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To be honest...I think the R&C went downhill after they moved it from it's original location as a subforum of Picture Post (or was it Art Discussion? I can't remember, they moved it last April). I came back from a trip to Vegas and I was completely lost in the torrent of notsogreat art. I used to be able to check every shop/auction/request thread that popped up. Now I just go to the ones in my subscriptions and occassionally pop in to see what's on the first page.


http://loish.deviantart.com does really nice traditioinal media. I think she charges $70 for a fullbody but I'm not sure.

http://kiyo.deviantart.com does some stuff in acrylics. I don't think her style will really suit your character though.

And that's all I have right now because deviantart isn't letting me load pages. *has her watchlist organized into catagories of style and medium.*

i'm deviating towards breedables. i'm only in the r&c with the people that i know. it's rather disappointing since i can't really find good artists. that and gaia is good for one set of my characters, but not the other, so i've only really looked for one set of character art. whee

sabin - yes..satou, i need to email her back. XD;; ^^;;

lili - i really don't want art of my gaian avatar. XD;; i dunno, i'd rather have it of my original characters.


http://tinypic.com/6dr7gx.jpg gift that kit bought for me. <333

Fanta5y made this cute realistic headshot for me - go Pilot Goggles!

Thanks Joe heart (less than a week til AX! *is really excited*)

Lili: It was a lot better (in my opinion). Smaller. I think I ran into Raesha/Washu/Zer/Joe in shops CONSTANTLY. Y'all always got there before me blaugh (I think I used to stalk a few of you just to see the art of your characters)

The move brought in more artists (which was both a good and bad thing) but it also brought in a lot of customers. And a lot of the newcomers had more money to spend (previous exchangers + breedables owners) thus the massive increase (in my opinion) in price ranges. 2k used to be a lot for a full body piece. Now you can only hope to get a decent headshot for that much. And on the rare occassion, someone who is awesome and doesn't care much about gold. And then people started recieving tons more in auctions (which were rare back then. You'd see maybe five tops in 3 pages) so there were more auctions and more and more. And now that's mostly all the R&C is from what I've seen.

Now I just get art on gaia based on the things I see from you guys and when Jaded sends me a link every once in awhile. I've always been more into real money commissions (the only one who's main source of art is via RL commishes according to the poll XD ) but since the R&C isn't so great anymore I have less and less to do on gaia lately. I'll (hopefully) be busy again when my new breedable shop comes out though ninja Ahriah is my co-owner and the artist! I'm excited. ^^

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a random fron neku, she finally finished it. <3 more jhack stuff, some colors off because it was started when i was still wavering on colors, since all i was pencilled stuff.



thanks for the pb thumb thing. 8D it's spiffeh.

oh yah..ahah..thanks rae. i was too excited, thinking "i can use thumbs feature" and didn't link it. XD;;


and yes, she used to be galafia. XD;; her art is gorgeous, different. 3nodding