Here's the Dropbox ling for the high res files I promised!

---> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/aol25nnp.....qfkUd5z6a?dl=0

Several things: I am re-uploading the files in this new location, and for now I'm putting the more recent ones here, those that didn't go on Trello before, but are finished. Second, if a recently posted one isn't there, means it needs fixes/I haven't re-uploaded it yet. But if a picture is posted here on FA and needs no fixes, the high-res will go there after that. No panic, it'll be there. Third - I won't be using such a crude way to store high res files in the future, but for now I need to make sure the ones that are being done, are available to people, without me drowning in messages and forgetting if I sent links to them or no.

Fourth, I will at some point later be uploading the flat-colored versions of the files for the... simple reason that I like the flats more myself lol.

A small update on things: I will be making a Dropbox folder for high-res commissions, and will be moving a good chunk of the more recently done IAs and sketches, as well as will be downloading all the remaining high res ones there~ So if you see older Trello entries being deleted, don't worry - the files under the commissioner names are not gone, they're transported to Dropbox.

I'll provide a link to it once it's all done, in a day or two.

Mainly because Trello has been pretty uncomfortable and acting out, so I will leave it for queue progress/updates for now, and future use, but all of the files will go to the Dropbox from now on.

'Kay, this is another big batch of finished ones here, but I separated it in two halves and will post the other one tomorrow~

After this, there's one more batch remaining. The IAs that are not ticked with the green "finished" on Trello (and a couple ones that aren't on the list) - those will be in the last batch, most likely at the end of the week, or early next week. mostly it's just backgrounds and lighting/shading elements to be added to them.

Then I'll double-check for any lost or misplaced IAs, and will make a post for that, and THEN. It's all done, FINALLY.


Also - absolutely feel free to note me about any and all fixes and changes you want me to make to the ones I'm posting, no matter how small or big, in case I missed something or made a mistake! I will do those after this is done.

God it's good to be back to working again.

(Also also, Trello's being kind of an ass and only SOMETIMES lets me load the high res images now. So I'm missing a bunch of them on there. I might need to switch to the Gold or something to load them now, Idk.)

OKAY, so I want to get one thing done first, so.

First of all - for those people that still don't have their old sketches, please check the Trello during the next days or so! If I haven't messaged you with them or didn't post them here, I am putting them there every time there's one finished!

SECOND and important - IF your name is missing on the sketch list, please send me a note here and let me know which ones I missed! Because I'm almost certain a couple might be missing/lost and I need to know who's they are!

I will make a post like this for the IAs as well once the sketches are dealt with, to make sure I don't miss anyone, but this one's sketch-related. So if I happen to be missing yours, please note me!

And yet somehow I'm still alive. An update was a long time coming, but I had to focus on some other things, mainly IRL, so I've been mostly working in silence.

Art updates first, as usual: almost have the remaining old sketches done, but won't be posting them here until I have them all done - though I'll put the big files Trello before I post them here, you can pick them up, same goes for IAs. Several have been finished, and the remaining ones are sitting waiting on shading/backgrounds. I've been extremely scatterbrained about what goes where lately, so I'll need to figure out what will go where.
And then... it'll finally, finally be done. After almost a year of this.

As for other things, mostly health... Well. The good news is that in these couple of months, I finally found out what was wrong with me, and why what happened, happened. The bad part of it is, well, first - there's a lot of things. A PTSD and a personality disorder among them. And the fact that none of this was diagnosed properly before, and I'd have to ask myself why couldn't the doctors tell me and the treatment could've started earlier. I don't know why I was told that I was healthy and okay when I clearly wasn't, and had no idea what's going on with me. Over a year wasted of not knowing what happened and why I literally broke, and after that my health deteriorated, my ability to work died, and everything else along with it. All of this should've been done years ago, but well. It wasn't.

That said, this is what I've been doing, and now I'm on both serious anti-dep meds, and doing CBT. It's not going to be an overnight process, but all of this is also treatable, so. That's a good thing.

So no, I wasn't absent and continued/am continuing on work, but this was something I had to deal with, for better or worse... And I hope everyone else's time has been less horrible.

Okay, first things first - I hope everyone had a happy New Year and here's hoping for a good start, middle and finish of the year for everyone~ Last year has been a dang mess for many people.

Second - do not be alarmed at the chaos that might be happening here for a while, here's what's going on - going to post all the stuff I have been collecting, so I apologize for the art spam;; It might get a bit chaotic and be all over the place.

Will be wrapping/finishing the remaining things up this week, and probably a part of the next week for sketches/fixes and double-checking anything I might've missed or lost... If that happens, I will send you a note, in case I'm not sure about something.

After all of this is done, I'll give you guys my (shiny new, believe it or not I've never used that website) Twitter account, and a Discord server for those who'll want to kick me 24/7... The latter will be mostly for commissions-only, work in progress, tracking your art, etc. I'm not a very talkative person most days;; And a new ToS/work schedule/possible stream times, etc.

And yeah, my health's been good so far, THANKFULLY. The headaches are mostly gone, one thing left is to check how bad the loss of hearing is in my left ear. I... messed it up, lol.

It's been a couple of weeks, and I've been blessed by whatever higher powers there are, and did not have any migraines in the past two weeks or so. Hopefully it's the medicine and a more or less healthy schedule giving results.
I will have a proper visit to a doctor to check my ear on the 27th December, finally, to see if it was/is contributing to my health issues, 'cause so far it seems to not be okay, though it doesn't hurt, for the most part. So there will be an update that day here.

I have ~17 IAs on my list currently, that are more or less finished but do not have backgrounds/need minor fixes ( the ones in the finished Trello section, but not ticked by the green label ). The people that didn't get WIPs will be getting them before I go on and finish each piece ( the ones that weren't given a green light yet ). So that leaves me with around 8 IAs in earlier stages of work to be done, and the sketches.

Best case scenario, if I continue to be lucky and don't get those 3-day headaches in the next weeks, everything should be close to being wrapped up around Christmas/New Year. So here's hoping I will not have any health-related issues 'till the end of this year;;

Hope everyone's doing well and are getting ready to spend good holidays~

So, I'm gonna go for a more thorough check-up in a week and a half, and will also have my left ear checked because it's been giving me a bit of trouble. And to get the recipe for my new glasses *cries*.

Main thing I wanted to let people know, is that my set work schedule is from 9AM to 5PM (EU time) every work day ( with occasional extra 1-1.5 h in the evening ), and it will stay like this in the future, when I'll be getting back into a normal work flow. I won't be working during the weekend later on, but right I am, to catch up.

The reason for it is because of my eyes. I got two migraines and eye pains since my last doctor visit, and both lasted for two days... And happened when I worked all day, up until late evening. But when I kept to roughly ~8 hours a day, it was all fine, so that's what I'll be sticking to, to not strain them too much.

Going back to work tomorrow~

Been using eye drops and painkillers, the pain is mostly gone, for now. I still need to check my head, but as long as there's no pain and headaches, I'm OK to work.

What did happen regarding the eyes, is that my eyesight did get permanently worse ( I'm nearsighted ) - which hasn't happened for almost seven years and I hoped it never will, but, well. Here we are. Just by a little bit, thankfully - only extra -0.5 dioptres on both eyes ( it was -6.0 and -6.25 before ), so... Guess my eyesight can STILL worsen if I pay no attention to my health still.
So I'll be getting new lenses sometimes early next year, WELP.

Okay, JUST got home from the EYE doctor, it was two and a half hours of crazy.

Anyway, current situation is: internal eye pressure is fine, no noticeable tears on the retina so far, but the left eye's one is very thin/in danger zone in a few places. I got different drops and new painkillers, the doctor suggested that I take a break for at least a week from work, TV, etc., if I can, no straining the eyes, go for another more in-depth check-up in a week or two, see another doctor to check the general blood pressure/nasal cavities just to be sure.

But basically, so far it looks like this is the result of me taking too much work at once and overestimating what can be done a bit; And to be fair, sometimes I do forget that I have a flesh prison I need to take of, ugh.

That said, I... won't be taking a week off. For now, I'll settle for four days, work for an hour-two each day, stay away from the PC as much as I can, use the pills and drops, see how it goes. If it gets better, I'll get back to the normal schedule after four days, if not, I'll need to prolong it.

So I'll be more or less quiet here for these four days, and update after that, we'll see if it helps!

Another heads-up about what's going on: been trying to stay away from anything that strains my eyes, being at the PC longer than a few hours ends in very intense headaches/eye pains... So I'm pretty sure it's from overwork.
Going to the doctor #1 tomorrow, gonna see what's up with the eyes.
Best case, I'll need a short vacation from work, though if there's nothing more serious than exhaustion, I'm still aiming to try and get at least all of the IAs done by around the 20th, if not the sketches. I just keep getting and getting health-related delays, man. Kind of sucks.

I'll update once I know what's going on with my head!

Just a heads-up that I'm gonna take a short break from work for about two days, overworked myself a bit and my head and eyes are a mess;;
So if I'm not replying or something for a couple of days, I apologize, I won't be around the PC that much. Gotta rest.

And I'll... be setting up a Discord channel and a Twitter once I'm done with old stuff, so people'll be able to see updates on my daily stuff and can contact me and people that help me in chat, regarding future commissions and all kinds of things. So I don't have to resort to posting random health/stuff updates here haha.

EDIT: Will be going back to work tomorrow, gonna see my two doctors this week to make sure my eyes are okay, because my left one's being all weird, having black floaty spots and all. My retinas are weak, so I'll need to make sure it's just from straining\overworking, not tearing one of them lmao.

Hey!
Not dead yet, just buried in work!

This will probably be the last " Still doing old stuff" update, the current progress is: have around 10 IAs left to get to shading, the rest are beyond that, most are nearly done!

After that, like I said, will come the remaining sketches and then the fixes.

So I'm very much alive and active, just... completely drowned in work every day morning to evening to get the older pictures done and make them look good.

Thank you for all the patience;;

Hey!
IT IS TIME. To start posting stuff, so that's what'll be happening.

A reminder that once your commission appears in FA's gallery, the high res file can be found on Trello~

Previous update on things is here ---> http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8393833/


Some of the two character pictures might be posted last, possible after sketches, because I abandoned the "draw a thing faster", and with how long people have been waiting, I think it's just fair to deliver the best art I can do at the moment. So I've been sitting for a good while on some of the works.

Thank you for reading!

( UPDATE: Trello's being an ass, so I sent the current four high res I posted to the people via notes~ )

Hey!

I haven't written anything in a while, so I figured it's time for a new update.

First thing's first, as everyone probably noticed, I'm off the promised schedule, but it's because life is happening - stuff like one of my cats needing a surgery, and also that I'm working a side job to get a bare minimum of money I need for food and things, while I'm not doing commissions - so I can avoid filling up the queue more. So it takes a bit of time every day, hopefully that's understandable.

That said, don't freak out or worry if you haven't heard anything from me, what I said stands - until every last person gets the art they're waiting on, I'm not opening new slots.

But I think I will start posting stuff that I have done already so it's not that quiet here.

I will also start cleaning up the Trello from the oldest commissions bit by bit, but if anyone'll need something at some point, I still have all of them stored. But yeah, I'll start changing things up a bit, so don't be alarmed by that, because new commissions slots will be done through google form, not here anymore, with a new ToS, and a friend of mine will be helping to manage messages, e-mails, etc., with a new contact available, and so on.

To people asking: I am around but no new commissions will be open until the 15th-20th, until I have everything current finished, as well as a couple side projects. So I can switch to a new ToS and other things.
I currently send updates and WIPs to people directly, easier to get things done, so you won't see much posted here before the approximate dates I mentioned.

That said - yes, I am alive and active, though currently sick and having some teeth-related issues.

To those who are waiting for stuff, both old and recent - look forward to getting notes with WIPs before the 20th or so, as I do not intend to continue with anything new until this is done.

Asdgfjgk. I apologize for my sudden week-long disappearance, I had an unexpected health-related hiccup due to being forced to drop one type of meds to take another for a short while, annnd that had some side effects. I didn't really expect them to be there, but I was pretty much blanked out and nauseous for that week.
It should be fine now, I'll get back to stuff. Sorry!

I sent all of the notes, thank you very much guys!

I'm writing this during a raid break (in ToS ), so I'll reply to all of your replies the moment I'm done and then update the Trello!
Sorry again for the inconvenience! I'll reply to everyone in like 1-2 hours!

As promised, opening this month's slots. With these, I'll start streaming starting with Monday P:
I might reply slower today, as I am stuck in a raid atm, so notes might be sent later (between 2-3 hours max), and the journal will be open for longer too. Sorry for that inconvenience!
Once I'm done, I'll resume posting the finished sketches and IAs, and might pop up a stream then! I still have Arith's, Kirakanoi's,
Ake,s Zerkkan's and Warwolf's to post...

All updates regarding Trello and other stuff are here ----> http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8301190/

6+ SLOTS open this time~

No WIPs to make it go faster(if possible), and no super long wall-of-text descriptions if possible, but fixes after they're done are a YES.


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The Iron Artist ones cost 65$ for one character and 110$ for two character. 15$ extra for very complicated armor, clothing or markings\designs that have a LOT of details. Include simple backgrounds!

EXAMPLES (or check the gallery, it's way more updated with better recent work):

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18854664/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18857557/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18299271/ (NSFW)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17945676/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16629508/ (NSFW)

5+ SLOTS OPEN.

Payment via Paypal, comes first. A refund is possible if you somehow need it before the picture is done~

Post character refs in the comments! I'll note the ones I choose!

Welp, I've been busy;; Sorry for a few weeks of no entries, I've been preparing a new BIG batch of IAs and other stuff for the end of the month, and testing the new PC.
All works good! Did a few test streams, so after this batch, I think I'm ready to go with the streaming...
Though I guess it might be very random, because I just tend to sit down and work when I wake up, for as long as I can. So I'll just be popping a stream anytime I feel like I'll be doing stuff for at least a couple of hours.

In other news, I'm moving to another apartment in about a month... AGAIN. But it has lower bills for stuff, so it'll be worth it. Paying like 300$ every month for just the bills, not counting the 400$ rent money a bit too much currently.

That said, I'll be opening around 6-7 IA slots today for this month's bills, but... It might be a bit earlier today, around 7 PM my time (Latvia), and I will probably keep it open 'till like 12 PM IF I need to raid during that time;;

Also sent out sketches and WIPs to people that've been waiting for the updates and I'll update the Trello with the prev batch along with this new one.

I think that's all so far!

A heads up that starting Monday, I will be computer-less for 2-3 days, switching my old one to the new one P:
So I won't be able to do stuff and also probably respond to any notes or anything, but I'll post an update as soon as I have the new one set up. Once that is done, I'll figure out the streaming schedule~

Thanks guys - sent the notes!
Next bigger batch will probably open in like 3 weeks.

I'll post the updates on when I'll be switching my PCs in a couple of days!

The insurance thing worked out, but since I promised, I guess I'll pick up another 1 slot today;; So if anyone wants it, can pick it up~

So just 1 slot open today~

No WIPs to make it go faster(if possible), and no super long wall-of-text descriptions if possible, but fixes after they're done are a YES.


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The Iron Artist ones cost 65$ for one character and 110$ for two character. 15$ extra for very complicated armor, clothing or markings\designs that have a LOT of details. Include simple backgrounds!

EXAMPLES (or check the gallery, it's way more updated with better recent work):

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18854664/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18857557/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18299271/ (NSFW)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17945676/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16629508/ (NSFW)

1 SLOT OPEN.

Payment via Paypal, comes first. A refund is possible if you somehow need it before the picture is done~

Post character refs in the comments! I'll note the ones I choose!

*Grumbles*
I might need to open a couple (2-3) more IA slots later today, in like 5 hours.
Because I need to pay for my car insurance and check-up, and I absolutely forgot about that, and it's overdue =___=

Will also post the batch of stuff I've been working on this week~ Should be 4 more sketches and several IAs~

Commissions closed, thank you very much guys, all notes sent! I took a bunch this time!

I'll resume posting the IAs and sketches and sending out WIPs tomorrow, no one's forgotten, don't worry! And will continue to do so every other day now.

And things should be way more fun in about a week, when I start the streams P: I'm hoping for at least 4-5 streams per week, so every work day, but I'll get to the scheduling when the new PC'll be here.