Art

I've added a few more pictures:

- a digital drawing of a bulldog named Frank
- a pencil sketch of a tiger
- a prismacolor sketch of a native styled wolf

I'm now working on a couple of projects:

- updating an older picture (the arctic fox) to include cubs and an updated background
- drawing more Chinese inspired ink drawings. I'm actually painting several onto Chinese silk scrolls which will then be available to buy on my website.

Website
The website is now complete with pricelist and commissioning information. A new section (or additions to other sections) will be made in the form of adding Chinese-style ink drawings and scrolls to buy and view.

Gaming
I'm really into Everquest II now. My boyfriend's been playing it for several years and I finally took the plunge and love it! Let me know if any of you play.

I have two characters at the moment -a Lv50 Warden (Lv31 Jeweller) and a Lv6 Conjurer.
My Warden is a High Elf named Skyefall, although she's permanently in werewolf form. She has a fluff pet, Grassalagor (love him), and will soon have a Friend of Growth (finishing the Tunare quest). Her SOW brings her up to over 45% run speed so she doesn't have a mount.
My Conjurer is a Wood Elf named Twilite. She has a mount from my boyfriend buying the Shadow Odyssey expansion pack for my birthday that grows up with her, and currently has a pet rock!

Clubs

Hi there, hope you are all doing well?

Fox project Ccmpleted

I've finally finished the fox project. The version I have posted is just 25% of the full size. I hope you all enjoy it! I'll never do a picture that large again -took well over 250 hours.

I have uploaded the full version "Of Foxes and Fireflies", the without-fox version "Firefly Cave" and a detail view to show some aspects at their actual size.

I have in mind what I'll be doing for my next picture (a great deal smaller than the last so certainly will not take as long!) as well as updating an old one. I will also be doing a few pencil sketches of pets in the meantime and posting them here.

Website up and running

The website is now up and running -Click here to see

I still have more content to add.

Clubs

10,000 Kiriban (Pageviews)

If you catch the 10,000 kiriban I may just draw you a little treat :3


Fox Project - 90% complete

Background 80% finished
Foxes 100% finished
Just the remainder of the background to do, so should just be 2-3 weeks now. I'll be quite glad to see the back of it after all this time! Over 250+ hours.

Fox Project - Background 60% complete

The Fox Project is coming along. It's taking far longer than I expected -over 100 hours to complete 60% of the background. It's full size is 4806 x 3597 and I am drawing it all with a 1pixel semi-transparent brush on Photoshop. Now that I am over the dreaded up-to-half-done struggle, progress should be much faster.

Once the cave is completed, I will submit it as its own image. After that, I will add the foxes and fireflies and submit the new image. I may work on several versions of the image using the same cave background.

Here is a snippet of the level of detail I am working to (cave walls, rocks and the cave pool) Bear in mind the actual size of the picture I am working to!!:



Other Stuff - Cooking!
I am really getting into Japanese food that the moment. I've always loved making and eating Chinese, but then I discovered Japanese Bento Boxes and it went from there I've been making Bento Boxes for lunch each day (decorative lunch boxes containing veggies, homemade stuffed rice balls etc.). I've also started cooking more Japanese food for main meals such as Sesame beef and noodles, Drunken chicken etc. especially now I've found Tesco have Sake, Rice Wine, Miso etc.

Cakes too! I've been making a lot of cakes. Yoghurt roulade, Brownies, Shortbread, Cup cakes etc.

Plus other snacks like Mozzarella Sticks, tomato dips and cereal bars.

Yummy Yum!

New Fox Project

Last weekend I started work on a new drawing! The theme is foxes, fireflies and a big cave :3 It's the largest digital canvas I've ever worked on at almost 5000px by 3500px and given I work with a 1px brush, it's taking and will continue to take a looooong time...boooo...

I've worked on it for around 16 hours so far and only completed around 15% of the background *cries* but it'll certainly be worth it!

Once I've completed the background (i.e. before I've added the subject matter and other illumination effects), I'll post it as a WIP.


Website

After a lot of curfuffle and changing hosts, Snow-puff.com is finally back up! Everything has been uploaded, the final stage is just initiating php capabilities and then away we go! Woohoo, it's about time!

I am in deep need of some inspiration/motivation! I am wanting to draw, but lacking the desire to do anything I think of =[

I have done an acrylic painting of an African Hunting Dog that I'll be photographing and uploading (I felt like working with real materials for a change) soon.

I've been looking at various animals, but am rather struggling!

Realism? Anime? Realism of Anime characters/animals perhaps (I did enjoy Akiro and the Fire Horse)?

I may draw a Sailor Scout just out of boredom =[

I've been thinking of drawing a night-time Victorian scene from worms-eye-view with a cat (anime with a realistic edge), but I'm not sure whether to paint that with acrylics..hmmm..

Any help??


P.S. Snow-puff gallery will be back up soon. The last server were awful and not worth the money I paid them, so Snow-puff has been transferred to a much better host and will be back up this week!

I will now take commissions. The subject manner can be of any variety -your pet, your own character/fursona, a random fantasy character etc.
The drawings are of a digital nature and examples can be found in my gallery; however I am also happy to draw traditional media commissions.
Each picture I draw takes between 10 and 20+ hours to create.


REALISM COMMISSIONS
Price: £25-40+ / $50-80+
The cost is subject to change and heavily depends on the size of the canvas, the background, number of subjects and other details.
We would have to discuss the details to decide upon a price.
(See gallery for more examples)

Example 1 -small canvas, not too detailed background, head shot:


Example 2 -extra large canvas, highly detailed background, full body:



ANIME COMMISSIONS
Price: £15-35+ / $40-70+
The cost is subject to change and heavily depends on the size of the canvas, the background, number of subjects and other details.
We would have to discuss the details to decide upon a price.
(See gallery for more examples)

Example 1 -smallish canvas:


Example 2 -extra large canvas:
-currently being drawn-


Payment Information
Half of the agreed money would be required up front and the second half after the sketch has been given the ok by you. I do not offer refunds.
I accept payment via Paypal. If you live in England, I also accept bank transfer.

Contact Details
To discuss a potential commission, please note me here or e-mail me at claire@snow-puff.com. I am also occassionally on MSN Messenger as tigerw0lf@hotmail.com (zero, not o in wolf).