Hey astronomers!

Today I have some new art for you guys! Since both the first two kisses were reached, I spent some time sketching P: These are currently just WIPs, but I'm already very happy with how these are turning out!

I will be adding their body jewelry, along with basic colors and a subtle background.

Thanks as well to those of you who joined me for my art stream on Monday!! It was a really fun time even though my hand decided to have a struggle day with art.

If you were there, you might notice that the hand kiss sketch is a bit different from what I drew on Monday. After coming back to the sketch with fresh eyes, I saw exactly how I could improve it and I'm much happier with this result!

We still have a ways to go to reach the goals for the other 2 sketches, but I think we can get there before the end of the campaign! The best way for backers to help now is to share the campaign with anyone you think would be interested - word of mouth is a HUGE help, especially during this very slow middle section of the campaign timeline.

I hope you enjoy these two sketches! Thanks as always for your amazing support so far! 

Cheers,
Rain

P.S. Something you guys might not know about me is that I'm also an amateur writer in my free time, and something I've been noodling on since yesterday is the possibility of writing a small, short romance ficlet between these two, if the campaign reaches even more funding beyond $50k. Would y'all be interested in something like that? 🤔

Hi astronomers!

Today's update is a little different! Today, while I stream over at twitch.tv/holoraindrops, I wanted to make a post to shoutout some of my fellow Pintopia creators and show off some of my favorite pins! Who knows, maybe this will help you discover some new creators you didn't know about :D Strap in because this is gonna be a long post!

If you're interested in learning more about any of the pins listed below, just click the images to be taken to their campaign page! <3

First off, I wanted to shoutout each and every one of my Spaced Out banner companions! They've all done a fantastic job and I'm happy to say that all of us have funded!! Here are my favorite pins from each Spaced Out campaign.

...Starting of course with my amazing cross-collab partner, Wayward Enigma Designs! It's so hard to choose just one pin from WED's campaign, so I picked 2! I find the whale to just be so awesome and beautiful, and I'm of course a sucker for anything with corvids. Make sure to back WED's campaign Celestial Beasts to unlock freebie pins from each of us! 🌟

Next up we have Carly's Mythic Pins - I am just so in love with the graphic style of Eclipsed, Nightmare, and Crystalized. I couldn't help but back for all 3 of them. 💖 And I absolutely adore Naomi VanDoren's Celestial Armory, especially the Bow & Arrow!

Next we have Mad Child Soul's Across the Galak-Sea! All their pins are so detailed and intricate with gorgeous colors, but I'm of course a sucker for tea, so the teacup is my favorite. Picking a favorite from Parable Games' Lo-Fi Mech Pins was also tough, but I just really liked the relaxing, peaceful vibe of the "Stargazing" pin. 

Next, it was near impossible to choose a single pin from Bunni's Cats Among the Cosmos. Each and every pin is, in a word, EPIC. All of them are freaking stunning, but Pulsar's colors are just to die for Supernova was a close second, followed by Nebula...ugh they're all so good, just go look for yourself! As for Attic Door Media's Phoenix Planetarium, I really like the flowing, cloud-like shapes and serene blue colors in Uranus!

Next up we have Corvus from Fox & Crow Studios' Celestial Companions! As usual I'm sucker for corvids. As for Arcane Moon's Zodiac Goddesses, my favorite pin is actually the Serpent's Embrace, which isn't even part of the main set, but I can't help but be drawn to romantic art especially with a pretty man!

Next up we have Midnight Mica Art's Celestial Snuggles, and my favorite is the sloth! He's just so cute, look at him! And next to that is Mr. Weeples from Across Space by Visitors Media. I just want to know why he's so sad?? Why he cry?? Who hurt him??

Next we have The Obscure Celestial from Fantasy Fox Creations, who is making the below SUPER cool black hole ita bag! And next to that, one of my personal faves, the Planet Sentinel octopus from Reverie Realms' Celestial! I'm a huuuge sucker for octopuses, as they are my favorite animal, as you'll see in the next section...

As I mentioned above, octopuses are my favorite animal, and I've been casually hunting for the octopus pins I can find! Here are some that I absolutely adore!

In a one-two punch combo, Kage Davies managed to hit 2 of my favorite topics - octopuses AND tea! I couldn't resist pledging for both the teapot and the teacup octopuses. And I love their and their collab partner CZGoldEdition's cross-collab designs - both octopuses as well! 

Then there is Abi Stevens' blue ringed octopus and Arledge Comic's giant octopus as well - I'm going to be octopus-rich by the time I get all these pins 🐙

And now, I know what most of y'all are on about, and I bet you want some more pretty boy pins hum? So here are some more for you!

First up on the pretty boy train, one of my absolute favorites is Kira Night's Death of a Salesman pin. I was OBSESSED with their campaign last year and this year is no different. I am such a huge fan of all their hot spooky shadow men. It's like they looked into my brain and drew exactly what I want to see. He's so hot 😩 Then next to theirs we have Abysmal Kaiju's Sea Serpent mermaid. I LOVE that he has some low-key sexy vibes, and I love his twisty body! Truly a couple of my favorite pins this year overall!!

I cannot go without mentioning Crimson Chains and Kaizuart! I ADORE both their campaigns, and it was very difficult just to pick one from each, but I love the drippy look of Crim's Fungi pin and I already love Kaizu's OC Noctifer so I had to show him off!

Next up is kittyalist's cross-collab pin The Dragon. He's just...he's so pretty, I don't know what else to tell you! Look at him! He's just so handsome and I love the peaceful vibe of this pin. Next to that is their partner's campaign. All Xiumai's dragons are stunning, but with Spirited Away being a childhood favorite, of course I am drawn to Haku!

Another in the pretty boys category are these four pins inspired by Gods from Chinese folklore. It was extremely difficult to choose just 1 pin from this campaign, and I have no clue how I'll ever decide which one to get for myself. They're all so cute and honestly theirs is one of my favorite campaigns this year!
 


Next is a variety of pins with no particular theme, I just really really like them and wanted to show them off!

I can't let you get through this update without shilling one of Foxpirate's adorable postal cat pins! The rainbow stamp is one of my favorites from his campaign. Next to that is some adorable pride flags designed into ribbon candy! These are so cute and clever and I am a big fan of them, and I wish I could eat these in real life! Got some good LGBTQIA+ vibes with these two pins.

Jaizure and Pokettoni have, as always, made some very pretty girls this year! I love Jaizure's zombie girl and Pokettoni's Kuchisake-onna!

On the sexier side of things, we have what I feel is a very underrated campaign by Elliott Cassel that's themed around queer kink. I really like all their pins but my favorite is the cuffed & chained hands. If you're looking for something a little spicier, you should definitely check their campaign!
 

Next, I thought Marachi Studios' Virus pin was going to be my favorite until I saw the Sentry pins, because holy cow, those are EPIC, I am always so weak for things with antlers. And next to that is one of my favorites from Vile Worm's campaign Fallen Angels. Its whole campaign is SO cool and it was difficult to pick just one!

Last but most certainly not least, we have an absolutely stunning black hole design from Kino's ita bag campaign! I'm so into their whole aesthetic on their campaign and so happy for them with their massive success! And of course we can't forget one of my favorite pin artists, UltraInfinite! Their sundog plushie is sooo cute, but when it comes to pins, I really love the colors of the Throne pin and I'm excited to add it to my UltraInfinite collection!

PHEW! If you made it this far, I'm...impressed?? And thank you for taking the time to look through my giant list of favorites. I hope you found some pins in there that you liked, and maybe even found some new creators to follow!

Cheers,
Rain

Hey astronomers!

Y'all really said "I wanna see these two make out" haha, we've already reached the first 2 achievements, which means I'll draw:

I'm going to take the rest of the weekend to relax a bit, I feel like I've earned it! And I will start working on this new artwork next week.

Speaking of, I thought it might be fun to do a livestream while I work on the artwork. I'm thinking this coming Monday, Jan. 26th. Since this is my fulltime job, I typically work during the day, and I will likely start the stream around 1pm CST or so. For anyone who won't be able to make it at that time, the stream will be automatically recorded, and you'll be able to watch the whole thing at any point later on. :)

You can watch the stream here on the campaign page (the banner will turn into the stream) or you can watch it directly on my Twitch channel: twitch.tv/holoraindrops

I'm thinking it'll take a while to reach the final 2 goals, but with 19 days left still, I have faith we can get there!

Thanks again for making the first 3 days such a massive success. This is already my best campaign ever and it hasn't even been a full 3 days yet. You guys are amazing, thank you!!

See you at the stream, and if not, I'll catch you in the next update!

Cheers,
Rain

Hey astronomers!

It's been a bit over 30 hours since launch and...wow. I don't know what to say other than thank you?? It genuinely did not occur to me that I would reach my $30k stretch goal in the first day of the campaign, so I did not have any plans at all for if that happened. It's a good "problem" to have though, I guess!

So I've been spending today casually pondering what I could do to keep you all entertained for these next 3 weeks.

I hesitate to add too many more items to the campaign, as it makes it really complicated with the pledge level pricing, add-ons, etc. So as much as I would like to add more pretty space man pins, I want to try and keep this campaign's scope contained mostly to what it is currently.

That being said, I did have one very fun, but very silly idea for you guys.

I sorta made the Sun & Moon characters the so-called "mascots" of the campaign, with them being the first unlock, the subject of the foil print, and the chibi sticker sheet. So I thought...what if we went further with them?

So here's what I'm thinking. Every time we reach a new goal, I'll draw the Sun & Moon getting slightly more intimate with each other.

If all 4 goals are reached, I will turn the 4 images into a little photobooth style photo strip that will be available as a physical add-on :D

This is meant to be fun and un-serious for me, but I hope you guys find it fun as well! Let's see how far we can get these next 3 weeks. Thank you all for your support thus far! 🌟

Before I let you go, I wanted to give another shout out to the 2 creators in the Spaced Out banner who could still use your help to get the last bit of funding they need! Please check them out and let's get these two funded:




Also, my good friend Foxpirate isn't in my banner, but I still wanted to boost his campaign anyways as it could use a little more attention! He drew some amazingly cute postal cats that are perfect for cat lovers! <3 Please go show him some support!



Until the next update!

Cheers,
Rain

Hey astronomers!

Holy comets! Consider my flabbers properly ghasted! Today was INSANELY record breaking for me thanks to you guys!

I reached my first funding goal in 4 minutes, and less than 4 hours later the campaign has already blown past 20k which is...honestly insane?? And I did not plan for it?? But heck, I'll take it!

Y'all really showed up for this launch, and I'm super grateful for your support!

With launch going as insanely well as it did, I have made the decision that I can now reveal the project's $30k super stretch goal! Drum roll...

At $30k funding, we will unlock an alternate white/blue/gold colorway for all the pins!

 

As you might have noticed right away, one of these is not like the other - The Moon's default colorway in the original set was actually already the white/blue/gold that matches the rest pictured above, but since I felt that it matched the main set better than the red version, I had that be the first version to unlock. 

The alternate colorway of The Moon is inspired by the "Blood Moon" when the moon appears red during a lunar eclipse. I thought it looked really cool and I hope you guys do too! 

To account for this stretch goal basically doubling the size of the campaign, I've also released 2 new bundle tiers:

I genuinely thought I had at least a week before I would announce this stretch goal but y'all managed to prove me very, very wrong!

I didn't plan for doing any more stretch goals beyond 30k as I genuinely did not think we'd get that far so quickly, but since we're here now, I have a couple other potential fun (but very silly, very un-serious) "stretch goals" in mind so stay tuned!

Meanwhile, please don't forget to check out (and preferably, pledge to) my cross-collab partner's campaign, Celestial Beasts!


We're both fully funded, so anyone who backs us both at physical tiers will get 2 free pins, one from each of us! 🌟

On that note, a few of my colleagues in the Spaced Out banner still need some help funding as well. Please check these wonderful folks out and give them some love! Remember, if you back 3+ Spaced Out campaigns, you get a freebie sticker from every creator you backed! 🌟

Until the next update!

Cheers,
Rain