doodlemancy dot internet dot com

artist • she/her • professional hobbyist

i'm doodlemancy! you can call me doodle for short. i'm an artist, sticker-peddler, visual novelist, and occasional vtuber, among other things. (vtubing currently on hold for carpal tunnel syndrome treatment lmao.) this is my personal website! it contains technological wonders such as HTML, portable network graphics, and even some hyperlinks. try clicking on some stuff! go nuts! this isn't like the elevator. you're allowed to press all the buttons here.

Potion Stand Story DX, an upgrade to my first finished visual novel, is now available! You can see a full changelog here.

deposit your excess money into my bank account!

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recent updates

July 29th, 2025
Potion Stand Story Deluxe is now available!! Also I'm headed for my second surgery of the year next month lmao (guess who had carpal AND cubital tunnel syndrome. It's all up from here)February 13th, 2024
Updated links and stuff. Added a cool video to the about page.October 15th, 2024
Some of my products are now available wholesale through Faire!October 5th, 2024
MY SHOP UPDATED! go take a look! lots of new stuff to see. also RIP to cohost, the fourth website, and the only website, to me; gone it may be from my main link list but it will never leave my heart. in light of its demise, i've been trying out pillowfort and mastodon again.September 16th, 2024
Updated my front page link list to be a little more comprehensive, and shuffled some stuff around in my full social media linkslist, in light of cohost's impending demise (big sad sigh). Finally added image captions to the gallery, (THEY WERE WRITTEN BUT I HAD FORGOTTEN TO SWITCH THEM ON... OMG...) updated links out, and added an RSS page! btw, my games page also got an update recently.June 3rd, 2024
HAPPY PRIDE! There's new pride merch in my shop! Also my short visual novel, Potion Stand Story, is going to be in the Queer Games Bundle on itch.io this year!P.S. i'm in physical therapy right now for carpal tunnel syndrome and a pinched nerve that's been goofing up my right shoulder. doing my best to get back to 100% so i can start streaming again and making more art :)March 1st, 2024
it's my second annual MINIPRINT MARCH! prints are on sale in my shop! also, all Pink and Shiny Envelope club members over on ko-fi get to choose free miniprints this month! i also established a links out page with a lot of cool stuff!!February 14th, 2024
happy first day of spring! the spring update is live! it's definitely spring! i'm not just tired of winter i don't just have seasonal depression SHHSHSHSHHH anyway go look at all the cute new stuff in my shop!

let's pretend it's 1999... sign my guestbook! <3

find me everywhere

oooo you wanna click these so bad

✦ elemei ✦ pepperbloom ✦ duludulu ✦ crowlines ✦

😎 Neat Websites ✨
✦ NoClip - explore 3D maps from classic games
✦ DOKAN 6 - archive of old anime fansites
✦ Art Of Animation - archive of animation production art, check out their visual library too
✦ Settei Dreams - really high quality anime production art
✦ History of Hyrule Flickr - TONS of Zelda concept/official art
✦ History of Hyrule - seriously, so much Zelda content
✦ Lazy Evaluation Ranch - farm blog. just read it, trust me
✦ Safety Sign Generator - excellent mischief facilitator
✦ BeepBox - play around and make some music
✦ Potofu - where does she get the tiny outfits. i'm so fascinated
✦ PirateShip - it's like if Stamps.com was actually good
✦ Unfuck Your Habitat - saved my life lol
✦ Dark Patterns - helps you avoid scummy, addictive games
✦ AnimeThemes - anime OP/EDs nobody has motion-smoothed
✦ The Cutting Room Floor - try looking up your favorite games!
✦ AnimArchive - vintage anime/manga scans
✦ Video Games Densetsu - video game art, concept art, etc.
✦ Classic Shoujo - vintage shoujo manga/anime art
✦ Supper Mario Broth - obscure Mario Bros. art, merch, and oddities
✦ TheMushroomKingdom - ye olde standby Mario fansite
✦ Starmen.net - ye olde Earthbound fansite
✦ Kantopia - Fire Emblem scanlations & more!
✦ MissDream - do you like Sailor Moon? click.
✦ ZeldaDungeon - venerable Zelda fansite/non-Fandom wiki
✦ GifCities Repository - searchable database of old geocities gifs
✦ Unicode Toys - do some fun stuff with unicode symbols
✦ Death Generator - one-stop shop for fake game screencaps
✦ HORG - The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
✦ the jpeg zone - jpeg deep fryer
✦ Ultimate Favorite Pokemon Picker - you'll be there a while lol

✏️ My Tutorials & Creative Resources 📎
✦ Merch Photography For Hobbyists & Unprofessionals
✦ How To Put Your Cheap Tablet On A Cheap Ergo Arm
✦ Shrinky Dink Research Notes
✦ Printable Shop Update Tracker Sheet For Artists
✦ How To Move Clip Studio Paint Without Crying
✦ Bluesky Unofficial Prima Strategy Guide
✦ We R Memory Keepers Heart Button Template

🎨 More Creative Resources 📚
✦ Understanding Comics - if you like comics, YOU GOTTA READ IT.
✦ Adorkastock - great figure drawing app & LOTS MORE!
✦ Sound Effect Lab - JP site with free anime sound fx
✦ Fat Photo Reference - photo reference of fat bodies for artists
✦ MorgueFile - free photos for creative use
✦ Piqsels - royalty-free photo search
✦ CC Search Portal - more free/public domain photos
✦ PoseManiacs - 3D poses for drawing
✦ How To Fight Write - blog about writing combat
✦ THE BASE MESH - 100% free 3D models
✦ Shorpy - American historical photo archive
✦ Library of Congress Newspaper Archive - it's searchable!!
✦ TeacupLion - cute sewing patterns, some free!
✦ Seventh Sanctum - creative generators (not AI scum lol)
✦ Comics Devices - catalogue of visual devices used in comics
✦ This to That - crafter tool, helps you choose adhesives
✦ 3D Animal Heads - super useful!
✦ Anime Characters DB - extremely handy for design inspiration
✦ OpenGameArt - free gamedev resources
✦ Fonts In Use - see fonts in their natural habitats
✦ taco - one of the GOATs when it comes to drawing tutorials
✦ MangaMaterials - another of the GOATs!! check out their videos!
✦ yuyuka - fantastic crafting videos!
✦ AmyMade - MORE fantastic crafting videos!
✦ How To Draw Backgrounds With Character - free book! FREE BOOK.
✦ Reference Angle - easily find photos of faces at different angles!
✦ Peritune - free music you can use in anything! (JP website; a translation browser add-on does a pretty good job.)

💻 My Software Recs 🖱️
✦ Obsidian - i use it to organize my visual novel project notes
✦ DesignDoll - easy-to-use 3D model-posing software
✦ Narrat - free game engine for Disco Elysium style games
✦ Ren'Py - THE free visual novel engine
✦ PostyBirb - easily post across multiple sites at once
✦ Vroid Studio - create 3D anime characters
✦ Wiggly Paint - yeah! wiggly paint!!!
✦ Simple Time Tracker - i wrote a post about it.
✦ Inkscape - the UI stinks but it's still useful free vector software
✦ PureRef - indispensable tool for digital artists
✦ AIMP - fantastic music player for desktop & mobile
✦ Winaero Tweaker - make Windows better & less annoying
✦ Classic Shell - make Windows look good again
✦ Zelda Classic - Zelda game builder
✦ MediBangPaint - great desktop & mobile art software
✦ Krita - a nice open-source paint program
✦ Paint.NET - what if MS Paint, but way better?

🎧 Fav Podcasts 👂
You're Wrong About ✦ Maintenance Phase ✦ The Worst Of All Possible Worlds ✦ Behind the Bastards ✦ Let's Talk About Sonic ✦ Kill James Bond! ✦ Castle Super Beast ✦ This Ends At Prom ✦ Too Scary; Didn't Watch ✦ Spotless

📘 BOOKS & COMICS I RECOMMEND 📖
A quick note: you can always check the Internet Archive for books-- some are available to borrow and read for free. Even if you can't afford to buy a copy, one way to support authors is to get in touch with your local library and ask them to order things for you. This benefits the library, the author, you, and an untold number of library patrons.
✦ Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
✦ Draw Stronger by Kriota Willberg
✦ Drawing Anime Faces & Feelings - from Studio Hard Deluxe
✦ Point Character Drawing and Secret Character Drawing by TACO
✦ Witch Hat Atelier manga series by Kamome Shirahama
✦ The Sea In You graphic novel by Jessi Sheron
✦ Taproot graphic novel by Keezy Young
✦ Sunflowers autobiographical comic by Keezy Young
✦ Dungeon Meshi manga series by Ryoko Kuiif you think we have similar tastes, you can also view my anime list to see my more of my anime & manga recommendations.HEY, you should also download Libby, a great free app that helps you easily access your local library's e-books & audiobooks!

link to me

i take a LOT of screenshots of anime and sometimes i make some icons out of them. feel free to use any of these for any social media you like, no credit necessary.

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Arc

Cardcaptor Sakura

Super Mario Bros. - The Great Mission To Rescue Princess Peach

• doodlemancy!
• (doodle for short. or doodles, or dood, or HEY YOU)
• she/her
• in my hurty 30s (born 1991)
• oregon, USA
• bad brain & chronic pain
• artist, visual novelist, professional hobbyist
• i love my cat, her name is Tia
• i love anime & manga
• also... videygames...........

As a toddler, I once ate half a jumbo orange crayon. As a child I never believed in Santa but was fairly convinced I might be able figure out how to either float with umbrellas or slow my descent from jumps by kicking my legs like Luigi in Super Mario Bros. 2. If you combine my western zodiac sign with my eastern zodiac sign, I'm two sheep. I also used to wear mouse ears everywhere. I'm basically a non-practicing furry.My body collects chronic ailments and pains with the same enthusiasm a child in a park might collect fallen pine cones. I am too disabled to support myself, but not disabled in a way the US government really cares about.I've always drawn and written stories and stuff, but I didn't get serious until I was 12 and just discovering that fan art was a thing people did and that there was a word (anime) for the specific kind of animation I was becoming very interested in. I took some figure drawing classes in community college; that's the greatest extent of my formal training. I am decidedly Not A Professional and have no intention of becoming one; my limitations would make it impossible anyway, so I'm just doing my own thing.In 2024, I released my first complete visual novel, Potion Stand Story. I am currently working on another visual novel, Iron Company, alongside work on my merch.

WHAT'S DOODLEMANCY. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??
It’s doodle + mancy as in the suffix used to denote specialized magic (ex. pyromancy, necromancy). my name is not mancy. you can call me doodle for short but please not mancy lolWILL YOU DRAW ME SOMETHING?
I am too dang busy/exhausted for requests or commissions most of the time. Sorry! Sometimes I open them on Ko-Fi, but it's like... real random.WHAT TOOLS DO YOU USE TO MAKE YOUR ART?
2012: Pencil, colored in Paint Too tool SAI with a Wacom Bamboo.
2013: Figured out how to draw with the Bamboo.
2014-19: SAI + an Intuos 4 that a friend generously passed to me.
2020-present: XP-PEN artist 15.6 and Clip Studio Paint.
I make heavy use of poseable 3D models, which I find helps my ADHD-Dyscalculia lil brain with stuff it can't otherwise process very well.HOW DID YOU LEARN TO DRAW?
frankly, i am still learning to draw. i'm mostly self-taught from old-school how-to-draw-manga books i borrowed from the school library, and random tutorials i found online. i took a couple of figure drawing classes in community college, which were great, and i miss that experience dearly. check out my links out page if you want a list of books and free resources i like.HOW DID YOU MAKE/HOW DO YOU USE YOUR VTUBER?
i used VRoid Studio to make her and i use VSeeFace to stream! i also use VRM Posing Desktop for silly pictures. (VRMPD, along with some editing in Clip Studio Paint, is also how i made all the Elly graphics for Potion Stand Story.)YOU DRAW YOURSELF WITHOUT GLASSES, BUT YOUR VTUBER WEARS GLASSES. WHAT IS GOING ON THERE?
i'm nearsighted. i take off my glasses to draw.HOW CAN I OBTAIN DOODLEMANCY STICKERS IN BULK TO SELL AT MY BRICK-AND-MORTAR STORE?
what a specific and profitable question! you can buy my stickers wholesale here through Faire! (i'm still settling in! if you want a specific design i don't have up there yet, message me there!)

ART USAGE RULES

If you want to use my art in a way that isn't covered here, please ask!✦ AI/NFTS/CRYPTO/ETC.
No. And if there's a new techbro grift that I haven't addressed here yet: also no.✦ ICONS/PFPS/HEADERS
You may use my art as your profile pic or header on social media as long as you credit me in your bio.✦ WALLPAPERS & DIY PRINTING
If you want to print my art out to stick up on your wall or it as your phone wallpaper or something: go for it! Consider buying my prints/digital wallpapers from my shop or supporting me in other ways if you can afford to.RE-UPLOADS
Please make your best effort to see if I've already posted the thing on the site where you intend to re-upload. If you must re-upload, post the artwork UNALTERED, and link back directly to my website, doodlemancy.com.If you use Pinterest or a similar site, make sure you are directly linking to the source, ex. an individual tumblr post, not a page OF tumblr posts it'll eventually fall off.PLEASE DON'T UPLOAD MY ARTWORK IN THESE PLACES:
✦ Twitter/X
✦ Instagram
✦ Facebook
✦ Aggregator sites (Cheezburger, iFunny, etc.), especially if they automatically add a watermark
✦ Gallery sites like deviantART that are primarily intended for artists to post their own work(Why so picky? Isn't exposure good?)
Common artist experience: someone with a large audience re-uploads your work, it gets thousands of likes and shares... and the re-uploader gets more new followers out of it than you do. Less common artist experience: someone with a large platform shares your post, and you get a boost in followers and sales. If you love art and want to support artists, prioritize sharing rather than re-uploading.(So do I have to credit you if I post a selfie where I'm wearing one of your buttons or something?)
No, that'd be wild. I love seeing those photos, but it would be 100% unreasonable for me to demand credit for every incidental appearance of my keychains/buttons/prints/etc. in your selfies or whatever.P.S.✦ Purchasing copies of my artwork (printed or digital) does not grant you any additional rights or licensing.✦ If you edit out my signature, add your own watermark to my art, trace/modify it and pass it off as your own, "remix" it with AI, slice up and redistribute it as "free transparent pngs" or "clipart" or "renders", I will appear to you in your bathroom mirror. Sticky amber liquid will run from the taps and down the walls. My mouth will move as if I am speaking, but all you will hear is buzzing. Just noise, devoid of meaning. My smile will grow wider and wider until it leaves the edges of the mirror. Until I am perched on your sink. In the room with you, with my horrible grin and my too many teeth. You will scream. You will awaken in your bed, safe, in daylight, still hearing the buzzing. Is it a fan, or a distant weed whacker, or a television left on? What is that strange black cloud in the distance? It's bees. Oh god. It's bees.

  • ✦ commissions are closed, sorry! i got too much goin' on all the time between my shop and my visual novel project; i may, very rarely, open them for short windows.

  • ✦ custom print jobs are very much open; if you would like me to do a big batch of stickers/prints/something else for events, party favors, etc. and you have a time frame at least a month out, shoot me an e-mail and we can sort out details and payment.

  • ✦ retailers: my products are available wholesale through Faire! please shoot me an e-mail or a message there if there's a specific thing from Etsy you'd like that isn't available on Faire yet.

  • ✦ i'm Too Disabled for long-term work! but MAYBE a zine... wink wonk ;3c

  • ✦ if your email has anything to do with AI, crypto, or NFTs, save both of us the time and don't bother!

  • ✦ i am veeeeeeery interested in info about how my products hold up under different kinds of stress. ;D

(please expect to wait a little while for me to respond, since i am a certified human disaster.)

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  • THANK YOU FOR WANTING TO GIVE ME MONEY. WOW. That's super nice of you!

  • ko-fi - click "one time" and you can make a one-time donation through paypal. there are also some "pay what you want" items in my shop there.

  • cashapp - make a direct cashapp donation.

  • throne gifts - public wishlist! there's practical stuff, silly stuff, and cat toys for my very very good cat.

feed her
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buy prints, charms & stickers in my etsy shop!

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digital downloads in my ko-fi shop!

Retailers, you can also buy my stuff wholesale through Faire! (I'm still getting settled in there. Please contact me via e-mail or Faire message if there's a specific product that isn't in my Faire shop yet that you'd like, and I'd be happy to write up a listing.)

I MAKE VISUAL NOVELS!

Well. It's more like... I've made one complete visual novel and I've got a Big One in progress. I'm slowly learning more Ren'py skills as I go. I love this medium! Of all my creative pursuits it's the one I'm most passionate about.

POTION STAND STORY

POTION STAND STORY is a short VN project I did to learn Ren'py! It was supposed to be a fantasy Lemonade Stand remake with visual novel elements, but it turned into more of a visual novel with Lemonade Stand fantasy elements. Look for it over on Itch.io!

i wrote her a real sad backstory

IRON COMPANY

IRON COMPANY is my visual novel project in progress, which you can play a demo of for free RIGHT NOW!! It is a comedy-horror-action-fantasy-enemies-to-friends-found-family story about several broken people and how their jagged edges come to fit together. Do you like ghosts? Do you wanna see two sad guys hold hands, and then also kiss eventually? What about unlikely friendships? Buddy cops kinda stuff but like, without cops? Do you like when sometimes there's a funny little mascot animal? You may enjoy Iron Company.Check out its page on Itch.io for more story details, downloads, and a technically-playable mobile version!
Visit my Toyhouse for character bios! (I styled them like a Wiki it's fun go look)WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING
★ Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating of "this is not a movie" and "please stop emailing us."
★ Strangers on the internet told me that Petra is their blorbo now and that's as glowing an endorsement as I could ask for.
★ My best friend in the whole world says "(feral noises)". She's probably obligated to say this but she does have good taste. Trust me.This one... is The Big One, to me. It's been in ADHD development hell for a while, and I got rolling again after I released Potion Stand Story. I have no honest idea how long it will take to bring fully to fruition, and it'll probably take some crowdfunding to get music and sound and some other elements I can't do myself into it. But it's progressing, steadily; there's not a day that passes where I don't at least think about it. It is my most passionate passion project. So I'm releasing bits of it as I can, formatted for maximum reader enjoyment despite its unfinished state. For now, it's more of a... serial text adventure, with some sketches in it. I hope if you're interested you'll give it a spin, even in its currently-unfinished state!

i wrote her a real sad backstory

SKETCH GALLERY

i wrote her a real sad backstory
i wrote her a real sad backstory

all characters & writing © doodlemancy. made in ren'py, the free visual novel engine

doodlemancy's mailing list

✿ WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN

  • ❀ email is a way for me to keep in contact with my audience without various social media chaos (bad algorithms, billionaires, etc.) interfering

  • ❀ i'm gonna send you cute pictures of my cats also

✿ WHAT I SEND YOU

  • ❀ news about me As An Artist

  • ❀ shop / ko-fi related news and ads

  • ❀ basically, just stuff you might care about if you already like things i make.

  • ❀ cannot stress this enough, there's gonna be cat pictures in the emails.

You can view previous issues of my newsletter here (sometimes slow to load, give it a sec) if you want a taste of The Content without handing over your e-mail address just yet.✿ MY PLEDGE TO RESPECT YOUR INBOX
i promise i will not email you every day like fucking Best Buy. it is actually not in my best interests to annoy my audience (and the free mailing list software i use wouldn't allow me to spam you anyway).✿ PLEASE REMEMBER TO CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER for a while and mark my messages as "not spam" if they end up there!OK here's the form!

seriously though check your spam folder. set a calendar reminder to do it every week or something. not just for me. i missed a very important hot topic sale once and it was traumatic.

graphics on this page were obtained from cinni's dream home.

In May 2019, a licensed medical professional wrote me a letter to give to my landlord that says I need a cat for the sake of my mental health. Two days later I adopted Tia, a rescued stray who my partner at the time had bonded with through the pet store he worked at. This page is a shrine to the only antidepressant I've ever tried that didn't make me barf (although she herself is an adept barfer). I also post a lot about her on my personal twitter (if you can tolerate all the kvetching and rambling).

PREMIUM TIA FEATURES:
★ plays fetch
★ yawns with her eyes open
★ love biter
★ loves to stalk and hunt
★ criminal. disrespecter of law. based.
★ will steal your straw out of your drink.
★ gets her paws wet and puts them on you.
★ very soft
★ goes in her carrier on command (for treats)
★ fucking superb you funky little carnivore

KO-FI is a subscription/crowdfunding platform for creatives (similar to Patreon)! On my Ko-Fi I post members-only content and send out goodies in the mail!

WHAT YOU GET!
★ Sketches, doodles, works in progress, merch previews, process videos, all browseable in my gallery. you'll get to see some stuff before it goes public, and some that doesn't go public at all.★ Occasional behind-the-scenes content, when I have something interesting about my process to share, new equipment, etc.★ Content related to my ongoing visual novel project★ Secret Shop access: sometimes I put up stuff in the ko-fi shop that is For Members Only.★ Free digital downloads from my ko-fi shop!★ Discounts in my Etsy shop via secret coupon codes!★ At the Pink Envelope tier, you'll get occasional goodies in the mail!★ At the Shiny Envelope tier, you get one of each* new sticker and miniprint!
*sometimes it'd be cost-prohibitive or impossible for me to send you every variant of something so i'll have you pick!★ Very Unpredictably: envelope tiers sometimes get unique/exclusive prints and stickers!

I GOT NO MONEY! IS THERE STILL GOOD STUFF THERE FOR ME?
Yes! I do make public posts, and it's a good place to follow me in case social media websites collapse or something. Also, every once in a while, I go back and make some private posts public.HOW OFTEN DO YOU SEND OUT MAIL?
There's currently no set-in-stone schedule. They usually coincide with my typical shop updates: I send them out around the winter holiday season, Valentine's Day, Spring Equinox, Pride, and Halloween. You might also get a surprise one once in a while.HOW DO PAYMENTS WORK ON KO-FI?
You can pay with PayPal! You'll be charged monthly on the same day you signed up.HOW DO I CHANGE TIERS?
You have to cancel and re-pledge, since Ko-Fi allows you to subscribe to more than one tier at a time. More info here!I'M VERY COOL AND I'D LIKE TO SUPPORT YOU FOR MORE THAN THE COOL KID MINIMUM WITHOUT GETTING MAIL.
That's super nice of you!!! ;_; When you sign up for any tier, you can choose to pay more than the minimum price, so if you sign up for Cool Kid, you can support me for as much as you'd like without having to give me your address.I'M NOT IN THE USA, CAN I STILL GET MAIL GOODIES?
Heck yeah you can! If you can receive USPS First-Class Mail International you can get my mail rewards! Here is a handy list of countries I can send them to. Stamped international mail is slow so you'll probably get seasonal stuff a bit late, but give it a shot!CAN I SIGN UP FOR JUST ONE MONTH?
If you can't commit to a monthly pledge, a one-time donation gets you 30 days of access to my news/gallery posts!WHAT IF I HAVE TO CANCEL?
That's fine! You're support is appreciated regardless! Mail tiers are set up for continuous support, though, so I'd prefer it if people didn't sign up to get one envelope and then dash-- but I'm not gonna come after you like a weirdo tax collector or something.CAN KO-FI PAYMENTS BE COUNTED TOWARD ETSY PURCHASES/VICE VERSA?
No, sorry! (But Ko-Fi members do get Etsy shop coupons!)

Well, Hello There!

Hi, I'm doodlemancy! If you found this page, it's probably because you bought my stickers in a store. That's so cool, and thank you for buying 'em! I'm an independent artist just doing my own thing. Your stickers were made in my home, at my craft table, under the watchful eye of my cats. You couldn't be buying from a smaller business. Unless it was run by gnomes or something.

Current designs available inside the mystery sticker bags...

doodlemancy's handmade stickers stick best on surfaces that are clean and have a smooth texture. For best results, wipe your chosen surface clean with rubbing alcohol and allow to dry before applying the sticker. Press on the middle of the sticker first, then rub outward toward the edges.The stickered surface can be hand washed gently, with warm water and soap. For the record, I've stress-tested some stickers on a mug in the dishwasher, and it took 100 washes on the top rack before one of them finally gave up and fell off, but the edges do start looking raggedy sooner if you put them in the dishwasher.You CAN put these on your car, but they won't do well in the car wash and may fade or peel depending on heat/sun exposure. Finding a UV-resistant spray intended for use on car decals might help, if you're determined. ;)Please note: the adhesive on my stickers is really strong once it sets! Not recommended for painted surfaces or wood with a fragile finish, as it may cause damage on removal.If you want more stickers, first of all, please support the business where you found them by buying what you can there, because they're supporting the dreams of an independent artist! If you want to buy from me directly, please visit my Etsy shop! (And if you'd like to purchase them wholesale to sell at your own brick-and-mortar store, come visit me on Faire!)

THIS IS THE THANK PAGE... please contemplate the image below and Experience Thank

also here is a slideshow of some Tia pics!! 💖 she says thank you for money so she can have more chicken.

Handmade Merch Resources & Info

Sometimes I get questions about how I make my handmade merch! There are some great resources out there, but they can be kind of hard to find and there's a lot of learning you have to do on your own. The thing that drove me a little nuts as someone trying to get into making my own merch was wanting to know "okay, what are the BASIC things and skills I need to make this happen, is it within reach for me?" So that's what I'm trying to provide here: basic info so you can easily determine what you can realistically and affordably make!

Hot Tips For Buying Cheap Stuff (Without Accidentally Buying A Pile Of Garbage That Doesn't Work)

★ "OPEN BOX" is your friend! Buying electronics used or refurbished is cool and good, but can be dicey sometimes, especially with something that you want to last. I really recommend looking for "open box" models-- basically this is stuff that's been returned by a customer very, very lightly used at most. Because the packaging is damaged and the item doesn't look perfectly new anymore, it loses some of its value, even though it basically IS perfectly new. This is because capitalism is stupid. Take advantage.★ Aim for the mid-range thing. Don't buy the dirt-cheapest thing unless you're sure it's all you need, because it's probably gonna break and you'll have to replace it. Aim for something that's nice, but not top of the line expensive.★ When you read reviews, even if an item has a high rating, make sure to look for recent low scores in order to screen out items that used to be good but have recently dropped in quality.★ Another important thing to screen reviews and specs for: if this thing requires "refills" (ex. new blades for a die cutting machine, or button parts for a button press), are the refills easy to obtain and a reasonable price? Can you buy refills from a third party? If the manufacturer stops making the refills, are you going to be SOL, or are you likely to still have options for a while? Try to avoid getting locked into a situation where the manufacturer can make whatever you're buying useless if they go out of business in the next year. If the printer is cheap, are the cartridges readily available?★ Buy a previous model instead of the latest shiniest one. People will be trying to get rid of their old stock.★ Always always always read the return policy before you order something like a die cutting machine or a printer!

A Decent Printer

Printers: they are bad. We all know this. Some printers are less bad than others.I've had numerous printers in my 25+ years of using them, and I've worked in the photo department at a drugstore. In my experience, the LEAST BAD printer brand is Brother. I own an MFC-J433DW that I got on sale in 2021, and it rules; the INKvestment tanks can be a little hard to buy on short notice but last forever. Canon is usually pretty okay. Epson... I have a grudge (their industrial-size poster printer gave me a lot of grief) but a lot of fellow artists seem to like their Epsons. The brand you should run the absolute fuck away from is HP, the king of planned obsolecence (and really bad apps that don't do what they're supposed to).What to look for in a printer:
★ Individually replaceable color cartridges are a must! It'll save you a lot of money and frustration.
★ What sizes do you want to print in? Make sure it can do 'em.
★ Laser and inkjet printers each have their own strengths and weaknesses. Remember laser printers get warm, which means you can't put anything through them that shouldn't get warm (like shrink plastic).
★ Do you want to print stickers directly on shiny or transparent material? You'll probably want a printer that uses white ink! This isn't standard in consumer models, so make sure you check!What to avoid in a printer:
★ Wireless-only printers with no USB/LAN port. WiFi connectivity is nice... but if it's made to be 100% dependent on WiFi, RUN. JUST RUN!!
★ Touchscreen-only controls: These look fancy, but they're made to die. If that touchscreen malfunctions, you're screwed.
★ Printers that are dependent on some kind of ongoing contract with the manufacturer to keep working. Printer functionality should not be like cable TV where you have to pay a monthly fee. Run away! Run away!

HEY. YOU. STOP TELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS WHO HATE ADOBE TO SWITCH TO GIMP.

I am saying this for your own good, nerds. This is a clownshoes suggestion, and the farther away we get from the early 2000s the longer those clown shoes become.Trying to replace Photoshop with GIMP is like trying to replace central air conditioning with a box fan. It's like handing someone a crayon to endorse a check. It's like telling someone who really misses proper, fully-featured netbooks to just get a Chromebook. It conveys a fundamental lack of understanding of the situation, expectations, and other people's specific needs and use cases.The GNU Image Manipulation Program is not a viable alternative for most illustrators. Unfortunately we live in capitalist hellworld and nothing is a 1:1 replacement for Adobe's overpriced predatory nonsense, but GIMP is among the worst suggestions, ESPECIALLY AND SPECIFICALLY for digital artists.Quick disclaimer: I'm a digital artist, not a designer, so this page is focused on digital art/illustration specifically, and what alternatives exist for people who are drawing and painting in photoshop.

WHY GIMP IS NOT A SERIOUS ALTERNATIVE TO PHOTOSHOP

  • 👎 Cringey offensive ableist name the dev team won't let go of. Pleeeeease you cannot expect people to adopt this in a work environment lmao

  • 👎 Stagnant development and the devs have historically been hostile to user feedback

  • 👎 Handles text REALLY POORLY. Like just... it's sloppy, man.

  • 👎 UI designed by aliens. If you are not familiar with more standard image editing software like Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint I cannot possibly explain to you just how maddening GIMP's UI is. It's like trying to play Super Mario 64 with tank controls.

  • 👎 Bad workflow with too many steps to do simple things = more keypresses/mouse movement = repetitive stress!! This is not sustainable for artists, who are already extremely vulnerable to RSIs!

  • 👎 Bad workflow also means time wasted and TIME IS MONEY for professionals!

JUST REAL QUICK, HERE ARE SOME THINGS I'M NOT SAYING

  • 🙅 That you, personally, are a bad or foolish person for using, liking, preferring, or being stuck with GIMP

  • 🙅 That GIMP has no valid applications

  • 🙅 That only paid software is worth the effort

  • 🙅 That anything anyone makes in GIMP sucks

What I am saying is that it's goofy to suggest that every Adobe Photoshop user could make the switch to GIMP if they wanted to. It's weird to see it at the top of every list of PS alternatives, and it's deeply tiring to have it suggested constantly the same way able-bodied people will approach someone with severe chronic pain and be like "hmmm... have you tried taking ibuprofen"?

UMMMM OK BUT I USE GIMP ALL THE TIME AND IT WORKS TOTALLY FINE FOR ME

FOR YOU. You are like a deep-sea fish with a bio-luminescent antenna. You have successfully adapted to an extreme environment, and you cannot realistically expect every other fish in the sea to be able to do the same. If GIMP works fine for you, nobody's telling you to switch. But you are an outlier! You are Spiders Georg! Please don't approach artists and treat them like they're dummies for not living in a cave and eating 10,000 spiders each day, or give them unrealistic expectations about how many spiders they'll have to eat to successfully use GIMP.

THE FAULTY CARPENTER BLAMES HIS TOOLS!

The experienced carpenter recognizes that banging nails in with the butt of a screwdriver technically works, but a hammer is preferable.

FINE, WHAT'S YOUR SOLUTION?

Again, there is no truly perfect alternative to Photoshop. We have to work within that reality for now! Many artists are stuck with it for professional reasons or because nothing else supports all their needs. BUT if you are able to get away from Adobe, there are much, MUCH better alternatives than GIMP.

FREE ALTERNATIVES

Krita - free/open source, and you can bring your PS brushes (with the caveat of a lot of extra work).
MediBang Paint - some paid features. easy to transfer files between mobile and desktop versions, so it's great if you have a mobile tablet or phone you draw on.
FireAlpaca - quite powerful, fun brushes, reminiscent of Paint Tool SAI

I don't have a single RSS feed for doodlemancy.com, but you can still put me in your RSS feeds!Wait wait wait hang on-- what's an RSS feed?
It stands for Really Simple Syndication. Using an RSS reader (also often called a news aggregator) is an easy and accessible way to create a scroll-able feed of content from various websites. There are many, MANY RSS readers out there and it can be daunting to figure out where to start. I recommend Fluent Reader, a free, clean and simple desktop app, Feedbro, a desktop browser add-on with handy notifications, and Inoreader for mobile devices. There are also RSS-to-email services out there. Lots of paid apps and tools, but lots of free ones, too; just look around until you find something you like. (Searching Reddit is often the best way to find something good.)If you can't find an RSS feed for a website, you can try pasting the site's URL into Open RSS or RSS anything!As dipshit billionaires turn formerly lively social media into sinking ships, and as we all jump into different lifeboats, RSS is a way you can follow cool people and stuff you like wherever you end up.bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/doodlemancy.com/rss
i never shut up there. if you'd like to pare it down a little to mostly just my art and VN stuff, you could maaaaaybe regex it to only pick up my commonly used tags: #doodlemancyart, #ocart, #artistsonbluesky, #potionstandstory, and #ironcompany.shop-only bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/doodlemancyshop.bsky.social/rss
this one's a lot quieter, and it's just for shop stuff. sometimes i share other artists' shop and commission posts into it too.dreamwidth
https://doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/data/rss
this is where i'm trying to move most of my more longform rambling after the demise of cohost. we'll see how it shakes out. i like it there, but i'm fickle and so is the internet.my email newsletter... but RSS instead of email!
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