I don't like asking for help unless it is something quite important.

Right now, it is really important.

Subbing has been really slow for me (maybe one or two jobs a month on average) and while I do live with others, things on my end have gotten quite behind. To cut to the chase, I need to make $3,000 min to help with my end of the bills.

I hate feeling like this. I would love to take on more commissions even if I am a bit behind. (Being sick three times then the snow has not helped things)

So please, help. I can do sketch commissions for whatever you can pay.

Thank you for reading this.

There's been a power outage on his street and he's been without power (though he does have a generator and a woodstove) since friday night.

Hopefully tomorrow 3/2 he will have power, but that is the earliest estimate. By the latest will be thursday 3/4.

Just wanted to give people the heads up on why he's not that active right now.

He says he will be continuing the comic on his gallery when he's back online.

1. Are you going?

2. If I were to run a panel on Needlefelting and the fiber that goes along with it, would you be interested?

3. If yes, would it be better to have the panel on a friday night or a saturday night?

4. If you're running a panel that you think I'd be interested in, such as a drawing related one, when are you planning on having it so that we don't conflict?

I know what I owe and I am going to get them done.

I've also decided that traditional things that I need to mail out...I'm just going to not do them as much.

What I am going to do is mainly digital stuff as well as traditional items being brought to conventions that I will be attending.

I am going to be attending FAU this year as a dealer and I'm going to try this out by taking preorders.

Badges:
$35 each 3.5"x7" colored. one character. laminated w/clip
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1945675/ is an example from 2008.

If you want a badge, pay now and pick it up at the con. I will not be mailing them out.

I will still be doing digital works though.

I hate being sick.
I also hate not feeling well.
I can't work when I'm sick and it's hard to do arty things when I'm not feeling well.

I get headaches daily. I hate them. I hate that there is a constant ringing in my ears.
I take ibuprophen when they get a little a little too much for me, or when the ibu is not working I try the migrane excedrine.

When I work on little sketches for myself, it's so that I can get warmed up to work on commissions that I owe and am very sorry for being behind on. I test out marker techniques on my own things so that I don't mess up those for customers. I do digital stuff so that my various ickinesses don't travel via the web.

I like doing art. It's my happy place. I hate being this behind with just a few projects.

So I'm sorry, I'm going to try and work on things once again.

-Last week, I was sick with a gunk that prevented me from being able to take any jobs. I got better by thursday.
-Saturday, my brother fell ill with this horrid flu that made him miserable all day that he caught from his work.
-Sunday, my brother starts to feel better.
-Late sunday night, my mom starts to feel icky and so do I, we have to leave knitting early...which is not a good thing.
-Between late late sunday night and early monday morning, I tweet my complaints about waking up and not feeling well on my transformers account. Me not happy.
-Monday. I'm nearly dead, weak and miserable. My brother? he's eating pizza so he's better. I do my best to hydrate myself.
-Tuesday, much better...but ribs are hurting. I was able to eat.
-Wednesday, coughing, and ribs are hurting still.

So that's how things were, i'm sorry once again.

It was Superbowl sunday and the last night I saw my nana alive.

After dinner and her bowl of ice cream, Nana went back across the street to her home (she lived across the street from us) and most likely fed her cats before going to bed. At some point she passed quietly in her sleep during that night.

It's been some years since she's passed on. Mom, my brother and I live in her house and it was the house that my mom had grown up in and had built the edition in her teens with the rest of her family.

http://www.fourpillars.net/calculator.php

I am:

Yang Earth Horse (Year I was born.)

four Pillars:
Water Tiger (hour I was born)
Fire Rabbit (Day I was born)
Earth Horse (Month I was born)
Earth Horse (Year I was born)

What are you?

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I also want to thank everyone for the answers that I got for my previous journal. I have read them and I do appreciate the input.

I am sorry that I did not reply, but I did read each of the comments.

I know that i haven't really been going around thanking on pages as of late for stuff, but I have been wondering:

Do you (in general) like it when people go to your page to thank you for favoriting an image?

Do you (generalized) like it when people go to your page to thank you for watching them?

Do you prefer it if people thank via journals?

Do you like getting comments back on what you post?

Just wanted to clear the prior journal.

blood orange soda is interesting.

Hope this year is better than the last.

I decided to take a bit of a spin on the 100 challenge and post 100 things that have to do with the winter holidays just to be different...went and looked up various different holidays of different cultures and found these to be ones that were fun.

---
If anyone is interested, I am taking these on as a "pay what you can" type of commission done digitally.
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but here we go

1. Family
2. Hearth
3. Joy
4. Peace
5. Candy Cane
6. Santa Claus
7. Elf(ves)
8. Reindeer
9. Red
10. Green
11. White
12. Blue
13. Solstice
14. Tree of Life
15. Menorah
16. Lights
17. dreidel
18. Miracle
19. Snow
20. Angel
21. Snowman
22. Frost
23. Holiday meal
24. Turkey
25. Ham
26. Cranberries
27. Brunch
28. Long lost family/friend
29. Mistletoe
30. Twelve drummers drumming
31. Eleven pipers piping
32. Ten lords a-leaping
33. Nine ladies dancing
34. Eight maids a-milking
35. Seven swans a-swimming
36. Six geese a-laying
37. Five golden rings
38. Four calling birds
39. Three French hens
40. Two turtle doves
41. A partridge in a pear tree
42. Old man winter
43. Jack Frost
44. sleigh rides
45. Sledding
46. snowball fight
47. snow fort
48. Wreathe
49. presents
50. Singing Carols
51. Kinara
52. Harmony
53. Feast
54. Bells
55. Snowflake
56. Harvest
57. Unity
58. Self-Determination
59. Collective work and responsibility
60. Cooperative Economics
61. Purpose
62. Creativity
63. Faith
64. Hope
65. Charity
66. Zawadi
67. Tradition
68. Generosity
69. The Nutcracker
70. Stockings
71. Sugarplum Fairy(ies)
72. Gingerbread house
73. Bonfire
74. Lucia Girl
75. Star Boy (stjärngossar)
76. apple wassailing
77. Fruit Cake
78. Divination
79. Poinsettia
80. "Eat, Drink and be Merry"
81. Lussinatta
82. Mummer(s)
83. Night of the Radishes
84. Julekalender
85. Festival of the Bells
86. Hogmanay
87. International Sweater Vestival or Vestival
88. Dōngzhì Festival
89. Zagmuk
90. Malanka
91. The Montol Festival
92. Balance
93. Agnostica
94. Random bag of fun
95. Modranect
96. Diwali
97. Holiday (Pastafarian)
98. Yalda
99. Karachun
100. Noob Day

[Currently Open]

CURRENT PRICES AS OF: November 08, 2009
The prices below are based on a single character image.

Digital Sketches:

$7 - Basic (Bust)
(No examples at this time.)

$10 - Basic (full character)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2698595/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1617186/

$20 - Painterly (full character + background, single color)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2130912/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2125939/

Digital Inks:

$10 - Basic (bust)
$15 - Basic (Full character)
(Backgrounds will add to the basic price based on amount of detail and complexity.)

Digital Color:

$15 - Basic (bust)
$20 - Basic (full character)
(Backgrounds will add to the basic price based on amount of detail and complexity.)

***Prices for digital images are based on 800x600 sized images.***

ACEO/ATC

$25 - Color
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1941346/

Traditional:

5"x7"
$10 - Basic (bust) blue line sketch
$15 - Basic (bust) inks
$20 - Basic (bust) color
$15 - Basic (Full character) blue line sketch
$20 - Basic (Full character) inks
$25 - Basic (Full character) color
(Backgrounds will add to the basic price based on amount of detail and complexity.)

8.5"x11"
$15 - Basic (bust) blue line sketch
$20 - Basic (bust) inks
$25 - Basic (bust) color
$17- Basic (Full character) blue line sketch
$23 - Basic (Full character) inks
$30 - Basic (Full character) color
(Backgrounds will add to the basic price based on amount of detail and complexity.)

Badges:

(I do prefer to take these as preorders before conventions that I will be attending, though prices will be listed)

$35 each 3.5"x7" colored. one character. laminated w/clip
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1945675/

Conceptual Art Challenge aka 100 challenge:

In addition to the original 100, I have added another 100 just for fun.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1003785/

This challenge is on special as a "Pay what you want" for digital sketches. I don't do offers like this often, and am hoping that it will be taken up.


Needle Felted creations

Felted Heart Bear - $15
Felted Mini Avatar - $50
Felted Avatar Doll - $90

***

Paypal: bladewyng (at) gmail (dot) com

-=Drawing and needlefelted Commissions=-
bw aka Bluewolf:
[-] Part one Blue at grave
[ ] Part Two Blue at grave
[=] Licorice Doll #9

Tak:
[ ] Private
[ ] Private
[ ] Private

Mamawashu:
[c] ATC/ACEO

Dalyth:
[i] ATC/ACEO

-=Requests/Trades/Secret Plots=-
[-] Kiriban 10k Tak [private]


[Ongoing:]

Sketchbooks owed to Cole...damn you; you broke me! XD (er...inside thing said on the cell an age ago)
Working on Phoenix Three and AF9
Making a "Deadeye" semi fursuit.
DMFA voicing, needs ta do my lines.

Okay, just like most of the other artists here on FA, I am open for commissions right now. There is just so many things on my plate right now (I am still working on coloring other commissions and needle felting what needs to be felted) but with substitute teaching being slow and my lower extremities rebelling against the rest of me, it is hard to find a job that does not require one to be standing up all the time. Art is something that I can do and be able to catch up on.

In the space of a little over week I have: stepped down wrong on the left ankle, the right ankle had quite the unfortunate meeting with the corner of the door of the fridge and my left kneecap decided that it did not want to stay where it belongs. The last one happened on Halloween, that was ever so charming of it to do that.

I will be trying to take part of the 100 challenge, though I've also added another 100 to that just for fun.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1003785/ has the listing for all of the concepts.

Why am I taking commissions now if I have things piled up? I need to pay bills and I'm hoping that if I have a decent bit left over that I can use that to go to the doctor's and get one (or maybe all?) of the many things that are bothering me (knees, ankles, and the perpetual headache) looked at since I don't have health insurance.

ACEOs/ATCs = $25 for full color

I am going to be doing a "pay what you can" with the digital sketches that I do (800x600)
examples:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2130912/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2125939/

Will also be doing the "pay what you can" for inked index cards (single characters) which will be mailed out.
no examples as of yet...sorry.

paypal is bladewyng [at] gmail [dot] com

Thank you for having a look at this journal.

Please go to http://www.johntunger.com/legal-defense-fund.html and read the entire thing.

This is just not right this needs to be passed on.

Please, I don't know this artist, I had seen a multiple reposted tweet as I was going through them and after reading the article, it needs to be spread. This guy needs more support on this.

So please, check out:

http://www.johntunger.com/legal-defense-fund.html

The actor/comedian Soupy Sales has passed away today at the age of 83.

Sorry to see him go.

I've wanted to say a thank you for all of those that have supported me over the time I have been on FA. For all the times that I have been down and for the times that I've asked for help and who have wished me well.

Thank you.

-=-=-

Commissions are open currently since I have not been getting too many subbing jobs and I need to have access to my cell so that I can actually get the calls.

So if anyone is interested in having a part of the conceptual challenge (aka the 100 challenge with another 100 concepts of my own added for a mixture). Digitally sketched on an 800x600 canvas ($7) or traditionally with color on on an ATC/ACEO 2.5"x3.5" card for ($25)

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1003785/ for more info on that.

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Needlefelting:

Will be displaying the Faeries on sale in a little bit.

Pondering on taking on custom jobs for the December Holiday season if there is an interest early enough I will try to take them on.

5" heart bears $20
small custom figures start at $35
medium custom figures start at $70
large custom figures start at $100

Prices are depend on complexity of the character itself.

All natural fibers are used and I support small time/local fiber farms doing this guarantees that no formaldehyde was used in cleaning the fiber nor has the fiber been given an acid bath.
The only non-natural material is the "glitz" used as decoration in the eyes.

-=-=-

Thank you for taking the time in reading this.

Going to be doing the 100 challenge and I am also adding another 100 to that list just because there are more things that could be done in it.

I am also going to be taking commissions via this, even though I am a bit behind in other things. I need to make enough so that I can pay my cellphone bill which I need for getting substitute teaching jobs so that I can pay back what I owe a few places (and maybe even be able to save up to go to the doctor on top of all of that.)

Prices:
-ACEO/ATC mailed out* $25
-digital sketch ???

1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive(Ride)
10. Breathe
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence (not for long)
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Devil
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation
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101. Angel
102. Dog
103. Hate
104. My Foot! (or feet)
105. When I Was Young
106. The Box
107. Charity
108. Bed
109. Twitch
110. The Artist
111. The Writer
112. The Musician
113. Wanting
114. Longing
115. Mechanical
116. Can You Feel Me?
117. Not Allowed
118. Allowed
119. Welcome
120. Familiar
121. Minion
122. The Master(Mistress)
123. Grateful
124. A/The Miracle
125. S.W.A.K.
126. Must You?
127. Crash
128. The Bottle
129. What's Your Number?
130. Empty
131. Breakfast
132. Today
133. Someday...
134. Birthday
135. 106 (degrees)
136. Volunteer
137. Courage
138. I'm Afraid
139. Apple
140. Finding Hope
141. Experiment
142. "42"
143. Torture
144. Chocolate Cake
145. Song Stuck In My Head
146. Disagreeing Muse
147. Drained
148. Comfort
149. The Watch
150. Victory
151. Creepy
152. Creativity Block
153. Cherish
154. Comfort Item
155. Not What It Seems
156. Institution
157. Charmed
158. Sundae Afternoon
159. My Castle
160. Hot And Tart!
161. Missing Limb
162. Nouveau
163. Twist
164. Candy
165. Adventure
166. Remorseful
167. Serpentine
168. I know I can!
169. I'll Never Play Truth or Dare Again...
170. Spy vs Spy
171. Yech!
172. Yuk Yuk!
173. Knee Deep
174. Refreshing
175. Follow Your Dreams
176. Pride
177. Passion
178. Strawberry
179. Lampshade
180. Nummy!
181. Why Me?
182. A Wink And A Nudge
183. My Day In The Sun
184. Bite Me!
185. It Becomes You
186. Unexpected
187. Hawaiian Shirt
188. The Fantastic View
189. Fanboy/girl
190. The Inventor
191. Cupcake
192. "I'm Dainty Dammit!"
193. Purgatory
194. "...Do It..."
195. My Favorite Holiday
196. Imaginary Friend
197. -_-
198. Legacy
199. Radioactive
200. Steampunk

*I will mail out in batches but this may be slow since this is traditional work.

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Leif will be wearing a Halloween costume in a future picture.

-=-=-=-

For mamawashu and Dalyth, I have inked and will be coloring to send out when I mail out Shadesfox's badge. I have not forgotten and I am sorry it has taken me this long in working on them.

I am still working on other owed pieces as well, so I should be able to get things along.

-=-=-=-

I can't help but be fussy when I color traditionally, that's why I am often slow in working on them and why it also seems like I work on my own more than the ones that are commissioned. Right now, I've gotten to the level that I am comfortable so hopefully that'll make things go a little quicker in getting my traditional works out.

Interested in my art progress?
search #whereismyart on twitter.
my username: blade_wyng

Just trying to figure out what I should do to Leif Nox, pictured in:
(images shown are safe for work, though Leif's been in not so safe for work images)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2915192
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/182870/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/669995/

Mostly pondering solo pics for now with him, but what sort of image should I do with him?

suggestions for all ratings.

Depending on what the muse likes is what I do...if I get any suggestions X3

*goes back to working on stuffs.*

Oh yeah, before I forget to mention it here, My mom had found a kitten (about 2-3 weeks old) in the back yard yesterday before the nor'easter started to rain its coldness upon my area. First we heard him from inside the house, a loud little guy.

Mom had handed him to me and told me to take him up to my room and give him food while she ran a few errands (which included a stop at petsmart for a kitten bottle and formula.) Took the little guy up (his ears were still close to his head despite his eyes being open) and found a box to put him in, though he kept doing his best to climb up the wall, up my arm to my shirt then under my hair where he tried to nurse off of my neck. I wanted to call him Lestat, though mom dubbed him "Caesar" after the dog whisperer.

The kitten was loud, thinking we were holding out on him, when mom returned with the bottle and formula, i had three cats wanting to help me out in making the formula...yeah, I know, close the bathroom door first. Couldn't do that when the trio entered to "help". We tried bottle feeding Caesar, but he refused a few times...which was why we needed to take him to a nursing mom cat.

So the kitten is safe and uber adorable.

*goes back to drawing*

Just been tired and working on things that i owe.

I also wanted to bump that one journal off the front page.

Twitter? Yes i has it: Blade_Wyng

Sorry it is taking me a while.

People tend to either to climb or descend at various stages in their lives. Sometimes it is for the better, sometimes for the worse. Then, there are those plateaus where everything just feels comfortable before a big drop or there is that climb again.

It is when there is that sudden downwards slope that appears when you were expecting to walk up a gently angled slope. Often there is a stumble and a fall during it that really stings. Though other times it is just a gentle walk because sometimes the downwards slope is easier to walk.

Right now, I feel as though I have been on this path before, I recognize the briars and thistles that line it. I feel as though I am crawling this time through them with each barb catching on me.

I am not sure where this path will lead, and well I am tired. I need a break.

Well, I haven't been to the doctor yet but...

...I got hit in the head. Again.

This time, at the beach where a gust of wind picked up a beach umbrella that flew into the back of my head.

Yeah...

At least it was a light one and I don't remember what part had actually hit me, I felt more freaked out at the time.

The back of my head is aching and bright lights are not my friend.

Like I needed more of this.

me.

I'm now a prime number and quite odd, but you knew the latter already.

wish I was at AC, but I had gone to Atlantic City on Thursday for a bit of the beach and really good food....and walking from Showboat to Caesar's and back (anyone know how much of a walk that is? I'm asking seriously since my ankles are still screaming at me.)

I'm heading over to my cousins' home today, prepped with anti-bug warfare.

An early gift was a new cellphone, so that's pretty sweet in my book. (It's a tmobile G1. I can has qwerty!)

But at least I'm missing the birthday beatdown that I would've gotten at AC. >.>

Today's  colesutra's birthday.

Go wish him a happy birthday X3

Happy birthday bro.

-=-=-=-=-=-
Other news:
-=-=-=-=-=-

Been a bit busy with subbing, a bit slow with getting days but it's the end of the school year.

I've lost my voice, it's still not really back. Lost it last Wednesday at one of the schools, rested Thursday. Worked Friday and the voice went by the end of the day because I had to raise my voice to the kids.

-=-=-

Working on what I owe, I haven't forgotten don't worry. It's just been a whirlwind for a while.

is this weekend, which means, I'm mostly going to be away from computer access.

Tis in Friendship, Maryland which means it is going to be rather enjoyable.

so, i'm sorry that things are going to be a bit more behind. My wrist is getting better, but has still been bugging me off and on (didn't want to do coloring with a shaky wrist, which is not good for details.). Most likely going to be working on felted items while there.

Should be an interesting weekend.

http://www.dayofsilence.org/

Not even sure what to type since the site explains itself quite well. Though I do agree that it is time to stop the anti-LGBT violence and bullying.

http://tweetchat.com/room/dayofsilence