THINGS I DRAW

A general rule of thumb: the more tame and asexual it is - the better :)

❤️ - Big fat round bellies straining/ripping/popping clothes/formal attires/uniforms. Usually on males :)
😃 - Other kinds of fatness and inflation, transformations, etc.
😐 - Bulges/boobs/butts, Soft vore, and other kinks...
😯 - Belches/farts, extreme slobness, mpreg, herms, babies, etc.
😱 - Mostly anything adult, requiring framing pictures in red: exaggerated genitalia and body excretions (liquid or solid), heavy gore, mutilations and anything heinous.
_{One cannot know everything, so if you'd like to ask about something not included here - you can ask it in the comment section or ask me via one of my IMs. Promise not to judge.}

CONTACTS

✈️ TELEGRAM | 🐾 FURAFFINITY | 👽 REDDIT | 🎮 DISCORD | 🐓 TWITTER (in order of preference and presence time)
Please, mind that I'm in a UTC+3 timezone, so people from the west are likely to reach me in the mornings or late in evenings.

PRICES

Listed in COMMISSIONS section.

PAYMENT

Due to my location only WISE payment system works for me. But it looks quite promising with their mission to minimize rip-offs.
_{I'd also appreciate it very much if you'd not omit my invitation link for registering. For that, I might get a bit of extra money someday. Thanks! :)}

This system allows me to have multiple currencies, therefore to minimize conversion losses - I'm able to accept payment in your local currency (with the official exchange rate at the day of payment request issuing, rounded up to integral value)

BASIC WORKFLOW

(1) Contact me here or via IMs (see CONTACTS section above). Pitch your idea of a drawing.
_{]Also tell me what is your local currency and whether you'd want to pay per each working stage or the whole amount upfront.}
When we reach an agreement I'll put you in the queue (I don't expect it to be long).

(2) Then I'll need a COMMISSION SPECIFICATION from you. Basically its a detailed description of what needs to be drawn (see the section below for cues). You can give it right away or take your time to write it.

(3) If you're not the first in line - I'll contact you when I'm ready to start working with you and will send you a WISE PAYMENT request (for a first stage or the whole commission)

(4) When both the PAYMENT is cleared and COMMISSION SPECIFICATION is received the work begins. Its broken down into stages. For each stage, I request payment and when its cleared - I'll work on it and send you the result. Then I'll request payment for the next stage (if the commission is not paid whole upfront) and so on.

The common stages are:
SKETCH: Done in a few iterations - until you are satisfied with poses/proportions/sizes (major changes).
LINEWORK: Detailed outlines are drawn until you're happy with facial expressions, essential details (minor changes). One to three iterations should be sufficient.
COLORING: Outline is colored. At this stage we're getting the colors and their patterns right. Changes relative to previous stages are unfavorable at this moment.
SHADING: Giving some volume to a flat drawing. Accentuating all the shapes, bulges and creases of your character(s) :)

COMMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

When you want something drawn describe the following:
- who is in the drawing?
- what are they doing?
- what is the supposed location?
- what mood or state each character is in?
- if important - what pose each character is in? (sitting / standing / laying (on which side?))
- if important - where are the legs and hands? are any items being held?
- if important - what is the view and perspective? what should be clearly visible?
_{... to be continued :)}

THE BAD NEWS
Previously I moved away from my home due to the war a country I was unfortunate to be born in started. And I had to move in together with my mom again. And as long as the war didn't end quickly enough, unfortunately, recently we had a family conflict in which it became clear that we can't live together much longer. She's a clean freak and recently she abruptly lost her shit and freaked out over such a tiny detail. And that's basically a straw that broke a camel's back.
It feels like living on a volcano - it might be warm and cozy and stuff, but it erupts very suddenly and basically makes you being afraid to stay around.
And yes - I'm super tired of my mother's hysterics and literally afraid of being around her, lol. Therefore I need to get to a safe distance and I found a place for rent in some remote town and am in process of moving there soon.

THE GOOD NEWS
So as long as the economy seems to be deteriorating both in my origin country and the one I'm in now my humble little income is now not sufficient to support my rent, therefore I need to earn a bit more.
And as long as I'll be having my own place, all the time and need for money - I'll be opening commissions soon.

But actually, I'm pretty psyched about the change of scenery and having a place of my own, where I could relax and focus and dig into drawing more. So if you might be interested in commissioning me - prepare your ideas :) I hope I'll be ready to begin in a week or two when I'll settle in a new place.

I plan on using WISE payment system as long as PayPal unfortunately is not available where I am.

Feb 18th, at 9:00am (UTC+3) (20 hours from this journal post date) I'll be trying a (local) morning streaming. See the schedule HERE.

I'll be doing a request for  tougedownhillwolf and  CaptainFurry Those two are gonna be drawn in a bedroom being fattened up with the help of a fattening agent substance... pumped... into them.

Anyone who reads it are welcome to join me on my Twitch :)
Would love to see some chat activity (needs Twitch account). I can produce mouth sounds besides chewing... called speech. I can demonstrate if you wanna ask questions in chat.
I'll put some crappy, but royalty-free music (twitch is really strict about it).

I have this idea to create a Twitch account and do an art stream sometime (never ever done it before).
Why Twitch? I'd be interested to try talking a bit in a stream, but not to myself and to less extent to chat, but to stream guests who also should be capable of speaking up (Twitch's guest star beta feature).
To those who'd be brave enough to talk - a free art maybe :) If the stream is all 18+ maybe show off a bit of an irl big belleh if it might be interesting and you could cheer me up for that, who knows :P

What do you think of this idea? What would be your preferred time to join streams (mornings/evenings) and days (weekend or any day)?

Yep, its my cakeday. I'm a 31 years old fat fart now. Like... woohoo, yay and all that... :-|
My birthdays always sucked - no cake, no friends, no mood, often a terrible weather. If I were working - I'd be stressed out and preoccupied with finishing my shit until new year, but this time I'm not and its good for a change.
But anyway I can catch up with that later... I can have cake or other yummy stuff whenever I feel like it (which is often, thats why I am fat). So I guess holding all the fun for that particular day would improve it, but its just one day a year. I mean - who can survive on one cake per year... its ridiculous, right? :) Unless that cake weights as much as I do - then we're talking ;)

Idk, maybe I'll try making a BD related pic, but no promises...

So folks, its been more than a month since I quit my job and hope I started feeling positive changes while recovering from exhaustion and burn-out.

And as I have a lot of free time now and intend to prolongate it at least 2 more months. I think I could put it in some good use and try earning some bucks by doing commissions. And I wonder if someone would be interested at all?

I never done this before and I need to work out that overall commissioning flow, like gathering info, evaluating cost, requesting and receiving payments and stuff. So I'd make a 50% discount of a total for a first volunteer, with which we would reach agreement on commission job. 2nd and 3rd commissioners would get a 25% discount. Hows that?

If anyone missed a link for prices - its in commissions section of my profile :)

So any thoughts on this? Questions? Suggestions? Commission offers, eh? ^. _ .^

WARNING: I discovered that minimum inquiry via Payoneer payment system I use is $20.

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1st comissioner: with a 50% discount - COMPLETE. See result
2nd comissioner: with a 25% discount - COMPLETE. See result
3rd comissioner: with a 25% discount - COMPLETE.

Hi, all.
Sorry again everyone, I went lurking mode on here. I'm wholly immersed in exhaustive work. I have to finish programming my part in system until May. So I hopefully can have a some sort of vacation in Australia in peace. Thats why I literally have no time for anything like drawing or even doodling. I'm so tired...
That workaholism thing is getting repetitive and really annoying. I want to quit that job already - its getting weird.
I might show up again in May while in Oz and maybe draw something, but no promises...

Who wants paper drawings similar to THIS for free?

I intend to practice artz more often. Plan is on some evenings after work / before bed.

CONTENT TYPE:
Aim for normal or mature art maximum. This means no dicks and yiffing.

PROVIDE INFO:
- character generic description and essential details ("tiger in labcoat with scar on right eye")
- what's going on ("he is fattened up due to mistake in experiment")
- pose (optional) ("laying on his belly on floor, face at front")
- expression (optional) ("blissful look on face")

HOW IT WORKS:
Pretty much like BEFORE, but this time:

1. 1 user may request 1 pic at a time and I plan to do so. To request just comment on journal entry with description or just dibs.
2. I'm NOT limiting amount of slots, but don't make a very huge line... there is no guarantees, hehe :)
3. If you're worried - you can dib your 1! slot in a queue. When I see dibbed slot after one I'm currently at - I'll comment it and ask to provide info. If no answer when it is your turn - you're skipped.
4. I'm planning to do it quickly (within 1 hour top) so I may omit many little details or even fail to make character look like requested (i.e. 3+ species hybrids)
5. I may not be artistic or busy at this time. May results in crappy drawing or postponing it.
6. I don't have scanner at home, so pictures will be appearing when I bring those to office and scan. This is around 9:00-11:00 AM UTC+3 (Mon-Fri). For US folks its at least 2:00am atm.
7. You can request slot again when there are at least 2 users after your last request (Tell your friends if everything stopped moving)
8. I tend to have an art blocks. I'll try to avoid this and force myself, but don't be offended if I'll stop for some time. Rest is important too sometimes...
9. To find status of things - look at the journal. When someones slot is closed - their pic is submitted and I'll answer to this journal comment with a link to a picture. After that - you check out how many furs are in line.

RESULT:
Scan of plain paper drawing without much cleaning. Examples: (1) (2)

MONEY:
This is free. But if you're generous enough and think I deserved a couple of bucks - try throwing them at paypal on dreykins@mail.ru

just fyi i'm expecting a fancy laptop with wacom digitizer to arrive in about 2-3 weeks. I wonder if I can set it up right and it'll make drawing more comfortable and mobile...

not promising, but that might push things forward.

Yeah, can't quite fit everything I need to do in my time. Unfortunately still don't have much energy to do much stuff.
Trying to do work, 3 workouts per week and attending speaking clubs at least once a week. And very often my weekends turns out to be lazy ones and I didn't come up with wanting to draw yet... And I decided to make another last attempt and get an appointment to psychologist to address with that neurosthenia I'm suffering for more than 10 years. Until now I only encountered shitty psychologists.

Also I think my fursona might shift to a new appearance and species. Some other day a colleague at lunch told me as a joke that I am impersonating raccoon. That is a heavy enough reason to try shifting that cat to catoon or pure raccoon maybe... :)

So I'm still alive and hope I'll have energy to draw again sometime.

Well, noone noticed, but I am open for 5 sketch requests. And I'll be having 3-4 free days to make them. No requests are accepted from those who already had ones. I dunno, but I'll try aiming for something like _this_

Previous offer is now over.
You can post descriptions here or send them via PM.

Hey, fellas... sorry I disappeared again. I think I'm not handling winter well. All that lack of sun, dirt and grayness around really depressing and stimulates my anxiety, procrastination and spoils any mood for doing anything. I even really began to regret that I am no actual bear, who could hibernate and sleep it out.
Also since the beginning of this year day to day things are getting kind of worse here (for those who don't know - in Russia). Well, I guess it is a well established tradition in this country to have crysises and collapsing from time to time... I could say a lot, but the fact is that overall situation have convinced me to seriously make attempts to emmigrate 'dafuk outta here' because I don't want to be part of this screwed up land anymore... and never actually wanted anyway.

Well, anyhow, I have a preferred destination in mind, but I need to work on some aspects before I will be qualified and be clear for such transitions. Among them I need a little help with my English. I received a TOEFL test results yesterday, and I was particularly impressed with them, because I though I did much worse, but this is not quite enough to meet some requirements.

In particular I have problems with speaking and writing. I couldn't get myself to start preparing for the test two weeks prior and didn't flex my tongue for English speaking and I got really nervous at the test and thought that I failed miserably speaking section, but surprisingly I got 20 points out of 30 even for that. And in report it is visible that my performance increases through 3 sections from limited to good. But I think that suck anyway and I want to do better next time. Remember about red-caviar, you might need it soon. I even doubt if this is a language problem... I don't give speeches often even in my native language. So I think I'd be having troubles even if I'm asked same questions in russian, hehe...

Same thing for writing. Test really requires a carefully written fluent essay logically linked and arguments fully expressed and also set a word count minimum. If you only knew how I hated writing essays at school... it was usually in literature classes with a totally retarded, dull and ambigious topics like "Character of Pierre Bezuhov" (from War and Peace). Maybe the fact that I still didn't read this ton of paper romance had something to do with my hatred, but meh... I still don't like it and need practice here too, because writing is the most demanded skill for qualification.

And at this point I want to ask for help from somebody who won't mind to practice english speaking with me via skype with some supervision maybe, like if I'm saying something strange/unclear/wrong - then correct me there and briefly explain if needed and possible. If someone is willing - then pm me. As a gratitude I can offer my art if you'll write a keyword I mentioned above :)

Also I want to improve my writing skill, but don't know how to do it better. Should I try writing stories, which you can criticise in terms of grammar and thesaurus and overall story delivery, so I could improve? Or I would appreciate similar form of communications via pm where we can exchange full-fledged letters about stuff. Or maybe something else? Tell me if someone has interesting ideas :)

I wonder if someone will have any interest in watching a stream of me drawing stuff. Thoughts, anyone?

To induce some diversity I'll accept some requests.

I'm not a pro artist nor am I drawing often. But anyway if anyone would like to make a long-term request, that might be done eventually - then go for it. :)

Preferably tame and stick to the theme of fatfurs/inflation or related.

Drop them here, or if you're shy about it - to notes. Thanks.
Status will be in this journal too.

I'll limit to 3 at first, and if you're late - then stay tuned for next journals :)

Also, commenters of my old artwork have a priority ;)

Requests are: CLOSED Remaining: 0Current: <All done> Done:
Future: ... there is no future. Only next journal entry.

Astonishing news, everyone! Yesterday a friend of mine gave me link to video made by russians.

I was absolutely shocked that we were actually able to make something that is not a total piece of shit as everything else we do. It seems to appear from absolutely nowhere. I don't know what budget did it have - not big probably, but that actually means nothing at all. It's all about QUALITY. I haven't seen anything that cool made by us like... ever. But this I am not totally ashamed to show to anyone...

This video is a very heavy methaphor for what happens in our society - but I think it might be applicable for any country... in Russia it's just really irritates eyes and I glad that many others see what's happening.

I warn you... there are a lot of gross things. It has specific theme... well - it's plain disgusting overall, so if you are really have weak stomach and disgusted easily - then better skip it. But if you're good - then look it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrjzOUZJI4

Hi all. I'm still not sure if anyone cares but I finally have my vacation after a very-very long period of working hard on my job. And this is the first time ever I managed to visit a foreighn country :) So I'm on Mallorca in Peguera, woo!!! It is really awesome here, especially when I got so sick of that crazy piece of shit like Moscow which seem will collapse real soon. I brought a tablet with me here, hoping to draw, but it turned out that I'm really busy here, eating out, swimming, sleeping and walking around. ))

For a classic office rat like me it's quite fascinating. I was able to go in big water for the first time since I was 10! :) And I learned to swim already. Although being a programmer weakened my arms, but that improves with time... and clothing shrinks really fast with time to, haha :) Maybe it's salt water, lol. )

Lots of Germans here, though, so many Hispanics are way better in speaking german than speaking english... so it's getting a bit confusing sometimes :)

And everything looks cool by now. )

From news feed: "Emergency protection system activated on Kursk nuclear power plant."
And that looks like very good news actually. The bad news would be if protection failed to activate... and, as a minor consequence, - horrible slow death from irradiation of thousands people... less or more - not a big deal around here :)

But on the other hand we missed the fun and should get back on obeying laws like "scribbling with chalk on city's pavement surfaces is considered as an act of vandalism and corruption of governmental property."

Hey everyone! Sorry to bother you again. But I have a question.

Is there anyone around who is visiting McDonalds regularly?
If there is - then I want to ask you if it is happened to you before that after a meal of McD stuff you feel tension and heaviness in your heart, head and slightly overall your body? I started to feel it after every meal ordered there in this month. And today I got concerned about this feeling and went to local infirmary where I work and asked them to check my blood pressure. When doctor finished - she was like "CHEESE US!!! Your systolic is around 180! And also you have a tachicardia! How old are you?! What happened?!"
I got confused a little... and said "Nothing, I'm 25. I just had my lunch at... um... restaurant... yeah... one of those many around. Right..." Then she immediately gave me some pill and a painful injection of something in my buttcheek. After that my pressure began to decrease. I felt better. Within half an hour my pressure dropped to 155. And I was given a prescription of some anti-hypertension medicaments I guess. And now I need to take them every day and have my blood pressure monitored for awhile.

So now I wonder what the f**k was that?! Is that some sort of special meat juiced up with steroids and stimulants and hell knows what else? I don't remember having something similar in summer when I was sneaking for a second lunchbreak in there for weight gaining purposes (I must admit that those huge burgers are almost perfect solution to gain extra+ weight without being stuffed to the point when food starts to come through your ears).

I really think that I should avoid eating at McD next half of year as minimum. And forever as a perfect solution.
So anyone was in this situation with that hypertension thing after a meal?

Thanks for everyone who will take their time reading and commenting on that.

MOOD HAZARD AHEAD!Leave this page immediately! You've been warned.
What follows next is a description of tragic unusual and noticeable moment in my relationship with a certain person. You don't have to give a shit about that at all. There is plenty of it already. Trust me.
I am experiencing permanent troubles at initiating and supporting pointless and baseless conversations. And that's why I am not the first person you would like to talk with. I am not in even in top 100 I think. I knew that could be troublesome in some situations. And this situation was present for almost a whole year.

What I'm talking about - is my girlfriend. I am happy that I've had a chance to draw someone's attention in first place and keep it as long as almost a whole year. That is fantastic job considering the fact that our personalities correlate very weakly. When it comes to personalities - I also have problems with deep insight of one's nature. I cannot see past the outer presentation of a person unlike my colleague at work. I'm so naive that I think all people are good, honest, etc. And this lack of deep insight, blind and strong attraction to beloved ones and my patience turned out to be quite an explosive combo.

As of me - I tend to be the terminating point in great flow of shit. When it pours on me I tend to contain it within and prevent those who surround me from getting a load of it all over. After receiving a load of it myself - I then should be left alone to cool it down and reprocess it to a safer substance. And after a while everything becomes normal.
But not this time, folks. Here and now you, my dear reader, If you dared to read this far - you witness the disaster of containment rupture and personally you got shitted all over, my friend. You were warned to not come any closer, but you disobeyed. And look what happened.

It wasn't a very good time recently. My GF found a friend in that game League of Legends. And told me that he is such a great person to talk with and she feels wonderful when talking to him. I was very happy for her while barely containing that crazy boiling shit inside of me. OK. Whew... shit contained successfully. Life goes on. Another accident - she tells me I don't love her and talk with her coldly. Exactly! This is obvious! The facts that I'm:
- in hurry to/from my work just to get online and be with her;
- listening to these complaints about how much problems she has and really trying to help and advice her (often not really successfully though);
- trying to keep her entertained as hard as I can;
THESE JUST DON'T COUNT!! Oops! O_O here goes another intensive shit fluctuation. Containment works again for her sake.
There were many other insulting moments like this.

And finally today I'm having a tiny 20 minutes long meeting at work. When I came back to my workstation - there was a message like "11:10 - are you busy?" and then "11:22 - are you ignoring me?". I responded that I had a meeting so I was away. I'm a sysadmin afterall. And if something fucks up in server room - I'm going away for a long time. Thats my job. And then it goes:
She: Hey, I'm bored. Whatchya doin'?
Me: Nothing. Not much happening around here.
She: *lists problems currently upon her*
Me: Sorry to hear about that.
*PAUSE*
*Me went away for a lunchbreak*
She: *more problems*
She: Are you there?
*I'm back from lunch*
Me: I'm here now. Was at lunch. Sorry )
She: You are ignoring me for the whole day. Sergey usually tells me if he is leaving. And you are not!
Me *GETTING EDGY*
Me: Well, EX-CU-SE-ME, madam!
*PAUSE*
She: Well, you have nothing to talk about as usual, right?
Me: Exactly, maybe you have something?
She: I always have something, but what's the point if I get a silence in reply.OMFG!!!! Take cover!!! Save Your Lives!! Shitlear chain reaction commencing !!!!NOW!!!!
Massive explosion! Containment bursted to pieces. Vessel and containment debris covered in shit shoot in every direction. It's a shit meltdown! Everyone around are buried in shit and dead! *HAPPY END*

This tragedic little personal shitty Chernobyl is dated 2011-12-14 14:50:14.

P.S. Consider this as a sticky note. Just to remember. It happens pretty rarely with me. :)
And by the way: I feel fine already. No need to compassionate very much
Another funny thing: Written it while listening to The Prodigy - Girls

Hey there, everyone. Once again after a long-long delay I'm making an effort to write something about what's happening, and make an useless excuse again about not making any art recently.

Skipping the babble, the main thing is that I officially have a diagnosis called "F48.1 - Depersonalization syndrome." which, as I think, was triggered by some sort of anxiety disorder. (Brain explosion warning if links are clicked)

That's a psychiatric disease and thus it's waaaay too wicked to explain in it's full complexity involving neurochemical processes in brain. So I just present you with analogy. Do you use suspended power state (S3) in your PCs or laptops? It's when the system leaves power only for critical components, required to support the current execution state of your machine and to be able to wake up upon external signal. That what I feel about my brain. It works just as if it being in power-conserving mode... I can't process information in a complex way, I can't learn, can't analyze, can't imagine (cognitive function is down). I can't do literally anything worth living for. All my life has narrowed to three main things: eat, sleep, browsing lulz in the internet. You say "what about work?" There is no work anymore. I quit it for now because I could not handle it anymore. As my former colleague said "Man, jeez, you're not living, you're just existing and nothing else!" - I can't find any more exact phrase than this, describing the whole my life in a last 6 years...

But it's not all hopeless. I went to doctor and now I'm receiving some treatment. It started not so long ago... just in the end of April. But I already felt a fleeting positive dynamics for a couple of days. And that leaves me hope to get back to normal (active and productive) life some day...

That is also my excuse of not making art and not showing any activity on this site... it's just getting too hard... sorry everyone.

P.S. But I'm not gonna leave... I'll.. just... wait here until things get better.
P.P.S. That's a one damn cool title for a journal I have there :)

Awesome game I discovered recently. I totally love it and recommend everyone to play that. Just to enjoy nice graphics, sound and zombie toy bears. Really had fun playing that.

Play it >>>HERE<<<

Hello, everybody. It's been quite a while since my last journal post. Pretending that somebody cares about it - I decided to post a quick status report. A Couple... hundred... kilobytes will be enough I hope So here goes...

Following text, embedded in the frame is a useless blah-blah about my life. Everyone can skip it at will
My new living place
As already said in previous journal post I moved to a new place. It's a little russian flat (Khrushchovka) in a building that was built hell of a time ago :-D
It's on top 5th floor. No elevator here. Flat was seriously renovated 2 years ago. Until that it was just awful. It was actually its first major renovation since ever. But now it really looks neat and simplistic. There is not much of furniture. And most of it is an old stuff. Which actually gives freedom of imagination, because I can dispose anything of that anytime and buy something new. What I've already done with workplace furniture. Everything else serves fine to its purpose.

Now let me tell about surrounding area. It has a distinctive soviet proletarian spirit. From inside of living blocks it looks kinda poor, I must say. But in spite of this there is a lot of little and medium shops along the streets. Most of them selling useless things. There is also a mall nearby but it's also useless.
Dense layout of old low-rise building gives a warm feeling of comfort and calmness here. In comparison, area where my mom lives, looks like a desert with sparse layout of high-rise buildings, and there is not even that much trees in there to fill up free space. So I definitely like this place more. :)

Work
Its a total cr@p. Period. Lots of retarded activities been happening within these 2 moths. Project I am assigned to, was supposed to have intermediate validation in the end of November and I worked like hell to make everything look good. But all that delayed up to the very end of December. Oh man... everything there looks really poorly coordinated and suck overall. It often reminds me of Dilbert company but in smaller amounts.
Well pretty much all the things that were happened to me at work in last 2 months were BAD. And my new boss (since September) is a friggin A$$h0le, I hate him. And this job sucks. That is all for it now.

FurAffinity
Another remarkable thing is that I've totally scored when done 3 pics in a row at the end of november. I got ~140 messages which were comments, faves or +watches in a very little time until FA went down. But still that was amazing. I am really grateful to all those FAers!

New Year
Well I'm not a person who loves parties. So I modestly celebrated it with my mom. In the next day I visited my grandmother and then went home to take some rest after all.

I want to notice the weather. It was a really nice surprise - by Dec 30 a classic russian winter formed (it's a rare thing nowadays). Temperature -10..-15 deg.C. Lots of sticky snow, which formed a nice 2-3 in. layer on every horizontal surface (wires, tree branches, roofs, etc...). Not windy. Not much ice. Lots of icicles. That's just beatiful.

And Jan 1st was a total perfection when skies became clear and sun illuminated all that snow. It was a real pleasure walking around in such weather looking at all that white sparkling goodness, helping drunk people get out of snowdrifts, or stand up fallen ones, lol :-D

Anyway it was nice.

And again I apologize for not making any art. I am still exhausting very much at work so I don't have any strength to draw. We will be having holidays until Jan 11th :-P so I hope I will draw something in the meantime.

My late wishes of a happy new year to everyone. Better late then never, eh? :)

I found a perfect adventure for my butt.
Within less than 24 hours I will move out to a new living place. This place is my little flat located almost on the other side of the city. Lodger used to live there, but discontinued contract. My mom told me about that and I said "Okay... we'll find somebody else", went to my room and then it striked in my head that it would be great if I'll try living on my own. Then I felt really excited about all that. Several days later came first doubts and thoughts about real things - about how am I gonna pay bills, how much will be spending on food and stuff like that. But I came to conclusion that I'll manage it somehow. And now I'm packing my stuff and feel kinda scared about what's going to happen... maybe it's because my life usually very boring and now its changing dramatically.

Oh man... what am I got into?

Yeah... it's THIS thing. $420 wasted for it. First impressions were bad. It was delivered at midnight and all I could do is: unpack, check damaged pixels, pay for it and let delivery man go, try something 3D, become disappointed, go to sleep, think what the f--k am I gonna do with this crap now, fall asleep. 2 days later (i.e. now) I learned about it's ultra-narrow viewing angles in 3D and got used to it.

In 2D mode quality of image was so-so... I've got to raise overall color gamma and lower brightness of blue channel by software (!) before image became acceptable to me.
Like the design, but hate that glassy screen... glassiest screen ever... it's like dark mirror really. :( Tomorrow I'll be able to see how it's like to be sitting in front of it at daytime... preparing for the worst.

And I think I'll have to buy some powerful video card for that... because many games are very-very-very slow in stereo mode.

So this is it, folks... :)

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Current favorite music: Victims of Science - The Device Have Been Modified

Hey'all... deciced to post some info about whats happening in my life and why you are not seeing new submissions.
Actually in the beginning of august I've done a surgery on my nose internals. Surgeons cut off lots of stuff out of there. And then I spent 6 days in recovery. And after that another 2 weeks at home. At this time I've done last 3 of my submissions.

This surgery under local anestesia was not even close to being as terrible as I thought it would be... just unpleasant feelings while cutting my skull bones around nose. And first day of recovery wasn't the best of my life either.

Then when my mom (yeah I still live with her) went to a 2 week vacation - I've secretly done another 2 cosmetic surgeries which are not quite noticeable but sure were needed to me. And while I was recovering I wasn't drawing because recovery was going well, of course, but still limited my mobility and stuff...

I spent home 4 weeks in total being in recovery of 3 surgeries... and then I went out to work. And here I encountered anothar major problem with my body... with my most important part - my brain. I was feeling sssssooooo dull at work I barely could make simpliest things somehow related to brain activity. Some days I could move a little further, other days I could spend playing games like minesweeper, arcanoid, quake (all of them on skill level for retards) or sleeping on keyboard (thank God I have cubicle walls) or watching blinking KDE clock like zombie. And still I came home after that with my brain still being that numb so the only thing I could do is watch TV or sleep... or eat something. Everything repeats on the other day. But when I reported to my boss about how thing are going and heard his answer "What the hell??!! Is this all??? you spend one-and-a-half week doing JUST THAT?!!! That's unexcuseable slow. Jeez, hurry that up!".

At this point I understood that I have a serious trouble with my brain function productivity, and also felt some "you're gonna be fired" vibes around... so I went to psychiatric clinic and permanently established there for another 10 days. Now I'm back... I still don't feel much energy to work or to draw or to do anything related to thinking. But at least they put me on medications and all I can is to wait and hope for the best.

I doubt that there would be submissions any soon... I really want to do it but I just can't... I'm really sorry about that guys. Now I need to sleep. Need to go to work tomorrow...