Durp Decided to change my About Me stuffs cuz I wanted to

I've been drawing sense I could pick up a pencil, and have drawn more anime than I'd like to admit. It was about 5th grade where I broadened my horizon in the art world, and sense then I've been trying to "hone" my skills in other aspects, hoping to improve my cartoons/comic work.

Been recently doing freelance/commission artwork, and I'm always up for a challenge!

Guilty pleasures include:
Pokemon
Animal Crossing
Kirby
Role Playing (the kind with dice and character sheets!)

I am going to advertise my need for commissions on my journal!

I really don't like getting on a soap box when writing things like this--I feel like I'm being such a pity-troll, trying to get everyone to feel bad or sorry for me...but I will get on my soap box for just a brief second to help illustrate why I'm asking for this help.

My husband is going to be a Massage Therapist! BUT!! Like most careers, you can't run a massage therapy business unless you've got the correct licensing and certificates. So, with him going to school and all the student loans we've pulled out, he's gonna make it and become an amazing massage therapist and help lots of people! We just gotta pay back these loans before we're up to our necks in debt.
Its not a lot--we signed up for the most efficient payment plan with the lowest interest rate. A steady $25 payments per month will lower our costs dramatically, and I think we can do it.

I just need 5 people out there to commission me a simple $5 picture every month.

And that's really it! Tell your friends! If you can get just 4 other friends to get one as well, I'll reach my goal for the month! And then those 4 friends of yours will get 4 of their OWN friends the next month...and so on and so forth. It can be really easy!

With all of the other payments and bills we have, it'd be really great if we didn't have to worry about the loan payments.

It'd REALLY be nice to not worry about these loans

For simplicities sake, I'll just post here what a $5 commission will get you

-character portrait
-simple shading (b/w and colored, depends on what you ask for)
-traditional or digital

I do OC's, Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh, Fursonas, Zelda, and Kirby
no backgrounds though

some examples

http://comicstrip.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps&offset=24#/d37tdg9
http://comicstrip.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4908l8
http://comicstrip.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d48rvq6
http://comicstrip.deviantart.com/gallery/35209822?offset=48#/d15r157
http://comicstrip.deviantart.com/gallery/35209822?offset=48#/d14tbt3

PLEASE COMMISSION ME IF YOU CAN! I understand that there a lot of you guys who would, but don't have the money to do so. So, if you can't commission me, please spread the word. It really wont be hard to just post a link in your journal/blog/facebook/ANYTHING that goes to my commission info (or even this journal. that'd work too)

I want to hand out these $5 pictures like they were candy--So please help me out by spreading the word or sending me a note with a commission!

I'm not sure when we need to start making payments, but I want to try and save up so that way we are 100% A-OK on the first payment.

If you want a serious-for-awesome commission done, that works too! you can find that info Here!!

PLEASE AND THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT!