I've been dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress over the past few months when it comes to my art and my life in general. I’ve been doing comms like crazy to support myself this year to pay the rent and keep myself afloat.

My RL work has been picking up since July or so and we’ve found unexpected success. With that has come something unexpected….a promotion for me. I’ve been working like crazy at my RL job and just a week or two ago they let me know that they had a big promotion in mind for me due to my hard work. This promotion would have me working far more on high-profile projects more frequently. This means that over the next year or two my sole focus would be on my RL job and making sure that’s going fine.

What that means however is that I’m going to be going on an Indefinite Hiatus for now. I can’t keep up doing the Song stuff and my RL job and still have time to take care of myself and make sure I’m doing okay. I’ve been so busy with trying to balance both of them that I haven’t been taking care of myself and making sure that I’m healthy.

I’ll still be talking to people in the community and the friends I’ve made as Song, but art from me is gonna slow down to a crawl, if I ever upload stuff. I’m gonna be pausing my patreon and disabling my Ko-Fi account for now as well. Comms will be stopping from me (besides maybe comms on my SFW account for SFW stuff, and it’d be a lesser amount of them). And I might not take comms based on characters usually drawn in the community.

Know that this isn’t an easy decision to make for me, I’ve been talking to a lot of close friends for a few weeks about what I should do. And we agreed that this might be the best choice for me to make.

I’ve been doing the Songofswelling stuff for ten years now. Ten whole years of my life dedicated to drawing puffs and rounds. I knew eventually I was gonna start stepping back and letting newer artists take over the scene, but this change came faster than I was expecting it to.

For now I'm not going to be taking down my galleries on either here or Twitter unless either site asks me to take down anything, in which case I'll have to comply with their request.

If you have any questions, don’t be afraid to ask for clarification

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I am retiring from Song by SongOfSwelling, journal

I am retiring from Song

May 28, 2021

Hello everyone I have an announcement. A while back I went on hiatus due to work, that hiatus is now going to be permanent. I got a really big offer st my job that has to be my priority moving forward and due to that I am retiring as Song. I am packing up and moving on, it has been fun but it's time for me to put my focus elsewhere. Thanks for all the support over the years. Sincerely, Song

Going on Indefinite Hiatus by SongOfSwelling, journal

Going on Indefinite Hiatus

Dec 27, 2020

I would like to share some updates I've been dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress over the past few months when it comes to my art and my life in general. I’ve been doing comms like crazy to support myself this year to pay the rent and keep myself afloat. My RL work has been picking up since July or so and we’ve found unexpected success. With that has come something unexpected….a promotion for me. I’ve been working like crazy at my RL job and just a week or two ago they let me know that they had a big promotion in mind for me due to my hard work. This promotion would have me working far more on high-profile projects more frequently. This means that over the next year or two my sole focus would be on my RL job and making sure that’s going fine. What that means however is that I’m going to be going on an Indefinite Hiatus for now. I can’t keep up doing the Song stuff and my RL job and still have time to take care of myself and make sure I’m doing okay. I’ve been so busy with

Song October Commissions Closed by SongOfSwelling, journal

Song October Commissions Closed

Oct 4, 2020

Hey everyone, Song here! October Commissions are Closed! ------------------------------------------- Due to recent batches, I am introducing a repetition tax on some comms. If you commission a character with an idea I've already done with that character within the past few months, the commission may cost more. Please look at the pictures I've done in the past few months before you submit a commission, the more unique your comm idea is, the more likely it is I'm going to pick it. --------------------------------------------------------------- You MUST fill out the form to get a commission, if you send me a note on DA with the commission idea, you will be skipped. SFW comms are still 5$ off from the normal price! Please be courteous if you do not get a slot, I've had to deal with people who weren't in the past. I've created a form you to fill out that should include all the details you want for your commission, instead of the usual sending of a Deviantart note. The Commission

Song September Commissions Closed by SongOfSwelling, journal

Song September Commissions Closed

Sep 7, 2020

Hey everyone, Song here! September Commissions are closed! Picking the commissioners right now ------------------------------------------- Due to recent batches, I am introducing a repetition tax on some comms. If you commission a character with an idea I've already done with that character within the past few months, the commission may cost more. For example, if I already did a full body poof of Samus with a lewd face in the past month or two, then if you were to commission another full body poof of Samus with nearly similar lewd face, there might be an extra five dollar charge. If that makes sense. Please look at the pictures I've done in the past few months before you submit a commission, the more unique your comm idea is, the more likely it is I'm going to pick it. --------------------------------------------------------------- You MUST fill out the form to get a commission, if you send me a note on DA with the commission idea, you will be skipped. SFW comms are still 5$ off

Song July Comms Closed by SongOfSwelling, journal

Song July Comms Closed

Jul 1, 2020

Hey everyone, Song here! July comms are closed ------------------------------------------- Due to recent batches, I am introducing a repetition tax on some comms. If you commission a character with an idea I've already done with that character within the past few months, the commission may cost more. For example, if I already did a full body poof of Samus with a lewd face in the past month or two, then if you were to commission another full body poof of Samus with nearly similar lewd face, there might be an extra five dollar charge. If that makes sense. Namely for the month or two, any commission involving my girl S.O.N.G singing to someone is going to cost 10 dollars more, due to the overwhelming amount of comm inquiries I get for that same idea Please look at the pictures I've done in the past few months before you submit a commission, the more unique your comm idea is, the more likely it is I'm going to pick it.