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Wow, um...

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Uh, it's been a while. Hi! I'm still here.
Last year was awful. 2016 was terrible, also. 2015 was pretty sucky too, since it looks like I'm catching up...
Anyway, this year so far is much better. Two jobs, three jobs...and then I rush home and draw because for some reason I'm on a roll. :D I've been drawing and drawing and redrawing on the comic like mad. Finally learned some proper comic book inking. I'll have to find some bits to post, because I'm actually happy with it for once.
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Oh, look. Another year gone (almost).

Lots of stuff has happened, of course - finally getting a full-time job and back into the office was one of them. Great for being able to afford food again, but it contributed to the death of my creativity.

Until just recently I haven't done much of anything drawing-wise since I lost my files (though I did finally finish some writing!). But now I have gotten Manga Studio - and oh man. That program does what I have been using 4 programs to do! It makes so much difference to be using a modern program instead of the 10+ year old ones I was using (and it's not likely to crash and eat my work like the ancient Painter did). Talk about suddenly bashing through the creative block! I also learned that when I am feeling creative, I really cannot get to sleep. Having gone nearly a year being able to sleep well, it is kind of a shock...

Well, the drive is still dead, but I have one thing left to try, short of paying hundreds of dollars for a restoration, which I still can't afford. If it doesn't work, I am resolved to use my low-quality JPG backups and get back to work on the comic by redrawing over them to make it colorable again. A pain in the butt, to be sure, but much better than having lost everything completely. Also pondering just making it grayscale, but color is kind of important for it, so I dunno. On Monday, I shall see :) In the meantime, it's time to get back to drawing!
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Calamity!

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Well, sigh, my external hard drive with all my art files on it (since they're all big PSDs) has bit the dust hard, so until I can scrape up the money to get it hopefully professionally recovered, I can't update the comic or finish anything in progress. Won't stop me from doing new stuff in the meantime, of course, but man, potentially losing your irreplaceable hard work has gotta be one of the most disheartening things ever, you know? :(
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Just reiterating that I will happily do commissions, because the hours at my job have gone way, way down since the holidays, and I was forced to buy a new furnace and water heater a few months ago, so any little extra will help...

After looking around at what others are doing, prices are the following:

For one character, bust:
$5 - ink only
$15 - inked, colored, simple or no background
$20 - inked, colored, full background OR character in painting style

For one character, full body:
$10 - ink only
$20 - inked, colored, simple or no background
$30 - inked, colored, full background OR character in painting style
add $5 for each additional character.

I can do an anime or a realistic style. I'm not very good at anthro or chibi, though, so you may want to look elsewhere for that, since there's many artists out there who can do that better than me!

Paypal will probably work best but I'm pretty sure I can work something else out if necessary.

If you are interested please include as much information about the characters, their clothing, and the kind of pose you want as you can. References if you have them would be awesome.

Please also note me for any questions!

Cheers,
Amanda
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Checking in

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I'm not dead! But wow, it's like you blink and the year's half over. Just one of those things you have to deal with, I guess.

Thinking of doing commissions, because taxes this year were baaad. I'll have to look into what's a good price and such, and see if anyone's interested!
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