* * * Art by [SIlverfang98] at FurAffinity, fave the original [here] * * *

(Erika)
Like I said earlier, I was gifted an art tablet from a contest last year, and I made a promise to actually use the thing. And I did, at first. But I wasn't really getting into it, partly because I wasn't feeling confident in my art. So I joined [conbadgeexchange] in the hopes that doing so would give me the push I needed to get myself arting.

You see, the way it works is that you sign up to have a badge made for you by a random person, and in exchange, you also have to do a badge for a random person, or else you're blacklisted from the exchange. With such serious repurcussions, I thought for sure I'd get around to drawing the badge that was assigned to me.

But I didn't. As you can see above, the badge I requested was made, but I didn't make the badge for the person I was assigned. So I was blacklisted. Now, it is possible to get taken off the blacklist if you eventually do the badge, but my confidence was shot and I couldn't do it.

Anyway, sorry for the depressing story. This is still a nice badge, Silverfang. =)