March-April 2024 Status Update + Update on Payments

Hey everyone. So, because the PayPal issue remains unresolved on Boosty so far (likely related to PayPal getting pissy with various websited in general lately), I've decided to finally make a Hipolink page, a sister service to Boosty, which still supports it:
https://hipolink.me/yukihind

I've been able to successfully receive several payments through it, so from now on I'll be using it to accept payments for commissions. The upside is that it's actually more convenient to use, since I can set the exact price and the person paying doesn't need to make an account, so it's a more controllable environment. I will still keep Boosty around for donations, however for the time being those will have to be made via card until the PayPal issue here is resolved.

On the drawing side of things, not much has been happening. Right now I'm having to focus on commissions because waiting for two months without them put a sizable hole in my budget, and me having minor technical issues with my PC (RAM turned out to be faulty so I had to wait a week for it to be RMA'd) didn't help. I won't be talking much about my health nowadays unless something important happens because I'd rather deal with these things in the background and not talk about it much (some things have gotten better, some have gotten worse).

An annoying issue I'm currently dealing with (and in fact have been dealing with ever since I switched to the new desktop) is that either Photoshop, my tablet, my system, my hardware, or all or none of the above aren't playing nice, resulting in my brush strokes frequently becoming jittery or jagged (which you might've been able to notice in my recent drawings). The issue generally manifests after drawing for a while and temporarily goes away after switching windows, but comes back soon after. Because it's apparently an issue that's existed for over a decade now and it has tons of potential causes and suggested solutions (none of which helped me, sadly), I'm just gonna try to cope with it and somehow mask it until I'm able to figure out a solution. In the meantime, here's me trying something different in a more sketchy style while I was experimenting with that: