Had to go to a doc appt, but now I'm back and streaming again.
Possibly taking a few more icons and finishing a slightly larger project for another commissioner. Drop in to see if there's any icon spaces available ^^.

https://www.tigerdile.com/stream/bastek_draws/

https://sfw.tigerdile.com/stream/bastek_draws/

Gonna be streaming some more tonight! Not taking on any new work, but catching up on the rest of the bust commissions I owe.

Come hang out if you want! I'll be going between drawing and chatting, so come by if you're bored and want somewhere to hang out :3.

I love the company you all provide while I work! It really charges me up and makes the creative process that much more enjoyable!

This journal will self destruct when the stream is over :)

https://sfw.tigerdile.com/stream/bastek_draws/

Gonna be streaming some more tonight! Not taking on any new work, but catching up on the rest of the bust commissions I owe.

Come hang out if you want! I'll be going between drawing and chatting, so come by if you're bored and want somewhere to hang out :3.

I love the company you all provide while I work! It really charges me up and makes the creative process that much more enjoyable!

This journal will self destruct when the stream is over :)

http://www.livestream.com/impoopin

I'm streaming art for myself, a super rare occurance. Come on by if you want a chill place to hang out with ppl and listen to some tunez <3

If any of the few people that I owe stream commissions to see this, plz stop by!

http://www.livestream.com/impoopin

Boop! Come hang out! I'll update this journal when slots are full.

OK slots are full now, but plz come hang out, I love the company <3

Doing some bust paintings tonight. $40 for a bust/portrait. Pop in if you want one, I'll let you know if I have any more open ^^

EDIT: QUEUE IS FULL FOR NOW, I will post again if/when this changes.

Hi guys, doing some summer cleaning and realizing how many prints I have left over. Looking to see how many people would be interested in prints or old original sketches before I go through the work of posting them for sale.

Thanks!

So I won't be posting much anymore here, but still use my  bastek account somewhat regularly.
I also finally got a tumblr that I plan to use regularly, but it will all be non-adult related :)
http://basteki.tumblr.com

normally wouldn't post something like this here, but I have a large audience here so I figure my chance of getting some answers is a lot higher than if I post anywhere else.

Anyway, my roommate's cat, my dearest kitty companion, has been having some health issues. We have taken him to the vet multiple times in the last half year and have easily spent over $700 dollars trying to help him, but it has been to no avail. We have made a lot of guesses why he might be sick, and think that it may have something to do with the house we live in.. mold maybe? Could hidden mold be making him this sick and not the other cat that we have?

He is an older cat, 8 or 9 years old, so I expect some health problems, but I want to make sure he is able to live as long and happy of a life as possible. His initial problem was a lot of coughing and sneezing as well as a lot of kitty snot. He's been treated with antibiotics multiple times with varying degrees of success. The last time he was treated, the problem had gotten a bit more severe and he seemed to be losing weight, so he was put on a strong antibiotic. It cleared up the problem for the most part, even though after the dosing was over he once again got a little bit sniffly.. it's not as bad as it was before, but I worry a little bit about it coming back.

The more pressing problem is that he is throwing up FREQUENTLY, and often after he eats. It's a newer problem that started a few months ago. At some point earlier, we had gradually switched him and our other cat over from eating Iams to Premium Edge to try to deal with catbox smell (we had been told that better food makes for less nasty dookie). I also figured he may have an allergy to one of the cheap fillers in the Iams and that his health may improve if he ate something better.

I am not sure if this was the cause of the problem, but the times somewhat coincided. I can't place an exact period of time to when he started throwing up a lot, but it was some time after this change. We tried to feed him wet food as well to see if it might help him eat more and gain some more weight back. My roommate ended up buying him some Fancy Feast since he seemed to really like it and eat a lot of it. He had been throwing up his dry food (Premium Edge) a lot, so we figured maybe wet food would be easier to digest. I tried by mixing to change over from Fancy Feast to a higher quality wet food, but he is very picky and didn't seem to want to eat anything other than the cheap stuff. Could the Fancy Feast be messing with his stomach even more..? He also seems to have diarrhea a lot, and I figure that's probably a problem from the Fancy feast as well.

The two cats have been free fed most of their lives, but lately we have had to start feeding them on a schedule because Domino (the one who throws up) was CONSTANTLY puking and it was getting to be a huge pain to clean up. We thought controlled feeding might help. Also, the other cat, Feral, was getting to be a bit too overweight and could benefit from not being able to eat all day.

The other issue here is that Feral has food complexes and will constantly shove Domino out of the way in order to eat. We have tried to feed him separately in a closed room as well as feeding them together in the same room at the same time..

Roommate bought a bag of Royal Canin (for matrue cats) to transition over to. Domino (pukey cat) seems to REALLY enjoy eating it, but I can't tell if it also makes him throw up, since he has only ever had it in his stomach in conjunction with at least some fancy feast.

Also, he often throws up mostly undigested cat food, but often throws up bile in the morning before he's eaten. One of my concerns is that some of the houseplant eating he has done may have damaged his kidneys... It has only happened a few times, and I've checked the toxicity of those plans for cats and didn't see any red flags, but I am still concerned. He had his kidneys checked during a blood test about 3/4 of a year ago, and when he as x-rayed a few months ago the vet said they looked alright. I would like to get him another blood screen, but the vet bills are getting out of control. I have watched to see if he drinks too much water, but it doesn't really seem to be an issue..

I have wondered if he might be eating too much at once or drinking after eating (which I HAVE seen him do with wet food) which might be causing some of the throwing up..

So far we have tried 2 different dry foods (the second of which he didn't like), multiple kinds of "healthy" wet food that he just refuses to eat, kitty probiotics, calorie boosting gel, different feeding schedules.. I am worried that even though we have been trying to do the right things that we may just be overcomplicating the situation and making it worse. We have no idea why he keeps throwing up and the vets don't seem to be able to help much either. I am frustrated beyond reason and often feel sad when I see ANY cat because I am so worried that he is just going to waste away. IT makes me so sad that he begs for food when he's hungry and then throws it up afterwards :(

My current idea is to wean him off the fancy feast and onto the royal canin as soon as possible.. I would like to have a situation where he is eating MANY times daily, but I think I have to get him a crate or set up some situation where he can eat separately so that his servings aren't eaten by the other cat.

We could really use some advice from someone that has some background or any ideas as to what could be going on. He's pretty skinny right now and it's breaking my heart. Thanks so much in advance for any information, and please feel free to ask questions if it might help you better figure out the problem. I'll respond as best as I can.

Much love from me, my roommate, and Domino http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5762076/

My subject matter/focus has changed enough recently that i feel like it might be time to split accounts. Any general adult work will still be put here (when there is any). Other work is moving back to  bastek

Much luv <3333

While cleaning out a closet, my roommates and I unearthed a huge collection of old school (mostly early 90's) furry porn and art. It's so great that I must share it with the world!
Follow the twitter https://twitter.com/FurryHeritage
Or tumblr http://furryheritagefoundation.tumblr.com/

You can also submit your own treasures via tumblr.
Enjoy!

*taps the mic*Hello? HELLO?!
Yes. I am still alive and making art!

However, this summer my trusty laptop kicked the bucket.. It's really about time, since that thing was going on 8 or 9yo (I think). I still have access to a computer with proper graphics editors, but none of them are -mine- and carry the convenience the laptop did. I also managed to spend the entire summer free of the distraction of surfing the web. It was WONDERFUL and led me to much higher productivity than I'm used to, which is partially to "blame" for my slowness in solving the problem.

I'd like to continue to upload, but for now that will mean taking somewhat crap quality photos with my cellphone and uploading them straight from that format. I know it's not ideal, but sharing is more important to me than making sure everything I post looks perfect. I hope you all understand :). School has started again, and that will pretty much force me to get my computer situation fixed again, so it shouldn't be long before I start uploading higher quality versions of the works I'm putting up now.

Thanks for tolerating, and it's nice to be back :)

I have a friend that has a Burning Man ticket that they are trying to sell. $390 (how much he paid ofr it). Let me know if you know anyone that needs it.

Also, I am not going this year.

So my friend ended up with a ticket that he's not going to be using this year. If you know anyone that needs one, let me know. $390.

Also, I am not going this year.

So, since I just posted some pictures, so I figured I'd let everyone know that I was given an offer I could not refuse for his purchase, so he will no longer be going up for auction. Sorry for anyone that was planning on bidding..

Edit: in response to the flood of negative responses on this entry within minutes of posting, I'm appending this reply to the first comment'

"Sorry, everyone is human. It probably is indeed bad form, but try to think of it this way:
Setting up and completing an auction is a huge amount of work. Photos, measurements, a legal set of terms for the payment of the auction, the post of the auction itself and the adversisement.. then comes the answering of all the emails from interested buyers, 90% of which don't even bid at all. Then comes the part where you have to get the payment from the top bidder, and I've had experiences where the winner of an auction didn't read the terms and had no way of making the payment within the allotted time.

If you get the payment, then you have to spend the time making a post office run to ship the thing.. if the suit ends up not fitting the buyer after they get it, you have to worry about either having them shipping it back to fix it or the possibility that they wont wear it at all because they can't. Auctioning off a suit is not only a huge amount of work, but emotionally stressful. Having something sell for a lower price than one had hoped for can be a huge downer, and asking for as much as you think your time is worth has a tendency to ruffle peoples feathers and create a lot of gossip. Hell, even the selling price of the suit ends up being public knowledge and can bring it's own drama.

Selling the suit outright relieves me of all of this stress. I'm a full time student living independently in a very expensive place (SF bay area) and as such my time really does end up equalling money, so I tend to resort to low stress options when they are availible to me. In all fairness, I made at -least- one announcement that I was willing to accept private offers, and nobody serious ever bit until now.

I know that I can't change your mind, but hopefully this explanation has at leased eased the bad feelings. Again, I'm genuinely sorry for the dissapointment, but it's always important for a person to be sensitive to their own needs in these sorts of dealings..."

So, a few things:

-I am not a business person. I am not a professional artist. I am a full time student with a coinciding full time life. The money I am able to make off of fandom related patronage allows me to live more comfortably, but it is far from a full time job, so decisions I make regarding such business are not always the most "professional". I take the patronage I receive very seriously and am extremely grateful that so many are willing to support my creative efforts. Please, please do not take any short-sightedness on my part as any indication that I feel otherwise.

-I want to make it clear again that I had made at least one attempt to let people know I was accepting private offers. If a private offer is within the boundaries of the amount I WANT for something (no, I will not make this public. As I explained, doing so causes a lot of unnecessary drama), I will take it above all else. I understand that by selling it privately I have potentially LOST money. This is always a risk, but the amount of stress I avoid by taking that path is worth the potential loss. Next time I have a pre-made to sell, I will do a better job of making sure people know that private offers falling in my set range take precedence over a planned auction so that interested buyers know what they are dealing with.

-I make a concession to anyone that had planned on bidding: This may have not been the best course of action, and may have been blatantly disrespectful or deceptive. Again, these mistakes will be accounted for the next time I make something to sell.

Thanks for reading.

So the plan is to auction off Beau in time for AC. I'll probably do a 4 or 5 day auction the second to last week of May to make sure that there's time to set up payment and shipping.

Please be aware that if you bid on and win the auction that I will need payment in FULL before I put it in the mail. I feel like that should go without saying, but it is best to cover that base before anything else. There is a possibility I will do longer payment plan options for non AC delivery, but it is still up in the air.

Please look at this picture's description for rough sizing information. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7591906/

I will be posting better photos, exact measurement, ans further info on the auction as soon as possible. Stay tuned!

By the way, would you be more likely to bid if I used furbuy, furbid, eBay, or comments here on FA?

Please help spread the word to anyone that might be interested!

Hi folks! ESG is just around the corner and I can't wait! Last year was a total blast, so this year I will likely be having  rotor along with me too! I keep hearing from the locals about the new hotel for this year and it seems pretty amazing :)

See you there!!

Hi folks! ESG is just around the corner and I can't wait! Last year was a total blast, so this year I will likely be having  rotor along with me too! I keep hearing from the locals about the new hotel for this year and it seems pretty amazing :)

See you there!!

My name on there is basteki! Come play!

Please leave a comment here if I owe you a commission that is not completed.

Please tell me: The date you commissioned
how much you have paid
what the commission was


I would like to clear up my backlog so that I can start taking on new work. Thank you.

I love this article!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic.....otes010412.DTL

12 stupidly easy resolutions for 2012

1) Extra moaning
I know people who hold it all in. I know people who never make a peep, who are far too quiet with their expressions of joy and bliss and yum, who think any sort of yelp at the exquisite pains/pleasures of this life is for hippies and porn stars and obnoxious teenagers who won't shut the hell up and turn down that goddamn hippity hoppity musical nonsense.

I feel terribly sad for these people, in no small part because I used to (sort of) be one myself. What a silly way to go through life. What a relief to not have to be that way anymore. I blame Burning Man. I resolve to keep it going, more than ever.

2) Wilder sighing
Heavy sighing is when you think the world is a miserable madhouse of suffering, violence and very little else. Sad sighing is when you think it's just tragic what happened to poor little Kim Kardashian and, oh my goodness, look what's happening to all the puppies and the honeybees and the supercute baby seals.

Wild sighing, on the other hand, is a different beast entirely. More guttural, raw, emerging from just below the genitals and shooting straight up the spinal chord like liquid fire, it pours out the throat like a slow, feral grunt, like you just ate raw unicorn heart from a skewer made of porcelain hummingbird skull you now wish to thank the gods without saying a word. You know?

3) Truer breathing
There's breathing, and there's breathing. There's the everyday, automatic background drudgery, the shallow, mundane inhale/exhale that you take for granted until it finally stops, you fall over in a dusty heap and the gods shrug and go back to their knitting.

And then there's other kind. There's being fully, exquisitely aware of how you're moving life force through your body, through your pores like it was vodka traversing the blood/brain barrier, like cocaine being passed around the Last Supper, like 1,000 naked angels wrapped around your body and they were squeezing you like a divine accordion made of sex and blood and really strange dreams. Choose wisely.

4) Gentler grip
I do it. You do it. Everyone you know does it. We all hold on far too tightly to the things we love, the things we hate, the personal stories we're so desperately convinced of, because if you let go of them, well, what's left?

Who are you, really, without that car, spouse, haircut, job title, attitude, sneer, Facebook status, enemy, body issue, income level, family trauma, abusive relationship, broken heart, need for attention? Who are you when you soften the mad grip and realize the nature of consciousness is an ever fluxive cycle of expansion and contraction, over and over again, forever? Hint: it's not what you think. Isn't that wonderful? Isn't that terrifying?

5) Deeper penetration
Penetration into what, you might ask, shifting hungrily in your chair? Penetration into the meaning. Into the soft and beckoning darkness. Past the surface of things, through the glittery BS of the popular culture, deep into to the engines and the forces that make it all go.

Penetration into the source. What is the source? Consciousness. What is consciousness? You're soaking in it, right now. How do you know? Close your eyes for a moment, sit very still, and try to imagine God and the Devil are sitting around a raging campfire making s'mores, and your heart is the marshmallow. There.
6) Drink the awe
It's a brutally fast-paced, Facebooked, hypertext-drunk world, my loves, and it's just ridiculously easy to take it all for granted, to sit there and type your message into your glorious little device and attach a video and send it halfway round the world as you sip your coffee that came from 8,000 miles away and think nothing of it all, when in fact there are roughly 1,008 astonishing miracles banging around your life right this second if you just were able to realize their wobbly gifts. What a thing.

7) Invert the melancholy
Yes, I know, you're all jaded and wary and sick of it all. The world is corrupt, everyone's out to screw over everyone else, men are tactless pigs and women are manipulative gold-diggers and it's all enough to cast a permanent pall over everything.

Whatever. Choose that if you want to. It's certainly easy. It's also exceedingly lazy. For 2012, maybe choose to take that feeling and flip it over like it was one of those cute old novelty pens with the naked women on it, as you watch the black bathing suit slide down and reveal the naked truth of the silliness of it all. Then write me a note.

8) Up the vibration
Have you heard? Everything has a pulse. Everything has a flicker and tremor of existence, from rock to ocean, dog to docking station, politician to power drill.

Here is your choice for 2012: You can pump, kick and feed into that pulse, join forces with it to help yourself, your loved ones, the whole of the ruined and gorgeous world leap to the higher realms of consciousness, or you can remain sour and small, refusing to celebrate anything at all. You can vibrate high and helpful, or you can vibrate low and pessimistic. What's it going to be?

9) Down with zippers
On one hand, it's a hyper-pornified, revoltingly explicit, over-sexualized culture with far too easy access to smut of such low and inelegant quality it makes my classic, porn-loving heart sad.

On the other, a trembling horde of puritanical GOP and Tea Party dinkbuttons who don't know the business end of a vibrator (much less a clitoris) would like you to please return to the sexually ignorant closet of roughly 1951 and slam the door tight.

Somewhere in between, a call for a refreshingly filthy and delicious, respectful and educated, fearless and open-throated sexual awareness that is neither that, nor that. I'm working on it, eagerly, every single day. Help me?

10) Occupy heart space
Wait, so I'm not the only one to make a cheesy pun on 2011's favorite protest acronym? To flip it around and make it into some sort of personal self-help mantra? Oh well.

OWS was about taking up residence in the corridors of power and making joyful, egalitarian noise. OHS is about taking up residence in your own power center, feeling around in the box of your own bulls--t and shoving out the demons of bitterness and fear, and replacing them with something resembling trust and bliss. I have no idea if I can do it. But what the hell else is worth trying?

11) Appreciate appreciation
Everyone loves something. Gratitude abounds. I hereby resolve to wallow and soak in the sheer joy that others pump out toward the things they love and celebrate, even if it's something I find ridiculous or annoying or WTF. Unless it's destructive or hurtful, ignorant or violent, I hereby resolve to be more grateful for the whatever the hell you're grateful for. Even cats.

12) Ecstatic stillness
Do you know why many of the wisdom masters and wizened gurus of the world are always laughing? Why their eyes sparkle and they seem to beam out pure love and joy, when they often have almost nothing in terms of worldly possessions, fame or wealth?

It's because they know the secret. They know when you are fully dialed in to the moment, when you are awake and alive to your body and your life, when all senses are alive and the light illuminates everything to the point of absolute bursting, well, there's nothing else to want.

It's the sheer ecstasy of existence itself, blood pouring through, heart aflutter, eyes luminous, body pulsing, air like the finest wine, god in every breath. For 2012, far more of that, please. Join me?

AAAAAAAAAAND ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD.

This always makes me smile!! Cutest ever AND good advice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ZShmt19uQ (sfw)

The reason I even bothered posting that last journal kind of has to do with the idea that I wanted to share that it "happens to the best of us".

I recently listened to this podcast: http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/9274371 . It explains it a lot better than I can. The way I want to tie it in to this and the last journal entry is that shame should be faced up to... it's ok and more importantly NATURAL to experience this kind of thing and that if we can be honest with ourselves (and others, I suppose), life would be... more emotionally peaceful.

I can't really put my thoughts into words, but I think that the podcast is worth listening to and considering.

Edit; i should also mention that my life has been excellent lately. I've grown a lot emotionally and my art is one of the last big things I really have to tackle. :)

Hey guys, me again.

So I admit it. I have a really hard time with art emotionally lately (i.e. feelings of complete and utter worthlessness). I aim to better myself but have yet to find any answer other than "stop being lazy/afraid and work harder" which I've KNOWN is the answer for years but it doesn't seem to change anything. Every piece feels over-worked almost immediately so it's really difficult to finish anything. I'm drawing more, which is good, but my heart isn't holding out in the long run any better than it used to.


Basically, I'll be back and in action as soon as I stop being so afraid of doing the one thing that I really want for myself in life (art).

<3's

-ssirrusly confused

http://gplus.to/ssirrusBusiness
THERE IT IS.

Seems pretty awesome so far. See you there..?