I have two commissions from May that need to get finished (one is almost done). There are three more from MFF (two of which are half-finished) that also need to get done. I haven't worked on anything since MFF because of illness. After Christmas, work will resume.
Once these jobs are done, I will be opening up commissions again. Be aware, they will be open based on demand from now on, so that I do not overwhelm myself again. In addition, two weeks after opening, prices are going to go up. Once they open up, get on the trigger quick, because that'll be the last time the prices will be what they are now!

At around 1pm EDT (5pm GMT), I will be opening up a sketch stream with all proceeds going to my mother's GoFundMe (here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tammie-n.....-starting-over ), since her health insurance is not covering hardly any of her needs. The stream will be on Picarto; wait for the notice to come.

Rules for the donation stream:
General-rated only; no nudity or seriously bloody content.
Two character limit.
Mecha allowed, one unit limit.
10 USD minimum, but if you pay 30+, I will add a splash of color.

Nothing is wrong, I just need to chew up this queue, first! There will be opportunities for sketch streams later on, however.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tammie-n.....cp+share-sheet

Hey, if you could, please help my mother out. She's been getting her shit kicked in for over a decade and really, badly, needs this. I might be able to pitch in a little here and there, but my own funds are also very, very tight. She needs this badly, and quickly.

If you haven't given me a follow on Picarto and learn when I go live, you may do so here: https://picarto.tv/ProjectDarkFox
This post is also a part of the verification process on Picarto. More information here: https://picartotv---help-center.gro.....-verified-user

Edit: I've been verified! I feel validated now, woo!

Well, looks like one of my friends has found themselves in a tricky situation. Funny how laws and policies work with leases, don't they?

https://www.gofundme.com/1pr1i7zx1c

So thanks to a certain BattleTech Clan Invasion Kickstarter, I am trying to gather commissions together with a theme. You can still get a "regular" commission but currently, anything with the actual BattleTech series theme will be of higher priority. Anything considered for the theme is anything within the BattleTech universe, such as a custom MechWarrior in uniform or with any Inner Sphere/Clan/Periphery insignia or uniform, its technology, or any BattleMech or Vehicle that is recognized to be from that universe. Any ol' mecha will not fit the criteria.

Price sheet is here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/30453721/

And it should be stressed that the $3 comes off the final price, which is to favor smaller commissions such as display pictures for pilots, 'Mech sketches, and the like. Minimum transaction of $10 still applies, but if you get multiple commissions that add up above $10, you pay *that* price.

This special has expired.

Queue is filling up but good. I just need to work off some of it before I open again. Thank you for your interest!

I wanted to say "Thank you" to those giving me a chance on commissions. Thanks to those who've passed me notes here on FA, and friends on Discord, I have quite a queue all set up with plenty to do.
I've been on some supplements to help with the depression (one that actually WORKS!), and as a result, it's got me working again. You have no idea how much better I've been feeling, by the way.

.... Eh, it's going ok. Depression sucks but what else is new.

Until November 27, these simple Teeny avatars will be available for the low, low price of just $10! Turnover is same-day!

Just some examples:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28976246/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/29113279/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28981923/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28976569/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28976592/

If you'd like one, just shoot me a Note!

https://www.gofundme.com/SpazBroadcastsForReps

Right, so this situation doesn’t just affect Spazman, but I’m one of the roommates as well. He just beat me to the Go-Fund-Me. (That and his name is kind of more recognizable these days.)

So click the link for more information, but in effect, our house is fucked, it’s not our job to repair it, and we’re looking to get out of here since our lease is up. This is considered an emergency situation. Any help you can lend to our efforts would be immensely appreciated!

All Mature+ artwork is about to be removed in the next 24 hours! If you want to save it, you better do it now! This *especially* goes for people who've commissioned me and not saved their files yet!

EDIT: It is done.

Owed commissions are continuing at a glacial pace at the moment as I am adjusting to things. We have received another roommate in the past week, which has crowded the house that little bit more. Around the same time, I have switched to a nocturnal sleep schedule that is more fitting for a 3rd shift (graveyard) job, and it seems to be doing wonders for me as far as sleep problems go. However, the migraines haven't exactly gotten any better.
Fortunately, they only seem to happen in triggers I have positively identified: fluorescent lights, and loud, shrill sound. Unfortunately, all of my work history involves at least one of them. I'm not sure what sort of job I can take with these in mind anymore, so I am open to suggestions while I am slow on my commissions. Someone kicked the idea at me to be a full-time gamemaster for whatever system(s), but I hardly get donations from my two biweekly BattleTech games. :P

Also open to suggestions is my commission format. I have been debating on how to better arrange how I take commissions, and one of the things I considered doing was only offering the flat rate per hour (Some artists called it "Burning pencil," I think). Some may charge $1/min, but I don't (quite) feel like my skills are this good yet, and my baseline may still remain at $12-$15 per hour. The other option was to keep the old method, introduce the new one above as an option, streamline the old one somewhat (drop airbrush because it kind of looks shitty with my lining), and increase costs somewhat on both to around 10%. Like before, no prepay, and the cheaper of the two is charged. Be aware that they are not opening again until I actually completely clear my queue.* Again, please, suggestions.

Also please, be nice, I'm under a lot of stress. Money is tight again and I don't need any blatant hostility.

* = If you really want to draw up my services at this time, not only will I force you to prepay, I will charge five times my usual rate to work you in, and you're still not guaranteed to get what you need in a reasonable time frame.

For the last month of my employment with Dollar General, I had been experiencing intense and extremely frequent migraine headaches. As I am writing this journal, I should be at work today, but I had to call my boss about the most recent and damn near debilitating one I just had last night, and that I can't keep working under these conditions -- nor can she try to work around me doing this. I hope she understands.

Because of these migraines, I don't know when I will get back to commissions. I may do one or two occasionally like I was before when I was dodging the depression, but it really is entirely up to my physical health now, not just my mental health. I will open commissions again the moment I clear my queue. Priority will go to people who have already paid, such as for those who visited me at AnthrOhio last week and did not leave with a commission in hand.

Quick Addendum: I have been seeing the doctor about these migraines, but I will be seeing a specialist later next week.

Hello! You've probably noticed the latest wave of furry insanity. I don't plan to go anywhere just in case, but anyway, I am on other places of the Interbutts, below. Pick your poison:

DeviantArt: http://prdarkfox.deviantart.com
InkBunny: http://www.inkbunny.net/projectdarkfox
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/prdarkfox
Tumblr: http://projectdarkfox.tumblr.com

Be safe out there.

I want to engage my watchers a little bit. Is there anything you wanted to know about me, no matter how innocuous or kinky? Ask me, I'll be answering questions until Thursday morning my time (I am in EDT).

Commissions will not be available for the forseeable future. While I have a backlog to clear out anyway, I also just got word that I got a new job working alongside my wife at a local Dollar General. While it'll be part time, it'll be enough to keep me busy with my other endeavors.

You no longer need PayPal to pay for commissions! In addition, comics have become a commission option. Please see the featured submission for more details!

Let's get the bad out of the way.
Actually getting to the con was quite a bit of a nightmare. Once we got off the bus to Chicago early in Thursday, my wife had her pockets pilfered of her wallet, and we needed to spend a night in @mikejmurdock's hotel room. With the pickpocketing still in our thoughts, we slept like crap until checkout, took a Lyft to the Hyatt hotel space (where MFF was held). More on this later.
Our designated hotel space for 4 jammed 10 people for Friday and Saturday night to save money. I slept on an air mattress with my wife. That did not do me many favors.
Con stuff. Con stuff.
After a critical error in scheduling the bus arrival and departure days, we had to spend an additional day in Chicago, wiping out all the commission money I made all weekend for the hotel.
And my god, I couldn't sleep on that bus anyway.

The good stuff:
I want to do Midwest Fur Fest itself all over again. Spaz and Sakura had a blast of a time and after doing Artist's Alley all three days, I got to run a couple games of BattleTech (Quick-Start for our newbros and the full expanded rules after). I met all kinds of new people over the weekend, and I learned a shitload of lessons for how to present myself in Artist's Alley better; I only got some of the commissions I did because I have a specific skillset that the majority of furry artists lack. A lot of you know which skillset that is.
Sakura released Day 1 of the con on YouTube that I think you guys should check out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so71lvlZz8M

My first con in six years, and the wife's first *ever!* I'm so excited!
I have not arranged for a table either in any sort of Dealer's Den or Artist's Alley, so I will not be taking commissions during my time there. However, more than likely, I will be hanging out in the tabletop game room demoing the BattleTech tabletop game. If you want to come meet me in person, that is where I'm going to be!

Sometime in May, I took in my friend Spazman here in Gaffney, SC, in my studio apartment. Two weeks ago, he hauled ass onto a plane to secure a house for the three of us from one of his family members. My wife @Sakura-pryde's job has successfully gone through the transfer procedures, and we're getting ready to load a U-Haul Pod today in anticipation for the move tomorrow. My main computer will be powered down until we're at the new place, as I am taking the master computer with me.
We're heading off to Louisville, Kentucky, Spaz's old stomping grounds.
Wish me luck and a safe trip.

Disclaimer: Barring bouts of Imposter Syndrome from time to time, I have not been living any sort of lie, nor have I told any sort of lie to the lot of you. What I am about to share is somewhat personal to me, and it has taken a good two years to deliberate if I should even share it outside of some close friends of mine.
Most of you know that I have been dealing with the effects of depression for a very long time; the old sprite comic There's Something About Tails was pretty proof of that based on how dark it and the art got. About three years ago, a combination of that, stress, and anger had created something a little different: a sentient voice with her own personality, thoughts and goals. It would be a proper form of Dissociative Identity Disorder if it weren't for the fact that I still have full control over myself whenever she wants to interject. And occasionally, I do let her speak or type for me.
Or she can just take over outright if I'm that mentally tired. This is rare, however.
I want to say she was accidentally "created" as a sort of last resort safety net to keep me otherwise sane.
I had brought this up because of how little art I'd been producing, how few commissions had been getting checked off. I felt like you all had a right to know what is going on in my noggin.

Look, things have been going quite well on the physical front lately. But I have only been getting worse, barely hanging on. I hope that someday I find proper treatment so I can go about my business as a relatively normal human being one day.
But I am keeping "Rachel." I need every friend close to me as I can get, even on my good days, to remind me who I have.

(For the record, she has claimed the Rachel fursona that I have drawn plenty of.)

Married to  sakura-pryde! As soon as the wedding and reception were over, we drove to the Charlotte airport to take a plane back to where the face-to-face meeting began, back in St. Louis! We're spending our several day honeymoon there. To do..... stuff.
Yeah.... stuff....
Erm, I guess I don't have a lot to add to that. Well, aside for the fact that two months ago I informally adopted and took in my friend  SidSpazTyler. So there's that, too.
Man, I am terrible at doing journals.

I know my work flow has been absolutely shit these past few weeks, and I have no one to blame but myself. I know I took on Spazman about three weeks ago, but he's not been a problem at all.
Anyway, trying to push myself to work harder. Also asking Spaz to have me work harder, too. However, I have a new problem coming up as I am slowly completing my own workload: I'm almost out of work.
My TOS has been slightly updated to include an additional payment option related to EVE Online (1 Billion ISK = $10 USD of commission, up to 4 Billion), but other than that, everything is still the same. If you're interested in something, virtually anything, don't be afraid to come note me!