My gray fur got a bit grayer today...

Hello folks, hope ya'll are doing fine and staying safe.

I thought on writing this journal today to ask some input from you. Since the end of last year I've been doing several art related courses, watching videos, other artists works and the knowledge is being invaluable, however, with so much information comes this feeling of not knowing what to do.

I've made the decision that I would try experimenting more and working on more varied themes, pretty much whatever that comes to mind, you probably noticed that by the increased amount of sketchdumps full of random stuff.

While this is all fun, and gosh, it is being fun to do these things, I feel like I've been lacking some direction, and would like to ask you, what kinds of styles, themes and techniques you would be interested on seeing this year. Hopefully this will give me some food for thought to work out this lack of direction I'm feeling.

Please let me know.

King regards from your arty washing bear.

Hello folks, hope ya'll are doing fine and staying safe.

This is just a short message to tell that for those expecting replies to comments and notes please be patient, I didn't forget about you. I had a tough August and September is not being any better, so I'd say my batteries are running low as for now. Hope ya'll will understand.

King regards from your arty washing bear.

Hello folks, hope ya'll are doing well and staying safe. It recently came to my knowledge that  grendelair is going through some hardship to keep their store Fox's Mercantile due to overdue taxes.

As we know, keeping a small business running is not easy and thanks to the current global scenario things have been a lot more difficult. Having that said, I'd like to signal boost the GoFundMe page to help Buns in these hard times.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/33sq7-save-our-shop

To make it more interesting, I'll be hosting an art raffle to help with the fundraising. The donations will go entirely to Buns and you get the chance to win one drawing of your OC done by me.

RULES:

● To participate you must make a donation starting from 20USD to the GoFundMe page.
● Once the donation is completed, you must comment on this journal with your character reference and send a note to  grendelair with the following title "Art Raffle Donation" with proof of the donation (a screenshot and the email address you used).
●  grendelair will reply to your journal comment confirming the donation and once confirmed I will reply with a unique number.
● The unique number is what grants your participation in the raffle.
● Only one number will be issued per Furaffinity Account.
● Comments/Donations from accounts that are less than 1 month old will be disregarded.
● By donating and commenting you confirm that you are of legal age (at least 18 years old) and is in agreement with my TOS.

RULES FOR CHARACTER REFERENCES:
● Only one character.
● No human characters please.
● Male or Female character of any species.
● Please state if you would like an artistic nude scene.

WHAT YOU GET:
● There will be 2 winners.
● The winning numbers will be selected using https://www.random.org/ and the results will be posted as screenshots on Sunday, September 6th at 10pm UTC.
● The winners will get a detailed lineart of their characters like in the following examples https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37864649/, https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37638868/.
● The creative process of making those linearts will be handled as a commission and is subject to my TOS available here https://arcrcric.art/content/tos.pdf (please be sure to read).

As always, spreading the word about this would be greatly appreciated.

Hello folks, just passing by to share with you the link of a short interview I did for a small (but growing) blog about anthro arts. The blog features arts and stories from artists that are starting or are less well known, it is definitely worth checking.

https://hybridfabulousfurryfun.blog.....interview.html

Hope you'll enjoy.

Hello folks,

This week I started to work on my commission chart as I said I would sometime ago and was wondering what kinds of styles and techniques would you like to see?

This year is being so full of experiments and trying new things that I find it hard to compile a list with just a few options, so no one better than you to actually tell what me what is best =3

Looking forward for your suggestions.

King regards from your arty washing bear.

Hello folks, hope you are all staying safe and comfy.

This week I had an idea and would like to hear from you what you think. As you know, the majority of my works are linearts, which is my favorite way to draw. A few days ago I was editing some of the linearts and the thought of making some of them as coloring pages for you to use came to my mind. There are plenty of coloring books out there but I haven't seen one with anthro characters, so perhaps I could give it a try.

Your feedback as always, is greatly appreciated.

King regards from your arty washing bear.

Guess I'm getting old...

Hello folks, hope you are all staying safe and comfy.

I'm passing by to let you know that I published the new version of my website yesterday. Right now there is a few parts missing like the price sheet and contact form but all the rest is already available. I would be very happy if you could have a look and give some feedback =).

English Version | Portuguese Version (coming soon) | Spanish Version (coming soon) | German Version (maybe)

King regards from your arty washing bear.


OBSERVATIONS
- I'm still optimizing the images (there are too many) so it might take a few seconds for all of them to load ^^;.
- The search system works with tags separated by space, if you add a "-" before the tag like this "-raccoon" it will exclude all arts with this tag from the results.
- For those curious, the site was developed using React + Redux with Typescript. The CSS was completely written by me, without any frameworks, to keep things as light as possible.

Hello folks, just passing by to share a journal written by  kiyofox as a warning about scammers. He sadly was robbed by one, but used this very unfortunate event to raise awareness about the risks we might face. The full story you can check on the link below.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9479130

Please have a look and if possible help spreading the awareness as well so we can avoid such a thing happening with us.

Best wishes from your arty washing bear.

Hello again folks, hope your week started well and ya'll are staying safe.

I'm passing by to check with you if there would be any interest if I opened some commissions slots again. It is been a while since I last drew your ideas and I believe it might be a fun exercise. If there is interest I'll very likely open a few slots on mid May or early June.

On a second note, I'd like to tell that I got a new domain name for my website, so my previous address is currently unavailable. The new address is https://arcrcric.art
At the moment there is nothing to see but I'll be working on bringing the site up again on the coming weeks so stay tuned =).

King regards from your arty washing bear.

Hello folks, hope you are having a good weekend and staying safe.

Lately I've been considering making one fanart piece and wanted to hear from you some character suggestions as I'm not sure yet about which character I'll end up drawing.

Please let me know =).

King regards from your arty washing bear.

Hello folks, hope things are going well and that lovey dovey day went fine for ya'll.

I'm passing by to say that on the last weeks I've been quieter mostly due to work which is taking a lot of my time and energy. While I'm still doing my best to keep up with art, the time to properly write to each of you, as I wish I could, is being difficult to find.

I'm not saying I won't be doing it, I'm just saying it might take some time. I don't like that I can't talk as much with you all as I could before, your feedback, constructive criticism and support means a lot and I really miss it. But unfortunately at the current moment, all I can do is wait for the wave of tight schedules and overtime to pass.

Kind regards and have ya'll a good week.

Hello folks, just passing by to signal boost this Journal here:

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9408628/
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9408628/
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9408628/

 Fossa666 was a victim of a scam and lost all her money. If you can help somehow, even by just spreading the word that would be very helpful.

Hello folks, hope your week begun well.

I'm writing this to let ya'll know I might go quiet for some days, maybe weeks. Things are a bit rough and I need some time to organize my thoughts and ideas. Least I can say is that while the new place I am is definitely better and infinitely safer, being completely alone can be difficult sometimes.

As some of you saw, I shared one drawing yesterday but in the end decided to remove it as I didn't enjoy the outcome nor it helped me to feel better.

Hope to catch up with you folks after things clear up a bit.

Best wishes!
Your arty washing bear

Greetings folks, hope you are doing well.

Thought on writing this message to let ya'll know I'm still alive even though on the last weeks I've been very silent. The new routine and the fact that I started life pretty much from scratch in the new place I am, are slowing me down but even though I'm still drawing and can't wait to share with you a new project I decided to start inspired by the art of my friend  Andibi. There is also the project I'm working with  kantucknadie which I can't wait to complete as it is probably my best drawing ever. I know I left quite a great amount of messages without replies but I shall work on changing that along this week and the next.

Addendum:
This month I completed 5 years of active art making and at some point might make some special art to celebrate it properly. It saddens me a bit that inktober passed completely blank "sigh", guess I'll just have to make some "inkvember" art to compensate.

Best wishes!
Your arty washing bear

Hello folks, as some of you may have noticed, I've been quiet for a while. On the last few weeks I moved to a new location and only very recently I found a fixed place to stay. During this time I had no chance to draw as everything had to stay packed for safety reasons.

But now things seem to be falling on the right places and all the art materials are easily accessible again. Sadly I'll need to order a new scanner which may take a while but at least I'm back to regular arting. To those I owe replies both to comments and notes please be informed that I'll be doing it as soon as possible.

Best wishes and have ya'll a very good rest of the week.

Hello folks, hope ya'll are doing well.

At long last my stress and exhaustion induced artblock seems to be coming to an end.

Thank you for the patience and kindness during these times, I really appreciate.

I can't wait to draw on a daily basis again.

Hello folks, hope ya'll are having a good weekend, just thought on passing by to share an article that might be an interesting read.

As you know, I live in Brazil and this place is a mess, mess in which I can hardly cope with, but since I don't have the gift of words, explaining it in its full extent never worked very well, but this article says it all, and I couldn't agree more with it.

It is a 11 minutes read for those with the time and curiosity, enjoy!

https://markmanson.net/brazil

So it happened... Several weeks of poor sleep and daily overtime are starting to pile up.

I'd like to let ya'll know this will most certainly slow me down artwise, but I'll try to show up every now and then while I sort this problem.

Best wishes folks.

Just got a year older today ^^;.

Hello folks, hope you are doing well.

I heard that Patreon is changing their fee system and account plans at the beginning of May and that now would be the best time to register and keep the old system.

Was wondering if you would be interested if I decide to open a page. My idea is to offer early access on finished pieces and an insider view on wips, sketches, practice sessions and doodles, and perhaps some special commission offers with discounts as well.

Please let me know and have a very good weekend.

Becoming one with the Pro C# 7 handbook...

Been a week now, I can already smell variables and hear class objects :P.

Bye bye sanity I guess.




Listening to: Arrays
Reading: Class definitions
Watching: Console logs
Playing: With System.Math
Eating: Server Memory
Drinking: Data Bindings

Hello folks, just passing by to say thank you to all the kind messages and support I got on the last journal I wrote.

You all helped more than I can express. While I still have lots of things to figure out, your suggestions gave me material to think, something I really needed.

Hopefully from now on things will get better ^^;.

Again, thank you very much.

Hello folks, hope things are going well with you. Today I have a small question which I would greatly appreciate some feedback.

What you usually do to to feel better when you are sad and hopeless? It is being a bit hard to cope with this so some fresh ideas would be of great help.

I figured that without doing something different this pattern will never change =(.

Thanks for reading and have ya'll a good week.