So, what are these icon things I'm uploading?

The back story is: several years back, I drew a couple G1 My Little Ponies for myself (Mimic and Starshine), as part of a mood icon set over on LJ. I don't have the faintest clue where the original files have gone, I had all my bases, and never finished it.

Starshine: [link]
Mimic: [link]

And they were rough. I had never really done pixel art before. I think I had done one or two icon sets for myself, but that was really it. After these, I made myself a mood icon set, based off one of my rats, but that was really about it for pixel art... I think about 8 years.

Well, after getting into FIM a bit, I remembered my old pixel icons, and decided to pull them out, dust them off, and start using them again on LJ, and though, eh, why the hell not, might as well do some custom ones for a few bucks here and there. I just called them what they were, PixelPonies. The style has developed into something closer to my much loved G1s, which I'm finding most people are fine with, even though I have a more G4-ish style for reference sheets.

... And that's great because I can't really get the G4 style down. >_>

After getting back into it, I had a hurricane sale to keep myself entertained during hurricane Irene, and a friend advertized for me. And holy shit did I have a lot of Ponies to do!

I'd never had that many commissions. And I got through them all. I have a short list for gifts that I want to eventually work though, but doing custom Ponies is harder now that I am using a monitor with a different aspect ratio than my tablet. Things do not line up. So I had a template sale! And starting this year, I'm only doing templates for the foreseeable future. (Once I upload my backlog, I'll put up the template ref.) It's been great because it's not only allowed me to solidify how I want to do commissions, but to prove that my principals from my grooming business also apply quite well to my art sales, and all of what I learned from art commissions will help me more once I can start my grooming business back up.

I hopefully won't be neglecting dA as much, and I hopefully will have a tablet PC sometime next month, so I can just skip all the issues I've been having with tablet and computer monitor not playing nicely. That should mean more productivity and art, and grander projects than PixelPonies.