Best posts made by Crawfish

There's going to be so many more cats.

Hey I went AWOL this weekend and came back with

I am elated anxious happy pleased and tired. I've been inundated with congratulations and advice and terrifying warning stories. We've been prepping for this since February.

Whew.

@derp Being staff gives me a tiny bit of advantage, but so far a lot of people have given some bits of insight and requested certain specifc props that they'd know and others might not. In a lot of ways it's easier then, because I know exactly what to reference/look for, but in other ways, I thoroughly enjoy what comes to me when i check out the sheets.

Dumb scanner with a dumb printer. I'm afraid to say anything bad about it OUT LOUD like it'll actually hear me and bog up my orders more.

The good:
Making money doing something I love: drawing for people.

The bad:
My scanner is ass and it's slowing me down and it doesn't print anything better than shipping labels.

The ugly:
Thanks to The Good, I can finally afford a really really really really really fancy printer, but my brain weasels are telling me buying it means everything dries up and what am I thinking?

The hopeful:
I'll be able to offer prints of cats I've drawn, while the originals stay with the people that requested them. This includes the Arxian Gods and Reflections, and I'm eyeing those fractals like maybe I can do them feline justice. I'll also potentially be able to print the calendars in-house when I finish it, as well as some pretty interesting group portraits.

I'm excited? And have so many people to thank. But I'm still pretty anxious, even while I stumble forward.

Wooohoooo.

ETA: The slightly uncomfortable: I'll have to raise my commission prices a little.

Posted with permission.

Wee!

Arx Pantheon Cat 2022 Calendar

Obviously I can't ship in time for Christmas, I'm just glad this is done, and I haven't put up all the other images because something something mystery something (but I will).

Here's Skald of the Broken Chains:

Tehom lookin' pretty on my wall:

Arx Pantheon Cat 2022 Calendar

Sentinel. I based his pattern off of clouded leopards, only flipped and made to look like eyeballs.

Hmm.

Gild.

(Bree is the one on the far left.)

So I didn't think this would work but it does and we are still fiddling with fonts and colors but ahhhh! We could do this for all of them maybe!

I just want someone to write deep erotica with.

Should I post an ad? With samples? 'Accepting resumes'?

Booooks.

When people tell me how amazing my storytelling bestie buddy is. I mean I already know she is but I never get tired of hearing it.

Since this is basically my job now, I figure it's safe to put here.

The kids are in school full time and my schedule has a routine, though it's been bumpy this last month: my daughter wasn't getting enough sleep and we were all getting up at 5am, so we switched for about ten days to taking her to school. Now she's decided she didn't mind the other way, so she'll go to bed earlier, etc, long story short, I do not handle abrupt schedule changes well, my work schedule with Drawing Cats has gone straight to the Bad Place.

I found two stacks of finished, unsent cats that I could have sworn were scanned and sent and neither happened. I have several orders that are unfinished but I've talked to them and they are wonderfully, amazingly understanding, my scanner/printer is AMAZING and if it had legs it could walk my dogs and train them to dance, but the software is SO NEW and CONSTANTLY UPDATED that it takes an hour and by then my tenuous hold on my sleep schedule goes to crap because if I get less than seven hours, everyone has a bad day the next morning.

But.

We are back on the old(er) schedule, things are going to smooth out again, I will reclaim my six plus hour days to do nothing but art (and keep puppies from eating shoes because dear god we bought our son three pairs of shoes in the last 7 days I shit you not) and finally finish the big Arx Gods as Cats calendar and seriously consider making a tarot deck from the resource of characters I've made since March.

I love you guys. Please bear with me. I'm super sorry I'm a chaotic nuclear art spaz.

Amazing writing partners and a group of trustworthy people. The combinations of story are endless and I love it all. You guys. You guys.

Limerance.

Players who genuinely seem to enjoy my story ideas. Even if the ideas are utterly ridiculous.

Con: Not sure I can make it that fun again but I'll try.