Resolutions for 2008:
1. Finish editing LotQ.
2. Work on composition and backgrounds.
3. Complete more personal art pieces.

Well, a lot has changed this year, so far. I would say, when the books are all balanced at the finish line, it's all for the best.

My lady and I parted ways after nearly 6 years together. I hope that we are able to remain friends for the remainder of our lives, because there's a part of my heart that will always love her, and I truly wish her all the best in her continued growth. I know she doesn't read this, but love for her anyways~

This means that she's moving out, and that means I've been cleaning like a mad fiend. I've been going through all my old stuff, getting rid of old crap I don't need, and rediscovering some old doodles and treasures. I've also been reading more Guy Gavriel Kay which always inspires me to write, and all of that in combination with my boyfriend inspiring me has been cause for a great deal of inspiration.

I've nearly completed Chapter 22 which has been taking me an inordinately long time. I'm not in a difficult part at the moment, and yet it still seems to be taking me a while to edit, rewrite, expand and rearrange aspects of this leg of the tale. Incidentally, it's one of my favourite scenes in the novel.

In commissions, I've been good about catching up on old things, and have actually managed to -almost- clear out my To Do list, which is good, because I've been dying to colour an old piece of lineart that I've been holding offf colouring until I felt I could do it justice. And now, armed with muse-juice galore and an infusion of the extremely talented and wonderful One-Vox's tutorials, I have an idea of how to achieve the image I've got in my mind's eye.

There's honestly so much I would need to type out to really portray all that's happened in this last span of time - but then this journal would turn into a philisophical journey, rather than a quick update, and well... It'd take too much explanation. If you're really that interested in my thoughts on the matter, just ask me, and I'll share.

TO DO:

Novel:
Legend of the Quill ~ chapters 22-26 (Edit)
Battle of Heroes ~ chapters 9-? (write)
Western Continent Map - simplified version
Enverres Map - crucial landmarks and imperial cities
Ter'ays Map - crucial landmarks and trade routes
Koholean map - crucial landmarks and cities
Briandyna map - crucial landmarks and cities
Val Nyes map - underground networks and crucial cities

RPG:
(Rewriting the entire thing, as it'll be easier than trying to edit the previous text)
~Finish gods write ups
~finish racial info write ups
~fill out skills
~flesh out weapons and magics
~finish spell lists
~clean up modifiers

Costume:
~Rosaine Jacket - 80% done
~ Goetha Shorts -
~ Suoro Elegance Dress -

Commissions:
~Dante Coat for Manda (20%)
~Steve's Gambler Vest (50%)
~Lucis Portrait
~James & Koji CG duet (50% Colouring)
~Mearlynn's Duet Inks (50%)
~Graph & Alche 12 Lines Set

Gaia:
~Prof Lessons: Lelaus (3 monsters left)
*Apothecary (35%)
*Weapon Smithery (35%)
*Gatekeepers Headquarters (10%)
*Technomagus Majore (80%)
*Repository (10%)

Art (for me):
~Ahd'ar'ohk Circlet colours
~Ahddy attacks colours
~Musician in the Darkness - Iblis colours.
~Krishna portrait
~Garuda portrait

Art Trade:
closed presently

Also, if someone can teach me one of the following, I'd greatly appreciate it:

~How to format my journal posts to have all manner of fancy banners and such.

Sovas beh~

Resolutions for 2008:
1. Finish editing LotQ.
2. Work on composition and backgrounds.
3. Complete more personal art pieces.

Well, due to the arrival of Keikon I never did get caught up on 2007 stuff, so once again my To Do is stretching out impossibly long.

However, I am still making firm efforts to set out my priorities. And of course, Ul-Zaorith takes first place, and that means working on my novels.

So, aside from now being sick from all the stress and work I had to do to be prepared for Con, it went off without a hitch. I got Best Solo Cosplay for costume + performance. Although they were gonig to call it the Va-va-voom award. XD

The RPG demo went off without a hitch as well, and although I had small turn outs for my Art Panels, I think they went well. I met a few new folk, and made a few new contacts, and so I think all that side of it went over well. A Thank You here to SkieBorne, Micha, and D'Arcy/Steve/James/Sascha for watching my art table, helping lug my impossible amounts of crap around and of course for helping me stay on time and organized. <3

That brings me to the Art Table. I started off with some 360 original pieces of line art (primarily) to sell. it's really amazing how much I draw in two years. (this being the remainder that i deemed nice enough to sell -after- I already went through and tossed at least an inch worth of line arts.)
I don't know exactly how many pieces I sold, but between the sales, the commissions I picked up and the fees for doing all the art for Con, I raked in somewhere over 400$.

Thank you all of you who supported me and bought art. I really appreciate it. I've never had such a warm reaction to my art before and I was really touched and blown away by all your kind comments and enthusiasm. <3

And now to work on the remaining handful of commissions.

TO DO:

Novel:
Legend of the Quill ~ chapters 22-26 (Edit)
Battle of Heroes ~ chapters 9-? (write)
Western Continent Map - simplified version
Enverres Map - crucial landmarks and imperial cities
Ter'ays Map - crucial landmarks and trade routes
Koholean map - crucial landmarks and cities
Briandyna map - crucial landmarks and cities
Val Nyes map - underground networks and crucial cities

RPG:
(Rewriting the entire thing, as it'll be easier than trying to edit the previous text)
~Finish gods write ups
~finish racial info write ups
~fill out skills
~flesh out weapons and magics
~finish spell lists
~clean up modifiers

Costume:
~Rosaine Jacket - 80% done
~ Goetha Shorts -
~ Suoro Elegance Dress -

Commissions:
~Dante Coat for Manda (5%)
~Trio - ink&graphite for Link (50%)
~War General - ink&graphite for Link's cousin
~Astaroth Pin-up
~Lucis Pin-up
~D'Arcy Portrait
~James & Koji CG duet
~Margaret pencil crayon colours


Gaia:
~Prof Lessons: Lelaus (3 monsters left)
*Temple 100%
*Apothecary 35%
*Weapon Smithery 35%
*Gatekeepers Headquarters 10%
*Technomagus Majore 80%
*Repository (10%)

Art (for me):
~Ahd'ar'ohk Circlet colours
~Ahddy attacks colours
~Musician in the Darkness - Iblis colours.
~Krishna portrait
~Garuda portrait

Art Trade:
closed presently

Also, if someone can teach me one of the following, I'd greatly appreciate it:

~How to format my journal posts to have all manner of fancy banners and such.

Sovas beh~

Resolutions for 2008:
1. Finish editing LotQ.
2. Work on composition and backgrounds.
3. Complete more personal art pieces.

So, it's the start of a new year. I always make a million lists to do things, and then I usually lose them, or run out of room on them and end up copying all the uncompleted stuff onto a new list and adding on all the new things that have fallen into my lap...

That's just the way I opperate.

That said, I'm starting off this year trying to get all my outstanding stuff from 2007 done and dealt with.

I already know this year is gonna be packed with alllll manner of new trials and tribulations, so I really need to get old stuff sorted asap.

That said, I may be conspicuously absent from time to time, because I've got to tune out stuff for a while in order to meet my tall orders.

We'll see how the year unfolds.

TO DO:

Novel:
Legend of the Quill ~ chapters 22-26 (Edit)
Battle of Heroes ~ chapters 9-? (write)
Western Continent Map - simplified version
Enverres Map - crucial landmarks and imperial cities
Ter'ays Map - crucial landmarks and trade routes
Koholean map - crucial landmarks and cities
Briandyna map - crucial landmarks and cities
Val Nyes map - underground networks and crucial cities

RPG:
(Rewriting the entire thing, as it'll be easier than trying to edit the previous text)
~Finish gods write ups
~finish racial info write ups
~fill out skills
~flesh out weapons and magics
~finish spell lists
~clean up modifiers

Costume:
~Y'Olde Jacket - 50% done
~ Goetha Shorts -

Commissions:
~Keikon 2008 Poster (60%)
~Vergil Coat for Em (70%)
~Dante Coat for Manda
~Merle ears & Tail

Gaia:
~Prof Lessons: Lelaus (3 monsters left), Tryna and Bellona left
*Temple 95% (zodiac charms left)
*Apothecary 35%
*Weapon Smithery 35%
*Gatekeepers Headquarters 10%
*Technomagus Majore 80%
*Repository (10%)
~finish technoequips --> Skie's colouring them

Art (for me):
~Ahd'ar'ohk Circlet colours
~Ahddy attacks colours
~Musician in the Darkness - Iblis colours.
~Krishna portrait
~Garuda portrait

Art Trade:
closed presently

Also, if someone can teach me one of the following, I'd greatly appreciate it:

~How to make custom fonts to use in an art program like Photoshop CS2

~How to format my journal posts to have all manner of fancy banners and such.

Sovas beh~

Merry Merry to all you out there who've taken the time to look at my gallery, favourite a picture, make art for me (as a Trade or a present), leave me a comment or buy me a subscription. I really appreciate it.

Well, people keep asking me what's new. Not much is -new- but much has happened. Funny, no one really uses the phrase "What's happenin'?" anymore... It's a little more suitable, I think.

So, what's Happenin'?

Well, My resolution this year was to get my novel proposal sent off at least once. I did, and I had it rejected once. Sweet. That means I've got 54 rejections to go before I'm famous. XD

This year saw the highest of Highs and the Lowest of Lows.

This year's Worst Lows:
1~ My father's anuerism.
2~ Lost my fave co-workers: Ange, Rachel, Tavia, and all my grocery peeps fiasco.
3~ Nearly lost my girl at the beginning of the year. Seems like a long time ago, but it was only this february.
4~ Went through the most periods of stress, depression and exhaustion in recent memory.
5~ Injured my knees in July, which still haven't 100% recovered.

This year's Top Highs:
1~ Got to meet my best net friend, Skie, in real life, and she's now moved into the sphere of best irl friends.
2~ Went to Jordan. An eye-opening experience that I will never forget.
3~ Got to correspond with Joe Abercrombie, an author I highly respect. Got some really helpful advice on my novel.
4~ Got to hang out with a lot of friends from away in person this year, including: Aut, Graph, Alche, my cousins Tomas and Isobel, and chat with long-since-absent friends like Josiah, Beau, Ty and Joe. Made many new friends including: Ryu-Chris, Wen-M, Chrys, Rabs, Windy and F~F.
5~ Finally making progress on the road to becoming healthy and fit, feeling good, generally.

TO DO:

Novel:
Legend of the Quill ~ chapters 22-26 (Edit)
Battle of Heroes ~ chapters 9-? (write)
Western Continent Map - simplified version
Enverres Map - crucial landmarks and imperial cities
Ter'ays Map - crucial landmarks and trade routes
Koholean map - crucial landmarks and cities
Briandyna map - crucial landmarks and cities
Val Nyes map - underground networks and crucial cities

RPG:
(Rewriting the entire thing, as it'll be easier than trying to edit the previous text)
~Finish gods write ups
~finish racial info write ups
~fill out skills
~flesh out weapons and magics
~finish spell lists
~clean up modifiers

Costume:
~Y'Olde Jacket - 50% done
~ Goetha Shorts -

Commissions:
Commission me please!
~Vergil Coat for Em (60%)
~Dante Coat for Manda
~ Jess Hat

Gaia:
~Prof Lessons: Lelaus (3 monsters left), Tryna and Bellona left
*Temple 95% (zodiac charms left)
*Apothecary 35%
*Weapon Smithery 35%
*Gatekeepers Headquarters 10%
*Technomagus Majore 80%
~finish technoequips --> Skie's colouring them

Art:
~Ahd'ar'ohk Circlet colours
~Ahddy attacks colours
~Musician in the Darkness - Iblis colours.


Art Trade:
Reapersun ~ Colouring...

Also, if someone can teach me one of the following, I'd greatly appreciate it:

~How to make custom fonts to use in an art program like Photoshop CS2

~How to format my journal posts to have all manner of fancy banners and such.

Sovas beh~

'Tis a hell or highwater year.

Well, This year keeps throwing me curve balls.

So much astounding stuff has happened - both good and bad, I don't even know what to make of it.

The most recent: I got my Life Spark Tattoo'd on my back. I'll be getting a photo of it once it's fully healed.

Thank you so much for all your lovely faves and comments on my Chandra picture, which made Daily Deviation! This is a first for me, and it really makes me want to post up more art. That means i have to actually complete more art. Sheesh.

Well, I have a few pieces that I'm currently working on: Fireside, Musician in the Darkness, Cirrus, Shark and Yggdrasil, all of which push my skills beyond their limits. So, wish me luck. I'm still trying to figure out lighting...so, they're slow going.

TO DO:

Novel:
Legend of the Quill ~ chapters 22-26 (Edit)
Battle of Heroes ~ chapters 9-? (write)
Western Continent Map - simplified version
Enverres Map - crucial landmarks and imperial cities
Ter'ays Map - crucial landmarks and trade routes
Koholean map - crucial landmarks and cities
Briandyna map - crucial landmarks and cities
Val Nyes map - underground networks and crucial cities

RPG:
(Rewriting the entire thing, as it'll be easier than trying to edit the previous text)
~Finish gods write ups
~finish racial info write ups
~fill out skills
~flesh out weapons and magics
~finish spell lists
~clean up modifiers

Costume:
~Y'Olde Jacket - 50% done
~ Goetha Shorts -

Commissions:
Commission me please!
~Vergil Coat for Em (30%)
~Dante Coat for Manda
~Florentine for Anissa ((?))
~Team Aqua for Zan ((?))
~ Jinxeh Chara sheets 1-4
~ Lizard Line Arts

Gaia:
~Prof Lessons: Lelaus (3 monsters left), Tryna and Bellona left
~set up shop threads for Empyreans 90%
*Temple 95% (zodiac charms left)
*Apothecary 35%
*Weapon Smithery 35%
*Gatekeepers Headquarters 10%
*Technomagus Majore 80%
~finish technoequips --> Skie's colouring them
~Kharras Empyrean

Art:
~Ahd'ar'ohk Circlet colours
~Ahddy attacks colours
~Musician in the Darkness - Iblis colours.


Art Trade:
Angmar - Status: inking...
Em - Status: inking...

Also, if someone can teach me one of the following, I'd greatly appreciate it:

~How to make custom fonts to use in an art program like Photoshop CS2

~How to format my journal posts to have all manner of fancy banners and such.

Sovas beh~