Eightstar Sketch: Air

Hello folks! Welcome to the first official "Something every damn day" post. Have a silly hat!

You WILL have a silly hat.

Annnywho... Today we also have a first in that this is the first publicly shared glimpse into the world of The Eightstar. I find sketching out my thoughts on a potential character/race helps my wheels turn about deeper details, so I tend to take notes on the side as I draw. As I don't feel like submitting you to my sloppy-ass jot-notes, said notes have been typed up more coherently on the scanned image.

With that said, enjoy this doodle:

Also today I worked on finalising a swank little logo for one of the local University's official resource centres. I'll be presenting it to committee tomorrow and posting pics once they've given a yae or nay, so tune in for that! It'll be shiny!

Cheers!

Existence Fail

Hooooooly shit I haven't written since last YEAR. Hoo-ray.

Okay... so... Hi. I'm still alive. I'm still doing stuff. I'm just failing at updating my stuff in any kind of publicly visible fashion. Blarghle.

Been stretching those artistic legs again. A lot of my gifts for others this Christmas were made on the cheap... one of which reminded me how much I enjoy a bit of painting.

Is nice, yes? I think so...

I'm pondering challenging myself to work on art every day from here on this year. Posting SOMETHING to the blog every day as well, even if it's just a half-finished doodle. (Fuck you, January 1st, I'll make my resolutions when I FEEL like it, bitch.)

I have actually been sketching more lately, and getting some really good brain-babies when it comes to fleshing out my eight element world, which I will henceforth refer to as Eightstar. If you think that is a cheesey fantasy-nerd name for a setting, well... don't care.

Cheers, lovelies.
Hope to post again tomorrow.

Shiny toys!

Hooray! The folks at NaNoWriMo got their widgets online! See that shiny little progress thingy there on the sidebar? That tells how many words I've written on my way to the 50k goal.

So now you all have permission to poke me with sticks if my count is lagging! Yaaaay!

Once more into the breach of madness

November looms, the days grow short and chilly, and how do I arm myself against the frigid dark?

Why, by committing to a herculean task of novelling! Wouldn't you?

I've dabbled in the Lands of Nano a time or two before. It's always been interesting, though rarely successful. At the very least it has never been like the crushing spectacle of ScriptFrenzy. So why the hell not roll up my sleeves and give it another go? I have some half-deep world building kicking around that I just might be able to squeeze 50k words worth of plot out of... so we'll see how it all goes.

If any of you crazies out there are taking up the mantle of high-speed noveller as well this year, feel free to come be my buddy!

This is why we can't have nice things

A friend tweeted a link to this Fox Boston article, where parents of a transgendered child fall under rather a lot of criticism. A little in the article. A LOT in the comments.

Go ahead, take a moment, browse through the sludge of humanity. I'll wait.

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Back? Okay.

WHAT THE SWEET MERCIFUL FUCK?? Are we seriously still this backward as a society of sentient beings? They aren't even saying "We're going to make our 11 year-old a girl now." They're buying him time to sort it all out and be sure. They're giving him the best way they can think of to be sure if this is the right thing for him before doing anything permanent. In response to this we scream "abuse"? And "This is why Lesbians shouldn't have kids"?

Excuse me while I sum this rant up with a meme:

A glorious rant indeed

This? The thing -> Right Here <- This is why my princess is awesome. Behold her wonderful disability and kink blog. Behold the eloquent post putting all linear thinking potential partners- with IQs on par with bags of wet hair- squarely in their place.

I am terribly proud of how this endeavour of hers is going. It's off to a roaringly wonderful start and I can't wait to watch it grow and kick ass.

But hey, why are you still here reading my ramblings? Go! Go read my girls blog! DO EEEEEET!

Feeling like an actual Graphic Artist!

My project for this evening involves finishing a cover image for on of the brilliant writings of Prudence MacLeod.

Yesterday? I dove head first into swankifying my princess' sexy new blog. A friend of ours, upon seeing it, immediately asked if I would do similar work for her blog.

Hot diggity but do I feel shiny and skilled and hardcore. I'mma do a proud dance. I've always been an artsy dabbler, but this whole having people wanting to acquire and publicly use my work? That's a glorious kind of new.

I like this feeling. I'm gonna work to keep it coming ^_^

Cheers!
Immodest