NoirArt

 Seeing as its October and I think we all need a bit of a break this year, this month's challenge is less challenging than others I might've posed to you. :) I'm also HIGHLY encouraging submissions to the Culinary Arts gallery - I'd love to see roasted pumpkin seeds, pumpkin pie, butternut squash soup, and all manner of pumpkin-flavored goodies. Did you see that squash slip in there?! Yep! Bring me your best squash and gourds too, it doesn't have to be just pumpkins! Your challenge is: Take your own craft and make something squashy! It must be submitted to DA after this journal to count!Comment here with a thumb/link so that I don't miss it.

I think I gave my two cents on requests already longer time ago, don't remember, I'm old.... but recent activities (actually reading a journal that called people who don't do requests greedy and stingy) made me realize I might take a moment to remind people of a few things regarding requests ... and how I personally handle them. basically, requests are a cool thing, it's free art done by people out of friendship, out of pure joy of sharing or out of good will... or maybe even boredom or the hope to increase popularity and/or reputation - all of these are good reasons but it should never be forgotten that it's always the artist's choice wheth