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Posted 11 months agohttps://bsky.app/profile/brubearbrown.bsky.social
I tend to find Twitter and Bluesky just a bit quicker and easier for uploading silly doodles. So if ya wanna go follow me there too, I'd really appreciate it! Hurr hurr.
And heres the Twitter too.
https://x.com/BruBearBrown
I tend to find Twitter and Bluesky just a bit quicker and easier for uploading silly doodles. So if ya wanna go follow me there too, I'd really appreciate it! Hurr hurr.
And heres the Twitter too.
https://x.com/BruBearBrown
Opening up Commissions
Posted a year agoI'm going to be opening up for commissions again really soon, and I'm just hoping theres still some interest. I'll be doing about 5 slots at a time, and I'll work through it on a smaller scale. Money is getting tight with the extra horses we now have to feed until we get them rehomed, so some cash is needed. Thank you for reading! <3
~Bru!
~Bru!
Sorry for being so absent
Posted a year agoThings haven't really gotten any better since the last post, they actually got worse. I also barely have an internet connection, but I'll try to upload again.
I was held hostage in my own house!
Posted 2 years agoHurr... Sorry for the clickbait title, but its still true, I just needed to put a bit of a bright spin on whats been happening to me.
For the past 7+ years I've been fully supporting a family that wasn't even mine, while my own family was very rapidly declining in terms of mental and physical health.
Now you may ask "But Bru, why would you do that?" and the answer is... "Because I was younger and terrified".
I had been threatened by one of the people I was living with. A complete waste of space and time who never paid anything and had two kids. He turned around to me and said "If you ever move out after I've moved out and you leave my mother, I will hunt you down". This same mother being the one who said "What you're gonna move out and replace me with another mother? Screw me over? No fucking WAY" when my mother had her ex-boyfriend break into her house and burned all her identity documents. I just told her I might have to go down and help my mother because she even had a rat infestation. Like I said, things were getting bad for my family.
Every day they made sure to make me feel like absolute human trash. The guy who didn't pay any bills, pay any rent, he didn't buy his own food, he didn't cook his own food (for him or his kids), pretended he was killing himself so Mummy would buy him a motorbike (he was slashing his throat with a broken cup, he's also like... nearly 40) while I was reassuring his 6 year old crying son that Daddy was going to be okay, has made multiple court appearances for being caught by the police and made sure his whole family supported him by screaming at them relentlessly... even his own mother called him the "seed of the devil"...
Well, this guy made sure to make me feel that the artwork i'd been doing for 15+ years was absolute shit and I was in the wrong area of work and should be working for him doing decals for cars and posters and stuff. He made sure to make me feel like I was the one wasting my life when he couldn't even hold down a job for more than half a year. I'd paid insurance and tax on his car after his girlfriend crashed the car, (So I could get to the job he forced me into with him) and still made sure that I was never happy.
A-anyways, thats just... thats just the tip of the iceberg of shit I went through in that house. Once a certain even happened I actually had a mental breakdown. I left them all. I got out of that evil house, away from those evil people, and I'm back in the countryside in a simple Irish cottage by the sea. I feed and look after horses everyday, and I help my grandmother with her Animal Rescue center.
In the last 3 weeks though... things got bad.
On Monday 21st of August, my mother fell off her bike and cracked her ribs, Tuesday I helped my grandmother at her Animal Rescue Center and then went to the pub to help my mother with the heavy lifting.
Wednesday I helped again in the pub, doing the heavy lifting, then my 20 year old dog died, and I had to watch him go on my own.
Thursday I dug a grave for him and put him to rest, on my own.
Friday my grandmother collapsed and got taken to hospital. I suddenly had to be taken up to her place and do the whole rescue center on my own, with only a basic working knowledge of stuff from the year I'd been helping her. I got caught out in the middle of a storm for 6 hours and ended up getting ill by the end of the week. I looked after that place for 5 days. I nearly collapsed from exhaustion myself.
Once my grandmother was out of Hospital, someone reported my mother and my grandmother for animal cruelty out of pure spite. I'm still convinced the evil people I was living with sent some reports to the Animal Rights people here, because they tried to blackmail me into coming back by threatening my family. I'm sure they thought that I wouldn't say anything, but if you're reading this Matt, your brother deserves all of this and so much more, and you too, for continuously throwing up your hands and going "I don't wanna be a third man in this" and just threw me under the bus to your family every time. You were my best friend of 14 years and you never once showed that to your family that made sure to make me be the lowest I'd ever been in my life.
Anyways, then the Animal Rights people came along and forced my family to put down three different horses in the space of a week or two just because they were old.
They also threatened to come pick up my grandmothers rescued pigs and slaughter every last one of them for meat.
Urf... A-anyways... I'm... I had a very bad mental breakdown, and I had way too much thrust on me. Supporting a 7 person family on my own with artwork was nearly impossible. At most I'd have €20 each week to live on. Sometimes my money would be gone as soon as I got it, because of outstanding thousands of euros worth of electricity bills from that family that only my ex-friend was helping with.
I'm coming back around now, I'm trying to reintergrate into everything that I can, but its being quite difficult and I'm breaking down far more than I would like to admit on a daily basis, but I'm honestly trying. I'll be drawing again, finishing off outstanding commissions that I've been delaying people on for over a year now, I'm so sorry.
I was forced to do artwork just to survive, and my quality was getting worse and worse. I felt awful for half the commissions I was giving/"finishing" for people. The quality was awful, nothing made sense and the colouring was just fucking disgraceful. So I'm rebuilding myself, getting back to normal.
If I've done all this on my own, I know I'm a strong person, I know I can do it. And I'll carry on doing it while making sure to look after myself.
If... if anyone even cared enough to read all of this, I really can't thank you enough. I had thought that my life was over about 7 years ago. That was it. I was done. Nothing else was coming my way, I'd done my bit and that was it. This was life now, to be mentally abused every single day until I landed in a grave.
But I'm building myself up again, I'm building up my confidence again, I'm getting a life again. I haven't had one for quite a while. So... for those friends that have stayed by me and held out and just... had faith in me... I really can't thank you enough.
For those I've lost contact with... any of you I lost contact with, I honestly didn't mean to disappear, I just... I just... couldn't... do anything... with anything... I had nothing to me, I thought I wasn't even worth knowing, I thought I'd just fade away, noone remembering me, noone caring, noone really... knowing... because thats how much I'd had "You're useless" beaten into me by those evil, horrible people.
So again, uhm... th-thank you. I don't know if I'll upload all the stuff I've done here, I'll just start uploading like nothing had happened, a time skip, if you wanna call it that. And I'm gonna just... carry on, haha. Hopefully come back to where I was before. Maybe even better, that would be lovely.
U-uhm... th-thank you for reading, you're awesome if you did.
Lots of love
~BruBearBrown
For the past 7+ years I've been fully supporting a family that wasn't even mine, while my own family was very rapidly declining in terms of mental and physical health.
Now you may ask "But Bru, why would you do that?" and the answer is... "Because I was younger and terrified".
I had been threatened by one of the people I was living with. A complete waste of space and time who never paid anything and had two kids. He turned around to me and said "If you ever move out after I've moved out and you leave my mother, I will hunt you down". This same mother being the one who said "What you're gonna move out and replace me with another mother? Screw me over? No fucking WAY" when my mother had her ex-boyfriend break into her house and burned all her identity documents. I just told her I might have to go down and help my mother because she even had a rat infestation. Like I said, things were getting bad for my family.
Every day they made sure to make me feel like absolute human trash. The guy who didn't pay any bills, pay any rent, he didn't buy his own food, he didn't cook his own food (for him or his kids), pretended he was killing himself so Mummy would buy him a motorbike (he was slashing his throat with a broken cup, he's also like... nearly 40) while I was reassuring his 6 year old crying son that Daddy was going to be okay, has made multiple court appearances for being caught by the police and made sure his whole family supported him by screaming at them relentlessly... even his own mother called him the "seed of the devil"...
Well, this guy made sure to make me feel that the artwork i'd been doing for 15+ years was absolute shit and I was in the wrong area of work and should be working for him doing decals for cars and posters and stuff. He made sure to make me feel like I was the one wasting my life when he couldn't even hold down a job for more than half a year. I'd paid insurance and tax on his car after his girlfriend crashed the car, (So I could get to the job he forced me into with him) and still made sure that I was never happy.
A-anyways, thats just... thats just the tip of the iceberg of shit I went through in that house. Once a certain even happened I actually had a mental breakdown. I left them all. I got out of that evil house, away from those evil people, and I'm back in the countryside in a simple Irish cottage by the sea. I feed and look after horses everyday, and I help my grandmother with her Animal Rescue center.
In the last 3 weeks though... things got bad.
On Monday 21st of August, my mother fell off her bike and cracked her ribs, Tuesday I helped my grandmother at her Animal Rescue Center and then went to the pub to help my mother with the heavy lifting.
Wednesday I helped again in the pub, doing the heavy lifting, then my 20 year old dog died, and I had to watch him go on my own.
Thursday I dug a grave for him and put him to rest, on my own.
Friday my grandmother collapsed and got taken to hospital. I suddenly had to be taken up to her place and do the whole rescue center on my own, with only a basic working knowledge of stuff from the year I'd been helping her. I got caught out in the middle of a storm for 6 hours and ended up getting ill by the end of the week. I looked after that place for 5 days. I nearly collapsed from exhaustion myself.
Once my grandmother was out of Hospital, someone reported my mother and my grandmother for animal cruelty out of pure spite. I'm still convinced the evil people I was living with sent some reports to the Animal Rights people here, because they tried to blackmail me into coming back by threatening my family. I'm sure they thought that I wouldn't say anything, but if you're reading this Matt, your brother deserves all of this and so much more, and you too, for continuously throwing up your hands and going "I don't wanna be a third man in this" and just threw me under the bus to your family every time. You were my best friend of 14 years and you never once showed that to your family that made sure to make me be the lowest I'd ever been in my life.
Anyways, then the Animal Rights people came along and forced my family to put down three different horses in the space of a week or two just because they were old.
They also threatened to come pick up my grandmothers rescued pigs and slaughter every last one of them for meat.
Urf... A-anyways... I'm... I had a very bad mental breakdown, and I had way too much thrust on me. Supporting a 7 person family on my own with artwork was nearly impossible. At most I'd have €20 each week to live on. Sometimes my money would be gone as soon as I got it, because of outstanding thousands of euros worth of electricity bills from that family that only my ex-friend was helping with.
I'm coming back around now, I'm trying to reintergrate into everything that I can, but its being quite difficult and I'm breaking down far more than I would like to admit on a daily basis, but I'm honestly trying. I'll be drawing again, finishing off outstanding commissions that I've been delaying people on for over a year now, I'm so sorry.
I was forced to do artwork just to survive, and my quality was getting worse and worse. I felt awful for half the commissions I was giving/"finishing" for people. The quality was awful, nothing made sense and the colouring was just fucking disgraceful. So I'm rebuilding myself, getting back to normal.
If I've done all this on my own, I know I'm a strong person, I know I can do it. And I'll carry on doing it while making sure to look after myself.
If... if anyone even cared enough to read all of this, I really can't thank you enough. I had thought that my life was over about 7 years ago. That was it. I was done. Nothing else was coming my way, I'd done my bit and that was it. This was life now, to be mentally abused every single day until I landed in a grave.
But I'm building myself up again, I'm building up my confidence again, I'm getting a life again. I haven't had one for quite a while. So... for those friends that have stayed by me and held out and just... had faith in me... I really can't thank you enough.
For those I've lost contact with... any of you I lost contact with, I honestly didn't mean to disappear, I just... I just... couldn't... do anything... with anything... I had nothing to me, I thought I wasn't even worth knowing, I thought I'd just fade away, noone remembering me, noone caring, noone really... knowing... because thats how much I'd had "You're useless" beaten into me by those evil, horrible people.
So again, uhm... th-thank you. I don't know if I'll upload all the stuff I've done here, I'll just start uploading like nothing had happened, a time skip, if you wanna call it that. And I'm gonna just... carry on, haha. Hopefully come back to where I was before. Maybe even better, that would be lovely.
U-uhm... th-thank you for reading, you're awesome if you did.
Lots of love
~BruBearBrown
Mass Upload Time!
Posted 5 years agoI've been... really sucky with keeping up with FA here, I didn't mean to be. It just started feeling overwhelming here and I have no idea why.
I'm not gonna be differentiating between scraps and finished pieces as... well I just wanna show you guys I'm still alive and doing stuff, haha.
I'm not gonna be differentiating between scraps and finished pieces as... well I just wanna show you guys I'm still alive and doing stuff, haha.
If I've ever lost contact with you...
Posted 6 years agoIf I've ever lost contact with you or just stopped talking, please... gimme a poke through a DM. I don't do it on purpose, and I don't mean to be so absent. These last two years have... honestly, they've been hell, and I just... I'll see a message and think to myself-
"I'm really not in a good place right now, I can't be my normal happy, cheery self right now, I'll respond when I'm feeling better"
And that time hasn't... been coming about. So... I'm... I'm in a lot better place now. I'm just missing the people I've spoken to. I'm missing being... around people, even if it is online.
I'm so so sorry, I'm so sorry... if I've ever made any of you feel like I don't want to talk to you, or never wanna be around you. With the amount of support and just... the wonderful people I have in my life... Thank you...
Just... poke me... if I ever made you feel like I don't care or don't wanna be around... poke me. If you've ever just... wanted to speak to me or approach me, please, never be scared to.
I get easily distracted, and when I'm drawing I... I'm slow... I'm so slow, but I'll respond when I can.
Uhm, thank you, if you read this.
"I'm really not in a good place right now, I can't be my normal happy, cheery self right now, I'll respond when I'm feeling better"
And that time hasn't... been coming about. So... I'm... I'm in a lot better place now. I'm just missing the people I've spoken to. I'm missing being... around people, even if it is online.
I'm so so sorry, I'm so sorry... if I've ever made any of you feel like I don't want to talk to you, or never wanna be around you. With the amount of support and just... the wonderful people I have in my life... Thank you...
Just... poke me... if I ever made you feel like I don't care or don't wanna be around... poke me. If you've ever just... wanted to speak to me or approach me, please, never be scared to.
I get easily distracted, and when I'm drawing I... I'm slow... I'm so slow, but I'll respond when I can.
Uhm, thank you, if you read this.
I really don't mean to dissapear like that...
Posted 6 years agoBut rather than being a mature adult who looks to others for help, I, instead, completely closed myself off and buried myself in work and... well, more work.
I'm trying to be active again, and trying to not be such a lazy ass about uploading. I've got a bunch of other doodles/sketches, but I didn't feel like they were worth uploading, so I only uploaded the ones I felt I'd finished.
Again, I'm really, really sorry.
I took up a part-time job, cleaning up around my local town. Its only from like... 8 am - 1 pm, but I'm left so friggin' exhausted after it that I just don't want to deal with anyone. The new house we're in only has three bedrooms, so I'm sharing with a room mate. I also don't have like... my own room to draw in anymore. I'm set up at the back of the kitchen because this house is so fuc-... frigging tiny. My laptop is completely bust now, so I can't even talk with friends privately in my bedroom. We've got bill after bill coming in and I'm... I'm broke... I'm barely affording my rent and food each week. Nearly €100 is going out to bills, then another €106 is going on rent... when I don't even have my own bedroom. I've been ill with a cold about 5 times since I've started this job, because they keep forcing us to work out in the rain. The worse was when we were ordered to wash stones in orange warning rain. (Basically a warning that you shouldn't even go outside, let alone work)
Sorry... I shouldn't complain, there are many in this community that are going through far worse. I'm just being a whiny little runt, haha.
Onto the good things.
Uh... I've made some new friends IRL... I'm losing weight too. I feel like I'm getting a little better in my drawing too. I'll probably be moving onto animations and stuff soon. My room mate I'm sharing with also seems to be interested in getting together to do some porny graphic novels or... something along those lines.
People outside of the fandom are also commissioning me, I'll be doing some character/monster artwork for a game. ^_^ And uh... thats... it honestly...
Thank you... i-if you did read this... I know people may not be interested but uhm... thank you.
~BruBearBrown
I'm trying to be active again, and trying to not be such a lazy ass about uploading. I've got a bunch of other doodles/sketches, but I didn't feel like they were worth uploading, so I only uploaded the ones I felt I'd finished.
Again, I'm really, really sorry.
I took up a part-time job, cleaning up around my local town. Its only from like... 8 am - 1 pm, but I'm left so friggin' exhausted after it that I just don't want to deal with anyone. The new house we're in only has three bedrooms, so I'm sharing with a room mate. I also don't have like... my own room to draw in anymore. I'm set up at the back of the kitchen because this house is so fuc-... frigging tiny. My laptop is completely bust now, so I can't even talk with friends privately in my bedroom. We've got bill after bill coming in and I'm... I'm broke... I'm barely affording my rent and food each week. Nearly €100 is going out to bills, then another €106 is going on rent... when I don't even have my own bedroom. I've been ill with a cold about 5 times since I've started this job, because they keep forcing us to work out in the rain. The worse was when we were ordered to wash stones in orange warning rain. (Basically a warning that you shouldn't even go outside, let alone work)
Sorry... I shouldn't complain, there are many in this community that are going through far worse. I'm just being a whiny little runt, haha.
Onto the good things.
Uh... I've made some new friends IRL... I'm losing weight too. I feel like I'm getting a little better in my drawing too. I'll probably be moving onto animations and stuff soon. My room mate I'm sharing with also seems to be interested in getting together to do some porny graphic novels or... something along those lines.
People outside of the fandom are also commissioning me, I'll be doing some character/monster artwork for a game. ^_^ And uh... thats... it honestly...
Thank you... i-if you did read this... I know people may not be interested but uhm... thank you.
~BruBearBrown
Updates and whats been going on.
Posted 7 years agoSo this is sorta long overdue.
I was put into a job about 2 months ago. Its only part-time, and it's a way to get experience in work. The times are fairly simple, 8am - 1 pm. But I'm not gonna lie, the early times are sort of destroying me. I'm constantly tired and I can't seem to get enough sleep. I'll come home from work, tired, and either have a snooze or just carry on through the day. Worst thing is I can't sleep. Even if I wake up at 7 am and stay up all day, I'll still not be able to sleep until 2 - 4 am the next morning. I even missed work today because I just didn't wake up.
I've still been doing a lot of work, but they've not gotten past the "WIP" stage. I'm trying to improve and develop a bit more with my anatomy and general drawing, but I know my shading and stuff has fallen behind, its why I've mostly just been offering flat coloured commissions.
I kinda got hit with a whole bunch of shit at once. Along with the persons attempted suicide, I was, very nicely, given a small amount of money to help me move. But then got slammed with a €600 electricity/gas bill for switching to a different company. I got the money back, but its gone again now, which, considering that I'm still being paid my wages on top of that, I'm still pissed off that I'm literally sitting here with my bank €4 overdrafted and still have the internet to pay. (This isn't me begging for money, its all paid off now). I even got back paid from a good friend on pictures I'd just been doodling for them, which helped out so much too. But I'm still sitting on no wages until tomorrow when I get paid.
I've also been told I have to move by February as the house is being sold. So I'm going to have to leave a town I've really come to love and a job that I, despite my complaining about not being able to sleep, I actually still quite enjoy.
I hadn't been able to get through to my own mother for over a month, the last time I'd talked to her was 2 weeks before Halloween, and only got to talk to her yesterday, so that was going around my head for ages too. Just constantly worrying.
So I'm just... my brain is a little fried guys, I'm sorry.
I was put into a job about 2 months ago. Its only part-time, and it's a way to get experience in work. The times are fairly simple, 8am - 1 pm. But I'm not gonna lie, the early times are sort of destroying me. I'm constantly tired and I can't seem to get enough sleep. I'll come home from work, tired, and either have a snooze or just carry on through the day. Worst thing is I can't sleep. Even if I wake up at 7 am and stay up all day, I'll still not be able to sleep until 2 - 4 am the next morning. I even missed work today because I just didn't wake up.
I've still been doing a lot of work, but they've not gotten past the "WIP" stage. I'm trying to improve and develop a bit more with my anatomy and general drawing, but I know my shading and stuff has fallen behind, its why I've mostly just been offering flat coloured commissions.
I kinda got hit with a whole bunch of shit at once. Along with the persons attempted suicide, I was, very nicely, given a small amount of money to help me move. But then got slammed with a €600 electricity/gas bill for switching to a different company. I got the money back, but its gone again now, which, considering that I'm still being paid my wages on top of that, I'm still pissed off that I'm literally sitting here with my bank €4 overdrafted and still have the internet to pay. (This isn't me begging for money, its all paid off now). I even got back paid from a good friend on pictures I'd just been doodling for them, which helped out so much too. But I'm still sitting on no wages until tomorrow when I get paid.
I've also been told I have to move by February as the house is being sold. So I'm going to have to leave a town I've really come to love and a job that I, despite my complaining about not being able to sleep, I actually still quite enjoy.
I hadn't been able to get through to my own mother for over a month, the last time I'd talked to her was 2 weeks before Halloween, and only got to talk to her yesterday, so that was going around my head for ages too. Just constantly worrying.
So I'm just... my brain is a little fried guys, I'm sorry.
Needing Time Away
Posted 7 years agoOn the 26th of August, 2018 someone attempted suicide in my house. We managed to restrain them and stop them from doing it, but there was also a 6 year old child in the house at the time, along with the rest of the persons family.
I had... a lot more planned out for what to say with this... but I just can't process it out right now. I won't be... stopping with my drawing, but... I can't... deal with stuff right now. I need to take time off and time away.
I need to move house now, and as such, I'll also be in need of money. I'll be taking on commissions after I finish current ones but uhm...
I just... I need to... stop. I need to get away and just... deal with this.
I'm really sorry.
I had... a lot more planned out for what to say with this... but I just can't process it out right now. I won't be... stopping with my drawing, but... I can't... deal with stuff right now. I need to take time off and time away.
I need to move house now, and as such, I'll also be in need of money. I'll be taking on commissions after I finish current ones but uhm...
I just... I need to... stop. I need to get away and just... deal with this.
I'm really sorry.
Birthday Tomorrow
Posted 7 years agoI'll be turning 28, eep. But its all good. I'm probably gonna be getting some alcohol and have a fun night at home, woo!
Commission Price Change
Posted 7 years agoAs in... literal change from dollars to euros.
The price difference is really starting to screw me over hard. I'll do a commission for $30 and get around €22 for it. To then do quite a few hours, if not a day of work on that one picture and basically only get enough for a teensy bit of food is starting to wear on me a bit.
So... for now, I'm thinking of making it €30 for a single character, then +€10 for each additional character.
On another note... are my prices too little?
I actually get people saying that to me a lot... so... I don't know what to do... I feel like I'm not entirely good enough to charge more, but the amount that I AM getting is starting to become less and less. I would love to hear your opinions.
If I did increase, it would literally only be about a extra 10 more. Just so I don't feel so... uh... well... screwed over...
The price difference is really starting to screw me over hard. I'll do a commission for $30 and get around €22 for it. To then do quite a few hours, if not a day of work on that one picture and basically only get enough for a teensy bit of food is starting to wear on me a bit.
So... for now, I'm thinking of making it €30 for a single character, then +€10 for each additional character.
On another note... are my prices too little?
I actually get people saying that to me a lot... so... I don't know what to do... I feel like I'm not entirely good enough to charge more, but the amount that I AM getting is starting to become less and less. I would love to hear your opinions.
If I did increase, it would literally only be about a extra 10 more. Just so I don't feel so... uh... well... screwed over...
Helping a friend in need.
Posted 7 years agoA friend of mine is in a little trouble, and he's in need of a bit of help from anyone around, if you can help out at all, please, do go check this out. I'm sorry to ask <:3
https://www.gofundme.com/jhfk5-moving-costs
https://www.gofundme.com/jhfk5-moving-costs
Discord Server Is Set Up!
Posted 7 years agoIf you wanna come along, just send me a note and I'll look about sending you the invite! ^_^
Should I make a discord channel?
Posted 7 years agoI've just been thinking about it... and I could do a few things on there...
While I don't stream (I get incredibly nervous and easily frustrated when drawing) it could be a place to discuss pumping, artwork, maybe even some Overwatch, maybe some HOTS too... I'm always looking for people to play with.
I-I just want peoples opinion on this.
While I don't stream (I get incredibly nervous and easily frustrated when drawing) it could be a place to discuss pumping, artwork, maybe even some Overwatch, maybe some HOTS too... I'm always looking for people to play with.
I-I just want peoples opinion on this.
Patreon Updated. Free full resolution image pack.
Posted 7 years agoI've updated my patreon page, and I'm still sticking to leaving it open to the public. The option to give money is literally just if you want to support me. Thank you so so much if you do.
I'm gonna be working on a project soon that I can hopefully have frequently updated on there x3
https://www.patreon.com/brubearbrown
I'm gonna be working on a project soon that I can hopefully have frequently updated on there x3
https://www.patreon.com/brubearbrown
Slight health scare and Happy Paddys Day!
Posted 7 years agoA few months ago, I found a lump in my chest, more precisely, the nipple. Breast cancer had happened to both my mother and grandmother, so I paniced big time. I finally got my examination yesterday and its all good. Theres nothing wrong. I'm all good, hahah. I felt so happy and relieved about it that I didn't sleep for 12 hours xD
So! Happy Paddys Day to everyone, and I hope you have a good day today. I'm not gonna be celebrating 'til Tuesday, so no drinking or anything for me x3
So! Happy Paddys Day to everyone, and I hope you have a good day today. I'm not gonna be celebrating 'til Tuesday, so no drinking or anything for me x3
Friends free art raffle and current situation.
Posted 7 years agoWell first of all, my room mate over at 
sorindoom is trying to get started up on this website and he's offering a free art raffle x3 Go check out his journal over here!
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8641513/
Also, we've been snowed in. I have never seen snow before, and I'm loving it, hurr hurr. Only thing is, the internet went on Monday and we're stuck on a shitty phone connection for now, so I don't know how active I'll be online, I'm really sorry.
sorindoom is trying to get started up on this website and he's offering a free art raffle x3 Go check out his journal over here! http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8641513/
Also, we've been snowed in. I have never seen snow before, and I'm loving it, hurr hurr. Only thing is, the internet went on Monday and we're stuck on a shitty phone connection for now, so I don't know how active I'll be online, I'm really sorry.
General update and changing how my Patreon page is working
Posted 8 years agoThis is basically going to be where I'll upload all the high-res version of my artwork. I typically work at "3000 x 3000" then change it depending on what the content is.
There aren't very many unique rewards, for now this is a sort of glorified tip jar, where your reward is the high res images, with the tiers giving you a choice of how much you would like to contribute. I didn't want to lock my artwork behind a paywall or anything like that, so this is fully the choice of those who wish to support this shortass bear.
I'm in a bit of trouble irl, as a room mate has chosen to leave, and we have no way of replacing him. Three of us are paying for a four bedroom place by ourselves. Including bills and rent. I want to keep on drawing, its my passion and what I want to do, but if I can't bring in the money, I'm going to be severely in debt and unable to keep living where I am. I literally have nowhere else to go.
On top of that, I'll be increasing my prices a bit. Not by a lot. The previous prices had been €20 for a single character, fully shaded, with +€10 for each additional character.
They're now going to be €30 for a single character, fully shaded, with +€10 for each additional character.
Reference sheets are going to be around €50, with a back view, front view and third pose of your choice.
I could come up with a price for flat colours and sketches too, but I'm not sure what to do for them, hahah. Maybe you guys could suggest something for it.
If you do end up helping me out, I'd be so thankful, for both being able to help me keep doing what I love and for taking enough interest in me to allow me to keep on doing this.
Thank you again, so much, for all the support you've all given me over the years. You have no idea how much I appreciate it. It still feels so odd that so many of you take an interest in a little bear from Ireland, but I am always so so greatful that you're all allowed me to do this <3
Anyways! Enough blabbing! Patreon has been updated with all my artwork from February to November. Theres a lot of sketches, doodles and fully finished pieces in there!
Thank you so much again, everyone!
~BruBearBrown
There aren't very many unique rewards, for now this is a sort of glorified tip jar, where your reward is the high res images, with the tiers giving you a choice of how much you would like to contribute. I didn't want to lock my artwork behind a paywall or anything like that, so this is fully the choice of those who wish to support this shortass bear.
I'm in a bit of trouble irl, as a room mate has chosen to leave, and we have no way of replacing him. Three of us are paying for a four bedroom place by ourselves. Including bills and rent. I want to keep on drawing, its my passion and what I want to do, but if I can't bring in the money, I'm going to be severely in debt and unable to keep living where I am. I literally have nowhere else to go.
On top of that, I'll be increasing my prices a bit. Not by a lot. The previous prices had been €20 for a single character, fully shaded, with +€10 for each additional character.
They're now going to be €30 for a single character, fully shaded, with +€10 for each additional character.
Reference sheets are going to be around €50, with a back view, front view and third pose of your choice.
I could come up with a price for flat colours and sketches too, but I'm not sure what to do for them, hahah. Maybe you guys could suggest something for it.
If you do end up helping me out, I'd be so thankful, for both being able to help me keep doing what I love and for taking enough interest in me to allow me to keep on doing this.
Thank you again, so much, for all the support you've all given me over the years. You have no idea how much I appreciate it. It still feels so odd that so many of you take an interest in a little bear from Ireland, but I am always so so greatful that you're all allowed me to do this <3
Anyways! Enough blabbing! Patreon has been updated with all my artwork from February to November. Theres a lot of sketches, doodles and fully finished pieces in there!
Thank you so much again, everyone!
~BruBearBrown
Commission List Updated
Posted 8 years agoNew list, given that a few people dropped out or didn't reply x3
1:
kittykatbob (Sketched)
2:
sereverus (Sketched)
3:
oberon85937 (Sketched)
4:
venor (Sketched)
5:
bigbadskunk (Sketched)
6:
russarulo (Sketched)
7:
lunarwolf (Sketched)
8:
furlong90
9:
zoidzane (Sketched)
10:
lineage26 (Sketched)
Just an update, and... more so I can keep track of it, hahah.
1:
kittykatbob (Sketched)2:
sereverus (Sketched)3:
oberon85937 (Sketched)4:
venor (Sketched)5:
bigbadskunk (Sketched)6:
russarulo (Sketched)7:
lunarwolf (Sketched)8:
furlong909:
zoidzane (Sketched)10:
lineage26 (Sketched)Just an update, and... more so I can keep track of it, hahah.
Hurricane Opheilia
Posted 8 years agoSo, we've got a pretty strong hurricane coming over Ireland tomorrow. The military is even coming out, if the need for aid comes. Its going to also be passing over to the UK. So, any of my english friends, or followers, please take care of yourself and be safe.
What should I do about Patreon?
Posted 8 years agoI mean, I'm sort of stuck with it... I don't want to lock stuff behind a patreon wall, but I have no idea what I could offer or do to bring in people.
If you guys have any suggestions or anything, it would... it would be lovely.
If you guys have any suggestions or anything, it would... it would be lovely.
Close friend losing his home.
Posted 8 years agoA close friend of mine, 
kusho is at risk of losing his home at the moment, with over 13,000 that he, and his family, have to come up with by the end of the year. I know theres... a lot going on for everyone at the moment, but if you can... some support would be wonderful for him.
All the details are here https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8405724/
Thank you, if you do :)
kusho is at risk of losing his home at the moment, with over 13,000 that he, and his family, have to come up with by the end of the year. I know theres... a lot going on for everyone at the moment, but if you can... some support would be wonderful for him. All the details are here https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8405724/
Thank you, if you do :)
Commission List
Posted 8 years ago1: kittykatbob (Sketched)
2: sereverus (Sketched)
3: oberon85937 (Sketched)
4: venor
5: bigbadskunk (Sketched)
6: russarulo (Sketched)
7: lunarwolf (Sketched)
8: furlong90
9: zoidzane (Sketched)
10: lineage26
Just an update, and... more so I can keep track of it, hahah.
kittykatbob (Sketched)2:
sereverus (Sketched)3:
oberon85937 (Sketched)4:
venor 5:
bigbadskunk (Sketched)6:
russarulo (Sketched)7:
lunarwolf (Sketched)8:
furlong909:
zoidzane (Sketched)10:
lineage26Just an update, and... more so I can keep track of it, hahah.
Opening a commission drive to pay for hospital bills
Posted 8 years agoSo, I haven't got the bill yet, but I'm just being careful. I'm thinking of opening 5 - 10 slots. 5, right now, seems a bit more manageable.
I'll be upping my prices a bit, just to get enough to cover the bill.
What I'm thinking is, $40 base price for the commission. For one character.
Fully shaded, fully coloured, everything. With +10 for each additional character.
Example: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24578646/
I just wanted to write this up and see what you guys thought of this, if its alright and stuff.
This isn't me opening for them right now, because I wouldn't be able to work on them in my current condition xD But if you ARE interested, and wish to talk about what we can do, I'd very much be open for that :)
And again, thank you so so much for showing the support you guys did. It really kept me going and I'm just happy to be a part of a group who're this supportive. So, thank you again x3
I'll be upping my prices a bit, just to get enough to cover the bill.
What I'm thinking is, $40 base price for the commission. For one character.
Fully shaded, fully coloured, everything. With +10 for each additional character.
Example: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24578646/
I just wanted to write this up and see what you guys thought of this, if its alright and stuff.
This isn't me opening for them right now, because I wouldn't be able to work on them in my current condition xD But if you ARE interested, and wish to talk about what we can do, I'd very much be open for that :)
And again, thank you so so much for showing the support you guys did. It really kept me going and I'm just happy to be a part of a group who're this supportive. So, thank you again x3
Annnnd back home x3
Posted 8 years agoPhew... :3
So what happened...
I'd had this pain before, but not quite this bad. I ended up vomitting everywhere with intense pain in my stomach. I finally went to the hospital and I found out I had an enflamed appendix with pus forming on my right hip. So I had to have it removed there and then. Thank you all so much for the words of encouragement and support.
So what happened...
I'd had this pain before, but not quite this bad. I ended up vomitting everywhere with intense pain in my stomach. I finally went to the hospital and I found out I had an enflamed appendix with pus forming on my right hip. So I had to have it removed there and then. Thank you all so much for the words of encouragement and support.
