Paypal, Ponies and Fresh Starts

HI JUNE!

Finally I bring in some good news and update for everyone.. Following from previous post, my room IS finally DONE! All there’s left to do is just clean ups, more polishing and for me to fill out the now empty room with mix of old and new furnitures <3

Now that aside, I have been working on the side on commissions, and trying to make Paypal work again. If you have been around since last year, actually I had a problem with withdrawal and was unable to use the money that I have accumulated for months in my Paypal —previously I only used Paypal invoice as means to my commissions and adoptables. I still remember clearly that last year I was so desperate in making Paypal work again because 99% of the spaces I’m in use it as main payment channel. The whole process took me a month and me making a brand new bank account + me getting scammed and lost all of my savings. And despite all that, I still couldn’t withdraw my money so I gave up and lost a good chunk of clients and opportunities. 

For a whole year I make do with stripe payment via Vgen and it was always triggering + annoying when I clearly stated ‘No Paypal’ and yet people still ‘push’. — yes I think it’s common knowledge that majority of the people in adoptable communities RARELY read. TLDR, I gave up trying until a short while ago, I received some money for staff work.. to my Paypal. And for some reason, I do want this money to be able to go to my bank account. So I created.. another account. TBH it did stress me out, having some $ in my Paypal account. Because it kept reminding me of how I couldn’t withdraw them + the 1 month back and forth between Paypal Customer Service to Bank teller to Paypal CS and back again. It also made me think, it didn’t hinder people from commissioning East Asian artist who doesn’t use Paypal at all. So by that logic, if people want my art enough, it should NOT be a problem. And it wasn’t a problem. But I am also aware if I use Paypal it will open more opportunities esp. considering how Patreon and Ko-fi both use Paypal (my country is not yet eligible for a Stripe account. When I mentioned Stripe here, it’s actually Stripe Express. So 3rd party like Vgen, Artistree and BMAC are the one opening those account) and while there’s Buy-Me-A-Coffee, it’s unfortunately not widely known and people I’ve met so far aren’t open to alternatives like Payoneer or Paysend, despite them providing better conversion rate and cheaper fee compared to Paypal.

but after 1 whole year.. Finally I can withdraw my money from Paypal. So that means, Paypal payment IS working again. So yippee! IDK if it’ll change anything in terms of traffic and sales BUT from my POV, it took a HUGE load off of my mental strain. I plan on making my own game and ARPG  which, will not be launched until next year and payment processor IS a huge worry because I do want to sell physical merch and offer supporter tier for the game. 

Now on to the next thing, following home reno (my room is done but we are doing the whole house-ish) I can barely keep up with species work so I decided to resign my position as Permanent Artist in Vampichi. I still love the species and cannot wait for more lore drops and development of the cute anthro vamps but I think I’m better suited as a regular community member. It was a fun ride and I’m thankful for the opportunity! (If you enjoy anthro species I recommend checking them out, they are discord based but you can check their traits and world on Toyhouse ^^)

Aside from that, and throughout all the stress, I have been finding comfort in my childhood fave: ponies.. so I decided to make my own Pony Base, now available on my Vgen for $5 (Personal Use) and I think I’ll casually make silly little pony batches from time to time. 

That’s it from me! This month, is nothing but recurring theme of ‘Making Space’ for me, be it letting go of certain things to make room for new ones, or setting aside some time to try again and make Paypal work again. 

PS: IK Miranda (my hammy) current enclosure seemed to be already ‘big enough’ — it’s a custom 150L container bin, but I still want to be upgrading her cage so I just bought a 100x50x50 Bucatstate 3.0. The bin actually match nicely with my room so I may use it if I decided to adopt a 2nd hammy.. they’re just the cutest most annoying creature ever! 

Miranda, my Syrian hammy.. I can’t believe it’s almost a month now since I adopted her ☺️☺️ she’s getting rounder and rounder each day! 

Luli my baby and my loft <3 it’s still barren as I just moved in 4 days ago but I’m happy with it and cannot wait to decorate and fill it with my favorite things <3<3

That’s it from me.. thank u for reading <3 

Xoxo,

Jasmine

March 2026 Update

Blogger website has been acting out on me and I wasn’t able to post any images (This happened in January)

Just a quick update though:

1. I joined Vampichi as one of their Permanent Artist (Since Jan 19)
2. March has just been very busy as I have 2 trips back to back; SG on first half - already went and upcoming trip to China in the second half of the month
3. Finally can resume on room renovation
4. Moving comms to artistree (soon)
5. Mimpino Garden, my very own original species finally has a form and a small lore
6. I can finally change my username on DA to match all my other usn on my social!!

Number 6 is probably most important and I’m so so glad I finally did.. 

Chowder, my beloved oc, amogello 18+ form

FINALLY I CAN UPLOAD THINGS?!?!? Respectfully one of the reasons why I avoided posting is because I wasnt able to.. anyways.. sorry this update is shit and I did say that I’m having a little bit of an identity crisis after my SG trip (Kooza was so so magical) and likely this will effect how I want to proceed next as an illustrator. But I have another trip and a longer one, so I want to wait until I’m home then to make any decisions.

Thank you for all the support!

XX

Jasmine

2026 Art Goals + Improvement

Hello! Happy New Year! I know it’s late but NGL I feel like 2025 is not over yet.. and 2026 hasn’t really rolled in. This is normal though and I do treat any awkward dates before the CNY as the inbetween-years. I usually use this to recalibrate and declutter my stuff. 

Anyways, since I have this space, I’m sharing my 2026 art goals for you!

1. Finish drawing Arcadia, Rumendale, and Sangria Falls’ map

They’re part of my story locations and I hope to dish out more lore and map for them so I can further develop their stories. So far I’ve spent my first 2026 days revving up the reference sheets of Sangria Falls’ Critters as well as trying to use up all of my unused MYOs though some spaces don’t really deserve the hassle.

2. Limit active CS/ARPG to 3 maximum

I have yet to decide which which, but I’m in at least 5 of them and while I love all of

ocs that are associated with each spaces, I think it’s best if I stick to a few and pour my focus on them. 

3. Learn isometric art

I have been enjoying isometric room 3D sticker puzzles and I wish to be able to draw them for my characters. I just know it’s gonna be so cute!

4. Learn pixel art

Need I say the reason why? They’re just the coziest cutest type of art there is and I only wish to be able to learn to do it!

5. No new ocs other than my own designs

Throughout the year I have learned that I connect more with my own designed ocs as opposed to those designed by others. I think I just love the freedom that comes with it.

Goals aside, I’m so happy with my art improvement especially in regards to furries and critters!

Reference sheet I did of Sage, my silly aquatic ‘dragon’ oc back in 2023

New updated reference I did for the same character in 2026

Seeing the new reference was so satisfying I ended up making more for my other ocs.. I do plan on having them as part of my commission menu but I need to make more for my humanoids and kemonomimis!

Honestly one of the good thing with toyhouse is I get to see old art and be happy with the improvement I made.. I hope my art continue to improve. I want to draw more art ‘just because’ not for prompts, not for comms samples, not for raffles but simply because I want to!

Thanks for reading! Next post I’ll talk about upcoming art ychs, bases and outfits!

PS: I want to make a blogpost solely dedicated to review the cs spaces I was or am in but idk if it’s necessary or if anyone would be interested. Or if you want to see tips and such or other things I’m open to share what I know and learnt.

XX

Jasmine

Birthday Blues: Bye Bye November

Immediately after I turned 29, I got sick. On 21st I went to the Vihara in early morning, did my prayer and did the coin toss thing. I asked the universe if whether what I’m about to do (stop taking commissions completely) or what I’m planning on doing (making merchs of my original characters, write and publish my own works) is right. And the fortune slip I got was just a reiteration of something I already know deep down. (Yes I’m on the right path but I need to stop thinking about money)

It was fine, BUT my aunt and one of the head help in my house pointed out that the skirt I was wearing has holes in it and from then on everything spiralled down. One of my aunt’s staff has apparently burned 2 visible holes at the hem of my nylon skirt and there’s no way of repairing it unless I cut the seams open and completely remake and repurpose the damaged bits. The skirt was a favorite find, I bought it at a local boutique that sells curated local brands. I tried looking the skirt up again but it was no longer sold.

I was angry, mostly because the one responsible didn’t come forth and did not even apologize when confronted. So I decided to go out and spend the day with my sister, grabbed an online taxi, I decided to try out one of my hometown’s famously affordable hair salon. The last time I had my hair cut was last February and my layers have all grown out and I desperately needed a trim. Later I came to regret this decision. I hated the receptionist, and though my stylist was kind, he didn’t gave me what I wanted and after a wash at home, my hair looks like shit. (I believe a good haircut means the hair shape stay good even at home. I have a shoulder length wavy hair, the stylist thinned the end too much that it looked ugly and unshapely)

After hair dresser, we had the driver drove us to one of my favorite Hikiniku Restaurant and we had our usual plus Salmon Carpaccio. It was delicious and was probably one of the thing that went well that day. We got home around 14.00 and spend our remaining days reading/drawing. 

Everything was okay until after dinner. I literally puked everything. I was already feeling nauseous so I only had oats and chia seed. I was still feeling bad because of the skirt and actually the day before, my father made a fuss about how blowing candle is against Chinese Culture— something he picked up from a tiktok video idk— and so I didn’t have my candle but I was upset because why can’t I have things my way? I wasn’t asking for much yk. I just wanted to blow the damn candle and TBH make a wish.

I felt like everything was being thrown at me on purpose. Did I mention that I also have an NPD mom? She called midnight, after wishing me a HBD, she immediately asked when will we go back to the capital, and proceeded to make remarks that just further shown her narcissistic traits. Perfect.

TLDR, I got sick and my body refused to eat anything but bananas, oats and some herbal ginger drinks for the next 2 days.I got a slight fever too it was hellish. Though on 24th, I feel signifficantly better. I decided to take a break from drawing until yesterday (29th) though and spent the day reading book and playing stardew.

Closing the month, I actually feel thankful for the sickness and the birthday mishaps. I feel like it was the universe’s way to tell me to reset. My body was given a reset because I lost 3 kgs in 3 days (though I have since gained them back). I was also allowed to slow down with my art. Before the day, I ambitiously designed 3 new characters and is already planning on another one. But the sick days forced me to stop. I had told myself to prioritise personal art project over ARPGs or closed species activities as they are meant only for casual fun but I was leaning into old patterns a little and was forced to stop.

Personally now I feel rejuvenated with new goal and to dos. I’m also happy that my room renovation project has resumed. My soul and mind is fed after I finished reading Jane Austen’s Manfield Park, now moving on to M.L. Rio’s If We Were Villains. I also had sushi with my sister and my dad yesterday.

I hope December is going to be gentler!

PS: Sorry! No new art! As stated above I’ve been reading and playing stardew. I HAVE been drawing but I try not to draw for content/clout/money so I have been taking my sweet sweet time.. Please be content with a pic of meat and ice cream :”)

XX Jasmine

I Wish/Blurred Reality

Hello! This post right here is gonna contradict the one before.. So I enjoyed the cats but after actually getting a MYO/Make-Your-Own (aka permission from a species creator to create a character of that species) I tried designing my first cat. At first I wanted to draw them after my babygirl Ruri but after some doodlings it didn’t fit right. So I hit pause until I saw a moot drew a bear instead and that got me inspired so I drew my first ‘cat’ a mouse. So happy to be giving the species another chance, I just wish their lore and trait list and dos or donts are a little more structured but that’s just my opinion as a beginner

This piece took me 12 hours 4 minutes, realistically roughly 3 days ish with breaks in between. I included ALL of my current jackalope fairies and a baby version of my Vampichi, Latte (the little baby on bottom right corner). It was made for this month’s Vgen Challenge : Wish and my thought process was that, I as an artist WISH to make my creation ‘come alive’ at least on screen. So the girl is my persona, Jasmine, she’s just happy that her little bunnies came out of the ipad screen, while Petal, our alien mascot is surprised as well. To make the whole vibe looks more dreamy, I added a cloud train, kitty trains and a couple cloud bats. The room itself was actually inspired by @rainbowloft on Instagram. Her room is such a dream! 

This piece was posted mandatorily on my X account, but to my surprise they gain the most tractions and I got 6 new followers! Honestly X/Twitter’s algo has been shit lately and there’s barely any interactions so to me, the 10 likes I got felt like 1000. I literally thought to myself: oh so this is how it feels like to have a ‘Viral’ post LOL (ik it’s not even close but the engagement for me is THAT bad so yk gotta celebrate every smoll moments yk) I do hope I win the challenge though.. if you use Vgen, please vote for my art <3<3<3

I also wanted to say that this piece was my greatest gift from my 28 year old self to ME! — I just turned 29 on 20th!! I spent the 18th and 19th on designing some new characters as another mini presents..

Salm, a Vampichi with special Halloween Meat Trait! Inspired by Salmon the fish

Dream, a Bunny Wish Snail from the Species’ November MYO Event. The theme for this event is ‘Dream’

Mandatory note that ‘Vampichi’ is a closed species by Mushies and Sha while ‘Bunny Wish Snail’ is a closed species by Pumpkin Cat Carnival. Both are super cute and speak to my soul that’s why I’m staying yk the drill. That aside there’s still one more MYO left to make and it’s my first Somni! Honestly I don’t have any ideas yet but I know I want the bat to be simple enough so I don’t need to fuss over the details when drawing them. 

Aside from the new ocs, I also won a cute vamp from the vampichi discord <3 I’ll share the character later once I drew them but this month truly is magical <3 (Latte also got featured so I got a few new art of her!)

To recap! I got 10 new watchers on DA, 6 on X, 3 on Vgen, a couple new characters, amazing art from fellow artists, new arpg to enjoy (somni), more importantly, a sense of improvement and satisfaction with my own art. I actually enjoyed drawing the large piece above and plan on making more unreal art featuring my girl sona and other characters! 

I got a pair of mules from the local shoemaker, 1 domi sticker sheet, new iPad case, (not shown but) a bunch of MLP cards, 1 UR Rainbow Dash card, and my room design sketch! (I’m tbh in the middle of renovating them and bc it has such a weird shape, it was hard arranging the furniture according to good fengshui and my taste but my sister did a good job! 

Room Design by my sister @ylverre on X
This is honestly my fav present!

Okay, that’s all about today. On 20th we went out to take away some Chinese food from Eastern: Birthday Noodle, shumai and wangshui dumpling, pochai with 3 eggs, chicken lemon sauce, and tofu with shimeji. It was so delicious. I also finally had my dream cake: cookies and cream ice cream cake for my birthday. 

Though it wasn’t a perfect day, it was in its own way ‘perfect’ to me because it felt like any other day, just a little bit special-ish. 

All in all I wanted to say that I’m super grateful for all the support and love I’ve received from the past years. I hope my dream can flourish more so I could uplift those around me. 

XX Jasmine

Heaven and Hell

As someone who’s recently free from commissions, I’m feeling a little lost. Yesterday I managed to get my Somni 18+ MYO* but I need to draw more to get the higher rarity trait. I didn’t, HAVEN’T joined the discord YET because I made a promise to myself to be casual and to be mysterious-ish, like, I don’t want to shove my art out there, I just want to put them out there g-e-n-t-l-y.

Then there’s the inactivity in Vampichi, tbh I can always put my Latte in the dtva/ draw-the-vampichi-above channel so I have to draw the previous vamps, but I have done 6 DTVAs within the past month (and I do feel bad if I keep posting her there even though I always finish my part ASAP. I’d talk about them here but at the moment I’m still fleshing out more lore for my vamp, and I NEED to make her counterpart/enemy. So I’m a little stuck-ish.

I know I don’t want to revolve my art and drawings around species PLUS 3 people have told me before I have to make my own thing but it’s so hard to focus sometimes.. does this mean I’m still a little insecure with my art hmm?? I’d like to think I’m in a better place at least compared to last year. I always review my progress everytime I’m approaching my birthday and I guess rn I’m just contemplating things YET AGAIN. Anyways, my hand itches if I don’t draw so I went to Cupid Cats (another 21+ ARPG) and fleshed out 2 prompt arts using their NPCs..

Ticket to Hell Prompt featuring Byte, Pick and Spade. All NPCs. 2h28m

Inferno’s Kiln Prompt featuring Spade, Pick and Gourd. All NPCs. 2h14m

The prompts I did were for the devidog unlock prompt, where I’d get my first Devidog MYO after completing all art prompts. If you’re unfamiliar, ARPG or Art Role Playing Game allows you to make your own official character to be used for prompt or quest completion, usually within the community world. You’ll get rewards and sometimes items for completing and participating in prompts.

The payout for both somni and cupid cats are good though so I’m happy so far.. and I’m —again, super proud with how they came out. But same with somni, I made sure to not join their discord for now bc I want to be as casual as I can be.

I told myself I’d think of something, maybe coming up with my own monthly art prompts like old instagram days and maybe I need to go on with my outfit collection afterall.. ugh! Being out of comms feel like heaven for me but it’s also hell because my indecisiveness is acting up and I need to create my own ‘things to work for’. 

*sigh* I saw on IG reel the other day about being an artist and OP was honestly so right: being a full time freelance artist = have to be ready with lots of uncertainties and you won’t even know what you’re doing 50% of the time but you have to still show up and create. It made me feel better knowing that this is probably universal and is a mental, like all I have to be is to be sure of myself. And be delusional. Anyways, I know I will pull through, I’ll talk more about my drawing process, my art and the likes in future posts promise! 

PS: me and my sister have begun closing our activity rings these past week, and I have been cutting down sugar and eating healthier lately. My aunt and uncles also bought me vitamins and supplements to help with my liver and health. Super thankful for them tbh.. which makes me want to work harder so I could somehow repay them (or at least make them proud)

I know the title is not titling but whatever!

See u on the next post!!

Jasmine :)

BATS AND BLUEBERRY BREAD

Hi

I hope this post finds you well!! I shared about the blog on Toyhouse since I think that’s the one place where my stuff reach most people —oh how I want to change this so bad.. I think I’ll give instagram another chance but IDK. DeviantArt has been growing steadily but that’s about it and I hate how laggy the site is?! It never let me change my username despite me having core.. sent the mods a ticket but alas no response so far.. talk about incompetent 

Anyways recently (more like yesterday) I have been getting back into ARPGs again after taking a small break and because my current obsession, Vamps are taking a break this month, so there were no monthly prompts. This time I told myself it would be purely for fun and will try to play without the intention of making any money or promoting anything. If the money comes while I’m having fun then so be it but I won’t be going out of my way to promote myself!

Somnivore 18+ ARPG prompt art featuring NPC007:Bunny 

The ARPG I was focusing on right now is Somnivore 18+ I have heard about them since their launch but I was in an ARPG slump due to another one iykyk LOL! and I was indifferent with bats. BUT a little friend told me to check them out and I did, and I love how they have all the world fleshed out?? I love it when a creator created something and they love it so much it translated to their work!! 

Another Somnivore 18+ prompt art because I’m trying to get my first MYO! So happy with how the sky came out though!

It’s such a new feeling that I fell in love with the world first then the species itself, I also would LOVE to point how they allow anthropomorphic form of the bat to be drawn and submitted in the ML and the humanoid form were allowed colorful skin! So dreamy! and FUN!!!

My last NPC-007: Bunny prompt art that I did this week!

It’s funny how my current focus happens to be bats though, Somnivore 18+ by Wyspic and Vampichi by Mushies and Sha. I’ll probably talk about them more in another posts and maybe other species group I’ve partake in so far ^^

The bread vs Petal.. look at how smol she is

Yesterday the bread my aunt pre-ordered for us came—! Look at how huge they are? Adding in a silly petal doodle too (bc I can and i super need to build her lore) I ordered blueberry peanut and strawberry peanut one. Blueberries by itself are expensive here but I love them. Thank God jams are more affordable though!!

Anyways G2G! I’m going to the mall to treat my aunt to Pepperlunch with my sister <3 Will take her to the newly opened Aeon supermarket too!!

Edit: I came back from the mall and am glad that my Aunt enjoyed my fave restaurant! We went to the bookstore and bought some more bread, meat and 4 Litres of Oi Ocha from Aeon^^  after that we went back home, and I continued with my Somnivore Lune grind (Lune is their currency, isn’t it cute??) I’m also over the moon because Netflix has restocked more horror movies to company me while I draw..

Thank you for reading! See you in the next post <<Will probably talk about Vampichis in my next post>>

XX Jasmine

11:11 Art Blog Launch

Okay.. where do I begin?

Let’s do a mini mandatory intro post! My name is Jasmine (I used to go by Suikou1111). I am currently a fulltime freelance art illustrator but I hope to expand my reach to creating my own merch and hopefully able to publish my own works —be it written or drawn— physicially. Being an artist have been a childhood dream of mine since I was in kindergarten and after contemplating for years whether this is the right path for me or not I decided it’s time to stop being flimsy and insecure and to have faith in my art!

Now on to the blog itself, I have been wanting to move my carrd to a blogspot like this since August or Sept but it was teddious work-ish and it’s been YEARS since the last time I blogged or use blogger.. and I’m pretty sure Blogger removed some features because the customization options are not as fun as it used to be —would you believe me if I say that I used to run a beauty blog with my bestie back in highschool?? I also managed to get a KOREAN brand review requested by their rep.. it was of a lip crayon by IASO, they’re pretty good tbh but idk if they still produce those.. — anyways back to topic, yes I put the little migration on hold just like my many art projects but here we are!

Mandatory Screenshot of the blog in case it will get a make over later in the future.. or NOT

I honestly think I did a good job, for someone rusty that is. I haven’t touched HTML {I won’t count copy pasting or Frankensteining Toyhouse codes to be ‘Coding Work’ tbh} since highschool and I’m gonna be 29 in 9 days. But I’m so proud.. and happy.. I will mostly be posting about my art journeys, and projects obviously as well as other stuffs. 

I want to post on this blog 2-3x a week at most, maybe more and once a month at least. Previously I wanted to make a series of outfit collections just like how the fashion industry does fashion week but I sort of lost interest in the middle and I overthink things because my Twitter account was doing so bad and ngl that discourage me a lot.. THAT plus someone I met online has once told me that I was ‘invicible’ despite participating in monthlys, server events and even participating as Guest Artist.

I stopped being friend with that person after recognizing many passive aggressive behavior from them but *sigh* their words did get to me from time to time. Looking back, they’re wrong though because people do recognize my art and my design, despite me experimenting A LOT with brushes and rendering style. I’m forever grateful for anyone who has gone out of their ways to comment or DMed me about my art. You guys are literal angels!! But yeah, most of the times people are just projecting their insecurities, I think, it’s just sad bc more often than not these people masked themselves as our ‘friend’.

Character outfit collection would have to wait because I’m giving [writing] another chance. NGL I’m also rusty in that department so hopefully by writing for this blog I get to improve T_T

Anyways that’s it for the first post as I have to go now and do my workout.. but see you on the next post and thank you for reading!! Also feel free to drop a comment or something! 

XX Jasmine