I'm doing well. Maybe not physically, but emotionally, I'm slowly healing. I'm getting married soon, and am looking forward to that. I'm going to be taking commissions to help make some much-needed wedding money. won't be anything official, sadly. We're too broke right now. I've opened up commissions, so I'm hoping that I can get some commissions to do some Robotica art, which is something I've dabbled in in the past, but not much.

If you're interested, drop me a note.

🎨✨ Now Open for Commissions! ✨🎨

Heya, fuzzbutts and fabulous folks! 💖
Yeah, I know—I don’t post here all that often these days (hey, that just means less ranting and more arting, right? 😅). But I’m breaking radio silence for something important.

Life on Social Security is tight. Planning a wedding while on Social Security?
Yeah, that's even tighter. So I’m officially opening commissions to help make a special day even more magical for my fiancé and me.
🎨 What I Offer:

Chibis (because tiny is adorable)

Robian Transformations (Sonic-style, anyone?)

Pet Personalities (cartoon-style drawings of your furry—or scaly—friends!)

Character Design Drafts (Got a description but no reference? I’ll bring your idea to life!)

Caricatures (Silly, stylized, full of charm)

Voice-Over Work (Yes, even the spicy kind—wink wink 😉)

💵 Commission Pricing (USD):

HEADSHOTS:

✏️ Sketch – $5

🖋️ Ink – $7

🎨 Full Color – $10

TORSO-UP:

✏️ Sketch – $10

🖋️ Ink – $13

🎨 Full Color – $15–$20 (depends on complexity)

FULL-BODY:

✏️ Sketch – $20

🖋️ Ink – $30

🎨 Full Color – $45–$50

Need two characters? Just double the price—simple as that!

I’ve got 30 years of art experience behind me and all the time in the world right now to pour into your commission. Let me help bring your character, pet, or project to life—with some heart, humor, and a splash of color. 💕

If you're interested (or just want to ask questions), drop me a note here or DM me on Discord "under the name #Knazarath" Let's create something awesome together—and help make this wedding dream come true. 💍✨

8/15/2010(Guestimate based on oldest photo of roughly 3 weeks of age) - 8/20/2024...

Name: Kiki-Ohki (Based on anime creatures known as "Cabbits" that have big white tufts in their ears and look like a cross between a cat and a rabbit. if you know your Anime, you know it's from Tenchi Muyo).


You were my sunshine....My only sunshine..you made me happy when skies were gray...you'll never know, dear..how much I'll miss you...I'll see on the rainbow bridge one day...
Kiki....I love you, baby girl....I always will....You made me laugh, your "Cagney Cat" meow will forever echo in my ears....I'll never forget making you your first toy when I was so poor I was eating ketchup packets...From the time I got you I busted hump to make sure I kept you happy and fed and entertained...I'll never forget how you would play fetch....I swear sometimes you thought you were a doge..Or the way you would lay your head in my hand and fall asleep...or the way you'd randomly just start grooming me...I always thought it was some maternal instinct you still had despite not being able to have kittens of your own...Or the time the old roomie's doges chased you up the telephone pole and you didn't come down for 3 hours.Got a photo of that, too...Now...all I have left are memories and a room full of reminders.........and it feels empty.........without you here, it feels empty and close and forlorn......like all the life was sucked out.....I can't help but feel if I could have gotten you there yesterday, this wouldn't have happened, and you'd have been in a place where they could have helped you better than I could....I'm sorry, Kiki.....I'm sorry I failed you.. I'm sorry I wasn't fast enough....
I spent the better part of last night laying under my bed with her...I barely fit....but I wasn't about to let her lay there alone...suffering......I just...I didn't realize it was this bad....you hid your pain so well, baby..you were so brave and strong.....and i just....I just wasn't strong enough to save you.... You will be in my heart, my thoughts....you'll be part of my soul from here until the day I meet you at the other end of the Rainbow Road.....
Tell Papa, Pat, Joe, Thor, Bastet, Merlin "They Gray", Grace, Lazy, Dustin, Chivas, Josh, Grandma & Grandpa Johnson, Papa Errol, and the various loved ones and pets I've lost to time and life's slings and arrows...Tell them all I said "Hello..I miss you. And I love you all very much."
I'll be there with you one day....and it'll be like nothing ever happened at all....and we'll be happy again..and you'll be healthy, rambunctious, and doing zoomiez around the carpet-covered pearly gates...Tell Thor to bark as loud as he can during the next Thunderstorm...give me a good sign, okay?
Crash & Burn, sweetheart. (Means "Good Luck/Break a leg" in Robot Jox lingo).
To my Friends whom are in Star Fleet...WARN THE HEAVENS THAT A NEW WARRIOR IS ON THEIR WAY TO JOIN THE BATTLE!!!!
Away, To the Gray Havens, where peace and rest await thee! Beyond the sea! Beyond the sky! Beyond the heavens!
Run swiftly, Kiki-Ohki of the grand white ear-tufts! Let the wind of the Etherium set your soul ablaze, that you might become a new star in the night sky!
Be at peace, my sweet child...Your journey is finished..you are home...among the stars.

I've noticed a lot of folk lately drawing the Target Dog as a blonde American Cocker-Spaniel.....


Y'all....are aware that the Target Dog (named Bullseye) is a BULL TERRIER, right? Why are y'all changing the species all of a sudden? Bull terriers need love, too!

I am at risk of losing everything I own in storage.. I just moved, they've cut off my SSI (because they don't listen and sent mail to the wrong address TWICE)..I'm fighting to get it re-activated, but in the meantime, I need to take commissions to make the money for my storage unit. I need to make $117 for storage, and 40 for my phone bill.

So commissions are open!

So, I just moved into a new house, old place was no longer tenable. Problem is, I lost my part-time job at the same time, so, being on a fixed income, I need to find ways to supplement that meager income so I can make ends meet at the new place, so I'm opening up commissions for voice-over work as well as art commissions. Suffice to say that I need financial help and the only way I can figure to make ends meet for the time being is to open up commissions again.

I ended up moving into a smaller space but am having to pay for storage at a nearby storage facility, so I have to open up commissions in order to make the funds necessary to pay for my storage each month.

If you are interested, hit me up!

I'm doing a bit of brainstorming and sharing it with you all. Please enjoy reading. <3

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Miala wrung her hands nervously. "C-Come on, Tanek! Let's get out of here! If the Temple Elders catch us down here, we'll be in deep kudu for sure!"

Tanek scoffed. "Oh, come on. WHat are you afraid of? Ghosts?" Shi asked, wriggling all four sets of fingers ominously at hir best friend.

"Yeah..and the elders.." She said. "Oh, come on. don't you want to impress Knaz?" Tanek asked, trying to give hir friend some kind of incentive to keep going. Shi knew that Miala had a crush on Knazarath, Tanek's older brother. Miala sighed, still wringing her hands. "Yeah, but..." Tanek continued. "Knaz likes tough girls, Miala. If you stay meek and don't take any risks, he's never going to give you the time of day, let alone be your mate."

"Oh, come on!" Miala protested. "You can't really expect that to work on me, can you?"

Tanek shrugged. "It's either do this, or Knaz takes out that Dina Wildor to the solstice dance instead of you."

Miala Growled. "Nuh-uh! She wouldn't know what to do with a boy like Knaz! He's way too headstrong for her! Only someone like me can reign in that boy's anger!" she said matter-of-factly while stomping her foot.

"THen what in the heavens are you waiting for?! Come on! We take a little relic from this old temple and show it to him, and he'll be SURE to want to take you to the dance instead! You HAVE to show him you're brave, or he'll never take you seriously!"

"Oh, Alright, FINE!" Miala said, finally, defeated.

Tanek grinned. "Alright! Follow me!" Miala shook her head, rolling her eyes as they entered the old temple. The guards were on break, having lunch around the bend and out of sight, giving them plenty of time to sneak past the massive cavern entrance and into the old temple.

Along the path into the temple were a myriad of large, rounded stones, Each one had a spiral, or a series of spirals, carved into them. They were anywhere from 2 feet, to 7 feet high, arranged in a spiraling pattern just outside the main entrance. Tanek and Miala hid behind the largest of these, making sure the guards weren't nearby before running into the old temple as quickly and silently as their moccasined feet would carry them.

The large, rounded stones were situated in a spiraling pattern. It's said that during ancient rituals, members of this ancient faith would walk the circle and pray.

Nobody really knew who'd built it, or why, or how long it had been there. It had been discovered by villagers not long after the Fall of the Hammer, but, by then, had already been all-but-abandoned, some of the stone work having been torn down and hauled off to build walls and other structures in the village.

Inside the old temple, lichen and vines hung down low over the walls. Ancient cave paintings littered the walls, ceiling, and even the floors. There was a strange air in the chamber that always felt odd to Tanek, who'd frequented this place many times on hir own in the past. The paintings on the walls were ancient, some even seemed to have been deliberately marred or otherwise vandalized in the past, as the ancient writing was missing in several places, scratched out cruelly by some unknown means. Elder scribes had translated what they could of the ancient writing, finding them to contain ancient omens of famine, destruction, life, and death. The heads of several statues were missing entirely.

Ancient carvings in the stone floor of the temple indicated where a ritual circle had once been, and an old stone statue, adorned with spirals and triangles and other odd markings, sat in the middle. It stood some 18 feet high, and was built to resemble a female figure with no face. Spirals adorned it's stomach and head, with a third surrounded by triangular patterns along the breasts of the statue. Two large rings surrounded it, like 2 sets of arms held high over it's head.

Tanek and Miala wandered about the barely-lit cavern. Though this place was barely used, there were those who felt that keeping it in as good a condition as they could would appease whatever gods it was erected to from visiting wrath and ruin upon the people. In the farthest wall of this cavern, a massive stone temple had been carved from the living rock, and ancient brickwork rose up about 20 feet high. These ancient bricks and stones had been stacked almost seamlessly, though it was apparent that they didn't have the best workmanship, as a lot of bricks were unevenly cut and stacked. At one point, the brickwork seemed to change in color and craftsmanship from a deep reddish brick to a more pale, chalky stone.

THere were still ancient tapestries hanging from the walls and vaulted stone ceilings, stalactites and stalagmites covered the floor and ceiling, and carvings of spirals seemed to be randomly littered throughout.

Tanek and Miala approached the far wall closer to the old temple, where two massive doorways yawned before them, one partially hidden by collapsed stonework. There was another, smaller statue like the one in the main room standing here, partially destroyed, with the fallen bits neatly arranged at its feet by the village elders as a form of reverence. THe head on this particular statue had been marred badly. It's face had been destroyed by either falling rock, or malicious temple robbers looking to scavenge ancient relics for profit. It, too, had a feminine aesthetic to it. Tanek walked up to it, tracing the one remaining eye.

Tanek stood there for a long moment, looking at the statue and the strange spiraling patterns all over it's body. While most people who visited this place felt uneasy, Tanek felt strangely at peace within this place. When shi came here, it seemed all hir bad luck just went away.

Tanek's bad luck was notorious. It had caused so much trouble for the village at times that they had meetings about hir bad luck and how they could swear that if shi were ever allowed to work the fields and crops, shi'd destroy everything and they'd all starve to death, so hir place had never quite been found within the hierarchy of the Village, and the village Elders were constantly on hir case about being aloof and never paying enough attention to hir studies. Shi would always ratehr be out exploring the island, sitting on it's edge and wondering about what existed beyond the maelstrom that protected their floating island home. Shi could see most of the other islands from hir favorite spot, each circling a central island with a massive tree at it's center that towered over all the islands. It's root systems held the other islands together in their syncronis orbits around the central island. Shi had always bee quite fascinated by it, wondering how it had gotten there, floating above a vast ocean below.

Miala sighed, speaking up nervously. "COme on..let's go...we shouldn't be here at all!" She stammered. "Oh, come on!" Tanek said, grinning. "Where's your sense of adventure?"

"It's back in the village, where it, and myself, belong.." "Oh come on. All you need to do is take a piece of this place back and show Knaz, and he'll date you for sure!" Shi grinned, looking the old statue over. "Take this thing's head, for instance..I'm pretty sure that it's just sitting up there..look how bad the neck is cracked. If we show this to Knaz, he'll date you for sure and forget allll about that other girl!" Tanek reached up to take the head in both hands, and tugged on it. "Y-You really shouldn't do that, Tanek! What if you anger the spirits?"

"Oh, come on. What could possibly go wrong?"

And in that moment, Tanek's left foot came down on a sharp pebble. Shi yelped, fell backward, and reached out to grab the old cloth tapestry to keep hir balance, only for it to rip in hir grasp. Shi fell back against a stone pillar that was supporting part of the wall, nudging it just enough to cause a large chunk to fall toward hir. Miala shouted and shoved Tanek away. in the process, the cloth tapestry flew from Tanek's hand and landed in one of the temple's torch basins, lighting on fire and igniting the dead lichen hanging from the ceiling. A section of wall gave way, and a small metal spiral fell from the wall above the alcove where the old statue had been placed, and smacked Tanek right between the eyes. There was a flash of light, and Tanek felt a cold chill run through hir body like electricity before shi collapsed. The last thing shi heard was the crackling of fire, the sound of Miala whimpering in pain, and a faint, distant voice shi had never heard. "...you've come....Finally, you've come...my vessel...Welcome, my child...You have so much to learn..."

That was the last thing Tanek recalled before waking up outside the temple, surrounded by concerned villagers, the elders, and open air. Smoke was pouring from the cavern entrance. One of the guards rushed out of the cavern, smoke billowing around him. In his arms, he carried Miala. He laid her down and Miala's parents rushed to her side, yelling and crying out. She wasn't moving. "She's not breathing! Someone help us!" "M-Miala?" Tanek sat up, hir mother, father, and brother were there, standing over hir. "W-what happened?" Tanek's mother held her daughter close. "Oh, my child, I'm so glad you are okay!" Hir father wasn't so happy. "What the hell were you thinking?! You know it's forbidden to enter this temple! And now look what you've done!" He said, angrily pointing toward the cavern entrance, smoke still billowing from the entrance to the cavern. Knazarath, seeing that Tanek was okay, rushed over to where Miala's parents and an elder were trying to revive her.

"Miala!" Knazarath shouted, being stopped by one of the village elders, who closed his eyes and shook his head. "It's too late...she's gone.." Knazarath blinked at the old cat, jerking his shoulder out of his grasp. "No! It can't be! She can't be gone!" He shouted, growing angry as he shoved passed the elder and rushed to Miala's side. THere, he found Miala, laying on her back, several cuts and bruises on her body from the collapse of the wall. Her left arm was broken, and there was singing on her fur and several severe burns to her legs.

Tanek had stood up by this time, but felt woozy, collapsing again and holding hir head. a severe, migraine-like headache came suddenly upon hir and shi fell unconscious to the ground.

Ask me about concepts, ask me about characters, their personalities, etc.

Ask any question you'd like! I will end up drawing some of my responses and simply answering other questions with text.

Knazarath: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....azarath-Xavier

Tanek: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....3/Tanek-Xavier

Other characters will be added as they are fleshed out more.

Ask me about concepts, ask me about characters, their personalities, etc.

Ask any question you'd like! I will end up drawing some of my responses and simply answering other questions with text.

Knazarath: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....azarath-Xavier

Tanek: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....3/Tanek-Xavier

Other characters will be added as they are fleshed out more.

It really should!

"Nicolas Cagey": The act of causing discomfort in others, but being extremely weird and over-the-top about it."

"It's getting rather Nicolas Cagey around here.."

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That is all.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8384757/

My friend needs some help with figuring out which games he should stream live. Feel free to pop over and give him some feedback! Tell'em Tanek sent ya!

So, get this, folks! What's got two thumbs, legal weed, the colorado Rockies for a backdrop, and no worries?

THIS GAIIII~!

So, long story short, I lost my mind a little and needed a change. As many of you know I've struggled with depression and anxiety, partial blindness and a severe case of "Hey, this guy is easy to take advantage of", in which I nearly lost not only my mind, but my life, as my charitability, and inability to say no to people in greater need than I, I ended up getting taken advantage of too often and found myself in over my head. So now I'm in Colorado. I've left behind some painful memories, and some good ones. I've left behind a few very good friends. My business partner Demagien and I are staying in touch, and I'm waiting on the folks at Xfinity to come tomorrow to check the wiring in my current abode for trouble with their line as I got their service 2 days ago but nothing works yet. I can't even log in to the wi-fi they broadcast from right down the road (Literally 1 block) from where I live.

It's all good, though. Change takes time and effort. I finally escaped the hell I'd surrounded myself with in Tulsa. I won't be reminded so much of my friend's passing now that I'm not living in the place in which he passed away with me right on the other side of the wall in the other room, asleep...so..yeah, change is good.

Mom, her NEW (AWESOME~) fiance, and myself, are working on finding a four-bedroom house somewhere where we can all have our own space, etc.

I'm in the mood to get some things done, so if I owe you something, please REMIND ME~! I've been so busy with moving and getting toxic people out of my life that I've not really had a moment to sit down and draw and just enjoy being in this new place. Now that I'm somewhat situated, I may stream some tomorrow and take commissions. A guy's gotta eat and pay the bills, so I'm getting heavily back into my work. ALL of it. 3D modeling for my 3D Printer, drawing, crafting armor (Of course there will always be room for gaming sessions!) and will be fucktons happier where I am now.

Look forward to new stuff soon!

I am accepting commissions at this moment. 3 Only, first come, first serve.

PM Me if interested!

Sketch- $5
Inked- $10
Flats - $15
Full Digital Color- $35
Additional characters
Sketch - $5 per extra character
Ink - $7 per extra character

Sooo, On my Birthday, October 7th, I was working on repairing my phone (Because I wanted to save money and not have to send my phone in and pay an outlandish amount of money to have it repaired or replaced) when I dropped it, damaging a corner of the bottom screen...As you know, Samsung Galaxy phones are prone to screen cracking as it is...

Sufficed to say, my phone now displays a black screen and I can't even answer it when it rings. Looking at my provider's current policy, I would have to buy a new phone with the same phone number..but the phone I am after costs a hundred bucks.

So I am taking emergency commissions in order to get the funds together to purchase a new (Read: Used, but new to me) Galaxy S4 from my providers online store..And since my provider is a government subsidiary, I can't just use any random phone, I have to use THEIR phone (Because they don't use sim Cards for some reason on government phones, the Sim Card Slot is blocked out by their proprietary hardware, which is hardwired, apparently, into the phone), so I can't even go to a store to have it replaced, I have to do it online...bogus..

So I am taking emergency commissions in order to save up to get my phone replaced.

You don't have to, but it'd be nice to get a birthday piece for, like, the first time ever.

A fantastic artist, and just all around wonderful person, would love for y'all to commission her (Or at least give her a watch and a fave here or there), so I'm Broadcasting their epic skills.

Just visit  Timot-Ei 's page and see how awesome they are! They have a patreon and are working on a web comic!

I've been looking at it, and I would really like to start doing duo-streams with a friend of mine..trouble is, you have to have a premium account, so I figure it might be fun to try..just gotta save some money, or take commissions, toward that end goal. I'd likely name the channel "Shattered Lenz Productions", since, ya know, it's been my thing for about 15 years now (It ~used~ to be "Broken Lens Comics" back when I only drew sonic-based art..I've since broadened my horizons a bit), and I suppose it's high time I actually started thinking about it in terms of longevity. I've wanted to do a comic book for a while, based on Solomon's Law...I still have a lot of concepts to work out...character designs, places, mythos, etc..

Just wonder how many of my viewwers would be interested in such a thing..

Taking commissions in ordcer to pay off my internet bill for the month.

Commission prices can be found here. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14000931/

I do believe it's time that I raised my prices a wee bit. This won't be some "OMG THAT'S TOO HIGH" sort of price. But Ihave realized that, with my skill level, I'm grossly underselling my work. As a poor shmuck who grew up a poor shmuck, I understand that for some of the community, it's sometimes just not cost-effective to spend a crapload of money on a drawing when other priorities lighten one's wallet.

So, with that in mind, I will not raise the prices very much. Once I have gotten all the feedback I need from friends and customers, I will endeavor to raise the price to something fair for you, but also worth my time and effort.

So, please, keep an eye on my front page and in my journals for price changes.

I am looking to do an art trade with anyone who may be interested! Pm me if interested.

Hokay...I'm seeing an influx of FNAF art...and that doesn't bother me all that much...

What bothers me, as a critical thinker, is that the backstory has been told...and this backstory depicts the animatronics as being possessed by the spirits of dead children murdered by the security guard...


Sooooo...all of those people drawing FNAF porn?....they're technically drawing child characters in adult situations because, as ghost stories tend to go, you don't age when you die..your spirit remains that age for all of eternity..

Soooo...technically FNAF porn is child porn...

*Hides from the inevitable shitstorm of angry FNAF fans* x.o

I don't know why my brain thinks up these things! I HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HAAAAANDS~!

Seriously..that's some critique I got recently when I asked where I could use improvement..someone actually told me my art really isn't all that good...the hell, meng?

Yeah, my anatomy could use work, but my art isn't bad..is it?

This is how I've felt lately.."Thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread", as Bilbo Baggins would say. I realize that, artistically, I've still got a long way to go, but I'm so good at a lot of different art styles and mediums that I havne't figured out which medium best suits me...is it costuming? Is it drawing? Is it sculpting? I know I can't paint for beans by hand, though. I've never been a big fan of doing hand-painted art because I'm a perfectionist at heart, and couldn't stand the thought of ruining an otherwise glorious drawing with shitty painting skills (Or lack, thereof)

In other news, I've not gotten my new PC motherboard yet..still in the neverending limbo that is the U.S. Postal Service. A good friend sent me a tower, but didn't test it before he sent it, and when I got it, it was already half-dead...Word of advice..don't EVER buy a dell and expect to be able to switch hard drives or firmware on it without pulling all of your hair out every time it bluescreens while you're trying to INSTALL windows...

In other news, got some new prop arms in the works that I got commissioned for. I won't get paid until they're done, which sucks, because I missed out on a convention.

The building I live in is infested with bed bugs...which means I have to deal with pest control regularly until the problem in the building is eradicated...I fucking hate living in an apartment for this VERY reason.. It doesn't help that the walls don't go all the way to the floor..there's a gap under the flashing/trim around the walls that's about an inch and a half to 2 inches high..and they wonder why the whole building is indested now...Kinda hard to keep them out of other people's apartmewnts when there's a fucking TUNNEL between each apartment the little bastards can hide in...Waiting for the bug guy to come spray as we speak, which means I can't work on these props for several hours today..Joy of joys..

Just curious..I see a lot of furries using Patreon. Just wondering if I should create one..Not entirely sure what it entails.