OMG! a long overdue commission...

the guilt today nearly crushed me. the other day i had been surfing around fa ( which i dont get to do much these days) i stumbled onto a familiar face.
 IncitedJester

over the years i have lost touch with so many people. this seemed to have happened in three waves. the first were many of the people i met first online almost 13 years ago and then there were those that i met when i was posting a lot of art online who i lost touch with the moment i stopped ( because most were friends through fa not on social media). when i moved over to skype entirely a few years ago i also lost touch with some folks who were forever on my old msn/aim lists i dont use anymore.

so seems one such folk was someone i think nothing but fond memories of, he was like a bro back in the day and so i feel rotten i let this happen through nothing more than logistics.

essentially when i poked him yesterday he replied and i got up today and found it waiting for me. about five years ago, before/during/after the BIG move into a more stable living environment/roommate situation... ( after about 3 years of unstable living and roommate scenarios). i was broke. this is because at the time i was working part time which was fine until suddenly roommates moved out every few months making rent go up and/or i had to move a bunch and incurred hundreds of dollars of expenses each time..


at any rate... i did about 4 commissions in a desperate attempt to make some money. one huge one i still need to get done for another fur , i thought i had done all others but seems one was completely missed.

god i feel terrible. for five years i had no idea i still owed someone art. so first thing today i jumped out of bed and when i caught his note, i jumped to my art books to get it done asap. it was nothing personal or intentional, just bad luck and logistics of moving about digitally and irl.

sorry buddy, would have never been so long under normal circumstances, i completely forgot, if only because you weren't on my skype to remind me and i had moved homes, message lists, emails, and even furaffinity pages in that time. hope no hard feelings. i hope how fast i responded to this news today proves i mean well ^_^ and i still think the world of you. i hope you haven't spent the last five years thinking i am rotten for forgetting this was undone. if anything... i hope the unexpected long wait was worth it, as i have gotten much better in the time spent. five years ago i would have produced three times crappier art work in 4 days than i did today in about seven hours. I guess i am saying if i had gotten it done years ago it would have looked far worse. i made it fast but was care and it turned out well for a piece i started from a blank piece of paper today ^_^
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for  IncitedJester who is a groovy dude ^_^

- penciled in one hour
- sketched in two more
- inked in one more hour.
- quick captured to digital and then three hours or so of digital color, under color mat layering and retouching up the lines to make i pop in an shade-less way.

over all i like it for a art that took me about seven hours ^_^.

i will have to do him some doodle-jam art at the top of my list next time i draw live, as i still feel super guilty that this happened and i was oblivious to it. i hope it was worth the wait ^_^