Where are you staying?
Still figuring it out, probably the main hotel though!

What day are you getting there?
Thursday

How are you traveling?
Motorized Auto

Who will you be rooming with?
Not sure yet!

How is the best way to find you?
Message me here, ask around for Varemia/Halcyon the mouse, maybe find me in the artist's alley

Are there any panels you might be attending?
Not sure yet, nothing in particular

What do you look like?
Short dude, not a lot to me but I have a mouse suit

Will you be suiting?
Probably!

Do you do free art?
Maybe a sketch or two

Do you do trades?
Maybe?

Do you do badges?
I could, yeah

What is your gender?
Dude

How tall are you?
Short

Can I talk to you?
Yeah

Can I touch you?
Probably

Can I visit your room?
Depends

Can I buy you drinks?
Sure

Can I give you stuff?
If it's not too heavy?

Can I hug or snuggle with you?
Maybe?

Are you nice?
As nice as I can be

Do you have an artist table?
Maybe, probably, I'll try!

Will you be going to parties?
If I can

Will you be performing?
In fursuit? I guess, depends if that counts as performance.

If I see you, how should I get your attention?
say... hello or something?

Where will you be most of the time during the day/s?
probably the artist's alley, otherwise I'll be wandering

What/where will you be eating?
uhhhh, not sure

Can I come with you for food/fun/etc?
yes?

Can I look in your sketchbook?
Yes

Can I draw in your sketchbook?
hm... depends

Can I take your picture?
Yes

What's your goal(s) for the con this year?
Make back my travel costs in art sales, and have shit-loads of fun

Here's hoping all goes well!

How do you want to be addressed?
Dan, Danny, Daniel, Halcyon, Varemia

Gender?
Male

Orientation
Bidirectional

Age?
22

What do you look like?
Short, thin, shortish brown hair, green eyes, sometimes glasses, sometimes in my white mouse fursuit.

Where/how can I find you?
I wander a lot, so just keep an eye out for a short dude with a mouse badge.

Are you taken? Are you looking for a mate?
I'm single, and I'm open to a mate, though I'm not actively seeking.

How are you getting there?
By car, hopefully with my friend, Seneca.

What hotel are you staying at?
The main con hotel

Which days will you be attending?
Thursday to Sunday

Can I touch you.
Hugs, perhaps, especially if I'm in suit. Otherwise, I don't like people touching my hair.

What is one thing you will be doing?
Drinking, hopefully

Do you draw?
Yes

Do you do requests?
If I like them, sure.

Will you have prints, CDs, or merchandise?
Nay

Will you have Art in the Art Show?
Nope

Can I draw you/your fursona?
Feel free

Are you doing the artist ally?
No, but a few friends of mine will be there, so I'll hang around there a bit

Who will you be with?
keida xlttiger and a bunch more people I'm too lazy to list right now

What is your main purpose for attending?
Fun, fun, bronies, furries, fun, friends, fun, fun, and art

Can I talk to you?
Yeah

Can I take pictures with/of you?
Sure

Are you bringing your sketchbook?
Yes

Can I touch/hug/cuddle you?
Hugs/touch, sure. Cuddle??? Probably not.

Can I hang out with you?
Generally, yeah

Can I buy you food/a drink?
I like food and drink a lot, so yes.

Do you go to parties?
If I can find them, yup.

Do you dance?
Sometimes

Do you (own a) fursuit/costume?
My white mouse fursuit partial. Which reminds me, I need to repair my feet.

What is the best way to reach you?
I'd suggest using furaffinity or my newly crafted Deviantart page for my pony art, http://varemiaart.deviantart.com

Anything else?
Fun!

Man, these dreams are really strange. It feels like I'm drawing like normal. I'm checking and rechecking lines, I'm organizing layers, I'm even coloring within lines and having technical difficulties that I overcome along the way. Except, it all happens while I'm asleep, sometimes over the course of multiple dreams. This last one had me convinced within the dream that while my current progress was dreamed, at least I had the first half drawn for real. Nope! All dream.

It's alright though, because I still want to draw when I get up in the morning.

In other news, I'll be going to Anthrocon soon, which is nice. Hopefully I make some friends and get some inspiration for art! After Anthrocon, my next big trip will be Bronycon, which will be my pony convention, so that's exciting. I'll be living in a different place with potentially a new job and no debt, since I plan to pay off a small loan from the government before August. Then, I'll officially be a debt-free Anthropologist who draws ponies and furries!

How do you want to be addressed?
Dan, Danny, Daniel, Halcyon

Gender?
Male

Orientation
Bidirectional

Age?
22

What do you look like?
Short, thin, shortish brown hair, green eyes, sometimes glasses, sometimes in my white mouse fursuit.

Where/how can I find you?
I'll be wandering or going to panels, so look for a guy with a cute halcyon badge and a pony badge that says "Light Bright"

Are you taken? Are you looking for a mate?
Not taken. Open to a "mate" though, I guess.

How are you getting there?
Getting driven by some good friends.

What hotel are you staying at?
The main con hotel

Which days will you be attending?
Friday to Sunday

Can I touch you.
For hugging, sure.

What is one thing you will be doing?
Wandering, maybe sitting and doing some drawing.

Do you draw?
Yes


Do you do requests?
Never gotten any, so maybe


Will you have prints, CDs, or merchandise?
No, but I might start soon.

Will you have Art in the Art Show?
No

Can I draw you/your fursona?
If you feel like it. He's just an adorable white mouse.

Are you doing the artist ally?
No, but I'll probably visit it more than a few times.

Who will you be with?
and a bunch more people

What is your main purpose for attending?
To have a good time and meet lots of people.

Can I talk to you?
Yeah

Can I take pictures with/of you?
That'd be fine.

Are you bringing your sketchbook?
You could call it a sketchbook. It's more like an assortment of papers.

Can I touch/hug/cuddle you?
Touch/hug, sure. Cuddle??? I'd have to think about it.

Can I hang out with you?
Usually

Can I buy you food/a drink?
Drinks mostly. I'm trying not to eat any more than I have to if I can help it.

Do you go to parties?
I'm not very good at parties, but I do like going to them.

Do you dance?
When I'm in fursuit.

Do you (own a) fursuit/costume?
My white mouse fursuit partial.

What is the best way to reach you?
Through here, my twitter: http://twitter.com/danielontheweb and my tumblr: http://rainbowsunshinewarrior.tumblr.com and my youtube: http://youtube.com/user/Daniel092004

Anything else?
I'm going to be scoping out other bronies... not really anything special. See you there!

How do you want to be addressed?
Daniel, Halcyon

Gender?
Dude

Orientation?
Bisexual

Age?
21 (22 very soon!)

What do you look like?
Short dude with blonde hair and dark brown roots, thin now (yay!), sometimes glasses, light green/blue eyes, and a really awesome Mouse partial fursuit.

Where/how can I find you?
I wander, but I'll probably be in the fursuit parade, or attending an interesting panel about spirituality or fursuit creation. Oh! My group usually has a panel called College Furs which I should be able to be found at. Otherwise keep a lookout for a little dude wearing a Halcyon mouse badge or wearing a white mouse costume.

Are you taken? Are you looking for a mate?
I'm a single rodent, and I dunno. Mates are cool, but I don't like long distance deals, so I prefer the short-term type of mate if you *cough*... *COUG_HACK!* bleh

How are you getting there?
Getting driven by my good friend.

What hotel are you staying at?
The main one as far as I know.

Which days will you be attending?
The whole three-day shebang

Can I touch you?
Depends. Hugs are cool, and I'm cool with touching, but keep it PG.

What is one thing you will be doing?
Wandering, drinking, playing games with people, fursuiting. The usual.

Do you draw?
Yup, but more as a hobby than a profession

Do you do requests?
Yes. There are actually a lot of things I'd like to try, but I never have the motivation to really commit to an idea. I imagine that a dollar or two would make me feel real committed.

Will you have prints, CDs, or merchandise?
Nope, but I'm open to suggestion for the future.

Will you have Art in the Art Show?
No

Can I draw you/your fursona?
Absolutely!

Are you doing the artist ally?
Nope, but my friends are, so I might be around there more than a few times.

Who will you be with?
Let's see.... Keida, Tiger Thor, Seneca, Random Lion, and a few others.

What is your main purpose for attending?
Having a grand ole time. Conventions are a great getaway from college life.

Can I talk to you?
YES. PLEASE I GET SO BORED

Can I take pictures with/of you?
Sure, but especially if I'm in my fursuit. :D

Are you bringing your sketchbook?
I don't really have a real sketchbook, but I'll have a cheap notepad thingy.

Can I touch/hug/cuddle you?
Dunno about cuddles, but touches and huggles is ok

Can I hang out with you?
WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE

Can I buy you food/a drink?
Drink, yes. Food, maybe. I'm trying to drop the last of this baby fat I have, so food is the enemy. I somehow manage to find food anyway, so no worries.

Do you go to parties?
YES, TELL ME WHERE THEY ARE. Seriously, last MFF everytime I asked someone where a party was they said they just came from one, and couldn't remember where. I was a party mouse without a party :(

Do you dance?
I can sure try!

Do you (own a) fursuit/costume?
Partial mouse!

What is the best way to reach you?
Um, I'll try to check my FA messages, but mostly it's if you see me. I don't like oversharing my phone-number, but if I want to talk to you again I'll definitely put it in there.

Anything else?
Yes, um, wait.... no, there's definitely.... ah! Be excellent to eachother. and, uh... PARTY ON DUDES!

There's a pretty cool raffle going on with Vesperia. Check it out!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5121430/

This crazy person is giving away 100 bucks. Check it out!
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5101472/

Finals are coming... drawing has halted. Fursuit work has halted. Hopefully I'll get more work done when it's all done with.

I'm looking to expand my creative horizons. My issue is that I am not fully invested in my random sketches. I'm thinking that if I take requests, then I will dedicate more time and effort into the detail.

So, if you have a request, note me or comment on this journal. I'll work on them as I'm able or until I decide to stop taking requests. :)

I want to get better at drawing poses and action moves, so if you have something like that, I'd be eager to try it out.

The foam is giving me some unforeseen difficulties. I'm trying to make it as accurate as possible, but my measurements, pictures, and video of the suit design I'm emulating are simply not doing the job. I'm having to improvise and hope it works. At least the skeletal meshwork is fairly consistent, and I'm almost certain I've done it correctly. After this, it will be a heck of a time making the fur, but I have the airbrush set and clay and felt coming within the week. The suit is beginning to pick up, and I'm not sure when I'll be able to finish a full suit.

The suit I'm working on is of a much simpler design, but I'm still facing time hurdles on it. The biggest problem is being able to focus on it along with the stresses of everyday life at home. It takes time and a great deal of focus to make it just right the first time, and I'm finding that it's very tough. Once I'm in my apartment in August, I hope to see my productivity triple. In the mean-time, I'll try to work on it as much as I can.

I know it's not the best fursuit in the world, but it's my first, and I suppose people may want to know how I did what I did.

Ok, so first I ordered foam from Foam Factory. They've got this nice foambymail thing and I got my foam within a week or so. It was two nice big squares, one of which I still haven't cut into.

I went through a couple pairs of scissors. It does seem that foam dulls a scissors blade pretty quick. I actually ended up buying an electric knife for some of the bigger carving jobs, like the cheeks. Scissors were just too iffy on the preciseness area.

I used a lot of hot glue to keep the foam together, and I used my head as a base for the most part, using quilting pins to hold the foam together before I glued it.

When it came to the fur, I ordered it from fabric.com. They were pretty easy and had this free shipping deal on purchases over 50 bucks. I still have an excess amount of synthetic fur. I started out with scissors, but I quickly learned that it's very easy to accidentally crop the fur wrong on the edges when it is cut with scissors. I figured out a method, but it's tedious. It's much easier to simply use a box knife with the shortest blade setting.

For shaping and placing the fur, I pinned it against the foam and folded it back at places until it was flat. Then, I took a pen and marked the edges. I cut along those edges, with a little leeway for a sewing edge, and then repeated that until I had some fair sized pieces that were nice and solid. I wanted to avoid having patchy fur on my head.

After that, I trimmed with a beard trimmer (weak piece of crap, didn't do the job) and scissors (much more tedious, but more control in the long run. It can be frustrating if you mess up.).

My friend made the eyes, teeth, and nose out of clay. I used a quadrupled thread tied to a piece of metal glued to the back of the nose and tied through the inside of the head. Then, I glued the rest of the nose underneath. The thread just wasn't strong enough and I figured the foam would lose stability over time.

That's pretty much it. I did wait until the end to put the neck on the head. I basically sewed it along the edge and glued any part that touched the foam. I still haven't got my jaw to work right. I'm still trying to come up with ideas for that. My dilemma seems to be my basic framework being an issue. The top of the head comes to somewhat of a point, and that leaves space. When I try to use the jaw, my head simply filled the space above instead of meeting resistance and opening the jaw.

The future may hold more interesting things with my suit. Who knows. I may have enough fur to build an entire suit, but I'm not sure. I've never made clothing, and I don't want to waste materials learning the hard way. I need a teacher or a reliable set of tutorials and/or books.

Need to breath some life into this place. My account has lain dormant for far too long. Time to start some electricity up in here.