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short faq:

who the heck are you?
my name is jen, and i'm a rising sophomore at ringling school of art and design, which has nothing to do with the circus. for more info than that, i've got a whole page about me.

what do you use to draw?
i do note whatever media i used on the actual piece, but hell, i'll state it again here. typically (on my fanart and charaDes) i use mechanical pencils (no specific brand). if i feel like "inking" then i'll use a black pigma micron pen, or combination thereof (sizes 01-05). (i personally like the 05 because as you'll notice i like to use a rather heavy outline with my ink, and the 05 gives me a much bolder line than the 01. most of the people i know like the 01 and the 05 scares them very much. recently i even bought a 08 and i can't wait to use the thing.) colored pieces are done either in photoshop or paint shop pro6, with colored pencils of an indeterminate origin that i have had laying about the house for practically ever, or with my prized prismacolor markers.

do you trace?
only when i'm inking. *laff* seriously, though, NO. do you think i would put up a gallery of my "tracings"? i don't even like to "copy pictures" for my fanart unless it's a new character that i'm "getting a feel for"; even then i don't "count" those as real fanart.

hey, your so-called "original" charaDes looks a lot like (fill in the blank).
all i can say is that i read a lot of comics, watch a lot of anime, and see a lot of movies. there are bound to be influences from other series or projects. any similarities to existing characters is completely unintentional.

i really like your charaDes. can you design someone for me?
my original characters take a lot of time to develop. many of them have been in the works for years. therefore i will not design your RP chara/Mary Sue/etc from scratch. however, i will work from text information that you e-mail me to try my darndest to bring your character to life on the page. for a small fee i will even send you the original artwork!

will you draw me a picture?
gifts are done in my spare time, of which there is not much, and i do them out of the kindness of my heart alone for friends and family members. but, if you wanna talk commission, then by all means e-mail me and i'll certainly see what i can do for you.

i like such-and-such a piece. can i have it?
k, here's my rules for that sorta thing:
  • fanart: due to copyright law, i can't sell it; but if you want to archive my work on a fanart archive, please e-mail me with your site url and the pieces you would like to archive. if for some strange reason you want to modify and use it in a re-distributable package (such as a desktop theme, icons, animated gifs, etc), once again, i ask that you e-mail me and i will discuss it with you on a case-by-case basis. if you want to take the fanart for personal use, ie, keeping on your hard drive to look at later, printing out and hanging on your wall, etc, by all means, go right on ahead.
  • charaDes: no. i'm sorry. my charaDes are locked and you cannot have them. they are my own personal property, and i really hate to be a bitch about this, but they are original characters, and i'd really like to keep it that way.
  • traditional/digital: if you actually wanna buy something you see here, e-mail me and we'll talk!