Hello everyone. This, as you have probably guessed, is Rip K. And I would like just a moment of your time to discuss a few things that are heavy on my mind right now. Soon, I will have an opportunity to attempt to do art full-time. With my mate getting a job and a stable home environment, in a month or so I will have the option to attempt to take furry art seriously. Unfortunately, over the past couple years, I've spent my time first trying to hold a 4.0 as a full-time student, and after getting my criminal justice associate's, working at a law office. Maintaining a 4.0 ate all my time. And now I work for what comes out as slightly less than minimum wage pulling 55+ hours a week at a law office as salary. There really isn't the opportunity to advance there, and it is not something that I intend to pursue as a career. All this being said, it's not worth having no time whatsoever for a nominally larger check than I would get working at a cash register.

Over the past couple years I have fallen off the face of the earth on several occasions, going 4-5 months without posting, and even worse, 4-5 months without drawing. I think just about any artist would agree that if you're not doing it every day, you're doing it wrong. Needless to say, I am terribly out of practice and have not improved like I could have and should have. I've had a lot of people ask about commission work and I would really like to be able to do things like that. I feel making the decision to commit myself to art full time will not only give me the opportunity to take on commissions, but do work of a much better quality.

There is also the issue of a web-comic that I've quite literally been wanting to do for several years now. I've done a lot of preliminary work, but realistically have never been able to keep up a pace that would allow me to do any quality work on a project of that caliber. Coming home every other week and trading an hour or so of sleep for a rushed picture just to toss on my gallery to try to keep it alive is just not good enough.

A lot of people have taken their time to tell me that they enjoy my work and appreciate what I do. And to the fandom as a whole, I feel like I haven't responded to those graces adequately. The only thing I can really ask for at this point is for feedback. Any feedback, it doesn't matter what it is, whether you're an artist or not, tell me how it's a terrible idea, overdue, or anything at all whatsoever. I'm committing to this thing and any feedback or advice is unimaginably helpful. Thank you for your time...here goes nothing.