Already the New Year

Even though tonight is New Years, I already feel like it has happened.

Why? I ate a real breakfast not consisting of just chocolate and cookies and listed a new item in my shop, which is open again!

The Winterwoods.

I have plans for these two. The Winterwoods may return in other prints or items. They already have a back story in my head.

And I have a few pictures from my Christmas visit to my home town, Capreol. (In Ontario, Canada) Prepare to be cold.

Isn't it flat and that special kind of bright cold? Eep.

My parents house all tucked into snow. We had just arrived and I wanted to take pics before getting my Christmas on.

Had to climb it!

I got a bit snowy. Good thing I had just bought boots when I got to town. Go kids boots!

Most of my pictures of actual Christmas are blurred with the excitement of opening gifts and lauging and family. Plus no one wants to be in their pjs on the internet. :-) Let me sum up my Christmas for you...

Eat, visit, eat, Christmas eve, gifts, snow, photos, garage doors, stuck cars, kitty litter, Finnish exchange students, wii battles, gift exchange games, cookies, sweaters, lost cell phones, chasing cats, Levack, thickest fog ever, gravy, shovelling, and cheesecake.

I have big plans for the New Year. Most of which include bat wings. :-)

rorschach.

..and company.
here are my favourite quotes from and associated with Watchmen, one of the best graphic novels ever written, second only to, in my opinion, Sandman. ;)
I'll have to put up Sandman quotes at some point of time. Only the entire graphic novel takes so bloody long to read that I've been putting off the whole task of gathering the quotes.
All the same, someday I'll read it for the umpteenth time and actually gather the quotes.
For now then, \Watchmen/.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

         -Rorschach.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.
And if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes also into you.
                                                                                  -Nietzsche

Ground floor comin’ up.
                                   -Liftman.

It rains on the just and the unjust alike. Except in California.
                                                          -Sally Jupiter.

Passers by made various deposits- candy wrappers, newspapers, a pair of keds, strangled by own laces, tongues lolling out horribly. The city is an animal, fierce and complicated. To understand it I read its droppings, its scents, the movement of its parasites…I sat watching the trash can and New York opened its heart to me.
                   -Rorschach.

None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with you. You’re locked up in here with me!
           -Walter Joseph Kovacs (aka Rorschach)

Outside in the distance a wild cat did growl, Two riders were approaching, The wind began to howl.
                       -Bob Dylan

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon.
Never compromise.
                          - Rorschach

it's that simple.
i ought to be pitied.
fullstop.
no amount of chin-highness seems to help it.
so. bow down and pity me.
amen.

Off we go!

Its time to visit, eat and hug your parents!

Off to visit family and friends who live in Northern Ontario, where its not just cold but "DAMN that is COLD." Presents are wrapped (well, the ones that arrived by mail in time. grr!) Cookies are baked (and mostly eaten) and batteries charged for dorky family photos. See you in the new year!

petered out.

and then. two words: forget it.
...................................forget. it.
...................................forget it. and. learn.

take away this dream please. someone. anyone.

denial is good. in a way. was handling it just fine. don't upset that balance please.

take it away. take it all away. give me the body or nothing at all.

shadows melt away. take it away.

FUCKYOU. }:-]

Downloadable

Tah Dah!



This year I made little digital artwork of Rocko the Cat (my cat) in a stocking! I backed the artwork in green and white striped paper and then laminated it. I included the flat little ornaments in my Christmas cards to my friends and family.


You can get the original from my flickr HERE.


If you aren't the ornament type, I also made a half page of gift tags you can print out on sticker paper for your gifts.


Yes, I am one of those people who includes their pets name on Christmas cards.

Still alive!

Not having to tend my Etsy Shop is weird! When I hear the email ping I don't feel like I have to run in the room and check right away. I am so unpopular.

I have been busy this week but I can't show much as they are gifts...What if the giftee saw it?? Horror.
- I finished up a gift for new bundle of baby!! Its SO not my usual colour scheme.
- did a little Christmas illustration decoration, which I guess I could make downloadable later this week...yes.
-sketched up a *ton* of new print ideas. Its a sheaf.
-and printed up a new lino print (Which I can show you!)

I had this stamp carved for a year or two, and have used it a few times on paper for tags and things, a few times on fabric. But it was time for a proper print run. These teeny little prints are oil based ink on thick and smooth watercolour paper. They will be listed in my shop when I return on December 30th.

The oil based ink works so much better for me than the water based did. I think I may have to switch permanently. Sure I risk brain damage when cleaning it up...

So even though I have orders from my dude to "not work and watch movies," I don't feel that happening today. Its a day to produce! Vampire boys don't draw themselves you know.

die laughing. plus, 'i lived through hell.'

Disclaimer: if you're unfamiliar with Metal subgenres, this won't be all that funny to you. All the same, I really hope you die laughing. xD
Coz I did.
And secondly, this doesn't intend to offend any subgenre, as all of you are aware how very much I love metal. In all its forms.

Enjoy.

HEAVY METAL: The protagonist arrives on a Harley, kills the dragon, drinks a few beers, and bones the princess.

POWER METAL:The protagonist arrives riding a white unicorn, escapes from the dragon, saves the princess and makes love to her in an enchanted forest.

THRASH METAL:The protagonist arrives, fights the dragon, saves the princess and fucks her.

DEATH METAL:The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon, fucks the princess and kills her, then leaves.

BLACK METAL:The protagonist arrives at midnight, kills the dragon and impales it in front of the castle. Then he sodomizes the princess, drinks her blood in a ritual before killing her. Then he impales the princess next to the dragon.

DOOM METAL:The protagonist arrives, sees the size of the dragon, and thinks he could never beat him. He gets depressed and commits suicide. The dragons eats his body and the princess as dessert. That's the end of the sad story.

GOTHIC METAL:The princess in a velvet costume starts singing soprano. The protagonist completes the duet by adding the beast part, while the dragon plays the flute. Suddenly the dragon swallows the flute and accidently scorches the beauty and the beast and suffocates to death. All their souls are damned in hell for all eternity.

PROGRESSIVE METAL:The protagonist arrives with a guitar and plays a solo of 26 minutes. The dragon kills himself out of boredom. The protagonist arrives at the princess' bedroom, plays another solo with all the techniques and tunes he learned in the last year of the conservatory. The princess escapes looking for the HEAVY METAL protagonist.

GLAM METAL:The protagonist arrives, the dragon laughs at the guy's appearance and lets him enter. He steals the princess' make-up and tries to paint the castle in a beautiful pink color.

NU METAL:The protagonist arrives in a run down Honda Civic and attempts to fight the dragon but he burns to death when his moronic baggy clothes catch fire.

so that's that. oh and the second bit. exams ended yesterday. 5th sem was a murderer of a sem. so relieved is the least i can say about myself right now.

:D

so the gang went to an amusement park to jubilate. apart from the regular bits, i showed a tiny tendency to turn into silver surfer.

look.

and these, with me, are THE retards. :bolts:
:)



you are what makes college life what it is. love you guys. :)

Christmas hobo

Its that time of year!I closed my Etsy shop! Not forever, just for the Holidays.

Its a bit like a vacation, in that I don't get up every morning and get to work emailing and packing and making stuff. But its a weird busy time of year for me. I make Christmas gifts, have baby's and birthdays and all sorts of projects on the go for launch in the new year. Its crazy busy, but I still don't have to answer to the man. I guess the man is really just my inbox...

Its just a weird time of year, where I am loosing money and spending money and being busy and not having a job all at the same time. PHEW. :-) But its nice to have a change, and I always end up making some cool stuff this time of year, so I can't complain.

I have the tree up and I cannot take a nice picture of it.
Its a black tree with only a few pink and white lights and purple and silver decorations. Add heavily patterned curtains and carpet and you get a mess. It looks nice in real life, but its just a blurry blob in all the million photos I took of it. I don't think we *tried* too hard to decorate it this year, we just threw the decorations at it. It shows. Its shows how awesome we are.

Once the tree is up its all holiday around here. No meal shall be cookie free.

It comes from the diaphragm. OF HELL.

Sometimes I get a laugh out of myself.

I am sitting in my studio, dancing around to dudes screaming about eternal suffering or something about life being a deep pit of horrible despair, while photoshopping bright pink backgrounds of the adorable kitty stickers I drew.

If I ever get my own house I am going to build a soundproof room in the basement where I can perfect my metal guy scream. And paint it piiiiink.

Twilight remorse, Jonny Lee Miller recollection

I feel a bit bad about trashing Twilight. Maybe if I had thought the dude from the movie was cuter I could have been won over to the dark side (or the Mormon side, or whatever...) Ok, the feeling passed, its still lame.

My lino printing is also kinda lame. Its not a disaster by any means, but its not as perfect as I envisioned it.

I made a LOT of prints and most of them are too "quirky" for me to be happy with. The ones that are good are good. I want to try some different inks before listing anything. I also want a printing press now. There is one at the art supply store I go to all the time. Its only like $500. :-(

Here is a new product I just listed. Stickers!

I am a label person. I just like them. Plus its useful, cheap and cheerful. (ok, maybe not quite cheerful, but they could be if I wasn't such a freaking closet GAWTH.)

I think a lot of stickers will be in my future. I have approximately one billion ideas for sets to draw. Most of them include gravestones. Ha! Next up is a Batcat set. I have the sketches complete, now I just have to draw them in Illustrator.

So its Cyber Monday (in the states). Today. Yep.
*crickets*
Pretty much what I expected. I hate being told when people are supposed to shop. Who says Cyber anyway? Welcome to the 90's. *Runs off to watch Hackers.*