-- Female -- 40 -- Vancouver, B.C., Canada -- Happily Married --
-- PnP RPG & Freelance Artist -- Animal Biology B.Sc. -- Pianist/Flutist/Music Enthusiast -- General Nerd --


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FINALLY OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS AGAIN!! (Not since 2019!) See my latest journal for details!

My Paypal and contact email is jocarra[at]gmail.com !
 Tips are never expected, but always welcome :) Thank you!



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ART USAGE/COPYRIGHTS:

You are free to use my art however you wish (with few exceptions), so long as it's not for commercial purposes. Credit is preferred, however! If you're interested in purchasing limited rights to my work, please email me.

Commissions, however, are often copyright in whole or in part to the client - any original character is copyright its creator, and any fanart is copyright its respective company. I claim no copyright over them - only over the created image itself. That being said, please do not use any commissions for reposting, modifying, tubing, etc. without my and/or the client's permission. Thank you :)


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ABOUT ME:

My name is Jen, but I've gone under the name Jocarra online for the past decade or so. I'm 40 years old, happily married, with a B.Sc in animal biology. I'm an illustrator who prefers work with animal and/or fantasy elements - I use primarily digital media but also some traditional, and focus on realistic and semi-realistic paintings as well as a few varieties of lineart-based art. I largely worked freelance, but now am the lead artist for Endless Realms, a D&D-like pen and paper RPG currently in development.

As for hobbies, I am a huge music enthusiast. I am a classically trained pianist and aspiring teacher, although recent and not-so-recent life events have caused me to fall tragically out of practice. I love listening to music and almost always enjoy finding new and unusual instruments, songs, genres and artists - I collect music not just of my own tastes, but also work that I find noteworthy, unique or extraordinarily different, and I'd like to think I have at least one or two examples of any major musical genre represented in my collection.

I also love food - trying new things and appreciating the foods I like is a simple undeniable pleasure for me. I never really cooked much when I was young, but have since really grown to enjoy it. Like my musical tastes, I potentially like just about anything - it all depends on how it's done.

I'm also pretty clearly a nerd. Besides generally enjoying things like science and philosophy (and being a huge music nerd, as previously mentioned), I love good science fiction, fantasy, and character/world-building, and enthusiastically but infrequently get the chance to practice archery and poi. I also enjoy a number of games, from video games to tabletop to cards to PnP RPGs, but I grew up primarily with video games - favourites include the old X-Wing/TIE Fighter series, RPGs like Suikoden, ChronoTrigger and Super Mario RPG, stealth games like Metal Gear Solid, and music games like DDR, Guitar Hero, Osu and Audiosurf.

I also theoretically enjoy writing, although I have much more of a love/hate relationship with it. While I've never quite gotten the hang of creating good narrative flow, I do enjoy world building and have created an extensive universe called The Tripartitus.

I actually would not describe myself as a furry or a therian, but I absolutely would understand if people mistook me for one (my fursona would probably be some kind of anthropomorphic canine/feline hybrid). I love animals (if getting a degree in them was not an indicator), and grew up with a house full of lovely animal companions - to me, a home isn't complete without them - and have always felt a strong affinity for them: if there is a non-human race or character in a show or game, I just automatically find them more interesting. I also admire the terrible beauty and power of predators, specifically, and I think being a fan of creatures like weres, dragons, and mythological monsters is a natural next step.

I leave this last, but really because it's much more personal: more important to me than anything else is my husband. The term really doesn't do him justice - he's my best friend, most trusted advisor, life companion, soul mate. I'm the sort of person who could have wealth and popularity, more money and friends than I could ever need, and still would be unhappy, because the most important thing to me in life is having that one person you love who loves you in return.