6/24/2022 Changelog

Hello, everyone.

I have written this post to update you all that from today onwards, I will be dealing business with Canadian Dollar (CAD) as my primary currency instead of United States Dollar (USD).

Because I am planning to move to Canada in the near future, it only makes sense that I earn money with their currency. It will make it easier for me to settle once I have made the big move abroad to live with my significant other. Additionally, this is also to avoid unnecessary conversion fees when that time comes.

The commissions page has also been updated to reflect this change. You can view the page here.

Thank you all for your understanding! 🧃

-Zip

1/4/2022 Changelog

Happy new year, all. 🎉🎇 I don't have any art right now to commemorate the new year, but I do have this lovely tray of cold cuts instead:

Now for some stuff I'd like to announce:

💰 Patreon is now up! AT LAST. You can now be my patron here! I'll also be adding this thing after every comic from now on:

Become a Patron!

☕ Cheaper alternative to Patreon at my Ko-fi! Because Patreon has some extra fees that they take whenever people donate. You can check it out here. Also, Ko-fi has the option for one-time payments. Feel free to donate wherever you're more comfortable!

🎨 MORE ART! As usual. I would also like to finish the current arc for Gator Buddies before March so I can start with the next one.

🎥 Livestreaming on Twitch? This is still up in the air; I doubt my rig right now can handle it, but I'd really like to give it a go.

That's it for now. I'd also like to once again thank my friends, supporters, readers of my comic, and donors over the past year who have helped me just, well, keep this blog going. I'd also like to especially thank my girlfriend for always being there for me, thick and thin, and cheering me on in whatever I do.

Cheers to a fruitful 2022! 🥂

-Zip

7/6/2021 Changelog

Hey, guys! It's been a while since I made one of these. If you've been snooping around the site for a while, you'll notice things look different than before. I've been up to some sprucing up my site a lot and a bunch of other things!

What's new?

💎 Crossover logo! OH MY GOD. FINALLY. What was a mere doodle is now fully digitized and is also now the official logo of the site. Awesome. 👏

🌃 New site background! Finally got my ass to figure out how making patterns in Photoshop work. This was meant to be on top of the page on a banner but I decided I would do something else for it instead. At least now I have a pleasant background I can be content with for a while!

🏁 New header! I changed the home page header on the site to match the font that comes with the logo!

🌌 Page called "The Backstory" added. I put up an about page with a short backstory behind why the site is called Crossover, and why you keep seeing these purple crystals all over the website. Check it out here!

🚫 Ko-fi shop removed. My Ko-fi shop is temporarily down until I settle some business-related things locally. Licenses, documentation, all that boring business stuff. It's a pain, but it's necessary.

Soon on Crossover...

🎨 MOAR ART! Gator Buddies comics are well underway, because I know that's what most of y'all are really waiting for. 😂 In between those, I'm also working on some fan art of Guild Wars 2 and a couple of artworks to commemorate the summer. 🌅

🧣 MOAR MERCH! That is, as soon as my business stuff is all sorted. Once that's done with, I'll be working on a lot of merch with my content slapped right onto them!

Thank you to everyone who have continually been showing their support for my work! It's very fulfilling knowing that my dreams of being an official freelance artist selling merch online now nearly within reach!

-Zip

09/30/2021 Changelog

Hey, guys. No art today (sadness), but as I am slowly revitalizing the website and fixing some things here and there, I figured now would be a good time to post updates regarding the blog itself and what you guys can expect in the near future.

So first off...

New website address. For the sake of having a nicer looking website, I changed the website's address from zipknight48.blogspot.com to zippyzipper.blogspot.com. That old dingy username from 11 years ago is no more. It's high time I went back to my old username, one with a lot of quirk. Just the way I like it. All of my links will now have the new site address. Shouldn't be too much of a complicated process as far as I'm aware. Unfortunately, my Gmail mailing address is still the same and I have no intent to change it.

New e-mail! I've recently created a new e-mail, on Yahoo! Why Yahoo? That shit's ancient! It's simple: the e-mail I wanted to make wasn't taken, and I had the app on my phone, so for the sake of just using it more I made my account there. Now you can reach me on more mails than before!

New profile pic! As mentioned previously, I've updated my profile pic to reflect the 2020 version of me more.

Removed Sharehouse Cooking as an individual page. I didn't think it was pretty necessary to keep it up, so I took it down. It still has its own tag in case you're keen on looking up the recipes I've made and posted about.

Soon on Crossover...

Moar art! This is pretty much a given. I'm aiming to get more art pumped into this website before the end of the year. I also have a terribly abusive relationship with procrastination so in an attempt to break free of that I'm setting myself some deadlines to keep content running on the site. In line with that...

Scheduled posts. I am thinking of creating a schedule of what to post on specific days of the week. For example, Photography on Mondays, Inks on Tuesdays, Digital Art on Saturdays, etc. I don't really have it well-thought out just yet, and the idea is still up the air until the end of next month because...

Digitober. Breaking the tradition I've been attempting to successfully keep keeping on the site for several years, instead of Inktober this year I will be doing what I call Digitober. Essentially this is the same thing as Inktober where I post art everyday for a month, except in this case it's little bits of digital artwork instead. No photographs, just digital paintings of random things or whatever. Again, this is an attempt to finally break free from my abusive relationship with procrastination and to be more productive overall. This is also so that I stay true to my New Year's resolution of more digital art in 2020. Also, so I can add more color around here; this site is full of too much monochrome and grayscale and I wanna change that.

Patreon? This has really been nagging at me for the longest time. I've had some friends egg me to start a Patreon for my art, but I've been too unwilling to test the waters out of a lot of uncertainty and anxiety. I really want to change that, but first I need to learn to be more productive, and be more proactive with learning art overall. So like scheduled posts, this will be up in the air until further notice.

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That's all for now. Until next time, cheers!

-Zip