alice-time

 As of late I've been painting a lot of animals, but recently I've turned to birds. Large birds, tiny birds, cat sized birds. Any bird. These are done from photo references in watercolor. I've got a minor obsession recently with iconography, which would explain the halos I've been doing. At first I was doing this with gold ink, like in the Indigo bunting. Now I've moved to actual leaf in two shades of gold and silver.



I'm also doing this with other animals, like Bronson, my father's dog, and this Little Brown Bat, and the Cardigan Corgi.



And of course there's a rash of Sailor Moon... I am doing the full series of scouts for this, including Outer Senshi and Chibi Moon. There's no real order to which one I do, but right now I'm starting on Neptune and Uranus.

I am almost always open for commissions, and to find out for certain, feel free to message me or hit my email: ashkalexander @ gmail . com

You know those days when everything just goes wrong? Well, March has been that kind of month for me. We had to move, which is expensive, and this overlap month has meant paying final bills for the old place and new bills at the new place.

Which, as it turns out, doesn’t work out too well when you get shorted hours. We need to make up the difference so we can pay our bills and buy food. I’m not joking, every cent of my last paycheck went to bills. I can’t buy food, I can’t put gas in my car to go to work and my roommate just put the last of her  money into the electric bill from the old place.

We need to raise $150.

So, I’m going to give this whole “commissions” thing a shot again.

Single Character Line Art: $20

Extra Characters: $5 a piece

Single Character Bust, Watercolor Color and Background: $35

Extra Characters $7 a piece

Single Character Color, White Background $30

Extra characters: $5 a piece

Full Color, background, single character: $45

$10 per additional character.

Just a few more examples:

I take Paypal, and can be emailed at: ash k alexander @ gmail . com (without the spaces).

I work 9-5, so I’ll be doing all commissions in the evening hours darlings. I work best then anyhow. Commissioners will receive a High-Res Digital version, I can do JPEG, TIFF, whatever your preference, and for $3 extra, I will mail the original piece to you.

Thank you all.

I've decided February is the start of my new year, and I really hope it doesn't screw around with me like January, which has been a battleground of financial and emotional stress. I was told my grandmother wasn't going to make it...but she is. So...yeah, the lady is tough as nails. Really. I thought my heart would just burst. (Metaphorically) My first YA novel is coming out on Wednesday, I finished edits for a pair of short stories, I'll be working on edits for my next novel in a month or so and, if all goes well, I might even land a full time job.

I'm going to stay positive on this front.

In the meantime, I still have commissions open. It's a sort of grab bag of $10 madness. You name the characters and I go at them with whatever inspiration strikes me. I do promise to try and make you happy.

More info: alice-time.deviantart.com/jour…

I got a job interview today, which while not taking care of the immediate financial situations, is still good news. I was riding pretty high on that news when my dad called.

My grandmother is not doing very well. The kind of not well that means I need to go see her soon and say goodbye. I just need to stay busy. Busy hands and all that. I always do better when I'm working.

So while my journal updates are going to be less than jolly, I can promise that commissions will continue. alice-time.deviantart.com/jour…