"unintended hiatus is over" i am a big fat liar apparently wow!! irl stuff swamped me for a while but i'm getting back into posting here more often but i'm a lot more active on my art blog and on twitter shrugs

also also! commissions are open!!

- sketch commissions: flat colors, $15-18, $8+ per extra character
- fully shaded portraits: $25+, $10+ per extra character
- ref sheets: simple turnaround, $40+

if you're interested in commissioning me PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL at BEASTOFTHESKY [AT] GMAIL [DOT] COM !!

oh man............. i definitely had not intended to just disappear from FA for like a month but i just had SO MUCH going on that it kinda happened, whoopsies

things aren't exactly going to be slowing down for me any time soon (quite the opposite tbh) BUT on the plus side, my schedule is definitely going to settle itself down into regularity soon, thankfully, so i'll be able to get back to making (and posting) art a bit more regularly

i also really want to actually get Active on here and reach out to people, which is unfortunately the thing that i am Actually The Worst at doing, but i've already met so many rad people through the furry fandom at large and i want to keep that up so i really just need to get over being shy i guess SHRUG

but yeah! if you want to see any of the places i went then my flickr album for vacation is here!

oh man........... oh man AC was So Much and it was a lot of fun and i've literally been missing everyone i roomed with since the second we all left god

this was my first time at a furry convention, my first time at the artist alley, AND my first time being at a convention for longer than just a day at a time and Let Me Tell You this was the wildest, greatest, most happily sleep-deprived experience of my life and i cannot wait for another chance to go to a furry convention

like i said on twitter i've never experienced a more welcoming and kind and spirited and supportive community (like, encompassing my time here on FA as well as AC itself) and i am just!!! so so happy about everything tbh even though i crashed hard after the convention from lack of sleep lmfao

this is very belated bc almost immediately after coming back home from AC i left the country to visit my grandparents and see all of my family in europe so i'm gonna be here for a month, which is super rad! but arting here is always difficult for me for a number of reasons so if i'm absent then i'm absent, c'est la vie and all that

alsooooo gonna echo maybemantis's call for any photos of groove or mantis or quake !!!

( AC2015 meme here )

so since AC is coming up really soon now (!!!) i will be closing my badge preorders! if you want one then get in contact with me before 11:59pm EST on july 7th!!

i also changed my twitter handle -- i'm now meowbasiacat on twitter and that's probably going to be the best way to find me at AC! i'll be checking my email as regularly as i can too :>

SO i'm gonna be in the artist alley at AC and i'm super stoked!! i'll be there on saturday for sure, and maybe maybe on friday, we'll see. REGARDLESS i'm really excited and now i'm looking forward to AC even more :')

i'll be offering commissions and possibly selling some premade items -- i'm not 100% sure yet -- and i may take at-con badge orders, though if i do, i'll probably only take two or three, and definitely not more than three. so, nice big reminder:

i am still taking badge preorders!!!
and sketch commissions are also still open ;u;


AND HERE WE GO:

How do you want to be addressed?
basia (rhymes with sasha) or beecat/bcat or b! anything works tbh

Where are you staying?
omni!

What day are you getting there?
thursdaaaay midday

Who will you be rooming with?
 maybemantis  jabbershire-cat  hazzmat  pure-ruby-dragon and two more peeps not on FA! B)

Who will you be with?
PROOOOOBS gonna be in the general vicinity of maybemantis most of the time

Do you do free art?
catch me at an art jam and we can swap stuff!!

Do you do trades?
maybe!

Do you do commissions?
yesssss i'll be in the artist alley and again, taking badge preorders!

What is your gender?
cis woman! she/her pronouns please

How old are you?
old as balls

Can I talk to you?
yes! just please be aware that i am AWFUL at putting names to faces (and vice versa) so i will probably have to ask you for your name multiple times,, ,

Can I touch you?
only if we're friends

Can I hang out with you?
mantis had a good answer here so i'll just copy/paste that: "if you're invited!! if you're art jamming and want me to know feel free to invite me, if im art jamming in public feel free to join! but dont just tag along places"

How can I find you?
i'll be in the artist alley on saturday! i'll be using my public twitter (@meowbasiacat) to check in with my location and if/when/where i'm art jamming so feel free to check that

if you need to find me for badge pickup, tweet at me (@meowbasiacat) or find me in the artist alley!

Can I buy you drinks?
buy me sealed cans of guinness, buy me an entire keg of guinness,

Can I hug or snuggle with you?
hugs if i know you or if i ask, snugs are restricted to close friends

How tall are you?
5'9"

How long are you going?
thursday to monday!

Do you like parties?
nah

If I see you, how should I get your attention?
shout my name!

Where will you be most of the time during the days?
WHO KNOWS i'll sure be somewhere tho

What/where will you be eating?
i eat literally 24/7 i will always be eating everywhere

Do you do badges?
preeeeeorders!!!

Can I look in your sketchbook?
please don't - if i hand it to you to show you something, please be courteous and don't flip through it, my sketchbook is a very personal thing to me and people looking through it makes me really uncomfortable

Can I draw in your sketchbook?
yes!!! oh my goodness YES but again please don't flip through it without my explicit permission!

Can I take your picture?
sure! but please let me know that you are taking or have taken a photo, i wanna see

What's your goal(s) for the con this year?
HAVE FUN spend time with friends scoot around in one of maybemantis's suits?? do some ART meet some cool people see some cool art see some cool suits !!!!!!! FLOOR WARS god the first thing i ever really saw of the furry fandom was floor wars and i am SO EXCITED

i am an OLD CAT i need to remember to change my age on all my social media now

but yeah dang it's been!! a year!!! a lot has happened in my personal life this past year (a big move, a lot of stuff i've never done before, a lot of places i've never seen before) and it's been a stressful year but A Good Year and now i'm old yaaaay



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badge preorders for AC: open!
sketch commissions: open!

this is just condensing my previous journals about commissions into one nice comprehensive post; i also updated my commission info and i miiiiight be opening up for more commission types? i'm not sure yet, but i will update here if i do decide on more commission types

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terms of service:
-payment via paypal up front, please
-character references – the more the better
-any specifics as to pose, etc.
-SFW only – i reserve the right to decline any themes i'm not comfortable with
-i reserve the right to charge extra for complicated designs (extra heads, wings, etc.) for sketch commissions


$10 / one-color flat sketch piece
-extra characters +$5
-no robots/mechs, no armor
-nothing more than light PDA
- example / example

$15 / full-color sketch piece
-extra characters +$5
-no robots/mechs, no armor
-nothing more than light PDA
- example / example

$25 / traditional badge
-pick up at anthrocon
-shipping +$2 if you will not be at anthrocon
- example / example

please email me at >> beastofthesky [at] gmail [dot] com << if you're interested!

i made a longer post on tumblr but here's the gist of it:

- $15 for a full-color sketch piece
- $10 for a sketch piece with one flat color
- +$5 for an extra character

- i WILL draw: humans, furries/anthro, light PDA
- i WILL NOT draw: anything nsfw, robots/mechs, armor
- i reserve the right to decline any other themes i’m not comfortable drawing, and i also reserve the right to charge extra for a complicated design (multiple heads/wings, etc.) – these are just sketches!
- i need visual references. as many as you can provide.

hit me up via email at beastofthesky [at] gmail [dot] com if you're interested!

i'm super glad to be able to offer these because i managed to finish some incredibly stressful things and get them out of the way way ahead of time and now i've got some breathing room. so. time for commissions!

or, well, technically pre-orders i suppose, but in case you missed it here's the post!

i'm super stoked about doing badges bc i keep seeing all of the badges that maybemantis has and i am IN LOVE w/ them so i'm super excited about getting to make some so!!! email me at beastofthesky [at] gmail [dot] com if you're interested!

catwolf friendo  jabbershire-cat is also offering some sweet badges for pre-order so check her out toooooo

the next few months are gonna be pretty relaxing and i'm really stoked bc this year so far as been extremely busy and stressful but!! only a few more weeks of intense business then things will settle down for a bit and i'll have lots of Me Time and time for commissions other than badges ;u;

also, it snowed all day yesterday and it's still snowing on and off today. what.

goodness WOW thank you all for the kind welcome!!!

i'm pretty new to the furry world and i'm super stoked to be part of a new community (and to be part of an art community again) so! hopefully Real Life will give me enough time over the next few months to actually get my butt in gear and draw animals bein animals

thanks again for the nice words and hello furry world