Sorry for the radio silence - I've been having a pretty busy year. Currently I'm just getting over a long streak of extremely bad luck.

Summary: I am open for commissions again. I'm taking active steps to improve myself and my work ethic. I have a small backlog I am working on but I am setting a goal of 1 picture every 1-2 days. I had a streak of bad luck IRL but things are turning around.

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So, here's the details.

Basically, the move to GA didn't work out. Immediately afterwards my boyfriend lost his job due to company restructuring. Our car had a massive failure and had to be scrapped on our way back from seeing a friend. Both my boyfriend and myself have been going in and out of depressive states due to losing, well, everything but our home in the span of a few weeks, and it's been a real challenge to keep going at times.

I've been taking medicine to deal with my pre-existing depressive cycles. It's been helping, and I've been able to draw more often. One reason I had such a long hiatus is that I feel like my art has stagnated, and I couldn't figure out how to improve. I've asked for help from one of my serious-artist friends and enlisted my boyfriend to be my evil art director...at least until I learn how to manage myself more effectively.

Recently I've taken a few emergency commissions to ensure our basic bills get paid and we can eat well despite our crappy luck. I am still open for commissions, and I am working on completing this round as quickly as I can. However, we picked up quail eggs as an experiment for my egg allergy. It took a few days for a bad reaction to appear, and it was exacerbated by my allergy to coconut. As it turns out, 99% of shampoos, soaps, and lotions contain coconut in one form or another. I'd already been avoiding soaps that clearly contain palm, but we learned that cetyl/stearyl alcohol and cocomide are derived from coconut as well, so that explains why it's largely my hands (and mostly my dominant hand) that are affected, and why it sometimes got redder and itchier after applying lotion (and washing my hair, and using soap...).

I just spent about a week with a hand so inflamed that I couldn't close my fist fully, and with skin so broken it literally stung to wash my hands. One day after using a special balm and my hand has healed enough that I can use it again. All I need to do now is be gentle on it until the skin fully repairs itself. But it means I can draw, if only a little. And THAT is the important part. If only we'd learned this earlier on :|

Anyway - Owed art is coming. I have to do important IRL things today, but I've got a few simple commission WIPs in the works and I'll be contacting people for feedback on them soon.

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These slots are for full body sketches or inked flat-color icons - $10 to be done next week. If interested, respond with a reference. I'll draw your concept, or if you like I can just do something mostly-free-reign. Payment due at completion.
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Thank you all for your patience and understanding.