Character Gerbil? The Cuttlefish of Irrelevant Interludes ( Read more... )

In not very long at all I'm off to emony42's house for the weekend (on the train, yay!) to help plan her garden -- which is quite ridiculous and presumptuous given the sorry state of my yarden, but she seems to like the idea ( Read more... )

It's just gone 6 pm; Erik'll be coming over in an hour, for dinner and movie or music or whatever it is we do, and all I've accomplished today is spackling the rent-a-room, yoga class, and sketching. Most of the time I spent sketching.

This is fantastic.

This is awful.Thing is, it's awesome, I'm really enjoying it, and I can already see ( Read more... )

I don't feel like filling a year end meme, but if you care to read my meandering introspection, jump to the bold subject that interests you most (or bores you least).

Mass Effect Fandom has been one of the defining points of 2011, which is odd since I haven't been a part of any fandom for over a decade. I dove in because I was inspired/upset by a ( Read more... )

I'm going to be drawing more and posting the products once a week to keep me honest. I don't want to flood anyone with never-to-be-finished for-my-own-practice sketches, so they'll be posted elsewhere, BUT ( Read more... )

So many skills are slipping away. It's especially obvious since I've been spending more time in fandom, which seems to be populated with people who can not only draw, but draw fast (which has always been hard for me). Incidentally, that also makes it clear how far away from the cartoon/illo/most-fan-art style I am, and how far towards classical ( Read more... )

I have been writing a lot in the last two or three months. Unfortunately, none of it could in any way be termed productive writing -- the closest to original is the back-story for my D&D character ( Read more... )

Read On the Importance of Stabbing Your Readers in the Brain.

Oh, and happy new year!

So, I've been hiding some amazingly exciting news.

Timberland is having it's "Timberland Reads together", one-book focused program on A Wizard of Earthsea. Author Ursula Le Guin will be reading and taking questions. We couldn't get responses from any publishers on using cover art for publicity, so the Powers That Be decided I could draw whatever ( Read more... )

An idea's been wallowing in the back of my brain for awhile now, an idea about a near future earth where music and art has been critiqued out of existance, where no one creates any more. It's about the outcasts who recreate creation, who make music, art, dance, and in so doing, intentionally or not, lure away the children of the masses ( Read more... )