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Artist Spotlight: CassMutt

11/23/2019

Happy Early Turkey day!

Since this is my last blog post before Thanksgiving 2019, I figured I’d do something a little bit closer to sharing what I’m thankful for. Yes of course I’m thankful for my parents, animals, home, etc., but I am also extraordinarily thankful for one very talented pink doggo that shares AZ with me as their home. Her name is CassMutt, but I just call her Cass!

The Dang Good Doggo

Based out of Southern Arizona, CassMutt and her business That One Pink Dog Studios are a true inspiration to me. Even though I’ve only known about CassMutt since around February of 2018 (that’s when I officially joined the fandom), she has inspired me and made me truly believe that I can achieve my dreams and goals, just by being herself! You might be doubting the credibility I have here, but let me tell you, in just that short time I’ve seen her grow and blossom like no other artist I’ve met!

Adorable Badges

I was originally entranced by her adorable toony style and simply impeccable drive to make her art (and business) the best it could be. That’s when I discovered that she made more than just her digital pieces; That One Pink Dog Studios created Fursuit and Convention Badges.

Here are some of the phenomenal traditional artwork badges that Cass has made! Using scrapbooking paper, a lamination machine, Prismacolor markers and her wonderful imagination, CassMutt regularly brings characters of all kinds to life!
Artwork © CassMutt and That One Pink Dog Studios, characters © their rightful owners. I do not claim to own any of the artwork or characters shown in the above image.

Naturally, after oogling at Cass’ work for a while, I had to have a badge of my own. It was at Painted Desert Fur Con, 2019, that I finally had the courage (and the funds) to try and commission her. I remember being so nervous! I was so new to the fandom and looked up to her so much, I was nervous that I would make it awkward or say something less than smart. I distinctly remember I walking by the table with That One Pink Dog Studios’ banner on it at least four times before I finally said hi to the gentleman behind the table. Being my awkward self, the first words out of my mouth were “Hi! Are you Cass?”. Of course, the response was “No, I’m sorry”. I can’t remember if it was her shark-boy Jack or not, I just remembered feeling really embarrassed. Laughing nervously through my red cheeks I asked how to go about commissioning a badge and went through the process with not-Cass. I payed for the badge and left with a smile, but in my gut I knew I had to meet Cass, just so I could tell her what an inspiration she is to me. Later, on my way to the Con dance with a couple of my friends, I spotted her. Running up to her like an idiot I waved excitedly like I knew her, which she returned pleasantly. Being overly excited and probably somewhat scaring her, I introduced myself, blurting out something like “Cass you’re so awesome, keep doing what you’re doing because you’re doing great!” Cass was gracious enough to figure out which character was mine in her chat so she had a better idea of who I was, shook my hand, and thanked me for my support. It was only after the interaction that I had realized how much of a stupid fangirl I had just been.

Fast-forward a couple months (after I became a bit more comfortable with her in her art chat on Telegram) I received my beautiful badge in the mail.

Though this isn’t the finished laminated version, I felt that this image of the art by itself did the image more justice than trying to take a picture of my badge. I simply couldn’t get the glare from the laminate to go away!
Character © me, art © CassMutt

I was ecstatic, to say the least. To the point where my CassMutt badge hangs proudly on my door when not in use, so company knows which door is mine, which door is my roommates, and which one of us is definitely proud of being a furry. Of course, that wasn’t the end for me, and I decided that I had to keep supporting this wonderful person the best that I could.

Shopping Spree!

After I got my badge, I was hooked. Not just on Cass’ artwork (we already knew I was in love way before this point) but with the good feeling of knowing I was supporting a local Arizona artist, as well as an all-around wonderful human. It was then that Cass posted an advertisement for her Etsy Store in her art chat.

Various merchandise available for purchase from That One Pink Dog Studios’ Etsy store.

Now I never really considered myself a big sticker person until I became a part of the fandom. I’m not going to lie, I became obsessed. I still am, come to think of it. Covering my art box, cash box, carving knife box, and whatever else I own that could be associated with my artwork and also have a blank surface in stickers has become my reality. At first I was simply buying stickers at random, before I realized I was spending at least 1$ a month at That One Pink Dog Studios’ Etsy every month (if not way more than that, honestly). So I decided to subscribe to CassMutt’s very own Patreon! If you’re not familiar, Patreon is a subscription type of service where you can pay a monthly fee to artists and receive all kinds of rewards! This seemed like a no-brainer for me and I told myself that it would help curb my spending on Etsy, especially at That One Pink Dog Studios. Naturally, it hasn’t, but I’ll be damned if I unsubscribe from CassMutt’s Patreon. The rewards are just too good!

Digital Icons

So now October of 2019 rolls around, and Cass begins doing streams of Halloween-themed things. Naturally, I not only decided to watch and donate to her stream, but also to get an icon as well!

Halloween 2019 Icon
Marie the Feligon © Myself
Art © CassMutt at That One Pink Dog Studios

I mean come on now, how could I resist?! Look at how cute she made me! In all seriousness though, if you don’t think her art style is adorable, I respect your opinion, even though your opinion is wrong.

Fursuits

Ah yes, of course the dream of any furry, budding artist or not, is to have a fursuit. One of those $3,000 carpets you can overheat for hours in, and take all the silly, wonderful pictures. I remember trying to avoid the fact that Cass makes suits for quite some time. Outright denial, really. Simply because I know I can’t afford one. But alas, then Cass made the wonderfully adorably partial named “Mojave”.

Mojave was made by CassMutt at That One Pink Dog Studios for Itty Bitty Fur Con 2019, and sold for $900 at DenFur 2019.
*DISCLAIMER* Cass did state that the prices of her suits vary and that they will be changing soon.
Art © CassMutt and That One Pink Dog Studios
“Mojave The Puma” © their Rightful Owner

With follow-me eyes, a heccin plushy tail, and removable eyelids, this adorable suit tempted me like no other! I am a big cat lover at heart, as all of you may already have guessed, so Mojave absolutely stole my heart! Due to unfortunate life events and my financial situation at the time, I was unable to attend Itty Bitty Fur Con OR DenFur to go purchase this cutie. Nonetheless, Mojave did find their furever home at DenFur 2019, and is being well-loved by their new owner!

Not long after the heartache of not being able to buy Mojave at IBFC, CassMutt came out with another partial that absolutely won me over! This one wasnt exactly cat inspired, but every bit as adorable as Mojave the puma, who came before. Readers, feast your eyes upon the utterly adorable Orion the Manokit!

Orion was made by CassMutt at That One Pink Dog Studios for and sold for $1,000 at DenFur 2019.
*DISCLAIMER* Cass did state that the prices of her suits vary and that they will be changing soon.
Art © CassMutt and That One Pink Dog Studios
“Orion the Manokit” © their Rightful Owner

For those of you who are unaware, a Manokit is an open species created by DubMutt and you’re more than welcome to make your own! Orion here was created by Cass and sold to their furever home at DenFur 2019 as well! Such adorable suits, right? And heres the best part: these suits are PREMADE. That’s right. These aren’t even her custom suits!And you best believe That One Pink Dog Studios offers custom suits!

Various Fursuit bits created by CassMutt
Art © CassMutt and That One Pink Dog Studios
Characters © their rightful owners.

See that gorgeously intricate head in the upper left-paw corner of the image above? THAT is one of CassMutt’s custom, commissioned heads. Beautiful, am I right? And because That One Pink Dog Studios isn’t a big-time fursuit company yet, a full partial (including custom feet and hand paws, arm-sleeves, a tail, and a head) start at just $1,100! Holy Guacamole! Under two-thousand dollars for a completely customized, high quality, adorable full-partial suit? That’s freakin unheard of in this fandom! Oh, and did I mention that everything is handsewn, including the balaclava that lines the inside of the suit?

Yeah, this dang good doggo hand-sews EVERYTHING. Yet her suits are still fairly cheap and awesome quality.

Y’all can guess what’s probably next right?

Unfortunately I’m not in a good enough place financially to commission one of Cass’ suits just yet, but I’ve absolutely talked with her about possibly getting one. Hopefully one of my future blog posts will be about the unboxing of my suit from That One Pink Dog Studios and it will refer back to this very blog. Who knows what the future holds, right?

Contact That One Pink Dog!

If you are in love with CassMutt’s work like I am, please go support her! Even if that means just buying a $2 sticker or something, trust me, she’s totally worth it. Below is an image of one of her business cards as well as links to her Etsy and what not!

That’s all folks!

As always, thank you very much for reading! I sincerely hope you take the time to at least go take a look at CassMutt’s business, and sharing is caring! If you’re not in a great place to support Cass financially (like me) that’s totally okay! Sharing helps just as much!

Once again, thank you for reading, and I’ll see y’all next week!

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Week 3!

So hopefully you haven’t gotten bored of my blog yet! And if you have, I am genuinely confused as I’ve just introduced myself and then all my animals… Well regardless, welcome back! 🙂

Less Talk, More Art

This week I’ll be giving y’all a little more art, and a little less stalling! Even though commissions are currently open, art requests on my end are pretty slow, so I decided to take up a personal challenge YCH. That’s really fancy talk for “I smoked a bowl and accidentally gave some of my friends a slot on a YCH I meant to sell when I was sober”. Regardless, here is what is in store for you!

“Boys” YCH inspired by Lizzo’s song of the same name.

If any of you are familiar with the song, you’ll know that the second bridge contains 7 types of boys. While in my artistic mindflow (read: inebriated state) I decided that I needed to draw these 7 boys oogling over one of my characters. I came to the unfortunate relization that I do not have one boy of each type in my character arsenal, and that it is already to large to add seven more boys. This led me to the conclusion that I must, in fact, aquire premission to use seven boys that were not mine. The “Your Character Here” format provided the perfect solution.

The first step was to, of course, collect one of each of the following: A big boy, an itty bitty boy, a Mississippi (read: cowboy) boy, an inner city boy, a pretty boy, a big bead (read: floofy) boy, and a clean face (read: scalie) boy. When my completely-not-sober self announced this is the local chat, the slots quickly filled. I kept the Mississippi slot for my very special Gryph boy, Kaelyn, as I simply needed to draw him as a sexy cowboy or I might’ve actually died. The result?

This monstrosity.

So my sketch is completely disorganized and insane. I’m still impressed at the amount of detail though considering my…state.

This sketch will probably be lined in a week or so. Stay tuned!

Next art things!

I have quite a few new designs up on my Redbubble! I’ll show them off below, and they’ll also be tossed into my merchandise tab. I am still working on setting up my online store and such, so please bear with me!

I know it’s not a lot this week, but I promise I’m not idle! Hopefully I’ll have more for y’all next week. Toodles!

Introduction: My Pets

11/11/2019

All right, welcome to the most interesting post I could think of for my second post; my pets. The first thing you need to know about me as a pet owner, is that I have a very small zoo. The second thing you need to know about me, is that I like it that way. I wouldn’t trade any of my babies for the world, and I do take care of them to the best of my ability.

I am not an animal hoarder, and I do not take on more animals than I can handle at a time. They are the top priority in my life, and the main reason that I am constantly trying to make more money or get a better day job.

I am literally the person that goes “I just want a better job so I can give my animals the best life possible”. Any hate towards my animals, or the amount of animals I have, will be ignored, blocked, deleted, and I will pretend that you no longer exist! :3

Well now that we’ve gotten through that technical stuff, lets get to the reason you’re here: Here are my Pets!

Angel (AKA Beeper) is the eldest of my babies (15 years old!)
Zeus (AKA Zoobie Doo) is the bestest boi!
Luna Lovegood is the largest and arguably simplest of the Triplets.
Harley is the triplet with the loudest purr (which earned her her name)
Ginny (AKA the “Little S#!%” Triplet) can never stay out of trouble.
Princess Popcorn, the mighty dragon (read: leopard gecko)
Sedonut is the gentlest Rosy Boa you ever did see!

I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do! They will probably be regular guests in my posts from now until the end of time. Thanks for taking the time to read this weeks post, and I look forward to seeing ya again next week!

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A New Beginning

11/04/2019

Well, hello there!

It seems that you have found your way to my humble blog. Welcome! Hopefully, you’ll be hearing more from me in the future. As I am just now starting up this website, blog and all, all I can do is make promises of what I hope to accomplish with my humble Internet presence. Allow me to introduce myself.

Drawing of me (Marie) in my beloved Toothless onsie.

My name is Marie. Now, you may be wondering if that is my “real” name, or if it is just an Internet alias. Here is my answer for you: Yes. I will allow you to make what you will of that answer.

The long and short of it is I am a feline-dragon hybrid known as a feligon. My feline half, which consists of 75% of my body, is that of a snow leopard. My Dragon half, which makes up the remaining 25% of my body, is that of a western dark dragon. This results in me being able to use both ice/water magic, as well as dark magic. Even though my wings should be too small in order to get my fat little body off the ground, I use the same logic as a B in that I don’t care about physics, and I fly anyway. If you need more of an explanation than that, I am literally 25% dragon and magical. #DragonLogic

Just in case you haven’t figured it out by this point, I am talking about my fursona and not my actual physical body, which is quite unfortunately average and human.

Here at YinKitty Studios, I am surrounded by friends! Just above this paragraph you can see an album of all of them, so that you have a face to a name. There’s me, of course, as well as Sadie, Zaia, Kava, Revis, Elias, Miian, Lyzuli, Midas, Sheila, Snaggletooth, Lacey, and Zolo. In total there are 11 of us and counting! I know, that is a lot of characters all living in a relatively small space, but we get by. Think of it kind of like a fraternity or sorority house! We just kinda got used to it.

The Real Me

For my own personal safety I will not be putting much about my personal Contact information and such on this website. What I will let you know, is the following:

Adventures that I go on with my friends, of course their real names may or may not be replaced with their online aliases, to also protect their identity.
My likes and dislikes, such as the following: I love Mexican food, and do not like Thai food. Fight me.
Anything relating to my art or art business, such as new designs available on my RedBubble store, or commission openings.
Anything relating to my public furry events, such as cons I may be vending at or simply attending in hopes of expanding my own social circle.
Anything of mine that gets posted on any of my social media accounts, and more! The only exception to this is Patreon, which I may or may not continue.

Please remember that if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or just want to chat, I do have a contact me page with all of the information that you could ever need in order to get a hold of me! The only thing I ask is that you do not use the contact me page in order to try and commission me. Asking questions about possible commissions is all fine and dandy, but when it comes down to it I will require you to go through the forms I have created for you. Even if we are literally just chatting on Telegram or something, and you want to commission me, I will still make you go through the form. No I cannot “just do it”. If you want to be on my commissions queue, you should be more than willing to go through the forms I have created specifically for this purpose. I have a hard enough time being organized, please don’t try and make it harder for me. 🙂

My Art

I assume if you’re here reading my blog you might actually have some interest in the art that I produce as well. I work in mainly three mediums; digital, traditional, and needlework. I’m still pretty new to needlework a.k.a. sewing, so I’m not up for taking commissions or selling anything in that category just yet. I do plan To have needlework commissions and merchandise available in the future! For now though, I really only take commissions with digital and traditional art. You may be asking yourself, what is the difference between digital and traditional art?

Well, if you’re not familiar with the art world, that’s OK! Pretty much, digital art is drawn on a tablet Usually from start to finish, meaning that the product never touches actual paper until it’s printed from the digital file. Traditional art is the exact opposite! Usually done in a Strathmore sketchbook on my bed with a mechanical pencil and a high polymer eraser, Traditional work generally takes a lot more time than digital work. This is because in digital work you can literally select and delete/rearrange bits that you have already drawn. In Traditional artwork, if you don’t like the way something looks, you generally have to start all over. At least, I do. I can almost never make a piece traditionally In one go. If I get about halfway done and I don’t like the way it’s looking, are usually at least try erasing and re-drawing some parts, and I usually end up just re-drawing the entire thing. Why? Because I am a perfectionist. And I am proud of it.

Anyway, if you’re interested in looking at designs I am selling on multiple products, you can find my RedBubble in my Shopping tab, or just click the link here!

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