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16 years ago
This journal may be a bit of a read. While you certainly do not have to read all of it there is a lot of info I would like to make known and things I would like to express. It explains why some things have taken so long to finish, why I have seemed distant, and gives some insight on things to come.
This journal has not been fully spell checked to there may be some bad spelling or other errors ;^_^
This journal in short:
*Thank you all!
*Owed work, recent happenings, friends and commissions
*New website and CD update
*Upcoming Conventions
This journal inn full:
Thank you all!
I have been in the fandom since I found out about it once my family bought our first computer and later on got the internet. It was around 1996.A movie I had seen made me look around for more info on it. And while I looked I stumbled upon furry work and just had to learn more and more from there
I had been drawing since I was very young, in fact many kids doodle and have fun drawing. I always had a love for cartoons and always liked the idea of human-like animals. I always wanted to know that if an animal could talk what would they say and what would they do? Perhaps they would be annoyed at the way they were treated, or perhaps they would love their care takers. Maybe they would have interesting stories to share or interesting thoughts.
I always felt embarrassed about showing my work to my family and friends. I for some reason had the idea in my head that cartoons were for kids only and feared I would be laughed at or made fun of for letting people know I really liked cartoons.
So I drew pictures of such characters and while at the time I knew of other similar characters on the cartoons I watched on TV but none of them drew their characters exactly how I did. I once believed I was the only one in the world doing the kind of human-like animals I did, that was until I found out that there were not just more people who liked it and drew it the same way I did, there were many more! In fact, so many that there was a whole fandom and following for them! I instantly felt like I had found a home once I learned of this, or rather, I felt like a part of home had found me.
I quickly learned that cartoons were very much something that could be enjoyed and admired by all ages in very much the same way such things as collecting baseball cards, comic books and even the enjoyment of sports were.
It wasn’t long after finding out about furs that I decided I liked drawing enough to the point where I would not only keep at it, but also improve upon it as well.
To this day I keep drawing and my love for arts and animation has only grown over the years. While I love drawing, my real passion lies with the telling of stories. I have a wealth of original and fresh stories I wish to share with all of you some day. This is why I have taken a deep interest in animation. While I believe writing a novel or making a comic book are both amazing and expressive ways to tell stories, I want to do more then to show a person what I mean in words and pictures, I want to show them my visions of how things move, the color of the lights hitting the land as time passes by, I want to show them breath taking visions that I strongly feel are best shown through the medium of animation and have long since made it a goal of mine to produce some stories in this medium.
Oddly enough the stories I feel strongest and most passionate about are a few G and PG rated ones I have been refining over the years, but I have some interesting ones more suited for the tastes of adults as well.
While adult work is at every turn and all over the place it isn’t hard for someone to get a hold of the norm. I’ve come across so much of it that after a while it seems to lose it’s charm (to a certain extent) and I want to show something not so easily found. Some may say I want to show people what is on the road less taken and have one story in mind I want to share with you in the not too distant future.
Having said all of that I would like to make it known that I am very grateful for the support an interest people had given me over the years, it brings a tear to my eye knowing that so many of you have kept track of me and have been interested in my works.
All of it has really meant something to me, and I just want to say…
THANK YOU! Thank you all for the all watches, for the favs, for the comments and shouts. Thank you not only to those here on FA but to everyone who has taken an interest in my work since I started sharing with everyone over the internet for over the past 10 years. You all have my many thanks and I certainly hope you will enjoy what is to come!
I got some really nice things in the works and one of which will be seen soon.
Owed work, recent happenings, friends and commissions:
As some of you may know there is still a little bit of work I owe to a few people which I have been working on for some time but have not yet finished. I am not talking about the recent commissions I have needed to take (I am working my tail off to get them to you asap, more info below), or the trades I have yet to work on. I am talking about the few people I have owed for over a year (ones who have paid in full, not the ones who were interested in getting work done and have not paid yet, but I will explain more below).
I always work as good and as fast as I can and have been working hard to keep everyone happy. But for whatever reason I have not finished some of your work and for that I am sorry -_- I still plan to finish what I owe, and in recent months have made good on a lot of things I owed from the past few years. I am still working hard and I will finish yours soon as well.
As for all of my recent things (left over work from cons or recent commissions) yours will be done soon and in many cases a lot of work is half finished and I simply have had delays getting the other half done. If any of you want to know the progress of your work please note me and I will let you know how things are going.
Some may be interested to know what tings may cause such a delay. Some have asked me and some have e-mailed and noted me here on FA. Some have even wondered why I have uploaded some work before theirs. I have my reasons but I do not like to make up excuses or lie about things so I have always told the truth when someone has asked. Some of you may already know a little bit of my recent hardships and stuff which has been going on via private messages and chats. While there are still many things I would prefer to keep private as to not make people worry about me some have called it to my attention that rather then just saying “your work has been delayed” or “it will be done soon” would like to know a little bit more as to why. So here is a little info about some of the things which have happened in the past few years which have played part in some of the bigger delays including a little other info:
There was one point where I was working 6 days a week +. While I knew it was nothing compared to the hard workers which worked 7 days a week it still took its toll.
I really liked my job and worked as a cook at a little mom and pop shop. I had worked there for many years and have had a wonderful time.
However, being the main breakfast cook and doing that for 6 days a week put a real strain of my wrist. I would have to use over 400 eggs in just a few short hours just to keep up with the demand. I had to crack them open, flip them, top them, package them, the works. It bothered my wrist to the point where I needed to wear a bandage for awhile, thankfully with proper rest and switching jobs with other workers so I was doing something different then cooking on certain sifts helped a lot and I recovered, I was afraid of ruining my drawing hand.
By the time my one day off came around I was beat from the week of work (I stood all shift long every shift), and generally used that day to recharge for yet another week ahead, between working and rest I had little time to draw or do anything and was felt over worked from my job. If it wasn’t for the fact I needed the money to pay bills I would not have worked 6 days a week (there were one or two weeks where I worked 7 days a week but those were rare).
I only had little time to draw in but was getting done what I could.
In 2008 a family member fell extremely ill and needed to be watched and cared for almost around the clock.
It was my Mother who at the time was suffering from a condition we did not know of. We were all worried that it would be the end. Me and my brothers took turns watching over her and for a good while each day went like: get up, go to work, take a turn watching once home, sleep, and then back to work (My dad passed away many years ago and since then, my brothers, my mother and I have been living together and helping each other pay the bills very much the same way room mates would). My mother had shown no signs of anything being really wrong in the recent weeks or years for that matter. She has always had a pain that came on once in a while and we went to the hospital each time, each time the doctors said it was nothing and that she most likely hurt a muscle and would send her home that day, often the pain would go away on the ride to the hospital so we though it was nothing either.
She got the same pain again one day and we thought not much of it, so she took it easy and over the next few days got worse, but in some ways better too, but overall my mom though it was a pulled muscle because she recently hurt her leg where the pain was. So she was in bed for almost a week thinking it would go away, but in almost an instant the next day she couldn’t even get up out of bed under her own power and was in extreme pain all through her body. That is when we rushed her to the hospital. I had never seen someone in so much pain before up close like this and it was a real shocking thing to see.
The doctors this time seemed to have an answer. Something I wish they had given us time and time before. And what looked like the end was thankfully not. But the road to recovery was a long one, and she is still on it to this day.
For almost 6 months we had to keep watching her and helping her in sifts. So for that time it was work, watch over her, and sleep and nothing more, all my free time pretty much went to making sure she was ok and I suddenly had almost no time to draw. Even when I was able to make it to a convention all I could think about was her well being. If it wasn’t for the fact I had already planed my trips (some of which had non refundable plane tickets) I would have reconsidered going.
But for a good portion of this year she has been doing better and is almost fully able to do things on her own again but has to take it very easy and still needs our help from time to time.
But for most of 2008 any and all work I was commissioned to or owed got delayed for almost 7 months and put a stop to many things I was doing art-wise. This is a little bit as to why I have owed some and still do to this day. It is also the reason why I closed commissions so soon after opening for them back in the late spring of 2008.
We recently moved from Boston later that year and now live in New Hampshire. A big part of us wanting to move here was the highly increasing costs of rent and living in the Boston area. It got to the point where we would not be able to live where we were another year.
I bid farewell to the place where I worked and we all moved to New Hampshire.
I knew it was a risky move seeing as my younger brother and I had no real prospects for jobs right away, but once moving up here we went looking only to find out that almost every job, even the little low paying ones were all taken. Not to blame what had gone on with the economy recently (I know MANY were affected, not just myself), but every one was hurting real bad money wise in this area. Some people had to fight to even get a second job just to make ends meet.
So for the last 10 months since we moved, my younger brother and I have been unable to find work. Keep in mind we are not fussy and are willing to work at almost any job. We were some of the few workers who actually did work at our jobs good where we use to work. But after looking high and low, submitting app after app for months we have found nothing. Even when some job does open up the chances are good that it has already been filled by the time you have gotten there. So for almost a year money has been extremely tight and continues to tighten.
We stick only to buying the things we need, never buying anything extra. And trying to watch what we spend as it is. We barely have enough money to eat one meal a day, which I am sorry to inform people is what we have been doing for almost 6 months.
I am not talking about having a snack and not counting it as a meal, I am talking about having dinner, falling asleep, getting up the next morning, skipping breakfast, skipping lunch, and only eating come next dinner. Rarely having a snack and saving such a snack for when it was really needed.
I know this is extremely unhealthy, I know it is extremely harmful, but at the moment it is the current way of life.
The reason why I mention this is not to make people feel sorry for me (believe me, I am working my tail off to make sure thing are ok). But this also has to do with pictures being delayed.
Even though I am unemployed at the moment does not mean I’ve gotten lazy. In fact, now I have ample time to draw compared to the time I use to have. And in recent months have plowed through the pictures I have owed to people like crazy. What was once a number close to 40 is now down to under 10. I have done more drawing in this time then I ever have in recent years and I am really happy to see that I am able to keep up with it.
However, I do still owe some people but I am almost in the clear and will continue to work hard until I finish all that I owe.
However, do to the fact of having no income I have needed to take some commissions even though I still had work that needed to be done. It is one of the hardest things I have had to do because my whole life I have been one who means business. I’m one not to slack off. I’m one who makes sure to get a job done and is one of the few who people where I use to work who you could count on. I always was one of these people, and having to take new paying work before finishing what I owe is soooooooooo much against my nature that I feel I have let myself down in many ways.
However, eating one meal a day is almost not doable and I have been ever so grateful to those who have commissioned me. The funds have all gone directly to food. It is so nice to have more then one meal some days.
This is also why I have not been on-line much recently and why I have not been able to keep up with friends as much as I would like to. I have met many wonderful people over the years and I would love nothing more then to catch up with all of you and hang out. I would hope that once things get a little more stable I would be able to talk more often rather then working on things all the time. I recently looked though a lot of old e-mails I had received over the years and saw how many I had fallen out of contact with, I certainly did not mean to. You are all very special to me and I feel bad for not keeping in better touch. Please say hello if you see me on aim or note me some time, I my not always get the chance to start a message which is why I am so grateful to those who take their time and message me.
A few who have commissioned me recently have seen their work done in a flash, some are still waiting, but I want to let people know that I have spent almost each day from the moment I wake to the time I sleep working on pictures I owe and each person (even the ones I owed for years) are haveing their work done asap. In fact, I have a wealth of work to show you all. What I have uploaded here to FA since I moved is nothing compared to what I have not uploaded. Most of them are pictures I owe. I have made sure that any time I have free I use to draw for people I owe, which is why you may have noticed a lack of work done for myself recently.
There will be a time I can share much more of the work I’ve done with you all. I doubt FA would handle a flood well, in fact there are rules against it. But I will be certain to show you what I can when I can.
With the amount of pictures I owe getting low I am almost in the clear and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I once again will formally open for commissions soon.
Some of you have shown great interest and I will upload new commission info very soon and open for commissions in the not too distant future. But until then I continue to need to take a commission here and there just to be able to eat.
New website:
Many have enjoyed my website over the years when it has been up and I am happy to say that I have slowly been working on a new one.
However, this site will not host all the pictures that were on the old versions. Since many of the pictures were saved in a format that did not make them easy to edit and formatting all 1000+ pictures would take more time then I have right now I have decided not to include them on the new site. I feel that FA is currently a good place to view a good amount of my work and I do not intend to make my site a mirror of what I have on FA. FA will still be one of the better places to keep track of my latest work while my site will have new and mostly different content then what I have here on FA.
The new site will be a fresh start and will function as a home to more then just artwork.
While many of you wish to see those pictures that were once on my site again (as well as others lots to time) I will be bringing them back (as well as all the others I never uploaded) when I finish work on my art CD (or DVD). It will host not only host the work I have made of my characters that I have uploaded on-line, but as many as I have which never were scanned.
The reason why I am making a CD (or DVD) is not for money (although I most likely will charge a small fee if people would like a copy of it) it is because I have always wanted an archive of my work in a digital medium. I have boxes of art work I have created over the years. As time goes on the quality of them slowly fades. Moved from time to time causes some pictures to smudge a little. Some have also gotten bent despite me giving them the best of care. So I have decided that I will be going through all of my work to make a most complete collection.
I have decided to make this collection available to more then just myself and thus I will be taking the time to make things presented nicely for ease of viewing. However, there are a wealth of pictures (thousands) which I have to go through by scanning, cleaning up to a certain extent, formatting and so on. It will take a good deal of time to complete this but I will be working on it as a side project and it will not effect the time which I use to work on pictures I owe people and commissions.
Upcoming Conventions:
I would love to make it to many of the furry conventions held each year but funds do not always allow. I am going to try my hardest to make MFF and FC but they are both looking unlikely -_-
Fur fright on the other hand is almost a total sure thing. I just need to work out some way of getting down there and back from Nashua New Hampshire. It is also one of the few cons I do not need to fly to.
I will have a dealers table there as well as some examples of recent works not yet uploaded, so if you are attending make sure to drop on by and see the goods >:3
I will upload another journal soon with more info about fur fright but I am looking forward to seeing many friends there this year and hope to have lots of fun over the weekend.
And thanks to another friend (who I am extremely grateful to) I will able to attend KainCon later this week in Virginia. Once again I hope to catch up with friends who I have not seen or talked with in a good while due to my current situations and look forward to it very much.
Ok, a long journal all in all, but once again thanks you to everyone, I hope you have liked what you seen and will love what is to come!
Sorry about delays with works, and new fun stuff is coming soon so keep en eye out =D
Have a great day everyone and take =D
This journal has not been fully spell checked to there may be some bad spelling or other errors ;^_^
This journal in short:
*Thank you all!
*Owed work, recent happenings, friends and commissions
*New website and CD update
*Upcoming Conventions
This journal inn full:
Thank you all!
I have been in the fandom since I found out about it once my family bought our first computer and later on got the internet. It was around 1996.A movie I had seen made me look around for more info on it. And while I looked I stumbled upon furry work and just had to learn more and more from there
I had been drawing since I was very young, in fact many kids doodle and have fun drawing. I always had a love for cartoons and always liked the idea of human-like animals. I always wanted to know that if an animal could talk what would they say and what would they do? Perhaps they would be annoyed at the way they were treated, or perhaps they would love their care takers. Maybe they would have interesting stories to share or interesting thoughts.
I always felt embarrassed about showing my work to my family and friends. I for some reason had the idea in my head that cartoons were for kids only and feared I would be laughed at or made fun of for letting people know I really liked cartoons.
So I drew pictures of such characters and while at the time I knew of other similar characters on the cartoons I watched on TV but none of them drew their characters exactly how I did. I once believed I was the only one in the world doing the kind of human-like animals I did, that was until I found out that there were not just more people who liked it and drew it the same way I did, there were many more! In fact, so many that there was a whole fandom and following for them! I instantly felt like I had found a home once I learned of this, or rather, I felt like a part of home had found me.
I quickly learned that cartoons were very much something that could be enjoyed and admired by all ages in very much the same way such things as collecting baseball cards, comic books and even the enjoyment of sports were.
It wasn’t long after finding out about furs that I decided I liked drawing enough to the point where I would not only keep at it, but also improve upon it as well.
To this day I keep drawing and my love for arts and animation has only grown over the years. While I love drawing, my real passion lies with the telling of stories. I have a wealth of original and fresh stories I wish to share with all of you some day. This is why I have taken a deep interest in animation. While I believe writing a novel or making a comic book are both amazing and expressive ways to tell stories, I want to do more then to show a person what I mean in words and pictures, I want to show them my visions of how things move, the color of the lights hitting the land as time passes by, I want to show them breath taking visions that I strongly feel are best shown through the medium of animation and have long since made it a goal of mine to produce some stories in this medium.
Oddly enough the stories I feel strongest and most passionate about are a few G and PG rated ones I have been refining over the years, but I have some interesting ones more suited for the tastes of adults as well.
While adult work is at every turn and all over the place it isn’t hard for someone to get a hold of the norm. I’ve come across so much of it that after a while it seems to lose it’s charm (to a certain extent) and I want to show something not so easily found. Some may say I want to show people what is on the road less taken and have one story in mind I want to share with you in the not too distant future.
Having said all of that I would like to make it known that I am very grateful for the support an interest people had given me over the years, it brings a tear to my eye knowing that so many of you have kept track of me and have been interested in my works.
All of it has really meant something to me, and I just want to say…
THANK YOU! Thank you all for the all watches, for the favs, for the comments and shouts. Thank you not only to those here on FA but to everyone who has taken an interest in my work since I started sharing with everyone over the internet for over the past 10 years. You all have my many thanks and I certainly hope you will enjoy what is to come!
I got some really nice things in the works and one of which will be seen soon.
Owed work, recent happenings, friends and commissions:
As some of you may know there is still a little bit of work I owe to a few people which I have been working on for some time but have not yet finished. I am not talking about the recent commissions I have needed to take (I am working my tail off to get them to you asap, more info below), or the trades I have yet to work on. I am talking about the few people I have owed for over a year (ones who have paid in full, not the ones who were interested in getting work done and have not paid yet, but I will explain more below).
I always work as good and as fast as I can and have been working hard to keep everyone happy. But for whatever reason I have not finished some of your work and for that I am sorry -_- I still plan to finish what I owe, and in recent months have made good on a lot of things I owed from the past few years. I am still working hard and I will finish yours soon as well.
As for all of my recent things (left over work from cons or recent commissions) yours will be done soon and in many cases a lot of work is half finished and I simply have had delays getting the other half done. If any of you want to know the progress of your work please note me and I will let you know how things are going.
Some may be interested to know what tings may cause such a delay. Some have asked me and some have e-mailed and noted me here on FA. Some have even wondered why I have uploaded some work before theirs. I have my reasons but I do not like to make up excuses or lie about things so I have always told the truth when someone has asked. Some of you may already know a little bit of my recent hardships and stuff which has been going on via private messages and chats. While there are still many things I would prefer to keep private as to not make people worry about me some have called it to my attention that rather then just saying “your work has been delayed” or “it will be done soon” would like to know a little bit more as to why. So here is a little info about some of the things which have happened in the past few years which have played part in some of the bigger delays including a little other info:
There was one point where I was working 6 days a week +. While I knew it was nothing compared to the hard workers which worked 7 days a week it still took its toll.
I really liked my job and worked as a cook at a little mom and pop shop. I had worked there for many years and have had a wonderful time.
However, being the main breakfast cook and doing that for 6 days a week put a real strain of my wrist. I would have to use over 400 eggs in just a few short hours just to keep up with the demand. I had to crack them open, flip them, top them, package them, the works. It bothered my wrist to the point where I needed to wear a bandage for awhile, thankfully with proper rest and switching jobs with other workers so I was doing something different then cooking on certain sifts helped a lot and I recovered, I was afraid of ruining my drawing hand.
By the time my one day off came around I was beat from the week of work (I stood all shift long every shift), and generally used that day to recharge for yet another week ahead, between working and rest I had little time to draw or do anything and was felt over worked from my job. If it wasn’t for the fact I needed the money to pay bills I would not have worked 6 days a week (there were one or two weeks where I worked 7 days a week but those were rare).
I only had little time to draw in but was getting done what I could.
In 2008 a family member fell extremely ill and needed to be watched and cared for almost around the clock.
It was my Mother who at the time was suffering from a condition we did not know of. We were all worried that it would be the end. Me and my brothers took turns watching over her and for a good while each day went like: get up, go to work, take a turn watching once home, sleep, and then back to work (My dad passed away many years ago and since then, my brothers, my mother and I have been living together and helping each other pay the bills very much the same way room mates would). My mother had shown no signs of anything being really wrong in the recent weeks or years for that matter. She has always had a pain that came on once in a while and we went to the hospital each time, each time the doctors said it was nothing and that she most likely hurt a muscle and would send her home that day, often the pain would go away on the ride to the hospital so we though it was nothing either.
She got the same pain again one day and we thought not much of it, so she took it easy and over the next few days got worse, but in some ways better too, but overall my mom though it was a pulled muscle because she recently hurt her leg where the pain was. So she was in bed for almost a week thinking it would go away, but in almost an instant the next day she couldn’t even get up out of bed under her own power and was in extreme pain all through her body. That is when we rushed her to the hospital. I had never seen someone in so much pain before up close like this and it was a real shocking thing to see.
The doctors this time seemed to have an answer. Something I wish they had given us time and time before. And what looked like the end was thankfully not. But the road to recovery was a long one, and she is still on it to this day.
For almost 6 months we had to keep watching her and helping her in sifts. So for that time it was work, watch over her, and sleep and nothing more, all my free time pretty much went to making sure she was ok and I suddenly had almost no time to draw. Even when I was able to make it to a convention all I could think about was her well being. If it wasn’t for the fact I had already planed my trips (some of which had non refundable plane tickets) I would have reconsidered going.
But for a good portion of this year she has been doing better and is almost fully able to do things on her own again but has to take it very easy and still needs our help from time to time.
But for most of 2008 any and all work I was commissioned to or owed got delayed for almost 7 months and put a stop to many things I was doing art-wise. This is a little bit as to why I have owed some and still do to this day. It is also the reason why I closed commissions so soon after opening for them back in the late spring of 2008.
We recently moved from Boston later that year and now live in New Hampshire. A big part of us wanting to move here was the highly increasing costs of rent and living in the Boston area. It got to the point where we would not be able to live where we were another year.
I bid farewell to the place where I worked and we all moved to New Hampshire.
I knew it was a risky move seeing as my younger brother and I had no real prospects for jobs right away, but once moving up here we went looking only to find out that almost every job, even the little low paying ones were all taken. Not to blame what had gone on with the economy recently (I know MANY were affected, not just myself), but every one was hurting real bad money wise in this area. Some people had to fight to even get a second job just to make ends meet.
So for the last 10 months since we moved, my younger brother and I have been unable to find work. Keep in mind we are not fussy and are willing to work at almost any job. We were some of the few workers who actually did work at our jobs good where we use to work. But after looking high and low, submitting app after app for months we have found nothing. Even when some job does open up the chances are good that it has already been filled by the time you have gotten there. So for almost a year money has been extremely tight and continues to tighten.
We stick only to buying the things we need, never buying anything extra. And trying to watch what we spend as it is. We barely have enough money to eat one meal a day, which I am sorry to inform people is what we have been doing for almost 6 months.
I am not talking about having a snack and not counting it as a meal, I am talking about having dinner, falling asleep, getting up the next morning, skipping breakfast, skipping lunch, and only eating come next dinner. Rarely having a snack and saving such a snack for when it was really needed.
I know this is extremely unhealthy, I know it is extremely harmful, but at the moment it is the current way of life.
The reason why I mention this is not to make people feel sorry for me (believe me, I am working my tail off to make sure thing are ok). But this also has to do with pictures being delayed.
Even though I am unemployed at the moment does not mean I’ve gotten lazy. In fact, now I have ample time to draw compared to the time I use to have. And in recent months have plowed through the pictures I have owed to people like crazy. What was once a number close to 40 is now down to under 10. I have done more drawing in this time then I ever have in recent years and I am really happy to see that I am able to keep up with it.
However, I do still owe some people but I am almost in the clear and will continue to work hard until I finish all that I owe.
However, do to the fact of having no income I have needed to take some commissions even though I still had work that needed to be done. It is one of the hardest things I have had to do because my whole life I have been one who means business. I’m one not to slack off. I’m one who makes sure to get a job done and is one of the few who people where I use to work who you could count on. I always was one of these people, and having to take new paying work before finishing what I owe is soooooooooo much against my nature that I feel I have let myself down in many ways.
However, eating one meal a day is almost not doable and I have been ever so grateful to those who have commissioned me. The funds have all gone directly to food. It is so nice to have more then one meal some days.
This is also why I have not been on-line much recently and why I have not been able to keep up with friends as much as I would like to. I have met many wonderful people over the years and I would love nothing more then to catch up with all of you and hang out. I would hope that once things get a little more stable I would be able to talk more often rather then working on things all the time. I recently looked though a lot of old e-mails I had received over the years and saw how many I had fallen out of contact with, I certainly did not mean to. You are all very special to me and I feel bad for not keeping in better touch. Please say hello if you see me on aim or note me some time, I my not always get the chance to start a message which is why I am so grateful to those who take their time and message me.
A few who have commissioned me recently have seen their work done in a flash, some are still waiting, but I want to let people know that I have spent almost each day from the moment I wake to the time I sleep working on pictures I owe and each person (even the ones I owed for years) are haveing their work done asap. In fact, I have a wealth of work to show you all. What I have uploaded here to FA since I moved is nothing compared to what I have not uploaded. Most of them are pictures I owe. I have made sure that any time I have free I use to draw for people I owe, which is why you may have noticed a lack of work done for myself recently.
There will be a time I can share much more of the work I’ve done with you all. I doubt FA would handle a flood well, in fact there are rules against it. But I will be certain to show you what I can when I can.
With the amount of pictures I owe getting low I am almost in the clear and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I once again will formally open for commissions soon.
Some of you have shown great interest and I will upload new commission info very soon and open for commissions in the not too distant future. But until then I continue to need to take a commission here and there just to be able to eat.
New website:
Many have enjoyed my website over the years when it has been up and I am happy to say that I have slowly been working on a new one.
However, this site will not host all the pictures that were on the old versions. Since many of the pictures were saved in a format that did not make them easy to edit and formatting all 1000+ pictures would take more time then I have right now I have decided not to include them on the new site. I feel that FA is currently a good place to view a good amount of my work and I do not intend to make my site a mirror of what I have on FA. FA will still be one of the better places to keep track of my latest work while my site will have new and mostly different content then what I have here on FA.
The new site will be a fresh start and will function as a home to more then just artwork.
While many of you wish to see those pictures that were once on my site again (as well as others lots to time) I will be bringing them back (as well as all the others I never uploaded) when I finish work on my art CD (or DVD). It will host not only host the work I have made of my characters that I have uploaded on-line, but as many as I have which never were scanned.
The reason why I am making a CD (or DVD) is not for money (although I most likely will charge a small fee if people would like a copy of it) it is because I have always wanted an archive of my work in a digital medium. I have boxes of art work I have created over the years. As time goes on the quality of them slowly fades. Moved from time to time causes some pictures to smudge a little. Some have also gotten bent despite me giving them the best of care. So I have decided that I will be going through all of my work to make a most complete collection.
I have decided to make this collection available to more then just myself and thus I will be taking the time to make things presented nicely for ease of viewing. However, there are a wealth of pictures (thousands) which I have to go through by scanning, cleaning up to a certain extent, formatting and so on. It will take a good deal of time to complete this but I will be working on it as a side project and it will not effect the time which I use to work on pictures I owe people and commissions.
Upcoming Conventions:
I would love to make it to many of the furry conventions held each year but funds do not always allow. I am going to try my hardest to make MFF and FC but they are both looking unlikely -_-
Fur fright on the other hand is almost a total sure thing. I just need to work out some way of getting down there and back from Nashua New Hampshire. It is also one of the few cons I do not need to fly to.
I will have a dealers table there as well as some examples of recent works not yet uploaded, so if you are attending make sure to drop on by and see the goods >:3
I will upload another journal soon with more info about fur fright but I am looking forward to seeing many friends there this year and hope to have lots of fun over the weekend.
And thanks to another friend (who I am extremely grateful to) I will able to attend KainCon later this week in Virginia. Once again I hope to catch up with friends who I have not seen or talked with in a good while due to my current situations and look forward to it very much.
Ok, a long journal all in all, but once again thanks you to everyone, I hope you have liked what you seen and will love what is to come!
Sorry about delays with works, and new fun stuff is coming soon so keep en eye out =D
Have a great day everyone and take =D
Tank Girl is what got me. I searched for pics of Rippers and found mutant kangaroo rule34.
I am honestly glad to have met you, you have done so much for me both artwise and personwise, I do hope down the road of life you may find blessings :)
I actually met you through CatGuyPaladin and you still are a great artist and a good friend.
Since you can draw, have you ever considered trying out jobs in illustration? Book, magazine, designing animal mascots for stores/businesses, conceptual, or even fantasy are some options you can look at. The pay isn't bad if you can get the work.
That said, I had no idea at the time the sheer amount of crap he was dealing with at home, and there have been times where I've come back and said 'what about my stuff?' and was really mad at the time. If I had known then when I've come to know in the past moths I would have been much more understanding. Having talked to him a bit, I'm always impressed with the quality, and sheer VOLUME of work he takes on.
I can understand that having large projects, falling behind due to family matters, and needing to EAT calls the need to constantly be working on new things for income, but the situation also calls for CONSTANT 'damage control' when it comes to those people seeing newer work being posted or completed. I couldn't imagine trying to handle that situation and the volume of people he has to deal with. It's really amazing he's been able to keep it up, and I really admire that.
There's been times he wished he had a steady job like I do, but honestly if I had that level of talent and skill I'd trade places with him in a heartbeat, I really would. There's a level of skill and dedication there that I hope someday to live up to.
I know you'll have a lot of people saying the same -and for that I feel very small in such a large group of people but please -if you ever want to talk, just talk -look me up, please!
Also: Again, if there's any way I can help -let me know. I'm also going to ask to not be quite so humble some time, and take me up on my offer. It's only charity or pity if nothing is exchanged -but you're not like that. I've been more than happy to help as much as I have, but would be more than happy to do so in the future.
I consider Yiffer to be a good friend. He's got the talent, skill, and dedication to his artwork that I do hope to attain someday. I've always admired his work and loved what he does. He's amongst the best artists and people I know and would be happy to help if I can.
I actually recently moved up to the north-east area, so I might get to see what all this FurFright business is all about, if I do get to go I will look forward to seeing you there, and I may comission you. Actually, I probably will regardless whenever you have openings, now that I have a job up here, since it seems like it'll help you out, and I definitely don't mind waiting for something like that. Oh, and of all the irony, I actually live with :icon keefox: and I got :icon kaliera: to visit recently too.
I dunno, I'm starting to tangent so I guess I'll cut myself off, the long and the short of it is that I'm glad you're not doing terribly, and I'd be happy to help out however I can to improve that state of being, even if I am currently of fairly limited means myself. Still, the move's scraping away a year's worth of depression so I feel like I don't need anything but my friends and such :D
Who knows? You may be able to turn this drawing thing into a career if you do commissions consistently enough. Sixty bucks per pic, two pics per day would pay a LOT of grocery bills.
It may be pie in the sky; I don't know how much effort is put into each pic or how much demand there actually is, but I like to think positive.
That is all.
I feel by reading this entry, you've given me an insight into your life I didnt see before. You're a caring, kind, loving, and hard working person who just wants to draw and live peacefully with your family. You've worked so hard just to keep up with drawings despite work, illness, and now this lack of money where you live.
And hey, just to say I live in New Hampshire too! ^^ I never knew you did too, if you ever want some company I am more then willing to come say hello if the rest of your family is ok with it. I dont know if I can do much but for you, my favorite artist on here and a person who has earned my trust and respect and love, I would gladly come see you.
I cant think of much else to say other then I wish you the absolute best of luck and hope you pull through these times. You have my AiM if you want to talk to me and I would be glad to provide a little fun and cheerfulness in these tough times.
You're strong and dedicated, you'll get through this, and maybe as the others stated you could turn your drawing into a career, or even enter into the field of animation that you were talking about.
You have my support, and the support of all your other friends here on FA and any other chat programs. Good luck and I hope to hear from you soon.. <3
*Huggle*
I wish you the best of luck in times to come. ^^
Take care.
Boy, does that happen to quite a few people in this fandom.. especially the old-timers. The feeling you were the only one who liked this stuff, and WHOAH others do too? :)
There was one point where I was working 6 days a week +.
I've done that, and cooking as well. I know how that can utterly wear one out, to where you want to use that one day off to do nothign, just to let your hands and legs rest.
Heck, working 6 days a week currently. :P
I know you've had trouble finding work.. so has Slickpuppy, who's now living with me. he's been able to draw a lot in his downtime and has just opened himself up for commissions, but it's a struggle as well. At least my income is working well for us for now.
*hugs deeply* I hate to hear your food budget and other things are that tight, Yiffer. That's it. You're coming down here early a few days before and/or after Furfright and you're gonna get fed. No arguments. There will be a fox kidnapping. We'll plan this. :)
I'm quite available to come get you from Nashua, though it'll have to work with my work schedule some. I'm rather sure we can do it, particularly if you don't mind spending a day or two here in Willimantic. We'd love the company!
--Chi
A.) Lemmie know what I can do for ya.
B.) Really hope to be able to meet you at another con again, even if I have to haul yer butt there. Been too long since that fun FC.
You're right though, EVERYONE is having a pretty hard time, but you're getting hit a bit harder than most.
Please, don't give up. We're all wishing the best for you.
Good luck!
And may you continue to be able to show your hopes and dreams to the world.
Well here's a big likewise thank YOU for all the art you've shared with us over the years, to brighten our days :) (and occasionally our pants! ;D)
( I'm curious.. what was the movie? ;) )
You give so much without asking anything in return (commissions to afford food do not count of course), your the best host when I visit (I'll get up there more often...its harder without KDJ around...), and your drawing ability's unrivaled among anyone else I know!
Please let me know if there's anything I can do for you.
There will always be a Chocolate Croissant with your name on it when I'm around.
but anyways, you have really great art and glad you found FA, your art was what made me find FA, angila was the first anthro dragon i have seen other than my own. Try the best you can and take your time there is no rush life is one rough road to travel hope things get better for you