Now that I'm back to drawing consistently, I want to give back to my community that has supported me thru alot of up and down times in my life.


Doing freebie art on my bluesky. All you have to do is follow me on bluesky, post a ref of your character, and tell me a bit about their personality.
Animals or anthros only please, I don't draw anything else.
Here's the bluesky post: https://bsky.app/profile/stardustli...../3ll5axmgy722e



Other Things:
My commissions are usually open, here are my prices: https://nya18art.weebly.com/prices.html

I'm easily reachable on
Telegram: https://t.me/StardustLiger
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/stardustliger.bsky.social
FA Notes

Been finally getting my health together and am finally mentally and physically stable enough to do art consistently again. I also had to work a ton of overtime shifts at work and that's finally slowing down for me.


Commissions are open and you can messege me thru FA Notes, Cara, Blusky, Telegram, or Discord.
I plan on doing more art streams in the future: https://picarto.tv/Nya18
Everywhere I am and post to can be found here: https://linktr.ee/Nya18Art


Thanks to all of those who have stuck with me over these last few hectic years. I have so many projects in mind for the year and hope you all enjoy.

I feel like this year has been kicking my ass so hard. I'm finally full time at my job, which is what I've been trying to strive to do for months. Gives me a really good work/life balance. My health was falling all over the place yet again, but I got it a bit more under control now. I finally had to cut my ex out of my life for a long list of reason, but the final straw what when he threatened me while being transphobic towards me for literally no reason at all. Also, my roommate suddenly left me high and dry to fend for myself. Fortunately my job just barely has me able to pay for this place by myself, but now I have to get my ass in gear and do commissions out of necessity.

I've been doing small sketches here and there, but haven't been able to finish them because of my health and bs going on. Now that things are clearing up, I plan on finishing more of my artwork. I have a lot of art goals that I want to accomplish in a specific amount of time.

Thanks so much for everyone being patient with me yet again. Thanks for all the new watches and favs too. Life keeps throwing curveballs at me. But, I keep trying to do the best I can.

My commissions are open and if you know anyone looking for an artist, please send them my way. I'd highly appreciate it. Thank you guys so much again.

Heyo, sorry about the slowdown yet again.

Finally found a job that I really like, working in a local grocery store deli. It's really fun and I feel really safe there as an NB/Trans person. Alot of trans people also work there, which makes me feel even safer. Plan on staying there for a few years. It also gives me a really good work/life balance.

I've mostly been trying to get my health back to normal again. Been having terrible blood sugar issues and have been extremely tired and having alot of mood shifts because of it. Mostly have just been sleeping and working beause of the health issues exhausting me. Trying to get my ass in gear and make more doc appointments so I'm not in pain and tired from other health issues I'm dealing with. Decided that I really want to start HRT and be on Testosterone, but I gotta learn more about it first.

I also decided that I really want to get into making fursuits along with doing art and animation.

But, thank you for reading and lets hope this month and rest of this year goes well for everyone.

I know it's not august yet, but close enough. Lol.
I'm so sorry it's been so long. I had to deal with so much in my life happening at once. Recently lost my job and am open for commissions. I'm gonna be taking art seriously and do it full time.



Life Update:
Trying to make a super long story short. I moved and live with someone else now and my stress has gone down a large amount. I've been taking care of myself better and have a new therapist. I finally feel like I'm more mentally stable and have a life again after having a really shitty job that felt like I was treated like a prisoner. Had an interview with a job that I'm really interested in and really hope that I get it. My health has been shaky here and there and I have to get back to going to constant doctors appointments to keep up with stuff.


Art Update:
After alot of thinking and mental healing, I've decided that I'm gonna draw what I love and not what I THINK I SHOULD draw. For years I've been holding myself back from drawing things I love and idk why.

But, I've decided that I mostly want to draw felines, reptiles, birds, and unique/uncommon animals because I love drawing them. I'll still draw other animals too. I also want to mostly draw Lion King fanart. I'll still draw other fanart characters that I'm into. But, for years I've mostly wanted to draw Lion King characters and just have held myself back from doing it for some reason.

Hopefully this will give me more focus and discipline instead of my art being all over the place and me stressing out so hard about what to draw.



I am currrently doing a shit ton of art and finishing up pieces that I owe. I am open for commissions and am doing art full time now. So, please if anyone is interested, please don't be afraid to message me or send people who want art my way. I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks for reading.

Hey there peeps sorry for the hiatus again. I've been going thru a lot of life changes and have been trying to juggle a lot at once.

Super long story short I had to find another therapist yet again, some more medical issues, and focusing on how to make my mental health a lot better so I am not secluding myself every few months from trying to build myself back up again.

I realized how horribly I've been treating myself for a really long time and have been working really hard to change that. Changing how I talk to myself, doing more self care, trying to feel comfortable with where my life is right now, making goals for the future, trying to feel more comfortable in my body, and trying to give myself needed self care breaks instead of just being on the go 24/7.

Another thing that's also helped me is unfriending a lot of people who don't have my best interests at heart and people who put a damper on my mental health in one way or another. I've also been unfollowing and unwatching things on various social media sites that negatively effect my mental health too.

It's been rough, but I've slowly been making progress. Anyway, I will slowly complete owed artwork, work on my Patreon and Gumroad, YCHs, other projects, and will work towards streaming art again.

Thanks to all the peeps who have been patient and kind with me. It really means a lot to me. Thank you so much.

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Gonna make this update pretty short. Been up and down with my health, but it's slowly been getting better. Been slowly getting my mental health back together and actually have been drawing again. I'm ready to consistently upload drawings again.

I'm open for commissions and will be posting more YCHs too. Also, planning on more things to post to Patreon and Gumroad. I wanna start streaming art again, but I gotta build up to being comfortable with it again.

Anyways, thanks so much for the new watches and favs. I'm ready to upload artwork consistently again.

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General Update:
I've mentally been able to manage and handle my mental health better these days. I was feeling very dizzy, lightheaded, and more tired than usual for about a year. Which has also made me more irritable and unable to focus. Got some medical tests done and realized I had a very bad bacterial infection in most of my body and that's probably why I've been super out of it for a while. I took some really strong meds that kicked my ass and had me sleeping alooot for the past week and now I feel completely fine.

Art Update:
I finally have my routine back and have been doing some sketches here and there while I was super out of it and recovering from my sickness. I wanted to develop another art style, but I really like what it looks like right now and am gonna stay with this style. That means there's some drawings I'll have to redraw, but I'll live lol.

Commission Update:
I am still currently open for commissions and plan on drawing more YCHs too. I plan on slowly focusing on my Patreon and Gumroad accounts more this year. The Kofi account is more of a tip jar.

Gaming Update:
I was streaming games on twitch while also doing art. But, I realized that I can't divide myself mentally between art and streaming. So, art is gonna be the one that's more important. I'll still play video games, but I just won't be streaming them anymore. I'll also be posting reviews of the games here if anyone's interested in that. https://www.backloggd.com/u/featherwolf09/


Thanks for reading this and I heavily apologize for being on an unexpected hiatus again. Now that I feel so much better physically and mentally be prepared to see more art.

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General Update:
Heya and Happy New Year to Everyone! I've been doin pretty ok mentally. Been having good therapy sessions and learning better coping skills. Some days are impossible sometimes. But, because of me learning better coping skills, that hasn't been happening everyday like it used to. I've also been trying hard to take care of my health. Long story short, I have a lot of organ issues and have to keep up with them everyday. Plus, my heart issue and back issue (combined with my mental health issues) leaves me unable to work. So, I'm doing art full time now. I absolutely love art so much and am open for commissions and plan on doing more YCHs soon.


Art Update:
The past few days I've been slowly trying to clean and organize the art on my computer, ipad, and external hard drive to have a clean slate for the new year. I've also been slowly getting rid of some art accounts that nobody else is on and made some new accounts in other places. I'm still using twitter, but not as much as I used to because of a lot of things happening. So, I made a Mastodon account and so far it's been nice not being bombarded with sports and news that I don't even follow. The furries there have been very welcoming and it's a nice cozy place. I'm also going to revive my Patreon and post a ton of WIPs and sketches that you won't see me post anywhere else. The Patreon has NSFW art is a monthly thing (you can cancel anytime) and my Ko-Fi account has SFW art and is for one time tips. I'm also on Inkblot which has NSFW art, where a lot of people went as an alternative to DeviantArt. I'll still be posting to DeviantArt anyway for now.

Mastodon: https://furries.club/@Nya18
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nya18
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/nya18
Inkblot: https://inkblot.art/profile/nya18
Where else to find me: https://nya18art.carrd.co/


Commission Update:
I am currently open for commissions and do plan on drawing more YCHs. To those who are waiting for anything from me, this part of the year is always me ironing out some things from last year to make this year a bit more smooth. But, I am slowly working on art at the same time and will get to the drawings within the week.


Gaming Update:
I also stream games on Twitch when I have the time. I mostly play platformers, rpgs, retro, and indie games. I sometimes also play newer games. Sometimes I can't use my mic because I share a room with someone who works. Feel free to come by and hangout.

Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/featherwolf09



Thanks for reading all of that if you did. Feel free to comment about how you plan on spending the new year or how its going so far.

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I didn't expect this to take as long as it did. I haven't uploaded in a couple of weeks because I was doing a short online art anatomy course. I thought it would maybe take a few days, but it really took me about 2 weeks to finish. I've always had a simple understanding of human anatomy, but now I have a better understanding of it. This should also help me with animal anatomy in the future. I should've wrote an earlier journal about this, so I'm sorry to those who have been messaging me or waiting for me.

I will be finishing the last few lion sketches, commissions, and start posting YCHs soon. Thanks for supporting me. It means alot to me. :3

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Decided to close this. Thanks all who commented. I will finsh the remaining sketches.

I've decided to do a free art thing to get back into the swing of things.


Rules
- It's first come first serve
- One slot per person
- One character per person
- This will be a flat colored headshot sketch of your character
- I am only drawing lions/lionesses (if your character isn't one, I can draw it as one)


Only comment if you want one and I will send you an FA note for details. Thanks. :3



Available Slots:
1. (done)
2. (done)
3. (done)
4. (done)
5. (done)
6.
7.
8.

So, I just wanted to make a journal about an art style change I'll be making. I've been trying to have a more expressive art style for a while. My most recent uploads have been artwork I already started or completed a bit ago. But, now I will be uploading things in an art style that I think is a bit more expressive plus I want to have a more consistent style in general. That means I'll have to redraw my fursonas ref sheet in my new art style lmao.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy the new art. It might be a bit jarring, but I really like how its turning out. Thanks for all the watches, favs, comments and support.

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I haven't written an update in a while. Here it goes.


Mental Health Update:
I've been working really hard with myself and my therapist to function better. I have serious dissociative issues, bipolar, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues that make functioning really difficult. That's why I've only been active here and there.

What I've been doing is getting into Buddhism more, meditating, exercising, doing more art and more self care. Easier said than done. Having a schedule and doing things at the same time almost everyday helps a lot. Sometimes I don't do everything and that's ok. But, this has helped me get my mind back on track and I'm now more active and doing art again.

I'm also being more gentle with myself, forgiving myself, and giving myself breaks and rewards more often helps. I'm still firm with myself internally, but I try to not call myself names or talk to myself like shit. That's a difficult thing that I'm still working on.

All of this helps me but I still have shitty days sometimes. I've been learning what coping skills work for me to keep me from having a full on panic attack. This is all trial and error and I'm still learning what works for me. But, I'm glad that I can get back to doing art again.


Art Update:
So, I want to draw more fanart, my own characters, and especially Lion King fanart. I love felines and really want to draw more of them along with animals that I don't get to draw much like reptiles and birds. I also want to draw more fetish art because I realize that I don't draw enough of it. I also will get back to doing YCH's as well. I will be getting thru my art queue and any art I owe.

I'm still open for commissions by the way.

Commission Forms: https://nya18art.weebly.com/commissionforms.html
Prices: https://nya18art.weebly.com/prices.html
Queue: https://trello.com/b/tg44YyA8/nya18s-art-queue



Thanks for reading and I hope you all have been well.

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I've been slowly getting back to doing art again. Instead of writing a huge journal, I made a google doc of explanations.

Here's the Google Doc: [url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....?usp=sharing[/url]

I want to thank those who have stuck by me over the years, those who have helped me when things have gotten seriously troublesome, those who just casually talk to me every so often even though I’ve been so terrible with keeping up with conversations, and those who continue to favorite my art and watch my art profiles. Especially thanks to those who have been patient with me through all of this. Thank you for not giving up on me.

I have a ton of things planned for art in general and am gonna get some new and consistent content posted soon. Thank You.

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I haven't been active for a bit because I've been focusing on my mental health. I'll try to summarize everything.

My whole life I thought I was slowly going crazy and insane. I was getting more and more angry with myself and the world, was doing all I could to survive by constantly being at war with my mood. My moods constantly change every milisecond. I'd have extreme downs to the point where I'd want to kill myself all the time and extreme manic symptoms to the point where I'd scream to the top of my lungs and make my throat bleed. I'd lose sense of reality so much that it felt like being awake and in a dream at the same time. As if you're in 2 seperate worlds or dimensions with 2 versions of you living parallel to each other. Think of playing a video game version of yourself while being in the real world at the same time.

In 2018 I was prescribed antidepressants because the therapist I had at the time thought it was just depression and anxiety. But, if youre bipolar and take antidepressants, then your manic stymptoms can get worse and mine did. I went from just yelling to breaking things and punching holes in the walls. Because of that earlier this year I was about to put myself in a residential facility, but decided not to at the last minute. I've had bipolar and schizophrenia symtoms my whole life, but finally got a diagnosis of bipolar and possible schizoaffective disorder.

Over the years I've struggled, even now, to set up a therapy appointment. After years of looking and working with a walk in mental health clinic this year, I'm finally on the right medicine. The medicine isn't a cure, but it helps me function instead of me sitting at home missing work for weeks on end and not being able to take care of myself. I've also been reading self help books because at this moment, finding a therapist is taking too much of my free time. I've been looking since 2012 for a therapist and calling around, researching, insurance, and financial situations take up alot of my thinking to the point that it takes over anything else like my hobbies, art, and other things in my life.

I'm alot stronger than I was since I first stared looking for help. Theres been so much stress, tears, anger, and disappointment from this search. I will probably look for a therapist again, but I've spent all of my 20s looking for one that it's basically been a part time job and I want to use my time for things I enjoy.

Anyway I'm trying to slowly get myself to just take care of myself more, focus more on art, video games and my other hobbies.

Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

Hello Friends!!

It's been quite a while since I wrote my last journal. If you've noticed I've been uploading sporadically on FA for a bit.



ART UPDATES:
Now to start off with the art updates. I'm not moving accounts because Nya18 has been my art name for over 10 years now and I love the name, it's part of my art identity now lol. But, I will be moving most of my art to scraps so I can start of with a clean slate and rebuild my gallery. Plus, I will be using my other art accounts on other furry websites again. I'll try to make 2019 my year and do way more art than I have been for the past few years.


Another thing I want to mention is there are furry multiart uploaders that let you upload to multiple websites at one time. I only know of 2.
-Postybirb- http://www.postybirb.com/features.html - created by  lemonynade
-Furry Art Multiuploader - https://multiupload.us/ - created by  Syfaro
It really helps save time, anxiety, and hassle from having to upload everywhere all the time.


I want to start using my Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheVodkaKitten) for furry videos soon. It will be suit related, art related, or anything else I can think of. I've wanted to do it for a few years, but haven't had the means to do it.

I also have a couple of other accounts I need to talk about more. One is a telegram channel that is SFW only where I post WIPs or other ideas I have in mind: https://t.me/Nya18Art.
The other is a NSFW only twitter that I've had for a while but never used. I uploaded one thing so far but plan on uploading more as I draw more. https://twitter.com/Nya18_NSFW



IRL UPDATES:
Now some IRL Updates. I enjoy my job for the most part, it's 40hrs a week and consistent pay. Only down side is that I'm tired near the end of my shifts everyday, but am working on getting more sleep and packing lunch to bring to work so I wont be dead lol.

I am slowly getting over having this cold for the last 5 months now. I have a bad immune system and have been taking Vitamin C and other vitamins to improve it a bit. But, I should go to the doc sometime to do testing.



Anyway, that's all I got friends. Thanks for reading.

After being in a very long distance relationship with since 2012, we're finally living together in Oregon. It's been super great.

Instead of writing a paragraph of stuff, like I always do, I'll list what has been going on since my last journal.

-Moved to Oregon in June
-Been searching for a part time job everyday and have been getting interviews too
-Been driving my bf around from work or to visit family or friends in different parts of Oregon every so often (it's helping me get an understanding of the locations and roads too)
-Been going to the doctor every week to deal with my physical and mental health
-Starting to go to the library more often
-The 4th laptop I've had, kept blue screening and finally died (my bf put my important stuff on an external hard drive before it fully died, so I still have my art)
-As of this journal I can use my wacom pen tablet on my bf's desktop computer to do art again

I can't wait to do YCHs, focus on commissions, stream my art, and do other art projects again. I've been drawing for a really long time and whenever I stop for a long period of time it hurts me inside.

Thanks so much for those who have been sticking around, talking to me on telegram, steam, or twitter. Or even replying to my journals. I really really appreciate all of it. It' been a rough 3 years for me. But, things are finally starting to calm down enough for me to put art in the spotlight again.

I'm gonna be moving from Virginia to Oregon in a month to be with my bf and am super excited about it. We've been in a long distance relationship for so long and we just want to live our lives together now. I'm mainly packing my video games and clothes and will come back for my other things later. Plus the apartment my bf has is pretty small and wouldnt fit all my stuff anyway. I don't have alot of stuff, his apartment is just pretty small.

Quit my job about 2 weeks ago now because the job was treating employees so badly. But, I want to get back to doing art full time and evntually finding a part time job again.

Been getting back to art very slowly, just haven't been posting here. I want to add watercolor paintings to my commission choices because it's super fun to do and I can do them quickly.

I want to post YCHs again and want to start doing group YCHs. I feel my art style is better than it has been and can't wait to get back to doing art, since it's something I love to do. I want to get back to streaming my art again too.

I really can't wait to draw again because the art on my profile isn't how I really draw anymore and I can't wait til I can move most of my old art to scraps.

Hope everyone has been doin pretty good lately and thanks so much for watching my page, even when I've been a bit inactive. It really means alot and I'll be even more active soon.

You're all probably tired of my dumb updates by now.

Been drawing a bit more and mostly focusing on my fursuit and work. There's been a death in my family and that's kinda difficult to deal with atm. But, hopefully everyone can heal and get past it.

Paypal has been having issues, so I gotta get that resolved before taking on commissions and YCHs again.

I've been ok at my job, but it's just a job.

Mainly trying to get organized again and that's been a bit difficult for me as well since I'm trying to move to be with my bf soon. Just got a ton going on in my head right now.

Plus, me and a friend of mine are planning on going to FurTheMore, the furry convention in Virginia. That's about a 4 to 5 hour drive away from where I live. It all comes down to if I can get the days off from work.

Hopefully everything will calm down soon. Thanks for watching me for however long you have been. I'm trying to make this year the year I do more art and stick to my goals.

List may grow as time goes on. These aren't absolute, but these are the resources I've used or am currently using. Or resources that other people say are really helpful.

If anyone would like to comment and add another resource, please do.


Drawing Books
-Any book by Andrew Loomis (Highly Recommended: Figure Drawing for All It's Worth)
-Any book by Burne Hogarth (Highly Reccomended: Drawing Dynamic Anatomy)
-How to Draw Animals by Jack Hamm
-Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
-The Drawing Manual by Glen Vilppu
-Constructive Anatomy by George Bridgeman
-Figure Drawing by Michael Hampton
-The Skillful Huntsman by Khang Lee, Mike Yamada, and Felix Yoon
-Color and Light by James Gurney
-Imaginative Realism by James Gurney
-A Shelter Sketchbook by John Taylor
-Animals Real and Imagined by Gilbert Banducci and Terryl Whitlatch


Websites
-Flickr (I find that flickr is great for finding references of just about anything)
-CtrlPaint (Free nice instructions for beginners or experienced artists)
-OnlineLifeDrawing (Has a monthly fee to use the site)
-PoseManiacs (Great for gesture drawings)


Furry Drawing Books
I don't reccommend any of these books if you want to learn how to draw. They're good for collecting and just saying you have a furry drawing book. But, they really don't help you like a figure drawing book would.
-Draw Furries by Lindsey Cibos and Jared Hodge
-Draw More Furries by Lindsey Cibos and Jared Hodges
-Drawing Fantastic Furries by Christopher Hart

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