Not much explanation needed. *GUITAR RIFF*
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(thanks to saitenyo for use of her visage)

I don't care what Kate says or is going to say about this photo, but I will argue the is the best photo taken of us at Steamcon. Hands down.



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RIP, http://geocities.com/shoomlah/! If only I could still track down my Animorphs site on AOL Hometown.

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Hey guys! So, per missmonstermel's encouragement, I'm tooling around with some ideas for a potential Patch Together submission. I've been dying to redo this art from eons ago, so I drew up a new little Horus design according to my more recent Horus designs:



Whaddya think? Viable product?
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DANGIT, Restoration Hardware's whole "return to quality and design" philosophy has to die in a fire because I do not like wanting so many very expensive things:





AAAAAAUUUGHHH
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( Alexstrasza behind the cut! )

The combination of recently blasting through Dragonblight and Marissa cosplaying as Alexstrasza for Blizzcon has had me dying to put the pretty lady to paper; sketched this at work today and decided to finish it up when I got home. :)

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(x-posted to wow_fanart, naturally)

Per request and before I forget- the Baron and I also dressed up as prom zombies ("prombies") on Friday, so here's some photographic evidence of that. Richard Taylor, the head of Weta, sat down at a table with us and promptly started asking us about our makeup, which was fantastically unexpected. He graced us with an in-character photo afterwards:





( detail shot behind the cut. )

Andrew did the majority of my face makeup the morning of with some fantastic breakable silicone- it looked pretty damn creepy.
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Heading out to Mysterium tomorrow morning, if only because I'd feel really lazy not heading out to Spokane when I'm in Redmond- anyone else going to show up? I'd love to see some familiar faces. :)

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San Diego Comic-Con was this past week, as I'm sure most of you know, and I've spent the past few months sewing like a madman in an attempt to make my Victorian vulcanologist costume show-ready. I've had the concept drawn out for almost a year now, and it felt good to finally see it come to fruition.



( Concept and photos behind the cut! )

No idea how I'll further develop this but, for the time being, I'm pretty damn happy with the outcome. :)
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Hey, kids- I'm gonna be running around Comic-Con Friday through Sunday, so feel free to say hi/try to meet up/what have you. I'll be a prom queen zombie on Friday and an 1886 vulcanologist on Saturday, so I should be comparably easy to track down.

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Whup only 2 minutes left OBLIGATORY BIRTHDAY POST huzzahhuzzah

Turned 23, went to work, pretty normal day. Got this from my parents, who know me well:



Woo! Even though all of us forgot my birthday was coming up, this slipped through the cracks since dad got it a few months back. Love my parents. :)
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Okay, I haven't the slightest idea whether or not the WPA National Park posters are out of copyright, but it's the principle of the thing that pisses me off so much upon finding these Star Wars posters for sale on their official Zazzle site. Paying an homage to the utterly gorgeous poster styles of the 30's is one thing, but to blatanty repurpose the art and the slap a Tauntaun and a Lucasfilm copyright on it? That's just disgusting.

It's hard enough to find the original artists for these things, and it just feels like adding insult to injury to treat them as if they're clip art. I don't even know if there's a legitimate legal complaint for me to make here, I'm just fuming that they can pull off this sort of crap.

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Brilliant.
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So I'm only mildly ashamed to say tesseracting and I spontaneously decided to drive up to Forks, WA a few weeks back, the Twilight audio book barking wretchedly off of my iPod for the entire trip. I am in that uncomfortable situation where I have read all of the books and see them for the dreck they are, and yet am drawn to everything surrounding them in an almost masochistic way. Judging from our own drive up the coast of the Olympic peninsula at about midnight,however, I could not help but picture the driving section of the book going more like this:



...Will post more photos later, just needed to at least mention that this went down. Annie is a bad influence on me.
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My great-uncle Jack Kemp- former Buffalo Bills quarterback, Congressman, and Vice Presidential candidate- just passed away this Saturday. An amazing man, and an even more amazing family man. A story on NPR this morning stated that "Democrats and Republicans have found something to be unanimous about, and that is in their praise for Jack Kemp." Pretty damn cool.

If you have a quick minute, reading Jack's letter to his grandchildren about Obama's election is pretty fantastic and gives you a good idea of what he was about: http://www.kemppartners.com/about-jack-kemp/column/a-letter-to-my-grandchildren/

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I am wanting desperately to make this into a t-shirt:



Alternate tagline: "Not all that glitters is well-written."
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SO GUYS, this is sort of belated, but I spontaneously drove down to the Stumptown Comics Fest last Saturday morning and had an amazing time and feel compelled to tell everyone about it and pimp all the awesome people I met.

I would be lying if I didn't say a large reason for my visit was to pick up Dylan Meconis' Bite Me! book and related accoutrements, something I've been wanting ever since I printed out the whole damn thing in high school. I also threw all of my money at Dylan a few weeks back so I could acquire the original art for the cover, and it makes for a pretty awesome complete set:



If you do not know of Dylan's work stop what you're doing now, check out her stuff, and start following her current sequential endeavor, Family Man. If you're a fan of accurate 18th century costuming and eerily smart wit, also werewolves, you won't be disappointed.

I also got to spend most of my weekend hanging out with the inimitable Erika Moen, her amazing husband Matt Nolan, and my most recent artist crush Lucy Knisley (who's hubby John is also a sweetheart). I've been following Erika's comic DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary for years, so getting a print copy and getting to spend the weekend practically hanging off of her and Matt was nothing short of a joy. I drew them a portrait as a thank-you, but mostly just because they are hot peoples: http://twitpic.com/3nazt

Lucy is a more recent discovery of mine (thanks to Erika, in fact), and she sports this amazingly charming, Tintin-esque ligne claire style:



She is just as smart and nice as her drawings, thankfully. She is also a complete geek (which endears her to me greatly) and painted a fabulous series of fandom portraits that span from Venture Bros. to Oscar Wilde to Kids in the Hall, so they're worth checking out.

It is late and I am not sure how much longer I should rave about these people, so here's a photo of my combined ECCC/Stumptown loot to tide everyone over:


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OH MAN, almost forgot- not to reduce it to a postscript or anythin', but I also got to go out for drinks with buttfacemakani when she came up to visit Valve the Thursday before last, and it was a blast. Surprise, she is also cool in real life! Wow.

Woot, my logo won for the back of this year's Mysterium T-shirt-



3/3 and going strong. I obviously went in a very different direction compared to the last two years, but it was late, and I was feeling far more designey than witty.

Bravo if you can identify everything in there,
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My character from Vikings, Pirates, Ninjas (made by saitenyo and her crew over at Meteor Games), Thorgunna Motgord:



...She's adorable in-game, so I messed her up a bit. Am overcome with a sudden urge to draw tons more sexy burly ladies.

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