From Staff to Handler

[LonnieAnn]

Hi! I'm Lonnie. Some of you know me as LonnieAnn, former Assistant Sculptor for CDF, some of you know me as Beerhorse. I am an artist and have been drawing all my life. First it was Lord of the Rings fan art (back before their was a movie!), then it was X-Men fan art (Back when it was just a comic!), then it was my friends LARP characters and finally I discovered the Furry Fandom in 1998 and started drawing people's Furry Characters. I was SUPER active in the furry fandom for quite a few years. The encouragement and support I found there for my art gave me the courage to give up my corporate accounting life and go back to school for Art. That was in 2006. I was 29.

I just graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in March 2013. I have a BFA in Sequential Art and I'm in the process of building the readership on my web comic, Almost Normal, http://www.shesalmostnormal.com. I've got a couple half written graphic novel scripts I plan to get back to, some long overdue commissions to very patient friends, and an installation gallery exhibit I promised my community college a while back. That last one's a doozy and I have some fear to overcome in regards to it first!

I'm also a rookie Caricature Artist! I've been working at Six Flags New England this summer, and I've also partnered up with an event group to do parties and fairs. I'm really enjoying doing art that my family gets and enjoys for once, and look forward to doing more in the future!

I can't remember when I started sculpting. It was just something fun to do and I happened to be good at it. It was never more than a hobby for me. Most folks didn't even know I sculpted before I started working for CDF. I would like to keep up with it though, I just have to find my own niche with it.

So anyway, that's me! I'm looking forward to breeding my Rarittie to a couple dragons and getting little wyvern babies, and I'm looking forward even more to having a real job so I can buy more wyrmies!

Thanks for reading!
Lonnie

[ShyCrestedGirl]

Friendship is always more important then business imho but thats just me

Also, If your interested at some point I think Rarittie would make adorable Wyverns with one of my NightShades

You can see my dragons here
http://bittersweetnightshades.weebly.com/dragons.html

[SandySchreiber]

Working at Six Flags sounds fun! Do you have any pics of your characatures? That is one hard art to master, and I bow to anyone who can draw in public that way.
Sorry the sculpting gig did not work out, but sometimes real life gets in the way.
And yes, friendship is more important.
Good luck!

[LonnieAnn]

Also, If your interested at some point I think Rarittie would make adorable Wyverns with one of my NightShades

Thanks for the offer Shy! I'm more interested in plains dragons though due to their horsiness.

[LonnieAnn]

Working at Six Flags sounds fun! Do you have any pics of your characatures?

Hi Sandy! Thank you! Caricature is SO much fun! I love drawing folks and then seeing the look of delight and laughter on their face when I finally show them the drawing. Ocassionally you get the, "That doesn't look like me" people, but you can't please everybody.

I've been posting some of my Caricatures to my FA page (Beerhorse) and my DA Page (LonnieAnn). It's the same stuff in both places, so just pick one.