San Diego was pretty sweet :) Highlights include staying a night at a Beverly Hills hotel ($700 a night), making passionate love to two In-N-Out double-double cheeseburgers, and vomiting Friday night after drinking and smoking way too much with my pops. Don't let the extravagance fool you, this was the first family vacation in 7 years, so saving up paid for it.

Anyways, I have been trying to draw a sketch every night until summer, with mixed results: I'll post them when I have a bunch of them to show. Not really working on anything exciting or detailed because I have become extremely bored with how I color stuff: My current style is more like a formula of steps then actually painting colors.

Animation is slow, I try to hit it when I have the time and the patients and I have neither of those for it right now. Hell, maybe I might suspend it and work on a shorter flash clip just to prove I can actually get something done.

As for commissions I am closed at the moment. I have the last few weeks of my classes left and I have no way to set a time table for them. I am however still available for sketches, just send me an email and a request: you might be surprised.

~Ian

Going to San Diego for a week with the family.

brb...

Happy Valentines Day everyone! And for those who don't have a significant other: Happy.... well, enjoy your binge drinking.

I don't have anything special planned for VD nor do I have any special submissions for the holiday, but if you would like, please feel free to take any of my pictures and place a ridiculous amount of hearts on them.

Sorry for being kind of silent since being on FA, from now on I'm going to try to be less formal and distant: I want to meet some of you and actually to talk about what is going on. Despite my formal demeanor, I actually do appreciate and love comments and requests. If any one needs any advice or wants me to do some sketches of whatever your heart desires, please give me a ring, I love to hear from you guys. It seems that when I am not communicating to my watchers and fans I feel like I am some cold and distant art-fueled entity.

As far as my work load goes, I have been working on a bunch of projects and sketches as well as the animation project I plan to complete so don't think I have been lazy the last few days. Balancing college and art is a bit difficult, so don't mind if I disappear from time to time. Currently I am working on a commission for Okill which will act as a sample for what my commissions will look like, and then I'll be working on a commission for BaltoWolf, as well as any animation work in-between.

As far as animation goes, I have a few scenes finished, and I am still tweaking the proper direction and how to make this little film flow correctly. It will not come out for a while, but I promise it will be released. I think it has been way to long since a decent furry flash movie has been released out to the public, and want to be the first to create a FBF one for the fandom. I plan on my animation being well over 5min of frame-by-frame animation, lots of steamy positions as well as sound and voices: it should continue to be a big project.

Recently I have been trying to improve my art, I’m trying to find advice as to what I should do next, and I think my next move is to stray a little bit from my artistic canine past. Also, I to need to step back and try to learn what makes a good figure and how to create a really sexy piece of art, so maybe we shall see some different styles or themes from me. Remember, I’m still learning this stuff. :)

So tl;dr: Valentines Day sucks. I can sketch requests. Working on animation. Ideas for how to improve?

-Ian

This applies to my views/likes/dislikes in RL, not what I draw or what may work for me in a drawing.

(-) means I don't like it (more than one - means it makes me gag)
(+) means I do like it (more than one + means it's a favorite of mine)
(o) means indifferent/undecided

Spam FurAffinity (--)
Spam (++)
Spaming more spam (-)
Survey that is dumb (+)
Spam (o)
Spammity spam (o)
Journal flooding (o)
Spam (-)
Spam (-)
Spiced Ham (+)
Junk (o)
Spam (o)
Spamo (--)
Spamopolis (-)
Edward Spamington the IIIrd (+)
Spam (+)
Spamming YOUR journal messages (--)
Spam (o)
Continuing this dumb joke (o)
Spam (-)
Maps (-)
lol, palindromes (o)
More Spam (-)
S’s (--)
P’s (F/F) (o)
A’s (M/M) (-)
M’s ? (o)
Spam (o)
Spam is my fursona (++)
Spam (o)
I’m a cute B/W Spam (-)
Spaming on floor laughing (++)
Laughing my spam off (o)
Spam (+++)
Congealed imitation ham product (+)
Rectangular hotdogs (++)
Cubic bologna (-)
...Spam (-)
Spam? (o)
Spam spam spam (--)
Dyslexia sapm (+)
Spamomasochism (+)
Spamlets (--)
Spaaaaaaaaaaa...mmmm (+)
MEAT CUBES (-)
Spam (++)
Spam (++)
Not not spam (-)
Spam in a bikini (-)
Spam wearing a top hat, singing (+)
Spam (o)
Does anyone else get these dumb surveys? (++)
Spam (--)
They really are annoying (+)
I get all excited about journal entries (-)
Spam (++)
SPAM! (---)

I have seen this Journal entry posted about 6 times already, and these are my results. Not a big spam fan but spam is really hot for some reason. Noting like a hot spam in a bikini, I find that to be really sexy.

Hello everyone, I hope all of your holidays were awesome and all of you are enjoying the year of 2007, with your fancy PS3's, Wii's, and amazingly comfy pairs of socks you have probably received over the last few days. :)

I just want to start off by saying thank you very much for all of the watches and favorites I have received within less than a month. I think the total is something like 185 right now and responding to all of them might take time away from art: just let it be known that I really appreciate it, and I’ll try to send replies.

As far as commissions go: not just yet, but hopefully soon. I have a bunch of stuff to do first. If you really want I might be able to send you a quick sketch or any requests, but because of circumstances that might take a little bit of time.

As far as other Photoshop pieces go: I plan on creating more content at a fairly constant rate, so just bug me if I haven't done anything recently. Although, my next piece might be a big bust...

As far as animation goes: Yes, I'm going to resume work on it shortly. I do plan to boost the frame rate and tweak many of the scenes so that some time from now, you should be seeing an animation piece from me. More news as I go, remember: animation takes a LONG time to create properly, expect a release my months from now. A short history can be found here: http://www.lordmagicpants.furtopia......ationindex.htm

Thanks again, and happy new year!

~Ian