Hoi! Still alive! It's been a long time since I've been active here. A couple of bits of news for those of you who are still watching.

Beginning this week, I'm offering 1 hour sketch comissions for $10 on stream, Iron Artist style. Note me here, or on my SpecialSpoon FA page (link below) if you're interested, and we'll talk turkey. Payment will be through my paypal. You can also reach me on discord SpecialSpoon#1723.

My hours should be from 10a - 2p, -8 GMT most days of the week on my picarto https://picarto.tv/SpecialSpoon, but hopefully I'll be able to go longer on some days.

I am creating a new FA page under http://www.furaffinity.net/user/specialspoon/. I will continue to use this gallery for my less risque works, like my Strip World cartoon. The SpecialSpoon account will be for slightly more.... let's say smutty works. ^^;; I'm not going to make it a big secret, but the seperation will add a slight bit of discretion to my more NSFW things. We'll see how it goes.

Thanks ya'll! Wish me luck!

-Spooner

For anyone paying attention or wondering, Spoon am aliv! :B

Friend of mine said I should at least make a journal entry to boot that three year old sketch request entry off. So, boot!

Much love and utensils to all

-SpecialSpoon <:3~

Hi New watchers!

I appreciate all the new folks following my gallery!

You can expect to see a decent mix of commissions (art I've bought from fellow artists) and my own works here. I am a 4 year novice artist from the West Coast of USA and hope to improve my craft over the next 10 years. This, while also helping to support my fellow higher level artists and learn from them. Being a part of the furry artists community (particularly the TF sub culture) has been super fun!

My ultimate goal is to publish my own comic books, and start a webcomic! weeee

I stream fairly often on picarto during the evenings after work! (-8 gmt) Feel free to come join me, and I just might do a request for you! https://picarto.tv/SpecialSpoon

Thanks for hangin with a Spoon, and enjoy the show. ;)

-SpecialSpoon <;3~

Mostly just a note to myself that I tidied up the gallery. Moved a bunch of older pics to scraps. I must admit, I have improved in the last 9 months... enough that I could look at several of the olderish pics in the gallery and realize they're no longer representative of my best work anymore...

Remember!

Always Be Practicing!

Patient Persistent Practice!

But Don't Burn Out!

-Spoon

Ol' Tegerio, one of my absolute favorite artists/cartoonists, finally got himself a patreon page!

He creates what is in my opinion one of the greatest 18+ online comics ever, Zandar's Saga.

How could I not give at least a few bucks per page for this genius piece of fiction!?

If you're a fan of Zandar's Saga, consider becoming a patron yourself! https://www.patreon.com/tegerio

If you aren't familiar with it, go check out Zandar's Saga! (here's the first page -> http://www.furaffinity.net/view/933764 )

-Spoon

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

― Ira Glass

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quo.....3989.Ira_Glass

Watchers! Thanks so much for watchin! This is all very new to me still, so I hope my FA submissions are at the very least entertaining! Please note me if any of you would like a request sketch from me, and drop by my stream to check out all the action! I stream most Friday/Saturday/Sunday nights!

https://picarto.tv/SpecialSpoon

godo nigt!

-specialspoon

Practice practice practice! Must git guuder! D:< And the moral of the story is: WOOOOORK!!

https://picarto.tv/SpecialSpoon

It's 7:45p pacific standard time, and I'll be doing sketch requests for the next 3 hours or so!

All requests considered, but no guarantees! >:3

Come join my sensei,  General-Irrelevant and I on this journey of discovery and fun!

I'm now open for taking single character sketch requests! I am open to any type of character or subject, including nudes, possibly sexy things. Just please please please, if you are under 18 don't ask me for porn. I say again, DO NOT REQUEST PORN OR NUDES IF YOU ARE UNDER 18!! Swimsuits and such are ok, though. Probably. I know what you guys use this stuff for, so don't treat me like I'm stupid. Wait till you're 18. If you're under 18 and want pr0nz, learn to draw them yourself. >:P ...or sneak them from your dad's room like I had to do back in the day.

Anyways, I'm new, I'm rough. I'm trying to improve my skills as an artist, particularly as a furry artist. It is my hope that doing these free requests will be a good exercise. This is your fault, GI!! http://www.furaffinity.net/user/general-irrelevant

If you'd like to watch me draw, please consider following my picarto channel! https://picarto.tv/SpecialSpoon My timezone is -8 gmt, here on the west coast, Portland, OR, USA. I do streams most commonly on Thursday and Friday nights after work, and during the afternoon and evenings on Saturdays and Sundays. Rarely, also I may do them Mon-Thurs around lunch time... we'll see how that goes. This will change in September, but I'll make a new journal post about it.

Ok, send me your shouts, send me your notes! I'll be taking up to six at a time, around hour long sketches each one. That's just an arbitrary number for now... I'm not sure what kind of work load I can take at this point.

Cya'll around, and thanks!

was talking with GeneralIrrelevant and Barenosso tonight about drawing ideas from imagination, and some intesting things were said that I want to note down here.

"GeneralIrrelevant: A mental image popped into your head.That is how you draw, that very first image that pops in.That's how you know what to draw, it's usually right.So when you have your story, you just think description.Then draw what pops into your head the same way.

I studied that way for a long time until I can draw instantly what pops into my head first.

It's why I can draw so fast and with such loose linework."

I'd like to learn how to do this, too. GI says they trained to do this a lot by doing free art raffles and such for random peeps.

What am I afraid of? I should do this too and gett better...

Hmm!

-SpecialSpoon