Heads Up! Advance notice of Away from Office

Hey Folx, InkyPaws here,

This is a public post, I’ve pretty much put this up on all our social media spaces, but wanted to put on the website as well for main source of news.

We are OUT OF OFFICE May 2nd through 6th! (As well as prior and following weekend).
We will be back in office the following Monday (the 9th of May).

We plan on taking some personal time to work on personal projects, as well as get some stuff done around the house that’s been piling up WAY too long. I’ve also been running at full steam for much too long and its costing me physically. I’ve also got 2 physical therapy appointments that week, as well as an important doctors appointment for something that’s been troubling me for much too long physically which makes working difficult (remember all those nights I had to disappear randomly from stream?). DaftFur wants to focus on some personal merch products they’ve been stalling on, as well as possibly a new collaborative species they’ve been brainstorming on lately?

Anyways. We’ve updated the calendar for some events we WILL be working this year for physical cons. (Such as Wildnights April 21st-23rd)

As you’ve also noticed on the website, our commission prices for both FURSUITS and ART commissions have raised for both DaftFur and myself. We think we can focus on more art stuff and wanted to reflect in our prices our seriousness for business.

Thank you all for your support and patience! We love you all so much.

Charlie and Ichigo
AKA InkyPaw and DaftFur

With the Way of the World...

So it's been a while since I've posted an update journal in here. I've decided we're not doing any "in person" vending this year. Things are too unstable with COVID19 currently for us to risk vending in person. I was stuck vending TTFC alone, and ACFI a month later was... not good sales.
If there are any furcons online, we'll try to work those where we can.

DaftFur and I have signed on to staff TTFC (Tails and Tornadoes Fur Con) as full fledged artists, and I am Dealer's Den Liason as well.

In the mean time, art comms are full force fulltime for me. I've tried several times to get a "real" job, but after being laid off three times with the military contract work, and getting scammed a couple thousand dollars worth of work from another business for doing models, I've decided I'm better off just doing my stuff on my own.

As you've all noticed, there hasn't been much suit work. My part time helper got tied up in their own commissions, and I've been tied up with drawing comms and finding real work(Finances at home got tight with Daftfur's day job going belly up).
I'm working on finishing up suits and refunding others that haven't been started, which is turning into a big of a mess. Otherwise customs are completely closed, parts and suits. I've got enough fur to do some premades to sell online (Hopefully on Dealers Den's auction website)

Anyways. I hope things smooth out. It's also beginning of the year so Art Prices have gone up to keep up with skill and CoL.

Anyways all, I hope you lot are doing good, keep your chin up. We'll get through this.

Update on Business

Tomorrow afternoon while Ichigo’s gone for work and before she gets home/I start my evening stream, I'm taking the day off and going to try to overhaul the indoor office space

We spent today (Sunday) as a day off from streaming and working. Super appreciated a day off from work, we need to get better about not working on Sundays as it's our one day off we promised not to stream or work. We did however spend the afternoon running needed errands (I desperately needed new oil, and we went grocery shopping), and the evening we cleaned out the garage to remodel into a workshop/photography studio for... stuff.... PM me about it if you're of age.

Afterwards we chilled and plotted some financial projects!

Here is our goal list for upcoming projects.

$250 = new enamel pin for shop

$200 = garage/studio space remodel

$75 = art og/print storage center building materials

$500 = new studio equipment (easels, lights, etc, photography props)

If you'd be interested in helping me fund some of these projects Drop a Tip on my PayPal and leave a note for what project you want to see worked on next!

https://paypal.me/inkypawprintsstudio

ALSO! Did you know I STREAM 6 days a week! YES!

https://twitch.tv/inkypawprints

Monday/Wednesday are my commission nights
Tuesday/Thursday are my videogame nights where I play things the audience asks me to play!
Friday is DRINK N DRAW the only time I take drawing requests!
Saturdays is my Private NSFW night on a different platform. Follow me on Discord to find out where that is!

Come Join my Discord for more frequent updates than here on my blog!
https://discord.gg/GzS7KzF

Hello World!

Happy Post Thanks Giving for all my US followers! I hope you all have had a good celebratory time.

That also means its Black Friday/Cyber Monday time! Be sure to check out the Fursuit Shop and the IPPS Shop for discounted items, including our new Ichigo Pin!



We have some exciting news today! We’ve been accepted to vend at Midwest FurFest’s Virtual Dealer’s Den! The dates for that are Dec. 18-20th! Coupon for that weekend is MFF2020!

Don’t forget! We’re going to be vending and streaming for BabyFurCon on Dec. 12th! This is a ONE DAY ONLY con! Our coupon code for that one is BFC2020 for that weekend only!

But also! I forgot to mention earlier. We’re accepted into CouchCon on Ice! The dates for that are December 4-6th! Coupon code for that weekend is CC2020!


That’s all my announcements for now! I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Thanks for all your support this year!

Charlie and DaftFur

Things are looking rough...

Looks like I’m about to have another bought of unemployment. HOPEFULLY that means more progress and focus on business and things here. I hope. I’m still nervous. Things are picking up here. KINKTOBER went off without a hitch. All pieces were completed BEFORE the deadline! I was so proud of myself. I hope to do more kinky/NSFW content in the future, but you wont be seeing that on this web page

Want to see it? Please subscribe to my Patreon channel where I post WIP, behind the scenes AND MORE! This is my primary place I post NSFW content in order to keep my website clean and clear of you filthy animals ;) /jk
https://patreon.com/inkypawprintsstudio

Anyways, with unemployment, means doors closing. And hopefully more doors opening! I’m starting to collaborate on a comic with someone in Oklahoma City who wants a comic illustrated. Pray this works!!

Things are going okay otherwise. Continuing with suit and art commissions though some get finished faster than others. I need to start focusing more on premade fursuits than on custom made fursuits in order to meet the big bucks, but that’ll come in time. I’m also thinking about retiring from fursuits since they’re so time consuming. Whats your thoughts? Should I continue?

Starting this weekend I’m going to be doing a charity stream for my home town’s animal shelter.

11/14
11/21
11/28

Please join us on Twitch for a fun filled time. I’ll be raffling off art slots, merch, and fursuit parts!
Twitch
DONATE HERE

We're (hopefully) back into full swing!

Quarantine has been really stressful for myself and DaftFur. Our commissions have slowed, and in person conventions have been canceled to the end of the year. But fear not! We have not closed commissions completely!

Mental health has taken the forefront of our focus lately as our day jobs have split our schedules in chaotic ways. We’ve taken it slow and easy and haven’t been advertising as much lately until recovering.

What does that mean for the future???
Well! As you’ve probably seen, we’ve been applying to online cons and making ourselves known! Our next scheduled con is CozyCon (September 18-20th) on Discord, and other random other cons! I’ll try to make posts here more often where to find us!

Our streams have finally settled into a regular routine. Want to come visit me while we’re Live?

INKY’S TWITCH’s schedule is M/W/F afternoons into evening hours (Unless something comes up last minute) for art streams on Twitch! If there is a NSFW STREAM there will be a notice on our social media’s and Discord servers with the appropriate link.

DAFTFUR’S STREAMS (SFW) are on Friday/Saturday alternating between art and videogames depending on the mood. DAFTFUR’S NSFW STREAM will be for NSFW art streams. Both announcements will also be made on our public Discord and Telegram Channels.

That’s all the updates I have for now! I’ll let you all know if there are any other conventions we get scheduled for!

Upcoming cons!

Our schedule for upcoming ONLINE cons!

Saturday April 25th - BabyFurCon 2020 https://sites.google.com/nachohusky.com/cubcon
Saturday April 25th - RAMcon 2020 https://www.therealramcon.org/
Saturday/Sunday May 2-3rd - CozyCon 2020 https://cozycononline.com/ Be sure to join us at these upcoming online cons!

Be sure to use the codes BFC2020, Cozycon2020, or RAMcon2020 in our shop for discounts!

Sad Times Ahead

With COVID-19 in full swing, most of our conventions for 2020 until June have been canceled. This includes Wildnights, and Gateway Furmeet. Texas Furry Siesta is currently up in the air, we do plan on attending that one as a mini vacation regardless if we get into the Dealer’s Den/Artist Alley.

What does this mean for IPPS?

Well… Our financial situation is rather unstable. I’ve been without work since January, but luckily DaftFur has kept his job and is continuing to work during quarantine as he’s been deemed essential for his company to continue his progress.

What can you do to help?

That is on you to decide! Currently to help with the economy I’ve released all coloring pages to be downloadable for FREE! Yes, free for the public’s use. I’ll be hopefully uploading more coloring pages in the near future to continue this project. But that doesn’t help us financially. I’m uploading new products onto the website as quickly as I can. As you’ve possibly noticed we now have several vinyl stickers with a variety of colors to choose from! And can’t forget the many, many, MANY premade tails available in the fursuit shop! Please consider adopting some of our products to get out to you as quickly as possible!

What about contamination of products?

We are currently setting aside all packages coming into our business into the garage to sit for a week per box in order to let any chance of contamination die off. Our stations are being sanitized each time that we sit down and work on anything.

In the mean time, please take care of one another by not going outside unless you really need to. Our team is doing our best to keep our contamination risk as bay as well.

For now that is all I have to say! I want to say thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way so far during these trying time!

Thanks,

Charlie/InkyPaw

Website Minor/Major Overhaul!

Alright guys, we’re taking a bite out of the big bullet! We’re hiring a web developer to organize and consolidate our two websites so welcome back BewitchedPaws to be back under the InkyPaw domain!

Lots of stuff is going on in our neck of the woods. We’ve got three suits in the process, and are about to start a fourth suit! I’ll have to post some photos of the latest crazy tail we’re working on! It’s all being hand-sewn leopard spots. It’s going to be great!

As for artwork, work is continuing as normal. We’re keeping busy with art and continuing to produce work. Just as a heads up, all our NSFW material is being moved off InkyPaw’s main website and being put behind a paywall on Patreon! If you wish to visit and see our NSFW stuff, including a BRAND STINKIN’ NEW PIECE, please visit our Patreon HERE. Subscribe and pay $2 a month and get behind the scenes work, AND be invited to a special chat where you get to see work in progress!

Also, it’s been a while, but did you know? We have a Discord! Check it out HERE!

Anyways, that’s all I have to write about right now! I’ll update you lot next time we have some exciting news!

It's been a little while...

It’s been a very interesting past 6 months, lots have changed!

I’ve decided I will not be finishing my graphic design degree at this time and will be focusing on my illustrations and fursuits instead for now.

Speaking of fursuits. We have a new website for our fursuit side of InkyPawPrintsStudio as well as a sub business name! Check out Bewitched Paws; our official fursuit business name for both DaftFur (my husband) and I!

Also, HUSBAND! That’s also massive news! I recently got married (February 14th)! This is been part of why things have been slow to being updated here on InkyPawPrintsStudio! Like I said, LOTS of changes.

As of last semester, I had started taking watercolor classes at the local university. I’ve really fallen in love with the medium and plan to work that into my traditional illustrations. I’m enrolled in my final watercolor class (for now) at the university and will be finishing that up this spring.

Starting last semester I started doing Playing Cards, for a custom deck of Furry Illustrated playing cards for poker and other card games! That was very successful and finished it in great timing! We had a kickstarter back in January that was funded to my goal point and will be published here before very long! I’ll have these decks for sale at Texas Furry Fiesta as well as many more cons and in my online store. Check out my new album of watercolor paintings to see these and other paintings that have been completed in the past few months! There will also be many more paintings from this spring and upcoming months that will also be added to the folder.

On an expansion of the playing cards, this semester I took on the task of illustrating and painting a series of Tarot cards. I’ve started for now with the major arcana, and decided to blow these up into larger paintings so I can have more freedom to experiment with detailing. I’ll be uploading these paintings into the album I mentioned earlier when they are finished.

Anyways, that’s all I have for now! Check out my Upcoming Cons list to see where I plan on vending this year!

Updates to the website!

The shop link is back for now! We're in the process of making SquareSpace here on the website host our shop, but for the mean time check out our ETSY! 

Also! We're in the process of seperating Fursuits from Illustrations! Once we narrow down to a name my business partner and I agree on, we'll be setting up all new websites and social medias for the fursuit business aspect and InkyPawPrintsStudio will remain as my illustration website and domain! 

Want to hear further progress on our fursuit shenanigans? Check our our Telegram Channel! 

Oh No!

So I was hit with some unexpected financial situations and will have to remove a couple of future fur cons this year from my list of going to. Sadly, due to the farness of Anthro Weekend Utah and Arizona Fur Con I will not be able to attend either of these cons. 



Also! In update news. I appreciate everyone who has come forward and supported me along the way. My drawing commissions and fursuit commissions are now closed! Fursuits are closed indefinitely. I want to get better on my speed in creating stuff, so after these two commissions in my queue I will be working only on small commissions such as tails and ears, and will be focusing more of my time on making partials to sell at cons and online on my store. As for drawing commissions, I want to clear out my current queue, but will be reopening hopefully July 1st! 

If you're unaware, I will be taking drawing requests on my Drink 'n Draw streams that are now every other Friday night from 8pm CST until whenever I'm too tipsy/tired to draw anymore. If you're wanting some cheap quick art, feel free to attend these events on my Picarto. 

Are you interested in getting updates on my current whereabouts? Check out my Telegram Channel, Facebook, and Twitter!  

Anyways, thanks for reading! I'll keep you guys tuned in! 

Big News! Future Cons!

So as of right now there are several cons coming up that I'm looking to attend either as just a fursuiter, or as an artist! 

Please check out my Events page for more info!

So far on the queue

Toyko in Tulsa * 
Anthro Weekend Utah
Lexicon
Izumicon * 
Alamo City Furry Invasion
Arizona Fur Con

* cons marked are fursuiting only and mostly only day trip cons. 

Please do get ahold of me if you'd like to meet up, swap art, or get pics! 


 

Raffle Time!!! And special behind the scenes stuff!

RAFFLE TIME!!! 
Rules: must follow this channel (IPPS Artist channel) to be entered! 
Prize: 1 free set of 5 sticker pack for the winner! 
End date: May 31st, drawing will be June 1st. 

Join here to be entered to win! 
https://t.me/inkypawprintsstudio


If you join this Telegram channel you'll also get to see commissions as they're finished, when I post I'll be doing streams, and loads more! 

Just as a sneak peak, I've got a Drink 'n Draw Stream tonight on Picarto! Check out the link below later this evening for the stream

picarto.tv/inkypawprintsstudio

Awesome News!

So I'm a little slow with checking my emails. I know I'm bad. I really should check them more often. 

BUT I GOT ACCEPTED INTO AN ONLINE ART GALLERY!! Hoorah!

http://www.cagonline.gallery/2017-EXHIBITIONS/2017-OpenNo-Theme-Exhibition

One of my drawings, Ichigo's Clover, and both of my fursuits were accepted! How awesome is that!! 

By the sound of it, I'll be on a blog and published in a catalog as well! 

Here's to 2018 and a rocking good start!

Welcome to 2018

Hi guys!

I hope everyone's 2018 is starting off great! This year hopefully will be a good year for Inky Paw Prints Studio with lots more drawings to be had and plenty of prints coming up for sale.

Some of you may have heard but I had some furry cons and non-furry cons in the works. Just did some balancing of both checkbooks and schedules and here is my lineup.

Texas Furry Fiesta - February 8-11th in Dallas Texas
Wild Nights - April 26-29th at Robber's Cave
Lexicon - TBA (Fall)
SUAB Comiccon - TBA (Fall)

I was looking to go to Gateway Furmeet in St. Louis, Missouri, but due to financial complications, I will not be attending this year as an artist, and only a slim chance of simply as an attendee either. I will do my best to make it next year though!

I will most likely be attending Tokyo in Tulsa, sadly not as an artist this year, but you should be able to find me wandering the halls in full fursuit glory! Also, one of my fursuits I am currently working on should be debuting there as well! Be sure to be on the lookout for my creations!

Don't forget to follow me on social media and support my Patreon(https://www.patreon.com/InkyPawPrintsStudio and of course commissions are always open! Please support your lovely artists if you want to see more of their work be posted online! We're nothing without our loyal followers who pad our pocketbooks and make our dream of being artists and illustrators come true!

Happy Holidays!

Hey everyone! It's been a wee bit since I posted an update but wanted to remind you guys that I'll be out of town starting Sunday the 24th until probably Wednesday the 3rd! 

EXTRA NEWS:

It's been a busy past couple of weeks for me. I passed all my classes and finally graduated with my Bachelors of Fine Arts! Woo! I'm a grad finally! Now to decide whether or not to keep pushing and go for grad school or not! Do you guys have any good MFA grad school programs near you you'd like to recommend? I'm looking for fibers, drawing/painting, and maybe print making. 

As for my queue, last week and this week I've been doing alot of work and have nearly caught up my queue of commissions! Now onto all the backlog of requests and such! 
I plan on taking my tablet and my laptop with me, given that the laptop behaves, and will keep working some through the holidays, but not nearly as hefty as this past week. So that means Commissions are Active and still Open! 

 

Under 3 Weeks!

Holy moly! We're so close to the BFA Studio Exhibition for the Fall seniors! I can't wait to set up my stuff on the 28th of October. 

Don't forget! This is a free public event! There will be snacks and artist talks from 5-7pm at the Gardiner Art Gallery on Oklahoma State University's campus, right down the street from Eskimo Joe's. 

You'll see my work as well as several other of my colleague's works! I can't wait to see everyone there! 

Until next time,

Hailey

Lots of Good News to be Held!

It sure has been busy here in my area recently! I got the announcement that I passed my thesis review! Hoorah! I get to graduate on time in December by putting up my show the month before! 

We just finished up Lexicon over this past weekend and it was a big success! The official debut of the Ichigo suit was awesome! Lots of adoring fans and pictures to be had. 

September is going to keep me very busy, between prepping for the art gallery in November. The opening night is November 3rd! Mark your calendars for coming out to Stillwater, Oklahoma to see the show on full display! There even will be special guests from around the state for my portion of the show. October should sail by fairly quickly as well, loads of projects and things to do to get ready for November. Then the show, and onto December and graduation! November 10th, mark your calendars! I've another comiccon coming up on the 10th! This is a very short one that will only be for a couple hours, come out and get your nerd on. 

I may or may not also be picking up a side project helping the Student Veterans Organization in building and painting a display for the Homecoming weekend festivities in stillwater! I need to get that double checked, but it'll be a nice project to work on when I'm not covered in fur. 

I plan on fully opening up Fursuit commissions coming December, but I will be gone at the end of the month for family obligations and a special grandmother's 80th Birthday Party! Shh, don't tell her that. 

Otherwise, things are going smooth so far! I'll be sure to post more updates here as stuff comes up.