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P. Snowfur
12 July 2009 @ 02:28 pm
Fangirlishness makes me cry...

I have been browsing Harry Potter and Dragonlance fanart from the Internet... I´m SICK of stupid anime-style fanart. Fans have turned Raistlin, Dalamar, Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy and Snape into bishounens and drawn lots of stupid shounen-ai fanart, Raistlin & Dalamar and Harry & Draco fanart being really popular.

Examples:

http://emeraldfire2065.deviantart.com/art/Raistlin-Majere-25649037
http://1ndajone5.deviantart.com/art/Reistlin-Dalamar-slash-29575971
http://gemiange.deviantart.com/art/Draco-and-Harry-Prize-pic-13757412
http://chisa.deviantart.com/art/Severus-Snape-20777312

AAARRRGGGHHH

I wouldn´t care if this wasn´t so popular! I would just love to see fanart OTHER than anime-style weird pairings!
 
 
P. Snowfur
11 July 2009 @ 05:49 pm
A weird childhood memory just came to my mind... I thought I would share it because perhaps it explains a bit why I am what I am...

My grandparents´ cottage is located in the middle of Northern Carelian forest. When I was little I spent lots of time there. Near that cottage there is a large farm with lots of different farm animals. They let people inside if they pay a fee. The farm people also owned a lake and with a fee you can go fishing there. The lake was full of salmon and there were always lots of fishers (and cats). My dad went there fishing several times and caught some salmons. The farm people weighed and cleaned the fish if you wanted. Me and my bro were watching when the fish were cleaned. The woman cleaning the fish asked if me and my bro wanted the hearts of the salmons. AND SHE GAVE US BEATING HEARTS TO PLAY WITH. We took the hearts home and all. That happened at least twice. We were only 6 years old or something.

Just weird... I have also watched my granddad shooting animals... He had a gun which sounded like thunder. Horrible noise. Since then I have thought that I want a silencer to my own gun.
 
 
P. Snowfur
11 July 2009 @ 02:26 pm
Somebody perhaps noticed that I disappeared for a couple of days... I went to my parents´ on Tuesday to discuss hotels in London. When I was leaving that night they said "it´s so late, we will take you home in the morning". So I stayed but in the morning I didn´t want to leave... I came back on Friday morning but just because I really had to continue working.

It was so nice in there. I started reading some old fantasy books which I had loved when I was younger... I remembered again why. I didn´t want to put the books away. I just lay on the living room floor and read. I didn´t even want to go to sleep because the books were so nice. The series in question is the Dragonlance saga. The first book I grabbed was The Soulforge, the very first Dragonlance book I ever read. Me and my bro both loved those books. We have both read them all. I haven´t laid a single thought on Dragonlance for years. I had totally forgotten how much I love the characters and all... When I was a teen those books had a big influence on me, perhaps a bit too big because they affected the way how I viewed the world.

Some background:
I have spent way too much time in the Internet lately. I realized that after I started to read Encyclopedia Dramatica. Let´s take Seux/Zeriara and Snapesnogger as examples. Both have had huge Internet wars against trolls and stuff. Both take Internet too seriously. In them I saw myself. I have taken Internet too seriously lately and stuff in the Internet have seriously bothered me. I realized this and tried to reduce the amount of time I spend in the Internet. I realized that I seriously need more IRL activity.

Then i went to my parents´. No Internet, no nothing. I just read books and had many IRL people around me all the time. It really made me feel better. I am not very good at socializing but there I wasn´t actually socializing. People were around me but I was doing my own stuff. I didn´t have to join their conversations or anything. But I could if I wanted. I didn´t have to be alone with my thoughts. That´s what I really enjoyed: just having people around me and no Internet. That´s why I didn´t want to go home. But I had to because I have fursuit commissions to finish. After the suits are finished I will go back and take my remaining commission works with me. I don´t want to be at home.

When I got home yesterday I opened IRC and immediately furry porn and misanthropia jumps to my face... I got really depressed and didn´t manage to do anything on the whole day. So I realized that I must reduce the time I spend on IRC. I probably won´t be hanging in there every day. I will keep MSN open because friends can reach me there. And of course I have a phone.

THOUGHTS ON COMMISSIONS:
I will probably heavily reduce the amount of commissions I accept. I have been thinking about this for long and I have started to feel more and more confident about this. I will perhaps only accept 2-3 larger commissions per year. I won´t probably do small commissions at all. I don´t think that I will ever stop taking commissions because it´s really hard for me to say "no" to a customer who really is willing to pay for an expensive item. Again, I won´t open or close but I must be asked if I wanted to do a commission.

I will raise my prices after summer. Fullsuit prices must be at least doubled. I don´t feel nice about this because I think that my prices are already very high and a base price of 2000 euros ($2700) would make me a lot more expensive than many professionals, like One Fur All. But I have noticed that selling fullsuits under that price is not worth it. I am just doing damage to myself by selling stuff too cheap. I put hellish amounts of effort to details and my quality expectations are VERY high. I stress a lot about the quality of my suits. A price under 2000 euros is not worth the amount of all that stress. I know that I stress too much but I only want to sell the best. I want that the customer is 100% satisfied. If I charged very high prices I could afford to spend more time on details and I could also afford to offer refunds if the customer is unhappy about something. And I could also offer fixing of the suit for free. With my current prices that is not possible. But I would perhaps have commissioners every now and then even with high prices because I have spoken to people who say that they want their suit from the best builder and they are willing to pay for real quality.

(In Finland a tailor-made men´s suit costs 2000 euros at minimum. And that includes only a jacket and trousers, not a head and feet and tail and stuff... So when compared to that I should charge at least 3000 euros for a fullsuit...)

Why I want to reduce the amount of commissions? Because of the stress. I simply stress too much because I want to sell only the best. So I thought that I will make lots of premade stuff in the winter and travel around the country in summer selling that stuff. In Finland there are lots of happenings in summer. The customer can have a look at my products and decide if they like them. They cannot do that when they commission me.

Some time ago I wrote that I want to become a more specialized plushie-maker. My source of inspiration is A Little Stranger. I already have ideas for series of premade plushies. I only want to make cats, arctic foxes and akita dogs. My cat series only has black, white and black-and-white cats and I already have a very unique name for them (not telling what it is because I´m afraid that the name is stolen before I launch the series). I made some doodles at my parents´ about the cats. My parents fell in love with this character:



My dad said that I should make a comic of that character. Perhaps I will. It could tell about my plushie cats. The plushies and the comic would go nicely together.

Perhaps I should make comics of akitas and arctic foxes as well. They will all be strip comics, drawn in very simple way.
 
 
P. Snowfur
11 July 2009 @ 01:47 pm
I feel really ill. I can barely stand up. I went to sleep yesterday at 8 pm (I fell asleep on the floor) because I felt strange and I had horrible head-ache. The head-ache continued for the whole night and in the morning I took painkillers to make it stop. It didn´t stop... I wanted to go to Animecon today but I can´t... I will probably visit there tomorrow if I feel any better. Some friends went there and I want to visit the Artist´s alley...

My left arm hurts like hell. Wonder what´s wrong with it.
 
 
P. Snowfur
07 July 2009 @ 03:56 pm
I learnt the word assburgers from Encyclopedia Dramatica. Funniest word ever, I can´t stop laughing at it.

I had a dream that I had a boyfriend who had long blond hair. Eeeee. <3
 
 
P. Snowfur
07 July 2009 @ 02:51 pm
I updated my art galleries a bit... I have a gallery in DA, FA, Elfwood, Sheezyart, Artspots and Storm-Artists. My galleries in Artspots and Storm-Artists have been VERY inactive and I hadn´t logged in for ages. I visited Storm-Artists last time two years ago. I deleted some old crap and uploaded my newest works. I don´t like Artspots and Storm-Artists because they are very small and inactive places. I like biiig and crowded places.

My accounts in Elfwood and Sheezyart are new. Don´t know yet if I like those sites.
 
 
P. Snowfur
07 July 2009 @ 12:14 pm
Shit! I broke my glasses! The NEW ones!

Luckily I have other glasses because the shop had an offer that if I buy two I will get the second ones cheaper... Gotta take the broken ones back to the shop. <.
 
 
P. Snowfur
07 July 2009 @ 01:14 am
I have a Sheezyart account lol:
http://psnowfur.sheezyart.com/

I started uploading stuff and immediately received watches, favourites and comments. Eheheh.
 
 
P. Snowfur
06 July 2009 @ 08:11 pm


Me as a teenager. I actually had clothes like that. I HATED my blond curly hair. I always wanted sleek black hair.

I was the stupidest teenager EVER. I thank God that I didn´t hang much in the Internet. My bro was a nerd and we had only one computer so I got to be in the Internetz only when bro wasn´t on computer (so I was in the Internetz only a couple of times a week). I also had to plan my Internetz time carefully and never used IRC. Most of the time I read fantasy books and drew lots of emo art but thank God I didn´t post it to the Internetz (LOL I have saved every drawing).

The world was spared from epic lulz and lots of facepalms. But a couple of message boards weren´t. :D I posted lots of stupid emo stuff and thought that I was the wisest person on Earth.

That´s why I have problems taking teens seriously. They are just like I was. Hopefully they will grow up soon. I did.
 
 
P. Snowfur
06 July 2009 @ 01:59 pm
I tried bleaching a fox pelt yesterday. Didn´t work, didn´t get a blonde fox. I suppose that one bottle of bleach was not enough. I would have needed two or three. I will try again later.

I got this bleaching idea from DA where another user showed photos of her bleached wolf tails.

I have now washed two of my fox pelts. I washed them like clothes! I didn´t know that it can be done! You really can wash real fur like clothes! I put the first one to dry and waited because I wanted to see if the washing really works. The fur got clean, it´s not greasy anymore. But the skin got a bit stiff. I went to DA and asked my new awesome leather-worker watchers that do they know if anything could be done about it. I know that professional tanners have these softening drums but I don´t have one so I need other tricks. Didn´t get very helpful tips so I checked a leather-working book which I ordered some time ago but didn´t have time to read it through. All the stuff I needed to know was in that book! Now I know how I must treat fur skins! Oh shit, I am so excited. Today I worked with another washed fox pelt. I realized how totally awesome material leather is. NO synthetic material is even near that quality. I mean, these skins have been already tanned which means that they have been through very rough treatment. Then I come and fucking wash them like clothes which means even more rough treatment. Then I hanged the skin to dry and followed the instructions of stretching the skin (found from the book). It stretched, and stretched, and stretched. I didn´t manage to make a hole. It was so durable, so absolutely good material.

Synthetics are SHIT. People who say opposite just don´t know anything about furs and leather.

Leather-working is so interesting. I want to learn MOAR.
 
 
P. Snowfur
06 July 2009 @ 12:04 pm
Ehhh... Elfwood is a bit nazi or something. They deleted my "Guardian" picture from my gallery because I didn´t mention that I have permission to post a picture of Jaylee´s character Joshua. Wtf? That picture was drawn by me, can´t I post my own picture? :D

They also re-arranged my gallery because they thought that some pictures were not fantasy enough. Eheheh.
 
 
P. Snowfur
05 July 2009 @ 02:21 am
 
 
P. Snowfur
05 July 2009 @ 12:20 am
I have lately been reading lots of Encyclopedia Dramatica. I LOVE drama, as long as I am not part of it myself...

But I was sad to notice that there are many articles on ED about very good artists. I am sad that people who are so talented have shitty personalities. They might have a great career ahead but they ruin it because they are so horrible as people.
 
 
P. Snowfur
04 July 2009 @ 11:35 pm
You must see this!



This is an animation made by WolfPearl, a Finnish girl who makes Wurr comics. She has just graduated from animation school and this is what she has done. The animation is so smooth, I wish I could do something like that too!

When I was a kid I always wanted to be an animator. I actually did countless rough animations about guinea pigs and other animals. Now that I think of it, why didn´t I go to animator school?

http://wolfpearl.deviantart.com
 
 
P. Snowfur
04 July 2009 @ 05:23 pm
I washed three of my new fox pelts. I was really bothered by their greasy fur and I talked about it in DA. I received very interesting cleaning tips from others.

This made me realize how totally n00b I am with real fur. I have read several books about using real fur but they have all been about fur industry, not about how fur can be treated at home. I got very interested in learning more. My dream is that when I buy that large house from the middle of nowhere I could hunt my own foxes and tan their pelts myself. I have so much to learn.

I would like to tell you why I am so interested in hunting and furs and stuff. My dream is to live in subsistence economy (omavaraistalous, I don´t know the correct English term). It means that I become a hunter-gatherer/farmer or both. I want to be able to build stuff and fix stuff by myself and all. Perhaps I am paranoid or just weird or crazy but I cannot stop thinking that what if a big catastrophy happens and shops close down and power plants stop working. Modern people would become utterly helpless. That scares me. I want to know how to survive in the wilderness without any help from modern technology.

I would have so big advantage during a war or something. I cannot lull myself to believe that there is not going to be another war. The last war in Finland was fought during the second world war in the 1940´s. That wasn´t so many years ago. Our grandparents were in that war. They still remember it and they still live among us.

This also has much to do with my opinions about going back to the wild. But that is another (very long) story.
 
 
P. Snowfur
04 July 2009 @ 03:34 pm
Vammaisinta paskaa ikinä:
http://www.digitoday.fi/viihde/2009/07/02/netin-amatoorivideoillekin-800-euron-tarkastusmaksu/200915364/66

Jo nyt on perkele ku pitää maailmanlaajuisesti vammailla lastensuojeluun nojaten.
 
 
P. Snowfur
03 July 2009 @ 03:57 pm


Two new arctic fox mini badges I received today. They were commissioned from Etuix. They are only about 2 inches wide.

I really love mini badges. x3
 
 
P. Snowfur
03 July 2009 @ 02:01 am
I have an Elfwood account lol.
http://www.elfwood.com/~psnowfur

I suddenly got a huge inspiration to draw kenders. I used to be a big kender fan.
 
 
P. Snowfur
02 July 2009 @ 06:26 pm
Today I went to the town centre to collect a packet from post office (it was shipped with a special postal service and the nearest office is in town centre). I walked past a cordwainer shop and noticed that they were selling very fine leather-sole men´s shoes. I was shocked to see the price: ONLY TEN FUCKING EUROS A PAIR. I went inside the shop and asked that are they serious. They said yes, they are serious. I bought a pair. Shoes like that cost usually at least a hundred or even more. They even were made in England, not in China or anything. Really good shoes and there even was my size.

I love men´s shoes but my problem is that I have very small feet. It´s usually impossible to find men´s shoes of my size. This really was my lucky day.

And the packet I got was full of new fuzzies:


New fuzz by *pekingin-ankka on deviantART

Click the image to read full description from DA.

I also got a mink pelt from the same seller. It was really good quality, the same quality as ranched ones. Cheapest ranched ones just cost three times more. :P And large, weird-coloured ranched ones can cost as much as 300 euros per pelt.
 
 
P. Snowfur
30 June 2009 @ 02:10 am
I suppose that I should ship some arts to Anthrocon next year... So that they could be displayed in the art show. I just need an agent. I wonder who would like to be my agent.
 
 
 
 

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