It's that time of the week again! Time for free art! #FreebieFriday Once again, there's something to celebrate, so Freebie Friday will be a weekend long event again! #FreebieFridayWEEKEND
Step right up and make your requests! My art gets better every week thanks to all of you and your requests! I love hosting Freebie Fridays, I hope you love them as much as I do!
Keep me busy, guys! Please consider resteeming this post so I can get more requests!
We have a Discord server! It's home to Freebie Friday, @marxrab's Steemit Diner, @creativesoul's Clouds and Beanbag Chairs (a nice, calm, positivity chat), and home to the BlackCatBrigade Steemit community.
- @superbuckles - Cat and Dog being friends
- @amberquamme - Her Daughter
- @hopehuggs - Ginger hamster and ginger cat for Hazel and Poppy
Please do not use the comments of this post for unsolicited self-promotion. Thank you.
This is so freaking cool man!! Honestly one of the best uses of steemit ive seen. For my request, and it's a doozy, could you draw a picture of my daughter?? I like the first picture in this post (with the fire hat on)
https://steemit.com/life/@amberquamme/few-things-say-i-m-proud-to-be-an-american-more-than-blowing-up-fireworks
I know this is a big and strange request, so if it's too weird I'll request a wiener dog. ;)
Happy Friday!!
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I do this every Friday, lol! I try to get as many requests as possible. I'm backed up on some requests (some because I couldn't do them well on my phone, but with the tablet, I'll be caught up really fast!) but I just keep taking them. Because this thing is really important to me.
You're right, that is definitely a doozy.
I'm terrible at drawing people. Always have been. Hopefully always won't be, but it's still very much a weakness of mine.
I'm willing to try to draw your daughter, so long as you promise to understand that my art skills, while improving in leaps and bounds, are still very limited, and you won't get upset with me if it turns out horribly.
Thank you for picking out a backup request as well! (I ask all that give me a difficult request to pick a backup as well. Didn't need to ask you! Awesome!)
Happy Friday to you as well!
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I would never be upset! I think your art is beautiful. Honestly nothing could be worse than my art skills ;) If its too stressful please don't do it. I don't want to give you heart issues lol. :) I am just so impressed that you are out here doing this for people. It shows a real genuine character that I feel I don't see too often.
PS, I just noticed you are from KC! I lived there for a couple of years, in the Zona Rosa/Barry Road area. Missouri people are the best people!!
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Already have the heart issues, lol.
All the stuff in the post above was drawn on a very bad, dying Galaxy Note II made up of two dead Galaxy Note IIs.
The tree doodle I posted up earlier was the first real drawing I did with my new tablet. So I'm hoping to improve a lot now that I have proper equipment.
I do plan on making the much more detailed/involved requests paid for as my ability grows. Because Steemit is my only income. However, I will always hold Freebie Fridays, because they're important to me. But once I've improved a lot more, I won't be doing highly detailed art for free very often. (The details in everything you see up in the post above will still be Freebie Friday offerings. Except for maybe the tiger. That tiger took a lot of work.)
In the meantime, however, my skills are still developing, and this is great practice!
I'm glad you like my art! I'm really shocked at how people even liked it in the beginning. And in the beginning it was horrible! Just go back and look at my past Freebie Friday posts! XD
Yes! Kansas City boy, born and raised! I've lived a couple other places, but Kansas City is where my heart's at.
I'm actually just south of Kansas City. You know the four small southern cities when you take 71 South? Yeah. I'm in one of those little cities. :D
Barry Road is a rough part of town!
I absolutely love Missouri. There's just something...magical about it. It's so green. And the sunrises and sunsets are so varied, and so colorful. And I love how loud the cicadas are! Except they've been quiet this year. :(
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I think I'm familiar with them! Off the top of my head I think they are B, R, GV and LS? I abbreviated them in case you didn't want anyone to know lol. I think you know what I mean if I'm in the right area. I am originally from the Springfield MO area so I have to take 71 south to get down there from Omaha (family still lives in MO)
No one really understands when I tell them how beautiful Missouri truly is. You just have to be from there to know. It's like our little secret almost. Barry road wasn't too bad, I lived there about 8 years ago so maybe it's roughed up a bit lol.
I can tell the tiger took a lot of work. So many layers in there. He's so cool. Please let me know when you start offering paid requests. I would love to support an artist.
Ok, the ultimate KC post... you have to only eat one BBQ place... where do you choose??
(Gates for me 😍😍)
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Haha, I know where you're referring to! I don't count LS, it's too big and fancy and...rich. Ew.
I was talking about B, R, GV, and P. I live in and grew up in B. :D
Eight years ago? Yeah...the Barry Road area has gotten a lot worse in eight years. Zona Rosa overall, though it's only talked about sometimes? It's like they don't want people to know how bad it is over there, but have no problem talking about the rest of the city. I guess because they spruced everything up so much and everything in Zona Rosa is super expensive and trendy in comparison to most other areas.
They cleaned Westport up a lot!
Well, I'm willing to take paid requests at any time. I'm just trying to get a bigger portfolio before actually making posts asking for paid work.
[Gasp!] How dare you ask which I choose! The true Kansas City answer would be, "I'd rather die than choose!"
Honestly, my favorite BBQ is what my husband and I make ourselves. If it has to be bought? There's a BBQ chain they had a couple locations of in El Paso called Rudy's. Their brisket was absolutely amazing, and their BBQ flavor profile was very similar to Kansas City, more so than you'd expect them to be.
But overall, I much prefer our homemade stuff. :3
Oh, but a pretty good (and small place here in B (no, not Oden's) just got a contract with Arrowhead Stadium. I like their brisket, too.
I haven't been to Gates or any of those places in many years. After our return to Kansas City, BBQ has been too expensive to go out and eat. (It's been a really rough couple years.)
Arthur Bryant's got closed down for health code violations.
Missouri is our little secret. And our little secret is that we're actually sylvans and this forest is ours. :D
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Ps I'm sorry if the "heart issues" comment was insensitive. I didn't know you had some already. Foot inserted into mouth
Nothing but love here, my friend.
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Nah, we're good. I don't consider it insensitive. Though for future reference, I'm constantly a nervous wreck, so unless you're stalking me and attacking me and harassing me and stuff, you're not adding to the anxiety and stress, I promise.
[Takes your foot out of your mouth] Now now, that's totally unnecessary.
Nothing but love back, friend. :3
By the way, your daughter is adorable and I really hope you like the end result. I hope I can do that little cutie justice!
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Thank you for saying that!! She's such a good girl lol. I'm sort of obsessed with her. Haha. I'm sure it will be perfect :)
I can't believe they closed Arther Bryant's down!! I thought that was a pretty big KC thing. Granted I didn't live there for very long so my perceptive may be off. Good to know about Zona! Not that I really go there too much but I'll make sure not to make any stops there while I'm driving through :/
If there is anything I can ever do from the interwebz to calm a little stress and anxiety let me know.
Here's a hug ☺️☺️☺️
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Please don't expect perfection. That puts a lot of pressure on me. ^^;; After putting in a lot of hours already, I can definitely tell you it's not gonna be perfect. It's gonna be...well, I dunno if it even looks like her or just a generic toddler in a fireman's hat. I'm sorry. ;(
Well, she's your kid, and still in the really young and innocent the world is so big and amazing stage of life...kida understandable that you're obsessed with her, lol.
Author Bryant's is a huge deal. People come from out of the country to eat there.
Author Bryant's is open again. They were closed for I think a couple months? I dunno if they actually fixed the health code violations. I just know that pretty much all of Kansas City said that the roaches weren't an infestation, they were paying customers. And that any bugs or what have you in the food that shouldn't be there was just "extra flavoring". (As someone that is immunocompromised, even I feel like a place like Arthur Bryant's is bound to have problems like that and oh well.)
You can still go through Zona Rosa. It's not so bad that you shouldn't go there. Just not a good place to live or own a small business. They seem to keep targeting the small and locally owned businesses.
Even here in my little town, some parts have gotten much worse. The apartments in the Main Street area here get broken into fairly often, as well as a few other apartment complexes and certain rental houses. I seem to be fair enough away that the only crap we deal with is coyotes, raccoons, possums, and shitty neighbors.
Chatting with people is a great distraction.
And since you're a creative type, you may want to consider joining our Discord server and chatting with us. Just ignore my very dirty mouth. XD
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https://steemit.com/art/@novaatebatman/freebie-friday-amberquamme-s-daughter
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Could you draw a dog and a cat interacting in some friendly manner?
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I can try!
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A ginger hamster and a ginger cat together please - for my daughters Hazel and Poppy. Thanks. Glad to have found you. Resteemed and I hope lots of people click through from @papa-pepper's survival contest, as you are an inspiration.
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Maybe you could try some of your designs on t-shirts, as an additional income stream (there is no cost to set this up on sites like gearbubble and teespring. That tiger on a t-shirt would be amazing.
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I'll have to ask @creativesoul if she minds if I do something like that with the tiger I drew for her.
Also, I plan on adjusting the tiger now that I have a drawing tablet and proper art program. :D
I've considered selling t-shirts like that, but it just always seems like they wouldn't really sell.
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I will give it a go!
It'd be nice if more people followed the links from STEEM-POCALYPSE, but if they don't, they don't. I didn't volunteer to help out because I wanted recognition. I volunteered to help because @papa-pepper is a very busy man and I've got a lot of time on my hands and rather enjoy record-keeping.
I don't know how I'm an inspiration, but thank you. :)
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I understand that you wanted to help, @papa-pepper in my opinion is one the people who makes Steemit so wonderful and he inspires a lot of good. You are inspiring because your drawings have come on in leaps and bounds and you are community hearted. And you are here trying to make a better life for yourself and I really love that you want to able to get your husband something nice from SBD earned.
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Yeah, I don't think Steemit would be Steemit without @papa-pepper.
Thank you very much for your kind and loving words. They mean a great deal to me.
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