When it rains..

Annnnnnnnd my hard drive fails.

Fantastic!

Time, she does fly.

What the....??

It's July, people.

It hardly seems possible. I think the problem here is my current day job. I changed jobs back in February due to some ridiculousness at my old place, and the new place I fell into... well... I suspect that it's a black hole. Time does funny things. I'm noticing that while I'm in here, it creeps by, slower than a snail. When I'm outside, time has been revving its engine the whole time and takes the break off so it suddenly accelerates and leaves me in the dust. I'm usually asleep or wishing I was asleep.

And suddenly, I find myself in July.

This is a big month-- last night was the opening of the Off-Broadway play I'm participating in (not so much acting as well, standing around).... tomorrow is the Fourth of July, which brings fireworks. Who can argue with fireworks? The 17th is my birthday (yays!), and the following week, I'm jetting off to San Diego for the Comic con! I will be helping man the table of an ~esteemed colleague~ but I will also have a tiny corner all to myself for the purposes of selling.

I'm gonna start posting the Critters finally in a few days, almost a month after they were promised! Dude, life. Oy.

Oh noes!

The Critter Creation Extravaganza has been put on hold! I didn't anticipate a couple of things--
1. Working 40+ hours a week all of a sudden
2. Being exhausted after said work
3. Freelance pile-up that consumes what little energy and ability I have post-day job


Blah.


It's okay... I expect July to be a bit better. Well. Maybe not. But we'll see!!

Hot. With two T's. Hott.

Good lord, have you been outside? I feel as though I'm going to melt all over Madison Avenue.

I was happy to have two days off in a row tomorrow, to run errands, but I really don't see myself venturing outside, and therefore away from my air conditioner.

Summer Series Madness!

So this summer, I'm gonna start debuting a new series. Tis the 50 Days of Critters.

That's 50 brand new, original critters... an unusual little menagerie of suckers. I'm plowing through, and have gotten a good number already, but posted on the etsy forums asking for any suggestions! The deal is they're each unusual, unique... mostly hybrid animals. I asked for 8 suggestions and whoever comes up with something, I'm gonna draw it and post it, then send 'em the original.

June 1 I'm gonna start posting them-- here, and on my myspace, and each one will be up for sale on etsy. I'm selecting a number of them to run prints of, and will also sell the originals. The majority of the ones I've been working on are at least 5x7, so hey! A nice size! Yays!

Rainy Evening.

In contrast, this was my commute last night. May's been rather rainy.

On the way home Tuesday--

People used to try to convince me that the sunsets in Florida were unparalleled, but I dunno. There's a lot to be said for a man-made skyline, too.

<3

Caricature, Schmaricature

My mom's boss asked her to ask me to draw caricatures of his parents, and him and his wife. It's been almost two solid years since that was actually how I made my living (and honestly, I hated doing it for the most part-- which is due entirely to the work environment itself), so I was skeptical. But I think they turned out okay, and they all loved them. I think I've gotten myself suckered into more work as a caricature artist though!


Excuse the glare-- I didn't think to take pictures myself and had him do it after he'd already received them and had them framed.

Bees' Knees

Just like last fall, I went down to Florida for another arts & crafty extravaganza at the excellent Redlight Redlight. I had a ton of fun, and saw a bunch of people, but I'm still kicking myself that I left the below picture in my apartment in New York:




Gah, I'm pissed. I feel like I woulda sold her. As it stands, she's available in my etsy shop. I'm gonna offer prints of it in addition to the original. But don't you just hate planning to do something specific and then to realize you forgot! D'oh!

But anyway, it was a good time. Here's the new proud owner of one of my robots: