http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:tremaine&section=today deviantART RSS for by:tremaine en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:57:07 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/25596843/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/25596843/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:08:02 PDT Fellowship of the Ring recently, and this really struck me:

"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." ~Gandalf

]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/25525531/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/25525531/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:47:53 PDT

]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/15418508/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/15418508/ Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:18:19 PST

ANTHROCON 2008

In 2008, I am planning on going to AnthroCon! I will be getting a dealer's table, and dealers can start submitting their applications this Saturday, November 10th.

Are there any other dealers out there? I'd like to request my table next to someone I know, rather than be placed randomly about the room. I love love love drawing for people and meeting folks, but in the slow periods it helps to have someone to chat and joke around with.

Please let me know!


MIDWEST FURFEST 2007

I am going to try to be in Artist Alley at Midwest FurFest! I am working on Friday, but I should be there Saturday and Sunday. (No more time off! :/)

I expect there to be an enormous amount of artists. There will likely be more artists than tables, so I understand they are going to have a lottery system. Depending on how many artists sign up, there is a chance I may not get a table during the day on Saturday or Sunday--or possibly both days. In that case, I would try to get a table in Artist Alley on Friday and Saturday evenings.

So basically, poke your head in Friday night, and if I'm not there during the day on Saturday, try poking around Saturday evening. If I am not there on Sunday, leave a message for me on the message board (or if you really, really, really want art from me, e-mail or note me now and we can trade contact info. We'll meet up during the convention.)


ART PROGRESS

My art output has just been very, very sad this year. I place the blame on World of Warcraft, and my inability to get my duff in gear. That's right, it's my own darned fault.

Some folks have expressed concern over my silence, and I do appreciate that very much. I am still here, and I will fully honor all of my obligations. I've been cutting back on WoW and doing more drawing. I don't know how soon I will have stuff out.

But, so that I don't fall out of habit entirely, I am going to do what some artists do, and try to at least do a sketch a day. I don't know if I'll scan and post all of these sketches, but it should keep my ability honed.


As far as all else goes, life has been just dandy! Life is happy and fine and really no problems to report.

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ART PROJECTS STATUS

(If you are missing from the list let me know! ^_^ Stuff happens and I get distracted.)

COMMISSIONS (Listed by order of payment received):
* Double-O-Fox (Working on badge & 2nd part of commission)
* MistWing SilverTail (Drafting ideas)
* Tygermoon Foxx (Not Started)
* Peromyscus (Not Started)
* Wox (Not Started)
* Frostbite (Not Started)
* Azure (Not Started)

TRADES:
* Kalahari Fox
* Zannah
* DC Rabbit
* Roochak

PORTFOLIOS:
* Equine Portfolio (idea list drafted, need to thumbnail concepts)
* Chris and Evan Portfolio (need to thumbnail concepts)
* Big Cat Portfolio (Not started)
* Tremmie Folio (Not Started)
* Raccoons, Ringtails and More (Not Started)
* Mustelids (Wolverines, badgers, otters, ferrets, etc.--Not Started)
* Dragons (Not started)
* Rodents (Not started)
* Dinosaurs (Not started)

OTHER PROJECTS, IDEAS:
* Various pin-ups and such to prove I can still draw, kinda
* Tremaine and Mistletoe, hot and heavy
* Pics for Dusty Rancourt, whether he wants them or not.
* Lesbian pic of Sandi and Angela
* Fun with Sylvia and her guy Gabriel
* Small comic idea with Tremaine and Fandom
* That orgy pic I keep promising.

]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/14347220/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/14347220/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:25:44 PDT
I'm afraid I'm going to have to cancel going to Mephit FurMeet (MFM). I'm a little upset that we didn't plan things better, because I really was looking forward to going and seeing my friends!!

We just moved on the 18th. Mistletoe and I forgot how expensive moving can sometimes be. We were hit kind of hard, there. Because I also haven't really done *anything* new to sell since AnthroCon of 2006, most of you that have visited my table in the past probably already have all you want. Doing sketchbooks helps, but I anticipate that overall we'd lose money by going. These days, I need to at least break even for the trip to be financially worth it. We need food and a roof over our heads more than we need to go to the convention. :/

Mistletoe's birthday is on September 2nd, and she'd like to share her birthday with some friends who also are not going to MFM. She also had a paw-fasting ceremony at MFM with Daliwolf, who is also not going to MFM this year. I think it's important that Mistletoe and Dali have that first anniversary. It really is a special date! (I've gone to MFM without Mistletoe in the past, but she is a LOT of fun to have around, and I'd just miss my snowshoe hare too much!)

(Mistletoe, Dali and I are polyamorous, and have been for many years. Polyamory means "many loves", and it's reeaaaallly tricky to get working right, and takes an *insane* amount of hard work. It is definitely NOT for everybody. If you have questions about it, please contact me privately (e-mail, note, IM). Thanks! )

And on top of it all, we were going to take the 1999 Mercury Sable wagon to MFM. The car said, "I don't think so!!" We really need to have the brakes fixed, and we think we may need a transmission repair/replacement. Mistletoe is going to make appointments Monday morning. Fuck. >

Sorry everyone!


P.S. I really, really, really hope I will make at least *part* of Midwest FurFest (MFF) in Schaumburg, IL this November, the weekend before the United States Thanksgiving. (That is, the convention will be on November 16th through the 18th.) Hopefully I'll at least go to *a* single convention this year.

]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/10690591/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/10690591/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:44:48 PST
Looks like I cleared the issue at work. I'll be going to Midwest FurFest! Woo! You can find me in Artist Alley.

So, I will be there Thursday night, Friday, and Saturday, and very early on Sunday. Sunday, I will have to go into work and do some testing as we are moving some servers that affect my business world-wide, so there's no getting out of that one. It may be just a couple of hours to eight or nine hours. Testing starts at 1:00PM CST, and my work is about 1-1.5 hours away in good traffic.

Testing could take just a couple of hours, though it's been known to run eight or nine with serious issues. Hopefully I'm not stuck at work till 10:00PM CST on the 19th, as that would suck. Either way, I decided I'll come back to the hotel and I'd be leaving the convention Monday morning.

All of this means that I'll be in Artist Alley Friday and Saturday, but very likely NOT Sunday. This also means that you shouldn't slack off if you want to say hi to me! If you really want to have me do a sketch, show up first thing on Friday.

I hope to see you there!

]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/10329177/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/10329177/ Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:13:40 PDT

I'll be taking a business trip later this week, so that may or may not slow down my progress. I'll probably spend my evenings in the hotel room working on trades/portfolio stuff.

Other than that, nothing terribly exciting going on!

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ART PROJECTS STATUS

COMMISSIONS (Listed by order of payment received):
Double-0-Fox (Inked, starting to color)
-->Waiting for payments from lots of folks!!

TRADES:
DAQ (Inked, needs to be scanned)
Brian McPherson (Inked, needs to be colored)
Ashendon (Inked, needs to be scanned)
Showkaizer (in queue, his skunk Spade)
Maikeru (in queue. his skunk Sofia)

PORTFOLIOS:
Equine Portfolio (idea list drafted, need to thumbnail concepts)
Chris and Evan Portfolio (need to thumbnail concepts)

OTHER PROJECTS:
Tremmie Vix in an evening gown (Done, needs to be scanned)
Butterscotch's new raccoon character Stawberry (Inked, needs to be colored)

]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/9600461/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/9600461/ Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:15:04 PDT Mood: Distracted

I know I rarely update this thing.

Sorry to those of you whom I have not been paying too much attention to. Work has been keeping me busy, and it seems I'm traveling more than I'm at home these days. To be fair, there's a lot of huge projects going on at work, so I'm told that this is the exception than the rule.

We'll see.

But anyway, when I'm out and about it's hard to keep up with journals, and art and such.

Looks like I'll miss out on MFM, and I dearly hope I can make it to Midwest Furfest.

Otherwise things have been going pretty well for the most part.

]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/7343674/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/7343674/ Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:58:29 PST
I moved from Kenosha to Milwaukee the beginning of August, got married at the end of August, helped move the wife in, and it's been quite a whirlwind! We're still not completely unpacked yet or done writing thank you cards, but we thought a little break for fun would be in order. Let me tell you, after months and months of wedding stuff and planning, it's easy to get burned out.

Now that things are settling down, I want to work on stuff for AnthroCon, and commissions. This upcoming year shouldn't hopefully be so distracting. ("Ha, ha!" he said as he logged onto Second Life.)

Things are going quite well with Mistletoe and myself! We knew things wouldn't be exactly smooth sailing at first, but that's what good, open and honest communication is for.

And that's about it. ]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/5550306/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/5550306/ Sat, 04 Jun 2005 09:40:21 PDT
Lots of stuff going on in my life. Still doing the wedding planning thing, and drawing, so..

I figure I'd just put a more recent journal entry in this thing. ]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/5162960/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/5162960/ Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:21:46 PDT Mood: Optimistic
Listening to: Delerium - Daylight

Well, the sickness has subsided for good. With each day, my injuries hurt less and less. There's still some bruising and swelling in my left hand and bruising on my chest, but each day it hurts less. I don't require painkillers as often or as in high doses.

The doctor originally said two weeks for the bruising to go away, but I must have been traveling at a pretty good rate of speed. I'm guessing it'll take another week or two easy for the bruises and scrapes to completely heal.

As for my collarbone, I can touch the site of the break lightly and it doesn't hurt. There's this little bump at the site of the fracture, and I don't feel the bone moving like it did a few weeks ago, which means it's started to fuse together. Each day, I can move my arm more and more without pain. In fact, just sitting with my arm in a sling or moving it slightly, or even lifting small objects with it doesn't hurt at all. It feels normal.

The worst part about all of this is sleeping at night. Because you can't really put a cast on a collarbone, they put you in a simple arm sling (or a figure-of-eight sling AND arm sling for a bad break--or that, plus screws for a really bad break). This means that the shoulder is exposed. That also means I can't lay on either side. I can't lay on my bad side, obviously. And if I lay on my good side, my bad shoulder sags and then hurts. So I have to lay on my back. I've been trading back and forth between my bed, and the recliner. My back is usually killing me by morning, because I can't roll. Either way, it means I usually am only getting six, six and a half hours of sleep a night.

So, if I am a little ornery from here until my bone heals enough where I can sleep on it, that's why.

The good news is that I talked to my orthopedist on Wednesday. Since my fracture was a simple fracture, it's been healing quite well. When I see him on May 5th, he said I may be able to lose the sling then. Yay! (My shoulder is already more and more comfortable when I take it out of the sling.) Hopefully I will be able to drive by then again, too. The shoulder should be healed around May 18th (the six week mark).

Right now, I am feeling well enough to draw. So I've been trying a bit, even though it's a bit of a chore. Again, because I've been sleeping poorly, it's hard to stay focused.

Ah well. Overall, life has been better, and has made me realize how much we don't pay attention to things we should, and do pay attention to things we should not. (And I'm not talking about just in the car...I mean this about life in general.)

]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/5032115/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/5032115/ Fri, 08 Apr 2005 07:19:06 PDT
I went to see the orthopedic surgeon yesterday. I have a butterfly fracture, mid-clavicle (left shoulder). It's simple enough where I will not require surgery. However, I will be stuck in a sling for the next four-six weeks. My arm will be mostly useless till then. I have highly limited shoulder mobility. It will take about six weeks before I get full functionality back. I have a follow-up with the orthopedic office in two weeks.

My left hand is very swollen, still. Lots of internal bruising. (I am right-handed, thank God). My left hand was caught between my shoulder/chest and the airbag. It was the one holding the PDA. My chest also hurts quite a bit. It hurts to move around or bend over. It hurts to breathe too deeply, to cough, cry, or laugh. The doc said these should go away in two weeks.

In short, the doctor said I will need to be chauffeured back and forth to work, and any other place I need to go for the next four weeks. No using my left arm. Driving with one arm is simply driving impaired, and I really don't want a seatbelt to rub against my fracture right now, anyway.

I will be going back to work on Monday. My parents have offered to help some, getting to work (and even coming back home). Joe, who was laid off of work recently (Damn, man!) can help me.

To be fair, I was using a PDA AND a cell phone. Even if I wasn't using a PDA, I'd be punching in numbers off of a sheet of paper or something. Had a programmed the number ahead of time, I still would need to punch in a seven digit participant code (it was a conference call). ANYTHING that takes your eyes off the road for even just one second is too long. Whether is is adjusting volume, changing the radio station, changing a CD, grabbing some food or drink, or other things. (I can't stand those idiots who put on make-up in the car, shave, read maps or the newspaper!) It doesn't matter *how* "good" you are. If you cannot see what is going on on the road at ALL TIMES, you CANNOT be an effective driver.

People talk about how great hands-free cell phones are. I found an interesting news article:

[link]

Very curious, indeed!

So, that's my situation.

I am simply happy to be alive! ]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/5030591/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/5030591/ Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:50:39 PDT
I was in a car accident Wednesday (April 6). I am done beating myself up over it, but how it happened was really stupid.

I was distracted by looking up a number in my PDA and was trying to punch a number into my cell phone while going 75 mph on the Illinois Tollway in the Chicago area. Before I knew it, I was in the shoulder, saw a parked utility truck, but it was too late. I slammed on the brakes, and crashed into the rear of the truck. I think I was still going pretty fast. I thought I was going to die.

I was wearing my seatbelt however, and the airbags deployed. (It also helped that I was in a mid-sized rental car, a Chrysler Sebring.) I was still conscious, but in a LOT of pain. I could not even get out of the car. I thought for sure I had cracked a few ribs, broke my left hand, and broke my collarbone--and maybe even my neck.

Five hours in the Emergency Room, however, proved that I just broke my collarbone. I do have a lot of bruising, a lot of soreness, and lot of scrapes. I will be very sore for the next few days. I am seeing an orthopedic surgeon about my collarbone, and it should take 6-8 weeks to heal.

Had I not worn my seatbelt it would have been far worse, Had I not been wearing me seatbelt AND had their been no airbags, I would have been killed instantly. My rib cage would have been crushed by the steering column, my legs shattered against/through the floor board, my head smashed against the windshield and/or my body launched right though the windshield right into the truck.

The lessons?

WEAR YOUR FUCKING SEATBELT!
DO NOT TALK ON YOUR CELL PHONE WHILE DRIVING!
Even if you have a hands-free model, studies have shown them to be no less dangerous! Let the message go to voice mail, pull over (or even take the next exit off of the freeway, park your car, and then talk.)

(This is a general message I am posting everywhere. DO NOT expect a speedy reply, as I have a LOT of trouble typing.) ]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/4977653/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/4977653/ Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:35:02 PST
It's been awhile since I've done anything with this account. I have one whole picture uploaded!

Whew!

You can also disregard my previous post (way back from November) about SheezyArt. I got a new account with Fur Affinity [link]

That's about it for me. ]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/3718542/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/3718542/ Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:18:32 PST
I'm still around...wow, hey, another update, and it's been a month and a half. It would be really cool if I could at least do monthly updates.

Ah well, things are groovy, can't complain. ]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/3301330/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/3301330/ Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:21:36 PDT
Not much going on. My job has been keeping me extremely busy, but things are settling down.

Life in other respects is good. I honestly don't have a whole lot to complain or comment about.

And that's all I have to say about that.

P.S. You can find more art on my personal web page, Hedgefox Productions ([link]) ]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/2227109/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/2227109/ Thu, 15 Apr 2004 06:19:19 PDT
I'm starting off with two pics...one mature, one clean for now. As time goes on I'll upload more stuff.

So, hey, welcome! For more art, just visit my web site at [link] ]]> *tremaine http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/238611/ http://tremaine.deviantart.com/journal/238611/ Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:18:53 PDT *tremaine