#astronautturtle

Prior Info:

Alrighty, I have a phat question. I've been talking with my therapist, Kit, and she suggest the best thing for me would to get a service dog. I don't have enough money on me currently to even adopt a dog, so I'm planning to save up!

Because of my personal beliefs, I would rather adopt from a shelter than buy from a breeder. I also would like to reduce the cost as much as I can (But I don't expect it to be free lol)

The Question At Hand:

Since pets in shelters have no training, how much would it cost to train a SD myself, vs having a professional trainer?

The tasks Kit suggested for the dog to preform are:

• Deep Pressure Therapy

• Blocking/Cover

• Alerting prior to an episode/panic attack/dissociation

Extra:

I also have an embroidery machine, so I'm 10,000% down to make my own patches! I don't see a ton of SD patches that include both English and Spanish, and may open an etsy to sell multilingual patches lol

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***TLDR***:

So, art as a hobby and job can be expensive; but if you know a thing or two, it can be a lot cheaper.

**This is mainly for digital art, but a tip or two can be used for traditional art!!**

POSES:

Sometimes, those wooden mannequin things don’t work. They suck, like a lot. An alternative could be dolls! I’ve made a post before on this, but you can take any doll and use them as a reference to make poses! Especially ones with joints- that way you can bend them however you like to pose how you want! Barbie has some “Made to move” dolls, and has new diverse body types!

I love using dolls, because they have hair (For hairlines/styles), a factory face (For anatomical placement), and there’s so many companies, with so many different styles and proportions of dolls; if you wanted to play with your anatomy for different styles! Another thing is- you can dress them! If you don’t know how a shirt would lay, or how a vest would fit- put your doll in one! Don’t know how a logo would stretch on a shirt? Slap a graphic tee on your doll! Don’t draw women? There’s boy dolls, and action figures! There’s so many posiblilities!

ART APPS:

My top two are both free, and easy to use! Medibang Paint - All purpose! You can do pixel art, any size canvas, comics/mangas, and add strokes to the outlines of art.

Autodesk - Mostly all purpose! It doesn’t have a premade comic option, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make them still! The smallest canvas size is 250X250, if you download fonts, you can use them in this app, and you can organise your art by naming them and sorting them in labelled folders!

Both are free, and both need an account to use to their full potential— which is also free!

KEEPING THE CANVAS CLEAN:

We’ve all seen those listings for art gloves. But what if you don’t have $10-$50 for one? What if you draw with short sleeves and rest your wrist-forearm on your tablet/paper? What if you’re left handed?

Simple: COSTUMES!! Go to a store and hunt down some gloves! I suggest looking for “Opera” gloves! They’re long, which keeps my arm from messing with the screen, and usually really cheap! As long as they’re made of polyester, they’ll work fine!

I bought one, and cut off the middle, pointer, and thumb sleeves. If you know how to stitch, you can stitch the edges to keep them from unraveling. Or use fabric glue. If you’re left handed, you can comfortably fit in the left glove and ditch or donate the right one!

STYLUS/SUPPLIES:

There’s plenty of art dupes online for far cheaper. I bought a micron pen for $1 off wish and it was honestly really nice! If you do some research, you’ll be able to find some cheap alternatives in no time!

As for a stylus, you can always opt for the dollar store stylus/pen! They’re cheap, last well enough, and write lol. But if you look online, sometimes you can find places that sell bulk styluses for cheap! That way you’ll have 99 back-ups if your 1 breaks! Or you can save up and buy *ahem* The Blackweb Active Stylus! They’re $20, light, with a fine tip, and material nub, and also rechargeable!

BACKGROUNDS/ENVIROMENTS:

Room planners, dollhouses, your home, google images— all are great places! I have an app called RoomPlanner, its free, it has basic furniture and appliances, you can set up your room in 2D, view it in 3D, set your height, your angle, and move around in your room!

I like room planner, because in 3D, you can colour everything! So if you need to distinguish two walls from each other, or counters and countertops- you can paint them all random colours! The app also includes shading! It’s an open world ordeal too, so in one save you can make multiple rooms for different drawings!

You can also use a doll house if its big enough- or use a cardboard box with doll furniture instead! If you don’t like either, just take a picture of your own room, or search ‘room’ on Google images!

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Boyfriend: Please, baby no-

Trigger Warning: ‘m kinda mean ig, and i have a potty mouth uwu

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AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

I’m having an episode on ToyHou.se!

I won’t name names- but dude... fuck you, man.

My rules for my adoptable characters are so simple:

1) Don’t resell fo more than you paid me- unless you added art

2) Credit me the first time you use them

3) HMU if the owner changes (Trade/Gift/Sell)

4) Change anything you like

But SOMEONE has a hell of a hard time understanding those super easy rules- I mean- they’re basically just courtesy! I don’t have a ridiculous rule like “If you don’t use them within a week- they’re mine again.”

This ass wagon seriously did this, you ready?:

Traded three of my adopts for some (lack lustre) characters > took me off the creator AND designer credit > deleted their original comments > sold them for deviantart points > never told me who they belong to now.

~ALL CODES HAVE BEEN TAKEN~

Hello, your local gay ass decided to go for premium!

If you want a ToyHou.se code, let me know!

I might do it like: If you offer art of any of my characters, you’ll get one! I already gave one away! So that means I can now generate 9 in total! I’ll make slots to keep track:

*NOTE: Limit 1 per person* 1) Closed

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