Full Resolution Pics #147

Hi, my Clubhouse friends!

First of all, I'm sorry that I have not so much to share this second half of the month, but I really don't want to leave you without updates on Patreon, and I haven't done too much artistically. This week I was practicing a little bit of painting with my left hand. One of the ones I'm sharing here was a copy of a painting of an artist who I admire (and who I'm also supporting here on Patreon) that is "Animal Shapes"

https://twitter.com/animal_shapes/status/1657105519751069696

I saw this raccoon painting some few days ago and I wanted to try to copy part of it but using my left hand, and I think the result was okay-ish, but that made me realize it is easier to paint with left hand than drawing, so I tried doing this mouse, who belongs to the awesome artist Toni Matzo, I recommend you highly to check out his art:

https://twitter.com/Deadyoung7

And yesterday I was doing during a super long staff meeting this other painting of this red panda, who is Siphen, a guy from Israel who I've been talking with lately.

That's about the pictures I'm sharing with you this time. If you want a quick update about my life even if nobody has asked for it, here we go:

Now I'm calling my problem  about "my arm" and not about "my wrist", since I knew it is not a wrist problem, but about my forearm. And indeed these days the pain is mainly on my forearm and I rarely can feel it on my hand or on my wrist, but it is still there.

It's frustrating, for more that I'm trying to avoid frustration, leading to meditation and searching answers on many places, also to keep my peace of mind, I can't deny it has been frustrating that I can't work regularly.
I've been offered for cool projects that I needed to reject, but I'm recommending instead good friends and awesome new artists who are just popping out (like Toni Matzo). But it would be a big lie if I say it has frustrated me that I'm losing some cool opportunities just because this problem is still going on.

I'm still confident this is going to be alright and I'll be back to draw regularly, and I'm trying to reduce my level of stress, because I'm sure this is something that caused my problem on first place as well.

Ah yeah... I'm a married panda now :D yaay!!

The event was so small but very beautiful! Just as how we imagined it was going to be. Our closest family and our local friends attended to it, and it was really awesome! We appreciated the gifts and the nice messages we received during those days (days before, during that day, and days after). I was not expecting to have a really big wedding, and I remember always being nervous to think about it, that "now we have lots of friends all over the world, I think we will want to invite all of them to our wedding party, so I guess it would need to be in a resort, to invite everyone, and suddenly receiving so many people here" and that idea stressed me a little bit, it was going to be like organizing a furry convention, hehe. 

So I'm glad we didn't go to that idea and we kept it really small with only a few guests (we only had around 30 guests), apologizes if many of you wanted to be invited, but especially now I want to reduce my level of stress, and it is enough being part of the staff of a furry convention that is growing up so fast and we still have very few staff members. So if I was organizing this, it had to be this small, with no big things to happen. It was just fruit as starter, buffet of tacos for 40 people, we has nerdy options for drink like soda, coffee, milk, tea, and beer for those who drink, and we bought bottles of wine for the toast, but since I can't drink alcohol for now (for my arm's treatment) and Roni doesn't really like alcohol, we also bought a bottle with sparkling apple juice (Americans would call it "cider"), and it was a very nice toast. Oh we also had a cake as well, which was beautiful!! for those who didn't get to see it here it is:

It was all in a small ballroom some few blocks away our house. So it was easy to go back and forward to our house for things we forgot there.

It was a super cheap celebration, especially I had to do it very inexpensive since I'm living only by my savings and by Patreon, so we didn't spend more than $250 total for absolutely everything, even including the cake and the food for everyone. But also my family helped in many aspects. That's something that I also liked from this quick celebration, that it was so beautiful and we didn't go all out. 

And now I can say that Roni is officially part of my family. He has been for years now, but now we can prove it with a paper.

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And now the thanks again to all of you. It is like saying "I love you" to that loved ones, when they already know it, but it is said more for being grateful to have them our side. So yeah, I can't stop being so grateful with all of you, because you give me a chance to recover from this arm problem, that if it was not for all of you, this would be even more frustrating, I know it sounds so silly to support an artist who is not producing anything for the moment and I'm so aware of this, but here you are! Supporting this silly artist who is unable to do art. 

This is taking longer than I expected, but I'm sure that when I'm recovered I will be even more grateful with life, with all of you, and taking more care with the amount of work I do, I'm learning a big lesson and I won't repeat it. So thanks for your patience, for your support, for your understanding, and for being so empathic.

This is how we should be with everyone, if patience and empathy was something we could all learn, there would be less hatred, anger and stress in the world. 

I love you all!

Paco.