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MOVING
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YUPYUP I'M MOVING ACCOUNTS
this has been coming a long time --
I hate my account name here and my gallery is cluttered with old shit
so i finally gathered up the courage to move accounts.
the only reason i haven't moved until now is because i'm afraid of losing my watchers n' stuff.
but now at least i'll be able to see who is actually watching me -- SO PLEASE EVERYONE.
FOLLOW ME TO MY NEW ACCOUNT: fallow-saluki
i'll remain on RBSRdesigns for a while, just to wrap everything up and advertise
but otherwise i won't be coming on this account any more.
so if you want to keep following my works, i'll give you the link one more time:
fallow-saluki
this has been coming a long time --
I hate my account name here and my gallery is cluttered with old shit
so i finally gathered up the courage to move accounts.
the only reason i haven't moved until now is because i'm afraid of losing my watchers n' stuff.
but now at least i'll be able to see who is actually watching me -- SO PLEASE EVERYONE.
FOLLOW ME TO MY NEW ACCOUNT: fallow-saluki
i'll remain on RBSRdesigns for a while, just to wrap everything up and advertise
but otherwise i won't be coming on this account any more.
so if you want to keep following my works, i'll give you the link one more time:
fallow-saluki
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uninspired.
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Lately I've been falling behind on commissions/art-trades.
To those of you who are waiting for a pending order, I apologize.
I've just been very uninspired to draw. The few things I do draw are unvaried and plain.
I want to draw, I really do -- whenever I see something, like a show or another artwork that inspires me, I attempt drawing but just get disappointed when it turns out bad.
So I'm sorry .. I may not upload anything for a bit until this passes. Which will hopefully be soon.
.zeph
To those of you who are waiting for a pending order, I apologize.
I've just been very uninspired to draw. The few things I do draw are unvaried and plain.
I want to draw, I really do -- whenever I see something, like a show or another artwork that inspires me, I attempt drawing but just get disappointed when it turns out bad.
So I'm sorry .. I may not upload anything for a bit until this passes. Which will hopefully be soon.
.zeph
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Kip.
5 min read
so, some of you may know I have a lovely six-year-old male whippet called Kip.
He's never been the smartest dog around (we love him all the same), and often comes inside with scratches and such. Never too serious, though.
Earlier this evening, I was upstairs on my computer when I heard my sister shout for my mom. I don't remember exactly what she said, but I know it had 'blood' and 'Kip'.
So I quickly shut off the computer, abandoned whatever I was doing, and ran downstairs. Sure enough, my sister was standing there with a bloody Kip beside her.
His entire back, legs, flanks, and part of his muzzle were splattered with blood. But worst was his tail. Near the tip of his tail, a five-inch gash spread across, missing chunks of fur around it and cut nearly down to the muscle.
We washed him off, avoiding the tail for now, and it was a relief to find that most of the splattered blood wasn't from any cuts -- it was most likely either from his tail lashing around or from the animal that attacked him.
The poor dog was shaking the entire time we cleaned him, and afterwards we went to search the house for any signs of blood. There were a few droplets here and there, but the worst thing we found was about a square-foot section of a wall near his doggie-door covered with blood. Otherwise, we strangely didn't find any blood on or around his doggie-door, or even in the backyard.
It was about 10pm at this time and we didn't think it was way too serious enough to take him to emergency pet hospital, so we wrapped up his tail in some gauze and stayed with him for a bit.
When we all were going to sleep, we decided to lock Kip in the kitchen with his dog-bed and food/water. We knew he wouldn't go to bed easily since he adores my mother and never sleeps away from her, but we had to try.
Just five minutes later, I heard the pitter-pattering of his feet and found that he had easily ripped off the bandage and jumped over the gate. His tail was freshly bleeding, the wound seemingly even longer than before.
For now, we've locked him in his crate (which he certainly can't get out of) without a bandage, since he could just rip it off again. It's going to be a hard night for the boy, but he'll just have to wait till morning when we'll bring him in to the vet.
What we think happened (we don't know for sure though) is that Kip was attacked by a fox. We have a fox that has lived around the house for years, and every night the dog goes out and barks for a few minutes, but they've never had any real contact. Why they picked now to fight, we don't know. It's even more puzzling why there was no blood or evidence of the fight outside. Luckily, the fox (if it was indeed him that Kip fought with) doesn't seem to be rabid, but we'll get Kip the shot anyways.
Send all good wishes to my dear Kip, we hope he'll do alright in the morning. I feel so bad for the poor thing, he's always been the sweetest, most timid dog and I can't bear to see him in pain. I guess we'll see what happens tomorrow.
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UPDATE 7-24-11: We've just returned home from the vet's office, and Kip is doing fine. Luckily his wound isn't too serious, he got all the necessary shots for rabies (the fox that attacked him clearly doesn't have rabies, but just to make sure) and is now prescribed to antibiotics for a week. The fur around the wound on his tail was shaved and they wrapped it up in a pretty green bandage. Kip seems a lot happier that he's all cleaned up. <3
Thank you all who wished Kip and me good luck, it means a lot <3 Just a few days and my lovely whippet will be as good as new.~
UPDATE 7-27-11: Today we took Kip back in to the vet's go get his bandage cut off and his wound inspected. My mother used to work with the vet, Dr. Koch, so he's very friendly and loose. He called us back to the room where they do 'vet stuff', and took us to where Kip was. His tail was looking very, very thin (literally the thickness of a rats tail) and the area where the gash was wasn't looking good. It's shriveled up and bloody, and no fur is growing back on it even though there is fur growing on the rest of his tail. Dr. Koch put a new bandage on it and said he'd take a look on it Friday, but said that there is about a 25% chance Kip will lose that part of his tail.
Hopefully the wound will start to heal more, but we can't be sure. We'll see on Friday I guess D:
He's never been the smartest dog around (we love him all the same), and often comes inside with scratches and such. Never too serious, though.
Earlier this evening, I was upstairs on my computer when I heard my sister shout for my mom. I don't remember exactly what she said, but I know it had 'blood' and 'Kip'.
So I quickly shut off the computer, abandoned whatever I was doing, and ran downstairs. Sure enough, my sister was standing there with a bloody Kip beside her.
His entire back, legs, flanks, and part of his muzzle were splattered with blood. But worst was his tail. Near the tip of his tail, a five-inch gash spread across, missing chunks of fur around it and cut nearly down to the muscle.
We washed him off, avoiding the tail for now, and it was a relief to find that most of the splattered blood wasn't from any cuts -- it was most likely either from his tail lashing around or from the animal that attacked him.
The poor dog was shaking the entire time we cleaned him, and afterwards we went to search the house for any signs of blood. There were a few droplets here and there, but the worst thing we found was about a square-foot section of a wall near his doggie-door covered with blood. Otherwise, we strangely didn't find any blood on or around his doggie-door, or even in the backyard.
It was about 10pm at this time and we didn't think it was way too serious enough to take him to emergency pet hospital, so we wrapped up his tail in some gauze and stayed with him for a bit.
When we all were going to sleep, we decided to lock Kip in the kitchen with his dog-bed and food/water. We knew he wouldn't go to bed easily since he adores my mother and never sleeps away from her, but we had to try.
Just five minutes later, I heard the pitter-pattering of his feet and found that he had easily ripped off the bandage and jumped over the gate. His tail was freshly bleeding, the wound seemingly even longer than before.
For now, we've locked him in his crate (which he certainly can't get out of) without a bandage, since he could just rip it off again. It's going to be a hard night for the boy, but he'll just have to wait till morning when we'll bring him in to the vet.
What we think happened (we don't know for sure though) is that Kip was attacked by a fox. We have a fox that has lived around the house for years, and every night the dog goes out and barks for a few minutes, but they've never had any real contact. Why they picked now to fight, we don't know. It's even more puzzling why there was no blood or evidence of the fight outside. Luckily, the fox (if it was indeed him that Kip fought with) doesn't seem to be rabid, but we'll get Kip the shot anyways.
Send all good wishes to my dear Kip, we hope he'll do alright in the morning. I feel so bad for the poor thing, he's always been the sweetest, most timid dog and I can't bear to see him in pain. I guess we'll see what happens tomorrow.
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UPDATE 7-24-11: We've just returned home from the vet's office, and Kip is doing fine. Luckily his wound isn't too serious, he got all the necessary shots for rabies (the fox that attacked him clearly doesn't have rabies, but just to make sure) and is now prescribed to antibiotics for a week. The fur around the wound on his tail was shaved and they wrapped it up in a pretty green bandage. Kip seems a lot happier that he's all cleaned up. <3
Thank you all who wished Kip and me good luck, it means a lot <3 Just a few days and my lovely whippet will be as good as new.~
UPDATE 7-27-11: Today we took Kip back in to the vet's go get his bandage cut off and his wound inspected. My mother used to work with the vet, Dr. Koch, so he's very friendly and loose. He called us back to the room where they do 'vet stuff', and took us to where Kip was. His tail was looking very, very thin (literally the thickness of a rats tail) and the area where the gash was wasn't looking good. It's shriveled up and bloody, and no fur is growing back on it even though there is fur growing on the rest of his tail. Dr. Koch put a new bandage on it and said he'd take a look on it Friday, but said that there is about a 25% chance Kip will lose that part of his tail.
Hopefully the wound will start to heal more, but we can't be sure. We'll see on Friday I guess D:
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livestream
1 min read
I'm currently working on a project right now on Livestream, if anyone wants to watch and chat <3
www.livestream.com/zephayer
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tagged by twix ._.
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So be it.
1- Why and when did you start drawing?
Well .. I've been drawing since I was a kid, 'as soon as I could hold a pencil' blahblahblah cliché. But I don't see that as drawing. It's more like scribbling on a piece of paper and giving it a title of "Dog." xD When did I actually start drawing? Probably in 1st or 2nd grade, when I started writing books with my friends (yes, like twenty-page books). I would do all the illustrating. I wasn't that bad, I guess, for a six-year-old.
Here are some pictures from one of my many books I wrote, titled "Mystery of Mystery Dog" (part of the he Doggie Heaven series": i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae…
So I suppose that's when I actually started drawing, more then my peers. From there, I kept doodling in my school pages and at every chance I got.
2- Who's the very first character you have created?
Oh, dear. Well .. that'd have to be Complee, one of the characters from the Doggie Heaven series. Complee's name came from the word "complain", as she was one who would complain about everything, all the time. She was a canine, no set breed, with floppy ears, large eyes always looking upwards, a collar, angel wings and a halo, and stood on her hind legs. Most of the time Complee was drawn just in pencil, but occasionally when I would color her she showed to have all the colors of the rainbow (like most of the other dogs in Doggie Heaven). Here is a colored picture of her, from 1st or 2nd grade: i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae…
3- Who is your most important character? What does it mean for you? And why did you create it?
My most important character .. that would have to be Metz. Though I don't draw her as often as my canine characters, that is simply because I lack at skill when drawing felines. |D Metz is .. me, to say the least. I created her in mid-late 2010, when I first had the knowledge of what a fursona really was -- and realized that my current fursona at the time, a lioness called Faye, didn't represent me at all. So, I carefully created my dear tigress whose design remains the same to this very day: Metzalden.
4- Who are your other characters that means a lot for you, and why?
My two other main characters are Crescendo and Isolde:
I created Crescendo as my first gloom/scene character, as I was in a dark place then. His design was very complex (representing my life at the time), with many shades of gray in specific areas, and highlights of blue. He was complete with scene hair and piercings, which I had never really shown an interest to, but made the character. Crescendo is, I suppose, my stable character. He isn't a fursona, and therefore I will never change him, but he does represent me in a way; the darker side of me. Whenever I feel down, I draw Crescendo for vent art. He is very important and dear to me in ways I cannot explain.
Isolde .. oh, Isolde. I just love my dear Warrior of Isket. I had been watching the species (created by TheWolfsgirl90 on CS) for a while, and was in love with the designs and concept. One day, I came across a litter that was fathered by my favorite WOI, Darzek (owned by Neara). My eyes fell upon a dark brown she-pup, with golden markings and a white wing-pattern across her shoulder. I filled out a form for her, but knew I didn't work my hardest on it -- I admit, part of the reason I tried for her was because I wanted a WOI very bad. My poor reason reflected my efforts and I ended up not winning the pup.
Later on, another litter of WOI was released. In the litter was a small, beautiful pup, sitting in the curve of his mother. He displayed flame-colored markings, as well as a deep brown hood and back. White accented his warm design. As soon as I saw him, I fell in love. This time, when I filled out my form ... I went overboard, I admit. But that's what caused me to win him. To this day, I am in love with my dear Isolde. He reminds me of a childish version of myself: risky, full of adventure, not having a care in the world.
5- Why did you come on deviantART? How did you find this site?
When I first came to deviantART, I was under the username NinjuhKitteh. My best friend Allison (NinjuhBunneh on dA) introduced me to this site, and we were both emoticonists. I didn't draw much during that time, as I was totally caught up in emoticons. After a while, the hobby became rather boring. Now, at the time, I was part of a site called Horseland. My username changed often, but I was known for rescuing and breeding rare breeds and sighthounds. When my emoticoning failed to continue, I started up photo-manipulating (something I still do today, though not as much). My photo-manipulating "business", you could call it, was titled RBSR Designs. RBSR stood for Rare Breeds and Sighthound Rescue. I abandoned my NinjuhKitteh dA account and created a new one, RBSRdesigns. So, there you have it. Though I have no connection left to Horseland, and hate my username here, I am not moving because i don't want to lose my work and followers. So I remain RBSRdesigns.
6- What do like drawing the most?
Deep things. With quotes and other deep stuff. Yeah.
7- Why do you keep drawing?
Erm .. cause I'm good at it? I don't know, why do you keep doing anything?
8- How do you usually create characters? What theme do you stick to (If you seem to always design with certain themes)?
I'm a freak. I feel I cannot have too many characters at once. I don't know why, I just like having a few characters so I order art of all of them and love all of them. I know it is possible to love them without ordering art of them, but I don't like the idea of letting my characters collect dust in the back of a thread.
That out of the way .. Needless to say, if you read my small rant above, I don't adopt or create characters often. I usually create my own characters, since many characters for adoption these days are sparkledogs which I normally don't love, and when I do I just create whatever looks good. When I do adopt from others, I have to adore that character or I'll just see it as a waste of time and space. Yeah :/
9- How do you feel about your character's relationships with other characters? (This can range from enemies to friends to lovers)
I am not one who likes to have two of my own characters as mates. I think it's sometimes .. stupid. Not to be rude, but often when people create their "fursonas" (let me say, I am very particular on what I call and not call a fursona), they want a mate for them so they throw something together. This is NOT true for everyone, I have seen some adorable couples within the same user (Neara and Kovar, so damn adorable). I just don't do it for myself.
I also won't just pick some random user to own the mate of my one of my characters. I have to know them, to trust that they will follow through with the relationship. My pairings of my characters are Metz and Kiqlo (owned by my friend MiniHorse); Crescendo and Stella (owned by my dear friend TrixTheDog/Gwen Trix/Moonstar/Mel); and Isolde and Swift (owned by my friend BK13). I know all of their owners and pick carefully when choosing a mate, to avoid ugly clashing colors and ugly possible pups. xD
10- What's your favorite species to draw?
Ugh .. Canines. Yes, you, reader, are probably groaning right now. "How original. Zeph draws canines." Let me get one thing straight: I DON'T DRAW CANINES BECAUSE THEY ARE POPULAR. I DRAW THEM BECAUSE I LOVE THEM.
11- What are your motivation(s) when drawing?
Music, other art, real life experiences. But most of all, nature. Animals. My beautiful whippet Kip (whose birthday is today, he's an old man now -- 6 years!) inspires me every day. I love just watching him, how he works, and drawing him in his different odd positions.
12- What is probably the weirdest and/or biggest fail of an idea, character, design, etc you've ever had?
Well, real character (like not a pet rock or something, like every kid has done some time or another)? Probably some random-ass dude from the second page of Mystery of Mystery Dog (book 1 of Doggie Heaven series) who doesn't even appear in the rest of the book. I don't even know his damn name, it's Scgke or something. All I said in the book about him (and his cuter comrade) is: "But there is two cats, one sleek and one sly. The sly one is always rude and the other one is very nice." Here is a picture of my dearest Scgke: i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae…
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YEAH. HOPE ALL YOU MOFOS ENJOYED MY ANSWERS.
I tag ..
1- Why and when did you start drawing?
Well .. I've been drawing since I was a kid, 'as soon as I could hold a pencil' blahblahblah cliché. But I don't see that as drawing. It's more like scribbling on a piece of paper and giving it a title of "Dog." xD When did I actually start drawing? Probably in 1st or 2nd grade, when I started writing books with my friends (yes, like twenty-page books). I would do all the illustrating. I wasn't that bad, I guess, for a six-year-old.
Here are some pictures from one of my many books I wrote, titled "Mystery of Mystery Dog" (part of the he Doggie Heaven series": i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae…
So I suppose that's when I actually started drawing, more then my peers. From there, I kept doodling in my school pages and at every chance I got.
2- Who's the very first character you have created?
Oh, dear. Well .. that'd have to be Complee, one of the characters from the Doggie Heaven series. Complee's name came from the word "complain", as she was one who would complain about everything, all the time. She was a canine, no set breed, with floppy ears, large eyes always looking upwards, a collar, angel wings and a halo, and stood on her hind legs. Most of the time Complee was drawn just in pencil, but occasionally when I would color her she showed to have all the colors of the rainbow (like most of the other dogs in Doggie Heaven). Here is a colored picture of her, from 1st or 2nd grade: i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae…
3- Who is your most important character? What does it mean for you? And why did you create it?
My most important character .. that would have to be Metz. Though I don't draw her as often as my canine characters, that is simply because I lack at skill when drawing felines. |D Metz is .. me, to say the least. I created her in mid-late 2010, when I first had the knowledge of what a fursona really was -- and realized that my current fursona at the time, a lioness called Faye, didn't represent me at all. So, I carefully created my dear tigress whose design remains the same to this very day: Metzalden.
4- Who are your other characters that means a lot for you, and why?
My two other main characters are Crescendo and Isolde:
I created Crescendo as my first gloom/scene character, as I was in a dark place then. His design was very complex (representing my life at the time), with many shades of gray in specific areas, and highlights of blue. He was complete with scene hair and piercings, which I had never really shown an interest to, but made the character. Crescendo is, I suppose, my stable character. He isn't a fursona, and therefore I will never change him, but he does represent me in a way; the darker side of me. Whenever I feel down, I draw Crescendo for vent art. He is very important and dear to me in ways I cannot explain.
Isolde .. oh, Isolde. I just love my dear Warrior of Isket. I had been watching the species (created by TheWolfsgirl90 on CS) for a while, and was in love with the designs and concept. One day, I came across a litter that was fathered by my favorite WOI, Darzek (owned by Neara). My eyes fell upon a dark brown she-pup, with golden markings and a white wing-pattern across her shoulder. I filled out a form for her, but knew I didn't work my hardest on it -- I admit, part of the reason I tried for her was because I wanted a WOI very bad. My poor reason reflected my efforts and I ended up not winning the pup.
Later on, another litter of WOI was released. In the litter was a small, beautiful pup, sitting in the curve of his mother. He displayed flame-colored markings, as well as a deep brown hood and back. White accented his warm design. As soon as I saw him, I fell in love. This time, when I filled out my form ... I went overboard, I admit. But that's what caused me to win him. To this day, I am in love with my dear Isolde. He reminds me of a childish version of myself: risky, full of adventure, not having a care in the world.
5- Why did you come on deviantART? How did you find this site?
When I first came to deviantART, I was under the username NinjuhKitteh. My best friend Allison (NinjuhBunneh on dA) introduced me to this site, and we were both emoticonists. I didn't draw much during that time, as I was totally caught up in emoticons. After a while, the hobby became rather boring. Now, at the time, I was part of a site called Horseland. My username changed often, but I was known for rescuing and breeding rare breeds and sighthounds. When my emoticoning failed to continue, I started up photo-manipulating (something I still do today, though not as much). My photo-manipulating "business", you could call it, was titled RBSR Designs. RBSR stood for Rare Breeds and Sighthound Rescue. I abandoned my NinjuhKitteh dA account and created a new one, RBSRdesigns. So, there you have it. Though I have no connection left to Horseland, and hate my username here, I am not moving because i don't want to lose my work and followers. So I remain RBSRdesigns.
6- What do like drawing the most?
Deep things. With quotes and other deep stuff. Yeah.
7- Why do you keep drawing?
Erm .. cause I'm good at it? I don't know, why do you keep doing anything?
8- How do you usually create characters? What theme do you stick to (If you seem to always design with certain themes)?
I'm a freak. I feel I cannot have too many characters at once. I don't know why, I just like having a few characters so I order art of all of them and love all of them. I know it is possible to love them without ordering art of them, but I don't like the idea of letting my characters collect dust in the back of a thread.
That out of the way .. Needless to say, if you read my small rant above, I don't adopt or create characters often. I usually create my own characters, since many characters for adoption these days are sparkledogs which I normally don't love, and when I do I just create whatever looks good. When I do adopt from others, I have to adore that character or I'll just see it as a waste of time and space. Yeah :/
9- How do you feel about your character's relationships with other characters? (This can range from enemies to friends to lovers)
I am not one who likes to have two of my own characters as mates. I think it's sometimes .. stupid. Not to be rude, but often when people create their "fursonas" (let me say, I am very particular on what I call and not call a fursona), they want a mate for them so they throw something together. This is NOT true for everyone, I have seen some adorable couples within the same user (Neara and Kovar, so damn adorable). I just don't do it for myself.
I also won't just pick some random user to own the mate of my one of my characters. I have to know them, to trust that they will follow through with the relationship. My pairings of my characters are Metz and Kiqlo (owned by my friend MiniHorse); Crescendo and Stella (owned by my dear friend TrixTheDog/Gwen Trix/Moonstar/Mel); and Isolde and Swift (owned by my friend BK13). I know all of their owners and pick carefully when choosing a mate, to avoid ugly clashing colors and ugly possible pups. xD
10- What's your favorite species to draw?
Ugh .. Canines. Yes, you, reader, are probably groaning right now. "How original. Zeph draws canines." Let me get one thing straight: I DON'T DRAW CANINES BECAUSE THEY ARE POPULAR. I DRAW THEM BECAUSE I LOVE THEM.
11- What are your motivation(s) when drawing?
Music, other art, real life experiences. But most of all, nature. Animals. My beautiful whippet Kip (whose birthday is today, he's an old man now -- 6 years!) inspires me every day. I love just watching him, how he works, and drawing him in his different odd positions.
12- What is probably the weirdest and/or biggest fail of an idea, character, design, etc you've ever had?
Well, real character (like not a pet rock or something, like every kid has done some time or another)? Probably some random-ass dude from the second page of Mystery of Mystery Dog (book 1 of Doggie Heaven series) who doesn't even appear in the rest of the book. I don't even know his damn name, it's Scgke or something. All I said in the book about him (and his cuter comrade) is: "But there is two cats, one sleek and one sly. The sly one is always rude and the other one is very nice." Here is a picture of my dearest Scgke: i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae…
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I tag ..
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