(TL;DR: I'm changing my studio name to "A Thousand Rasps" within the next few days.)
Hello everyone! I apologize that I don't post a lot of journal entries here on Weasyl. I'm not great about it and it's something I want to get better at. I do try to answer questions quickly and post art, however!
I'm writing this journal because I'm rebranding myself. "Screaming North Leatherwork" is being rolled up into a larger studio that encompasses everything I do. Because I do a lot of things.
As you can see, I have a lot going on behind the scenes. For a while now I've wanted to change my name from "Screaming North Leatherwork" to encompass this, and I decided to come up with an entirely new name for several reasons. First, I can still use "Screaming North Leatherwork" to refer to strictly the leatherworking portion of my studio. Second, the name "Screaming North" has no meaning. I came up with it almost ten years ago (:faint:) and thought it sounded cool. It was kinda-sorta a reference to "the screaming/yelling horn" (Gjallarhorn) since I go by Heimdall, but not really. So I wanted something with a little more meaning.
I looked for sayings similar to "jack of all trades" or "renaissance man" since, well, I certainly am that. I also go by many names, so I also looked for variations on "a rose by any other name" and things like that. Then I discovered the Icelandic phrase Þúsundþjalasmiður, which means "a smith/craftsman of a thousand rasps."
Um. It's perfect.
(Well, maybe not "Þúsundþjalasmiður." That's not easy for the layperson to say or remember. ;))
But I do like "A Thousand Rasps." So that will be my new studio name, coming very soon. :) I will FINALLY be setting up my Patreon as well, and I'll try to have monthly goodies for ALL of my artistic endeavors, from leatherworking tutorials to WIPs of drawings to writing excerpts to surveys asking what I should code next. Higher tier patrons get discounts on commissions, too! So that will be coming within a week or so, I hope.
If you have any questions please ask. Thank you for following me on this crazy journey.