Art, mostly

First, I want to thank everyone for giving feedback on the last entry. :D You guys are great! I feel bad that I can't reply to everyone, but your voice was heard!

So HAY GUYS! The preorder for the Maw ends on OCTOBER 25TH! After that they'll go into production, and Patch Together will only have a finite number of figurines.

( The final colors! )

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( And then there were more arts. Lots of Cecilia and Death/JW stuff. )

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I think Miss Monster linked this site on twitter yesterday: Hilda pinups by Duane Bryers. Gorgeous 60's pinups of an adorable buxom lady, lots and lots of character and energy. Her mouth just makes the best shapes!

I made a Byzantine Eagle Maw design this weekend! It was fun! If it's okay with you, I'd like to talk about it some. Can we talk about it? That'd be real nice.

( Can you answer a few questions? It's okay if you don't want to. )

So, y-yeah, this was technically today's comic at Johnny Wander. But it's like three pages long! And I worked really hard on it! So you can read a higher-res version of it here too, if you don't read Johnny Wander. (and it's cool if you don't, I don't mind.)

( long image is long! )

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( and a maw update! )

Hello there are lots of arts let me show them to you! You might have seen some of these on the internets before, and for that I apologize.

( THE MAW PROTOTYPE SCULPT IS DOONNEE! )

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( Mostly doodles, mostly stupid original characters doing things )

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( some teeny paintings )

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( the promised high-res Girl With The Skeleton Hand pages! )

WHEW! That was fun, we should do it again soon!
awh man now I want new socks

GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

The preliminary Patch Together sculpt for the Maw came through! There's a bunch of edits, I'll post more views once the second pass goes through. But I'm SUPER EXCITED to get a maw! I'm going to request some blanks, I want to try my hand at some crazy custom jobs. :D

The figurine is now in the PT Store! They're $30 until they get produced-- then they'll go up to $35!

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Here, I'll bulk this up with some other art. Th--there's not much that I can really show off right now--! I've been doing more of those small paintings in my free time, but they're all either unfinished or unscanned right now.

( a small bit of orts )

OH SO, Ananth and I are doing an Actual Fiction Story over at Johnny Wander. I've been enjoying myself immensely, but it's been stupidly time consuming. I miss the days when I can sit down for 6 hours and start and finish a comic. =_= The last page is going up on Tuesday, then I'll share the high res images here.

Awh hell yeah! New icons! armaina did this for me out of the blue after we hung out at CTcon! Thank you so much! I also have a new default icon, from a drawing Conrad did for me while he was watching the table for me also-at-CTcon.

I just got back to my parents place from the new apartment Brooklyn-- John and I spent the whole dang day cleaning (again) to prep for Saturday. Finally, finally, finally we're going to be finishing this move. I miss everyone terribly and can't wait for us all to be back together again. Additionally, we did get a pretty sweet place.

Hope you like dumb art, because I scanned in a bunch of dumb art!

( photos of scads of package doodles, mostly some terrible sketches )

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So can I ask you guys a hypothetical question? If I put in a pitch for a figurine to Patch Together, would anyone be interested in purchasing it? It'd need 50 preorders to be made, and will probably cost $30-$50 per order. I'd probably do a Maw to start off with.

I got missmonstermel's Foo Dog a bit back, and it is excellent quality. These guys do excellent work. Also: I want a maw figurine.

Hello! Man, I totally haven't posted publicly since before I left for Japan. D: H-how about that. H-hey guys.

I mostly have a slew of Terrible Images to share, so I will go ahead and share them. Prepare yourselves! (some are pretty large! Also stupid!)

( Oh, so there was a Questionable Content guest comic-- )

( And I painted a skate deck--! )

( And finally, that 'ten meaningful images from your HD' whatever )

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Oh-and-finally--! I've mentioned this on Twitter and Johnny Wander, but Ananth and myself WILL be at San Diego Comic Con.

Ananth I know has a bit of a heavier schedule with his DH stuff, but we'll be mostly freely walking around. Unless the Oni dudes put us to work (they might.) We'll probably be dicking around with Miss Monster or bothering the Topatoco dudes or something. We're playing it by ear, I've never been to SDCC before. I do want to go to the Mythbusters panel, though. Badly.

There WILL be a Johnny Wander meetup, though! On Sunday, from 1-2 PM in front of the convention center, between the the Fedex and the Starbucks. Maybe I will see some of you there..? :D

GOD THIS IS SUCH A MISTAKE. I promise I will never put a twitter feed on LJ, that's just irritating I know.

Something like ten people have friended this journal in the past two or three days! Where are all you guys coming from! Did someone link me or do I just have a permeating presence? I am curious!

I am boring, so I will get on to the art.

( Art x6, OCs and dicking around with brushes. One thing is kinda NSFW. )

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I've been trying to teach myself how to use ink with a brush. I used a brush to do the latest J*W and I think it came out pretty okay? +1 TO INDIE CRED!

[EDIT:]

FRONT PAGE OF TODAY'S NEW YORK TIMES

( [EDIT 2] )

I should preface this by saying that today in the New York Times Dining section, there's a lengthy article about eating squirrels. *THUMBS UP*

I started writing this entry last night when I heard a huge crack and suddenly all the power went down in the building-- a large branch had dropped on the power line. Haha, if it's not the water going out in this place, it's the electricity.

Goodness, it's been a while. Sorry, I'm still doing that if-it-doesn't-have-pictures-don't-post-it-publicly thing. Hope your respective New Years went well! My family did its usual traditional feast shindig, and it was wonderful. I feel odd, it seems like I'm doing art constantly but don't have anything to publicly show for it. There's J*W, I did some stuff for the Applegeeks DarkHorse book that I can't show, there's other comic work stuff that I can't show, O-OH I didn't mention that I'm subbing for Hawk at AG for the month... I, ah, I'm not really all that familiar with the characters so I'm going off Ananth's original descriptions of his characters which isn't really how Hawk draws them. A few fans are complaining that they can't recognize people. What can I do, I guess. ._. no-but-seriously it's not a big thing.

( OH RIGHT A BIT OF ART-- if it can be called that. )

Thank you to everyone who bought stuff from the Etsy store! :D I sent out all of the pin sets yesterday except for one, whose payment hadn't gone through yet. I'll be replenishing the stock some time at the beginning of the week. Since I have the store set up, is there anything you would be interested in seeing from me? I mean, there isn't much I can do in bulk -- I don't have amazing screen-printing skills nor can I make cool things with yarn, and I don't have the time to put together things like small paintings at the moment. I have some leftover oversized postcard prints on hand, and the bookmarks, but that's really about it. I'd like to do small t-shirt runs in the future, but that's a bit off in the distance. Thoughts?

Since I seem to be plugging other things, I should mention that there's a livejournal RSS feed set up for that comic I'm doing these days. (thank you again, Mal. :D )

I don't have much impressive art to share, I'm sorry. All of my effort has been going into work-related stuff these days. Or that aforementioned online comic. I'll work harder in the future!

( Mostly ink tests and stupid doodles - NSFW for a tastefully nude lady! )

I do not think I can properly explain in words how much I want to own this shirt.

So hey, one of the many private projects I have going went live today! Essentially, Ananth and I are doing eclectic journal comics. For the time being. Super super thanks to Conrad, who practically pulled an all-nighter making our terrible website a reality.

>> JOHNNY WANDER <<
tuesdays and thursdays

(check out the archives, there's a few comics in there)

This is all coming just in time for Anime USA this upcoming weekend, which for some reason I am a guest at. I'll be selling nearly the same stuff I was selling at Otakon, and I'll be just as timid about it.