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In general, please feel free to ask any and all the questions you like about my art. I honestly love talking with people about art/crafts. The one thing I do ask is that folks keep in mind the fact that I do a lot of stuff through trial and error. This means that while I have learned what methods work for me, that learning was earned through hard work, hours of experimentation, and LOTS of scrapped projects. So while I don't mind pointing people in the general direction or giving a hint, I'm not really that interested in offering a 'easy how to get from point A to point B." tutorial. I firmly believe that new and innovative ideas will only come through people learning themselves how to do things, and making mistakes along the way. It's a big part of discovering why certain things work and others don't. Plus, what works for one person may very well not work for another. As for supplies, its easy these days to Google search for supplies. Do a quick search on OOAK art dolls, for example, and you are sure to find a plethora of companies selling many different types of clay and resin, fur and fabric, eyes of all sorts....pretty much everything you need to create one yourself! It just requires taking the time to actually LOOK, and want it badly enough that you are willing to put in the time and effort to learn.

So I encourage those who are curious to ask away....just be forewarned that I am not at all interested in doing the work for you! If you can't be bothered to try to find the answers and work to earn the knowledge, I've no interest in helping someone looking for the "Easy Way" to do things. Trust me, it's more fun having the satisfaction of discovering it yourself! That "Aah HA!" moment of triumph is worth aaaaaaall the frustration along the way.

To contact HopefulMonsterStudios with questions regarding art, you can send a mail to: dwalkerart@gmail.com. Please be aware that questions may take some time to answer, especially if things are busy around the shop.

The time to make any one individual Wyrm can vary quite a lot. Even among Tea-Cup Wyrms, there can be quite a lot of difference between the time it takes to craft a simple Leaf Crawler with no special traits, and the time it takes for a Plumed Gem Hunter with feather tail, horns, crystal, and benign white. Wyrms, even Tea-Cups, are done in steps. Horns get crafted in big groups. Heads are put together with all their traits and baked. Fur is put on. Etc. So the creation of a Wyrm is many steps, each taking a varying amount of time, so it's hard to estimate even for our Tea-Cup Wyrms.

In general, the turn around time for each Breeding Season should be no more than one month. Sometimes things happen, and there are delays, but it usually shouldn't take much longer than that. Larger Wyrms, both commissioned and bred Wyrms obviously take longer than the Tea-Cups, as they are more detailed. We ask that those purchasing bred-babies as well as commissioned Wyrms please be patient. We usually try to make regular posts on progress, but these are individually hand made, and they do take time.

I've gotten a number of requests for trades lately, and while I really appreciate it and am flattered, I have to decline most of the time. I am currently doing art full time as my job, and this means that any time I spend on art really has to be stuff that will help pay the bills. I will occasionally do gift art for a friend's birthday or some such thing, but it's for people I am close friends with. I do on rare occasions do trades, but they are usually for things I NEED, such as a particular type of art supply. Things I can use to turn around and create more art, to sell and make more $ to pay more bills. What little 'spare time' I have, I tend to be greedy with, since I already don't get to do art for myself very often. Also, doing art for the cost of supplies "and some extra thrown in for my time" is simply not something I do. I have set prices for items, for a reason. I have figured out how long it takes me to create something, and have priced said item what I feel that time is worth. So if I say no, please don't be discouraged or take it personally. I do after all have to make a living, just like everybody else!

Your handler name must be a valid account name either on Deviantart or on Furaffinity. This allows everyone to have a couple of core places where they can be contacted regarding Wyrms. If you have changed accounts, we can update your account name to a new one, but you must provide an account to be involved, even if you don't want to allow others to contact you during the breeding season. This gives us (the staff of Cruinndrac Farms) a way to contact you if we need to.

You can change the profile image, as well as your Wyrm's main datacard image on request. Generally, we ask that you not do this more than a couple of times, as it adds extra workload to maintaining the wiki. Find an image you like, and stick with it. If you have extra artwork or images that you want to add to your Wyrm's page, we can do that, as long as it doesn't get to be too much. Again, choose a couple of pieces of nice art you want, and we'll feature those, but we won't post every piece of art ever made of a Wyrm.

To change your handler name, change an image, or add artwork - send a PM to our Scribe: Arazia.

As part of a recent upgrade to the data cards, some Wyrms may now have little symbols next to their color codes. What are they? The simple answer is: These represent some hidden feature of the Wyrm that isn't represented by it's Physical Features list. Just what the symbols mean, and how you can breed for these hidden features is up to a keen eye, and handler experimentation.

No. Once a Wyrm breed's style has changed, any offspring will carry the current appearance for that 'breed standard'. So, for example, if you have an older style Leaf Crawler who still has the flat plating, it will pass the gene for current leaf-style plating to it's offspring. The same goes for Hybrids of changed Wyrm breeds.

There are a few Wyrms out there with unique 'mutations' which are unrelated to style changes. These can include... Jiao-Di's without plumes, Platinum Points without horns, Angler Eels without Lures, Qui-Lins without eye-dots, etc. These 'mutations' can carry to their offspring, as they are natural variations on the breeds themselves, rather than entire style redesigns. However, they are rarer to show up when bred back to Wyrms who do not also have these mutations.