So it’s been a while. <cough>
For one thing, my trusty tablet died, and I never got the productive momentum back after the interim shipping week. I do like my new Intuos3, though, and I was able to get one of those 6D art pens to go with it.

Since then, there’s been a lot of stuff in progress, but nothing finished to show.
Today, that changes!
Behold the reworked ninja bunny gloomday attacks! banner:
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And also my new Halloween Evil Sheep icon, of course. <points up> I made it for Miranda, so there’s no shiny larger image (yet) (if ever).

So here’s a little thing I did last week (or was it two weeks ago?). I know, it’s not particularly exciting, but it was one of those things I had an image of in my head and had to get out. It’s still not right; I keep tweaking it, but without getting slightly more involved in the modification, I guess I’ll settle for this version. For now.
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I’m semi-hard at work (between watching things and poking at my aquarium tanks and surviving another heat wave) at a number of things. I’m in the mid- to finishing stages of a Victorian girl piece for my friend Marc,* I started a reworking of my original (ninja bunny) gloomday attacks! banner, I’m in the mock-up stage for a redesign of my portfolio site, I have take-along sketchbook-making on the brain,** and mm… there was something else, I just can’t remember what. Oh, I was working on comic-y story stuff the other week, too—but that’s not what I was thinking of.

* which I liked yesterday, but not so much today, especially after digging up my book of John Singer Sargent portrait drawings. Right now I want to scrap the whole thing and start over, but it seems a waste.
** I had planned on one design, but I acquired this lovely scrap of black leather last week, so now I want to make something out of it as well.

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That stinky loud-mouthed bird (along with all his friends) from the last banner pays for ratting out the ninja bunnies.

I’ve been working on this on and off for a couple of weeks, but it’s finally done to my liking. I doubt I’ll love it in a couple of months (my previous banner (the ninja bunny one) looks sort of clunky to me now), but I do like that I kept at it until it was more detailed and refined than the last one.

The Evil Sheep would like to announce his featuring in a new image, which is where his new icon came from.


grinny!

I’m also er… re-re-designing gloomday (and so far it’s looking way shinier), but it’ll be a while before that gets up and running.

Had to crop this for journal aesthetics/functionality, so I figured I’d post the original, for it is shiny.

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(silly bird, announcing impending invasions is for evil sheep)

Illustrator = ♥

You get it here first:


I need to plan out (and restrain) my color use better ahead of time next time, but I think it came out pretty well anyway. Good learning experience. <pokes it>

Still needs text, but that’s easy enough to add.

Aaaaand a little thing I doodled last night, made all pretty in Illustrator.