Hello everyone! I am happy to announce that I am home for the holidays, and therefore will be around to paint much more art for you all to enjoy! Commissions are open, and my inbox is always ready to welcome friendly messages.

I hope you all have been having a wonderful Winter and a good end to this year. Thank you for everyone who has shown me love and support this year, and I want to give everyone my best wishes for the upcoming year.

Thank you, everyone, and have a very merry Christmas!

Hello everybody!
 NimRoderick and I are combining our artistic powers again for a second time tonight to finish off the last few commissions that people had signed up before late last friday! If you want to get a commission tonight, I am sure we can work with you to paint a little more!

Come join us at 5 o'clock Mountain time (7 eastern time) at:
livestream.com/trunorth
livestream.com/nimroderick

Hope to see you all there!

Hello everybody!
 NimRoderick and I are combining our artistic powers again for a second time tonight to finish off the last few commissions that people had signed up before late last friday! If you want to get a commission tonight, I am sure we can work with you to paint a little more!

Come join us at 5 o'clock Mountain time (7 eastern time) at:
livestream.com/trunorth
livestream.com/nimroderick

Hope to see you all there!

I will not be posting another journal.

To watch us art, you can find each of us individually on our livestream pages:
Roderick can be found at livestream.com/NimRoderick
TruNorth can be found at livestream.com/TruNorth

If you would like to purchase a commission at any time during the event, submit your commission and information here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J7.....2NxKM/viewform

Can't wait to see you all there!

Everything you need to know is in the title~

The event will start at 5 o'clock PM, Colorado Mountain time. If you need any further information on the event, look at a previous journal. The art will be going all night, so long as we keep getting commissions to paint, so expect us to be on for the entire night. If you need to leave and come back, we will most certainly be there.

Hello all!!

Just a fresh reminder to everyone watching this page that on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND, the wonderful and talented  NimRoderick and I will be joining forces to create a wonderful collection of collaboration artwork for your viewing pleasure!
No specific time has been specified yet, but keep your eyes on future journals for updates~

The two of us will be accepting commissions for BUSTS, ICONS, PARTNER/DOUBLE ICONS, CON-BADGES, and even FULL CHARACTER PIN-UPS in this amazing event! If you would like to reserve a slot to make sure that we get around to drawing YOUR unique furry critter, you can sign up HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J7.....2NxKM/viewform

From this website you can conveniently and easily watch both streams simultaneously without the need to even tab over to check in on the other artist's colorific ACTION. Plus it is easy and simple for you to throw in a commission request!

For more information about the event, and to take part in a FREE RAFFLE, check out the link below:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12047407/

We are very excited to put this on for all of you, and I hope to see many of your faces there!

This is an important message for anybody interested in my work, and the work of the talented  nimroderick

In a few short weeks, the two of us will be collaborating on a huge livestream blow-out where we will be taking commissions and working on them over the night at the same time, together! There will be two livestream channels, one for each of us.
We are trying to build up some excitement for the event now, so if you're interested in getting a live commission, or just interested to see the two of us work, you should definitely come visit us on NOVEMBER 22, 2013!

I'll be posting example works of our paintings soon. A half-finished sketch can be seen in my scraps.

Tell your friends! And have a wonderful weekend!

Hello all! I hope you've collectively been having a wonderful week~

Due to recent expenditures, I have been watching the balance in my account slowly blowing away, much like the leaves on the trees in this fall weather. I am in no danger, whatsoever, financially, or otherwise, but it got me thinking that I should get back on top of commissions soon, and seeing as my commission cue is currently empty, I figured now would be as good a time as any to ask the general public about any alternative methods for commissions.

I know some of my friends here do YCH paintings, and auction slots, where they paint a generic scene and leave space for a body, or set of bodies, set a buy-in price for the character slot, and allow guests to comment the price they are willing to pay for the slot. Maybe if there is some general interest for this type of commission, I could give it a try? I don't know what it would be yet, mature work is difficult to complete with the presence of a roommate.

I am also interested in doing some bulk work of simple, sketch-paint-y commissions. I don't quite know how they would work, but I imagine that they would be like any of my other paintings, except more rough and less detailed, and therefore cheaper. I know people have jobs, and need to work for their money, so I think it would be nice to open up to do some commissions at a much more easy-to-pay price of like 25 dollars. Again, if there seems to be any interest in this, just throw me a Personal Note and I'd love to discuss what the paintings would be like, and what price range seems acceptable for whatever quality. I need to do a lot more painting, so quick, loose works for cheap seem really appealing to me right now, as well as expensive 80 dollar paintings.

Third item on today's list: I have been talking a bunch with my good friend  nimroderick, and we are becoming interested in creating a series of collaboration works together. I'm not sure if there are any plans for this yet, but it would be interesting if we could accept commissions to be done by the both of us together, generally with him sketching out the piece and me painting over it. I have an example of this mixed style around here somewhere, so I'll post it soon. I think it might be cool if people wanted some unique work created by both Roderick and I together.

Finally, I know there are plenty of other ways to handle commissioning, and I'd love to hear your ideas on variations of how I could sell my art, and further, I'd love to just get some buyers interested in anything that's listed here OR anything NOT listed here to come send me a note and try and set up a commission cue! No pressure :3 it's just nice to stay busy.

I hope you all continue to have a wonderful week, and please, share with me some ideas in the comments about how I can go about selling my art in other ways! Cheaper commissions, auction pieces, selling originals, YCH~ I'm new to all of it, so share share share!

Just wanted to share  NimRoderick with you. He's starting up a profile here and could use some attention. He's a real good guy, so if you feel inclined, throw him a +watch and a note or something <3

Hello all!

Just a quick note to thank all the new watchers that have poured in over the last week or two, as well as to mention that I'm finally up and running here in my dorm, and therefore ready to start accepting commissions again!

My current commission cue is EMPTY! Let's fix that :D

I went on vacation and got home a few days back. Accidentally let my new watchers number soar over 150, and I just couldn't keep up with responding to that many people at oe time, seeing as school is coming up in a few days and I've got stuff to do before then.

SO! I'm resorting to giving a single, generic thank you to EVERYONE who has started watching me recently. Your support is much appreciated and I value your comments and your kindness.

Thank you all very much :3

If you want to watch, I'm livestreaming a new painting of my tiger wrestling with  M.McAllister88

Bulges will probably be prominent later. Fair warning.

Livestream.com/trunorth

Hello, all!

I am very pleased to announce that I am back from my vacation up in the beautiful province of British Columbia, Canada! I spent a week on Victoria Isle enjoying the sights and sounds from all the local and not-so-local areas up there. Did some zip-lining, saw one of the worlds best and most beautiful gardens, and drank plenty of beer, because in Canada, 19 is legal! :D WHAT NEWS! I'm still not big on alcohol though, haha.

Now that I am home again, I plan on spending this week doing a LOT (hopefully) ((fingers crossed)) of painting for myself. I don't think I'm going to be accepting any big commissions this week, as I have a number of things promised to people and some paintings I really want to get done, myself, including a MASSIVE reference for my tiger in like... 20 outfits I thought he'd look good in, so that's gonna take a while.

To Werethrope! If you're reading this, I am home now, so let's get this show on the road!

To M.McAllister! I'm sorry I didn't get to your painting before I left so I'm gonna take today to paint it special~

To Rai Inuzuma! *beeps your nose*

I'm very excited for all I have planned for the week, and hopefully I get it done and don't succumb to being a lazy cat thing.

ADDITIONAL NEWS!
I'm going to be back at school starting next Monday, which is coming up pretty fast. The first week or two of school is usually boring as ever and not a lot gets done other than syllabus papers and class schedules, so I'll be fine then, but once school picks up, I'll have to downsize the number of commissions I take on. I'll still be drawing them, but I'll have to find time to work on them. I'm not very partial to having a new roommate I haven't gotten to know peering over my shoulder to see that I'm painting a human-lion hybrid creature's superhuman six pack and package~

SO, if you'll forgive the slowness that might come about from me trying to find time to paint in the room alone, I'd still be happy to do more commission work through the rest of the year.

I look forward to relaxing back home with my tablet and cranking out some new art for you all to enjoy! Have a wonderful week, all of you~

--Tru

I forgot to mention!!! I'm in CANADA for the next week or so!! I'll be back in a while, so no art until then~

In true Tru fashion, I allowed my watchers list to break above 100 again which makes me lazy and then I fail to respond to everyone with a personal message, so it looks like I'm back to thanking everyone in a journal.

For everyone who's come to watch me in more or less the last week, THANK YOU for your support! I have read through all your names and I'm grateful to every one of you for clicking that little button on my page. It means a lot to me :3

It's official. I do truly suck at painting in real life~

My mother came home about a month ago with some beginners set of brushes and small tubes of acrilic paints, and I've been meaning to break into them and start learning what it's like to be a real artist. Unfortunately, I've been too timid to pick up a brush and give it a try, knowing that I was going to have expectations of grandeur thanks to my digital experience and then get shot down by reality when I try putting paint on canvas. Today was the day! I had done nothing with my life, filled myself with donut holes and milk, and was ready to explore the unknown world hidden beneath my blank white canvas.

It stunk *derp*

I had hopes of returning each day, knowing I'd stink at the beginning and would improve each day over the rest of my summer, but I find myself wearily unmotivated to give it another go... I know I will anyway X3 I have wanted to know how to paint for just about my whole life, but the level of difference between my digital painting and my traditional understanding is astounding!

I think I managed to get about 2/3 of the way through blending blue to yellow, but I think I missed green, and the paint dried out before I got the last of the yellow on, so there's a chunk of brick color at the end.

I HAVE GOALS THOUGH!!

By the end of this week, I want to make a tree... a very, basic, non exciting uncolorful straight-out-of-the-tube color green tree.

As some of you may know from my previous journals, I'm looking to celebrate my birthday this week! :D However, I have no plans whatsoever and not a lot to do... I plan on drawing some gift art from me to myself, and that's about all >w<

Anybody got any ideas?

I am so ridiculously pleased with things right now --

What started off as a absent minded test to experiment with a new way of painting ended up being one of my greatest mental achievements in my artistic career :D *overselling himself at this point*

For years I have admired Blotch and other artists that could achieve such a fine level of detail, or lack there of, and fill each painting with a full range of colors and textures to express their work, and now, with this painting I feel as though I am finally on my way to achieving that level of detail and success! I am slowly understanding colors, and with practice I have improved my texturing, and now I feel confident that it's within my reach to become like the artists I admire so much.

I have to give an abundant amount of credit to all the other artists who have helped and inspired me thus-far. I've learned a LOT in one year, and I am very much excited to look back and see how much I improve over this next year.

I don't have much to show for this achievement now, but in the future I hope that I can expand myself in later works and really push myself to the next level of painting.

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In other news, it's my birthday next week and I'm turning 19!

Cheers~

Hello all!

In the near future, the artist  velociawesome and I will be doing some excellent collaboration work and commissions together, so keep your eyes peeled for that, and give that ink monster a +watch! He is a charming guy and a great artist and deserves plenty of attention :3

In addition to some collaboration work, we also intend to (sometime in the future) host a great livestreaming event. Twelve hours of nonstop painting and commissions. The date for this event is currently unknown but we will be spreading around the information as soon as we can agree on it.

SO! Exciting things to happen soon! Be ready~

That was a totally spur of the moment thing. If you missed it, I am sorry~ but I promise it wasn't that grand :3

Sorry for the short notice...

livestream.com/trunorth

Picture of a leopard in some skimpy undies. Mature but not Adult.

How can these things happen so fast!? I posted a commemorative thank you picture celebrating my achievement of 1500 watchers just TWO months ago! And suddenly, I am being informed that I have over 2000 now?? That's incredible!!

Thank you all so much for your support! I never would have been able to come this far without you guys :3 ...no...but really, without you those numbers wouldn't do diddly-squat~
BUT ALSO your encouragement and ideas! Since I moved here to FurAffinity I have met so many wonderful and kind people that have supported me and critiqued me, thrown me ideas and money, thoughts and comments and I have become a better artist because of it.

I took a moment to run through my whole gallery again, and I really must say, a LOT has changed since I got here~ I remember drawing "It's Not That Funny" during March of 2011. It took me ALL of my spring break, I worked on it a few hours each day for a whole five days to come up with what I thought was the greatest masterpiece in the whole world!! (Hence why I keep it as my featured image -- It's what started my climb to success!) But as I move through time, represented in my gallery, I can see my own progression. I see my style change, and my skill, and in just one year I have achieved so much more than I could ever have hoped to~

In the end, I owe it to all of you for keeping me motivated and driven to achieve more with my art. Thank you all for clicking that one little button on my page and +watching me X3 It means more than you think

COMMISSION INFORMATION:

Basic sketch -- characters, environments, whatever~ $5-10

Line art -- No color: $20 / With color: $30, $35 for basic cell shading -- +$10 dollars for each additional character

Icons -- Basic bust of the character: $25-35

Reference sheets -- $40 dollars for basic front and back of character, with added description of character provided by commissioner -- +$5 for each additional add on, head, groin, eye close-up or whatever / +$10 for additional view of character

-- I also do reference sheets as fully textured and shaded master works, though I only have one showing in my gallery.
These start at $60 for the standard front and back view, +20 for additional views, still +5 for added closeups.

Master work -- Fully shaded and textured digital painting: $50 (includes a basic color/texture background / $75 for added environment -- +20 dollars for each additional character

My definitions can be rather flexible, so just send me a note explaining what you are thinking of and I'll help categorize it, such as a crowd scene not counting as +1-bdjillion dollars if they are part of an environment.

If you want examples of any of the listings, just let me know or parooze my gallery, I should have a few examples of each to share.

Thank you, and I hope to hear from you soon!

Just another journal to make up for my laziness and my tardiness at responding to all the new friends that have watched my page over the last few weeks~ To all that have recently watched me and are supportive of my work, thank you very much! I appreciate your kind words and your enthusiasm does a lot to encourage me further. It means a lot to me that in less than one year I could have gained the respect and attention of so many kind and wonderful people!

Thank you

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In addition, keep your eyes out for my updated commission pricing. I am trying to get that all sorted out right now so I might have a concrete pricing for my work, rather than just tossing around numbers when they feel appropriate and agreeable.

Hey all!

I have seen a number of journals floating around mentioning a new website called Weasyl, and so I decided I might as well check it out. It seems to have a nice structure and some useful features, so just for kicks, I created an alternate account there under the same name (TruNorth) and resubmitted a large portion of my art.

I AM NOT IN ANY WAY leaving FurAffinity!!! This place is my home :3

But I thought it would be fun to try this other site as well~ so anybody who has an account already, I would appreciate some help in bulking up my 'followers' list~ Or for anybody else, maybe just check the site out! It's pretty nice :3

Link to my profile: https://www.weasyl.com/profile/trunorth

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In other news! I will need to update my commission information very soon. The current price listings and examples are simply out of date, and have been leading to a minor deal of confusion with some customers. Therefore I will be reconstructing my commission sheet and updating all the pricing and examples to be more accurate!

Does anybody know how to do that thing...that thing here where people can make words into hyperlinks, so I don't have to post this crazy long annoying url and instead can just say example: HERE and make that a link to my painting~?