Yeah, there's not many of you but I still feel obligated to make sure that all of ya are still in the loop with me.

While I do have some things that I have been working on to give to you all, I am sad to say that I lack the resources that are needed to make anything worth posting on here. I am without a tablet, a scanner and a computer right now. Well, a computer of my own that is, the computer I am using now is the home computer and isn't really suppose to be getting anything on it that doesn't partain to my family's business(s).

I'm sure all of you will have noticed by now, if not I think you will now, that I am scrapping all my old submissions. Mostly because I have either redone them on paper and like them better and will repost them when ever I stop being lazy enough to go to a friend's house and beg to use the scanner they own, which might be never because I don't want to do that to my friends. I think it would make them think that I only want to be around them to use the scanner, which isn't what I want anyone to think.

Anyways, I have been sort of busy for a while and I think you all needed to know that I am still alive and I am still drawing, I'm just not posting it online right now. This goes for my DA account as well, not that anyone on here would be visiting that junk drawer.

As always, keep being beautiful my FA friends.

~Ardra

So, being the weirdo that I am, I decided that I should reveal some of my own OCs. They don't have any art work as if yet, but they will and that is really what this journal is for. To remind me that 'hey, stupid! They're waiting to see you'. XD I think I might start with my most popular OC, popular only because I have abused his name... a lot!

Ardra Gregson- Ardra is a Ardran boy, who lived his life like a normal Ardran until something happens and he winds up as a pet, or something like that. I am not focusing too much on him because it would be a lot of animal drawings, since he's rarely in his human form while on the planet.

Ardra Chambers- This Ardra is a Pokemon trainer who has been through all five regions. He's captured a lot of friends, and now runs his own ranch/farm out of the Unova region, mostly to be as far away from his parents as possible. He's as well rounded with Pokemon as I am, so if he seems like a smart ass... that's me...

I have a shiz ton of Pokemon characters but there will be only a few of them that will make it, actually into my comic series, when I stop being lazy and actually do it. You'll learn about them later.

Cole Havar- This is another Pokemon trainer. He doesn't battle, but he works on Ardra's farm helping him with things. Nick is a Deaf/Mute male, who relys on that Chatot Ardra trained for him to translate what he signs into actual words so he can talk. The Chatot is often running off to play with the other bird Pokemon, but that's all right as Ardra understands a little of sign language and loves playing Cheraids.

My Ardran characters are too much to explain, but they will be around eventually, along with, maybe, a teaser for the Pokemon comic I'm writing.

remember, commissions are still open for anyone!

I am going back to school soon, but I need some extra cash to pay for a few classes that my scholarships and grants will not cover.

What will I draw?

Pretty much anything. Doesn't need to be pokemon related. I'll even draw your Furry character. There are only a few things I wont do because I don't know how to do it properly, and that's sex scenes.

Basic pricing list

The basic prices are in Euros, I have also converted (and approximated) them into US Dollars and GB Pounds for convenience.

: Pencil Sketch:

($7USD)
($7USD) for each additional character.
($7USD) for colors. (Flat, digital colors)
($10USD) For shading as well as coloring.
This does NOT include background, it's in a whole different category, backgrounds. Please note that you will get something like my rabbit study in my gallery.

Detailed, Digitally Colored, no background

($10USD)
($5USD) for each additional character.

Detailed, Digitally Colors w/ Background

($15USD)
($5USD) for each additional character

: Pokemon Team Package:
($20USD)
Package Includes:
* Trainer + six pokemon
($5USD) Detailed Background

:Ardran Package:
($20USD)
Package includes:
An Ardran or some other species of my OC world customized to your specifications, and the rights to use said customized thing for future projects.


I will only accept payments via paypal. Do not pay me until I have confirmed that I will accept your commission.

How to order a commission?

Step 1. Send me an Email or note( DO NOT COMMENT) to ilovedolphinsinfl@yahoo.com, titled " commission" and fill out this form

What Kind of Work?(see the above prices for what to call them)
References? (A picture or a detailed description of what you would like would be the best method.)
Specific poses? (If you want them doing something in specific, then you HAVE to tell me this.
How much you're willing to pay? (Basically, we haggle a little.)

Step 2. Wait for my reply! I will answer you and let you know if I have accepted your commission. If I have accepted your commission, but do have a small bit of heartburn over how much you are willing to pay, I am more than willing to haggle.

Step 3. Once both sides agree with the price, I'll let you know my paypal email and you send half the payment. Once I get the half payment, I will start working on the commission, the other half for when I am done with it and you are satisfied.

Step 4. I will send the finished work as JPEG, PNG or TIFF file (which ever you want) to your Email or I will put it on my Deviant account with no watermark, and you may copy it, but it would be easier if you just included you email address in your order.

I will also post (water marked) version of the work here on my DA gallery as part of my portfolio. (if there is a reason why you absolutely don't want your work here, let me know).

I'm running a little low on cash right now, laid off, and need to get a few things for personal family reasons. I am willing to do Commissions for people, if you desire.

What will I draw?

Pretty much anything. Doesn't need to be pokemon related. I'll even draw your Furry character. There are only a few things I won't do and they are listed on below.

I won't draw

* Explicit nudity (Sorry, but I do not wish to do them.)

* If you want my OC characters in the commission, I won't draw them doing anything that is OC. All my Pokemon have their own personalities, and I would like to keep it as such.


Basic pricing list

The basic prices are in Euros, I have also converted (and approximated) them into US Dollars and GB Pounds for convenience.

: Pencil Sketch:

($7USD)
($7USD) for each additional character.
($7USD) for colors. (Flat, digital colors)
($10USD) For shading as well as coloring.
This does NOT include background, it's in a whole different category, backgrounds. Please note that you will get something like my rabbit study in my gallery.

Detailed, Digitally Colored, no background

($10USD)
($5USD) for each additional character.

Detailed, Digitally Colors w/ Background

($15USD)
($5USD) for each additional character

: Pokemon Team Package:
($20USD)
Package Includes:
* Trainer + six pokemon
($5USD) Detailed Background

:Ardran Package:
($20USD)
Package includes:
An Ardran or some other species of my OC world customized to your specifications, and the rights to use said customized thing for future projects.


I will only accept payments via paypal. Do not pay me until I have confirmed that I will accept your commission.

How to order a commission?

Step 1. Send me an Email or note( DO NOT COMMENT) to ilovedolphinsinfl@yahoo.com, titled " commission" and fill out this form

What Kind of Work?(see the above prices for what to call them)
References? (A picture or a detailed description of what you would like would be the best method.)
Specific poses? (If you want them doing something in specific, then you HAVE to tell me this.
How much you're willing to pay? (Basically, we haggle a little.)

Step 2. Wait for my reply! I will answer you and let you know if I have accepted your commission. If I have accepted your commission, but do have a small bit of heartburn over how much you are willing to pay, I am more than willing to haggle.

Step 3. Once both sides agree with the price, I'll let you know my paypal email and you send half the payment. Once I get the half payment, I will start working on the commission, the other half for when I am done with it and you are satisfied.

Step 4. I will send the finished work as JPEG, PNG or TIFF file (which ever you want) to your Email or I will put it on my Deviant account with no watermark, and you may copy it, but it would be easier if you just included you email address in your order.

I will also post (water marked) version of the work here on my DA gallery as part of my portfolio. (if there is a reason why you absolutely don't want your work here, let me know).

For examples of my works, visit my Gallery.

So, after a couple of submissions of my new species, I decided that I need to put up, somewhere permanent, all the information about these little guys so that not only I can reference them, but other people can, too. Also, there are facts about their planet and the other species that live with them.

The Planet

The planet is actually a Moon for another planet that is twice the size of Jupiter. The host planet has a weird axis tilt and shape that only allowed a little bit of sunlight to hit it at a time. The Ardran's home planet takes 22 hours to get completely around the host planet, and they only have about 2-3 hours of sunlight before they are put back into the darkness for another 22 hours. The big planet has the same placement as the Earth, so it and the Ardran's planet have a 365 day year cycle. The Ardran's planet is the most comfortable in the Spring and Fall months, but, unfortudently, this is when it rains the most. Sometimes, it rains so much that the lands flood and force the inhabitants to take to the trees and mountains to live. It is extremely hot and dry in the summer, and bitterly cold during the winter.

Ardrans

Ardran's a very large creatures. They range in size from a wolf to a Irish Wolfhound, but there have been a select few Dominant males who have been known to be the size of a medium horse, but they don't usually last very long as they are too heavy to stay in the trees during the rainy seasons. They have very large eyes because it's almost always dark on their planet, so they are nocturnal, and, when there is sunlight out, there irises are slitted like a cat's.

Their ears are large, even for their body size. They're like a Fennec Fox in the sense of body-ear ratio. The ears are used for tracking small prey at night, like a type of rodent that is common in their planet, or to listen for the wing beat of they natural enemies, the Tyraptor. In the sense of very large body parts, their paws are also very large, with very thick pads at the bottom that they use to protect themselves when climbing jagged mountain sides, or scaling the bark of trees. They have long, sharp claws in their paws that are retractable that they use for shredding their prey, and for climbing trees. Their tails are also very long, at least a little bit longer than the length of their own bodies.

Ardrans use their tails as anchors during the rainy season to stay in the tree tops when the lands flood. They wrap their tails around the branches to create stability instead of waving their tail around, as they have white tips on their tails that would attract attention to them in the darkness.

Ardrans have stripes that go down their back to prevent Tyraptors from seeing them from above, leopard like spots on their sides to aid in hunting in the bushes and undergrowth, and a varying pattern of swirls on their front paws. The swirl patterns are an indication of status. The more intrinsic the pattern, the higher that Ardran's status is. Normally, dominant male/female Ardrans have black tipped ears, and the Dominant female/submissive have a black band under their patterns. Their patterns are the only markings on their bodies that they have any control in changing.

They can change their fur color at will to either blend in with their surroundings, attract a mate, or to just show some personality, but they always have some variation of white on their bellies and at the tips of their tails.

They live in a sort of hierarchy type of leadership, much like a lion pride, or a family of Meerkats. They constantly grow their families bigger and bigger, like rats, or monkeys. If a offspring chooses to leave the pack at any time, they are allowed to do so, but it takes a lot to get back in. Usually, this only happens when a male goes looking for a new female, and when that happens, it's very rare that the male takes the female back to his home pack.

They are some-what Monogamous. They choose a mate, either female or submissive male, and that is the only one they will mate with, but if one or the other dies, they will not stay single for long. They go through a mourning period, the longest one was seven months, and then, if it was the female/Submissive lost, they court a new mate, if it was the male/Dominant that was lost, they allow someone else to court them.

If there are no males in the pack, then there are two Dominant females, and one that does the job of a male. If there is no male in the pack, a female becomes a Hermaphrodite to impregnate it's mate and will remain like that until a male pup is born, which there will be no more pups born until that pup is of age and chooses a mate. It's not so similar if there are no females in a pack. If there are no females in the pack, the Dominant male takes a Submissive male as his mate and that Submissive then becomes Dominant Submissive. Even if the Submissive bares a female pup, the Submissive will continue to bear pups until it comes the day when both the Submissive and the Dominant male are dethroned, and someone else takes over the pack.

They're burrowing creatures. They dig deep, intricate tunnels under large trees, or under areas where they are a lot of trees close together, and they live in them, like Meerkats. If they aren't burrowing like this, then the pack would be living in the mountains, where they would find weaknesses in the rock formations then create elaborate tunnel systems into the mountain for their burrows, but also to create points where they can either surprise their favorite goat-like prey by jumping at them when they are in front of one of the entrances, or gaining the advantage by using the tunnels to get above them.

They are mostly Carnivorous, but during the Summer, if it's so hot that the water dries up, and Winter, when the migrating herds are no longer around, they have been known to survive off of the vegetation like the leaves at the tops of trees, moss on the side of rocks, or the softened bark of young trees. They do not particularly enjoy eating like this, and only eat like this as a last resort.

Despite the fact that they are animals, they have above human intelligence. They are just more in tune with nature than humans. They understand a lot of things, and are even able to create different languages for the different packs, learn each other's language, and other things. They understand that the best way to survive is to survive by living with nature, instead of against it, like humans do. This is why they don't do things, like build above ground cities or anything like that. A sign of their intelligence, is that they use sticks, twigs, and other natural products to create braces in their tunnels, much like the support system minors use in the wells when digging, and they use a special breed of mushroom that glows in the darkness to light their way through the tunnels, also to indicate which tunnel leads where.

The Mystics

The Mystics are what the Ardran's call a pack of super Ardrans that live in the Mountains. The Mystics are known for their ability to find cures to most ailments, they chart and map the stars, and are basically like little monk scientists at the top of the mountains. A Mystic is usually identified as they wear some sort of necklace or collar made of either shells or special, shiny stones that they believe protect them from harm. What ever harm they think of, really, mythical or physical or environmental.

Tyraptors

Tyraptors is a bird of prey similar to a Rahonavis with a Wandering Albatross in Body-Wing Spand ratio, an elongated snout like a mix between a Rahonavis with a sharp curved beak like any bird of prey, with needle like teeth past the beak portion of the snout, and, of course, the nocturnal eyesight of a Great Horned Owl that Ardrans call Monster Raptors. Like the Ardrans, Tyraptors are very intelligent creatures, and are often lost in thought until they are hungry. They are a little bit bigger than a Pterosaur, so they are usually relatively easy to spot.

Their feathers are darkly colors, like either brown, black or a mix there of. Like the Ardrans, their eyes are slitted when the sun is out. These birds next in the mountains, or cliff sides of canyons, or atleast they try to nest in the mountains, as any nest left in the mountains is at risk of being raided by mountain Ardrans or the Mystics.

Tyraptors are Supermegapodes, which means that their young hatch with their eyes open, all their feathers, and the ability to walk/run, and, sometimes, fly. This is to make sure that they survive as their parents don't stick around too long after they hatch. Tyraptor young are about the size of a Lovebird when they hatch and take about a year to grow to their full size like their parents.

Until they are fully grown, young Tyraptors usually find a grassy place or a tree, where it can hunt Gerem, young or small Serps, and Haladem until it's big enough for bigger prey like Ardrans and Deer.

Serps

Serps are snakes that grow to be about the size of a python, if they live that long as it takes a long time for them to get that big. They have hoods like a cobra with the same eye like markings on the back of their hoods. Their venom is extremely toxic, similar to a Daddy Long Leg's in venom power, and their fangs are twice the size of a regular snake's teeth but still fold down when they aren't using them.

They rarely use their venom to kill prey, as they do not like the taste of the meat with the poison in it, so they usually suffocate their prey to death like a python. While hinting, they move slowly and straight like a Black Racer snake, but when running, like running after a prey or running away from something, they slither like a sidewinder snake. They rarely ever move their head unless they are looking around. They have large eyes, as well, and a membrane that flits over their eyes to keep their eyes moist. These are also an intelligent species, but not exactly up to the same par as Ardrans or Typraptors.

They mostly stick to hunting Gerem, young Tyraptors and Haladem, but the more adventurous ones will attempt to hunt Ardran pups. They breed like most snakes, and bury their eggs in dirt mounds where they are incubated by the natural heat from the ground. They do not stick around and take care of their young, so they're on their own after they hatch.

Gerem

Gerem are cat sized rabbits that live on the Ardran planet. They are usually hard to find because they rarely come out from the bushes. They live off of grass, and insects. Their ears are very large for their bodies for listening for things, and their eyes very big and rarely ever close them.

Like their Rabbit bases, they burrow underground to have their pups in the fall. During the rainy seasons, they block up the entrances to their burrows with rocks or they find higher ground somewhere, which isn't very good for them, as it makes them easy targets for Ardrans, Tyraptors and Serps.

Haladem

Haladem are basically the same as Southern Flying Squirrels with the ears of a Red Squirrel, and the eyes of a Bushbaby but are the size of a small dog. Their markings very with each Haladem. They are an intelligent species, but they are the most hunted and, therefor, produce the most off spring. Most female Haladem birth 15-20 young to a litter in the trees in the summer months, where the male takes care of the female so she doesn't have to leave the nest. The only time the babies are threatened is if it floods in the fall as they are just about to leave the nest and the Ardrans take to the trees, making young Haladem sitting ducks for Ardrans looking for an easy meal.

Deer

The biggest herbivore on the planet. They are the size of a Moose with very hard hooves. All males have huge 10 point buck racks once they reach age that fall off in the spring and grow back bigger by the time fall is around. Their young are born in the late summer months, and are able to stand and run within minutes of being born, but they are uncoordinated, which makes them easy targets for Ardrans and Tyraptors.

Golm

Golm are similar to Irish Goats with very thick racks and heads, and long downy fur like a Mountain goat. Their coats grow the thickest in the fall and Winter months, and, in the spring, they rub against the mountain sides that they live on to scrape their coats off so they don't over heat and die. Ardrans use the scraped off wool to line their burrows, or to trade for something valuable from the Mystics. They are often hunted by mountain dwelling Ardrans and the occasional Tyraptor.

others

There are other various birds and mammals on this planet, but these are the ones that are the ones I'm going to focus on. I'll probably show the occasional other species of bird or rodent, or maybe make up yet another breed of animal like the Ardrans to be someone to cause a riff between them, but I highly doubt it.

There you have it. Other creatures are free to be made up as one will, and I really don't care if someone else makes up some of the other creatures as long as you stay within these guidelines; they can not be bigger than Ardrans or Tyraptors, they can not be smarter, they can hunt the pups or chicks, but to take on an adult would be suicide, really. They also can not be, like, all powerful or something like that. If you wish to make another bird of prey that could, occasionally, take out a Ardran, that is fine, but not one who's diet is primarily Ardran.

With the convincing of a friend of mine, because I really needed it, I have decided on a name for the species of animal in which I have created for myself.

They will now be known as Ardrans. It is pronounced, well, I pronounce it Are-dran-s. The A sounds like you would if you are saying the word And. Anyways, now that I have named the species, and all his well in the world, I shall update their picture and I will hopefully have more art to show you of them in the future!

Thanks, Jack for the encouragement to name the species this.

So, after thinking long and hard about the species for my Fursona. I decided that I liked too many animals to just have one species that was the definition of me. I'll post it on here, eventually, but I just figured I would post this for who ever is out there that is interested.

It's going to be a mammal, I am not too fond of the heat enough to be a reptile, nor do I really like to draw reptiles so much anymore. It's going to be nocturnal, just like me, and it's going to combine all of the mammals that I love into one. Wolves, Red Fox, Fennec Fox, Bobcats, Panthers, Tigers, Lions, Cheetahs, Hyenas, Spider Monkeys, Orangutangs, Chimpanzees, Grizzily/Black bears, and Panda bears.

This species wouldn't be able to survive on Earth, because it's coat and nocturnal-ness, so I am also making a new planet for these little creatures to live on, as well as the species that they hunt. All will be revealed, eventually, I just don't know what to call these creatures.

Jack suggested I name them Ardra(something something something), but I dun wanna name it after myself. I need to think of an original name for these big guys.