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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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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Ekwara Day Art!

Here’s all the Ekwara Day art from your prompts and questions.  A couple of these I’ve already posted, with a little more explanation of how it fits into the setting.

When I took the prompts, I said I needed to handle shipping logistics and payment once these were done.  If you would like your picture mailed to you, please send me an email with the filename of your picture and your mailing address.  I also need two dollars to cover mailing and supplies, if you’re in the US, and if you’re outside the US, let me know, so we can work out the exact shipping cost.  My email address is coyotepuck@gmail.com

Onward to the art!

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Concept sketches

Rhiagh a a young adult.

updated design for the Blue Djinni