Edit: Now Closed! All 10 slots have been chosen~

Here is the latest version of my commission price sheet ^v^

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60249594/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60249594/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60249594/

Also as of this posting, I am opening 10 commission slots!

The slots are NOT first come-first serve. I will be open to take idea submissions for exactly one week, and I will select the 10 ideas I like best for my upcoming queue. If you're interested, you may message me either here on FA or on discord ^v^

I am once again open to taking Sequence ideas for commissions, however, I'll be looking to accept mostly simple ideas featuring one or two-character scenarios.

Please have a clear idea and description of what you want your commission to be, including how many characters will feature, and level of color, shading or background. The more complete the description, the better I can visualize it and possibly quote you a total price. I accept SFW and NSFW :3

As always, don't let that stop you from sending me your idea, as I may just like it enough to pick it above the rest ^v^

Good luck, have fun, and I look forward to working with you! ^v^

I feel like I don’t make people happy anymore. I don’t do enough to keep up and be something of value to others. I’m just boring little me and they move on.

The more I try to be me the less people seem interested. I’m just not appealing anymore, assuming I ever was.

I’m not fun. I’m not special. There’s no benefit to knowing me.

My art peaked so long ago. It used to have a magic that I haven’t been able to capture again.

Or maybe it was never there to begin and I’ve been clinging to empty hopes this whole time.

So, my community discord server has been up and running for more than a year now, and it's been a nice cozy place for peeps to hang out, catch the occasional art stream and comment on my latest works. It's been a neat and reliable extension of my online galleries and presence, which as it turns out, may come in handy moving forward.

While I don't believe anything is on fire or imminent regarding the long term future of this site, I want my friends and followers to have a reliable way to browse my works and keep up with new ones.

Here's the invite to join the server! Please understand that access to the main channels is not automated, and might take up to a few hours to get to the good stuff. It's my way of keeping bots and bad actors at bay~

https://discord.gg/C5A9HpvszX
https://discord.gg/C5A9HpvszX
https://discord.gg/C5A9HpvszX

I plan to keep posting here regularly as long as I'm able. I don't plan to abandon it as long as it still functions as a reliable gallery. But if it goes the likes of DA, I'm packing up outta here X3.

Please be well and take care!

First off, I’m blown away by the friendly support from everyone here. Anyone that takes the time to view, fav, and comment on my art, I can’t thank you enough for being a great and welcoming audience for my work.
And to those that watch me here, it’s an even more special feeling because it means you want to see more! All this adding up to a mountain of feedback is what keeps me going to want to make cool and sexy things, explore neat ideas and deliver more of what you like~
2000+ watchers… holy moly that’s officially alot!

There’s so much I want to do to say thanks and show my appreciation. So many ideas, and definitely not enough time xvx
I plan to open up commissions; I WANT to hold a raffle; I’ve got a YCH in the pipeline; just so many things!

Which is why I want to put the feelers out there on this topic: would a discord server make it any easier to enjoy my art and service the demand for commissions (and the occasional trade)?
I definitely don’t want to leave my FA gallery, but I feel like there can be an awesome community of friends that also enjoys my work, even if it is a small community.

Let me know you’re thoughts, as it’s something I think about alot lately!

Discord or no discord, I’ll still be putting together some cool stuff as a way to say thanks to everyone. Yall are awesome! ^v^

First off, thanks to the incredible amount of support this year. By my own admission, I've probably gone a bit nuts with leaning into my goo and cloning fetish, but it warms my heart to know that many of my recent watchers also enjoy such art and concepts <3

My request has to do with said fetish. It is fascinating, if not crazy, how I'm responsible for creating or commissioning a large percentage of all the Pokemon Clone Tube art out there (that I know of.) By no exaggeration, I would say it's anywhere from 60 - 75%! As cool as this CAN be, I'm always particularly eager to see if any new art of this fascination/fetish ever pops up without my direct involvement. For lack of a better way to put it, I'm hoping that you, the community, can help me find new pieces that are out there in the wild. It doesn't even necessarily have to be fetish oriented in nature; I appreciate the rare artistic depictions of the fascinating gooey clone machine.

And, if nothing else, thank you for just being such awesome peeps for taking the time to view and enjoy my art, and even read this journal ^v^

Thank you to anyone that took time to reply to my last journal.

Anxiety and piss poor self esteem are a bitch.

I hope you all take care. This birb will try to be better ^v^

Is there a reason artists don't want to post commissions I purchased from them to public?
This is a recurring thing. The artists don't have anything in ToS that say they refuse to post commissioned works in public. Most of the aforementioned artists post NSFW on the reg.

Is it something that I do?

Is it something that I say?

Is it me?

Hey yall ^v^

 Sweeper-Works is running a little event and art raffle which is open for entries the next month or so. https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10287846

Take care everyone ^v^

I hit 1500 watchers here recently. Thank you all for your support~

I wish I offered you all a better, more worthwhile watch. I feel like I'm mediocre at best... and that's a rare best. I just feel you all deserve more bang for your buck, ya know?

Good, loving people deserve good, loving things.

You all deserve better.

https://twitter.com/whitephoenix52/.....674625537?s=21

I’ll be opening commission slots soon! In order to keep things organized, I’ll post a tweet on the 29th declaring the slots open and the earliest responses will be awarded the slots. (Thank goodness for timestamps~)

I highly recommend following my twitter to keep up to date ^v^ love you all and good luck!

To be a better phoenix tomorrow. ^v^

‪All of April’s slots have been claimed! Will open again in May! ^v^‬

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/34402465/

‪[EDIT] As of today, 3/16/2020, my commission slots are filled. I will open again in April and I’m leaving the journal text below as an example for future commission postings. Thank you all!


Commissions now open! I’ve got 3 slots for this month! ^v^‬

Commission prices and details here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/34402465/

Happy March to all my fluffy and fuzzy friends ^v^ I wanted to give everyone a heads up on my commission slots outlook in the new month!

For the moment, my queue is on hold, as I’m finishing up the last bit of work I’ve been paid for during the first week of March. Then I’ll be taking a break for the week after that. Starting about March 15, I’ll be opening up a limited number of 3 slots to finish out the month and then open up April on schedule with 5 slots.

I want to thank everyone for their patience and support as I get in the swing of things! ^v^ Love you all!

So, I’m starting to get art done on a more regular basis nowadays, and a few of you have taken notice on one platform or another. First, I want to thank anyone who hasn’t given up on me over the last few years ^v^ anyone who takes time to view my art for even a moment deserves thanks in my book. Without you, I’m just drawing pictures in a void ovo

To that measure, I feel I owe anyone who’s liked my work this apology for such a thorough disappearance for several years. For those curious, here’s a run-down of what’s been keeping me busy:

1. I moved. Mid 2015, I moved from my hometown where I grew up and spent 16 years (still more than half my life!) Moved from under my parent’s roof for the first time, left a pretty decent paying job where I was comfortable, and left the town that I knew like the back of my hand for a considerably larger city. It was tough, and I almost bailed out and moved back after 2 months.

2. Career Shift. As mentioned, I left a comfortable situation and office job to seek more of a challenge. And a challenge I DID GET! X3 It hurts to mention it, but I took what amounts to a janitor job for 2 months when I first moved. Lousy work, lousy pay, unstable hours. I was lucky to find a new office job rather quickly before the end of the year. This one was a different business: I first worked in health insurance, now I work with pre-paid bank card in the Fraud Department. I had ZERO experience, but given the opportunity, I took it and dedicated my time to it. Still working tough hours and having no energy for artwork at the time, it was worth it to secure a permanent job.

Not only was I a good dedicated employee, I was on track to get promoted to management. I spent the better part of the last four years going from Shift Lead to Department supervisor and almost made it to Manager, each stop consuming more and more of my free time. At its worst, I was working 14 hour days, spending an ADDITIONAL 1 to 2 hours working at home each day, every other weekend would be worked, and when I managed to get a vacation, I would work through those too.

Evidently, my work time commitments have decreased dramatically, due to I stepped out of the management race and I’m in more of an analytical role now. My hours are stable and consistent. I’m salaried and best of all, no longer micro-managed ~v~ I still feel more or less fulfilled at my job ^v^

3. Shift in Artistic values and Goals. This in no way means that doing art has become any less important to me. If anything, it’s become an all too necessary outlet for me, and if I feel cut off from it in any way, I get emotionally unsettled ~v~ I still would do sketches and occasionally color and finish a piece to completion (see my annual Rebecca pics) but being away from a regular art routine did offer room for evaluating what thoughts, feelings and motivations go into my art. One of the biggest shifts being getting more comfortable using references or saving “inspiration pieces” for later. I don’t know how the idea ever gets instilled in a young artist that using references for their drawings, researching techniques or saving a picture they like because it gives them ideas or inspiration makes them any less accomplished of an artist. I don’t know how anyone would survive without it! Maybe it’s an overt fear of “art-theft” (which is VERY much bad) but doing honest research and practice is WORLDS different from art theft.

I also take more time and patience with my art nowadays. I’ll sketch/draw a piece several times over before arriving at a final product. I wouldn’t EVER do that before. It was always “THIS HAS TO BE FINISHED AND POSTED AND LOVED BY EVERYONE OR ELSE IT IS FAIL!” I’m not like that anymore ^v^’ I promise. Which makes this next point more honest:

4. I Wasn’t Satisfied with Legacy of the Phoenix. Which is to say, I always felt like I could do better. Not only could I do better, but I almost deliberately held back from doing better. I held myself to self-imposed deadlines to force motivation. I spun stories in an improvised manner that felt good at the time, but felt unfulfilled when looking back on them. There is SO MUCH MORE to my characters now. I’ve taken more time to craft them, shape them, and criticize what they should be. I’m still figuring some things out, but I love the newer ideas that I have and want to do them justice. I know it’s a lofty goal, to have people love White Fire and Rebecca as much as I love them, but it’s a goal worth having and striving for. It’s ACTUAL motivation! At too many points, trying to continue my comic in its current state, feels like a chore rather than a passion. But that’s the pivot point: CURRENT state. I am going to continue to make my story in comic form, but it will be starting over. As an honest realization I’ve had to come to, the amateurish, low-quality beginnings of the story have become a past that weighs down the future of what I want to do. I’ve learned so much more, and my ideas have grown so much that I desperately want to give the story a fresh start. I hope anyone who reads this will want it as much as I do.

TLDR: I moved, had a stressful job, “grew as an artist” and want to start the comic over X3

There should be more regular postings from me ^v^ sketches, WIPs and I’m also doing commissions here and there, not on any strict schedule, but to help keep things fresh in my art cycle.

I love you all, and thank you for being patient with this old, silly bird ^v^



… btw, I’m 30 now X3

You know, cuz sometimes you just have to.