The Quiet Before the Storm

Things have finally calmed down a bit enough for me to start updating regularly again, or more than I was before at least. That huge project of mine is completed, will share it with you when I can. It was a lot of fun to do cause I got to do a lot of different things. Now that it's done I am preparing myself for a craft show in October. Needless to say, I had to clean and rearrange my workspace, I can actually see my table now! I know how everyone likes pictures so I took some and here they are:

I bet it stays that way for about 3 days. I also have a wonderful case of tendinitis, which makes it a bit difficult to type since my hand looks like it was attacked by a mummy.

 The finger is just a job hazard. I'm turning into a cartoon monster. Dreams do come true!

Well, my hand is starting to spaz a bit so I am going to have to cut this entry short. Off to plan screen prints and canvas shoe designs! Will update progress when I  get started on them. Ciao!

Changing Layouts, Again

Since Blogger has this wonderful new Design feature, I decided to take full advantage of it and give myself a new background and layout. I kind of got tired of seeing this sea of white every time I logged in. I am also working on a new header, so until that gets finished, I am using the blogger default. Not quite as attractive as I would like it to be, but it will have to do until I get my new one completed. It has my new logo on it and it just fits me better than the previous one did. Of course since I am changing it here, I have to change it everywhere else also, fun fun fun!

I also got to thinking that I may start doing a weekly feature on here on how to draw things. I got the inspiration for this from the project I am working on currently. Now they aren't going to be these mind blowing how to draw things in Illustrator or Photoshop, there are enough of those all over the place. I just want to do your old fashioned, pencil and paper, how to draw things. I get kind of tired of everything having to be digital all the time. It's just for fun and for people who like to doodle cute things. This probably won't start for another month or so because I am kind of back logged with my ever increasing to do list.

I will be updating again soon with some pieces I have been working on. I have some really fun images I have sketched out and will share with you, hopefully this week. I will also put up the final images up when they are completed. I am also excited about some new things coming up for the Etsy store. As soon as I get them ready to launch, I will share it here as well. So many things to do and it seems like I never have enough time. Glad to be busy though!

New page and rants about Image Galleries

I decided to add a children's illustration page so that I could split up my illustrations a bit. I think that putting cute images next to zombies and other more mature content is a bit much.

I am still looking for a better format to show them in though. I like how you can place images on tumbler but I have been here for a long time and I just had a bunch of stuff printed with this site address on them so moving now would be kind of a pain, but the whole image gallery thing here drives me nuts. I don't want to have to get a flickr account just to be able to show my work. I have a photobucket that I barely use as it is. I also have most of my things on Deviant Art. I wish I was able to find some kind of slide show that allowed me to do what the DA Portfolio does. So far I have had no luck.

Well, now since I have this new page I need to redo the slide show in the Illustration page and make a new one for the new page. I really should do this while I have time between projects. I have a few things keeping me busy now since I am working for a greeting card company. It's nice to be able to do it. I have always liked making cards. I have always made hand made cards for people since I was a kid. I only do that if I really like you though!

No Illustration Friday post this week, I really did not like the theme. They have been a bit obscure since I joined and it ends up taking me a week to think of something so I just don't.  Maybe next week I can make something, until then I have my cards and my other illustrations I have sketched out to do for posters and promo items.