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Ovaettr Art Newsletter!🍃 > March 2024 🌱

Hello everyone and welcome to the end of Winter 2024! Spring is coming! I hope you’ve been safe & enjoying the outdoors. I am just now coming out of my Winter dormancy and I am ready to stretch my leaves out and get going career wise this year! Read about the updates below!

Pencils Are FINISHED & Currently Inking… ‘The Fox Who Became A Girl’🦊

The final pencil sketches for each page, including the lettering, are complete! I completed them on 2/15 & have since then begun inking. Enjoy a SNEAK PEEK at the pages’ thumbnails & pencils here… Join my Patreon to read the whole comic early and see it’s process through to the end! The inks are currently well underway! You can also take a glimpse at more sneak peeks & process on my Instagram! Thank you for your support! 🦊

Looking For Work In the Industry! 💼

I am currently pushing myself to try to get my foot in the door within the animation industry, as a 2D artist who is specialized as a Motion Graphic Designer & Illustrator with my BFA in Media Arts & Animation. Wish me luck! I’ve applied to 25+ places as of this last weekend & hope to get some interviews going!If you see or hear of any openings for motion design, graphic design, illustration, comics, or 2D animation remote or in Texas, please reach out to me and let me know ! Thanks! <3 Portfolio / Resume / hello@orionfern.art

Commissions Open + March Specials ✍🏻

I am also taking individual client work again too! I would be more than happy to help you by creating something cool using your character(s), whether original or fanart! Every booking helps me be able to cover my bills while I’m still looking for full time work. Here’s what New Specials I’ve got going on that you can take advantage of starting today! Ko-fi Commissions Page for PWYC Ink Sketches & More Commissions Interest Form | Queue & Previous Commissions

Vendor Events for Spring 2024 🎪

Come find me at the following events this Spring! I will have my green + black table with all new art and prints this season! I can’t wait to show you all what I have in store - 3/20 8pm - 11pm CT - Art & Sol Market @ Harvest House (331 E Hickory St, Denton, TX) - 4/14 1pm - 6pm CT - Fae Folk Market @ Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios (411 E Sycamore St, Denton, TX) - 4/20 1pm - 8pm CT - Gaia Fest for 420 & Earth Day @ Downtown Denton Square (on the corner of Cedar & Hickory St)

As always, I’ll also be handing out a Free N95 Mask + COVID Info Zine to everyone who visits my table. I want you to stay informed and stay safe! See you around Denton soon! Envisioning a better world, together with you.

URGENT: Helping Palestine 🇵🇸

Palestine has faced 150+ days of genocide, being utterly destroyed by weapons made and sent by the USA and used by the Isreali military.There is no “two sides” in this “war” - it is not a “war” but a GENOCIDE.What will you tell your children you did during this time? We cannot remain silent. What you do today will shape history and tomorrow. We must do something now, daily, and forever until this genocide stops. We must save Palestine.                See how you can fit in below… Continue to urge elected officials to: - VOTE NO on any more weapons package deals for Isreal - Support a permanant enforced ceasefire now - Allow real humanitarian aid into Gaza - Reinstate the UNRWA funding

Go to CeasefireToday.com & the Stop Gaza Genocide Toolkit pages for guidance on how to contact your officials with these urgent demands. Additional: Are they ignoring your calls and e-mails? Send postcards too. - Donate an E-Sim Card for a Gaza citizen using the instructions at the Cartoonists Co-op, and qualify for free art to match your donations. - I am now a VOLUNTEER ARTIST for the E-Sims For Gaza initiative as I have joined the Cartoonist’s Co-Op! Choose ‘Ovaettr AKA Orion Fern’ as your artist at the page above if you would like me to draw for your donation. - See what I am offering at my landing page for this effort.

• Take part in reoccurring ‘Shut It Down For Palestine’ days at and commit to things like educating yourself and your community, amplifying Palestinian voices, and more. Register your action at the site, and plan your actions in advance. The next day of action is March 13th.
• See how much of your own or your area’s US Tax Dollars go towards genocide with the Not My Tax Dollars tool. ****
• Find a Protest Near You and bring friends
• Download A Promise, Not a Statement: Organizing for Palestine Solidarity 101
• Attend the 30 Minute Power Half-Hours for Gaza run by Jewish Voice for Peace to connect, recollect, and maintain your hope and strength. They run Mon - Fri 2pm - 2:30pm CT.

COVID-19 News & Updates 🦠😷

• Today, March 11th, 2024, marks the start of our 5th year of being in the continuous and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. How have you been changed since March 11th, 2020?
• 1 in 64 people are infected with COVID-19 currently. Stay up to date with the latest by reading Dr. Ruth Ann Crystal’s COVID News & More updates.
• Urgently tell the CDC to REVERSE their COVID-19 isolation policy update.
• Long Covid Awareness Day is March 15th. Are you or someone you know impacted by Long Covid?
• Tell your Long Covid Story by March 13th.
• Read and catch up on plenty of opportunities for COVID conscious community events with the COVID Conscious Creatives Newsletter.****
• Use code MARCH20 for 20% off ALL March long at BonafideMasks.com *(Snag your antigen tests and KN95 / N95s now!) *

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