Help an artist in serious need!

[Christi-chan]

So I'm writing about this here in hopes to spread the word out. There is an artist on the community site, DeviantArt, that is in desperate need of help. She is truely a talented and gifted artist. Her story nearly brought me to tears, espcially since the worst of it happened around Christmas.

This is her devianart gallery where you can see all her wonderful works: click here

I've quoted her journal from her page:

Hello everyone,

I'm sorry for my long absence and lack of updates. Things haven't been going well for me ever since December 2008 and my situation has hit the bottom.
That is why I'm here to ask you to commission me, but please hear my reason first:
My mother and me have been wrongfully set on the street on December 22nd by the authorities. Our lawyer ditched us 2 days before. They cut all our sources, so we are with absolutely no money on our bank accounts or pockets, no cell phones, no nothing. We have no family who would help us and we were promised sleeping places by three friends. In the end, two of them didn't even open the door, because shortly after they were threatened to be kicked out of their homes if they let us in. However only one of them had the courage to at least tell us the reason.

We slept the past week in our car, trying part-time jobs and handing all of our remaining stuff to a pawn shop. And overall the situation is really complicated, but I can tell you that they had no reason to do to us what they did.
Bit by bit they took everything we own within two years. We are still fighting, going to court and everything. But they are taking their time. But we need a place to sleep and food to eat.

So now I'm accessing the internet via my laptop and a w-lan to ask you to commission me if you can. I'm not begging you for money or donations or whatever.
I will work for it.

This is the last resort for my mother and me to get back on track, it was never my intention to post about all of this here, not even my closest friends know about this, but now I don't see any other way.

I would really appreciate your help.
So here is my commission information: [link]

On top of it I will add a free pencil sketch, no charges. Since this is all I can do.

Thank you for your understanding.

Now, I know we are all under some financial hardships, but you're not being forced to live in your car right? I can't help her with money right now, but I plan on saving, and also if I need to, I will run a special commission sale just to help raise money for her. So please, if you can't help with a commission for her right now, please pass the word along. Every little bit will help.