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Open for Commissions [ July 4th, 2008 ] Posted in » Creative, Digital Art

$Let\'s Dance, by M. Pence$ General Information:
Character portrait/Busts (from the shoulders up.)
Digital art. Your image will be a .jpeg sent to you upon payment.

Portrait examples for you to preview:
[Dryad]
[Corry]
[Jodiah Ayreg]
[Horam JakChar]

Contacting me for Commissions:
E-mail: elf_fu@2phatgeeks.com
Details regarding commission will be confined to e-mails. Do not contact me via messenger to discuss details, please! I do not want to lose any important information!

Sizes and Prices:
800×600 uncolored no background = 5$ via paypal.
800×600 colored/painted no background = 15$ via paypal

1000×1000 uncolored no background = 10$
1000×1000 colored no background = 35$

Larger commissions/backgrounds available upon request, price to be discussed at time of commission.

Payment Accepted:

50% of commission rate is required in advance and is non refundable.

Remaining 50% due upon completion.

If after 14 days after completion you are not satisfied, do not hesitate to contact me and I will be more than happy to refund your 50% of remaining commission.

Information you MUST provide:
As much detail as possible, as specifically as possible. If I am drawing your character, I need the obvious–eye color, hair color, build, etc. But don’t be afraid to delve into it. Tell me about how they smile, the shape of their face, if their eyes are oval of round and so on and so forth. The more detail you give me, the better I can draw your character how you see them, the more satisfied you will be with the commission. Works out pretty good, right?

If you have a reference photo or an image of someone who generally shares similar features with your character, please feel free to share it with me. Alternatively, if your character looks like Angelina Jolie (actress used as example,) let me know too.

Color images are more expensive due to the fact they almost always take me far longer and some times come out looking a little different than their original sketch.

Should you have ANY questions or comments do not hesitate to contact me at elf_fu@2phatgeeks.com,

Thank you so much, and I look forward to hearing from you!

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Time for a Change

As I’ve posted here before, I’ve been a conservative for a very very long time. Without going into too much fine detail my primary reasons center around less intrusive government and lower taxes. Basically, I’m the kind of conservative that doesn’t care whether you screw 6 hookers high on shrooms as long as you keep my taxes low and don’t expect me to pay for your health care.

Until recently I have considered the quest to keep government out of our lives more important than other considerations and have sided with the party most likely to do this. Each party or liberal/conservative leaning has it’s drawbacks. Conservatives are just fine as frog’s hair when it comes to proselytizing from the bench as long as fetuses are involved. Liberals would preach from the white house on pretty much every issue except drugs and abortion. I took the lesser of two evils and stayed with the party that at least pretended to be interested in keeping government small and out of my face.

Well, I believe the time has come to re-evaluate how and for whom I vote. Over the past few years I’ve watched more and more press and blogs talking about atheist rights and watched the greater community react. During my observations I’ve noted that the frequency and intensity of the attacks on atheists increasing. Members of our government are simply allowed to tell us we don’t matter… or worse, are dangerous… without fear of reprisal or even a slap on the wrist from the greater community. Our rights can openly be questioned and no one even seems to notice.

There is not a single atheist running for president that I’ve been able to find. Even the “Best-we-can-do-party,” the Libertarians, are nominating the openly religious Barr. Hell the guy even tried to ban witchcraft! And not because it’s silly, but because it’s “satanic” and his imaginary friend doesn’t like that. It has been established that the majority of Americans would rather vote for a gay scientologist than an atheist regardless of what the person’s stances were. How insane is this? And how is it that I don’t get a benefit or some sort of special parking space?

Well, for what it’s worth, I think it’s time for a change. As Atheists we cannot simply keep supporting people that actually believe in mythology just because they agree with something else we like or support. How can you support a man or woman that wants to teach our children Intelligent design just to keep your taxes low? How selfish is it to ignore the fact that a man says he’s going “to do God’s work,” just because we like the healthcare package he’s pushing? How can we hold ourselves out to be better than the militant Islamists when we ignore the fact that most of our country actually believes Jonah was swallowed by a whale and that Noah fit two (or more) of all the animals in the world in a boat? Is getting 72 virgins for blowing yourself up really so crazy an idea in comparison?

So, beginning with this election, I have decided I cannot and will not support any believer of any religion regardless of their stances. The bare minimum a thinking person can ask of their candidate is that they don’t believe in some imagined grand-father or -mother in the sky. As with all such decisions, they are pretty meaningless if only followed through by one individual. However, estimates of the Atheist population of the US are somewhere around 7%-10%, making us a potentially powerful voting bloc, especially in this age of races decided by less than 2%. The more of us that use the power of the vote to encourage more rational leaders rather than the ID crowd the better off we’ll all be.

This November, I’ll be writing in my vote.

May 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Kumwhats? Kumquats!

You may remember my recent posts asking which camera I should choose. Shawn decided on the EOS Digital Rebel XTi.

Well, it arrived on Monday and since then, I have been taking pictures of the most random crap around our house, evar!

The cat. The cat eating. The cat sleeping. The cat washing herself and eating and sleeping, and of course, licking her butt fastidiously. Cats are, after all, dainty and polite little creatures. Pictures of my garden, of the basil growing in it, of the dill just flowering, pictures of the cat in the garden through the just flowering dill. I took a few pictures of the sad and lonely single red cayenne pepper growing in the garden as well as one of Shawn’s feet, my feet, cement on the porch, the dog, the kitchen floor the–well. You get the point.

Out of all of them, however, I think one photo may have actually turned out better than all of the rest so far. This shot of our neighbors kumquat tree came out pretty awesome for me. I did use a circular polarizing filter to take it and I did, of course, adjust layers and sharpness in adobe photoshop. But to me, this image holds so much greater quality as well as promise than most of the images I’ve been taking with the S700.

This image represents a whole new level to my brand new love affair with my camera. More and more lately, I have been looking at things…I have been really looking. The color of something, the shape of it, the way the light frames around it or across it–the expressions on faces, the curve of hands, even the dirt on the carpet becomes a potential picture in the ‘camera’ inside my head. I’ve begun to look at things in my mind as what I think it would appear as if in a photo.

I’ve gotta finally admit it. My messy, amazing, wonderful life turns into something absolutely amazing and beautiful. Even the worn spots on my desk could, if taken right, make an amazing texture photo.

I hope some day that I’ll be able to show the world this and I hope that they’ll feel the same way too.

May 14th, 2008 | Leave a Comment