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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Tip Pictures!

I’ve finished the tip pictures! Hurray!

Some logistics - First of all, I had the art card prizes ready to mail out, and found them all ready to go, sitting with my shipping stuff, so I’m sorry those didn’t actually get into the mail, yet.  I thought I’d dropped them off, and am doing that now.  My next project is getting the tip pictures in the mail, too.  If you have not yet sent me an email with your address, and tipped more than ten dollars last Icon Day, send me an email with how much you tipped and your address, with the subject line ICON DAY NINE.  The picture you get will be randomly determined based on what category you’re in!

Here’s the art, behind the cut!  Enjoy!  I will be posting Icon Day 10 and some new commission info, shortly.  If you read this on my blog, Icon Day only goes on my livejournal, which is http://www.livejournal.com/~djinni

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Wednesday

Tomorrow’s Ekwara, a little earlier than usual.

This morning was tough, but I worked through my mood and got stuff done.  For the rest of the evening, I’ll be working more on Ekwara pages, and making banana bread and cilantro chicken.  Since I’m out of butter, I’m going to try a recipe I found that substitutes avocado and a little oil for butter.  I’ll let you guys know how that turns out.  Hopefully well, because I am in the mood for some banana bread!

For today’s art, I did this sketch of an alien and an alien kid:

And behind the cut, painted versions of the wolf family, two aliens, steakosaurus, a unicorn and a worried dragon.  I’ll be putting them into my Zazzle store on Friday.

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Today!

Comics are all updated!

Page 38 of Ekwara - http://www.ekwara.com

Page 333 and 334 of Dracula, with bonus page thanks to tips reaching 20 dollars.  Enjoy! - http://www.draculacomic.net

Page 84 of Crimson Flag - http://www.crimsonflagcomic.com

Now that those are all in order, I’m spending the rest of the day on icons.

I’m currently open for commissions for April.  A 8.5″x11″ watercolor picture with a full background and one or two characters is $75.  Without a background is $40.  I am not taking commissions for sketches, badges or icon sets right now, because I still haven’t decided what kind of fun thing I’m doing after I finish the current huge batch of icons, and if I do a sale or Day of some sort, I don’t want folks to miss out on that.  However, I am offering a slot for a sketchbook commission, though I’m not sure how much to charge for it.  The size of the sketchbook and number of pages would depend on what we’d work out, but I’m thinking it would be based on a theme or your characters, in pencil, with potential for some inked and color work, depending on how much it went for.  If you’d like to get a commission or make an offer on the sketchbook commission, send me an email at coyotepuck@gmail.com

Behind the cut, progress photos of the mural, from yesterday, plus three little sketches from D&D.

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Mural Progress, Zazzle, Comic News, Life

First of all, today’s comics will be going up at some point tonight - thanks to tips, Dracula will be getting two pages this week, and I need to make sure that happens!  I’m going to work on the mural, though, too.  It will be a busy day.

There are a lot of these icons to pencil.  Apologies for the wait, but this is about as long as I should have expected for it to make me take, especially with the mural eating my brain.  Both are fun.  I worry a little when I have long-term projects, but… well, read on after the cut.  I’ve been thinking about that a lot, this past week.

There is also a ton of art - in-progress photos of the mural, etc.

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Art Cards

Daily ACEO, and catching up on a few things!

This fellow is Jysiri the peacock, who makes jewelry in the bird’s Sky Kingdom, in Ekwara.

Two ACEO commissions!

Green Glass Dragon

Here’s today’s ACEO.  I’m trying to give up soda (again) - I think I have it handled, this time, but will be getting more done tomorrow.  Haha…

Sythyry’s Journal Cover

Here’s something I just finished!

Characters are copyright Bard Bloom.  This is the cover art for the upcoming print edition of Sythyry’s Journal, which can be found at www.sythyry.com.

It’s been ten years since I did some of the illustrations for the World Tree RPG, and I had a great time returning to this setting.

Some more pictures :)

Some recent art and current projects

I’m working on finishing up my current work, so keep your eyes open for the next couple days.  Once I’m caught up, I’ll be open for July commissions and also aiming for running Icon/Dragon Day on what now looks like the 16th.   Good times!

Here’s this crazy thing I’m inking right now:

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