I just wanted to give an update regarding those of you whose commissions I have completed but have yet to ship. I have not had the funds to do the shipping. The money from the commissions has long been used in paying my bills so I am getting money from my husband to mail. Unfortuntely his business is suffering at the moment so money is tight. I felt it prudent to be honest and let you all know what exactly is going on here. I have not forgotten about you, I just need to get the money to mail. This is also a learning experience for me since I have not taken on so many commissions at one time before. Please bare with me. I am planning an awesome thank you for all of my challenge commission clients once I have made my way through the list.

I hope you all feel in the loop now. I find it is important to keep my customers in the know. Thank you all SOOO much. I appreciate your patience with me

PLEASE feel free to note me if you have any questions regarding your commission or place in the queue. I will try my best to answer you as quickly as I can. Noting is currently the best way to get a hold of me.

I am working hard on getting my commissions finished, and I am working on ones further down the list as I await answers and confirmations of current ones. Some people will get back to me before others so I will work on the pieces that I have all the info I need to get done. I will power through this. :)

This is just a heads up in case you all wonder what is going on with the numbering

I decided to make a personal art account with a name closer to my fursona's name.

It's  autumnfirejaguar

I have decided to make this my commission account. There isn't anything there right now because I am busy with my character challenge commissions but feel free to watch it for future art additions.

Otherwise I am plucking away at lineart ready to be scanned when I can get on my husband's computer (my scanner doesn't work with Windows 8)

I have been moving down my list and getting sketches and lineart done of commissions down my list, as well as asking questions. I am continuing down the list as I wait for answers so I can really start to finish these pieces. I hope to have some more up this coming week. I have some waiting to be scanned for conformation before painting and more lineart and reference questions to others. I hope to be halfway done very soon.

I am feeling a bit better and I have picked up more vellum surface paper for the commissions. I am starting the next three now. :)

Just an announcement to let you know that it's ok to post any commissions I have done for you to your account.

I am working on the next three in the challenge at the moment. I need to buy some more vellum surface bristol before I can start sketching the next three after. It is coming along and I should have the next three up soon

Shipping of the finished pieces has been delayed. I will try to get them mailed out asap. Thank you all for your patience with me

I have been really stressed lately with how little time I have had to myself because of my kids. I am working on the pieces and hope to have one posted tonight. I thought I would give an update. Thank you all for your patience.

I turn 29 tomorrow. Another day older and closer to 30. Yay me! I am hoping to go out to the clubs since I have not done that in about 3 years. I love to dance and it would be fun to get dressed up for once.

I made a video of what I am planning to do and what I am happy about for the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online Beta test this weekend. You can watch me talk in all my awkward glory if you like. I don't do so well in front of cameras so this is a good way to get over that.

http://youtu.be/nqNxzH88cDk

In the mean time I have a bunch of lineart pieces to start watercolour painting. I hope to have more at that stage soon. I find it is working better if I do a bunch at the same stage so I can finish these challenge characters faster.

Since I don't have my new computer hooked up to my scanner yet, and I still need to pick up some coloured pencils to finish my latest character, I thought I would list those whose sketches I am working on while I wait.

Teiirka
Mistingwolf
mistingwolf
cocoalady

I am doing the lineart for these and will scan when I can.

I need to pick up some coloured pencils. I am all out of some and can't finish my current piece without it. I am heading out tomorrow to pick up some more. Thank you all

Also, Vancoufur seems to have made it to the front page of Huffington Post Canada.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/0.....n_4886642.html

My husband purchased a new computer for me. So much more memory and what not. I have not had a lot of time to do art of late. Again with the parenting excuse, and the samba wolf character is taking me more time than I expected with all the details. Thank you for being patient and know that when your character comes up in the queue I will be sure to spend just as much time as needed to make it look fantastic. It is the least I can do considering the wait I am putting you wonderful people though.

They lifted the Non-disclosure Agreement today so I was wondering if any of you have also been in the beta. Maybe we can group together on the next beta test. :)

I haven't had a chance to finish my latest challenge yet due to becoming sick again (kids, yay) and an infestation of fleas I have been purging. I spent the better half of last week spraying, vacuuming and laundering to get rid of the little pests and I have to do it again as more eggs hatch. The good news is the numbers have dropped but I found another one in my daughter's hair last night so the battle continues. I can't stand the idea of them biting my children. They seem to love the taste of my blood the most though. I have tons of bites on me. :(

I haven't had a chance to finish my latest challenge yet due to becoming sick again (kids, yay) and an infestation of fleas I have been purging. I spent the better half of last week spraying, vacuuming and laundering to get rid of the little pests and I have to do it again as more eggs hatch. The good news is the numbers have dropped but I found another one in my daughter's hair last night so the battle continues. I can't stand the idea of them biting my children. They seem to love the taste of my blood the most though. I have tons of bites on me. :(

Do you guys check out my Tumblr blog for WIPs or should I submit them as scraps here?

I was just going through the notes and queue taking a look at the characters people have asked me to illustrate. I just want to say that you all have some very very lovely and awesome characters and I look forward to drawing each and every one. Thank you for challenging me everyone! I should have the next one posted in the next day or so.

I will not be leaving Furaffinity, despite whatever scandals are going on because there are a lot of furs and friends here. I did however create a Weasyl account and will be adding some of my art there. If you have an account there and wish to check me out here is my link

https://www.weasyl.com/~autumnfire

I am feeling renewed inspiration! And my son is going to bed now without needing me in there for hours until he falls asleep. This means more time for art. My computer works again (I needed it to work for something super cool last weekend so my husband got it up again). I hope to start working my way through my queue quickly now. I am a stickler for quality though so I will ensure I stick to it. There are so many unique characters waiting for me to draw them. I am excited!

Thank you all amazing people for your patience with me.

I have been meaning to write this journal for a while but the FA read-only made it a little hard. So I will update you all now.

Since I don't have a way to scan at the moment, I am taking pictures of the pieces I am working on with my phone and uploading them to my Tumblr account. You can see my progress there. I will also note each of you when I complete your piece so you know and, when I can scan again, I will do a mass upload of all that I have finished.

My Tumblr is http://autumnfirejaguar.tumblr.com/

Thank you so much. I will work on them through the holiday season as I have time.

It seems this challenge is going to take me longer than I expected to finish the pieces. I overestimated the amount of time I would have while looking after two kids. I am still working on the next pieces but I have only been able to get minutes at a time. I thought it fair to do an update to let my commissioners know. I am working on them during my spare minutes I have. Also, my computer is still broken so I have to figure out how to get my scanner to play ball with my husband's computer so I will be able to submit them for you to see.

I apologize for this. I will keep at it. You are all wonderful for being so patient with me

I am just giving an update. I have finished tvosk's piece and nearly have teiirka's first piece finished but I can't scan them in yet because my computer just died today. I turned it on and I think the power supply just went. I am on my husband's computer right now and trying to get my scanner to cooperate on it so I can post from here. I hopefully will get it figured out when he gets home. I just wanted to give an update so my commissioners know where I am. I hope to have the next pieces posted soon.

Everything is evening out again so new challenge pieces to be finished in the next couple of days. Sorry for the delays. Thanksgiving and sick family took time up.

I just want to apologize for not completing any challenge pieces lately. My entire household came down sick these past two weeks. That includes my 2 year old and 3 month old kids. I have been doing what little I can while they sleep and I hope to get some finished this upcoming week since the colds are clearing up. I have been getting linearts done so they will be ready to paint when I can devote more solid time.