I haven't been very active here on FA in the past month or so, but hopefully that will change now. And I just thought I'd update you all on how things are going.

First off, on the relationship front, Avenger and I are no longer mated. But don't go worrying about me, I'm handling it just fine, I'm not feeling too bad about it or dwelling on it too much. I'm not going to go into too many details, but it was a mutual decision, we both agreed it wasn't working. And we do remain good friends, so there's that at least.

In other news, I still have a mountain of commissions to get through, and most days it feels like I've only managed to chip a tiny piece off that mountain, but I'm keeping at it and will get through them all eventually. I want to say thank you again to all my commissioners for your patience.

And I've decided that I need to take some time to work on non-commission stuff for myself as well, to avoid burning myself out on the commissions, I need to find a good balance. And I am starting to feel very bad about still not having House of Lazarus #4 done yet, I need to get back into that and get it done and out of the way.

And since someone is likely to ask, es, I do also intend to try and get back into putting some time into working on new pages for The Corps as well.

Over the past weeks, I have also started going on Second Life again, after being absent from there for several years. Just looking to met new people and make new friends. If any other SL furries want to look me up, I'm Cyberklaw Wolfstein

Well, that's all for now, hopefully it won't be another month before I post again... :)

I am very sorry for the delay in completeing commissions.

There are a few reasons for this, partly because I've come to realise I've bitten off a little more than I can chew in terms of how many I've taken on. But mostly because I find myself in quite a rough mood at the moment, going through some tough times, and at times like this, doing anything creative becomes much more difficult for me.

So I'm asking you all to please be patient and bear with me. All commissions will be completely eventually, and I cannot apologise enough for these delays.

And to everyone else, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to stop accepting new commissions for a bit while I get myself sorted out and caught up.

Wow, we're already about halfway through March! Time seems to have really flown by this year for me! Probably time to update those of you who might be interested on how things have been going for me.

The biggest news I have is that since the beginning of the year, I have found myself with a new guy in my life, who I have come to love dearly.

We started talking to each other back in January and quickly seemed to fall for each other. We were able to meet in person for the first time at the end of January. And ever since then, my feelings for him have just got stronger and stronger. He makes me very happy. :)

Who is this new love of my life? Well, the gift pic I did for him back in January might have been a clue. It's none other than the wonderfully cute  avengerhusky who is now my mate and pet. :)

In fact, one of the reasons I've been taking on lots of new commissions these past few months (one other reason being to help pay bills as times get tough), is so that I can get together enough money to go visit Avenger, which I will now be doing in a few weeks time. :)

So, a big thank you to all my commissioners for making that possible!

Also, I want to say sorry to those of you who have taken the time to comment on my recent pics. As snowed under with commissions as I am, I don't seem to be able to find much spare time to go through them and properly reply to them all.

And I want to say sorry for those of you waiting for House of Lazarus #4 and for a continuation of The Corps. With things the way they are, I've had to focus the vast majority of my time on commissions in order to earn me money. They will still come eventually, but I can't say for certain when.

So that's how I am right now. Happy, in love, but damn busy...

Right, I want to raise some extra cash for myself, so I'm looking to take on some new commissions. I hope at least some of you will will consider commissioning me for a pic or comic. Anyone interested, please get in touch!

And to tempt you all, I'm doing a bit of a speical offer, detailed below.

But first, here's my commission info:

My prices:

Single character pic:

B/W pencil sketch - See Below
B/W drawing inked - $15
Fully coloured - $25

Pic with two or more characters:

B/W pencil sketch - $15
B/W drawing inked - $20
Fully coloured - $30


Comics:

Black and white - $8 per page
Fully coloured - $15 per page

The minimum length for a comic is 5 pages.


Please be aware that I DO NOT take commissions featuring the following:

-Blood and gore
-Vore
-Cubs
-Watersports and scat
-Copyrighted cartoon/comics/video game characters (e.g. Swat Kats, Pokemon, Digimon, etc)

Limited Special Offer!

For a special offer, I will be doing my own Iron Artist sort of thing. I'm offering 100 single character sketches at the low price of just $5. Anthing you like, provided its a single character and isn't on the above list of things I don't do, for just five bucks!

Feel free to take as many of the 100 slots as you like, but be sure to snap them up quick before they're all taken!

Well, here we are, the new year. A time at which I find myself looking back on the year just gone, while also thinking about what this next year might throw at me.

2010 was not a good year, all things considered. I seemed to spend a lot of the time struggling to find artistic motivation and creative energy. I did manage it here and there, but I still didn't manage to finish any comics for publication. I didn't manage to get done nearly as much last year as I would have liked.

The last bit of 2010 was particularly bad, for various reasons. Life didn't so much 'throw me a few curveballs' as 'beat me severely about the head with a baseball bat'.

There came the news at work that next year will likely see major reorganisation in this part of the country that will make overtime a rarity, which would be a blow to my finances. But that wasn't getting to me too much, its going to make things difficult, but I can probably handle it.

But then I was hit with a big development in my life. In late november, after 4 and a half years together, the relationship with my boyfriend came to an end. This was the primary reason I spent much of december depressed.

I'm not going to go into the reasons why it ended, because frankly, they are complicated and personal. CJ and I are still friends, still talk on the phone here and there, and will probably still see each other now and again. But as a couple, as boyfriends, we are no more.

It took me by surprise and hit me very hard at the time, as I did love him dearly, and it immediately threw me into deep depression. Also, on the same day it happened, I had to deal with a tricky financial situation that could have resulted in me losing my home (don't worry, its sorted out now), and it was really the worst time to have to deal with such things. And then, the very next week is when things started getting very busy and stressful at work in the run up to xmas. And we were hit by heavy snow that made life difficult. It was really a case of one bad thing after another getting thrown at me in quick succession.

All in all, I spent about a month feeling like crap, struggling through life. The end of things with CJ really hit me badly, and I went through a lot of anger, denial and quite a lot of depression. I daresay I went a little crazy for a while there. And all the other stressful crap just made me worse.

However, I seemed to turn a corner just before xmas. I started to come out of the depression and started to feel better, started accepting things and feeling ready to move on with my life.

After xmas spent with family, I've spent the past week taking a break from everything, resting and relaxing. Which is what I needed after such a difficult period. And now I am feeling a lot better, and looking to the future.

Which brings us to 2011, a year which promises to be one of change and difficulty for me. But in spite of everything, I do have an unusual (for me) degree of optimism.

I want to get back into the swing of my artwork (at this stage, I haven't put pencil to paper since late november, although I did a bit of colouring today, finishing off a commission).

I want to get back into producing comics for publication. In particular I want to get House of Lazarus #4 finally done, as it's been delayed far too long.

I want to get The Corps started up again at some point, as that is a story I want to continue telling.

And since I'm now single once again, at some point, I want to start looking for love. I'm not quite ready for that particularly daunting task just yet though. Although I might just start with making new friends, getting to know new people.

So that's how things have been and currently are with me. I hope everyone else has been doing better! :)

Well, I've been gone from here for the past couple of weeks, and when coming back I thought people must be wondering where the next page of The Corps is, wanting to see more of the story. I thought maybe some might have been wondering why I haven't posted the past few weeks, wondering if there was something wrong...

Well, as it turns out, the number of people interested enough to ask about why there have been no new Corps pages the past few weeks: zero. The number of people asking about me: zero.
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Instead, I see a few comments on the last Corps page disappointed that there was no sex, in spite of me saying when I started the new chapter that there wouldn't be. Leaving me feeling very frustrated and wondering why I bother trying to tell a story...

All in all, a bit of a downer. But then, that does fit right in with the way life has been treating me recently.

As it happens, there has been quite a bit wrong with me these past few weeks. I'm not going to go into details, but about 2 weeks ago, there were a few developments in my life that meant things became much worse for me.

I have spent much of the past few weeks feeling massively depressed and stressed out. And the fact that we've entered the busiest period of the year at work and I'm doing much longer hours than I'm used to hasn't helped.

In these past weeks, I have done pretty much no drawing whatsoever. Everything is on hold. Except for commissions that have already been paid for, they're the only things I can bring myself to work on right now, and even they're a struggle (and don't involve any actual drawing, they're all at the inking/colouring stage).

Although I do have another few pages of the Corps already done, I'm not going to post them just yet, I'm going to wait until I'm back on track. My apologies to those few of you who actually don't mind a story from me without characters constantly fucking each other's brains out at every opportunity, but you'll have to be patient.

And because someone will ask about it, I'm sure, no, the last House of Lazarus still isn't done yet. I'm very sorry about that.

So, the question is, when will I get back on track? The honest answer is I don't know. Right now, I'm just trying to make it through the christmas period. After that, and things calm down again, we'll see. But please don't be surprised if it's into the New Year before I'm back into the swing of things.

It's hard to believe another month has gone by. It seemed to go so fast (to me, anyway). And it's slightly disheartening that I got so little done during this past month. Although, I did have a big creative rut/bout of depression in the middle of it, plus fell ill for several days after that, so maybe it is understandable. But still, my creative energy remains at a depressingly low ebb...

Anyway, here's the update...

The House of Lazarus

Last month, I hoped to have the whole thing drawn and have started inking and colouring by now. Unfortunately, I fell FAR short of that target. Since last update, I have finished drawing pages 17-20 of the final issue, plus have pages 21 and 22 very nearly done. So, trying to look on the bright side, only another 10 pages to go!

Furry Guardians

Still completely stalled. It gets me down even thinking about it at the moment...

The Corps

I have only managed 2 more pages since last month (9 and 10).

I started posting it again last week, and while there were a handful of people glad to see it back, it ended up feeling like a rather low-key return. As such, it didn't really give me the creative boost I would have liked. Maybe it'll generate more interest as more pages are posted and the chapter progresses...

The cynical part of me thinks that maybe the low interest is down to a) the lack of sex in the new pages, and b) me saying this chapter wouldn't have any sex. But I'm hoping that cynical part of me is wrong...

This is a journal I should have been writing at the weekend. I was actually starting to feel better on friday, my depression was lifting and I was feeling like I could pull myself out of my rut, and I was looking forward to spending the weekend with my artwork, getting back into the swing of things.

But life had other ideas. Friday night, I fell ill and ended up feeling pretty bad all the way through until yesterday. Ugghh...

Don't worry, I am over it now and ready to get back into things, unless the universe has anymore crap to throw at me today...

Anyway, a big thank you to all who responded to my previous journal. I appreciate all the support from you guys! :)

But now, I have a fair bit of catch up to do on the art front, I hate being so behind on my comics and commissions. I have a lot of hard work ahead of me...

And to help myself, I have decided to stop beating about the bush, take the plunge and restart the Corps today!

At the moment, I have a total of 8 completed pages of the new chapter done and ready to go, but will be posting them at a rate of 1 per week (with the exception of this first week, when I'llbe posting the cover and the first 2 pages), so I do have a bit of a buffer that should stop it putting much pressure on me.

But at the same time, the regular commitment of a page per week should help keep me creatively stoked. That's the hope anyway! :)

Feel free to ignore this journal. It's just me venting some of my feelings in the vain hope that it'll do me some good...

I just wanted to start by saying sorry to everyone, especially my commissioners and anyone who may have sent me messages that I haven't replied to yet.

I've run headlong into another creative rut, and as a result I've been feeling quite down for several days. It all started at the end of last week, when some news at work called into question the future of my job. I won't go into it, but big changes happening at my workplace in January are going to make things very difficult for me. Thoughts about the uncertain nature of my future have been going round and round my head ever since and seem to have killed all my creative energy. I'm trying to pull myself out of this funk, but it's not easy. It never is. And having a horribly uncertain future doesn't help.

I seem to have had a large number of creative ruts this past year or so. I don't know why. It's certainly more than I remember having in past years.

At times like this, I feel like a talentless, amateurish hack. That if I were a proper artist, I'd be able to get through these difficulties more easily. Maybe I am just a talentless amateurish hack. Maybe that's all I can ever hope to be.

Whether or not I actually am the worthless artist I sometimes suspect myself to be doesn't really matterin the end. I'm still feeling bad regardless. I do wonder if other artists feel this way from time to time, or is it just me? I have no idea. At the moment, it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out it was just something wrong with me...

I'm going to stop myself before I go any furtheralong that train of thought. Sorry to all who may have read this far for me subjecting you to my rambling. Here's hoping getting these feelings out actually helps...

Well, here's this months update. Not as much progress as I would have liked over the past month.

The House of Lazarus

I now have 16 pages drawn. I had hoped to have more done by now. I suppose this is partly because pages 9-15 were more difficult than I anticipated, due to a character spending these pages in a position that I found very tough to draw and get right.

But, looking on the bright side, at least I have passed the half way point of the issue. I would hope to have the rest of the pages drawn by next month, and have started on the inking.

Furry Guardians

Absolutely zero progress from last month, which is both annoying and depressing. I am vaguely considering doing some work on a 10 page 'freebie' FG comic (like 'Beginning of the Brute' from some years back), the idea for which I've had for years, in the hope that it might kick start FG a bit for me again.

The Corps

I now have a total of 8 pages of chapter 2 finished. I still find myself procrastinating over when exactly to start posting them. I might wait a little longer and do a few more pages before I restart it. But hopefully, you'll all be seeing the return of the Corps soon.

Been working a little on some pages for The Corps today and I was wondering, how many people out there are actually interested in seeing it continue?

I have been procrastinating quite a bit over when to start it up again. But I'm thinking it's time to get my act together as I checked today and realised that it's been more than 2 years since I ended chapter 1. I've probably kept those of you wanting to see a continuation waiting for long enough! I'm just a little curious as to how many that is... :)

For those newer watchers who may not be familiar with The Corps, you can read the first chapter here: http://www.cyberklaw.com/thecorps/index.htm

Had a rather rough week last week, since I ended up working long ovetime hours every day. At first, I was still able to squeeze in a little artwork, but as the week went on, that proved too difficult.

And at the weekend, I was very tired and stressed out, so decided to take things easy, and all I managed art wise were a few sketches (which i'll be posting after this journal).

But all in all, I am rather annoyed with myself for not getting as much done as I should have on the arty front over the past week. I must try and do better this week...

Anyway, I am also once again behind on replying to comments and messages. So please everyone be a little patient with me.

As a side note, on the off chance that anyone out there cares, it'll be my birthday next monday...

It's the return of my monthly comics update!

I used to do this ages ago, and have decided to start doing it again. I'm hoping it might help keep me focused on gettiing stuff done, as it did before.

So, here's how my comics projects currently stand:

The House of Lazarus

The fourth and final issue is still being worked on. At the moment, I have 8 pages drawn. I really want to get this one done, as I should have had it finished ages ago.

Furry Guardians

Work on this series has been stalled for months, and I'm currently stuck in the middle of working out the story and page layouts for issue #7. I really need to get back into it and start making some progress.

The Corps

The big news here is that I'm planning to start posting new pages of the Corps soon, probably within the next few weeks. My hope is that having a regular commitment like a weekly web comic will keep me creatively stoked, like the sketch-a-day exercise of mine from several months back did. However, I'll keep this strictly to one page per week, so it doesn't take up too much of my time. Hopefully I'll be able to manage it, as I really want to continue the story of The Corps...

At this point in time, I actually have 4 new pages already done (although looking at them, I think I may go back and tweak them slightly here and there), and another 4 pages drawn and at the inking/colouring stage. So at least I already have a little bit of a headstart...

Well, that's the update. Here's hoping I have some progress to report for next month...

Things have not been going well with my art the past few weeks. I seemed to go through a bit of creative burn out and all my creative energy disappeared.

I'm doing better now, and seem to be getting back into things. But I just wanted to offer a big apology to all my commissioners for the delay.

 skotavus is looking to commission a comic from me, and is looking for a couple of people would be interested in appearing in it.

Check out his journal for full details: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1451532/

Well, I've been meaning to do this for awhile, but with things going well, I now feel ready for it. Plus, I could really use the extra money.

If you're interested, please send me a message, eith on here on to my email address: cyberklaw[at]yahoo.com

If you do decide to commission me, please remember to try and be patient with me, as I do have a day job that sometimes consumes a fair bit of my time.

Anyway, here's the relevant info:

My prices:

Single character pic:

B/W pencil sketch - $10
B/W drawing inked - $15
Fully coloured - $25

Pic with two or more characters:

B/W pencil sketch - $15
B/W drawing inked - $20
Fully coloured - $30


Comics:

Black and white - $8 per page
Fully coloured - $15 per page

The minimum length for a comic is 5 pages.


Please be aware that I DO NOT take commissions featuring the following:

-Blood and gore
-Vore
-Cubs
-Watersports and scat
-Copyrighted cartoon/comics/video game characters (e.g. Swat Kats, Pokemon, Digimon, etc)

Well, I didn't post a daily sketch yesterday (but have done 2 today to compensate). This was due to me spending the majority of the weekend with my lovely boyfriend, as we were celebrating our 4 year anniversary I had a great time with him. :)

I have noticed that I seem to have recently passed a few milestones here on FA. I have now passed 40,000 pageviews and 12,000 favs. Also, I have now passed 1400 watchers and this represents my 100th journal. So a big thank you to all of you out there who may have contributed to these statistics! :)

Life and work have been busy recently, and as a result I've been rather unfocused and all over the place. I'm still working away on commissions that I took last year, and still not having them done is depressing.

It doesn't help that my creativity levels remain pretty low, and I'm trying to figure out how to properly get back into the swing of things and get my creative energy flowing again.

While I'm here, I also want to say thank you to all who faved and commented on my 'Master Jack's Hypno-slave Store' pics and last month, and say that I'm sorry I don't have time to reply to them.

Also, I want to say thank you for all those who took the time to nominate Furry Guardians in this year's Ursa Major Awards, but unfortunately, it's not among the final nominees. But there is some solace in the fact that NO furry comic books seem to have been nominated this year, due to comic books being lumped together with webcomics in a 'Best Graphic Story' category. And the finalists in that category are all webcomics.

Which is no surprise, really. By being free, webcomics naturally have a larger audience (and therefore more people to nominate them) than paid for comic books are ever likely to get. Frankly, to me, it seems a little unfair to expect comic books to compete with webcomics, but hey, that's just my opinion.

Just an update on how things are going with me.

Not too good, to be perfectly honest. I am still trying to get my various commissions done, and the fact that I haven't caught up with them yet is more than a little disheartening. I remember at new year's expecting to have them done by the end of February at the very latest. But here we are, nearing the end of February and it's looking like I'll be lucky if I'm done with them by the end of March. I really did bite off more than I could chew...

It hasn't helped that various real life things (illness, overtime at work) have got in the way over recent weeks to make it difficult to work on anything.

And since I'm devoting pretty much all of what art time I have at the moment to these commissions, I haven't been able to work on any of my own art or comics, which is depressing. The last House of Lazarus should have been done long before now, but I barely have 1 page of it drawn.

So, I've decided to close commissions for the moment. Once I have finished those I already have, I want to devote some time to my own stuff once again. I will reopen commissions again eventually, but I can't be sure when. My sincere apologies to any out there who may have wanted to commission me, and I hope you will be patient.

And finally, a little reminder: nominations for this years Ursa Major Awards are still open, but will close at the end of the month. I hope you'll all consider nominating Furry Guardians for Best Comic Book (or 'graphic story' as they seem to be calling it now): http://www.ursamajorawards.org/nominations.htm

Just letting you all know that I've noticed that nominations are now open for this years Ursa Major Awards. Info on nominating can be found here:

http://www.ursamajorawards.org/nominations.htm

Of course, I have an interest in this, as my own Furry Guardians series is eligible for the best comic book category, as issues 5 and 6 were published last year. I am very proud of these issues as I feel they are some of my best comics work so far.

Now, I'm not going to tell you all who to nominate. All I'm going to do is ask that you consider nominating Furry Guardians in the category of Best Comic Book.

And if you wanted to encourage your friends to do the same, I certainly wouldn't object! :)

The series was of course previously one of the finalist nominees two years ago, and I feel it has only improved since then.

But whether you nominate Furry Guardians or not, I hope you will take the time to nominate your favorite furry works.

Over the past few days, my friend  kuma-chan has been uploading his stories to FA and I just wanted to take the opportunity to recommend that you all head over to his gallery and check them out.

There's his 'Banzuke' story, a tale of furry sumo wrestlers:

Series 1 starts here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3251214/
Series 2 starts here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3251312/
Series 3 starts here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3256877/
Series 4 starts here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3261903/

There's also 'Gruff's Gym', about an all-male gym and it's dominant and submissive members:

Part 1 is here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3260846/

And there's his Roman historical series 'Lumbar-Feles-Servusi':

Part 1 is here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3252573/

So, when you get the chance, be sure to take the time to give them a read. Personally, I think they are well worth the effort! :)

As of today, my web site has moved to it's new home. And I've even gone the extra mile and got myself a domain name!

So, from now on, my site can be found at: www.cyberklaw.com

Feel free to go check it out! :)

Well, the craziness of xmas is done with, a fact that I'm very happy about as it means I can start getting back to normal.

On the art front, my first priority will be getting caught up on my commission work. I very much appreciate the patience of my commissioners over the past weeks, so I want to get them their pics done as soon as I can.

After that, I need to get back to my comics. My plan to have the last House of Lazarus issue done by the end of the year has failed miserably, as at this point, I only have 1 page drawn. Oh well, I still want to get it completed as soon as possible.

Also in the new year, I do want to try and get back into The Corps. I am considering starting to post new pages in order to motivate me to continue it. I had wanted to wait until I had a big headstart, but this has resulted in me not being very motivated about it, and I'd like to change that. It's just smething I'm thinking about at this point.

In other news, I am now on twitter. Don't expect me to use it very often though, as my intention is to mainly use it to annouce updates on my comics and art. Anyway, here I am: http://twitter.com/cyberklaw

Also, my web sites will be moving in the new year. I have no idea what's going on with Furnation these days, it shut down, but is back up with a new owner, but seemingly without the web sites. While Furnation was a good home for many years, I think those days are long gone.

My sites were also to be found on a server I was allowed to use thanks to Arctic, but that will be coming to an end at the end of the year, for regrettable but understandable reasons I won't go into here.

I have been looking at various options for web hosting over the past several months, and hopefully should be making a decision soon, so watch this space for updates.

One site that won't be back is 'All in the Mind', my site dedicated to male furry mind control. It's actually been gone for months, but in that time only 1 person seemed to notice. Which shows the problem with it: almost no one was interested. After some initial interest when I set it up, no one seemed to care, no one submitted stuff to be included. As such, there seems no reason at all to bring it back.

Well, that's all my news for the moment...

I just wanted to say a quick sorry to those of you out there who are waiting for commissions from me, as there is going to be a bit of a delay now that we're into december.

Due to work being extremely busy during the run up to christmas, I am working a lot of extra hours and don't have a whole lot of spare time to spend on artwork at the moment. I'm doing what I can, when I can, but it's not as much as I'd like.

So, please accept my apologies for the delays, and for any delays there might be in me responding to messages and email between now and christmas.

The latest issue of Furry Guardians is finally available to buy online! It's now up at FurPlanet here: http://furplanet.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=428

I have also updated the Furry Guardians web site, and have changed and reorganised some pages. Check it out here: http://www.furnation.com/furryguardians/