January Challenge 2014: Day 12

[ink_in_hand]

Revisiting an older character that I created about two years ago during this very same challenge, and gave her a hat. I've gotten a little better at drawing the endomorphic body type, though I'm still not to the point where I can do them confidently. In my mer world I want a whole slew of characters who have weight to them and to have it be considered normal and downright healthy. And even beautiful. Because being skinny is not healthy or beautiful for a lot of people out there, and representation matters.

I'm skinny, I'll always be skinny. I'll never know the bigotry that fat people experience every day. But I do see it. and I refuse to be a part of it. Will I screw up? More than likely, it's an insidious social disease that we're all born into. But I can at least try toreate characters who don't feed into that poison.

As for my Thuridilla lineolata mer? She's a singer and song writer of power ballads.

And yes, I'm still trying to gain weight myself since I haven't really been able to get over my underweight status. Stress plays a factor into it. as I often forget to eat when I'm stressing and I burn quickly through the calories that I do manage to get. It doesn't help that I'm the human canary who gets sick at the slightest amount of crap present in foods. I have to avoid things like food dye completely or else I'm risking a migraine or a compromised immune system for any infections I may be fighting. You'd be fucking amazed at how many foods have dye in them.

This past month I've been stressing over the state of my car, there's been a mystery problem that has had my vehicle refusing to start consistently. And today I just learned what the problem is and the $736 repair bill I'm going to need to decide on. (I've got a great mechanic though. and I've got all the time to decide on what to do about this before I give them the yes or no about it)

Comments

[eerian_sadow]

I love her hat! and her round, happy face! she just looks sweet and a bit cuddly and makes me smile.

eek, that is too much stress. and a lot of money to come up with! *hugs* I hope you can get it worked out. having a car is Very Important.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. I needed a character with a smile yesterday and I'm glad she's done the same for others.

If I get some commissions going, do you think you could help spread the word? I'm just... frazzled and having a hard time figuring out what I need to do right now. (though our MH chat last night made for nice stress relief) I've been slowly working up to where I can sell my stuff, trying to figure out pricing, content and such. But right now my brain is just spinning it's wheels no matter how much I need it to kick into gear right now.

(and sorry for the dump, I'm just trying to think)

[eerian_sadow]

I would love to help you spread the word once you have everything ready for commissions! And if you're willing to do Transformers art as commissions, i'd be happy to let you advertise on my communities, too. :)

And i'm so glad all our monster hunter talk helped yesterday. Sounds like you needed a bit of a break from Real Life.

[ink_in_hand]

Alright, got it up. And I'm a big sack of nerves about it right now. I've sold my art before, but never on a commission basis and I don't know if I'm doing things right or wrong even with all the research I've done for how to set-up commissions. I didn't include any TF examples because I haven't been drawing them much lately and I didn't want to use my old stuff, but I'm more than willing to jump back into drawing them.

It did help, a lot. I really look forward to figuring out if we can play together. And if not, at least geek about monsters.

[eerian_sadow]

woo! I think you'll do just fine with the commissions. *hugs* and i think advertising with some of your older pieces for Transformers would be fine, if you wanted to show off some of that work. (last January's Dinobots, for example)

we'll get it figured out once I nab the game. :) it looks like it'll run me about $33 with my discount, so it'll happen soon. and even if we can't play together, geeking out over monsters will be FUN!

[ink_in_hand]

Ha ha, oh god, thank you for the vote of confidence. *returns hugs* And I'll get on that once I get through a few other messages and things.

Sweet, best of luck to you. *snirk* And beware the Bullfango and Rhenoplos, they be chargers.

[ink_in_hand]

Aw hell, that was me. Don't know why it logged me out. Sorry.

[ultharkitty]

She's gorgeous <3 It's lovely to see characters of all body types looking that happy.

Best of luck for your car, and for putting on as much weight as you want to.

[ink_in_hand]

I'm not really good at speaking up when and where I need to, but I can at least do this. I'm glad she's liked so far.

And thanks. Truly. On both counts.