#achoirofcritters

[cryptics-grimoire]

Icons from tonight! 

One new one for my main blog (cryptic-alchemist), of my persona in the style of Night in the Woods. The second one is a holiday Animal Crossing style one for the GF’s dog blog, @achoirofcritters, of our pups Evie and Astaroth!

If you’re interested in an AC Christmas (or general) icon, message me here!  $20 each!

[westie-impostor]

Don’t exactly know what the hell I did but I finally took a pretty picture!

Used a different lens and it came out crystal clear which makes me think the other lens is messed up somehow.

Thank you @achoirofcritters for posting stuff about photography!

[professional-pup]

@achoirofcritters' Evie is the best at sleeping and cuddling, confirmed.

[theborzoiarebackintown]

OKAY it has been too long since I drew any type of bully breed, wowza am I out of practice. Thanks for letting me doodle your pups, @cosmodoop & @achoirofcritters!! They are fantastic and I love them.

[achoirofcritters]

I haven’t done an introductory post in a while...

And I have gained so many Followers since the last one! So for all you newbies of like, honestly, the past 6 months or so, here’s some things about me and the critters that this blog sometimes talks about! A Choir of Critters: a summary, LOL.

Mostly we’re a dog blog but the URL A Choir of Critters is meant to encompass all of my pets: I also keep rats, mice, gerbils, cats, and a crested gecko! My main blog is @nocturnalsymphony and I have a... under-used photography blog @bridgettejonesphotography!

Evelyn “Evie”

Our star of the show and the reasoning for this blog, Evie is a 3 year old brindle generic bully breed mutt. She was adopted from the local shelter in November of 2014, a few months after I moved into my own home. Evie is my super-model, my star child, my Literal Perfection™ dog, and exactly the companion I needed as mid-2014 is when I lost my great-grandmother who had raised me and my childhood home. Evie made me fall in love with dogs again. I want to say that at least most of the community is familiar with my Evie-bean. She’s a professional snuggler, always eager to learn, is very food oriented, and after a few scuffles in her lifetime, she is dog-selective when meeting new dogs and does not meet well on the leash, but once she gets to know a dog, she’s very good with them. She’s always been super tolerant of Astaroth and @professional-pup‘s Hesper is her BFF and husband. She is so in-tune to peoples’ anxiety and is very good at just... laying on you and giving you stability through a panic attack, something she has done for me, my girlfriend, and a couple of my friends. She loves all humans and small ones are her favorite!

Astaroth

Our baby boy and co-star of the blog, Astaroth, aka: demon potato floof, aka: awful waffle, is my red merle Australian Shepherd. He was born April 10th, 2016, and will be a year old in a couple of months (may how the time flies ;0;), and he came home from his breeder in June 2016! Astaroth was my first puppy in over 10 years. I’d been seeking a companion for Evie and had to make the decision to put my mini Aussie down earlier in the year, so my search led me to an Aussie breeder in my state, which in turn led me to Astaroth. He’s show-lines, smart as a whip when he wants to be, and very food-motivated. He was arguably one of the easiest puppies I’d ever seen, never stressing me out beyond belief, and only wrecking havoc very occasionally. ;) He’s a very soft, gentle boy, is very passive, and is relatively calm and low-energy for an Aussie. Honestly he’s just a total sweetie. A little reserved at first in new settings and he can be weary of new people, but once he knows you, he’s all butt-wiggles and excitement. My friend Abi is one of his favorite people in the world. We’re still teaching him the art of modeling, bwahaha, and his favorite past time is definitely chewing on Evie’s ears, something she’s 10,000% immune to by now.

I also have these fuckers:

These guys are my 4 cats: Shaman, the russian blue, Valka, the long-haired calico, Prince Caspian, generic DSH, and Tobias Grimm, the maine coon mix. They are not seen on the blog as often due to being indoor-only and the lighting in my house being atrocious, so I’m not able to photograph them as often. Shaman is the oldest and the other three are honestly all around the same age-range. All were adopted from local shelters except for Caspian, who was a kitten in a feral litter of my neighbor’s in my old neighborhood. Tobias is my Heart Cat and, like Evie, is very in-tune to my anxiety and mental health and will lay with me and purr if I’m feeling low. Even though he is honestly an asshole to everyone and everything else. Shaman is our attention-leech and is almost always in a lap or on a person. Valka is our elusive beauty who sleeps with me but tends to stay in the back bedrooms most often, and Caspian is the Literal Worst Cat Ever who never snuggles, only enjoys pets on occasion, and is a total menace, but he’s smol and cute so we forgive him.

My girlfriend also has a solid black manx cat named Selma who is dumb and ridiculous. :P

Xylphia, my crestie! I’ve had her since July 2014 and I just adore her, even though she’s an apathetic creature who feels no emotion for me whatsoever. :’) But she is just so cute. No hand can contain her, and she is totally obsessed with food. We’ve only lost her to an escape once, when Tobias, the fat-ass, popped the screen on her terrarium and she climbed out, but we managed to find her safe and sound somehow in this house of 5-cats. I absolutely adore crested geckos and will probably continue to keep them.

Hestia and Sigyn are my two fancy mice. :) They live with my girlfriend’s two female mice. Sigyn is a total sweetie and I adore her - Hestia’s kind’ve a chicken shit who doesn’t want much to do with human contact, lol. The mice and rats both change fairly often in my life due to the short lifespans of these rodents. :(

My current rats, although I’m missing photos of two new baby girls we got recently! Our females our Helena, Chrysabelle, and Beatrix. The only one pictured is Helena. My current males are Leander, Ian, and Archer. :) Males and females live in separate Critter Nations. I once had a partially tumblr-famous rat, Isaac, who passed late last year after living quite a long and full life: Here

And my raptor squad gerbils, Blue and Echo, who live with my girlfriend’s very fat black gerbil who is also named for the Jurassic World raptor squad!

But the rodents have shorter lifespans so they come and go a lot more often. :( I’m going to try and get more consistent about photographing my mice and rats. Still, the puppers are who you will hear about the most on this blog still, we’re very much mostly a dogblr, because the pups are the only ones who get to have out-of-the-house adventures, which makes for better photo opportunities! Since this blog is very photo-oriented. :)

As for meeeee~

I know I’m the least interesting here, but.... ;) My name’s Bridgette and I’m the blonde one in this pic, with my beloved pups and my girlfriend Elisabeth! I’m swiftly approaching 26 years old (later this month, February) and own my own home in Kentucky. I work as a night shift desk clerk for a hotel, and am trying to grow my photography skills so that maybe one day it will be a profession. I’ve always been very passionate about animals - other obsessions include nerdy things, writing, music, and of course, photography! My friends’ group is affectionately known as the Chain Gang and I’m an inner goth at heart, haha. I’m bi, have a lot of anxiety, and I’ve fought depression off and on since my grandmother passed, but I’m pretty much carrying on doing my best from day to day. I don’t have much family but I’m close with my mom and my other still-living grandmother.

Fellow dogblr friends can add me on Facebook here if they’d like!

I also have a Facebook page for photography: HERE

And that’s just a little about us here at @achoirofcritters! Hope to learn more about my followers and interact with them more as well. :)

Thanks for following! *smooch*

[baridi-cafe-blog]

Small gift for @achoirofcritters! Her two awesome pups, Evie and Astaroth! Poor Evie is currently a litlle bit unwell, fingers crossed for her quick recovery! Sending all the good vibes to her and her owner!

Anyway, I really like this dog-blog. @achoirofcritters is very talented photographer and I love how she plays with the light on her photographs! <3

If you’re interested, I also have a dog blog, when I put photos of my little silly red potato :D You can check it out here: redgingertea.tumblr.com

EDIT: Updated source file, because I added a few touch ups :3

[cryptics-grimoire]

Revisiting a piece I made last year to make it festive for this Halloween for my lovely @achoirofcritters! <3

Now featuring Evie the witch, complete with hat and spiderweb collar and Astarot the pumpkin king with his jack o’ lantern tag, plus a spooooky foggy graveyard background! ;D

Happy hauntings!

[cryptics-grimoire]

Cryptic’s Pet Commissions!

So anyone who might have been keeping up with my girlfriend’s dogblr blog ( @achoirofcritters ) knows that our family has been going through some trouble with our dear Evelyn having to have an emergency surgery on her poor tummy. Thankfully little Evie-bean is doing well in recovery and should be able to come home within the next few days! Unfortunately, as surgeries go, the vet bill is going to be pricey and we could use a little help. So I come to you to offer up some pet commissions!

I can do most any kind of pet, but considering it’s mostly dogblr we interact with, I figured I would include mostly dog examples, but feel free to ask about any other critters, too! Check out my blog to see other examples of artwork. I’m currently only offering digital commissions, and payments must be able to be made through PayPal. 

Icons - $20

These are 500 x 500 pixels, can include one or two critters depending on size, and a simple background.

Chibi - $15

This is for one individual chibi critter. Additional critters can be added for the same static price.

Full Body Portraits - $25

I can cartoonize your pet, with flat colors and a simple background.

If anyone is interested, just shoot me a message and we can discuss what you would like. If everything sounds good then I will ask for your PayPal address and I will send you an invoice for payment, and then I will start your piece(s). Thank you in advance to anyone who commissions, or even just spreads the word.  Any and all help we can get will be most appreciated!