many personal details but this year a few uhm unfortunate events affected my life and workflow drastically. Which made it hard to earn my income normally last month and I'm hit with debt I'm quite stressed out with and unable to pay atm--

So I'm opening a few slots for my bigger commission options (Specifically Detailed artwork, Scenes and Reference Sheets) as I really need to sort things otherwise it's gonna be quite uhm BAD haha *sweats* You can check those out in my carrd: https://mandersiecommissions.carrd......mmissionprices

Full transparency: I have quite a few owed arts to deliver, so the TAT for these shall be around 3+ months. I'm doing a lot of progress but due to still recovering from all that's happened it's a bit slower than usual.

Here's examples of the options I'm offering, compiled in a single place: https://drive.google.com/drive/fold.....7R?usp=sharing

If anyone is interested, just send me a dm so we can discuss details! :> I'd appreciate anyone sharing with friends n stuff if you can't get something <3

Big dragon, little dragon. An interesting multi-layered rock, all layers with different hardness. Flying dragons, top view. Will make a necklace with green beads and driftwood for this one.

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

Commission o/