So, as you all have realized, I was gone for 4 months. I had been working on college things. :) I am back here, but I am typically on my primary account  Astramasq more often.

Yes, yes, I know my two forms of work are -very- different. :') I hope you guys like both. I truly love realism, but toony things are also really fun.

Anyway, I'll be uploaded some of my oil paintings from college when I can. One is already up. Over holiday, I should be painting some other things digitally when I finish the commissions on my main account.

Yeah, so, I think my new major will be engineering.

Yes, engineering, I shit you not. Mechnical Engineering to be specific. There seems to be a high demand for it where I live, and awhile back, I remembered my career aptitude test in high school suggested engineering. I'm, in my opinion, more than decent at math and creative enough to be a good problem solver. I think-- I hope.

However, I have to admit, I'm scared. This isn't a common knowledge field obviously, and as I'm looking through the job requirements for Mechanical Engineers, I'm getting slightly more nervous. I plan on speaking to my college adviser more on the major itself and how well it prepares you for the actual transition to the field.

I'm also nervous that I'm going to get myself in a massive amount of debt only to find out that I don't particularly like the major. So, wish me luck? Haha. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....

My first semester back will be general education courses just to get adjusted and think this over more.

o-o Hm. For all I know, my mind could change about this within the next month or so. I kind of am hoping this one sticks though.

I'm offering a $20 hybrid portrait slot right now for gas money. :O I'm also offering 2 normal commissions, either 1 full body shaded image OR 1 2 person flat color for $20. No other commissions open. Examples of my "normal" art:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10066525/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9881273/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9964192/

Considering opening a commission slot in the near future for a black and white hybrid portrait. What I mean by that is a primarily human portrait from a photograph of your choosing mixed with an animal of your choosing. For example, if I were to combine a snake and a photo, I'd add partial scales to the face, adjust the eyes to make them more reptilian, and perhaps point the ears, remove them entirely, or just add scales for effect. If a photo and a cheetah, add partial spots, add eye markings, and add animal ears to portrait.

These would be entirely painted, and the process would be documented with video.

I'd probably start them off at $30 as a limited time special for 1 or 2. (Most take 4-8 hours, so this is a deal, ha.)

o-o What do you guys think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa0oi-upS24

There it is. Hope those of you who watched my videos enjoyed watching the process. :3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wByzJ0tsckA&feature=youtu.be

Still not complete, but here is the second video. One more video should follow. For full length and higher quality, go to Livestream.com/frosthorn for the video.

http://www.livestream.com/frosthorn/video?clipId=pla_44ecdc62-2e0c-4ede-869a-82c929a748a8

There's the first part of my next painting. I'm SO tired from not sleeping yesterday, so I'm going to take a break and pick it back up where I left off soon. The video is roughly an hour long, and the image ONLY is a base. It needs a LOT of work, fixed proportions, and a LOT more contrast.

Shittier quality time lapse version on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAPFM8ui8B4

Part two will be uploaded later. I am TOO TIRED to do it tonight. I can barely stay focused. I just don't like people saying I don't do my own work, and I don't like people taking credit away with lies.

Welp. Daz all.

http://www.livestream.com/Frosthorn

For future reference, this is my Livestream channel. I am NOT currently streaming nor do I have videos posted yet, but you should expect one soon when I finish up the current portrait I'm working on and move on to Brittany's.

I won't be drawing tomorrow through Monday, because I'm spending it with my boyfriend. ....Well, maybe, and if I do, you'll see a post for my drawing video.

The next drawing will be another human, because I'm practicing drawing from photos. I had some odd amount of friends volunteer to be painted, so that's what's going on.

So, because FA LOVES drama, here we go.

I was recently accused of painting over photos. For those of you who are curious, I haven't. What I've been doing is something called gridding. What happens in gridding is that you first grid your reference photo, as seen here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/u_wish/cgrid_zps71a5909e.png

THEN you grid a BLANK canvas.

You draw UNDER the grid on the blank canvas and use the guidelines as measuring tools for proportions. VERY common technique. Start using it.

So, for those of you who need my reference photos:

Ciara:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/u_wish/006_zps57e3a8b0.jpg

Kelly:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/35885_140596359289292_2132206_n.jpg

Brandi:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/16880_103590186329423_843660_n.jpg

There you are.

And for the rest of you, my friend has advised me to record my streams. THERE HAVE BEEN MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS WATCHING MY JOIN.ME WHEN I'VE PAINTED THESE... But I didn't use ProCaster or Live Stream or what ever the fuck it's called, so there's no recordings. So, for my next portrait, it looks like I'll be recording it.

* Sigh. * Some fucking people....