I just announced a YCH styles commission here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/29425172/

This is the first time I try to work on a YCH-styled commission, so this is really all unexplored territory for me, but likely old hat to most of you.
For this reason I thought to post this journal to gather feedback about it, good or bad, and what you think I could improve in the future (the auction process, what you'd like to see, or even how the sample should image be made and presented).

I was recently invited to do an interview on a podcast named Panda Pause, hosted by Mickey Bamboo, you can find it on tumblr or soundcloud.

Furry, i always thought, is an open mine of concepts and inspiration for fine arts: it deals with self perception, the distillation of humanity in its essence, and life choices at the dawn of the upcoming digital era. A contraddictory tribe of apparent luddites craving barn sex and mundane gatherings, while at the same time cruising a digital world full of virtual creatures whose impossibly-shaped anatomy they will never touch.

At some point somebody will take that core from the furry fandom, and will properly expose it where it belongs: in galleries, art books, and museums, in forms i can't even imagine. And when that will happen some people will be curious about the world that was there before: the little internet people who drew weird stuff, ruined every Disney movie, and found long lasting incredible friendships. So i'm honestly glad there are initiatives like this, to record somewhere and for a brief time that, indeed, we did exist and had fun doing what we did. And, in my case, had a pretty silly italian accent.

A little update for the rhino themed auction currently going on my gallery:

-End time has been moved to sunday, midnight GMT+1 , so it's a bit more fair to US residents.
-Buyout price has been fixed to 160 euro. It makes no sense to offer it as a "discounted commission" if the price could potentially go above my usual rates. So, at worse, it's still a 20 bucks discount.

... to announce the opening of Zampacon's 2015 registration <3

==============================================================
Damsels, knights, bards and sorcerers! Have you heard the rumors? Did you know, did you know?

Zampacon 2015 has opened for Registrations since March 16th and will stay open till the March 31st. We will entertain you with panels, games, discussions and many other things! Have you considered to take a nice vacation, drowning into a medieval and enchanted atmosphere? Then join our quest! We are waiting for you too! :)

You can find all the info here: http://zampacon.forumfree.it/?t=70492771

And until then... Farewell!
===============================================================

I'm opening commissions, rules and prices are on my FA commission section, so feel free to take a look here.

Just reply to this journal to get a slot, you can send the description later on by note or using my email address biliousboar[at]gmail.com .

1:  rahzr [DONE]
2:  gaslightdog [DONE]
3:  mrbitey [DONE]
4:  ben300 [DONE]
5:  valnos [DONE]
6:  dempsey [DONE]

Status explanation:
Waiting description I'm waiting for the description of the commission and the necessary reference images, you can send them by email or note. If the description has some problem (for example asks for stuff i'm not comfortable drawing), i may refuse to go on with the commission, otherwise i will send the payment instructions.
Waiting for payment Self explanatory...
Sketching... I'm drawing a sketch, i will send it the moment it's done.
Waiting for approval I'm waiting for the commissioner to envision and ask corrections on the sketch i sent.
Finishing... I'm actually doing active work on the commission and i will keep working on it until it's fully complete.
Done

An english explanation of this message is at the bottom, apologies to my english readers.

---

Mi appello ai furries italiani perche' spostino i loro account pelosi via da facebook.
Propongo come meta google+ perche' dopo una lunga ricerca, credo sia l'unico che possiede sufficienti funzioni per la comunita' furry italiana e perche' permette l'uso di pseudonimi.

Perche' vi chiedo questo sacrificio? Perche' nel furry finiscono con l'entrare persone che hanno assolutamente bisogno della protezione che un nickname fornisce: ci sono ragazzi che rischiano il bullismo a scuola, ci sono professionisti (veterinari, illustratori, artisti) che non possono rischiare di essere associati ai lati negativi del fandom, ci sono omosessuali che rischiano di essere gettati fuori di casa, ci potrebbero essere casi di stalking in futuro, e c'e' gente che sta scoprendo la sua natura, la sua vita, la sua sessualita', un percorso lungo e difficile che non e' giusto sia legato per sempre al proprio vero immutabile nome. Quante volte avete capito di aver fatto degli errori e avete benedetto la possibilita' di ricominciare da capo?

So che per molti di noi usare il nome reale non e' un pericolo ne un rischio, anzi, e' una conquista: il segno che siamo felici di essere chi siamo e di dirlo al mondo intero!
Purtroppo restando su facebook imponiamo enormi problemi a chi non ha raggiunto la nostra tranquillita': spostarsi e' un fastidio, ma anche un gesto di civilta' ed empatia.

Allargo questo appello anche agli importantissimi gruppi furry di IFH e Zampacon, date la possibilita' di seguirvi anche da Google+, non costringete a scegliere tra seguire tutti gli update dei vostri eventi e perdere la protezione dell'anonimato.

Spero di essere riuscito a spiegare le mie ragioni: non voglio tornare e creare l'ennesimo nome falso e perdere tutti i miei amici e contatti, e non voglio dare a quella squallida azienda un mio documento visto che non hanno ne' l'autorita' per chiederlo ne' il bisogno materiale: si permettono questo gesto di bullismo solo per la cronica strafottenza che hanno sempre dimostrato verso le piccole comunita' come la nostra.

Sono raggiungibile a biliousboar@gmail.com, su google+ con il mio vero nome:
Alpha0

---

Edit: per ritrovarsi tutti piu' in fretta abbiamo messo su una community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communi.....86158364184818 e' un modo veloce per vedere chi ha deciso di provare G+ e aggiungere i contatti.

For the english speakers:
Facebook recently has banned many italian furry accounts on the grounds that we didn't use our real names, it's a widespread problem, not just an issue in our small community.

Some have decided to accept the new rules and just give their documents, it's okay and in their rights, but by doing so they are basically forcing everybody to do the same. I've been a furry for many years, and i know how many mistakes, bullism, and job problems a nickname can save you from. Nobody should be expected to drop anonymity under any circumstance except when feeling ready to do so, especially new, young, and inexperienced furries.

I'm suggesting Google+ because it offers a comparable service allowing at least the protection of a nickname. On privacy issues Google isn't exactly a happy fairy land, i know, but i couldn't suggest diaspora* in its current state, nor the other many networks i tried predicting this moment would come.

I'm opening commissions, this time i posted a simple price list and every commission rule on my FA commission section, so feel free to take a look..

Just reply to this journal to get a slot, you can send the description later on.

DONE:

1. [reserved]
3.  Evane
4.  Furry
7.  ralarare
6.  sleepynemuri
2. [reserved]

My dear friend  rov asked me to write a journal about Zampacon, the Italian furry con, which started opening reservations at http://zampacon.forumfree.it/?t=68093963 . Speaking Italian isn't a requirement to participate, but the panels and content (including the reservation instructions) are presented only in Italian, hopefully the event will be extended and fully integrate English in the future.

For my clients: your commission status will always be updated in the previous journal.


Il mio amico  rov mi ha chiesto di mettere in linea un journal per ricordarvi che le iscrizioni a Zampacon 2014 sono aperte e accessibili qui http://zampacon.forumfree.it/?t=68093963 , fate i bboni e accorrete numerosi che la scusa che non parlate italiano voi nun ce l'avete XD
Io ci saro' senz'altro questo settembre, ci vedremo!

I'm opening quick painting commissions, the last works i posted on FA are all examples of those, so feel free to reference my gallery for the quality to expect. After payment you will get a rough sketch to give me your opinions and corrections and you'll then receive the finished piece.

The price of the painting is 50$ per character and 50$ per background (so, 2 characters + bg = 150$).

Commission Status
1:  doppleganger Done.
2:  daitenshi Done.
3:  JarlArild Done.
4:  synister Done.
5:  evrfrsh Done.
6:  lyceum Done.

I will contact the winners in a few hours!

So one more public service journal after the gloriously sassy leaving-FA joke post.

Art blocks are the moments where drawing becomes such a shitty activity that not-drawing becomes the nicer alternative. Pretty much every artist has hit one, at some point, they are a bit of a midlife crisis, usually a temporary one (unless you also got a nice tendonitis to pair it up, but that's another story) but definitely a traumatic experience.

And an interesting one, so here's my take on it.

First of all what can make drawing a chore? There is a point where a gifted person (or one like me, who couldn't draw for shit) starts learning about drawing, and the very first months are absolutely great, you improve WEEKLY, and it seems obvious that, with enough time, you will be just-as-good as that dude you saw in that artbook. On top of this improvement-high there is the biggest human lie ever, the terrifying TIME WILL MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER NO MATTER WHAT(1) that supports the delusion that, without exception, sheer work and dedication will make you just THAT good.

At some point, this world of endless hope will met the world of brain chemistry and finite fuck, and you will stop improving weekly. In fact, you will improve monthly, and then yearly, and then you'll stop. In its wise administration of his neurons your brain has roughly fixed the amount of space destined to drag a pencil over a piece of paper because otherwise it would overwrite the all-important information on how to hunt mammoth (2).

Unknown to you this phase of greatness has also set in stone some of the shittiest errors you will do for the rest of your artistic career. In my case: lack of sensibility for proportions, general deficiency drawing mechanical shit. The bundle of mistakes and characteristics of your drawing will slowly sink down into muscle memory (3).

Once your natural improvement is gone and dead, you have a certain span of artificial improvements. This means that, after you have drawn pushed by your instincts, you review your drawing with a technical eye and single out the mistakes: this hand is too small, this pose is bullshit, this car looks like cow poop. And you will fix them (or sigh and just let them go) using no longer your instinct, but your reasoning and the rules you remember at a conscious level: the golden rule, the seven heads rule, the car-has-4-wheels-rule, the anatomy rules, the perspective rules, the Rob Liefeld Rule(4).

Drawing becomes split between a phase of carefree sketching and one of analytical correction, and this is where the art block starts to loom in the horizon. Analysis is no longer pushed by your fun, like sketching is, it's pushed by hubris and the desire of mastery: the will to be a good artist and to please the people around you.

Art block happens when the analysis phase starts to conflict with the sketching phase.

The main reason i found for this is entering in contact with other better artists. Better artists have better sketching phases that you do, thus they spend less time in the analytical phase, can produce quick sketches that utterly humiliate your art, and are richer than you and more loved. Remember that thing about proportions of the pecs you have to fix after every sketch? Well, that guy doesn't do that mistake at all. In fact his sketches naturally follow the golder rule and look magnificent, yours don't. It get even more maddening when the other artist can do seemingly terrible mistakes that end up looking stylish amazing and great: learning to do great mistakes is fucking impossible.

At this point the natural reaction is to fix your sketching phase, right? Study more, be more careful with what you do, do page after page of exercise. And you suddenly notice that your style is a mule who steadily refuses to bulge unless extreme unreasonable dedication(5): you're no longer in control, your muscle memory is, your drawing skill is now officially in the back side of a backstab. You read infinite critiques, you study infinite pages and tutorials, but you don't really improve, in fact, you feel STUPID. "Man, everything must be proportioned 2/5 of this length how can i NOT do that?"

You can no longer enter the "zone" of happy sketching, because you are concerned of your sketch result, you start correcting while you draw the first outlines, and now when you draw you spend 5 minutes struggling, and the usual 25 correcting, then 30 more for even MOAR correction. Drawing is suddenly the shittiest thing you do all day: Congratulations, you have an art block!

So, how do you exit an art block? There are many ways, here are some:

The Fight Club Ending: at some point you will stop caring. The death of your dream of being the next magnificent concept artist just goes, and you settle on being a skilled worker. You suddenly realize somebody had to model and design Deus Ex's toilets, and there is a place for you waiting with open arms. You can still sketch as a hobby. This may feel like a depressing ending but it's not, because DX toilets were absolutely fantastic and a pivot point of the "realistic feeling" of that game (so much to be famous). There would be no houses without the seemingly unimportant bricks, and this is true for every game, movie, or illustrated series out there. Also: in this ending you get a paycheck.

The Pinky and the Brain ending: you stop drawing for 6 months, then resume having forgotten most of your skills, and you quickly retrain your brain to sketch in a different way. This will likely not work, none of your plans really works anyways, but who cares? There is a new one every week and even if they all fail, you're kinda cool with it because THIS WEEK, this week i have a new magnificent system to try. Which I'm sure it will work. This time.

The Indie ending: you just realize it's worth capitalizing on what good comes out of your sketching phase. Stop doing cartoon stuff if you're an academic realist, or the other way around, extremize your style and stop worrying about general correctness: with some luck it's something that catches good attention, otherwise nobody but a tiny niche will notice, but who cares? You're an indie. You end up accepting you are part of the noise in the art world not a bright star, but noise avoids things being blank and dull. Look at all the porn in your folder, notice that extreme weird sketch that's your most err... used piece? Uniqueness triumphs over quality all the time.

The Fox 'n Grapes ending: you start finding flaws in other artist works, ending up infecting them with the same destructive process that killed your art: but in common pain there is half a pleasure. Also you stop drawing for good, and you're also richer and better for it, cuz art sucks and makes you poor, now you have a job that leaves you actual free time, and a happy family, you parents who looked at you with the utmost disgust now applaud you for your beautiful clean house that you could actually purchase.

The Holy Grail ending: you daily exercises in the last 6 months worked. Holy fucking shit unbelievable. You start recording speedpaints on youtube, and sketch awesome stuff all the time in the hundred sketchbooks you have. You art career is in fact unavoidable: that dinner party where every friend of yours tried to not be fully invisible to that Disney talent scout? He's actually talked to YOU, because he watches YOUR BLOG, because HE LOVES YOUR ART. He's also big, hunky and gay: the next day you removed your porn from FA because of the contract you signed. You can give a big pat on your back because you're the 1 in 100 predicted by the laws of probability. The universe and a golden sun smiles on you... and i sincerely hope you die in many fires.



(1) Also known as: The myth of experience points.
(2) Until the moment of your death, mammoth hunting will be the area your brain is most proud of.
(3) And then you'll call that "style"
(4) "Clients pay me 300$ at commissions, like fuck I'm gonna waste time improving. Here's another commission! gimme 300$ bitches."
(5) Hidden unreasonable dedication is the first ingredient in anything that feels magical.
"That guy can make a rabbit come out of an hat"... oooh magical
"that guy spent 5000 hours practicing how to make it look like a rabbit comes out of his hat"... oh shit does he have a life?
Keep that in mind the next time you see a speedpainter that can seemingly make a painting out of 5 brush strokes.

For the people leaving FA: here are is a link to my gallery on a website you will start browsing in a couple weeks.

Generally i don't write personal journals (1) but i thought this one may help other people and clarify what is happening to me those last few months and why i was so absent.

I've written many times that I've been working on gaming projects, mostly as a coder, level designer, or artist: after last summer's batch of commissions i dedicated my full time into finishing a general-purpose graphic engine and working on my own game after prioritizing other people's work for so long.

Last year taught me that most of game wannabe developers (or professional ones, sic!) are total wankers, and to mistrust haphazard if good-willed teams, no matter how great the talent and the curriculum they had, by the end of summer i began working on my own prototype and engine making sure i was fully self-sufficient in doing it (scaling back some part of the idea, and settling on least-work solutions to arising problems), and feeling safe that no half-assed art, quitting coders, and idiotic directors could derail it. I had no money problems to push through this on my own, so it seemed like workplace eden: no boss, no clocks, no orders, just i and what i love to do.

As i learned, this is the golden road that leads to indie game development hell.

"You're your own boss" quickly derailed into having to worry about everything, with the constant fear of failure springing out of every corner, i quickly went from being proud of a piece of code working well, to being fearful it may hide some nasty bug that would backstab me down the line. Everything i did felt barely sufficient, and this sense of "everything is shit" started to spread all over everything i did, including art: i was positively unable to hold a pencil for the last months of 2013 without despising everything i did: the mother of all art blocks.

"No clocks" though was what hurt me the most. What seemed a positive advantage degraded almost instantly in "every hour is a work hour" with the lingering guilt that every "wasted" hour was me betraying my project and myself. This led me to isolate as much as i could from everyone but my closest loved ones. Soon browsing was too much of a waste, checking FA was a waste, everything that i did had to be justified from my work perspective -even hobbies-, finally even chatting with my few contacts on skype became a burden and i learned to be mostly passive and silent.

By December i was permanently stressed and started to develop depression traits. Even before my friends started warning me that i was seriously doing a mess, i had taken the resolve to break this vicious cycle, starting by putting again social life above my work routine, and shifting work priority down. Having been invited to a furry gathering for new year's eve was a perfect starting point for this new resolve, which was also degrading my ability to work well (2).

So, in conclusion, I'm still working on my original idea, without any derailment or pause, but I'm quite serious about surveying my quality-of-life to avoid future sinks. There are PMs i never replied, messages i never read, and lots of stuff I've been missing for a long time: it's late to get back to them, but now you know why it happened and i hope you can forgive my rudeness.

I suspect this story isn't limited to my experience, but actually happens all the time to wannabe self sufficient developers, so, in case you want to be your own indie studio: it's not a tragedy but be careful, i too thought i'd be immune from similar pitfalls and i wasn't.
And well, let's the art and pr0n flow again, maybe commissions if time allows, i miss dealing with all of you (3).

---

(1) I'm an introverted person who loves dramas: i tend to think personal journals are akin to reloading your worst enemy's shotgun.

(2) One may think this led to an amazing amount of work getting done, but actually, lack of vitality tiredness and pessimism seriously broke down my productivity. Voronoi diagram resolutions may have a say on this too.

(3) Except you, weird commissioner #3058b, no quadruple-penised herm shrimp porn, EVER.

In my last upload some people complained about the shape of the character's naughty bits(1), this is so normal and common I'm really okay with it, it happens in every submission ever because i belong to the cult of humanoid bits(1), and also in the cult of bits(1), bits everywhere(1). In fact, animal genitalia is a ground where i feel so strongly against that it's the top reason for commission declining.

People have tastes, they express them, nothing is harmed, but there's little to argue about, so i never reply to those comments, or -well- i used to and i kinda stopped. So here's a general badly written sarcastic reply to the very contentious argument of why i draw human-like naughty bits(1):

1- The socio-cultural:
In the Italian language the dog genitalia fits the social role of the worst designed thing ever. From my art school: "wow, this drawing is total dog dick" to my mom "oh, lol, your first attempt at cooking pasta was dog dick". Why the poor doggy bits were relegated to be the italian medieval equivalent of Comic Sans is a mystery to me, and has probably a lot to do with monks and scholars trying weird stuff with their best friends and getting very disappointed.

2- The HD conundrum:
If i draw it, pictures of it will be on my computer.
If i keep drawing it, very high resolution pictures of it will be all over my fucking computer.
If i really really keep drawing it, 4000x5000x32bit high resolution crisp pictures of it will be on MY DESKTOP.
This doesn't bode well for animal cocks.

3- The HD conundrum - part2:
If i draw it, pictures of it will have to be googled.
If i keep drawing it, very high resolution pictures of it will have to be googled among dozen of cancer/diseased/mutilated pictures of it.
If i really really keep drawing it, 4000x5000x32bit high resolution crisp pictures of it will have to be extracted from the necronomicon.
This doesn't bode well for animal cocks.

4- MarketingArtistic vision.
A 1998 study in the university of Milan proved that 85.56% of gay male humans find easier to fap in front of human-like cocks(2).

5- Good manners.
If you draw something you tend to accumulate fans of that thing, that also includes fans of human cocks, Luis XVII-style closets and drawers, and non-porn. A sudden change to something your fans aren't used to, like animal penises, late XIX century Liberty-styled closets and drawers, and uploading that secret folder you denied it existed 'till yesterday, is kinda impolite and will cause widespread resentment and betrayal-tons(3).

6- The Euclid problem
Despite the mathematical notion that animal cocks look awesome in all conditions except blindness, they do present some geometrical challenges in placement, and artistic challenges in sudden color jumps, unnatural-looking fleshy colors, rough texture, and clumsy shapes. In fact, i would say most animal-shaped genitalia doesn't look animal nor fitting at all, it's at best fursuit-shaped genitalia.

7- The Goethe problem.
Despite the artistic notion that cocks look like cocks in all conditions except in [redacted]'s drawings, human cocks have indeed a certain expressionist value to them: flaccid, half flaccid, into it, kinda into it, not sure but drunk, leaning to left but strongly republican, jumpy and positive, been there done that, this-wasn-t-there-before-i-swear, and romantic but with a hint of naughtiness.

8- You can't install Linux on animal-shaped genitalia.
I don't trust equipment you can't install Linux on.

I hope that settles it.

(1) Cock.
(2) The rest was comfy enough while in front of brick walls and various furniture pieces as long as they didn't contain grandma's photos.
(3) And you'll be accused to be a complete sellout, which is very irritating, considering you are an EXPENSIVE POPUFUR ELITIST sellout, not just some random "commissions for 5$" sellout.

A little update to keep track of the auctioned commissions, I'll keep updating this journal instead of creating new ones.

1 -  colson - Painting...
2-  sabertooth1 - DONE
3-  hextra - DONE.
4 -  jakeraccoon - DONE
5 -  sanmer - DONE

UPDATE
Thanks to everybody who participated to the auction, it's been quite a ride!

Here's a list of the auction winners:

Current winners (updated 14:24 UTC+1):
1 -  colson -offer 300$
2-  sabertooth1 - offer 250$
3-  hextra - offer 210$
4 -  jakeraccoon - offer 185$
5 -  sanmer - offer 180$

The final price is set to 180$ for all the winners. I'll send a PM with further instructions ASAP.

///////////////////////////////////////

I'm opening a last round of commissions for the summer, it's 5 slots for commissions done like (NSFW) this.

Because I've got a lot of requests, i've decided to offer those slots as in an auction. The minimum price is 75$ for a single character, the 5 best offers will be selected and will pay the base price of the 5th one (example: if the 5 winning offers are 100$, 95$, 90$, 85$, 75$ all the winners will pay 75$), in case of equal offers competing for the 5th place, i'll just pick the first one received.

This auction will be closed Wednesday the 10th at 7pm (Rome/Berlin time, UTC +1). Post your offers as a comment to to this journal or send me a note if you want to do an anonymous one (i'll post a message with the offer you did, but without your username). The only valid offers are multiples of 5$, example: 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 etc... just to avoid 1cent or 1$ spamming.

On top of the base price you'll be charged +50$ per extra character and +30$ for a background that can go up to 60$ if you desire a complex one (ie: stuff that requires lots of perspective and extra work, like house interiors).

Workflow: you'll receive 2-3 thumbnails to choose from and be allowed to ask for any mayor change, then you'll receive a complete sketch for minor corrections and finally the finished piece.

I DON'T DRAW: herm, scat, watersport, bestiality, cub, fisting, vore, and inflation.

The ridiculously talented  hogswild started one of those iron artist thingies, damn snag one 'til you can or until i can find a way to totally suck all the talent he got and then trap it into a flying killer metal sphere, or something DAMNIT.

His journal's here.

Protip: add the code "BOARSLOVEACORNS123" at the end of your note to receive absolutely nothing extra, but totally weirding the fuck outta him :3

Hello,
After so long, I've decided to open some commission slots to get back on drawing and painting alongside my current projects. Prices and conditions are about the same as the last time i opened commissions, except this time I'm open also for painted work.

Prices list

Inked B/W:
30$ (+15$ per extra character and +10-20$ for a background, depending on the complexity). Example: here and here.

Shaded B/W:
40$ (+30$ per extra character and +20-30$ for a background, depending on the complexity). Example: here.

Simple coloring:
55$ (+45$ per extra character and +30-60$ for a background, depending on the complexity). Example: here and here.

Painting:
80$ (+60$ per character +40-80$ for a background, depending on complexity).
Example: here and here.

I'll work on them ASAP, and will show thumbnails and a sketch before the coloration to ask for your input. To reserve a spot just reply, I'll wait for the commission description by PM, or you can also use my email address (biliousboar@gmail.com). For those curious about the background complexity: simple backgrounds are open, natural scenes, or few furniture pieces, like a couch or a throne; complex are cityscapes, urban setting, complex rooms etc.

ALL SLOTS ARE TAKEN, COMMISSIONS ARE CLOSED.
STATUS:
 kiriyama1084 DONE.
 iotran DONE.
 jakeraccoon DONE.
 shyloc DONE.
 gritou DONE.
 tabra DONE.
 wolfplot Sketch approved, painting.



I DON'T DRAW: herm, scat, watersport, bestiality, cub, fisting, vore, and inflation.

Sup'?

Ok i had to kick away that old journal, damnit! I even have to skip EF this year.

A quick update: i spent most of my time coding a game engine, HEAVENS KNOWS WHY D:

It's a soul-munching hobby project at this point: i passed the phase where you like to talk about it with others because it's kinda cool (1), i went though the phase where you no longer talk about it because nobody can actually understand what you're doing (2), and finished in the zone where you write intrinsic SIMD instructions, asking yourself when exactly you fell from the Grace of Godness, into the slimy pit of misaligned dinamically-allocated 16byte memory addresses(3).

Anyways, i think i'll resume commissioning in a bit, because i really need to look at something that's not inside a Visual Studio window. In collaboration with Hogswild i'll get to work and finish a new image pack soon enough, i hope, and more details about it will be announced later on.

Oh, and that Magnus/Dota2 fanart i promised to the pits of the internets. That HAS to be done.

And now, lemme finish writing those normals to the 'ddamn g-buffer.

-Alpha0x00000000




(1) Except getting the vague impression that your life is going to drop down to hermitage levels soon enough. And you're probably infective.

(2) It's the moment when you try explaining what a quaternion is, and suddenly you get silent and look at them like a time-traveling agent, staring at a departing Titanic.

(3) And you shower a lot, but the taint never goes away.

Guess i should post this:

Where are you staying?
Maritim Hotel

What day are you getting there?
28 August.

Who will you be with?
 scale

Who will you hang out with during the convention?
Our little italian group of awesome people. You can recognize us because the nearby ATMs show a fake out-of-order warning when we pass by.

Where will you be most of the time during the day/s?
Despairing in front of my unsold paintings. Also, free pool!!!!

Are there any panels you might be attending?
If there's one about sweaty gladiators: I'll be there.

Are you attending any stage or public performances?
Nope. According to my watchers count, i qualify only for appearing at the Fursuit Dancing Contest. As the dancing floor.

Will you be suiting?
No. I'm waiting for the day  doppleganger will commission me to wear a freely-provided boar-suit and take photos. He will, it's a matter of time.

Do you do free art?
Free as in freedom, right?

What is your gender?
Male

How old are you?
30

How tall are you?
165 cm

Are you taken? Are you looking for a 'mate'?
I'm internet gaymarried.

Can I talk to you?
Of course.

Can I touch you?
Yes, but pinching to zoom won't work, i'm just 165cm tall.

How can I find you?
Search for a short, bearish, hairy italian guy, with a cap, like on my avatar.

Can I visit your room?
No. My acorns stash is hidden there. Serious business.

Can I buy you drinks?
Hell no. My internet husband would make me test for aids AGAIN.

Do you smoke?
Double hell, no.

Can I give you stuff?
No,  amenophis, i don't need other reminders, i haven't forgot your pants :3

Can I give you lots of money?
I'm not a greedy person. But yes.

Can I hug or snuggle with you?
I'm shy as all hell. Don't be offended if i will demonstrate my deeply rooted escaping-pacman instincts.

Are you nice?
I am, yeah.

Do you have an artist table?
Nope.

Do you have prints/CDs?
Nope.

Will you have art in the Art Show? General or Adult sections?
One panel adult and one clean.

If I see you, how should I get your attention?
Just say hi, really. It worked like a charm for 30 centuries or so.

What/where will you be eating?
Where calories/euros ratio is less than the italian GDP.

Can I look in your sketchbook?
I draw on my computer and do C++ diagrams on paper. FACT.
I don't have a sketchbook.

Can I hang with you in your room?
No. But you can in  kinase he's ok with it! I swear! (*runs!*)

Can I dance with you at the dances?
I can't dance. I can move my barycenter in funny places though.

Can I invite you to parties?
Are there parties at EF?

Do you shower?
No i don't. Ever. I believe the natural environment where lice and flies live and prosper is severely endangered by the foolish pursue of the not-stink. Think about this: they're now OK with exterminating bedbugs and lice, tomorrow it's gonna be the turn of pandas and baby seals! STOP THE MADNESS NOW!

Here: [FINISHED]

Naked gladiator pinup, because EHI WHY NOT?
From the final colored sketch to the actual painting, hopefully :3

As people who purchased art from me knows, i'm very open to allow for delayed payments to best suits their needs. This has worked great for me an my commissioners... till recently.

Frankly, i've grown tired to juggle a couple of clients, i know two bad apples don't spoil a tree, but i've lost a couple of weekend of work, stuck to not opening commissions (to respect the deal on my end, that's why i reserve "slots") and yet having my hands tied because i haven't been paid.

So, as a change of rules: when you get a commission from me you're expected to:

-Pay in 3 days from me accepting the commission.
-Explicitly specify if you require a different deadline, and what date it is (and hear back from me if i'm OK with it).

Failure in both will mean the commission has been automatically cancelled.

To the people who have procrastinated payment: from this moment you have 24 hours to pay, or be blacklisted indefinitely. But with a twist: you have to add 1 euro for every PM you've made me write, and 5 for every thumbnail you got. If you want me to act like a tax exactor, lemme ravel in the pleasure of late fees!

Me and  hogswild are going to be offering collaborative OC commissions of the type you've seen us posting recently. We are opening up to seven slots, with the following choices and prices:

- 60€ (75$) single character, colored & shaded Sample
- 80€ (100$) two characters, colored & shaded Sample

We'll sketch in a very simple background at no extra cost. We work on weekends on those, so expect weekly delivery :3

No herms, scat, watersports, bestiality, cub, fisting, vore, inflation, rule34.

CLOSED

Yup, after so long i'm finally back being hungry in the biz!

Prices:
Flat coloring or shaded B/W: 40$ (+30$ per extra character and +30-40$ for a background, depending on the complexity). Example of flat color. Example of shaded black and white.

Smooth coloring: 55$ (+45$ per extra character and +30-60$ for a background, depending on the complexity). Example of smooth coloring.

I'll work on them ASAP, and will show a sketch before the coloration to ask for your input.

To reserve a spot just reply, I'll wait for the commission description by PM, or you can also use my email address (biliousboar@gmail.com).


I DON'T DRAW:
- herm, scat, watersport, bestiality, cub, fisting, vore, and inflation.

Slots:
-  venicethehedgehog
-  garrodor
-  eltigero
-  modifiedlast
-  zigzagZiggy
-  storm-crow

Just a quick note to alert that the image pack has been sent!

If you paid and you haven't received the email, just drop a note with your address and we'll check what Hogswild did wrong happened!

For all the contributors, still many many thanks! For the people who want the pack but didn't preorder it, feel free to drop an order now, by note, same price (5 eur), same conditions, same manliness warranty. Since there was a ton of request we're still offering 60 euro collaborations, but the image pack is no longer included in the price.



The image pack contains a terrifying DRM that will make you a straight virgin in case it gets reposted on image boards. We won't reveal how it works, but of the 3 test subject we experimented it on, it gave us exceptional results. One even stopped believing in evolution, and he was a gay MIT graduate. Beware!

Yes, it's that terrible of a DRM.

The image pack (more details here) finally got an official release date: Midnight of monday 30th April, GMT+1!

And thanks to everybody who preordered! :3