im going to take it easy untill the stream tonight Chilling, napping etc and just overall being lazy.

Just a reminder the Commission price increase for inks goes into effect tonight.

The new prices are:

Sketch $10
Ink $25
Color $40
Full shade $50

by the end of this week *supplies permitting* I'll be re-opening traditional streams, with a new product. In a fit of crazy i decided to break down and get a button maker, i saw alot of buttons at AC and wanted to make some of my own designs.

Traditional prices:
ACEO : $20
Postcard: $40
Full size: $60
Dogtags: $10
Buttons: $10

Things i'll be doing to expand my business model:

Going to do a major overhaul of the Storenvy site,
adding the pony charms, making more pony charms etc.
I want to make JUST cutie mark charms as well but i need more plastic before i do that.
The dangly-tail fursona charms are getting overhauled as well, i will no longer be using the old designs and will be fixing them to be more unique and different. To that event i'll be running several poses by you guys and see what sticks.

PONY CHARMS I HAVE:
Princess Celestia
Princess Luna
Discord
Spike
Twilight Sparkle
Rainbowdash
Fluttershy
Rarity
Pinkiepie
Applejack
Derpy Hooves
Dr Whooves
The Tardis
Vynyl Scratch
Scootaloo
Sweetie belle
Applebloom

PONY CHARMS IM THINKING OF MAKING:
Queen Crysalis
A changling
Princess Cadence
Shining armor
Big mac
Cheerilie
Lyra
Bonbon
Octavia
Trixie
Nightmare moon

- Custom ponies? (maybe, no idea if im going to tackle this)



Supplies I will GLADLY Trade art for:
Shrinkydink white inkjet printing paper/plastic MUST BE ONE-SIDED 8X10 < its very hard for me to find this now that SD changeed how they made thier paper. I'll give you 2 lovely digital sketches for each packet you can find and send.

Copics, always copics. Please ask me what colors i need. I use Sketch.

step one: need to learn to pace myself more, now that i know what to expect though, next year is going to be a forking blast.

1. Talking with a fundamentalist christian while waiting for my friend lina at the train station, (myself decked out in goth regalia) and (hopefully) convincing him that while the salvation of christ is important, getting there involves love and tolerance. "Religion is like icecream, there's lots of different flavors of icecream, my favorite icecream is blue moon and yours is vanilla, im not going to change my favorite ice cream to match yours and vice versa, we need to respect that everyone who like icecream may like a different flavor than us, but that doesnt mean they're wrong for liking that flavor any more than we are, and of course, there are people who just don't like ice cream at all, you have to respect that too." "But is jesus the only way?" "Jesus is the way for christians, i can't speak for any other religion and frankly, neither should you."

2. going absolutely crazy in the Zoo with friends for the first time, and learning that DEVIA kept (a general? I think?) seasoned vetran from the army, sane through 4 deployments. It almost made me feel guilty that ive kept it on hiatus for my own stupid emotional reasons.

3. finding out that CRAZY PEOPLE is popular and adored.

4. Finding out the uber hot german wwII soldier-cosplaying german shepard was gay, and giving him a discount anyway 'cause thats how I roll. Crush crushed but hey hes still an awesome person i look forward to getting to know better as a friend.

5. playing Amnesia for 30 minutes infront of Usaden who bought it for me, and curling up into a ball of pathetic wimpering I WANT MY MOMMY after the first five minutes. I hope you enjoyed that you troll dragon.

6. Getting creeped on by an uber drunk creeper that wasn't even furry and have my harmless pervert friend Boyce play security.

7. Meeting Firefeathers in person. i was al OMGWTFBBQYAY but i tried not to fangasm.

8. meething The Gneech by accident, same goes for Goldfur.

9. meething Kayla-na and going all WEEEEEEEE

I feel so out of my leage here... i really hope I can pass muster and do lots of commishies for peeps and sell stuffs.

but MAN THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN!

I know i told my stream last night that i wouldnt be streaming past 12, im wondering should i even stream at all tonight? Is there enough interest or is everyone just holding thier monies till after AC in which case i totally understand.

im about halfway done with all the work i need to get done for anthrocon, all the pony charms have been GREATLY inventoried, im hoping 10-12 of each will be enough.

MLP charms include:

Dr Whooves,
Discorded Whooves
the tardis ($2 WITH one of the Doctors or $5 by itself)
Derpy Hooves
Vinyl Scratch (DJp0n13)
Twilight sparkle
Applejack
Rainbowdash
Rarity
Pinkiepie
Fluttershy
Spike
Princess Celestia
Princess Luna
Scootaloo
Sweetiebelle
Applebloom
Discord

NEXT up to inventory:

Dragon wings
pawprints
tail charms
zodiac charms

wish me luck...

I got most everything bought and taken care of for AC except maybe some nice lipstic (the ruby red i bought turned out to be "prostitute red" and clashes with my skin like a mother, i plan on using it as a highlight instead) Basically im down to curning out inventory in charms, and prints.

JUST a reminder that after AC digital ink os going up from $20 to $25.

Three reasons for this, since adopting my new inking style it takes a bit longer to ink a single character,
the new inking style has far more character and emotion that wasnt present in my stiff hard lines of my previous attempt. this allows for less odd-numbered pricing figures at later stages which will be less of a nightmare when splitting for additional characters.

Yay I'll be going to this little shindig in pittsburg called "anthrocon" or something like that I heard its this quaint little get together of furries and a great place to network and stuff so i figured WHAT THE HEY i'll buy me a table and we'll get in the shiz with all this little party they're gonna have there.

(yes i know its the biggest damn furry con in the country, im so freaking excited)

My table is N02 and i'll be there under my company name, Foxtayls LLC and my (currently on hiatus) comic Devia. I'll be selling original copies of the first two books before my publisher got all up in my buisness and had me change everything to color. So you can get those while they're still available, theres a really limited supply so please scoop them up while you can i will not be reprinting them after they sell out, my publisher will instead be printing the first three issues into a graphic novel and those will be colored with diferent art, if you want to see what it looked like BEFORE that nab the limited black and white prints while you can.

I'll also be selling Commissions, badges, charms, prints and custom and pre-made dog tags.

please stop by my table we're gonna have lots of fun!

If wasn't nervous enough about AC running smoothly, now i have to contend with knowing Furry fandom enemy #1 is going to be there being creepy.

I need bodygaurds. Big burly ones.

JUST a reminder that the prices for the ink stage of my commissions will be going up from $20 to $25, AFTER ANTHROCON i have already started working more into linework so that it looks more fluid.

The new prices for commissions will be:

sketch- $10 (same)
Ink- $25
Flat Color - $35
Shading- $50

Again just a reminder.

Also will be trying out a "speed painting" option, much like this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8120699/
starting at $80.

There are stipulations to the speed painting option.
if you are a micromanaging commissioner, this option is not for you.
I basically require a character, a suggestion for a pose and thats it, the rest is up to me to have fun with.
For those of you who love giving your artist artistic freedom, rest assured, this is the perfect option for you if your willing.


AND AGAIN! Im trying to get my girl Lina to AC, so if your interested in a fur tail for reasonable prices check out her page :  linadivorceeofL if you get a tail from her i'll give you a free sketch between now and AC.

yeah yeah i decided to do this... im a massochist apparnetly.
Slots be open yo,
1.jadedfox
2.kenku
3.
4.
5.

AS WITH ALL SPECIALS, purchases of $45 or more get rewarded with free sketches.

please note that while i recognize im opening myself up to a potential deluge of crazy, i would like to say this theres some things out there i dont yet know if they would scar me for life SO. I leiu of not wanting to be scared for life, i have the right to refuse any idea that comes my way.

THAT being said, i WILL be open for ADULT THEMED IMAGES this evening as well. Please bear in mind that adult themed images are STILL THREE TIMES THE PRICE OF normal commissions. I will not back down on that.

ALSO. My girl Lina wants to go to AC and i want her to go to AC. SO. Lina gots herself A LOTS of pretty fur tails, FOR EVERYONE WHO ORDERS A TAIL FROM HER THIS WEEK I WILL GIVE AWAY A FREE SKETCH TO YOU OR WHOMEVER YOU GET TO BUY FROM HER. http://www.furaffinity.net/user/linadivorceeofl/

make it happen people.

Stream slots open for this evening, they seem to keep me better organized sooo heres the First five slots for the night:

1.Coco
2.
3.
4.
5.

ON to the news!

I know ive said this in stream a few times, but i might as well make it official and give you guys fair warning. Digital inks are getting raised from $20 to $25, i fought with this decision for awhile but i feel it will be better in the long run, my inking tech is probably one of the most time consuming parts of the commisson aside from the color in some cases.

THE PRICE CHANGE WILL NOT BE EFFECTIVE UNTILL AFTER ANTHROCON ON JUNE 18TH.

this is also coming from a standpoint that im trying to remove the issue of splitting 5's as much when i add addiional characters, i will also be removing the simple shading option. it will be either flat color or Shading. again these changes will be effective after AC.

The new prices will be:

Sketch - $10 - stays the same, this is also the default prize for anyone winning the raffles.
Ink- $25
Flat color $40
Shading $50

Basically the two most time consuming parts of the commission, the ink and the color are now both $15 upcharges, whereas color was originally the only one that broke the mold at being a $15 increase from the previous step.

In response to the increase i will also try to act less "rushed" in doing the inkwork it will still be soft and more fluid but i'll stop feeling like i have to plow through the step.

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"

I have always been a conniseur of the strange nomenclature, mixing it at times to cultural disambiguation with normal names in previous stories.(*7 crystals... my god.... 7 Crystals)

I came up with beautiful elaborate names growing up, or at least, they were beautiful and elaborate to me.

Cabayo was one of those names, Hartley Torn, another. Execurus, a name came up with when i was ten for a fox constellation. Crazy freaking names. Aileeron Romenoren, the name of a white lion. but for characters that represented me.... for some reason, far less creativity was ever exibited, Foxena Wolf, Fox Tiberon, Kathleen The Blade. "Foxena" was cool to me but created when i was 12, i never shook the name even though the story attached to her should be burned in a fire. I still use the name today but only in usernames as its honestly just easy to remember i've used it for nearly 15 years now.

I prefer 3 letter words for my "name" Throughout my later years of highschool i unnoficiaily changed my name to "Kat" which i still use as a nom de plume and very few people outside of my parents and family call me by my "real" name. (you can imagine how weird it was for my parents to simply avoid adressing me by any name at all at conventions, since hearing them say "Kat" instead of my real name, from them, was weird. But having them say my name in front of others, was equally distressing, so I instead trained them to simply NOT say my name. They'd tap me on the shoulder if they needed me for something or when talking about me "our daughter is so creative" not "[redacted] is so creative"

These days, on stream, here on FA, and largely at conventions I go by one or both names. "Fox" or "Kat" I don't mind that my name is a dime a dozen, i don't care that "Fox" is used by more people in the fandom than anywhere else in various incarnations. I am not my name and my name will never fully define me. I will instead define my name, however people know me by. I may be one of a million Foxes or Kats. But its what i DO with the boring, the mundane, the unoriginal, that will have people know me for more than just a label.




* 7 crystals was the name a furry novel i wrote originally when i was 16, and refined and attempted to publish at age 18.... I'd put it on the same level as Twilight and i am not proud of this at all

Gonna start off with 5 slots to begin. Stream will begin earlier than usual at 5pm EDT. USA/can

1.Maldran
2.Chakat Blackwater
3.Habenero hero.
4. Carrow
5.Barisaxiphone
nite tigrezzz (wont count this as a slot because it wont take me too long)

wow... okay opening a few more slots. not guarantee i'll get to all of them but i'll try my damndest.

6.Lina gets an icon!
7.
8.
I will probably open more as the night wears on.

opening slots for tonight's stream weee.

We'll start at 5 and if i havent made my goal by the time they're filled up i'll open more.

1. koichi
2. barisaxiphone
3.
4.
5.

ALSO traditional will resume on Tuesday. Which means AC pre-order badges, dogtags, and all other things awesome that are done on paper.

okay figured I'd give you guys the rundown of what specials i'll be having and when i have them.

two specials this coming week.

on sunday we have Sweet Sunday. turn your character into candy, or living candy.

on monday, memorial day, we have its 5'oclock monday, the playlist will feature songs from Jimmy Buffet and Alan Jackson among other beachy themed musics.

the theme special will be hawaiian, beach, fun-in-the-sun, margaritaville, tropical themed pics.

WITH ALL SPECIALS if you purchase a full color full shade (for $45) single character or more you get a free sketch!

also EVERY NIGHT that we get 40 or more named users i do a raffle for free art, so bring your friends and frienemies and aquiantences to the stream for fun times, laughs and lots and lots of bacon :p

also, every night the artist makes $200 or more, we do another raffle regaurdless of how many users are in the stream.

That being said, there are 5 slots to take up tonight, i'll add more if my primary goal isnt met.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

of course you do! and its a book about furries! how cool is that!

check out my girl lina  linadivorceeofl for more info. She's co-writing it with the author and needs your input! you can even submit your artwork to be featured in the book!

Have to take the night off tonight details to come later so sorry

in a few short hours i will have my car!! yaaaayyy hello true independance! yippie! im so psyched, i can go to the farmers market now without worry or care, i can go to the store and the mall and everywhere i want to go im so full of squee. (i'll be mailing things out by the end of the week, and getting some furnature so i can get traditional back underway. omg YAAAAYY.

finally moved into my brand new apartment, all on my own. it's a little scary and i cant afford much in the way of furnature as of yet and kinda stranded untill my dad gets me my car.

Letting you guys know i wont be doing tradtional for awhile unless your planning on picking it up at anthrocon (in which case, badge pre-orders are open) otherwise it will be a bit difficult to mail things for a bit while i get settled in and fanagle around not having immediate transporation. Theres a few things i CAN mail out but i dont want to compound what i have to mail out with new things untill i have a reliable source of transportation.

a NOTE if you havent received your dog-tag yet please note me and ill check to see if your one of the ones who were "unidentifiable" after the fact. Sometimes things fall through the cracks and things have gotten crazy. if your one of these people and your going to anthrocon you can choose to pick it up there. PLEASE contact me ASAP as iwill be refunding the shipping on everyone whom i havent sent out yet if you give me your paypal.I feel bad i let things slide a bit even though it did get crazy for me. things will be slowing down a bit now but without a car currently i need to get everything compiled.

then theres AC prep.... weeeeee.

as always digital streams will be a constant in the evening. I WILL BE STREAMING FRIDAY in lieu of taking a day off yesterday due to not having internet.

As some of you know, im a starwars virgin. HOWEVER... i have been infomred that friday is Jedi day. so in honor of Jedi day, i am offering a special! for EVERY fullcolor full shaded starwars themed pic you buy you get a free sketch to go with it (up to two characters for the sketch) Even if your pic ISNT Jedi themed come on in anyway! I'll still be here doing regular commissions!

And with my new fast Digital delivery system you'll have your shiny new star-wars artwork ready to post on your galleries just in time for May the Fourth Be With you.

So come on by! The stream will start at 6pm Eastern Daylight time.

I draw DRAGONS.

That is all.

We now return you to your normallly sceduled broadcast.

Edit:

I also draw:

Gryphons
sergals
chakats
cannines
felines
lagomorphs...
all mammals
all reptiles
all mythical creatures.
all avians

I CAN DRAW ANYTHING.just give me a reference or a written description with examples if you can.

Tame Fetishes are okay too ex:
Paw,
fat fur
stuffing,
bondage
bdS&m
soft vore
tail
boobies
inflation

my only limits are:

excessive bodily fluids,
ex, scat, watersports vomit I WILL NOT DRAW IT.
i will not draw excessive amounts of blood from the point of entry. small cuts and blood smeared on weapons is fine. but exessive bleeding like GUSHING from an arterial wound.... no.

Porn:
I'll draw it.
But expect to pay 3X as much for it. I LIKE being a CLEAN artist who does tame fetishi.
If you want me to draw that stuff for you i will do so happily at the additional price.

im not taking preorders untill im sure this will work
but IF IT WORKS. there will be 5 scents to choose from.

Lavender
Jasmine
orange
rose





and Bacon



coming soon is Vanilla

So im looking into making my own solid perfume, its an easy enough process and your suppose to rub it onto your wrists and neck. I was just going to make some for me, but i was able to find a whole bunch of containers for NOT alot of money at all to put the solid perfume in. Question is, would anyone buy them? I was thining of having a few scents avaialble and then make customs for people who wanted something more complex.

What would the interest be for this? like everything else the product would be available on my storenvy when they were made and ready for sale.

Lately the stream has been getting out of controll behaviour wise, lots of RPing that wasn't being reigned in, stupid crap that shouldn't have ever happened and lots of freaking drama in which i am frusterated with myself for letting happen.

The mods have come to a consensus that if they're going to earn thier pay (they get one freebie from me a month as payment for thier service and no this is not an open invitiation to ask to be a mod, it doesn't work that way) they're going to take thier job alot more seriously. Not that they haven't but i think they're going to be a bit stricter with allowing the rules to be more solidly enforced than just 'eh".

I didn't realize how much I was holding them back untill last night when all hell practically broke loose.

From now on, the mods are going to do thier job and they have the right to make the call ON THIER OWN without my consultation anything from repremands, warnings to a 5 minute ban. I can at any time choose to override thier decisions/warnings/bans if i think they're being too harsh with a certain situation. 2 week and permabans still have to go through me, so rest assured if im not paying attention and something happens, its by far not going to effect you for very long if you were acting up.

I have a job to do the mods have thier job to do. I was trying to KEEP them from doing thier job by trying to micromanage them AND do art, and as evidenced by last night, they kind of.... did a friendly mutiny of the stream for the sake of my sanity because i was HARDLY paying attention at all. I love each and every one of my mods and Im happy to say that aside from a few PR issues here and there they essentially were able to whip the stream back in shape.


Things to remember about me people. I have ADD, i can get distracted VERY easily and the medicine i bought to fix that i can't take very often because it can cause liver issues if taken excessively. And I like my Liver. So lets all work together to make sure the stream runs smoothly and Drama and CRAZY WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED ITS LIKE KILLING FLOOR ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE RUUUUUUNNNN doesnt happen.

Basic rules to follow:

When Hormel's Law is called aka someone shouts "BACON" it means to shut up and talk about something else, preferably bacon. attempts to continue to talk about the subject will be seen as grandstanding/drama mongering, and warnings will be metted out.

There are topics you dont discuss around me. OS battles are a hotbutton for me, i dont care if you can CIVILLY discuss what you like about X operating system but saying apple, windows, linux is crap, overpriced, stupid,buggy etc is going to make me see red. I USE A MAC, I LOVE MY MAC, NOTHING ANYONE SAYS IS GOING TO MAKE ME CHANGE THAT. Its like owning a breed of Dog, and loving that dog. You wouldnt want someone to come up to you and tell you that your Dog is overpriced and stupid, would you? No. so don't do it to me or anyone else.

Being intentionally abrasive and argumentitive is another way to get my goat, i get that people have differing opinions from my own and i respect thier opinions, but durnng every discussion attempted into a mudslinging contest about my interests is going to wear thin on me very quickly.

Running jokes are only funny for so long, then they get annoying and old and UNFORTUNATELY for me, I laugh at everything, a rule of thumb, if it isn't a loud boisterous cackle like i usually do or me whooping like a Hyena, i probably dont think its all that funny. I laugh as a defensive mechanisim when im uncomfortable or trying just to think of something to say, usually evidenced by an uneasy giggle "eheheh" < is usually what it sounds like. I can't help i do this, i really can't Its like a stutter, its an involuntary thing.

If a mod tells you to stop something, dont argue, dont throw a little hissy fit and make a point that your leaving. This is drama. If you try to cause any of it in MY stream I will throw you to the dogs that are my Mods. (... and most of them are... no.. all of them ARE canine fursonas..... huh... i did NOT plan that at all.... sweeet) I've grown increasingly senstive to drama mongering even in the slightest incarnation, if you bring drama or try to make drama in my stream, expect fur to fly. My mods for the most part are older than me they're alot less tolerant of stupid crap than i am, ergo they're perfect for dealing with juvenile crap. my mods are allowed to mod ME if they think i'm getting out of hand or too silly, they smack me and tell me to pay attention to my art, and i love them for it.

I know i say i fap to drama, but its honestly to me like watching a sport, its lots of fun and you get to cheer for your favorite team, but asking me to PLAY the sport is a whole other matter, if it were soccer for example i'd pick the ball up and chuck it at the goal, i don't play by the rules, i end the game. I like WATCHING drama, i dont like being apart of it.


NOW with that said I AM NOT UPSET AT ANYONE, i dont hold grudges and unless your one of those unfortunate nitwits thats on my permabanned list, odds are ive already forgave and forgot. All i want is for my stream to run smoothly with little to no drama.

As far as my TOS goes, the "pay after the commission" thing is going to be changed to ONLY apply to appointments and people who are on my "gold' or higher credit plan. People who are in bronze or silver, you're going to have to pay me before the month is up and from now on you'll be required to pay at the end of each week if you plan on purchasing more than one thing from the new store.

People who ARE on the gold plan or higher:

Sierra
Ampersand
Lina
Maldran
Jade
Kere
Rylana
Rebel squirrel

if you dont see your name here, you're on a two-week payment plan. you have two weeks to get me my stuff, i'll be doing budget on thursday so i WILL know who owes what. If for some reason you can't pay in two weeks, i'll work something out with you, since I know lots of peeps owe money. Im not going to be mean about it, i just want everyone on a clean slate come next month.

i dont have enough space yet to make a public folder for everyone. SO you can help me by doing through this little referral link http://db.tt/qurK5VDI signing up, and giving me more space.

incentives: for every referral i get up to my 16 gig limit i will offer a free digital sketch with the purchase of any commission from here onwards. you MUST buy something to get a free sketch and you MUST be one of my referrals.

help me help you, sign up for drop box through me and get from free stuff.

when i reach my limit, i will change the link to Jaded Fox so she can have more space too, and the free art offer will still stand.