The lyf so short

I have so far been hesitant to try and "sell" my artwork, but I figured that it might have a chance if it's for a good cause. So, here goes!

The first five people to comment and contribute to CfL in some way get to request artwork by yours truly. If you don't know the sort of stuff I produce yet, you can check it out here (Tolkien fanart) or here (other watercolours - a lot less). As you can see, my main fandom is Tolkien (yeah, I know, you never guessed that ;)), but for this challenge I'll also try my hand at any other fandom, as well as original or roleplaying characters, as long as I get useable descriptions.

EDIT: All full now, yay! \o/ Thanks for playing!

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SLOTS:
(1) Himring
(2) Lanyon
(3) Hiril_Anwyn
(4) Barbardin
(5) Oshun
(Laurie)
(Flower_Star)

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*I mean neckties, you dirty-minded people.

So (prompted by other people on my flist doing so) I've been trying to delineate my Create for Life project(s), and while doing so, I've finally realised what has been bugging me about the name all along.

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Anyway, I think I want to use both my ideas, one being garb-making (I've been intending to make Ranger-of-Ithilien stuff for the hubby for years, how 'bout getting at least some of that done now? And I still have that 15th century pleated gown to finish) and the other being art, because it feels like I haven't drawn/painted anything for ages*. Problem is, I can probably only fully use the Saturday, which I'll spend at zorn's creativity party anyway, because the weekend following the CfL weekend is *dundundun* the second finals weekend and you know, the ugly P-word. I've been wondering whether I could put up a post for (a limited number of) artwork requests where people can donate whatever they feel it's worth or whatever they can afford to their cancer-related charity of choice. Or register with the DKMS² or something - which is free, which might be interesting for those of us whose budget is already depleated after a year full of desasters and only one month before that holiday where everyone expects presents again. I realise that probably everyone likely to register has been registered there (or with some comparable organisation) already, anyway, but you never know, so I thought I'd bring it up.
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Anyway, my problem with that is that even when I leave the choice of sum with the bidders, I feel awkward about asking money for my artwork. Lack of self-confidence, hurrah.
And of course I wouldn't be able to actually get any artwork done before December so I have no idea whether that'd actually be allowed for CfL. Will have to do some more pondering, etc.

Yeah.

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*I know I've done stuff during the SWG birthday month, but that still means I haven't done any artwork in three months. Which is ages.

²It cracks me up that it is called DKMS in the Americas, too. Yeah, I know, corporate identity and all that, but it still cracks me up. I'd imagine most Anglophones would have serious trouble pronouncing "Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei"...