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Have an original role playing character, or an original fiction character that you would like to see realized in a drawing? 

I am now open on silverflameart for discounted commissioned digital bust portraits of your original characters.  This is great for other crowdfunders or aspiring authors who want to see their creations brought to life visually.

I offer three different options:

1. Black and white--$15


2. Comic style--$30


3. Painterly--$50

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Good morning, friends and SilverFlame Art supporters!  Amyla here.  Last week was quite a time, getting things ready for the new crowdfunding art blog!  It feels wonderful to be getting back into the swing of things again.  Anyway, it's Monday, which means that I am opening for $5 sketch prompts from now until 5 p.m. CST.  This is a weekly event on the new silverflameart blog--$5 Sketch Day.

The concept is simple:  Leave a prompt in the comments, a short description of something you'd like to see me sketch.  Use the payment button at the bottom of the entry on my blog to pay, and I'll post your sketch both in a reply to you in the comments and in a personal message, where I will link you to the full-sized file.

Also, the first three prompts are free!

So, come on by and leave your prompts!  Please be sure to read the info on the blog post carefully before requesting.

Some sample sketches:

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• Once again, I extend my deepest thanks and a bunch of virtual hugs to all of you who helped me out last week. I'm going to keep the download folder open until Monday night, methinks. I've got a couple of new things in there now, including a recording obtained by hms42 specifically as a thank-you for everybody: the first time I did "307 Ale", at OVFF back in 1989. Lyrics and melody have evolved over the years, but the most fun is hearing an audience that didn't know the joke was coming.
• This weekend is MillenniCon in the north part of Cincinnati, OH. I didn't go last year because of another commitment, but this is in a lot of ways my home con. Wonderful, small, relaxing, fun. And, hey! Robert J. Sawyer is the Author GOH. I will be recording my concerts (three total -- one for the ConText room party on Friday ay 10:00 p.m., the main one at 4:00 p.m. Saturday, and halftime at the Masquerade), and putting them up in the donations folder on Sunday night. So, if you've still got the URL, it ain't over yet.
• Saturday, May 7, is Free Comic Book Day. I'll be spending it at Comic City on Ford Road in Canton, MI, along with Odd from Mad World Radio. Here's a flyer and more info.
• My dear friend markbernstein is performing this weekend and next in Neil Simon's "Laughter On The 23rd Floor". Click here for ticket info.
• Maureen O'Danu, a friend of this site, has a couple of nifty blogs, Walking Upstream and Am I The Only One Dancing?
• For computer musicians, the excellent Spicy Guitar VSTi is now freeware.
• In a similar vein, the award-winning Melodyne Editor can now be tried for thirty days with no restrictions.

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• As mentioned the other day, you can pre-order TomBoat for ten bucks at Tom Smith Online, and the rest of the downloads are still on sale until Sunday night/Monday morning. I also have the TomBoat preorder at Bandcamp, and you can listen to it in its entirety there as well.
• jblaque's daughter is part of a very worthy pet charity drive.
• Today's XKCD is a beautiful thing.
• Anne pointed me to a recently translated, heretofore-unknown fragment of the Epic of Beowulf.
• MusicRadar.com recently published their list of the 13 best free VST plug-ins in the world, as voted on by their readership. I already use a few of them, and I'm downloading a couple more. They also have a hell of a lot of free loops and samples for you to download.
• An entire free album of excellent Celtic ambient tracks for you to download.

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• All the stuff about bullying lately has been heartbreaking, especially the suicides. Here's one we can actually do something about. Katie Goldman, a six-year-old girl in Chicagoland, has been bullied because of her Star Wars water bottle. I know. I can't believe it either. Fortunately, the page I link to has hundreds of people supporting Katie. Care to join 'em? :) (h/t naomi_de_plume)
• Our friend Darren Zieger Will Work For Money.
• Another friend, solarbird, has a new album, a mailing list, and a live show Saturday.
• Yet more friends, Steve Goodie and Nuclear Bubble Wrap, have a new music video (his parody of "Hakuna Matata", Potterized), and both also have new albums.
• BoingBoing reminds us that the third annual Machinima Expo takes place this Saturday and Sunday, online, from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. PST. Awards ceremonies, panel discussions, meet-ups in Second Life, and a whole lotta animation -- what's not to love?

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• Carbon Conscious Consumer
• Free Rice
• Growing Power
• Hunger Site
• Kiva -- Loans That Change Lives
• Modest Needs
• Nothing But Nets

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• I'm actually not going anywhere this weekend. Wow. I can catch up on some music that needs to be done. And I should have the Dragon*Con sets up by Saturday or Sunday. Maybe a few others as well.
• There is an attention-seeking cretin in Florida. Pastor of a church with about fifty people. I guess he wanted to move up the ranks on del.icio or somethin'. Because he started making noise about this Sunday being "International Burn A Quran Day", and he's got the attention of world leaders and right-wing talk radio hosts and John McCain 'n' shit.
  
  I seriously wonder how much he likes being an internationally-known asshole.
  
  It's far too late to ignore the jerk. But catsittingstill has a fine response in mind: declare Sept. 11 to be "Stand Up For Religious Tolerance Day", and post something promoting it on your LJ or blog or whatever.
• In tune with that, jimhines has come up with a really great macro. You can vote it up at Cheezburger.
• Our darling, the Princess of the Kingdom of Poison and Flame, cadhla, 2010 John W. Campbell Award winner seanan_mcguire, is accepting pre-orders for her new album Wicked Girls.
• Lifehacker tells us about Microsoft's new free book about cyber security.