Panda and Icons

First of all, good morning! Icon Day is still going, and will be going until later this afternoon. I’ll close requests at some point before or around 6. There’s still plenty of time to go get an icon and to tell your friends! http://djinni.livejournal.com/240109.html Tips have gotten to the point where everyone who tips gets a bonus jack-o-lantern icon. If tips go high enough, instead of that for a second icon, everyone who tips gets a second icon of their character or whatever they requested.

I drew this.

Back to Blogging!

After a bit of an absence, I feel up to getting back in the social networking saddle, so here’s a lot of stuff I’ve made.  I will be getting caught up on a few other things this week, hopefully.  I may be a little slow to get to emails and such, as I do that.  It’s been a little tough lately, but I’m doing okay.  I’m about to become a year older!  29!  OH NO!

Actually, I don’t mind the idea.  I’ll carry on with pretending to be an actual adult.  Business as usual.

Ekwara is still updating… I just haven’t posted the pages here.  I used up my buffer, so tomorrow’s page will go up tomorrow, and one of the things I want to catch up on is getting the week’s pages squared away, again.  That shouldn’t be a problem.  Also, I have a lot of time to devote to Icon Day 10.

Art behind the cut!

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Weekend

I had to work through some important stuff, today, but I can happily say that I am blessed with wonderful friends and a person I love very much.

I am sorry I’m a little behind on replying to comments, on the lj puppet post, and I will get to those.  So far, the swamp dragon has a jaw and a little bit of a head, now.  Progress photos when I’m a little further along…

I finished a commission today.  I have two more that are almost ready to go out the gate.

This is for a friend back in Ann Arbor of his tiger character, who’s found himself turned into a toy tiger.

Today’s artslam - http://community.livejournal.com/artslam/652616.html

Tuesday

This is my container garden!  Catnip is on top of the red bucket.  Romaine lettuce is behind it.  Cilantro is beside the lettuce, and the smaller containers are all spinach.  I’m not using the red bucket as a container because it was too thick to get through with my knife.

Alien concept sketch.  Something to fight the little bobble-headed alien guys I’ve been drawing, maybe.

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Sunday

STEAKOSAURUS

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Friday Art, Saturday Comics

First, comics! I didn’t get a post up yesterday, because I was off hanging out with friends last night. I decided to take the rest of the day off, but if I get any new art done today, I’ll upload it tonight.

I finished this, yesterday:

Responsibility Day

Today, I did something I’ve needed to do, but didn’t really want to do.  I don’t want to talk about the specifics, but it’s taken care of, now, and that’s all well and good.  Since then, I’ve been having a tough go of things, today, anxiety-wise.  My brain’s told my body to go into fight (pretty dang irritable) or flight (augh panic!) mode, and now that my brain doesn’t have much to fret over, my body still hasn’t gotten the memo to knock that off.  I continued with responsible mode, though, and pushed through my work for today, once I got home, despite that.  I tried to remember these physical symptoms of anxiety are just that, and that even though I feel pretty crummy, I don’t have to let that prevent me from doing things.

Today’s Ekwara page -

Here’s how far I got on the Ekwara commission, today:

I inked and colored the peacock sketch from yesterday, and also set it up in my Zazzle shop.  Clicking on the image takes you to that.

I also did some organizational/planning work I needed to sort out, got another Ekwara page loaded up into the queue, and did this week’s Crimson Flag pencils.  Plus, did the previously mentioned errand, walked four miles, and had an avocado for dinner.  That… is not really a responsible dinner, but that’s okay.

If you’re an artist type, check out Artslam - http://community.livejournal.com/artslam/478165.html - they’re open for new signups for the summer.  It’s an awesome art challenge where you pick a theme and try to complete 30, 60 or 90 concept sketches.  I’ll be using Ekwara as my theme again this year, and mirroring my worldbuilding stuff on this journal (and maybe the Ekwara site?  I’d have to figure that one out.)

I did a new thing with my schedule, today, that got me to be very productive!  Basically, my tendency is to do as much as I can on one project in a day, then move on to others.  Instead, I’ve split up my schedule to have a set amount of time for working on various types of projects.  I got to do a ton of different things, today, with no pressure to finish, only to keep working until the time for that was up.  If I can keep myself on this type of schedule, I think I can become a lot more productive.  We shall see!

Scanned this guy and got him on to some Zazzle products (clicking on the image takes you to that section of my store).  The bag with him on it got featured on the site, today!  Yay!  I also set up some things with the friendly blue monster.

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Wacky time-travel adventure

Card Game

Doh, tiny hands