Brilliant artist and all round good Tauren Purplepardus is having a free arts raffle.

Go there and participate, and spread the word. Most importantly though, commission the hell out of her if you get the chance, you will not regret it.

Moo! (my one foray into Tauren)

www.furaffinity.net/journal/5078854/

 purplepardus

My fellow stallion and all round great guy Korkan is doing a series of Iron Artist commissions.

His journal is here;

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4961366/

Go check it out and consider commissioning him. I love his pencil work and I'm getting one myself.

Gabe

Brallion a fellow horse and an Anthro artist is doing a character pose auction here;

www.furaffinity.net/journal/4767873/

Go check out his work and consider bidding if you like what you see.

Neigh!

(\_/)

And now I guess I am a orphan, though in many ways I have been since I was 12. Goodbye mum. In the words of Elliott Smith, Im never gonna know you now, but Im goona love you anyhow. For giving me life, if nothing else, and I forgive you everything that came after, because I have to in order to go on.

I dont know how I am going to go in this new world, but if I make it I guess this was the first day of the beginning of healing. I am a lucky hoss and I have people around me now who will hold me if I fall. I think it is doble. Time will tell.

Normal clydesdale service will resume soon. Till then, may you all feel warmth and care, and a light to guide you home if ever you stray too far from shore.

Some bad stuff has hit and I probably wont be arond for a little while.

Thinking of all my friends here and hope to be back to see you soon.

Gabriel

Well, see if anyone is awake or interested :P

Ask me anything you like. I may or may not answer!

(\_/) Neigh!

Hoss has returned after some time alone and riding through the mountains.

Feeling a bit better, or at least able to deal with the real life pain and troubles a bit better.

More stories out this week.

Gabriel

Not getting better, getting worse.

Sort of entering a bit of a depressive phase, not helped by not sleeping right.

I'm not going to be around over Easter, going to try to get my head right.

Have a great Easter everyone and I will be back with story updates on Two Tribes and Two Taurs Go To War when I come back.

Cheers

Useless hoss is useless.

Just feeling particularly worthless and crap at the moment, too much general badness from the past rolling over me like a tidalwave.

Powering down for a moment, will update stories when I can. Two Tribes next.

Don't know about anyone else, but the thing that got me interested in the furry fandom first was the art. The fandom wouldn't exist without it, and it is still the part that probably I enjoy the most.

Unfortunatley I can't draw anything.

So I do the only thing I can, I write crappy stories mostly involving horses because that works for me.

I still love the visual side though, so I commission art whenever I can, and try to add somthing to what I do by bringing the characters to life better than I can with my words.

In my brief time in the fandom, Ive enjoyed so many artists work, though with a heavy emphasis on people who draw equines, so I thought rather than write about me or writing which noone gives a toss about, Id write about artists.

So this is the first of those, and the idea will be to feature a different artist each time who I think is great and then open up to discussion on what you like and why.

Today I'm featuring Jaleo

 jaleo


He is one of the best equine artists out there, with a beautiful style and an ability to bring characters to life. His amazing cars, bikes and other paraphenalia are just an added bonus. Also he has a fine humourous sensibility which shines through.

What I like the most is that all his characters have real unique personalities. A lot of art with horse characters can seem pretty generic, like they have been stamped from the central stallion factory number 2 with minor changes in colour and size of genitalia.

(as an aside in the fandom as a stallion character you often get treated like youve come from the same factory with crowd pleasing genitalia your only selling point.)

You feel all of the ones he draws have a personality and a backstory worth knowing. They are also pretty hot :P

Jaleo isnt very active now, but he is offering the chance to buy access to all his artwork over the years as a downloadable file. I've bought one and it's great, I would recommend it.

So go check him out, if you havent already.


So who do you like? Why? What furry art makes you click and fave?


Gabriel

So, just testing the waters with my first journal. I am interested in any feedback on what people would like to see in future stories. I'm pretty much a horse person so equines will dominate, but beyond that, what do you like to read?

Over to you.

Gabriel