Commissions info, how, when and where.

So.. you like my work and would like to buy it?

you can get it through a commission order!...

This is important information you need to know!

 please read it carefully before  contacting me with any questions 

Here you will learn how, when, how to order and also details about shipping, payment options and contact information.

Be sure to check up my "commissions costs" post 

 to get an idea of the price ranges i work with. 

*By dropping me a message you are accepting my terms and conditions written in these pages, any problems that could come from not reading and understanding this information will be your responsibility*

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General:

*--. All handmade items, hand - machine stitched,  intended for collectors, not for kids under 14 nor rough play.

*--.I only accept new orders when i announce im open for commissions, other wise you may be suggested to wait until i go open again or be offered to be placed on a waiting list if there are empty slots available.

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*--. While you wait you are free to ask questions about your project, quotes and other details.

     

*--. I work with a "commissions list", once full  commissions will be closed.

The amount of slots always vary.  
Sending me a message doesn't warranty you'll get a slot on the list.

*--. My favorite fabric choice is Minky, filled with polister fiver and plastic beads in certain cases

*--. The time for completing a piece varies a lot, i cannot meet any deadlines, specially if they involve less than 3 weeks for it to be finished and delivered.

*--. A lot of people ask me to use a cheaper material (fabric) to decrease costs, but patterns made to go with Minky wont work for fleece or cotton, it would be a lot more work for me to adjust the pattern to a different fabric and to make it look as good, and more work involves a higher cost!, so im not making plushies of a different fabric they were intended to be unless they are "compatible". 

*--.  Will not make an OC that doesn't belong to the commissioner unless the owner contacts me giving their consent.

*--.  Will not make:  sexual/gore themes, or things i find offensive.

*--.  I May change the order of the commission list as i see its needed, either for time organization or materials supplies availability

*--. I have the right to refuse working for you if problems arise, or you are "flagged" by other sellers as a bad buyer or not a good person to deal with.

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How to order / Request Quotes: 

 If you haven't read about my price ranges already i suggest you to do so!

 Want a more specific price quote for your commission?

(Remember Quotes valid only for 30 days.)

 send me a message through: 

 Deviantart note,  Etsy,  Facebook, or write to piquipauparro@hotmail.com

with the title:

 "Quote for:__(insert plushie character name here)___"

with the same info that those requesting a commission (see below)

 Already have the quote for the total of your order?

 to get a slot send me an e-mail (when commissions are open) with the title: 

"  __(insert character name and size here)__ commission order "

The e-mail needs to contain the following information:

- Character wanted 
- Style (show accurate, personal style, chibi, etc) 
- Proper image reference, the more the merrier.

- Size
- Pose (sitting, laying down, sleeping, etc) 

- If you want something from my gallery let me know.

- Special details (sounds, songs, posability)
- If already gave you Quote for your order be sure to mention it

- Country you want it to be shipped

YOUR NOTES/MESSAGES WILL BE DISCARDED if:

-They fail to contain the previous information!!

-They are Poorly written (like: pls sell me this n that cuz it cwte lol)

    You'll then be notified if you made it into the commission list, the waiting list or non.

     With a confirmation of your order and the total.

Then we will arrange things to get things moving.

*--.Once your slot is up next and i contact you to star the work you have a week to respond, if you fail to do so your slot will be sent to the bottom of the list, if by the time it comes up again you miss to write me back in the next week your commission will be canceled, if you are still interested on it you will need to re submit your order when they go open again.

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Payments:

*--. Paypal is my prefered payment option,  for credit card the purchase/payments will be done through my Etsy shop. If you are in my country there are other options available.

*--.Once its your turn on the list i will request an upfront, 50% of the total to start working.  the other 50% + shipment and handling once it is finished.

*--.Payment plans available only for plushies over $300

*--. If you want to cancel the order once you have sent the first payment, i wont be able to refund you a 100%, only a 20% of the original amount.

*--. Fisrt payment must be done withing the next 3 days or it will be canceled or sent down on the commission list.

*--. Work wont be started until first payment is received.

*--. Plushies wont be sent until the las payment+shipping are sent and cleared.

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Payment plans:

Payment plans are for helping you acquire a plushie by making several payments over time. You can make weekly, biweekly, or even monthly payments. they are available only only for plushies over $300

*--.In order to get a payment plan you need to ask for it before a purchase/bid is placed and mention how often and for how long you would be paying for the item.

But please, understand this doesnt mean you can take as much time as you want to fully pay. The total amount should be covered in a determined amount of time depending on the cost of the craft.

To give you and idea
The ideal would be that any amount under $3,000 should be covered in 4 1/2 months or less if possible. any under $600 on 2 months or less.
if you could be needing some extra time please mention it and we may be able to arrange something.

*--.If you want a payment plan for commissions, payments can be done while im working on your craft, and extend for an extra time after its finished.

*--.On auctions and direct purchases you need to submit your first payment in the next 42hrs.
You shall make a down payment of at least 20% of the total to confirm the Purchase

  ---- If you need help at any time with payments please contact me and we can arrange something!

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If you fail to do payments as we have agreed ( taking too long to send them while staying out of contact, or sending much lower amounts that agreed, extending payment period way too much or bringing other kind of trouble) you could either be charged a 10% of the total as interest each time a payment is messed up or even get the transaction canceled.

*--.As mentioned before 

if a transaction is canceled you wont be getting a %100 refund  only a 20% of the original amount you have already sent.

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SHIPPING

Shipping worldwide available!!!

*--. Shipping costs vary depending on weight, destination and desired method.

*--. Regular mail and EMS are the most affordable option available, both include tracking numbers. private carriers are way more expensive (DHL, USPS, etc)

*--.You will be provided with the tracking number of the package for you to track and estimate time of delivery.

*--. I am not responsible of the package once its been left on the post office.

*--. I usually ship packages within 4 days after payment has been done in order to wait for paypal to transfer the shipping funds and pay postage.

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Thank you so much  for your interest and support!

i hope to hear from you when commission go open

Cheers!

*-. Piquipauparro .-*

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About how to revive and old forgotten blog

Its not a difficult as it may sounds
one would think the whole reviving something may involve some fancy lab, a loyal assistant and a crazy laugh with the touch of grainy film filter view. but its way more easy that that.

Motivation!!
  That´s quite the only little thing you will be needing, the rest are just details... well sometimes is not as easy as it sounds actually, it not always comes in big amounts and good quality. but if i know something is that once it comes around you better do as much as you can with it, an maybe it will increase in number rather than only fade away.

Something that it isn´t as easy at is sounds either, but... well... science when the grates things that can be achieved are available under the "easy" label? not even in video games! (usually the best ending cinematics and cool unlockabless came after defeating the "hard" and "oh so very hard! " options.

Not to confuse Motivation with Inspiration.
Inspiration comes and goes around too with no major warning, but even grates ideas are left aside when you just don't feel like doing anything ( a sad thing i must say) so better be brave once inspiration and motivation sparkle around and arrive at the station at the same time.

Hmm maybe that would be another ingredient we can add to the mix, to be brave. that would be like... not listening to all those things on your head that tell you not to even try. One needs to just focus on getting the good crafty/writing things done.
But mostly when you are pretty much loaded with motivation all those other things can´t stand its feral arrival.

In my case Motivation came around accompanied with some amount of  nostalgia. For the last 2 years i been doing nothing more than to focus on working on commissions (with tiny brake exceptions), and any kind of personal project was somehow related with commissions themes, (A.K.A. Cartoon characters). Its not that i´m complaining!, i loved the whole experience! and still. it brought huge amounts of learning, growing, and other desirable things. But... just a few days ago, while looking for some old drawings i came across and old sketch book (like 2006-2009 sketchbook). How filled up it was will all kind of ideas!, i think it was the sketchbook i cherished the most at that time(my mom actually crafted it for me!! how awesome is that???!!) the amounts of creativity and "ill give this crazy idea a chance" kind of works on it made me thought that maybe... i been quite underestimating my creativity for some time, all because one goes around listening to the "wrong voices" and that ridiculous thing artist have to compare their works with anything they found on the way that  has the "art" label,  bad bad idea.   and i really missed those days... that of high amounts of happy art and careless doodling.

I start to wonder where would things be if i had kept working on those ideas... who knows!, but the moment i´m living is now, and i better don´t expend it on trying to do a timey-wimmey time mind travel thing of what could have been, for today i have learned lots of things and grew in others ( i just said i may be better at this than i thought, see? that is a change that could lead to really good things today) so yeah, maybe this is quite the best time to get back to all those abandoned ideas and listen to the "be brave" part of the recipe and get things done.
Of course you may now have realized im not just talking about reviving an old blog, but also about reviving that old personal crafty world of mine.



Hm... just now i realize (and kind of remember) i like writing
is just the whole "omg someone out there is going to read my personal feelings and thoughts" something that always creeps me out (some of those side effects of being an introvert, you know). So i don't know how the blogging thing will go, but from what i have learned lately, there is a moment when its a good idea to go out and share some thoughts and points of view and art and stuff, not going there for the sake of spotlight and be loved and getting attention, but just because maybe... maybe sharing some creative thinking kind of thing could help someone out there, specially other creative people looking for motivation... inspiration... bravery or something, and maybe they will find it here, and  maybe that something may help someone make their life a little more sparkly and creative and crafty.


So, let see where this recent batch of inspiration-motivation-bravery thing leads me.
Don´t know how long this things will last but as long as they are there, better do the best i can do with them.
hope they stay longer than last time tho *sight*.




Now if you excuse me i thin there is something burning on the kitchen...
better go now.


Ill be around
Stay Crafty!...
And motivated..
And brave...

And all those things :)

Cheers!

Artist collage

   There are so many things in life one can´t control... and thats okay

actually there are quite a lot of things that we shall not even try to control.

anyway.

Lately i quite of lost control (or maybe only my reason) on the amount of freelance works  i´m in lately. Suddenly after a few lazy weeks i been with tons of work, i been going to sleep late the next day morning (like 4:00 am), or with a sleep reduced to just a couple of hours or i even end not sleeping at all.

This is quite good to rise funds for personal projects ( sadly sometimes the payment isn't that good). but the sad part is that you end leaving aside the so mentioned projects, if one doesn't has control over the situation or has good organization to get some few time for those personal projects, all can become completely frustrating.

So, i  have´nt been able to come and show so many things i would like to, and been doing lately.

like being a step further on my website construction:  piquipauparro.com (yeah! dream weaver ftw!), or editing-submitting photos of works in progress, etc. etc.  BUT! i decided i do am giving myself time fore something i do like and been willing to blog for a long time.  

I´m talking about featuring all these amazing artist that i been finding on the Internet on all this years, or that some friends have shared with me.

As an artist, going around, looking into some other people works can be something really good if you know how to "look" at these works, and with this i mean to not! fall in the bad ways of comparison like... "oh that artist is awesome... oh those works are amazing... oh i´m not that good... oh i´m so lame... oh i would never be so good... oh i quit"  oh no no no!, that must be avoided!! there will always be "better" and "worst" people than us (and i place the "" because sometimes we can´t really point such aspects so easily. i prefer to say there are people with more experience, with less experience, with different visions, techniques and skills) we can reach higher levels in art with hard work and the will to do it!.

If we rally want to compare ourselves with somebody maybe we should actually compare our works with our own works. oh yes!... what do i mean?, well...  have we been challenging our own skills and talents? how much have we been learning, researching, experimenting and really improving?  are we really developing ourselves? ore are we stuck with the same stuff in the comfort zone, as we think "we are so cool already" and (this attitude can ruin it all!) or maybe we are only doing the same thing as other people do and that seems to work for getting fans?... mere copycats?.

 Note that this last thing must not be misunderstood with inspiration!, art "feeds itself", i mean grate artist create, we get inspired, and so we take and learn things from them (you´ve been influenced!), and then when adding a bit from us to what we learned it becomes a part of ourselves and we use it.
 We then become kind of a nice collage made up of pieces we've been collecting from other people an their works... to become ourselves, different an unique on its own way (and we shall cherish that). Then, we create and even inspire others in some way, and the circle goes on and on. ( and this is something that goes beyond art) 

Actually... have you've heard of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong? as far as i know when Ella was younger she admired Louis, with time when becoming a singer she developed this unique vocal improvisation so particular from her, something so different. With time they meet each other and came with various collaborations, and  actually Louie then tried some similar vocal interpretation... i hope you get the point here. 

I find quite sad that some of this grate talents are unknown out there. specially as i think art can leave grate things on our lives. as it helps you too see and feel in a different way than the way you´r used to.

Even if you don't go with art as profession  i think you'll find and see something more than "just an odd drawing" and find what they really evoke.

In the name of organization and time  ill be posting like... about... 2.. 3 artist each time... 

So... 

In this occasion, first i´m going to feature a traditional media artist, that let us know that in a word that becomes more digital each day,  the traditional media is still alive, strong and filled with something unique that digital media could never be able to replace, the pleasure of feeling the texture of the paper, the paint.. the sound of the graphite pressed against the canvas, and so many other things.
Young woman with impressive skills, creating amazing artwork filled with details that evoke all kind of feelings, from a magical and whimsical colorful joy to a  black serene strength. 

       

May Ann Licudine 

a.k.a. Mall 

- La Union, Philippines-

"Filipino Visual Artist. Cat lover. Strawberry + Watermelon Eater. Experimental Photographer + Camera Enthusiast. Rubber Stamp Carver. Typography Addict. Happy Quiet Dreamer. Hearing / Speaking Impaired Girl." 

 "All that is needed is for US and OTHERS to believe that we can."

 
 When you look at her artworks you see so many things, you see feelings and emotions that tell stories, stories filled with details that make you want to look carefully into every little corner, because you can assure you'll find something the artist playfully hided for the curious ones that adventure themselves into her artwork. Colorful and playful colors, or deep monochromatic looks. Paintings, toys, props, illustrations, photographs... i was amazed, even more when i read about her life. Mall, is an artist that has really touched my heart, and not only with her gorgeous artwork, but also with her story...

Due to hearing deficiency she was born with,  her childhood was quite difficult, it involved more effort for learning, speach difficulties, and her classmates were not helping " I was laughed at, ridiculed, bullied, and even “hurt” physically by some of my classmates. I was punched and pinched because I was different. I was called monster, ugly, stupid, dumb and I had no friends". Even tho, that didn´t change her for bad, she didn´t gave up, she didn´t harden her heart, actually...  she kept her dreams and faith.

"Instead of being hurt by criticism… Instead of being weakened by frustration. I focused in believing in myself, and depended on the love, care and encouragement of my family and lived by my faith in God!" 

While reading her story you also can read part of the story on some of her works, about keeping strong, about support, the importance of  having someone to look over you, to help you complete your "missions", someone that does believes in you, and sometimes its about facing challenges alone, in order to grow up as individuals,  her characters Babu and Abu are sometimes the ones in charge of showing us this.
On the history of Mall´s life on can read about the importance of  family and their support,  and how it becomes a grate difference to have and to know you have someone that helps you and supports you... family, friends, God.

 
"Reflecting on my past experiences I can honestly say that I am very grateful for what I have become. Looking back, it seems unexpected that I will attain success in life because of my disability. But now I believed that anything is possible if you and OTHERS believe that you can" 

 Its sad that out there people tend to attack anything thats different, disabled or not, if your not like them they ten to attack you, make fun of you, and make things really difficult. Its real what is said, that if you call somebody "fool" and you treat em like that, eventually that person can become one. people need to become conscious of their actions and the consequences, how they can affect someone for good, or bad.




We do need to change the way we see the world and other people in order to find things that go beyond our imagination, we shall not stay with the regular way of thinking from this century, or we may end missing grate things or even harming them.


Artist do this in their regular basis, they observe, learn and then communicate a message, they are saying something.



Artwork reflects who we are, what is within us, in someway it reflects the story of our lives. Its in the paper, in the drawing and illustrations we make where we expose ourselves, where we become and open book.

Mall, who had to lead with so many difficulties still adds colors, light, life, hope, freedom, peace,
fun, contemplation and strength in her art.

 I totally recommend you to not stay just with this little feature, go to her blog and read more about  her speech at  De La Salle - Saint Benilde College, that tell us about her story. Find her at blogspot,  flickr, facebook and her own webpage  http://www.mayannlicudine.com   

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." 

- HELEN KELLER, an American blind and deaf writer/lecturer- 

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Traditional media is impressive, but we shall not leave aside digital artist, digital media has its own challenges, tricks and difficulties. she knows how to handle this media, crispy finished works that even if they been worked out on the computer from scratch, she knows how to add the "hand made" feelings... you can see the person behind them.

Emmy  Cicierega 

             - United States- 

when i first found Emmy i was more of a crazy cat lady... err.. i mean... i was more into drawing lions, tigers and such, she had this pretty tiger character "Bindi" ; vivid colors and fluid lines, how not to like her style?

with time as i got more interested on drawing other things i kind of forgot about her. but with time, one day i found a lot of beautiful illustrations, i went surprised when i found out it was her the author, that she was also digging into other things and becoming an even better artist.



I have found a lot of digital artist, grate artist with really good skills, but with time i tend to loose interest in them as sometimes all their works tend to look to much like each other. what i mean, is that sometimes digital artist go to much with the same process, the same kind of  filters, effects and other features they use once and again and again, even they´r characters tend to have the same faces, facial expressions and poses.
this not the case of Emmy.

What i like most of her works is that she really seems to know how to work with this kind of media (you are totally pwned Photoshop!!!!). she knows how to use it to express what she wants, digital media is more than just adding filters, layers, effects and so, one shall use it with wisdom and do not get over whelmed with all its features.
Just as she knows how to work for hours in a fully detailed illustrations she also knows how to relax and have fun with hilariously-aesthetic doodles, gifs and comic stripes filled with a simple and quite good sense of humor... or at least the one i like. ( you sometimes need a bit of fun and nonsense in order to avoid your brain being fried with so much work :P) yes! it so is important to have some time for a good laugh or simply to relax and forget about the work and the daily messy-noisy things from the world. they are from my favorite thing, i also really like how she´s not even afraid of drawing herself on the most odd ways in order to achieve the emotions she wants.

Her art is really refreshing, always filled with a "summer" feeling, even in her most gloomy works ( and some that are quite creepe) you can find this dynamism this feeling that characterize her works .  Drawings, doodles, illustrations, gifs, even a few videos in collaboration with his brother, there is always something nice to look at on her gallery.

 

She really knows how to use the media to express what she wants, i really recommend you to check out her works, she do has a Deviant account (where she also has some good Photoshop tutorials) but check out her Livejournal, as there, is where the fun really is, and you´ll find some works that you wont find on her  deviant account ( lately shes working more in some neat jewelry designs). you can follower on twitter and she even has a thumblr, also! check out her beautiful Balloon comic.
Ah! she´s so groovey ;D

"lets slow dance"

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My apologizes for not adding links on the images to a larger size, that takes some time and i´m running out of it... i need to finish so many things. but i hope that will make you go see their pages!.
( Note that all the images and photos used for the artists features belong to their respective authors)

Ill leave you with something once my brother told me and that has helped me as you have no idea, specially  when looking at people with more experience in the matter. and that sometimes makes you feel down:

"ok so, look at your most recent works, look at everything you been doing lately. tell me, if i could go 2-3 years into the past,  show you the works your doing now and tell you -this is what you´ll be doing in a couple of years if you keep going - do you think you could have believed me?... no?... well let me tell you.. look at the artwork of those experimented artist you admire...  keep going and hard working and on a couple of years you´ll be doing works like that."

is step by step that we walk the longest journeys.

just keep doing your best, and believe.

Usefull links

New year, new perspectives... better organization.
i hope you had some nice holidays and maybe, by now you´ll have the eager to go back to work to craft and make all the artistic things you have in mind (or your favorite thing to do).
to help you a little i´m going to share some nice links that may be useful for your task
some are already listed and some will be added on the side bar menu.
I´ll be adding more eventually

Resources and communities :

link

"online community where people share hip, off-beat, crafty diy (do it yourself) projects. The term "Craftster" means "crafty hipster" and is also meant to be an homage to the pioneer peer-to-peer sites Napster and Friendster."

this community has everything! here you can find people making all kind of projects with all kind of materials; fabric, glass, ceramics and even recycled ones. They make contests, swaps and share free patterns and "how to" tutorials, loads of inspiration inside!.

threadbanger

 

"ThreadBanger is the home of DIY fashion how-tos, home décor tips, and more!"

 A really nice place where you´ll find lots of tutorials for home decor and fashion, and they have videos!

  

CG textures

I usually give color to my artwork with digital media, i kind of dislike when they loo flat or too digital. sometimes adding some texture to them will help a lot, and gives a really nice feeling, if you add more than a couple of textures wisely  in the same image you can achieve a more rich result, and really grate effects.

COLOURLovers 

Adding color to your works just cannot be a random thing, or at least not always, you need to think about composition, contrasts, the concept and mood you want to reflect in your works and what not. sometimes choosing the right colors can be tricky, with this site you can eventually build your own color pallet.

In this Community you´ll find specific colors with their HEX and RGB codes, palettes, patterns and few more things that will be really helpfull.

OverClocked ReMix 

"is an organization dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form. Its primary focus is www.ocremix.org, a website featuring thousands of free fan arrangements, information on game music and composers"

Crafting and painting is better with music! do you like video games? ,with some video game music with something more like Jazz, Classic, Punk, Rock, Electronic arrangements and even more, your going to have a really nice creative time :).

Kingdom Hearts Insider

Talking about video games music... and if you like anime, this place can be the best you can find to get both! you can download almost every single album of almost every anime or videogame, really! even Yoko Kanno is there and with music from NES, SNES, N64, PS, GB, GBA, X BOX and more!

you can find some gems hiding there.

this one is from one of my favorite anime movies: Toki wo kakeru shoujo

GPS Sonoro

(spanish)

If you would like to try something more with music, but not videogame or anime related then this is the place, they have a huge collection of music of all styles from all arround the world... impressive. I found Madelaine Peyroux there and im sure youll find something of your taste :).

and all those are totally free :D

yay!

ill be adding those in the link section, and in the next post ill give you some more links to help you get even more inspired with a few "ZOMG!!" amazing artists and else :P

see you next time ;)

 

in the border of the year

December is almost over.
i cant believe how fast the year has gone.

but is something good, time keeps going and one keeps learning.
i finished various commissions already (the once i mentioned in the last post) but i wont be uploading some photos of those for a while, the anime characters will be part of a contest, so i been asked to not show them before that date.
the watercolor in other hand needs to be sealed... or i think so. it seems that the spry i´m planing to use for sealing could mess things and change some colors :S. so i´m thinking on leaving it without it. you will need to take good care of it friend! (ill make a few other test tho. then ill take the decisions)

With Christmas and new year approaching i think i wont be able to work in to many things, but ill try.
ill be finishing a couple of commissions (a plushie and some artwork) and maybe ill get more work to do.

Also, ill be working on some stuff for my Etsy shop, some "sockadillos", some little fox-like creature that you may have seen before in my flickr, some bats and a few more things... maybe some aceos i´m already working in.

 well, ill try to work as much as i can these days.
also ill be adding some more links to the side menus, those are pages i really like with nice info or resources, or from artist i really like and admire.

hope your having some good time.
see you :)

To be finished...

With so many things i my head lately i haven't been able to come and post that often.
but i been thinking that it could be idea to come and show a bit of the work in progress.

Science Monday i been working on a new commission. another anime character.
i must say that searching for the right colors and textures can be a hard task, but is really worth the job. in the end you'll get a better appearance and a closer look to the original character. and thats something really rewarding.

 

some of the fabrics ill be using 

I really like working with all kind of  fabrics, and sometimes it can be completely messy. the fabrics you see above. those are really soft and cuddly with this fur length, but ho ho! when you cut this kind of fabric you cant avoid cutting the length of the fibers, so you end having an intimidating amount of tiny fibers floating around the place sticking to everything. believe me, you don´t want to breath this stuff, you need to use something to cover your nose and mouth or you'll end feeling like a cat trying to throw up a  hair ball yuk!  being my bedroom my workplace-kind-of-a-studio room i always need to have the vacuum at hand. i don´t want that stuff on my pillows! D:

Also i about to finish this watercolor painting for a dear friend.
i really like a lot of things about it, specially the fact that i been able to experiment a lot with it. I always wanted to do something with watercolors, also to paint something quite big and complex, and to use a wood base and not just some photoshop textures.  apart from my old illustration "daydream for a life" this one have been the most complex science i made the first sketches for it. i think ill go into more details about it when its finished and i post a good picture of it. i think ill do that after i give it to his new owner :D i really hope he likes it. i been quite worried, because it isn't a big oil painting with tons of solid  colors like the ones people usually hang on their walls. im not sure why but i decided to not come with something like that... my theory... maybe i don´t want it to call the whole attention over it. its like... like... when you spot something on the distance, something quite hiding between a lot of noisy things, and you get closer to try to find more about it. and you see it. it calls your attention even more. you began to follow the flowing lines and movement on it, the colors, the shapes, the story. its something quiet, something friendly, something that whispers.

hehehe i wrote all "poetical" again :P. i wonder how many art teachers will be all frustrated with the way im doing this jaja this isn't the way one should work with watercolor... i think.  ah well. ah well.

i do really plan too finish these two between  the 14 - 20. 

And sience once in a while one needs to get distracted from the regular works im crafting something more. quite small and not a priority to be finished. im actually using some tiny remains from other works i, ve done.

And the web? well, i been having some troubles with the web editor, and i can officially blame my computer, today i worked with my uncles laptop and what usually takes me 4 hours of work with my computer, on his it took me some ridiculous 10 minutes. now im thinking, should i change to another site builder-host or just be really really patient? lets left the payment methods alone.

oh!
im still on school, i need to work in this therm project. whoa!
see you then. until next post
ill keep working.

Website in progress

  For a long time various people have been asking about my personal website, and it isn't quite nice to say "oh no, sorry i don't have one" and give them my Deviantart account instead.  i don't have anything against DA but its always a good idea to work on your on web, specially if you can reflect your own art in the way you build it, and for  a lot of other reasons.
I been working on the idea of building a website for a long time actually, but i wasn't able to find a good place with good editing tools and else. i checked wordpress, weebly, freewebs that are some of the most recommended places. but to be honest, i really didn't like them. maybe i didn't expend enough time working on them. i think its because i once found a really nice web page before, it wasn't really good at the beginning, but they improved some various details and now i can work easily with it. also as i just restored my computer  a few days ago now its faster and easy to work with (i still have some troubles as i need to download a few more thing tho.)  " Wix "  is the name of this page to build website, just if your curious.
Also i think i´ve found a good place for hosting. So, the plan is to have a website up and running before August ends. this is something important as ill be back to school on the last weeks of September *Gulp*.

So. ill try to get a little more focused on this task.  Ive already made some drawing and illustrations that are going to be part of the web, also my traditional media works (like paintings and needle felted figures) will be getting more attention than digital. And i have a good reason to do this!  if everything goes as planned at the end of the month ill be getting a new and better graphic tablet!  lately mine has been failing a lot.  so with this new one and with my computer working faster (an with a better Photoshop version) im sure the quality on my digital works will improve.

some illustrations that need to be finished soon

And... hmm ill probably make a list of all the works i want to finish before the month ends. there are a lot of new thing i want to work with, but there are things i need to finish asap!.

And yay for new glasses! 

(they used to be white but...  hope the paint wont get scratched :P) 

ah! grate :3