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Realized that doing daily sketch posts means I gotta draw something new every single day...

Life aint fair man...

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WIP of a new OC I'm working on! Should hopefully have a full body pic ready in time for artfight. Still trying to figure out how to draw raccoons...

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In place of daily sketch, I give you...

My first attempt at an animation storyboard/animatic/Idk what to call this!

It'll make more sense with sound on, forgot to add subtitles

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Comic with my 3 Sky goobers! Chim got lost in Golden Wasteland, so Vic and Luce planned a rescue mission...

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Are you open for commission? Please DM’ that’s a amazing artwork you’ve done there

I posted about this a while ago, but the last (and first) time I took on a commission I almost got scammed, so I've been kinda apprehensive about getting into it. If anyone would like to commission me I ask that they follow my blog and be willing to pay 20% in advance, just to make sure I'm working with a real person.

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Gotta love hot weather...

Daily Sketch 4

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Ignore my bouncing leg, I was born without a tail you see

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Bro is shivering in his timbers.

Daily sketch 3

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Oh, to float in a tube...

Daily sketch 2

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Come with me if you wanna thrive.

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Finally made my first ref sheet for my fursona Jiffery! It's not fully fleshed out, but I wanted to keep it pretty basic since it was my first attempt.

Any tips to improve the design (or just art tips in general tbh) would be appreciated! I'd love to make my stuff look better.

Also character lore below:

Jefferson James Steinbeck first set foot into the infinite multiverse when his attempt to create a device capable of safely traveling through higher dimensions backfired. Now each time his device (called the Polarized Tesseract, or PT) triggers, he is jumped to a random dimension with no control over the destination. Additionally, each jump resets his body to the state it was in at that first jump, meaning that each jump sends him back to being 27 years old, making him effectively immortal as long as he continues to make jumps.

At first Jiffery's goal was to make a jump back to his home dimension by pure chance. But after thousands of jumps he was forced to admit that even if he could make it back, so much time had passed that nobody he once knew would still be around. So now he simply wanders from dimension to dimension, seeking to do as much good as he can before moving on to the next one.

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Sometimes I wonder if making my fursona an otter was the right choice.

Then I go and do things like eat nearly an entire package of cocktail shrimp in a single sitting, living the life of luxury, and I think to myself that the only thing that could make this better is if I were floating down a river on my back.

And then I stop wondering.

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Finished Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer the other day.

Here's part 5 of the book in a nutshell

I am very normal about these books.

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This hypothetical scene has been playing in my head the past while

Jiffery (that's me): Gentlemen! your post has been up on the main blog and Skyblr for 2 hours now. report!

Vic: [Standing at attention, delivers a crisp salute] Sir! both posts are doing numbers like we haven't seen before. We even gained a second follower, and it's actually a human this time!

Jiffery: Impossible... This was just supposed to be a training mission!

Luce: [clutching crumpled papers in one hand and a half-empty energy drink in the other] There's more sir! It appears that @catofaurora drew fanart of us, and its awesomeness is off the charts!

Jiffery: WHAT? THEY POSTED THAT PIECE ONLY AN HOUR AFTER OURS! [Slams hands on desk that just materialized in front of him] This isn't supposed to happen. We're not some big-shot art blog! Chim, did you make some sort of sacrifice to a new god yesterday for this success?

Chim: [Pulls finger out of nose] No, sir! just my usual old gods, sir!

Jiffery: [Turns and looks out window that was there the whole time] It seems that there is only one thing for us to do... [Points at them] DEPLOY THE THANKS!!

All three: SIR YES SIR!

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Drew some of my skykid outfits/ocs to practice drawing from reference!

May ink and color them later

Reference images below:

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NEW PFP ALERT

I still need to figure out how to actually do shading...

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Nearly got scammed and all I got was this dog

tl;dr: I fell for one of the most basic blunders. If a real person wants to commission me, please follow my blog first and be ready for a 20% payment upfront before I start on a piece.

I'm a little embarrassed to admit they got me with this, but maybe posting it may help prevent it from happening to someone else.

A couple weeks back I uploaded my tenth post on Tumblr, and I got a comment from someone asking me for a commission. There were many red flags I should have caught before giving it any more thought: They weren't following me, they hadn't posted anything at all to their blog, and their grammar was atrocious.

But I was curious, and figured even if it ended up being fake it would be good practice. So I messaged them and we got a plan going. They played their part well. They asked me to make 5 pieces of their "son's dog" and gave photos for reference, and they even said they wouldn't pay more than $40 for any individual piece due to a bad experience they had with an artist in the past. This being my first rodeo, I thought that it was legit, and this was just some cranky lady who just wanted some art.

Anyway I finished the first piece (pictured above) and they met me with high praise, saying I did amazing (honestly their high opinion of my work should have been the biggest red flag of all, but remember: this was two weeks ago. I was still a fool). Then we discussed payment. They were strangely eager to get to this part, even though I just figured we'd negotiate the price now and then I'd ask for the payment after I'd finished. They asked If I had a Paypal. I did not, so I set one up. Then, in order to "pay" me, the said they needed my email. I gave them my Paypal username, but they said it didn't work. I then tried giving the name attached to my Paypal, but they kept saying they needed my email. Stupidly, I figured that was just how it worked, so I sent my email address.

Here's where the real shady stuff happened. Not long after I shared my email, I recieved an email from (supposedly) Paypal saying that they had paid me the agreed-upon amount, but that I had set up my account wrong and in order to increase the limit set on payments I could recieve, I had to ask the payer to pay me more in order to make the total equal to $300, and then immediately pay them back the extra money. I still feel so stupid for falling for this. In hindsight, it was kind of a brilliant scam. They managed to make me feel like I was the one doing something sketchy, and I fell right into it.

I apologetically messaged them explaining the email I got. they told me they had received a similar email and they promised to do pay the amount if I agreed to pay them back. Soon after I got another email saying they had paid the extra amount.

If it weren't for the fact that gmail caught it as a fake Paypal email, I probably would have paid them that money and lost all my human rights or something. Luckily though, Gmail left a little thing next to the email name saying it was a suspicious address. So I did some Googling and realized that neither of the emails I'd received were from Paypal's official email. I had been duped, and I nearly fell for it. I swiftly blocked and reported them, and reported the fake email addresses to Paypal's phishing services.

In retribution for this attack on my innocently optimistic view of the internet, I have posted the one piece I did for them above. Might as well make some use of it.

A PSA to any fellow newbies to posting art online: be careful. In the future I will be much more careful about the commission requests I accept. I will not be responding to any unless they come from someone who follows my blog, and agrees to pay 20% of the commission price before I start on anything. Additionally, it would be appreciated if you include with your commission request some weird, out-of-pocket statement that a bot wouldn't say, just to prove you're real, though that is not a requirement.

Still can't believe I almost fell for such an obvious scam.