Hey you guys! I'm offering three or four commissions because my school payment for this month left me horribly broke.

The commissions I am offering will be in an expressive drawn and painted style. Each piece is on 5"x10" cardboard and done in ink/acrylic paint. They can be of a subject of your choice, and in a style of your choice, within reason. I would prefer to not have more than one person in the picture, but if you have a vision in your head of what exactly you want, I am willing to work with you. Nudity and clothes are not really a problem. These are good practice for me, so I'm willing to try almost anything. Just ask.

I'm currently in school at the moment, so they will take anywhere from a few days to a week to finish, depending on what you want me to paint. I will give you updates on the status of your commission, regardless of whether or not I need more time to finish. Payment is up front and through my paypal happypancreas@hotmail.com

Thanks so much for checking out my commissions!! Please send me a message on DA ASAP if you're interested!!

Here are some examples of what I am offering. Some of these are works in progress:
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Some of my other paintings:
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I am so excited I can't even adequately explain it in words at all, but I'm going to try.

My story is about ten years old now. I started this project never really knowing where I was going to take it, and I still don't, but at least the story behind it is coming together. At first this story of mine was going to be a comic, but I don't really draw comics anymore, so I have no idea what kind of form it's going to take in the end. Maybe written, maybe drawn, or both, if I'm incredibly lucky and can explain it all to people a little better, maybe even animation. I definitely think it deserves to be called more than just a story now, though. This is my project, my nameless child that's starting to take on a life of its own. The plotholes are even disappearing at an alarming rate!

I've always had problems explaining the basic premise to people, telling people what happens in an order that makes sense, using words that don't turn people off to it immediately. I've always gotten the impression from people that they assume I'm some crazy weeaboo trying to pitch my naruto/inu-yasha/twilight/hybrid to them. I want to tell people, from the very very bottom of my heart and soul that it is so much more than that (and I would never subject you all to something like that!). This project is me and without it I feel like I would be a hollow shell; that is how important it is to me and how seriously I take it.

Basic Summary:
For untold thousands of years, people from far away space have been involved in the matters of mankind. This story deals with the effects of this involvement throughout thousands of years of human history. A huge basis for the story is the idea that the many different religions and mythologies around the world were originally influenced by alien contact of some kind. Because these stories are thousands of years old and many of them are passed on verbally, and the fact that most ancient people didn't have the kind of understanding of the world that some people have today, much of the truth in these stories is lost.

Another idea that will really be focused on is that things aren't always strictly black and white. The concept of good and evil is never really concrete and the line between good and evil is almost always blurred. I want the story to leave you wondering who you should be rooting for. I want people to sometimes find themselves surprised at the characters they are siding with. Sometimes it's going to be very hard to pick out who is the antagonist and protagonist.

Obviously, it's going to have a lot of historical, religious, mytholigical, and even some contemporary references in it. The story is told in many different parts, through the eyes of many different people, and the time frame between each story can be as little as a few days, to as long as a thousand years. The period of time that I've been focusing the most on, so far, is between the year 2000 and 5000 more or less.

A Little More In Depth:
In the story, there are three main types of people. The Asura, The Djinn, and Humans.

The Asura:
The Asura are a race of people that come from at least one planet in the Pleiades Star Cluster. They are a very ancient race, and they are extremely knowledge hungry. One of their more noteworthy technological advances is the ability to travel back and forth into different dimensions. The Asura's main goal is to seek out all intelligent life in the universe and unify them; to not only learn from these newly discovered people, but to give them their knowledge as well. In the story, this expansive trait of the Asura is questioned. How far is too far? Is the Asura's quest for knowledge really that innocent?

Djinn:
In this story, in the particular location of Earth in space, there are two planets. They both exist in the same exact location in space, but on two different planes or dimensions. For now, this planet is called the Otherworld, but this is probably just temporary. On this other planet lives a race of people called the Djinn. In some places on both planets, the veil between both dimensions can be thin. This has resulted in a relationship where the Djinn have been considered ghosts or spirits by humans. When the Asura come to Earth they decide to use this relationship to their advantage, with it they can make contact with the Djinn, and with the help of the Djinn, humans. If the Asura can be seen as Gods to humans, it makes the humans much more easy to communicate with. The Djinn and the Asura form an alliance, which angers many Djinn who see the Asura as invaders and a threat to their way of life. With the alliance, both collaborated in the creation of a race of Djinn/Asuran hybrids who would serve as messengers between humans and the Asura & Djinn. These went on to be dubbed angels by humans. Some Djinn rebelled against the Asura, attacking them whenever there was an opportunity. These rebel Djinn worked very hard to reverse the Asura's relationship with humans, even going as far as possessing humans to do so. In return, some Asura, who were also not very partial to the alliance, taught humans how to summon and enslave Djinn. This ended the alliance, and the Djinn were united in declaring war on the Asura. After a long war, the Djinn defeated the Asura, and they were not seen on Earth again for thousands of years.

Humans:
I want to point out that the fact that the humans in the story have been so influenced by the Djinn, and especially the Asura, in no way implies that they are stupid. The cultures of the Djinn and the Asura on Earth are also changed very much, despite their attempts to resist outside influences after war breaks out. The ways that different cultures influence and shape eachother to create new ones is absolutely fascinating to me, so there is a lot of it in this story. The way that humans are influenced by the Asura and the Djinn can be mostly seen in religion and the way that religion has affected societies around the world. Most of the events that happen in human history, until the 2000-5000 a.d. period that is focused on the most, was solely the work of humans. Sometime between 2000-2100 the Asura return to Earth at full force. Human history from this point on is completely derailed.

**At this point forward some things start getting a little vague, this is the part of the story that I'm still working on the most**
Summary of Future Earth:
The Asura return to Earth, but this time with a much more important figure in the Asuran world, Agni, one of their seven great leaders. (The Asura have one leader for each of the seven brightest stars of the Pleiades Cluster.) When Agni arrives on Earth and the Otherworld with her fleet, she already has a plan made. They will try again to bring "knowledge and light" to the humans, but from an influence within society, not outside of it. The way human society is at this point, the reaction of people to aliens claiming to be Gods would be much worse and extremely hard to control. Agni selects one human that is genetically altered and returned to live their life. When this human dies, they will be reborn, their mind staying the same, but their body being an exact copy of Agni's. The Djinn find out that Agni is planning something like this and set out to find this "incarnate" and destroy it.

At this point in time, as it is during much of history, the humans are at war with eachother. As tensions mount, the Djinn push the human war over the edge in attempt to kill the one person that might be Agni's incarnate. In the war explosive weapons are used, along with bioweapons, one in particular kills very quickly. The city where Agni's incarnate lives is attacked and practically destroyed. The Djinn believe that they succeeded in killing the incarnate, and go about their business.

The Djinn didn't realize at first how much damage they wound up doing. The bioweapon quickly mutates and the outbreak becomes uncontrollable. Eventually a huge portion of the population on Earth is killed. The only hope for overcoming this virus winds up being genetic engineering. The few people that have a resistance have their unborn children altered to make them 100% resistant. It works, and this technology is hailed as the savior of mankind. After a few hundred years the population builds itself back up. Genetic engineering at this point is fairly normal among most people. Some people, however, have concerns about it, and some completely have a problem with it. Some believe that, it may have saved people, but it was also the cause of the disease in the first place. Because of this, there are many laws in place to keep it from getting out of hand.

***From this point on, things get pretty complicated. There is a lot going on that I kind of skip, so you don't wind up completely killing yourself over this already HUGE TEXT WALL. It's still A LOT though.***

Eventually, people with different viewpoints about engineering form completely different belief systems, countries, etc. The Oriods, Hesires, and the Namires. The Oriods are against it completely, the Hesires are completely for it, and the Namires are pretty indifferent, and have their own beliefs that don't have anything to do with engineering. Many Hesire countries and kingdoms go on to have complete populations of genetically altered people, in many cases very extreme physical alterations. Even though it is against all Hesire law, one kingdom in particular, Amalthea, manages to create a completely new species of human. This new being, the only successful attempt, is treated as the figurehead of Amalthea, she IS Amalthea. They dub her Eve, the first "real" Hesire. To the Amaltheans, she is meant to be the mother of their new race. She is revered as their goddess and queen, yet is a slave whos genetic material is harvested to make more of her species. The other Hesire kingdoms, feeling extremely threatened, try to top Amalthea's creation, disregarding their own laws, and going to extremes in their engineering. Most of the higher up's in these kingdoms wind up not really being human anymore. The Oriod kingdoms are completely outraged and declare war on all Hesire kingdoms, but especially Amalthea.

After a while, Eve rebels against the people who created her. She winds up slaughtering all of the leaders of her kingdom, and anyone who decides to remain human. The other kingdoms continue to attempt to show superiority over the Amaltheans, and flex their military's muscles at them, but Amalthea continues to gain power. As Amalthea gains power, violence against humans increases. Most practically stampede into cities to become altered. Eve leads a campaign against the Oriods, and the Amalthean army completely crushes them, pushing them to the north where they become exiled. Humans anywhere in this new empire are hunted to near extinction. It is at this point that the Asura finally decide to intervene and do something.

In the spirit of the original "angels" who were mostly wiped out in the war between the Djinn and the Asura, Agni decides to create more. She seeks out the few remaining original angels to be a part of this new group. She sends them to Earth to try to help end the war and spread the word of the Asura. Eventually Eve's kingdom winds up being defeated by the overthrown Hesire kingdoms who were united by the angels. The remnants of Eve's family are scattered and banished. In the wake of the Amalthean Empire, a huge portion of Earth is no longer human. Because of the arrival of the angels, a new religion is formed and practiced by all of the Hesire kingdoms. Eventually it spreads even farther. At this point, Earth barely resembles the world that we're used to.

The Incarnate's Return:
Years after the war, an angel is exiled to earth for the murder of one of his siblings. Not allowed to return to his home in the Otherworld, he wanders aimlessly around Namire (once North and South America). One day as he walks through a forest, he arrives at some small falls. He sits there for a while to rest, but as he stands and gets ready to leave, his feels dizzy and passes out, slipping on the rocks and hitting his head. He dreams of very vague, but bizarre images, and has an intense feeling of terror and wanting to escape overcome him. He wakes up, feeling frantic and like he has to find something. He hears a heartbeat and senses suffering. He climbs down into a space between two rocks, down to the soft dirt below. With only a sliver of light shining down, he starts frantically digging into the dirt with his hands. Under the dirt, pale blue skin caked in dirt is exposed, then a body, a hand, a face. Before him lies a living woman, unearthly and strange, yet more beautiful than anything he's ever seen. End scene.

And the rest is history. <3 I'll post the rest later, when I feel more comfortable with it. Please PLEASE tell me what you think, ask me questions. I love talking about it, and I would LOVE to hear any advice or ideas, let me know if anything seems weird or if you think I should fix anything.

I have kind of a lot of stuff that needs to be uploaded, that I can hopefully put on here pretty soon. I have four finished paintings to upload, and hopefully I'll actually finish a couple more. I have at least one that isn't done that I have to finish, and two that I don't have to finish, but I want to. Then I have like three more paintings that I'll have to turn in, so they'll be on here eventually too. I'll try to put them on here this week, since I've been neglecting DA a lot lately. I don't have the internet either, so that doesn't help. I have a bunch of doodles too because my English class is really easy, and I'm not sitting in the very front of the room this time.

Anyway, that's it for now. I'm at the library, so I have to go home and feed childrens/write a paper. 9__9

Mostly, the reason for this is to get my angry rant off of my front page. I still stand by what I said for the most part, but I kind of wish that I would let myself cool down before posting things like that. I pretty much rewrote everything for my last essay that was due in my english class, so maybe I'll post that on here sometime. I don't want to delete though, because I do still believe a lot of what I said, and I don't want to delete any of you guy's comments. I want to reply to the rest of them when I'm feeling it more, so sorry I haven't yet. It's not because I hate you, I'm just a lazy ass.

Anyway I do have a lot of stuff I want to post, except for I haven't actually finished much and a lot of stuff hasn't even been started yet lol. I'm kind of mad at myself because I've been slacking off a little in school, but at least I have a lot to show for it story-wise. I started working on my story again. I got to the point where I would think about it sometimes, but I would never really write down any ideas or draw for it. I think the break really helped though, because I've had SO MANY ideas it isn't even funny. I actually have a concrete story down for the most part, though there are still a lot of spaces I have to fill in. At this rate though, I think I could really attempt to draw it all out in comic form. It sucks though because I stopped working on it because I didn't really have a direction for the story, and now that I do I don't know how well I'll do drawing a comic since I haven't really tried for so long.

So I'm really excited about this. It's so nice to finally have a more concrete storyline after having all these random ideas floating around for eight years, almost a decade. A DECADE. Tenma will be ten years old in a year or two (and it makes me feel old as hell).

Here's a story for you. My Dad came to this country from Soviet Russia when he was ten years old. He told me that his worst memory was when he had gotten a cavity in one of his molars since they had no fluoride in their water or toothpaste. Because it was so hard to get to a doctor, his mother took him to the apartment of some woman who supposedly worked for a dentist. She ripped his molar out with a pair of pliers and no novocaine. Thats the kind of health care we all have to look forward to.

Ask a Canadian about their health care. Ask them how you get put on huge waiting lists to see a doctor, because everyone is going to the doctor for every little thing thats bothering them since it doesn't cost them anything. So right now, people that need health care can't get it because they don't have insurance. How is having insurance and STILL not being able to get care any better? Not only are people that need it still not getting it, but people that need it and could have gotten it with their private insurance won't be able to either.

I am just really disgusted by everyone who voted for Obama. I guess I understand why you voted for him, who doesn't appeal with a young fresh face and a shiney campaign chock full of promises. Everyone tells me that they had good reasons for voting for him and did their research. How could that be? It's really sad when people fall for socialist propaganda and think their lives are really going to improve. And don't tell me that Obama's political views aren't socialist, they are. They're BLATANT if you actually paid attention.

In Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention, he repeatedly talks about the "American Promise." Sounds a lot like the "American Dream" doesn't it? It's not. He says that not only are we responsible for ourselves (as per the American dream), but we are responsible for our fellow Americans. "We also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper." He says he will bring a government that stresses "individual responsibility and mutual responsibility." Every time he mentions something that coincides with more traditional American beliefs, he tacks on a big BUT. "The government can't solve all our problems, BUT what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves." Is that an ambiguous statement or what? That which we cannot do for ourselves? What can Americans not do for themselves?

Maybe people just can't understand what socialism means. They just hear all the promises of free health care and helping the poor and get all excited. Basically, you will be taxed according to the amount of money you make. The more money you make, the more taxes you have to pay. This money will go to all of the poor unfortunate people who have been exploited by capitalism. Ie: poor/lazy/stupid people who can't take responsibility for their own actions. (I don't care what anyone tells me, if someone is poor, it's their own fault.) So if you're actually going to college right now and working hard so you can better your life and get a decent job, you're going to have to pay. Socialism makes it so that if you did have a chance to be successful and make a lot of money, its going to be taken from you, to supposedly help other people be successful and make money. Because being rich while other people are poor is evil. It's all a ploy to keep everyone down.

Everyone is treating the situation like it's some sort of game. I've gotten comments that I'm a sore loser and a angry McCain FAN. It's NOT A GAME. You are toying with our way of life. I can't respect the fact that most of the reasons people voted for Obama are really superficial reasons. People enjoy feeling like they're part of a group. They like the campaigning and wearing the tee shirts and stickers and drawing cute chibi pictures of obama dancing. They like showing their support in a way that reminds me of how people act with football. My speech teacher was talking about how his views are very conservative, but he still voted for Obama because of what it means for him and other black people. I understand that he feels that black kids need a good role model, but voting for someone because they're black is just as bad as not voting for someone because they're black. Especially when you don't even agree with their policies!! I really like my speech teacher too, so this really dealt a blow to my respect for him.

Anyway, I just had to get all of that out of my system. Thats how I feel about the election. I just really wish that people would think for themselves and think about the consequences of their actions.