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Coming Up For Air
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*GASP*
Ok, you know my last blog?
The one about how I was working so hard, and oh boy, I was finally going to see Les Miserables?
Well, both things continued true. I've been working at a prodigious rate, pictures every day, multiple comics every week! Just not here!
And I saw the movie! I loved the movie! I laughed, I cried, IT CHANGED MY LIFE.
...That's not hyperbole.
See, I have a Tumblr. I didn't use it much before this year, it was basically a message center for myself and a few friends. But after the movie I felt the need to draw some silly SILLY fanart to offset the horrible overwhelming waves of confused elated grief I was dealing with, because art is therapy, right? So I drew a couple silly little things.
And I tagged them, for my own archiving purposes.
Did you know! There is a Les Mis fandom? And was, before the movie?
Did you know! They were apparently desperate for fan artists?
I DID NOT KNOW THESE THINGS. Not until my notes went from ones to dozens to a hundred in a day, and my follower count likewise. I started getting MESSAGES. I drew a couple more things.
And the crowd, as the scrolls say, went wild. My follower count SPIKED, I looked at a few blogs, and I was sunk. Because let me tell you: there is a Les Mis fandom, and they are the funniest, smartest, sweetest fandom I could have hoped to be utterly usurped by. Artists! Historians! *Intense nerdery * of all sorts, generally set to music! There's nothing in that I don't love. There's also an ENORMOUS amount of back-and-forth conversation over the fanwork which, let's face it, I do not and probably never will get on my own storystuff. Since I'd been feeling a bit stalled on my art for a while, I thought "OK, I'll just hang out here and play a couple weeks".
Hahahaha. *maniacal twitch* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *gasp*
So, uh, I'm still over there. LM fandom has a serious chunk of my heart and time. BUT it's given me back a lot of art feedback and practice --if nothing else, suddenly I'm comfortable drawing guys!--and I think I'm going to start trying some...things, over here. Because if no one here cares about guys in waistcoats (I have to remind myself: NO ONE CARES, C. THAT IS NOT THE OBSESSION OF THE WHOLE WORLD) no one over there cares about soft SF. *whispers * they mostly don't even know this place exists. So probably some character sketches for a week or two, and then..we'll see!
Because, euphoric fandom romance or no, I have MISSED you, dA. So quite! So calm! So...army green! So what else is new by you?
Ok, you know my last blog?
The one about how I was working so hard, and oh boy, I was finally going to see Les Miserables?
Well, both things continued true. I've been working at a prodigious rate, pictures every day, multiple comics every week! Just not here!
And I saw the movie! I loved the movie! I laughed, I cried, IT CHANGED MY LIFE.
...That's not hyperbole.
See, I have a Tumblr. I didn't use it much before this year, it was basically a message center for myself and a few friends. But after the movie I felt the need to draw some silly SILLY fanart to offset the horrible overwhelming waves of confused elated grief I was dealing with, because art is therapy, right? So I drew a couple silly little things.
And I tagged them, for my own archiving purposes.
Did you know! There is a Les Mis fandom? And was, before the movie?
Did you know! They were apparently desperate for fan artists?
I DID NOT KNOW THESE THINGS. Not until my notes went from ones to dozens to a hundred in a day, and my follower count likewise. I started getting MESSAGES. I drew a couple more things.
And the crowd, as the scrolls say, went wild. My follower count SPIKED, I looked at a few blogs, and I was sunk. Because let me tell you: there is a Les Mis fandom, and they are the funniest, smartest, sweetest fandom I could have hoped to be utterly usurped by. Artists! Historians! *Intense nerdery * of all sorts, generally set to music! There's nothing in that I don't love. There's also an ENORMOUS amount of back-and-forth conversation over the fanwork which, let's face it, I do not and probably never will get on my own storystuff. Since I'd been feeling a bit stalled on my art for a while, I thought "OK, I'll just hang out here and play a couple weeks".
Hahahaha. *maniacal twitch* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *gasp*
So, uh, I'm still over there. LM fandom has a serious chunk of my heart and time. BUT it's given me back a lot of art feedback and practice --if nothing else, suddenly I'm comfortable drawing guys!--and I think I'm going to start trying some...things, over here. Because if no one here cares about guys in waistcoats (I have to remind myself: NO ONE CARES, C. THAT IS NOT THE OBSESSION OF THE WHOLE WORLD) no one over there cares about soft SF. *whispers * they mostly don't even know this place exists. So probably some character sketches for a week or two, and then..we'll see!
Because, euphoric fandom romance or no, I have MISSED you, dA. So quite! So calm! So...army green! So what else is new by you?
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Starting the Year Right
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With a page! I am so tempted to give you more pages than one, but that would kinda kill my buffer, and that would destroy the whole point of this past break, right? So here, have one page and my tongue-biting restraint. Did you miss long dialogue exhchanges? I sure hope you did, because they are back with a vengeance!
I always feel like I should say something interesting when I update, but lettering, as I always do on update nights, uses up all my wordbrains. But tomorrow I'm going to finally go see Les Miserables, so I bet I'll have plenty of talkingness after that! Meantime, I've got some sketching to get to. 2013, I am going to do right by you!
I always feel like I should say something interesting when I update, but lettering, as I always do on update nights, uses up all my wordbrains. But tomorrow I'm going to finally go see Les Miserables, so I bet I'll have plenty of talkingness after that! Meantime, I've got some sketching to get to. 2013, I am going to do right by you!
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Happy New Year! 2013 Edition!
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It feels weird to say I have New Year resolutions. That sounds so imposing. I'm sitting here with my New Year's Eve dinner (greens and cornbread and blackeyed peas, because I am a Texan hick) and I don't feel intimidated or bound to impress in the new year. I feel excited and jittery like a five year old expecting a day at the fair. There's so much I want to try in 2013! I want to post my pages more regularly (and that starts this Wednesday!), and to improve my art across the board, because WOW, I am weak in a lot of key areas. I want to practice my life art skills and get myself up to speed-- and anyone who wants to join me can generally find me sketching and hangin' out on The Google Plusses this year at midnight; that's when the internet runs wild and free at my place. If you'd like to join in some time, let me know!
Besides that, well... I have dreams of learning to code a little, and maybe revive my Etsy store and blog a bit. And hopefully the easy one-- I want to read a book every week this year! I don't expect to run out of time on that, I'm a fast reader, but I may run out of books.
This last year has been kinda slacktackular for me-- I'd really hoped to have more done to look back on-- but I have to say, what I did get finished, I mostly did because of you wonderful people here on dA. When I can't be bothered to kick my own butt, y'all have been here reminding me by example to get back in the game and post some darn art! I hope I get to know more of you, better, in the year ahead-- and hope we all have lots of the sort of adventures that end with good dinners and public accolades. Let's go, 2013!
Besides that, well... I have dreams of learning to code a little, and maybe revive my Etsy store and blog a bit. And hopefully the easy one-- I want to read a book every week this year! I don't expect to run out of time on that, I'm a fast reader, but I may run out of books.
This last year has been kinda slacktackular for me-- I'd really hoped to have more done to look back on-- but I have to say, what I did get finished, I mostly did because of you wonderful people here on dA. When I can't be bothered to kick my own butt, y'all have been here reminding me by example to get back in the game and post some darn art! I hope I get to know more of you, better, in the year ahead-- and hope we all have lots of the sort of adventures that end with good dinners and public accolades. Let's go, 2013!
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Merry Krimuhannukwanzayulstice!
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I don't really care why you might be celebrating today, but I hope you are! I hope your day is bright, and full of people you like and good things to eat and maybe some pleasant surprises. With gift wrap.
I am certainly going to have a fantastic Santa Party Time, with pie in the oven and duck for dinner and all my favorite people around. Except you, loyal readers! But if you were here I would totally give you cookies and we could sing Lovecraft Christmas Carols and set off firecrackers, and it would be awesome. Thanks for sticking around this year!
I am certainly going to have a fantastic Santa Party Time, with pie in the oven and duck for dinner and all my favorite people around. Except you, loyal readers! But if you were here I would totally give you cookies and we could sing Lovecraft Christmas Carols and set off firecrackers, and it would be awesome. Thanks for sticking around this year!
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Yes, I'm Alive
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But it has been a near thing, and honestly I'm *still* getting over being awfully sick. Whurgh.
This has done a good job of destroying the modest buffer I'd managed to build myself. Worse, the high fevers exacerbated my seizure disorder and kind of destroyed my consciousness for a while. If you follow me on The Twitter or The Tumbs you've probably seen a lot of notes and posts from me because out of context 140-character snips have been about all I could handle for the last month or so.
Aaaand now it's the holidays, with all the busy that goes into that. And I love the holidays, deeply! But it does eat up the time.
I really, REALLY hate to do it, but I think I'm taking December off the comic updates. I'm still arting, and trying to restore that minor buffer my fevers snatched away. I hope to come back in January with this chapter all wrapped up. Thanks for being patient! I'll try to keep posting some art here, and over at The Tumbs, so it's obvious I aten't dead.
This has done a good job of destroying the modest buffer I'd managed to build myself. Worse, the high fevers exacerbated my seizure disorder and kind of destroyed my consciousness for a while. If you follow me on The Twitter or The Tumbs you've probably seen a lot of notes and posts from me because out of context 140-character snips have been about all I could handle for the last month or so.
Aaaand now it's the holidays, with all the busy that goes into that. And I love the holidays, deeply! But it does eat up the time.
I really, REALLY hate to do it, but I think I'm taking December off the comic updates. I'm still arting, and trying to restore that minor buffer my fevers snatched away. I hope to come back in January with this chapter all wrapped up. Thanks for being patient! I'll try to keep posting some art here, and over at The Tumbs, so it's obvious I aten't dead.
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