Everyone who's ever loved you

Help Needed!

mazz — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 02:49:20 GMT

PLEASE READ, I NEED YOUR HELP TO CREATE A FREE BIRD COLORING BOOK!!!! (just answer some questions)

So for 2015 I plan to make a free online bird coloring book.
My hope is to maybe eventually when I feel I've done enough images and if there's enough interest in the future to possibly publish this coloring book for hard copy sales online and at conventions.
I have created this google questionnaire to try to gauge interest in this task.
Your input is appreciated, any extra tips or information you can leave in the last question at the bottom of the form.

Please share this with others if you feel they may be interested in answering my short few questions.
Mazz Tornfeathers.

http://goo.gl/forms/fEMhLYTXNX

Angry Rehabber PSA

mazz — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 02:56:06 GMT

YOU SEE THIS BEAUTIFUL JUVENILE RED-TAILED HAWK?
Well she came in with a broken wing and showing favor of her right foot and not putting weight on her left. I did her in-take last night and got her settled in and some fluids going and wrapped the broken wing.

Today i took her in for an x-ray, not only was her wing broken, the vet found via x-ray her torso had multiple pellets lodged in it from a pellet gun.
None of which were in an area that would hinder her in the future so we decided against surgery to remove them as birds are really touchy under anesthesia and we don't like doing surgery if we don't have too.
The ulna break is assume to be from a pellet as she does have an open wound in the area as well and her leg is pretty bruised up but luckily no break to her leg.

IT IS NOT A GAME OR AMUSEMENT TO SHOOT AT ANIMALS WITH PELLET GUNS. You are causing them harm, you are injuring them and if they're not lucky enough to be found and treated they die a slow and painful death probably from starvation.
Stop it, stop fucking shooting animals with your pellet guns, it's not fucking funny and this is not the first bird we've gotten in with injuries from them.
Hopefully this lady will make it back to the wild, she's not even a first year bird, wing breaks are hit or miss, she may or may not fly again.

Redlines critique please.

mazz — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 18:16:44 GMT

Click image for full view, he's a fatty beaver and... ANATOMY WHAT IS?
Help

Commissions/trades/free art cancelled.

mazz — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:46:23 GMT

Yea I'm going to be one of those people.

If I owe you a trade and you have not started please do not start the trade until further notice.
If you have started or done your half I will try to get my half out when I mentally can handle it as soon as possible or i will send you the monetary value of your art when I send commission refunds the first week of April, note me for details.

If you paid money for art, you will get a refund come the first week of April, note me for details on the refund date (there's like 2 people who have paid art waiting).

All free art is currently cancelled/on hold, I still will do raffle winner and kiribian winners just expect to wait. I will try to get to it when I can but right now I'm on suicide watch and just can't... do anything right now.
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David did not dump me, we are still very much together but I'm sorry what's going on will not be told to the public.
I just.. need to figure out how to deal with my life crashing around me.

(anyone who does know what's going on please don't even hint at it here. Thanks).

Chestnut-Mandibled Toucan

mazz — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 19:49:18 GMT

I started this a few months ago after I did that Snowy Owl picture I had fallen in love with. Finally got around to finishing it today. I admit I got a little lazy with the black on the body.
Overall though I'm super happy with the result, especially that bill, I'm really loving how that came out.
Still trying to figure out how to do this realism thing.

Reference Image: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11595455/

Personal opinion.

mazz — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 05:22:24 GMT

I know I’m not the best artist but… this is the truth and how I feel. I was not comfortable inking that sketch as it was. Reworking the head and the book/torso made me so much happier with the final product.

Don’t half ass just to get things done. It shows in your work if you do.

Tickers of a lame bird

mazz — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:53:16 GMT

Cause I can.

I wanna make a "been clean off heroin" one too but I gotta find another site for that one.

LOOKIT HER BEAK!!! IT'S GROWING BACK YAY!!!

mazz — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 05:16:46 GMT

Click pic for full size.

PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS!!!

First, where I live it it ILLEGAL to keep these birds in your home, I work for a licensed rehab center as a provisionally licensed rehabber. I am legally allowed to care for these injured birds at my home for short periods of time but this girl is kept at the actual center.
If you find an injured bird please get it to a licensed and trained rehabilitator, without proper care from someone with proper training this bird would have died.
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This is a Swainson's Hawk. She was found caught in a barbed wire fence with an injured wing and a beak, that obviously had broken before the got caught in the fence.
Her wing has healed, she can fly.

LUCKILY her beak did break before the growth plate. So her beak WILL GROW BACK. this is actually pics of her I took after we've had her like 2 months, I won't show pictures of her originally (we keep these for reference of the progress).

She'll be with us for about a year, we will need to trim and shape her upper beak and trim her lower beak to keep it from overgrowing. Then she will go back to the wild with nice healed beak.

She is able to tear food on her own now which is a great step!

If you ever wondered what the inside of a bird of prey's mouth looked like here ya go. The hole at the back of her tongue is what she is breathing through, the sharp points just before it are her "forks" she uses to help pull meat into her mouth.
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This got removed from FA cause apparently it contains too much violence and gore and death.
Because a bird healing who will go back to the wild is violence, dead and gore. -_-

That spot of blood.. the scab fell off a few days early, herp a derp oh no.

Note: I understand rules for not wanting to post things like roadkill with guts spilling out but this was posted to my photo account for an artistic reference as well as an OMG YAY LOOK WHAT WE'RE DOING TO SAVE THESE AMAZING ANIMALS.

Art. :)

mazz — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:27:32 GMT

This amazing artist named JaciMae wanted to do a trade with me. After I spasmed from the extreme happy I of course did the trade.
I got their character Cherry, who is beautiful, I love the cherry blossom wings, the reference had the wings with and without the blossoms so I thought this pose with some of the petals blowing in the wind would be fun to try.
I'm so proud of this picture!!!

We agreed to wait to post it to FA until we're both done, she's almost done with her half but I'm just so excited wit how this came out I have to post it to LJ now. :)

Arts

mazz — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 04:07:09 GMT

Birthday gift for my friend Alex
It's him and his husband!!! :p
I'm so in love with how this came out.

8x10 Marker on card stock.

Little Gray Tiger

mazz — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:42:56 GMT

Icon for littlegraytiger
Way more detailed than originally planned but I had a little too much fun with my pens hahaha.
She asked for something green and said she imagined walking in a local forest. I really hope you like this. I am really thrilled with how it looks.
The resize isn't as good unless I crop it a bit because of the detail but... yea.

3inx3in ink and colored pencil on card stock.

10 years...

mazz — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:32:16 GMT

Note, this post and the post I link too are about heroin and use and relapse and other possible triggers. it means a lot to me if anyone reads all of both posts but if you can't don't.

Today marks 10 years clean off heroin... wow.
i wrote somthing 5 years ago. It still fits.
http://mazz.livejournal.com/746590.html

Over the past 5 years a lot has changed, my little sister found a great man got married.
My daughter hasn't stopped growing. Cancer seems to be lying dormant and it's nice.

This past year has been the hardest. Depression hit, I wasn't supported but treated badly for my depression. Dumped and thrown out and replaced with something 10 years younger than me.
Suicidal, broken and wishing for death. Not even 2 weeks ago I thought about relapsing and taking that sweet horrible drug into my veins so I can't feel the pain anymore. I wanted it to end.
I almost went back to heroin... It was hard for me not too but I pushed passed it.

I've been in a new fresh relationship for a few days... what we have isn't what I had with my husband but what we have is what I need right now and it works well.

Life is hard, I would have regretted using when I hit that low. I know I would have. I was so close to this 10 year mark. IT FEELS GREAT to have hit it.

10 years clean....
Who'd have thought I'd make it this far.

Stay Up, Stay Kind, Stay Alive, Ride Free.

Reference Sheet

mazz — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:55:04 GMT

Kowe Reference Sheet by =TornFeathers on deviantART

Reference Sheet commission for Kowe
I may start selling these for probably $30 to $40 depending on complexity. This would be what you get for the base price. Front/back and 3 close ups of your choice.

It's inked traditionally and colored digitally with my tablet in photoshop. Once I learn to ink digitally I'll do references all digital but for now my traditional inkwork is so much better.

Anyways, I FREAKING AM SO PROUD OF THAT RIGHT HAND ON THE BACK VIEW!
You have no idea.

Enjoy.

Rarity Watercolor

mazz — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:08:13 GMT

Done for a friend of mine who gifted me a Fluttershy belt he didn't wear one day I was bitching about not having a belt.
I felt bad just getting it for free so I painted him his favorite FiM character.

8x10 Watercolor, ink and paint marker.
Rarity (c) Hasbro

Rarity Watercolor by =TornFeathers on deviantART

$5 BADGES FOR FURRY FIESTA CON-GOERS, $10 for everyone else.

mazz — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:21:23 GMT

I'll be doing $5 COLORED PENCIL badges for Furry Fiesta con-goers. These will be laminated with a clip for pick up at the con only.
$10 WATERCOLOR badges are also available for pick up at the con.

I don't have a lot of examples of badges but you can see my artwork in my gallery.
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/mazz/

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If non-con goers would like badges for a sale price you can get colored pencil badges shipped to you for $10 total and watercolor badges shipped for $15.

Sizes for the badges are roughly 3x5.

Prices for other commissions here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8395365/

Spread the word if you'd be so kind.
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Note me for inquiries here, FA or via email; chewingonyoursoul@gmail

Paradise

mazz — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:36:08 GMT

When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep...

http://youtu.be/J6ZWlDks0nQ

Lyrics (c) Coldplay...
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Vent Art.

Paradise by =TornFeathers on deviantART

More art

mazz — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:02:39 GMT

Skippy by =TornFeathers on deviantART

My half of an art trade with faeseiren on FA.
Their unicorn Skippy rearing up before running under the stars.
I am in love with how this came out, I haven't done anything larger than an ATC in watercolor for awhile so I was a little nervous making something this large.
I love the result tho. :)

About 9''x9'' watercolor and ink.

Ref: http://fav.me/d4xhl0s

Art

mazz — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:26:54 GMT

Broken wings by =TornFeathers on deviantART

When a bird is left with broken wings it no longer flies free.

Vent Art

2 more art cards

mazz — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:40:12 GMT

Oh look I'm caught up on all the art cards I owed.
I guess technically I only owed one of these, the second was a gift.

Citlali ATC by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Halloween Hoot ACEO by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

2 ATCs

mazz — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:27:09 GMT

I got one I also need to do for a commission but I forgot the wings and painted the background so I gotta lightbox it and add wings.

Korth Halloween ATC by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Kayla-la Halloween ATC by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Art dump time

mazz — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:13:49 GMT

hezbellah ATC by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

PyroElk by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Mississippi Kite ATC by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Osprey ATC by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Pony icon by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Change how you look... by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Grimwag by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

ATC/ACEO Sale

mazz — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:57:44 GMT

3.5x2.5 ATC/ACEO watercolor originals are on sale $10.
I'm unsure of how many I will take at one time if I get a lot of wants for them.
Anthro/feral available.
I'll try other creatures as well.
Clean art only, no fetishes.
More examples: http://ravenskunk.deviantart.com/gallery/39507129

My TOS can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ivmbm3WR7NBKE9hgyaNQE3kDnyudO6F1QMOw69N4mkM/edit?pli=1

Comment here, note me or send an email chewingonyoursoul @ gmail.com

Fairy Mouse

mazz — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:12:45 GMT

Fairy Mouse by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Hoot

mazz — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:33:48 GMT

Isuara by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Art Card dump

mazz — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:19:16 GMT

You don't get a stinkin cut

Kingfisher by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Stylized Hoot by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Gentleman Skunk by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Skunk ATC by =RavenSkunk on deviantART

Neo by =RavenSkunk on deviantART