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Jan. 29th, 2011 01:04 pmi need somewhere around $250 to pay taxes on and reregister my car this upcoming month [you can thank my mom for not giving me the letter that informed me of such until yesterday]. i dont know how many people on my flist are up for commissions but i simply have no way to magically pull this money out of my ass. i keep telling my boss i am trying to get a second job and then he goes oh no dont do that ill raise your hours, so then i stop looking, and i never work any more hours, and then i'm fucking broke even more.
just so fucking angry. i could make ends meet if i didnt have this fucking vehicle. its such a goddamn money pit. i must spend $400 a month on it. but i need it to actually get to work and get paid. fucking fuck gay shit goddammit. pass this around if you want, it would really help.
anyway
icons are $5
sketches are $10
bust portraits are $25
digital painting portraits, full body, are $40
large real media paintings are $70+
just so fucking angry. i could make ends meet if i didnt have this fucking vehicle. its such a goddamn money pit. i must spend $400 a month on it. but i need it to actually get to work and get paid. fucking fuck gay shit goddammit. pass this around if you want, it would really help.
anyway
icons are $5
sketches are $10
bust portraits are $25
digital painting portraits, full body, are $40
large real media paintings are $70+
sketchblog
Dec. 6th, 2010 12:35 pmnot sure if i posted about this a while ago, but i've started posting onto my sketchblog more now. http://mitsarts.org/sketchblog/
as you can tell i don't really post on lj much anymore. i hate the ads, less and less people are using it, and i just don't really have anything to write about anymore.
i post furry on fA http://www.furaffinity.net/user/mitsene/
i update on twitter http://twitter.com/mitsene
i post sporadically on deviantArt queasy.deviantart.com
i'm also going towards a professional name change, mountain laurel arts.
soopsee mtnlaurelarts.soopsee.com has my etsy, blog, and contact info together.
i also have a facebook that updates with that. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mountain-Laurel-Arts/138778096170252
working on getting a website up... i think i'll have to cancel mitsarts.org, or at least lc-clark-art.com, and transfer everything to the new URL. and not on go-daddy. geh.
but yeah. if anything i might move to tumblr, but not right now, as it's reliability is crap due to 4chan hacking or whatever.
as you can tell i don't really post on lj much anymore. i hate the ads, less and less people are using it, and i just don't really have anything to write about anymore.
i post furry on fA http://www.furaffinity.net/user/mitsene/
i update on twitter http://twitter.com/mitsene
i post sporadically on deviantArt queasy.deviantart.com
i'm also going towards a professional name change, mountain laurel arts.
soopsee mtnlaurelarts.soopsee.com has my etsy, blog, and contact info together.
i also have a facebook that updates with that. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mountain-Laurel-Arts/138778096170252
working on getting a website up... i think i'll have to cancel mitsarts.org, or at least lc-clark-art.com, and transfer everything to the new URL. and not on go-daddy. geh.
but yeah. if anything i might move to tumblr, but not right now, as it's reliability is crap due to 4chan hacking or whatever.
basically yeah. take a few minutes [it really doesnt take that long] to view the comic, sign up for the site http://thefabler.com/comic/view/46 & vote please! if i win, i could get a cintiq, which could help reduce strain on my wrist/neck when i'm drawing/working. so yeah. CMAAAN
man i am trying so hard to get my stuff out there, but i feel like i hold back at the last second. it's so ffffreaking hard to just... talk to people. even on the internet! this is retarded! i kind of know what i should be doing, but i don't really want to do it. i want someone else to do it for me. :C
i want to draw, not market my art. and i -really- don't want to fucking hear people say 'oh well blah thats part of being an artist is marketing yourself' well, if that's all there is to being considered a good well known artist, then i'm the shittiest one ever. i want to spend my time drawing and painting and making my comics, not commenting on forums and giving out business cards and email spams and twittering and posting shit on fA and dA. even though i do kind of enjoy those last three. eugh.
i'm just nervous about having enough money to put towards the security deposit once we decide on an apartment. i really hope we go for one that is $750 because if we go for something that's $850 a month i don't think i'm going to have it in time. :C or i will, just -barely-, but i won't be able to get anything for dan for his birthday, and that's just sad.
i have more stuff i can post on ebay, i think. things that i forgot i had, or things that i bought and really like but can't fit into and/or never use and are just taking up space. i remember with horror the length of time it took for me to sort out all the shit from my move last year. even though, yeah, it was way worse because it was pretty much cleaning out the dumping place where i put all my useless crap all through college. still, the less i have to pack, the better. i still have so much stuff that i don't really need and don't use.
blah i dunno. go tell your friends that i'm selling stuff. TWITTER IT dlkjfas http://www.etsy.com/shop/mitsene
i want to draw, not market my art. and i -really- don't want to fucking hear people say 'oh well blah thats part of being an artist is marketing yourself' well, if that's all there is to being considered a good well known artist, then i'm the shittiest one ever. i want to spend my time drawing and painting and making my comics, not commenting on forums and giving out business cards and email spams and twittering and posting shit on fA and dA. even though i do kind of enjoy those last three. eugh.
i'm just nervous about having enough money to put towards the security deposit once we decide on an apartment. i really hope we go for one that is $750 because if we go for something that's $850 a month i don't think i'm going to have it in time. :C or i will, just -barely-, but i won't be able to get anything for dan for his birthday, and that's just sad.
i have more stuff i can post on ebay, i think. things that i forgot i had, or things that i bought and really like but can't fit into and/or never use and are just taking up space. i remember with horror the length of time it took for me to sort out all the shit from my move last year. even though, yeah, it was way worse because it was pretty much cleaning out the dumping place where i put all my useless crap all through college. still, the less i have to pack, the better. i still have so much stuff that i don't really need and don't use.
blah i dunno. go tell your friends that i'm selling stuff. TWITTER IT dlkjfas http://www.etsy.com/shop/mitsene
on food and wine
Mar. 17th, 2010 06:55 pmit's strange, i never really thought of myself as being a food person, but living with people who don't really care what they eat and/or don't really put much effort into meals [just one course, spaghetti and sauce, or a couple premade things whenever they feel it] makes me think i am, at least a little. almost every night i make dinner, usually at least three course meals, or something using a crock pot, rice cooker, casserole dish, fresh veggies/fish meats, etc. for example, tonight i'm making pineapple glazed [faux] chicken with pineapple salsa [with a crapton of cilantro], served with thyme/garlic yellow squash and brown+red rice.
i mean seriously who am i cooking for? me? dan sometimes, if he's home from work before 9? i think i cook just because i need a break from drawing, i'm hungry and don't feel like having a microwaved veggie burger. and i can't do anything without being creative.
anyway, i had a dream a week or so ago about being in this little tiny store somewhere on the maine/new hampshire line; i was there for work and for some reason i had to get food for dinner.. i had some weird things, the shelves were all dusty.. mostly what i remember is getting some cheese, and then trying to find a reasonably priced wine to go with it, which, of course, was terribly impossible [as it always has to be in dreams]. not to mention the store was going to be closing in a few minutes so the whole thing felt rushed.
i never found the wine, but it did make me want to stop by the spirit shoppe the other day, and get a bottle of pinot grigio. finished the bottle in two nights. got a box of wine a day or so later, a pinkish white zinfandel, it's very fruity.. but now i'm looking online for what wines to get next time and blah blah blah. i still have this urge to get a glass of wine and a nice sharp cheese with some kind of sweet nuts for some reason and just EAT THEM ALL TOGETHER. om nom.. nom. nom.
my mission now is to find a red wine that i actually like, which i did find in france but come on, every wine is good in france, christ. i'll find it someday. and it's not going to be yellowtail merlot, either, bleah...
i mean seriously who am i cooking for? me? dan sometimes, if he's home from work before 9? i think i cook just because i need a break from drawing, i'm hungry and don't feel like having a microwaved veggie burger. and i can't do anything without being creative.
anyway, i had a dream a week or so ago about being in this little tiny store somewhere on the maine/new hampshire line; i was there for work and for some reason i had to get food for dinner.. i had some weird things, the shelves were all dusty.. mostly what i remember is getting some cheese, and then trying to find a reasonably priced wine to go with it, which, of course, was terribly impossible [as it always has to be in dreams]. not to mention the store was going to be closing in a few minutes so the whole thing felt rushed.
i never found the wine, but it did make me want to stop by the spirit shoppe the other day, and get a bottle of pinot grigio. finished the bottle in two nights. got a box of wine a day or so later, a pinkish white zinfandel, it's very fruity.. but now i'm looking online for what wines to get next time and blah blah blah. i still have this urge to get a glass of wine and a nice sharp cheese with some kind of sweet nuts for some reason and just EAT THEM ALL TOGETHER. om nom.. nom. nom.
my mission now is to find a red wine that i actually like, which i did find in france but come on, every wine is good in france, christ. i'll find it someday. and it's not going to be yellowtail merlot, either, bleah...
i don't know what happened to me back in the day, but somewhere along the line i got really, really bad at keeping up with friends. in some ways social interactions have become easier for me, but in others, i'm way worse than i was before. like talking to strangers was such an issue for me in high school but i had many people and friends i could talk to that i knew for a long time. now, i can talk to any jerk on the street, but i only have this very, very small group of friends that i've only really known for a couple of years. every time i go on facebook it reminds me of all the people that i should be talking to, maybe not on a daily basis but at least now and then... but i'm not.
somewhere along the line i told myself it'd be better if i didn't keep up with them, what with all the drama people can end up having. somewhere along the line i distanced myself from people who reminded me of other people or incidents that i didn't want to remember. i don't talk to people from ECA anymore, even though i should, because i feel like they might think i abandoned them and didn't like them anymore 'cause i stopped going there senior year.
i have a lot of friends that i miss hanging out with and seeing and talking to, but i can't say anything because it's been too long and things have changed too much and it'd be weird to just say something out of the blue to them.
it's just impossible for me to be a good friend if i'm not forced to be around you.
i wish i could tell them i miss them.
somewhere along the line i told myself it'd be better if i didn't keep up with them, what with all the drama people can end up having. somewhere along the line i distanced myself from people who reminded me of other people or incidents that i didn't want to remember. i don't talk to people from ECA anymore, even though i should, because i feel like they might think i abandoned them and didn't like them anymore 'cause i stopped going there senior year.
i have a lot of friends that i miss hanging out with and seeing and talking to, but i can't say anything because it's been too long and things have changed too much and it'd be weird to just say something out of the blue to them.
it's just impossible for me to be a good friend if i'm not forced to be around you.
i wish i could tell them i miss them.
broke and sellin shit
Jan. 14th, 2010 01:20 amOK sooooooOOoo
I have some stuff up for sale.
one is an auction for a furry painting -- its NWS so don't click if you dont want to see. http://www.furbuy.com/auctions/1014063.html yes i'm that hard for cash right now, but at least drawing naked wolf people is better than like, answering some creepy craigslist ad, mehhhh.
got some more ebay auctions up -- some dresses, jeans, purple leopard pants, raver shit and goth shit ha ha. stupid clothes from high school that i held onto for some reason. but anyway. http://shop.ebay.com/mitsene/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
and a new etsy necklace! http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38494530 lot of other stuff up there still.
I have some stuff up for sale.
one is an auction for a furry painting -- its NWS so don't click if you dont want to see. http://www.furbuy.com/auctions/1014063.html yes i'm that hard for cash right now, but at least drawing naked wolf people is better than like, answering some creepy craigslist ad, mehhhh.
got some more ebay auctions up -- some dresses, jeans, purple leopard pants, raver shit and goth shit ha ha. stupid clothes from high school that i held onto for some reason. but anyway. http://shop.ebay.com/mitsene/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
and a new etsy necklace! http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38494530 lot of other stuff up there still.
sketchblog!
Jan. 1st, 2010 07:42 pmi made a new sketchblog! http://mitsarts.org/sketchblog/
i'm going to be trying to post a new sketch up every day for at least a year, maybe multiple sketches if i'm feeling it. the intent will be to draw something and then write about it.
was considering going back to the mitsarts lj but.. i think it's time for a blog hosted on my website. plus i'm not feeling lj as much lately -- i don't think people really update here as much as they used to -- and uh, those faggy fucking pop-up ads are REALLY pissing me off. seriously what's the point of offering paid accounts if you're just going to do that shit anyway. way to fucking submit to the corporate system of ass, lj.
i'm going to be trying to post a new sketch up every day for at least a year, maybe multiple sketches if i'm feeling it. the intent will be to draw something and then write about it.
was considering going back to the mitsarts lj but.. i think it's time for a blog hosted on my website. plus i'm not feeling lj as much lately -- i don't think people really update here as much as they used to -- and uh, those faggy fucking pop-up ads are REALLY pissing me off. seriously what's the point of offering paid accounts if you're just going to do that shit anyway. way to fucking submit to the corporate system of ass, lj.
mmmmmmm purdy
Dec. 31st, 2009 10:57 amyeah so last night i downloaded & installed windows 7. well really, it was the upgrade thing. but still. vista was really starting to irritate me here and there. :/ i've been very tolerant of that OS, but.... it had its time.
my laptop is so puuurdy now.
i've got official artwork from muramasa, which is very beautiful, mind you.... sakura personas skin, purplified windows, AND it came with pretty sounds. so now whenever i start up the comp or get a new email, the sounds are like, those japanese reed flutes... seriously i have a whole theme going on here. the desktop also changes every 30 minutes or so [!] if i want it to so imma have to download some more sakura/japanese art :>
one thing i don't understand is why the screencap on the second display has those... glowy things over it. they're not there on the original wallpaper. o_O
i'm also going to be starting a new blog come the new year where i'll be TRYING to post at least a sketch every day, & writing about it. not just pooping it up there and letting it be. it won't be on lj or blogspot though, thinking about using a blogging CMS on my website. soon as I get that installed [gonna have to be today] i'll start blogging.
currently still working on the website. trying to get some jquery/lightbox shit working but i dun think i'm doin it rite. i didn't download lightbox again [erp] so i'm just copying files from one domain to another and it isn't doin what its supposed to :S meh, i'll get it figured out. i wish i had some kind of gallery display thing that can be put into html/css, and automatically makes thumbnails, and preferably creates a gallery for you from a preexisting directory of images. that i already have picked out. merp.
my laptop is so puuurdy now.
i've got official artwork from muramasa, which is very beautiful, mind you.... sakura personas skin, purplified windows, AND it came with pretty sounds. so now whenever i start up the comp or get a new email, the sounds are like, those japanese reed flutes... seriously i have a whole theme going on here. the desktop also changes every 30 minutes or so [!] if i want it to so imma have to download some more sakura/japanese art :>
one thing i don't understand is why the screencap on the second display has those... glowy things over it. they're not there on the original wallpaper. o_O
i'm also going to be starting a new blog come the new year where i'll be TRYING to post at least a sketch every day, & writing about it. not just pooping it up there and letting it be. it won't be on lj or blogspot though, thinking about using a blogging CMS on my website. soon as I get that installed [gonna have to be today] i'll start blogging.
currently still working on the website. trying to get some jquery/lightbox shit working but i dun think i'm doin it rite. i didn't download lightbox again [erp] so i'm just copying files from one domain to another and it isn't doin what its supposed to :S meh, i'll get it figured out. i wish i had some kind of gallery display thing that can be put into html/css, and automatically makes thumbnails, and preferably creates a gallery for you from a preexisting directory of images. that i already have picked out. merp.
2009 general work. a recurring 'theme' i see in my art, is that i rotate subjects. mostly from human, to furry, back to human again, back to furry, etc etc. i go through phases where sometimes i just want to draw animal people. and then i get sick of it, i guess, or i get ideas for 'real paintings' and get back to drawing more traditional things.
also summertime seems to make me want to draw more colorful, for some reason. strange. i must have seasonal affect-your-drawings syndrome.
i also just finished a painting that i can't remember where i saw it in my head before. it must have been one of those things that comes up when i'm falling asleep. i certainly know i didn't see it in a dream.
i did see, the other day, in a nap, my comic. it was a [comic-related] biblical story, where horace was playing a savior named mathuiyas, and keesha was playing a lame/blind homeless girl named kiesha [who in my brain-character-logic is the 'biblical' origin for her name]. the interesting thing is that i think i dreamed it in comic format.
( the txt file i wrote down groggily after i woke up -- )
it was in black and white and had still frames instead of moving. actually, i think most of my dreams are in still frames, now that i think of it. i am not a moving pictures kind of person. anyway, it was weird because most of the time i dream in color [supposedly unlike the rest of humanity. i know for a fact that i do because it's been an integral part of the story and details of many, many dreams i've had]. and i don't believe i have dreamt much about my characters before, either. i used to get jealous of other people who were so wrapped up in their chars that they would dream about them. now that i've distanced myself from that, i find myself dreaming about them.
i am realizing now, not for the first time, that for most of my life i have based my life's time measurement on school years and school semesters, not regular years. my 'new year' typically started in september, with the onset of a new grade or a new college year, as well as a new year of my life, seeing as that's the month my birthday is in. i had some time off from school the september of 06, but eventually went back. now, though, it'll be a while, if i even do.
i think bailey slept on my paintings last night :C they're indented like a cat was sitting on them, plus have kitty hairs stuck to them... easily brushed off, but still.
i have some 'new' stuff up at my etsy shop! http://www.etsy.com/shop/mitsene lots of big cat paintings! i plan to add some necklaces and new paintings soon. i am really getting into this, i hope someone buys something 8[
i think bailey slept on my paintings last night :C they're indented like a cat was sitting on them, plus have kitty hairs stuck to them... easily brushed off, but still.
i have some 'new' stuff up at my etsy shop! http://www.etsy.com/shop/mitsene lots of big cat paintings! i plan to add some necklaces and new paintings soon. i am really getting into this, i hope someone buys something 8[
I painted things today!
Nov. 3rd, 2009 10:32 pm
the last week or two i've actually gotten the urge to -really- make something on the physical realm, not just digital doodles. i bought a small round basswood.. thing to paint on, but none of the ideas really panned out for it [yet]. i got some ideas for a pair of paintings, though, and ended up inadvertently purchasing two matching 8x10 canvases while looking for carbon paper and jewelery supplies, so, yeah.
i also 'made' [more like assembled] some necklaces today as well. they literally took two minutes to make. put pendant on, hot glue the endpieces, open jumpring, put on clasp, close jumpring, woop de doo you have a necklace.
they will all be going on etsy, though. once i get my memory card back from my roommate, i can take some classy pictures and get to sellin'. i hope.
i also had a great halloween with a pretty psycho day before it, and my room is now bright lime green. hooray.
sell! sell! sell!
Oct. 23rd, 2009 03:47 pmselling a lot of old prints/originals that are in my portfolio [read: the good stuff i brought to cons], see this fA journal - http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1005527/
prints are $3, originals are $15. if you can pimp this out for me, that would be awesome!
prints are $3, originals are $15. if you can pimp this out for me, that would be awesome!
WHERE CAN I FIND THESE SHOESSS
Oct. 9th, 2009 09:16 pm
seriously!!! with or without the heart.. ;___; actually short sneaker versions would be better, but anything works. they would go GREAT with my costume.... :{ and they're so cute and i've always wanted an excuse to wear platform sneakers.
i am slacking off terribly at artwork that i'm supposed to get done.. ughhh
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Apr. 19th, 2009 02:58 amamytiger comic up on website! after much grueling hating on wordpress and uploading issues and wanting to kill things. http://mitsarts.org/amytigercomic/
yeah i know the repeating pattern bg is lame but it'll be fixed eventually, too late tonight.
also i have a twitter, under mitsene as usual - http://twitter.com/mitsene/
god i am so tired. night night!
yeah i know the repeating pattern bg is lame but it'll be fixed eventually, too late tonight.
also i have a twitter, under mitsene as usual - http://twitter.com/mitsene/
god i am so tired. night night!
