I was thinking of just sending out lots and lots and lots and lots and LOTS of notes, but I am a lazy type person and thinking this might do a good trick. Journals go to all my watchers and such and many of them are people that use to haunt NSHC.... sooooooo long story short I'd like to see this place on its feet again. I can't do this alone, and I'm hoping C might see this and come back to our head.

For those wondering what I am talking about because you might just have started watching me in the past year or so and have no idea what NSHC is well go check it out. Maybe we can bring some life back into it.

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Ok well with that said I shall just keep this short. I want to brush up my skills in photoshop and such.. I haven't made a decent equin manip in a loooooooong while so here is my offer. First five people to post comments on this journal saying they'd like a spot can have one. I hope I have enough watchers who read journals to do this... Anyways We'll see what happens. I will NOT be taking humaniod requests... I suck at humans.. Horses are, obviously from my gallery, my thing, I can do wolves/dogs though... not sure what else is around but I'd prefer to stick with those. If you want one but you have something different go ahead and post but I may not take it.

So here is the only thing I ask you to do for this. Comment asking for a spot and then give a brief description of the character ei like what it is [horse, wolf, pegasus, unicorn etc..] that way I can either accept or deny it.

ALRIGHT GO!!

Apart from that remember I have a life and will get these back to you on my time. The last to post will be last in line so sorry first come first serve and I generally work in the order I take them, unless one sounds really really interesting. So be sure if you are within the first five to start preparing the following to note me when I ask for it.

Character Name:
Character Type: [horse, wolf etc... what am I working with]
Breed:
Color:
Personality:
History:
Image references: [not need but nice]
Other:

Key thing here you must have a good handle for a description of the personality!! I need something descriptive to get the ideas rolling. Give me something to work with!! History isn't needed, but again the more you give me the more I will have to work with and thus the more likely the work to be what you want and up to my satisfaction.

For image references I mean anything from previous images you have used for the character to giving me an idea of a certain coat pattern/color. Mind you if you find stock images for me it is up to ME if I use them or not so don't expect me to if you go out and spend hours digging them up. If use what I see fit because it might work better than what has been provided.

With that said I shall wait and see what I fetch with this.

Alright well figured I'd get rid of that old journal since it has just been sitting around like a bump on a log. I'm moving on.

As you can see I haven't been doing overly much, long story short my comp has managed to find a number of virus and trohjens [however the heck you spell that word] or I guess I should say they managed to find my computer. Nasty things they are. In short I have been doing numerous scans to attempt to get rid of them, one of the little buggers even shut off my automatic updates.... and from the computer geeks mouth that is bad news because this allowed even more malware, spyware and adware to find their way in. Go figure. I finally got the updates working again, but am still getting these annoying little popups.. In theory, and please pray that it works, with the updates going as they should again I have most of the nasties beat, but still have a few more to go, hopefully it will take a few more scan and cleanups to rid myself of these last few.

But alack thats only half the problem. Photoshop is deciding to be an idiot of a program and keeps ditching me. Not sure why, but I just get this error message of some sort that boots the whole program and heaven help if I haven't saved recently because there goes all the work down the drain. Sooo just to give an example, the latest deviations I uploaded, the thanks to all my supports, took me probably 45minutes to throw together when I am certain it should have only taken 10minutes. But its there now and thats all I could get myself to do. I am attempting to work on some other projects, but they are more for myself rather than for rpgs or studios anymore. Might get a WIP or two up if I feel like as it is interest to document my progress while trying to paint things.


Anyways onto something new! [Mind you I soooo stole this from luv you hun]

Right sooo us non-subbers can't do images and such in the journals I think if I am wrong and you know how to make these work let me know otherwise here are the links. Click away.

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Saw that she had a few of these little critters and so I clicked to feed them, as thats what you are suppose to do -nudgenudgewinkwink- .... And well yeah had to get myself some. Which means I would hope my lovely watchers might take joy with me and come to click them once a day, and tell your friends to do so too. Feel free to get your own as well its free to sign up and such. Great little place it is so far.



And Onto the Exciting!!

I AM NEARLY TO 10K PAGE PREVIEWS!! -whoots and howls- Alrighty guess what this means!! If someone would like to catch this one for me, as I haven't had great participation in the past for this, I'll see what I can to beef up the prizes. Though I can't give much I am hoping the choice of one or two of the following might help
special stock package [equine]
photomanipulation [by yours truly]
*equine digital portrait [see below for explanation]


*Not sure what to call those things, but its just basically the digital paintings like the ones in my gallery, the black stepping stallion [which yes I know still isn't finished] and the memorial to Timi. Mind you these takes me forever, but I will work on yours if you catch the 10k kirban and if thats what you would like.


Cheers

Alright I don't play howrse.com much anymore, but I think its time I bring this to everyones attentions as I know many dA stockers that provide horses are getting ripped and I hate it. It makes me mad mainly just because the coats created on horse are said to be just hand drawn or painted purely by yourself in photoshop or some other media. This isn't happening. I am tiered of it and decide to go through and look at all them myself and put this here. Most of the ones with wings are drawn, but the wings are stolen from various birds, butterflies etc so they will be harder to find if anyone is able to at all. I know I will be working next week on this to locate all that I cant to put dA links and other originals next to the fake copyrighted ones. If anyone would like to help out feel free to post an original to one that you know of or have seen, I would greatly appreciate it. Also feel free to contact the owners of the images as I will be making rounds doing that as well as I go. I want this stopped and taken down. Howrse needs to follow their own dang rules. If that doesn't work well I will just beat them over the head with proof then. [and for those wondering yes this was in an msn conversation thus the time tags and all]


1 [link]
[ORIGINAL] [link]
Haiku says (8:44 PM):
2 [link]
Haiku says (8:45 PM):
3 [link] and everyone knows where this is from... famous horse right there and they still let it in? with background too, dirt at the bottom.
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Haiku says (8:47 PM):
9 [link] another horse from a dA account.
Haiku says (8:47 PM):
10 [link] pony city horse...
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11 [link]
Haiku says (8:47 PM):
12 [link] another dA stocker for sure
Haiku says (8:48 PM):
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23 [link] -cut job of a bryer horses model...
Haiku says (8:50 PM):
24 [link]
Haiku says (8:51 PM):
25 [link] another dA stocker horse.
Haiku says (8:52 PM):[ this one is just the same horse that I will be sending to the admins cause they aren't suppose to allow duplicates of others original work either...]
26a [link]
26b [link]

look similar?
Haiku says (8:52 PM):
27 [link]
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28 [link]
Haiku says (8:53 PM):
29 [link] I know this horse too dA stocker..
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30 [link]
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31 [link]
ORIGINAL: [link]
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40 [link] another da sotck horse.
Haiku says (8:56 PM):
41 [link] this I know exactly where it came from..
[ORIGINAL] [link]
Haiku says (8:56 PM):
42 [link] same with this one too
Haiku says (8:56 PM):
43 [link]
Haiku says (8:56 PM):
44 [link] well known arab
Haiku says (8:57 PM):
45 [link] same and again background.
Haiku says (8:57 PM):
46 [link] famous freisian pick
Haiku says (8:57 PM):
47 [link] famous andilusian image
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49 [link] breyer horse again
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55 [link] da horse
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102 [link]
[maybe original] [link] poses look very similar perhaps copied from this user
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Haiku says (9:16 PM):
124 [link] same one from a while back third generation copy
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so with that said would anyone like to lend me a hand and take this down?


[EDIT]
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!! After all this and their 'team' that accepts and denies coats are STILL allowing chopped photographs in!! ugh! So yes there are some more.

131 [link]

132 [link]

133 [link]

134 [link] [-blinks now thats seriously messed up... dang]

135 [link] [not sure what this is but has a background, that is against the howrse rules for the black pearl...]

And I am thinking just so long as I have an image to show that the horse was cut from a background in a photograph that should be more than enough proof for this. Cause I know several of these aren't from dA so just find the image on the internet and yea I'll slap it up here. Thanks to any and all who have helped, are helping and will later help, any and all is very appreciated.



[EDIT #2]
DV had a great idea about posting this to the rest of howrse as a suggestion and see what happens!! So go get a howrse account and support this thread!!
Here's the how to:
- Join here: [link]
- Create the account, then log in.
- Along the top you will see home, fourms rankings etc... Just hold your mouse over forums
- Go down to the last option of the drop down menu and click 'share you ideas'
- That will bring you to to suggestion board be sure you are logged in
- Now click this [link] and comment to support and vote it up!! We need to get some attention so lets show them we mean business!!



[Edit #3]
WE NEED SUPPORT!! I am glad I have recieved as many comments as I have on this journal, but we need support in that forum thread on the howrse suggestion boards. If you feel kind enough to create a free account, you don't even have to play, just follow the steps in [edit 2] and then go to that suggestion thread and vote great. We need this to happen to gain attention otherwise we might as well be swept away.

I also need help still with these coats, I have identified a few more, but have 4 tests killing me at the end of this week, so can't be online much. I am asking for more assistance in calling artists and stockers alike to come do this. I find this is a huge step for stockers, photographers and manipulators alike if we can get a sim game to listen to us. I know many would like to see it happen, so help me start this revolution!! Spread the word, show your other buddies this journal, or that suggestion thread, encourage them to help find the stock that was ripped in order to prove the coat was stolen, and join that thread to pump it and show we are serious!! Anyone with me?!

Yes indeed not to worry I am alive. Thanks for wondering, if you were, if not well thats fine to. But to say the least I didn't fall off the face of the earth. Really I have been lurking, and lurking is a good term as I come on for stock all the time, but haven't done much in forever. I did however just upload two new pieces, maybe more on the way we'll see. Mainly just been ready to head out for college, and I am finding it to be more work than I thought. Not to mention trying to take my horse along with is killing me, long story short I am dealing with a rather.... umm what word to use.... absent minded [maybe?] type of person. Kinda have to go through her because if I make the ranch time at the university then thats where all the practices will be, so if I don't board there then I'd have to haul in, not good. And well she made me think I was one of a couple others on the waiting list for a stall. NO there are NINE yes NINE blinking people ahead of me. -dies- I really wish I had thought to ask about it earlier, but the way she was talking it made me sooo sure I would get a stall when I moved into my dorm on the 17th of August. Right now I am seeing that as fat chance. Worse yet I live 5 hours away so its not like I can just run home to ride and run back for class. Nuuu. Not to mention various other issues like the parking on campus. I live in a dorm I should get dorm parking!! ugh. Anyways. Thats bout it with me.


I am alive, if barely, I just have to keep telling myself that.