It's no secret that I'm not very good at drawing. Most doodles I do come out like crap. If I have the time, and a pic I'm trying to copy, it comes out pretty well, but I can't just think up a character and draw them. So, ever since coming up with my fursona, I've had to live with not having a face to show people.

That is, until about a month ago, when I discovered  Lardo. Boy, what an artist... and just ten dollars for a color commission... and slots open! I contacted her at once, and started setting up the details... sent her a description, reference pictures, and the required cash... then I sat and patiently waited.

She got artist's block not long after, and ceased drawing... but I didn't care, she promised she'd do it eventually. I had waited a long time already, I could wait a few more months.

Things happened, and the commission drifted from my mind... until a few days ago, when I logged back onto FurAffinity for the first time in a while, and spotted that she had uploaded the first sketch. My god, it was so beautiful... even if it was rough and unfinished, it was a wonderful sight... I told her what details I wanted to have happen with the art, then sat back and waited... and just a day or two later, she was done.

I was on cloud nine the entire rest of the day... you see, when we're born into this world, we're granted a face, a body, immediately... something people can look at and instantly recognize as us. When we create a fursona, we don't have that luxury... we need this face, this body, created for us. I had, in a sense, gone without a face, without a body, for over a year... and now I had one. I had something that I could recognize as me in character, at it was so wonderful... so freeing...

The finished art can be found here: http://www.furaffinity.net/full/5423124/ I love how Lardo captured that happy, caring, almost motherly look with the face... it's exactly the sort of face I wanted for hir. I can't really think of anything I would wish to see changed about it... to me, it's perfect. Thank you, Lardo... you've granted me a face and a body at last.