The commission stream was a great success!
It went better than i thought. I got carried away with most of the commissions eventually doing speedpaints and having the customers watch while i work is a great insureance everything turns out to their liking.

This experience convinced me to try this again.
Maybe not today, though i might be streaming some in just a few minutes, so in the unlikely event of someone being online and bored... check out my stream in about half an hour (ill post the link here)

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Hey everyone. GREAT NEWS!
Ive been working with  :magnusmagneto23: on Stacy's background story. Ive had it in mind all the years but never got it down mostly cause im no writer.
:magnusmagneto23: however took the shot and started writing Stacys adventures down and he did an awesome job on this first chapter.
I am going to collect all the chapters in one large PDF file and add Illustrations for the chapters. If anyone would like to suggest a specific scene from the chapters to draw, or even feels like drawing it him/herself, id be glad to hear from you!

Meanwhile check the story out here:[link]




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Todays bit from five rings:
"Timing in Strategy
There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal
of practice.
Timing is important in dancing and pipe or string music, for they are in rhythm only
if timing is good. Timing and rhythm are also involved in the military arts, shooting bows
and guns, and riding horses. In all skills and abilities there is timing.
There is also timing in the Void.
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his
harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and
fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. In
strategy there are various timing considerations. From the outset you must know the
applicable timing and the inapplicable timing, and from among the large and small things
and the fast and slow timings find the relevant timing, first seeing the distance timing and
the background timing. This is the main thing in strategy. It is especially important to know
the background timing, otherwise your strategy will become uncertain.
You win in battles with the timing in the Void born of the timing of cunning by
knowing the enemies' timing, and this using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
All the five books are chiefly concerned with timing. You must train sufficiently to
appreciate all this.
If you practise day and night in the above Ichi school strategy, your spirit will
naturally broaden. Thus is large scale strategy and the strategy of hand to hand combat
propagated in the world. This is recorded for the first time in the five books of Ground,
Water, Fire, Tradition (Wind), and Void. This is the Way for men who want to learn my
strategy:
- Do not think dishonestly.
- The Way is in training.
- Become aquainted with every art.
- Know the Ways of all professions.
- Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters.
- Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.
- Perceive those things which cannot be seen.
- Pay attention even to trifles.
- Do nothing which is of no use.
It is important to start by setting these broad principles in your heart, and train in the Way
of strategy. If you do not look at things on a large scale it will be difficult for you to master
strategy. If you learn and attain this strategy you will never lose even to twenty or thirty
enemies. More than anything to start with you must set your heart on strategy and
earnestly stick to the Way. You will come to be able to actually beat men in fights, and to
be able to win with your eye. Also by training you will be able to freely control your own
body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training you will be able to beat ten
men with your spirit. When you have reached this point, will it not mean that you are
invincible?
Moreover, in large scale strategy the superior man will manage many subordinates
dextrously, bear himself correctly, govern the country and foster the people, thus
preserving the ruler's discipline. If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated,
to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of strategy."

The second year of Shoho (1645), the fifth month, the twelfth day.
Teruo Magonojo32 SHINMEN MUSASHI