Update! I swear, if I could just paint cyprus trees all day I would.
Okay guys.. I’ve never done this before. Please bear with me.
This is our family dog, Arnold! As you can probably tell, he is a pit-mix. While he has had a few health issues over the past few years, we have struggled through it with him - from tumors, to hernias, to arthritis, and then some - but today things really went from bad to worse. Arnie is suffering from paralysis of the larynx, and it’s going to require some emergency surgery, the price-tag of which is between $5,000 and $6,000.
We don’t have that kind of money… but I’m willing to work for it. I love this dog. He doesn’t even live with me, but let me reiterate, I love this dog. Our whole family LOVES this dog. He’s on the older side - or, well, WE THINK, due to the fact he was adopted out of a rescue program, we aren’t 100% sure how old he is, although those cataracts of his are tellin’ a tale - but he has a few good years left in him, and I’m not going to give them up without a fight.
We have to make the decision by TOMORROW, May 11th, if we are going to be able to pay for this. Apparently a payment plan is negotiable, but this is still a LOT of money as far as our family funds go. We are riddled with health issues on the human side of things, too, so our usual buffer for pet bills just isn’t gonna cut a few thousand bucks.
I have set up a little crowd-funding thing here, as the elegantly titled Save Arnie-Ru! There are more specifics to read about if you want to click it and check it out. If you show me a screen-cap of your receipt page, you can e-mail it to me, message me, whatever you prefer, I will draw you somethin’. It’s just that easy. Donate a buck? GET A SKETCH. Donate more? I mean, hey, it’s negotiable. I’ll see what I can do! And I will do my best. I will take requests! Let me know when you send me your receipt if you had something in mind and I’ll try to be flexible.
[ ETA: The wonderful and super-skilled gunkiss and asieybarbie AND vexxiboo are also offering sketches for donators! Send me the receipt and your request, and I will pass along whatever you send to me, to them, as well. I thank all of them SO MUCH and encourage you to not miss out on an opportunity to scoop up some genuine ART.
Also, if you can send your receipt to the amazing kilomonster - another STELLAR artist here on the tumbles, she will do up a digital sketch! You can find more info on that, here! ]
I am also putting up a DONATION BUTTON on the front of my blog, which I have never done, before. If you want to send me a note through that saying what you would like, I can e-mail you the picture through whatever is listed on your PayPal.
I think that’s about it, although I am sure I am forgetting something. I feel pretty scrambled. This is a tough thing to do, in very little time - especially when you haven’t had to do it, before! REBLOGS ARE VERY APPRECIATED, thank you so much in advance for your consideration!
If there is indeed anyone reading this dusty little Interblog, still — this little guy needs your help! He belongs to an impossibly lovely family who adores him, and is from every impression a big sweetheart!
Okay! UPDATE! An update I will soon be adding to the official GiveForward campaign above, at that!
We met with the surgeon this morning. He says the procedure is typically wildly successful, with the only risk being an increased susceptibility to pneumonia. So, here it is:
Wednesday. He will be getting the surgery on Wednesday. We’re goin’ for it. We’ve got our estimate, and if we can raise $5,700 we’ll be completely in the clear.
What do we have, at present? With the PayPal donations and GiveForward combined… Drumroll please…
$2,112 has been raised so far!
That’s pretty amazing!! When I started this, I really didn’t know what would happen. Maybe a couple hundred, you know? At least something to put towards it since I am dead broke. But this is beyond my expectations. You’ve already helped so much, so thank you all, sincerely!
But, if you have a chance, and can give this one more reblog… maybe just pass it around to a friend… Facebook it… twitter it… keep spreading the good word like you’ve already been doing, we are in the home stretch! I’ll have to empty the GiveForward account on Wednesday morning so I can transfer it to my sister’s account, and anything and everything helps.
So, let me thank you all, again. Your donations, your support, it has helped me through a really dark time, and given me hope that our family dog is going to get another chance. Thank you for any future encouragement you can offer, whether it be a reblog, or a buck! All the info is above.
I feel kind of bad for talking the LEAST about my dog’s own condition, but…for those of you who haven’t seen me talk much about Arnold’s situation, here’s this reblog..! I haven’t been alerted to any emergencies, so he is probably still in a stable condition, but I am getting to drive out and visit him today for a bit before work.
We could still use the extra donations to help pay off the cost of all his vet bills, and he will be going in for the operation tomorrow! I should continue to have good news about it. Thank you all very much for the support and spreading of the word.One last go, here. The surgery is today. After that, I’ll be emptying the fund, and officially getting back to everyone who wanted a sketch!
I appreciate everyone who took the time to reblog, donate, or just keep Arnold in their thoughts. I’ll update everyone on how things go with the procedure, but I won’t be buggin’ you with this particular post, again.
Dundee, Scotland 1944. Photographed Wolfgang Suschitzky.
Oh, cool! You don’t see many pictures of Dundee popping up on tumblr, never mind awesome historical ones. This looks like it might be near where I live.
Woah. I had no idea. I just reblogged it because it looked cool and I might steal it for Clockworks inspiration one day.
Man, I should seriously go out and snap photo references for you at some point. I’m basically surrounded by industrial era buildings. Dundee’s a pretty interesting looking place if, you know, you can get over how grey everything is.
I’ll trade you photos of old St. Louis neighborhoods. Our run down steampunk cities can look like each other’s home towns!
Well, I definitely can’t pass on an awesome deal like that. I’ll see about digging out the ol’ camera! Here’s some bonus context: the street I live on is still cobblestone paved.
i mean who even needs tarmac
Dundee, Scotland 1944. Photographed Wolfgang Suschitzky.
Oh, cool! You don’t see many pictures of Dundee popping up on tumblr, never mind awesome historical ones. This looks like it might be near where I live.
Woah. I had no idea. I just reblogged it because it looked cool and I might steal it for Clockworks inspiration one day.
Man, I should seriously go out and snap photo references for you at some point. I’m basically surrounded by industrial era buildings. Dundee’s a pretty interesting looking place if, you know, you can get over how grey everything is.
Page 7! I keep forgetting to post tumblr updates. Sorry tumblr. :|
Update! Pages 1 and 2 of the new story arc, picking up about a month after where we left off. Stacked the pages for what is hopefully a nice downward panning view of the city.
It’s been long enough since I posted on tumblr that the interface has changed. I feel like a 90 year old woman shouting into an upside-down telephone. IS THIS THING ON
Anyway, I completely neglected to trumpet the fact that at 305 pages, Red Moon Rising’s first story arc, Waterlogged, has come to an end. It feels a bit unreal to be able to say that! And now I’m furtively working away on the new arc which will kick off on March 25th.
The biggest change is probably going to be artistic. I liked the art as it was, but I feel like I was swimming against the tide in terms of style. My natural inclination is towards painting things with weird colours and strong values, so the whole pencilling-inking-colouring comic book style I was forcing myself into was beginning to utterly do my head in. Most of my favourite artists are fantastic lineart specialists but it’s taken me like 4 years to realise that it’s just not for me.
So I’ll probably be spewing a lot of art tests over here while I try and find my feet again. Tally ho~
Finally, and perhaps most confusingly, a drawing I did of an anthropomorphic spider guitar capo. According to my dad, a spider capo is something you stick on a guitar and it… fiddles with the tuning? I apologise sincerely to any guitarists reading this.
All I know is this - it looks like some sort of devil beastie, and the one I ordered for him isn’t here yet due to dodgy international shipping. Thanks, America. Thamerica.
Anyway, the drawing is there to soften the blow. I’m sure the real thing will crawl its way across the Atlantic eventually.
Kili the dwarf looking heroically into middle-distance, drawn for my lovely sister. I haven’t seen or read the Hobbit, but she identified him as “the sexy one”. I’m not sure how I feel about this. I guess in theory dwarves can be sexy, but…you know, they’re awfully hairy.
That is what I draw. And occasional cityscapes.