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Well, I’m disappointed now...


LightboxExpo, an art/illustration convention, that’s only a few years old, was entirely online the last few years due to Covid. This was great for a lot of people because a $2 ticket let you participate in a bunch of live panels held on a variety of platforms (Gumroad, Picarto, YouTube, etc), and you could re-watch most panels later if you missed them.


But this year, they’ve gone back to their in-person model, which means... I can’t participate at all, except for watching some of the recorded panels later. There are multiple reasons I can’t attend, ranging from money (It’s in Pasadena, which means either an airplane ticket or a long road trip, and whatever highway robbery a Southern Californian hotel room costs, on top of the convention ticket itself), to Covid concerns (It’s not gone, folks... and I live with high-risk people), to timing (It’s mid-October, a very busy time of year in my industry).


It’s a little bit more disappointing than usual, in fact, because I’m a year and some change into creating and posting my own webcomic (Renegade Legends!), and the ability to network with other artists in such a creator-dense setting, even online, would’ve been a welcome opportunity. I would’ve loved it if they’d gone with a hybrid model so anyone who couldn't be there physically could still attend digitally, but I guess that wasn’t what they wanted to do...

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Published!!

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Ladies and Gentlemen, it's finally here!

Back in 2012, I started working with an author named Susan Anawalt, illustrating a children's book for her. I've had to keep my artwork under wraps until it got published, but it's FINALLY HERE! We're still waiting for some of the major book sellers to pick it up, but "Clemmy", by Susan Anawalt, illustrated by yours truly, is now available on Barnes and Noble (although the cover doesn't show up yet) and Ingramcontent.com! We're working on getting it in on Amazon.com, and I'll start bothering Powell's Books to carry it (just as soon as I figure out how), but for now, I'm just excited to see it off the ground!

Barnes and Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/s/978-1…

Keep watching as I start posting artwork from the book in the coming days!
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For the second year in a row now, I'll be participating in something my friends and I made up, which we call 'JanuARTy'. For those of you who are familiar with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, which is November), JanuARTy is similar: we spend the whole month committed to drawing something every day. How you choose to participate is up to you. Here are some sample ideas:

1. Challenge yourself to draw a certain amount of time every day. Fifteen minutes? Half an hour? An hour or more? Whatever it takes, work it into your schedule!

2. Try working on things you know you're bad at. I did this last year -- I gave over one week each to four topics I knew I was bad at, and spent a bit of time each day on those things. 

3. Try for a related series of images. For example, a friend of mine is drawing a list of monsters, and I'm going to be illustrating my way through the various characters in my current elven fantasy world. Another idea I considered was designing a costume every day. 

4. Draw from life. Decide to draw one thing that's right in front of you, every day. Your dog, your desk clutter, the people on the bus, the tree outside the window, a wadded up candy wrapper. The world is full of subject matter!

Who's thinking of participating in JanuARTy, and what are you going to challenge yourself with this year?
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It's that time of year again! Since Anjali the Fox Lunar and Forsaken Bride the Abyssal pirate captain get all the attention, this year I narrowed it down to the four lesser-known gals of mine: two of Anjali's younger sisters (Kaveri and Malati), a dragonblood, and a former incarnation.  

Kaveri, a Night Caste Solar, is tall and lanky with lean, defined muscle and few curves. Her skin is 'warm toast' colored, her eyes are sky blue, and her hair is purplish-red, hip length and kept in a tight braid, with just a few wisps escaping at the top. Kaveri is Lookshyan and an archer, so she will usually wear practical costumes that you can fight in. Bonus points if her shoulders are free to move. (A big deal for archers!) 
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Malati, a Chosen of Secrets Sidereal, is a martial artist, but likes to wear nice clothes, makeup, and jewelry, and do her dark purple hair up in fancy sticks and combs (including her emerald spider-shaped hair comb!). She too has warm toast-colored skin, and her eyes are green. She takes herself too seriously for someone her age, probably because when she Exalted, her destiny shone bright enough that none other than Chejop Kejak took her on as a student. 
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Takahashi Sayuri is an Air Aspect dragonblood, so her skin is very fair, her eyes are ice-blue, and her hair is a dark blue-purple-black and very glossy. She also has an elaborate, full-sleeve tattoo of cherry blossoms, birds, and butterflies on her right arm. She frequently wears a purple robe with flowers or cloud wisps embroidered on it, blue leggings, and tall black boots. Her blue jade jian, Whirlwind's Aria, is matched with three throwing knives named Hearsay, Rumor, and Suggestion.  

Adarasha, who was never actually played but exists in story flashbacks, is Anjali's First-Age incarnation. She has red hair cascading down in waves, warm peach skin, and pale green eyes. She was a diplomat, and therefore was seldom seen in anything except fancy silk robes and gowns. Being a First Age Lunar, she possessed no tattoos. 




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Caffeine

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I have the strangest relationship to caffeine of anyone I've ever known. Caffeine's effects on my body are selective, annoying, and deeply unfair. For example:

No source of caffeine I've tried helps me wake up in the mornings. Chocolate, Mountain Dew, green tea, black tea-- nothing. (I don't drink coffee, primarily because I hate the flavor, even in tiny quantities.) Fortunately I rarely need help being awake or functional in the mornings, even though I'm not a morning person. (I have a hell of a time getting to sleep, too. I think I just produce a lot of 'awake' hormones.) So there goes the primary reason anyone even bothers to consume caffeine, rendered totally useless to me.

You'd think this'd be great because it means I don't have to worry about what I eat or drink before bed, and in MOST cases, you'd be correct. I can eat all the chocolate I want, or drink all the caffeinated soda or black tea I want right before bed, and have no noticeable trouble falling asleep. 

... the same cannot be said of *green* tea, however. Yes, green tea, which has LESS caffeine than black tea or most caffeinated sodas. I drink a pot of green tea before bed -- unsweetened, mind you -- and about half the time, I won't fall asleep for hours. But only about half the time. Which, as you might imagine, is not only weird, but incredibly unhelpful and unfair. What the heck, body?? Did the caffeine metabolizing crew go on strike tonight? 

The weird thing is, caffeine affects me in every other way almost completely normally. It helps relieve headaches when paired with regular painkillers like acetaminophen or ibuprofen. (Well... most of the time. But headache relief is fraught with uncertainty and voodoo anyway...) And then the effect it has on my need for a bathroom is completely normal. But, really, caffeine, would it kill you to be at least SORT of consistent about what you do to my wakefulness?? 

I guess it's what I've come to expect from my body though-- I have always been ridiculously resistant to all kinds of substances -- I have to take twice the normal dose of most over-the-counter painkillers to get any effect at all (and not just on headaches), and I have the alcohol tolerance of a man twice my size even though I don't usually drink very much at one time, or super often. And then there's my immune system. I don't think I've had so much as a cold in almost a year, and I don't think I've EVER had the flu... 

Oh well. I guess if the worst I get is a few sleepless nights after a pot of tea, I can live with that. 
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