Alright, I think I'm ready to try this again. This time I'm definitely gonna be more professional in the time completion thing lol. To be able to do this though I think I'm only gonna aim to do a few at a time, at least for the moment so I can gauge how much I can handle on top of my job at Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts.

So I'm not quite open yet, might be a few days before I do, and I'll be posting this both here and on FA. Anyway, on to the important info, which has been revised some and made somewhat short and sweet.

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*Commission Prices*
Con Badges (approx 4.5"x3.5") - $10

Graphite Pencil Drawing - $10
+$3 per additional character

Micron Lineart - $15
+$5 per additional character

Prismacolor Marker Drawing - $25
+$10 per additional character

Simple backgrounds +$5
+$3 for PayPal fees

*Commission Examples*
Con Badges: [link]
Graphite Pencil Drawing: [link] (will have better examples soon)
Micron Lineart: [link] [link] [link]
Prismacolor Marker Drawing: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]
Simple Backgrounds:[link] [link] [link] [link]

*Paper Choices*
Standard 8.5"x11" white copy paper (commission default - if you would like one of the other choices, please specify)
8.25"x11.5" Copic Marker Paper - +$2
9"x12" Smooth Bristol Paper - +$4

*Commission Information*
- All commissions (for the moment) will remain PG-13 rated.

- I will not draw humans, mecha, complex backgrounds, anything prejudice, abusive or controversial.

- I will draw animals, anthros, beast like/beaked gargoyles, dragons, taurs, and some violence and gore.

- I work with real media only, and for the moment only markers since my color pencils have been packed up in storage, when I can get them back I will add color pencils drawings to my list of commission options.

- All commissions come standard on 8.5"x11" white copy paper, if you would like yours done on another type of paper please specify and note that it might change the price of your commission.

- All of my badges will be done on Smooth Bristol paper and then laminated at Staples (since I don't have a laminator for personal use). I've found that the laminated Bristol paper is pretty darn sturdy and is what I have made my own badge out of and will be making future badges out of.

- I am also more than willing to do badges larger than 4.5"x3.5" so please don't hesitate to ask if you'd like something bigger or smaller. Please note that commissioning a badge other than the 4.5"x3.5" standard will alter the price depending on size.

- I am also willing to work with larger pieces as well, such as I have worked with Stonehenge paper and have found that it works rather well with Prismacolor markers and the sheets that I have seen most are around 24"x36" I believe. Not to mention I know Jo-Ann (at least Jo-Ann anyway) sells Smooth Bristol in 14"x19" sheets I think, so I can use that as well. Basically if I can find the paper you'd like I can use it, as long as it works well with markers and ink. So if you would like something larger than 9"x12" I can do this as well, just note that it will alter the price of your commission.

- For larger pieces and badges please note me and we can discuss ideas, materials, and prices.

- Shipping costs are the sole responsibility of the commissioner and prices may vary depending on how the commissioner wants their commission mailed to them, if they want the original mailed to them.

- I prefer PayPal, although money orders, and cash I don't turn away. Just realize that if you wish to send cash you do so at your own risk. Hide it well please.

- I am not responsible for money or art lost in the mail. I'm sorry, but I've seen too many artists scammed not only out of art but out of payment as well by people who claim to have not received their commission and demand refunds. I am more than happy to ship the original piece of art to you in any way you request, but once it is out of my hands, it is literally that, out of my hands.

- I will be posting all art to my deviantART account and/or my FurAffinity account, unless specifically asked not to. If I do post your commission in my two galleries I will be sure to give full credit as to who the character's belong.

- You are free to repost your commissioned work in any galleries of yours, use it as an icon, etc., all I ask is that you let me know where it's being reposted and that I receive credit for the artwork itself.

- If you have any questions, be it because of the content, media choices, ideas, characters or anything at all, by all means please ask, there are some things that I may be more than happy to do for you and I would be more than happy to discuss ideas with you.

*My commission process*
1) I receive your commission information
2) I start on the sketch
3) Once the sketch is complete I will email/note you a copy of it so that you can request any changes and/or okay it for completion.
4) It is at this point that I will ask you to send payment, not before.
5) I will start the process of finishing your art and when payment arrives I will post it online, send you a file of it and/or place it in the mail to you.

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So that's about it, I don't think I've forgotten anything. I'm not open just yet, just posting this revised info up for now.

~Stang

P.S. - To everyone who's left me a comment or a note in the past week or so, no worries I still have everything and will be getting to those when I can thank you for being patient.

Okay so...they didn't get stomped like I thought they would, they still lost, but the final score was A&M - 39 and UT - 49. Highest scoring game in Lone Star Showdown (Aggies vs. Longhorns) history.

A way awesome game if you ask me, A&M answered just about every one of UT's moves, some stupid mistakes were made on both teams, but if you ask me A&M didn't do too bad considering that UT is 3rd right now. Florida is 1st and Alabama 2nd.

I wished they could have won, but I'm proud of the fight they put up definitely glad I watched the game, wished I could have watched the UT vs. OU game, but I'll catch it next year, and I hope A&M does even better next year, they had a few Freshman on their team, and Jerrod Johnson is a Junior this year I believe, so he'll be back again next season if that's correct, where as Colt McCoy won't be back because he's a Senior this season.

Was a fun end to this Thanksgiving now to keep an eye on how Florida and Alabama's games go lol and who's gonna be playing where in the bowl games.

Well, been busy since we arrived in Baton Rouge yesterday. It's been awesome though, I really enjoy being around my family down here

We got in around 5:30pm last night, had a smooth ride until 15 miles out of Baton Rouge when traffic backed up on I-10. Set us back an hour lol, we would have arrived around 4:30pm if there hadn't been bad traffic lol. Got here safe though, went out last night with my Aunt Barbara and Uncle Roddy to a little small town type of pizza joint. Had boudin pizza and fried oyster sandwiches that were amazing!

Today I've been up since around 10:30am, my dad and Aunt Barbara were off to get my Aunt Linda from a really nice nursing home she's been in for a little bit now (she's the youngest of the five siblings, my dad being the oldest at 67 now - but she's disabled - I love her to death though and I'm proud to share her middle name ). After a little bit family started to show up and before long we were all surrounded by uncles and aunts, cousins and 2nd cousins. I can't believe how big some of my second cousins are getting, Alex who I remember being a little dude going with us out to a wildlife park to feed the various animals they had, is not almost 17 and as my cousin Tammy said (my cousin) he's "ate up with the girlfriend" lol. His youngest sister (one of three) is almost 8 I believe, all these kids I've seen since they were in diapers are now growing up.

My cousin Vanessa brought her newest addition, Cohen, with them, he's almost 8 months and the cutest baby I've seen in a long time, also one of the most chill babies I've seen in a long time.

Overall, though I was really happy to get to see my Aunt Sandra and my Uncle Stanley (my dad's sister and brother, my Aunt Barbara and Aunt Linda are his other two sisters). They've both been going through a rough time, and to a certain extent are still going through some really trying times right now, so I was really happy to get to spend some time with them. I just wish I had more time with them I wish I had more time with everyone, it didn't seem like we had long enough today to really enjoy everyone's company. I think I will get to see at least my Uncle Stanley again tomorrow, and maybe even my Aunt Linda.

Haven't had much time for anything else (other than this journal lol) and I might not, but we'll see

Right now I'm gonna chill with family, maybe grab some more banana pudding (stuff is AMAZING!!!) some sweet tea and watch the rest of the Cowboys game with the family (right now my dad, step-mom, Aunt Barbara, Uncle Roddy, cousin Brooklyn and her new boyfriend/friend person, Ron) and then maybe, just maybe watch the UT vs. A&M game at 7pm. I'm pretty darn sure that A&M is gonna get trampled into the ground, but I like both teams so I think it'll still be fun to watch lol. Good ol' Lone Star Showdown!

I hope all of you have had or are having a Happy Thanksgiving, stay safe out there and don't eat too much turkey

Getting ready to travel.

My dad, step-mom and I (maybe my sister, but I'm not sure if she's going as well or not) are all heading to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for Thanksgiving. We're heading out on Wednesday morning and we'll be back around Saturday afternoon early evening. I'm excited because I haven't seen a lot of my family down there in a while, and because it's Thanksgiving, what better way to spend this holiday? Not only that but my Uncle is Cajun so I'm really excited about good food

I was supposed to work tomorrow 4:30pm - 10pm but they crossed me off so I have tomorrow through next Sunday off, kinda sucks because that's less pay, but things will be back to normal next week and that means I'll have time to pack, I'll get all that time with family, and then I'll have time to unpack and chill a bit before I start back.

Things have been kinda busy the past two days, and I imagine it's just going to get steadily more busy until after Christmas, but there's new people to help out and everyone I work with is pretty cool, so it's not too bad. I've gotten the gist of the closing shift so it's pretty cool now. I've also gotten a few neat ideas for things in the process of working at Jo-Ann as well, pretty cool.

Unfortunately they're cutting hours some, so where I was initially offered around 30 hours a week, I'm kinda averaging out around 20 hours now, not bad, but I think I might look into picking up commissions again to fill in the gaps. I think it'll work because I get three days off a week, so I can use at least two if not all three to work on art, plus I'm always up a little bit after work so there's that time as well.

If I do open for commissions again it will be after Thanksgiving definitely and I'm in the process of shortening and revising my commission info, as well as narrowing down what I'm willing to do for commissions. It might work out, it might not, we'll see

Anyway, I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving and I hope to catch up on some art and on comments during my vacation lol.

Until next time,
~Stang

Well, I finally decided to officially join FurAffinity. I posted 36 pieces of art over there, not everything, but some of those I consider my better works. From here on out I plan on updating it like I do my account here.

So I have a question for some of you. I've posted some art that was done for others, be they requests, kiriban prizes, or commissions and while I know of a few people that are over there, I'm not sure if some are or not, and I'd like to give credit properly by providing a link to an FA account if I can. If not then I've placed credit in the form of text as of the moment but I'm fixing to go back and provide links to dA accounts at least.

To these people below, if you have an FA account let me know please:

- FOUND
- FOUND
- FOUND
I believe may have moved accounts, so forgive me if you are no longer here hun
- FOUND - is now

I've posted art that was done for you guys and while I've got credit for your characters/ideas there now I'd like to go even further and provide a link for people to follow if they get curious

Other than that, I've been kinda slow on art and comments here because I've been kinda dealing with weird illness. I had a sinus infection for the first part of last week (went to the CareNow clinic on Monday got some anti-biotics and a steroid to take for the week), that's gone but I've been steadily having issues with chest pains over the week and today was the worst. It was kind of worrisome because, well if it's your chest it might mean your lungs or your heart, not to mention my step-brother just got over the Swine flu and one of his major symptoms was chest pains.

However, he had a serious fever run with his other symptoms and I have yet to get a fever. I did end up taking some gaviscon earlier, running out of ideas on what might be causing my problem and because I started to notice it was somewhat in the core of my chest, right down the middle. The Gaviscon helped a TON, but I've still got a lingering feeling of soreness I guess, that's the only way I know to describe it. The other weird part was that I was feeling a lot of the pain, not just in the core of my chest but in my shoulder blades

So yeah, if this doesn't clear up I may be taking myself to a doctor to figure out what's going on. I know my dad has acid reflux disease, so it might be that that's finally catching up to me, or I keep thinking it might be a weird side affect of that steroid. It said to take it with food and this has never happened to me before and it's been getting kinda slowly worse over the week until this morning the pain woke me up (freaked me out a little too).

For now though, I'm gonna just take some more gaviscon after I eat tonight, try not to lay down for around an hour after I eat and definitely not go to sleep on a full stomach. I kinda do hope it's a side affect of the steroid because I'm finished with it and that means it might get better over the week, I'd really rather not have to go to the doctor because I'll miss work, and it costs money lol, and sometimes it's just not fun.