Posted

Feb 1st 2009

Mood

Artistic

Music

Portal - Still Alive

I've been drawing for as long as I can remember, and I've gotten asked alot if I do commissions and such, which I've always replied no.

However, money is tight and we need an emergency operation on one of my little sister's cats, Baber.

Look at the Webcam image.

Ignore the scowling Abyssinian, pay attention to the fat one. See his eye?

Baber has ocular cancer (in layman's terms, cancer of the eye). We've been waiting as told by our vet on the eventual eye removal of Baber's cancerous eye, as if we remove it too soon, it will spread into his brain when the vet removes the eye. It's usually best to wait until the eye is enlarged, thus shutting off the thin cording of blood vessels that would otherwise allow cancer to spread into Baber's brain and the rest of him, for that matter.

Well, as you can see by the photo, it's finally time where it should be removed. However, my sister is only working part time- I was saving money this past summer for this operation, but lost my job, and my savings have obviously been used. My sister is married, however she is married to a man from another country who can not work yet, as we're waiting on his greencard. Between the two of us, we only make about 1400 every month, and with us both paying car payments, car insurance, rent, phone, power, what have you.. and for three people that's alot, even if we all live together and chip in.

Time is critical. If we do not remove the eye soon, it will eventually rupture, and the costs for removal will skyrocket from $300 USD to $700 USD, plus the cancer will then spread.

Simple pencil sketch and inked: $5
Simple pencil sketch, inked, and background: $7
Photoshop ONLY drawn piece, colored, no background: $10
Photoshop ONLY drawn piece, colored, randomized background: $12
Inked and scanned photoshop-colored piece, no background: $12
Inked and scanned photoshop-colored piece, randomized background: $15
Inked, scanned, photoshop colored piece, customized background: $17
Inked, colored in via prismacolor colored pencil, detailed background, scanned in and sent (by mail!): $20

Additional characters: $2 a piece.

I do the following: Furry, Anime, Pets, Humans, Game characters, Robots (not mecha however- THIS INCLUDES TRANSFORMERS/GUNDAM/GOBOTS. Sorry! I just am not familular with them and I don't want you paying for crap. =\ If you INSIST... I'll try. If it comes out like crap, you get it for free), aka, just about anything.

If you want art of an original character, please send me a description or, better yet, a sample image. So I have something to see what you want of me.

Requests can go to wolfshadow (at) g mail (dot) (com). Thanks!

Remember, this is a good cause! You're saving a beloved pet!