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... It's been a pretty quiet art/DA year if this is the only "real" update I've given. Time has flown. And I'm not the fastest adjuster to change.

I guess the last real update was back almost a year ago. Since then, I briefly moved back to Canada from Denmark over the winter. I got offered and accepted a job (yay for paid work in your field you gradated from!), then moved to the Netherlands with no money (My parents loaned me money for my first month here until I got my first pay. So thankful). Dealt with all the paperwork that comes with moving to a different country (well, that's not true. I still need to switch my driver's license and do a few more things that aren't super important yet). Found an apartment where I can commute to work, figured out healthcare costs, insurance costs, all those other costs that until now I've been fortunate enough not to need because Denmark was completely free healthcare etc.

Over the past 5 months I've been slowly furnishing my apartment (because as an international student, you don't really buy or keep furniture unless you're independently wealthy enough to ship it) and now am to a point where I have enough furniture to be comfortable and have people over without being a hobo in an apartment. I've made friends at work, although non-work friends in the area I'm living in is still a struggle. I'm thankful to have friends in Denmark who have come to visit me, to support me over facebook and even a few who've also moved to the NL that I can connect with on occasion.

I am really enjoying my job and learning a lot. I get sent to different places to visit different areas of the company, or to attend courses or seminars. Soon I'll be going to a genetics conference as well, which is exciting. But it's still a bit of a struggle to structure my time around it. I'm working on that, trying to get out more after work and just doing things rather than doing the bare minimum during the week and leaving it all to the weekend.

My sister also came to visit a few weeks ago, so I really haven't done anything outside touring about for the past two weeks, which was a much needed relief, and a time to actually explore a bit of this country outside work and a few weekend trips to Amsterdam or Utrecht.

But, my November is looking a lot less hectic. I only have one personal trip I'm planning on having and I'm feeling a bit more creative and wanting to do art than I have for the past 6-8 months, so things are starting to look good again. I'd like to be more active and involved on here, there's a ton of pieces in my inbox just waiting for me to get around to them and I'd like to be able to actually feel like I'm not some stranger popping up now and again. Those are my goals, we will see what happens.

I miss being here, and I miss being involved. I miss talking to people on here, and that's on me.
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Trying to give this awesome little foal design some parentage and discovered my herd is very scarce on tobiano...  so I'm looking for a mare to be her mommy.

If you're willing to offer your mare, please also list your price. Be aware that I am very slow on the art front, but it will get done eventually, and I will complete any art payments before giving this girl a ref. 

Requirements:
Tobiano gene
Must be able to have baby foals (A_)
Warmblood or Thoroughbred. German Warmbloods preferred, but dutch/Belgian etc will be considered too.

Foal (#1)
Foal Adoptables [3/10 OPEN] REDUCED TO 50 PTS by Skuexone


Sire
DEC Schwartz Fantasie by AthenaMyth 
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Alright, I've gone through and selected some of my more active/loved/shown horses to offer them up to public breeding. :D Also trying to save points for a future show as prizes, so you have the option of payment methods. I've also left off some horses that desperately need new references, haven't yet gotten references, are still babies, or have show careers ahead of any breeding nonsense.

That being said, if there was a horse you were waiting for that isn't on this list, please mention them to me. I may have missed them, or I may make an exception.

All stallion prices are 1 breeding picture OR 150 :points:
All mare prices are 1 breeding picture or 100 :points:

Breeding picture must be at least 1/2 body, no background required. I would like to design the foals, but you are free to say what you do(or do not) want to pass, or specific markings (or lack of) and if you would prefer to so it, let me know. I require a cursory approval of the design if so. ;) (ie. no spontaneous creams from my bay pons)

If you decide later you do not want the foal, please let me know. I would like to know where they go, and or/may like to add them to my own stable.

Please credit me for the foal design and please show me the reference when you create it. I want to keep track of my offspring.

Stallions


Hanoverian

Eurocommerce Entity
Seal Bay - Show Experience - 2 Slots
1. Helsinge - Mare:
Paid: N

Holsteiner

Premier Event
Silver Bay - Show experience - 2 Slots

Trakehner

Bacardi
Seal Bay - Show Experience - 2 Slots

Knapstrupper

Bacardi Rum
Seal Bay Leopard - Unshown - 1 Slot
1. jassukassu - Mare:
Paid: N

Konge Af Bjerget
Silver Bay Fewspot Leopard - Unshown - 1 Slot

Mares


Hanoverian

PS I Love You
Silver Bay - Unshown - 1 Slot

Holsteiner

Paradoxical Time Shift
Silver Bay Pangare Splash - Shown - 1 Slot

Alabaster Gold
Silver Bay (Grey) - Shown - 1 Slot

Trakehner


Havana Nights
Black - Unshown - 1 Slot

Knapstrupper

Hearts on Fire
Chestnut Leopard Splash - Unshown - 1 Slot
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Here is the easy guide to being an artist! In case you ever wanted to know how artists do it right. ;) Just follow these 10 easy steps below and you're guaranteed to be an artist in no time!

Step 1: Get a piece of paper and a drawing utensil.
Step 2: Spend half a day deciding what to draw.
Step 3: Find some reference photos. This will take the rest of your day, and maybe tomorrow too.
Step 4: Pick up your pencil and check social media. Spend an hour looking at memes.
Step 5: Make a tea or coffee to focus.
Step 6: Pull up your references. start to sketch something.
Step 7: Make food. You've been working hard.
Step 8: Take a break. You're probably exhausted.
Step 9: Lazily push the pencil across the paper and at least try to make it look like you're working.
Step 10: It's time for bed... Oh well. Tomorrow you'll get that sketch done and actually start getting some progress.


...The struggle may be real. I have banned myself from social media browsing...
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Rules:
1. For the first 10 people who comment, I will feature one of their characters I like the most and put it in this journal. (I will go to your gallery and pick one character and one picture I like, you don't need to tell me which one.)
2. If you comment, please do the same in your journal (unless you've already done it), and put me in the first feature slot. The idea of this is not to get a free feature, it is to spread art around for everyone!

1. Fibonacho Dick seems like a guy who is pretty level headed, if not immune to pride. I'm looking forward to seeing where his realizations during HCL take him. And he rides pretty awesome horses. <3
  HCL | Did you lose what won't return by Fibonacho  First Things First by Fibonacho  HCL | Take It To The End Of The Line by Fibonacho
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