As sad as it makes me, I think it’s a sensible move at this point in time to close up my personal website. I really don’t have time to bring it up to speed (not sure the best way to deal with the SSL certificate problem at all) and it would take a tremendous amount of time and effort to overhaul its facade like I’d like to. Plus I’m not all that geeked about writing code, I’d prefer to drop files into an existing matrix that someone more technically skilled than myself has designed. Honestly, I don’t need my own website right now, I don’t have a store and I’m not in need of an online portfolio at the moment. I’ll keep the domain and if things change in the years to come, I might redesign a new site, but for now I’ll be sharing my art here on FA and with my Tumblr.

I’ll miss the old site, though, it was special to me and at one point I had fun coding it. Long time ago.

At this moment it is still active as I’m not quite sure how I want to handle the display of my commission information. FA’s commission section is great but I structure my options in an unusual way and I can’t fit it into the categories FA provides. I will, of course, let you know if that info moves and how to find it. Does me no good if you can’t.

So, in its stead I have opened a second FA account:  TannoRadon to display my personal work, which I have removed from Squeakie here. Squeakie will now be strictly for commissioned works or any art that I make for someone else. Tanno will house the art that I make for myself.

Why not just keep them all on the same page together? Like you, I want a place to express my own identity, to gather the things that make me happy together, which paints a piece of the portrait of who I am. Commission work is an expression from the person who purchases it, they are your universes and your characters. And while I am continually honored that you’d choose me to perform that very important task, the resultant work doesn’t represent any more about me than my ability to interpret your creativity. And since I make a lot more commissioned pieces than personal, Squeakie has become an amalgam of other people’s fantasies with bits of me floating here and there. It’s still work I’m quite proud of, but I also want a little page that’s just for me.

To keep things from getting confusing, I will not be posting anything regarding commissions on Tanno. Not announcements or updates or anything relating to projects for you guys. All that stays here. So if you don’t want to watch Tanno, you won’t miss out on commission stuff.

As for content over there, I’ve removed the personal art from Squeakie and posted my favorite pieces over there, as well as selections from duoradon.com that weren’t here on FA. I didn’t repost some because they were either too old or just not all that special, but if there is something you’d like to see put back up, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. Tanno will have a lot of gay male stuff, quite a few humans, some occasional stuffing, I’ve got some dragon pics I need to get done, lots of OCs, stuff like that. Nothing much in the way of boobs or hardcore sex, though. But it’s not like that’s in short supply on the Net.

The only oddball is River’s Journal, the rest of which I’ll eventually post here on Squeakie. It started as a personal project but I turned it into a commission thing, and I don’t want to split it up.

Thanks for reading all of that, best wishes and have a happy harvest season! Now I gotta get back to drawing these comics…..