This year's FA:United was the best of all the ones I attended (basically all of them except for the first one in southern NJ) in the sense that I managed three commissions in Artists's Alley, where in previous years I either didn't get any traffic, or didn't get an alley seat at all because FA:U's 'Alley was so small (8 seats) and the resulting lottery wasn't kind to me.

This pic was commissioned by  jenorafeuer for a new themed sketchbook where the object du jour is a crowbar. Now, I've been in the fandom long enough to have heard a fair bit of old stories, and the one about a character known as 'Erma Felna' and the creative way her owner handled a commission that had something to do with a crowbar came to the forefront almost immediately. The result is my Nei'chelle coming across a crowbar, and being aware of the fandom surrounding her and her housemates' existence, consulted a 'book' of furry fandom lore and found Erma's story. So, there's a bit of an inside joke here that might only resonate with the fandom's oldheads. That's okay--I've lost track of the significance of the 'Lockheed Martin' that I wrote down the side of the crowbar. Maybe Jenora can fill me in when he sees this :). For posting, I digitally retraced the linework that I originally did with a brush, not going as far as re-making it into vectors, but substantially cleaning up the scan, straightening up the crowbar and replacing the lettering.

Brush-inked pencils on sketchbook paper, cleaned up and tweaked in Micrografx Picture Publisher.