Art Journal

    -"your art is marvellous and you're so lovely, I hope only good things come to you from now on."

Thank you so much. You're very lovely too and I hope things are a well as they can be for you. I'm sorry I haven't been posting much since January, too much started piling on my plate and choosing to not overwork myself wasn't an easy one. Extra bad on me for forgetting to post my decision up here though.

A lot of things have been taken care of in the meantime. The three dogs in our care finally got to go to the vets after far too long without and they're now all up to date and a few issues sorted out. The smallest, a dachshund badly needed dental work and ended up needing ten teeth, his incisors, pulled. He's doing much better now,

My current string of nightmares has ended, no more waking up with an aching chest and slippage back into old stay-in-bed-to-avoid-shit habits. Go me! Had a strange sort of not-quite-zombie apocalypse dream last night, full of survival horror stuff. (a weird blend of zombification and turning people into dolls/puppets by an invading supernatural people/demons?) But thanks to the fact that in that sort of dream I can run, prepare and even fight back means I don't consider it nightmare material. *shrug*

I'm getting better at talking about myself and being social. Been processing a lot of internal shit that's built up over the years and finding our just how many masks I've been wearing and how deeply they've gone. And because of that, discovering how neurodivergent I truly am and accepting that of myself.  Hadn't realized how much of my normal passing habits were actually deep-rooted internalized lessons that were actively, passively, or self taught behaviors that were harming me in the cost it took to maintain. Which tl;dr means that I'm "more autistic" now. But, i'm more aware of my limits, where I do "function" really well, how to communicate when I lose words, and that my losing words is alright and that fighting through is just about the worst thing I can do to myself for that.

Financially things have gotten better. Not in the long run, since it was a one time thing of life insurance coming through. But's it's why the dogs finally got to go to the vets. I need to go through my posts and see what all I've mentioned about the situation, before I talk about it again.

But yeah, things have been looking up. So thanks, and I hope I can get some art up soon. I do plan on making March an art piece-a-day in lieu of January not working out, but no promises.

Logo work for a lighting business some family is trying to start up. Thus the double signature and small size. Gonna switch tracks tomorrow as my wrist is starting to hurt in the overworked way and changing mediums should at least help with that.

(and unfortunately I don't know if I'm gonna get paid for this or not... wheee!)

This one was requested by my dad.a while ago since he thinks his dance group would be interested in this kind of thing.

Had to do a simple thing today since today was Long and Stressful. In part of finally getting hit with winter and I swear the number of people who don't know how to drive increases exponentially when there's snow on the ground.

This is just an inkling of a much larger project between Heslestor and I. One of many we're planning under a combined umbrella name of MoodyCrow Creations. This particular project is tentatively called The Unicorn Gardens.

This is part of a concept we've been working on for the past several months and it's looking on becoming our creative baby. It's been a bit hush-hush since it's gonna be massive and take years before it reaches it's full potential, but been getting itchy about wanting to show something off.

And so, the commonly called Trenchers.

(so I actually went to bed after food, since I was far more tired than I thought)

Lost a couple of days uploading due to net provider shenanigans and problems with my tablet driver. Blech. Also had to deal with being overwhelmed and getting sick thanks to everything having a fragrance in stores this time of year and people having no restraint with their perfumes and other sprays. Makes it really hard to focus and do things at a normal pace.

As for today's piece, it's got some backstory. When I was little and just learning the word faux, I thought it was pronounced fox and decided to be clever with my own little created species. Basically foxes with insect wings and antennae. Jump forward over a decade and I can actually make it look nice.

In the tradition of these challenges in the years past, this is a WIP that I didn't start, but only finished today. Also tried photographing it before I sealed it to see of there'd be less of a shine and it appears so, even if the drawback is that the colors are duller this way.

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Trying my hand at sculpting again after over a decade of not doing so. I feel so rusty.



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Hey everyone, sorry I haven't been in contact much or keeping commissions updated. My health hasn't been the greatest the past couple of weeks, a seasonal bug and a slew of migraines have kept me down. Apparently my food sensitivities have jumped again and now I'm going to have to be even more careful than I already am of what I eat. Had eaten a few things that I thought were safe, but turned out to most certainly not agree with me in any way.

Then it was catching up with real life between the migraines and losing my ability to Social when sick... yeah. Lost track of time in a big way.

Right now the commission update stands at four paid and completed works, two paid-for incomplete works (one of which is about 90% done the other has an almost finished background), two TF world-building design works to be negotiated once I can present cohesive sketches, and two full body (one w/two characters) OC pics that are demi-design works. Then there's a couple of people who are patiently waiting in the wings for when I can focus on them once I whittle away at what's on my plate some. 

If any of you as commissioners are more comfortable with me posting a naming names list, please let me know. Right now I'm being vague since I didn't ask permission and I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Also! Thank you everyone who sent me TF Valentines! They're were very sweet and were a very badly needed pick me when I was feeling shitty.


(To give you an idea of what I usually need to avoid.and not clutter up the main post..)

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Bad news is my right hand is still giving me fits.
Good news is I can draw with my left hand.
Bad news is I'm not ambidextrous.
Good news is I just leveled up drawing with my left hand.
Bad news is it's still like lvl 2
Good news is... 

MONSTER HUNTER 4 IS GETTING A WESTERN RELEASE! Not until next year, but I don't care. We're still going to get it! I'm so excited! You don't even know.

Been pushing it too much with commissions on top of my daily challenge and now both my wrist and arm hurt in a way that I don't want to push. I was hoping if I let it be through the day after working on a couple of commissions this morning it'll settle down, but no go. It's that tense low burn sort of way that's focused in the tendons and gets worse when I grip my stylus to draw or lift something that weighs more than.a glass of water.

Knew I was pushing it before when it started to protest the other day, but I thought if I took care of it I could continue at the pace I was setting for myself. I'm hoping a good night's sleep will at least let me finish the commission that's almost done sometime tomorrow. But if not, I'm really, really sorry. I don't want to ignore the warning signs and injure my drawing hand.