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You can see it & buy it here:
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Oh and yes, it is a mature rated book.

I wrote a bunch of new material just for this book, and have not hosted the digital copies anywhere before. ^^ Its not getting much attention however. Largely because this really is a niche market, and I can't exactly count on huge droves of people reading my journal to buy a book.

So yeah, I'm a self-published author. ^^ Hooray! Go get the book if you'd like. Its full of all sorts of fun expansive goodness. Plus other things, like actual stories!

]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/26306700/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/26306700/ Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:52:09 PDT
Now here comes some fun opinions from myself, as well as various little observations I've made over the years.

You know what kiddies? Time is valuable. Even leaving the sometimes flawed idea of “Time is Money: out of the statement, time still has a value. Time spent drawing for somebody is time you could spend working at your job, or playing a video game, or hanging out with your friends doing one thing or another. With all things, you need to look at the sacrifice being made for the activity in question, and how better you could be using the time for other things. Yes it may be “nice” for us artistic folks to open up the floodgates for people whom want something for nothing, but we usually have better things to be doing. Or at least, more pressing matters.

In my case at least, I work for a living. When I'm not at work, like I am now, I'm in school furthering my education. Then comes homework and course projects, obligations for other things here in reality, housework, errands, feeding myself, managing my money and other such things, etc. All of this takes time, and usually leaves only a few hours in the day to truly enjoy myself. During these periods I usually want to amuse myself in one way or another, from chatting online, to playing games, and occasionally even working on some of my creative ventures.

I've already written a book of short stories, and I have a more serious novel attempt on the go. All of this takes up quite a lot of time when I work on it. When I have the time, I also enjoy drawing. Now what do you all think would be higher on my list? Drawing for friends whom have frequently drawn me, or drawing for some faceless person I've never met before whom thinks I should stop what I'm doing and draw them? Not to mention all the art I do as trades, or commission work. The latter of course takes priority, seeing as I'm being paid for my time.

Here's a wacky idea for those of you among the rabid requesting circles to mull over. You are not ENTITLED to anything for free. This is not some perfect lotus eating world where everyone gets whatever they want without having to put out any effort. I'm not saying that everything needs to break down into some kind of business potential, but come on. You can't expect people you don't even know to just shit out a bunch of art for you, only to have you demand more or just go to the next artist and do the same.

Do you have any idea how many people have just stormed up to me out of the blue, and demanded I draw them a series of pictures? Or a comic? Or write them a fucking novel with illustrations? Sure they're the extreme, but the vast majority of people with requests on the brain have started conversations with me for the express purpose of getting art out of the deal. And trust me, that doesn't fly with anyone. At least, nobody with a backbone thicker than your average toothpick.

So! What can be done about all this? You people want art, and nobody wants to just give it to you. Well here's a wacky idea, pick up a pencil and start drawing for yourself! I know what you're saying, “But Tombfyre, I SUCK at art! Nobody loves me! I'm going to cut myself now...” To that, I say bullshit. If you bother to put the time and effort into it, you can at least start sketching up some passable material. I will admit there are the odd individuals out there that couldn't draw to save their life, but they're the exception to the rule rather than the rule itself.

You want to know how I got my start? Somewhere in my early 20's I realized that just writing sub-par literature wasn't going to cut it if I wanted to get more attention in our wonderful little furry world. To top it all off, various friends of mine encouraged me to start drawing. I realized quickly that all I knew how to do was stick figures doing various lewd things. So I looked at a few how-to-draw guides on the internet, and got started. Most of it was pretty shitty, and done with a mouse in MS paint for the first 1-2 years of my artistic career.

Then I switched to paper, and things just took off from there. I'm still only a moderately good artist in the grand scheme of things, at least in comparison to some of our art gods out there. But as you can see, somebody with zero drawing talent can WORK his way up to being a decent artist. Its taken 7 years to get where I am now, so this kind of shit doesn't happen overnight. But if you're willing to put in the effort, and make friendships along the way, who knows what might happen. D... ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/19352935/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/19352935/ Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:01:52 PDT
Lately I've been getting everything from shouts, to notes, to comments on my art basically telling me to drop what I'm doing and start drawing comics/art/series featuring X theme and Y characters. I keep telling these people to bugger off, but a few of them just wait a few weeks and come up with another insane request. I'm not sure if some of them just don't understand what the hell I'm saying, or if they have no idea why I wouldn't just bend over and give them what they want.

So yeah, a reminder. I don't bloody take requests. I draw what I want, and when I want to. I'll likely draw friends I know most often, and I might even consider requests from them. But we bounce art off each-other all the time.

And no, that doesn't mean you can grab your crayons, vomit colors all over some paper, and suddenly I owe you art. People have already tried that before with me, and it doesn't float.

/rant

*edit*

And just sending the same request a few hours later after I've already told you no won't get you a different reply. This means you, Inflationartfan. Go away.

]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/17588485/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/17588485/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:30:01 PDT
So, all the MS paint goodies are now gone. Next I'll probably be moving a lot of older hand-drawn stuff either to scraps, or getting rid of them as well. Yay for cleaning up old crap!

And once again, the collection system is bothering me. Its bad enough that people are show-casing other peoples work, but now some of my deviations are being added to collections such as "The worst shit I've ever seen." ... Fucking assholes around here, I tell you. And DA even decided to give us messages about this shit! Yay!

The Collection thing is a fucking joke.

]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/16938561/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/16938561/ Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:47:52 PST
I have no idea why that feature got implemented.

]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/16018986/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/16018986/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:25:22 PST
Either way, cheers!

**Edit**

It was Kyusai. ^..^ Thanks again!

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]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/13907979/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/13907979/ Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:37:19 PDT ))

1. Draw a bunch of fan pictures of really popular series such as Naruto, Dragon Ball Z or any other series that there are way too many gullible fans for.

2. Find a bunch of artists or people on dA that draw or fav the heck out of those kinds of pics and comment on their pages by either complimenting their works and/or asking them to look at your own created fan works.

3. Post up journals about the latest of every pirated release of the series you draw fan fics for obsessively. Not only will it have people look at your journal but actualy take their time to read whatever crap you have in your journal. Note: Make sure you make it a point to call anything original you have to say or create crap. You will know if this is successful if people either downright agree or try to argue that your ideas actually matter to them when they really don't.

4. In following to the above step, you need to watch out for two-faced commenters who are also following this plan to get popular. You need to avoid looking at their page through the link in their comments so they don't get the faves and views you brown-nosed so hard to get.

5. Reply to everyone's comments about your works half-assed like. Thank yous and it is an awesome picture always work. Never compliment the viewers in fear of letting other viewers pay attention to them. Those are views you need to desperately horde for yourself in order to become popular.

Helpful Hints and Bonuses:
Avoid being original at all costs. Also copy popular styles and never try to create original techniques. That is looked down upon by the general public. Or worse, ignored. Don't waste your time trying to be original because of this.

When you've got a lot of attention and started your own private fan base start up contests with your art work as the prize. Use one of your unsubmitted works in replacement of the prize. It would most likely match the description of what the winner wants since this will save you time for drawing your next fan pictures. Fans always ask for the same monotinous thing.

Follow these steps and you too can be popular. And remember, NEVER be original!

]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/8060177/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/8060177/ Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:01:48 PST ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/7839621/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/7839621/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:41:29 PST ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/7426499/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/7426499/ Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:22:41 PST

All in all, this is proving to be rather annoying. Whenever I'm not doing something creative for long periods of time, I start to get moody, perhaps even lightly depressed. Seems to be a normal reaction from those whom write or draw, and fail to do so for a certain period of time. Either way, it ain't any fun. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6944937/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6944937/ Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:22:29 PST
I already took it appart to see if loose cables was the problem, and it worked again for about an hour. Now, I can't get it to do a damn thing other than whats listed above. Woo... I've suspected the mobo and power supply was crapping out for a while now. Sometimes it took several pressings o' the power button to get it going, but I doubt its a faulty switch.

Either way, this sucks. I can't play any of my new games or MMO's, all my phone numbers and other important data is on the other 'puter, etc. I'm just glad I keep at least somewhat of a backup here on my laptop. At least chats still work. Now I need to save up money to replace the motherboard and power supply, though I was planning on upgrading to a better case to begin with. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6890127/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6890127/ Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:23:07 PDT
I figure it might be 'cuz I'm still getting used to working fulltime again, among other things. That, and I always feel tired this time o' the year. Must be hibernating time or something. ^^()

Suffice it to say, that the hits contest is on hold for now, and any outstanding prizes are as well. I'll get 'em done when I can, but for now, I don't want to feel pressured. Whenever I force myself to sit down and draw, I always wind up making crap that I don't like. So... 'tis time for the waiting game. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6765332/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6765332/ Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:20:19 PDT ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6624012/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6624012/ Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:38:07 PDT I start today. Huzzah! Now I can buy food, and pay rent, and that kinda stuff. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6571156/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6571156/ Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:08:09 PDT Unless I've missed anything, I'm now completely done my degree. I've got to find work-experience somewhere as a final part of one course, but thats it. I need to get a job anyways, so its all good there.

At least now, I can tell potential employers that I'm available full-time. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6471971/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6471971/ Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:20:46 PDT

Leave a comment here and...
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST. It is written.


Though if you do reply, and I have no idea who you are... Well then, the answers will probably be odd, if not empty. ^^() ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6452847/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6452847/ Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:51:46 PDT ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6422965/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6422965/ Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:50:09 PDT
The first one coming up is 24000, the next will be 25000, and so on. Let me make it quite clear however, that as usual, I reserve the right to refuse winner requests. There are certain things I won't draw, so try to be tasteful. Also, there are those out there whom I've refused requests to in the past. Winning a hits contest still won't get you one, so don't bother.

Not to be a dick about things, but thats the way its going to be. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6383438/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6383438/ Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:33:27 PDT
As most of you probably know, its full of Tanuki, so of course there is a lot of interesting and odd happenings. But it was all good, and spoke out a tad about the encroachment of people on wildlife. Now I'm one step closer to owning all the Studio Ghibli movies out on the market. ^^ ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6329435/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6329435/ Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:19:25 PDT
Now, one of these people has been bothering me since the dawn of time it seems. Way back when I was still getting started as an artist, he came out of nowhere with requests/demands of free artwork, adult roleplaying conversations, free stories, you name it. As is quite usual for me, I said no. But he persisted, bothering me agian and again anyways, dispite being asked not to. Eventually I blocked him, so he paged me via other means, and messengers, and e-mail adresses. When those were all blocked, he began a long process of trying to get other people to talk to me on his behalf, or get himself invited into group conversations...

Well, this stepped up again recently, and said person has even gone to the trouble of hunting me down on Second Life, bitching that he's blocked on all the chat programs and e-mail. And now he wants a custom avatar there (for the second time), and even tried to "purchase" artwork from me with in-game currency.

What I'm trying to wrap me head around, is weather or not this is some kind of freaky Persistence and over-stereotypical fan-boy behavior, or flat our Harassment. Frankly, I'm getting sick of this all over again. He certainly doesn't take no for an answer, and he's not the only one either.

So very annoying in any case. I figure if this keeps up, I'm simply going to report him via SL as a start, and go from there. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6296648/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6296648/ Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:25:33 PDT
I found it amusing how they kinda tied the movie to be a prequil to the first batman film, but changed things around a tad as well. Either way, continuity errors asside, it was really quite slick. I want some of the military gear they had in that warehouse. ^^ ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6073228/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6073228/ Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:57:35 PDT
Everything was very nice to look at, and the story was great. Do yourselves a favor, n' go see it. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6053058/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6053058/ Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:36:47 PDT ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6016725/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/6016725/ Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:46:11 PDT
While I was at the mall, before seeing the movie, I noticed there were far more punk assed gang-members there than usual. After the movie, there were even more. There were tons at the bus-stop too, and on the bus itself. Hell, there were even Ebonics-spewing individuals swinging around metal baseball bats to accompany me on the final little walk home. I’ve come to the conclusion that this city has gone to hell.

I was being told today that Edmonton has been named the murder capitol of Canada. Hmm, I wonder why… Could it be because we have next to no police force? Could it be because the police force blatantly advertises this lack in the newspapers, crying for people to join? Could it be because the damn city turns away the RCMP, for some unknown reason?

Well whatever it is, it’s getting to a point where I’m considering carrying a knife again in public. Sure it’s illegal to defend yourself, but frankly I don’t give a damn anymore. If some fucking ex-con wants to take a swing at me with a baseball bat, and try to take my wallet, I’ll tear his goddamn head off…

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people these days? Most of these sons of bitches aren’t street people, they have no reason to act this way, but they choose to anyways. And if we the citizen dare lay a finger on them, we’ll most likely go to jail for assault and battery, if not intent to kill or some other bullshit. I say let us have as many weapons as the criminals do, and see how quickly crime decreases.

I figure if every gun/knife toting teenager and lowlife knew damn fine that anyone they’re trying to mug was armed to the teeth, they’d think twice. Hell, even if they shot first and then robbed the corpse, there would be thousands of other people all around that were just as armed, and would put the asshat down for good at that point. But no, we’re not allowed to think that way. Gotta be all nice and tolerant to everyone else… Maybe if we stick our heads in the sand, they’ll go away.

On a happier note, I seem to have been offered a job in the mall, at the army supply store. Angry dragon surrounded by flak jackets and sharp objects… Why do I see an arrest warrant in the near future? ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/5931130/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/5931130/ Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:57:00 PDT

Whomever screenshots the 20,000th hit gets a piccy, within reason of course. ^^ ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/5840398/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/5840398/ Mon, 04 Jul 2005 18:15:12 PDT
2. Do an Image Google Search and search for that word.

3. Reply to this post with the url to one of the pictures on the first page of results -- don't tell me the word, I think I'm supposed to guess or something.

4. Put this in your own blog so that I can do the same.
(you dont have to do this part, but it would be cool if you did)

/Snatched from Kuya. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/5736905/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/5736905/ Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:10:45 PDT
I fail to see why companies put in workplace rules like this. Perhaps somebody just doesn't like beards.

Oh well, back to the job search. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/5707175/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/5707175/ Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:29:21 PDT
Turns out I probably would have had to quit in a few weeks anyways, as work was unwilling to schedual me around my schooling. So to hell with the bastards, it was clear they didn't like having me around anyways. I'm already putting out applications for part-time work other places, and I might just wave a constructive dismissal suit in their faces for fun. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/5288873/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/5288873/ Fri, 06 May 2005 21:39:28 PDT
First person to take a screenshot of the 15001st page view gets a piccy I suppose. Note that its the 15001st, not the even 15000. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/4502971/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/4502971/ Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:19:08 PST
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Enjoy kiddies. Lets all poke the bloated "bed". ^_^ ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/4037089/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/4037089/ Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:58:58 PST Enjoy. ]]> ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/3935684/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/3935684/ Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:51:54 PST ~Tombfyre http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/3417763/ http://Tombfyre.deviantart.com/journal/3417763/ Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:29:37 PDT
First one to 2000 hits, send me a screenshot, and I'll draw yah something! Though I might just ask yah to pick something else if what you want is too far from my tastes. ]]> ~Tombfyre