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Hm, it's been awhile since I updated this. Well, not much has been going on. A lot of doodling, a lot of not sleeping, and best of all, no band! I don't know if I ever said it here, but I used to be in my high school's Band. I was in it for about...6 years or so, but I quit this year so I could better focus on my art. I mean, I love playing Alto Sax, but i'd rather improve artistically. It's funny though, since I quit band, I have practiced way more than I did in all three years I spent their in high school. Not to mention the fact that since I quit band and don't have to march at the games, I was able to get a job working the image board on the scoreboard.

Oh, and Academic Decathlon is going pretty blah, I actually have competition this year, and i'm starting to feel a bit nervous about if i'm going to make the team or not. This of course means that i'll be eating and breathing not only art, but Ac Dec as well. I'LL PUT THEM ALL IN THE GROUND! D<

Pre-Calculus is going to kill me, no joke. The teacher knows what she's doing and she teaches it well, but my group sucks major butt. I mean, we're supposed to be teaching each other, but they don't help me at all. I ask a question and all I usually get in response is a grunt, or nothing. So yeah, if I don't get on for even longer than usual, my mom killed me for failing pre-cal. Ugh another thing,I have to take Speech this year, and it's boring. I only know one dude in there and he likes to go on about how his Gypsy blood makes him steal things. I have yet to snap and tell him that blood has nothing to do with it, but it's only a matter of time.

Oh yeah, another good thing! Mr. and Mrs. Rowe, who have officially declared my other parents due to all the time we spend together during Ac Dec season, took me and to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin. The traffic was a little hectic due to the football game, and their were crazed Longhorn fans everywhere. It was very cool to hang out with her, her being away at college really sucks, but at least she isn't stuck in our suck hometown. Anyways, I told Kevin, our good friend from Ac Dec that we were going to be in Austin near the UT campus and he jumped on the chance to come and hang out. I also told one of my best friends, Geneva we were in town and she decided to come and hang out too. So of course, we had a bit of a party going on. When we got into the museum we split into two groups, mr. and mrs. rowe, and the three of us and we wandered around the museum.

We played art critic and unanimously agreed that Francisco Matto is not our favorite artist. There was this one really weird exhibit that this guy had come and made right there in the museum. There were filing cabinets everwhere and if you walked up to them, there was a light stuck in an open cabinet with a pig mask. Thoroughly weirded out, you keep moving through and there's these trippy videos playing everywhere. A trio doing a magic trick, some fat dudes making a pyramid, and this weird chittering thing that just ran around the room in a circle. If you looked up, there were bones covered in mirror bits hanging from the ceiling, it was the only cool thing about that particular exhibit if you ask me. Alter and I had ended up getting seperated from Kevin and Geneva, but he found us later and came to show us this video playing on the floor or a guy swimming in and out of the screen on his back. He was wearing those tight 70s swim trunks that look a little like a speedo. o_o

Wow, long journal. Guess i'll end it here, sorry for rambling!

Ok, so I really don't have much to report. Art class this year is awesome, and I am going most definitely have to hustle if I want to get a good portfolio together.There's an open house at the Art Institute in Austin at the end of September I am hoping to go to. I've always been a bit leery about the Art Institutes (Just something about having a lot of campuses in a lot of different places that just screams CONSPIRACY to me) but seeing as DISNEY and PIXAR recruit from them, they can't be too bad, right?

Moving on, I am starting up commissions. Rates and rules below. Not only am I going to need money for college soon, but I also need art supplies. Specifically, some sort of art markers. So be a champ and buy something? Even one of the 2 dollar quick sketches would help me out a ton!


Will do
Shounen-ai
Shojo-ai
Fan-art (look below for guidelines)
OCs
Couples (including slash pairings, etc.)
full-body
busts
action-y poses
bishounen

Just ask if I didn't list something you're interested in.

Won't do
Yaoi
Hentai
Super mega complicated poses
Cluttered OCs

Basically, anything I feel uncomfortable drawing, I won't draw.
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MATERIALS

For the most part, i'll be doing these traditionally. I'll be using my usual mish-mash of mechanical pencils, pens, colored pencils, and if I feel that I won't utterly mangle your commission, gouache.

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All prices listed below are subject to change. Depending on the difficulty of the requested piece, these can be lowered or raised. I will notify you if this happens.

PRICES

Quick sketch-Fullbody or bust: $2

Finished sketch- Fullbody: $5

Inked work: Full-body, bust, waist-up etc: $8

ALL Chibis, inked, sketched, colored, etc: $4

Background: $5

Another character in any pose more complicated than standing or sitting: $5

Colored on any of these choices besides chibis is an additional $3
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Alternate payment method!

Ok, so here's the deal. Along with cash, which is always fine with me, I also accept art supplies and other things equal in value to your commission. Look below for a full list of things I take!

Sakura micron pens .01, .03, and .05
Pentel Fude Kanji Brush Pens
Faber-castell liner pens
Creative mark watercolor brushes, all sizes accepted
Koh i noor rapidograph pens (A set would be fabulous, but i'll take any size I can get!)
Sketchbooks, any size (no crappy wal-mart sketchbooks please.Strathmores and Cansons are my favorites.)
Watercolor paper
Marker Paper
Prismacolor markers (preferably shades of red, blue, and green.)
Copic markers (preferably flesh tones and shades of red, blue, and green.)
Prismacolor Colored Pencils
Zebra .05 mechanical pencils
Erasers (preferably any white polymer sort of eraser, no art gum. Those things suck.)
Pentel refillable leads! (all kinds welcome.)
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Non art supplies

Vampire Game issues 2,3,4,and 5
Desert coral issues 2,3,4, and 5
Paradise Kiss issues 3,4, and 5
FLCL issue 2
Kuroshitsuji issue 1
Yu Yu Hakusho, all issues
D. Gray-man issues 1,4,5,6 and so on..
Zombie Powder issues 2,3, and 4
Sakura Taisen (Sakura Wars) issues 4,5, and 6
Anything by Ted Naifeh
Anything by Jhonen Vasquez
Anything by Nobuhiro Watsuki

Marked by P.C and Kirstin Cast
Anything by Suzanne Collins
ABSOLUTELY Anything by CLive Barker except Abarat and Thief of Always
Anything by Dianna Wynne Jones

And DA subscriptions
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GUIDELINES

1. Please note me with all requests, if you don't fill out an area on the commission form, you're basically giving me permission to go buck wild on whatever it is you didn't specify.

2. For fan art, i'll do all of the popular mainstream anime at the moment. I mean come on, you're paying me, i'll basically do whatever unless I tell you otherwise. Please send along a character ref.

3.All payments must be made through Paypal or bartering ONLY

4. Sorry, but for the time being, I can't mail your comissions. If you would like your comission at a later time, i'll make a note of it and send it to you free of charge.
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EDIT: Totally almost forgot the form! XD

Name of character?

Oc or fanart?

Type of commission?

Will there be a Background?

Any particular pose in mind?

Expression?

Adding another character?

If so, what are they doing?

What's their expression?

Paypal or alternate?
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Well, that's it! Ask me about my writing commissions.

So, i'm in California at the moment, getting punted in between my grandpa, dad, and uncle and aunt. My brother, who has no job and steals his internet, lost his service due to the one apartment dweller too dumb to firewall and protect their wi-fi moving away. So i've been going through internet withdrawal, as us internet junkies sometimes do, and reading. There's pretty much nothing new these days. Um, I hung out with my brother and his girlfriend, we munched at souplantation, it was quite fun.

My old man is old. Seriously. He's like a crappy computer or google, you have to put in the exact keywords or you won't find diddly. I watched him pull a blank for nearly 5 minutes one time simply because I mispronounced a word. One good thing though is that he's really laid back, unlike mom, and it's been a nice change. We weren't able to do diddly so far thanks to my old man being allergic to his new medicine, so hopefully we'll be doing something that involves the outside world when I go back. I'm hoping that we go to Kobe's Swap Meet, because yet again, my mp3 player has broken (Wasn't all that faithful, what a lie of a name) and you can find everything there cheap,I'm going to go stir crazy without my music soon. I miss The Kooks, The shins, The Noisettes, and Andrew Bird immensely. Oh yeah! My grandpa is taking meto get my checkings account tomorrow, so i'll be accepting comissions, since i've got my tablet with me this time!

I need help figuring out base prices, they can't be too low,since I need to gather funds for ikkicon, and not too high. Any ideas? I'vealready got a few in mind..

Is doing a free art raffle. How do you enter?Talk about Mosskat and her art raffle!It's that simple.

Head over to the Free art raffle journal for more info.

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