I think it works out best for me to do daily posts without a set format, though I’d like to include art and sketches as often as possible, and talk about various worldbuilding things along with whatever’s going on.

Except nothing is really going on.  I’m just working a ton on getting myself where I want to be on my art list, before December starts up.  Today I’m tackling more of the icons, and the last bit of another commission.  I’m also working on sketches for new art, which is really fun.

I want to do Griffon Day next, but I had a really fun idea for a Day I want to do some time.  The theme could be all kinds of things, or it could be mostly open, with a few guidelines to give it some structure.  I like the idea of a theme, because those have ended up being pretty cool.  No one else could see these prompts, though.  I draw art cards from all the prompts, shuffle the cards, and mail them randomly to everyone who participated.  Everyone would get a surprise card!  I need to figure out how to do it so that I get paid enough for my time with it, though, because art cards plus shipping for everyone is a little more than I can tackle for free.  I will have to think about it.  I suppose I could do it as a sale instead of for tips.

I figured out how to make simple papercraft bobbleheads.  I was sitting around bored, when I first moved in to the new place, plotted out the design, and made some prototypes.  I haven’t done anything with it, since, because I’ve been lacking my light box, which I had to leave back home.  Well, I broke down and bought another one.  As it turns out, it’s half as bulky as my old one, which is a serious convenience for taking it along to cons.  The lack of this equipment has been putting a serious slowdown on my productivity, and I’m really happy to have one, again.  I’m going to use it to fine-tune my template, and then make some bobble-headed critters!  Not today, though.  Today’s for work!

Ekwara stuff!  I’m thinking about the grevians a lot, lately, because I’ve been fleshing out Aldus’ and Pel’s (she acquired a name!) character designs.  Grevicans are a little odd, as far as their biology and gender roles go, and I’m trying to figure out how to present it within the story.  I think I’m going to do a separate post for that, behind a cut.

I finished this for Newenglander, yesterday.  Once upon a time, Alice was not a giant, talking rabbit, and had trouble reaching books on the top shelf.

Sparrow says, "You, sir, are drunk."

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1873/

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/greyhounds.asp

Total Icon Count: 93

Teasers:

Total Icon Count: 28

Teasers:

http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20091129

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pvponline/~3/eOKegHiH_l4/

http://www.pvponline.com/?p=5193

From: Cole Richards
To: PvP Subscriber List 1
Subject: Attention Humans: Sale Extended

Dear fellow primates,

My name is Cole Richards and I am writing very innocently to inform you that our Black Friday sale at www.pvpstuff.com has been extended to Monday, November 30th. Instead of offering you a sale for one day, we are offering you a sale for three days.

This is something we are doing to be nice to you. This is not a plot by a superior being to undermine our company in his first step towards the eventual domination of our entire race. So please feel free to take advantage of our savings and do not consider the long-term consequences of your actions.

Enjoy the remainder of your pathetic lives holiday weekend.

Sincerely,
Cole Richards (not secretly a cat)

Print, fill out and deliver to your local comics shop:

http://superstupor.com/sust11282009.shtml

If there are any problems with the comic or website, or if you have any questions, comments, or complaints you would like to address directly to Randy, please email him at choochoobear@gmail.com.

I think it would be fun to do a daily post, for my site and my livejournal, since this posts in both places. I’ll have to think of things I’d like to touch on each day, or decide to simply make a point to write about what I’m working on and what’s on my mind.

Of course, comics are updated for today.

Page 67 of Crimson Flag - www.crimsonflagcomic.com

Page 318 of Dracula - www.draculacomic.net

Page 13 of Ekwara - www.ekwara.com

If I’m going to be doing daily posts, I will remind everyone to go read Arcadia Snips on Monday!

Today, I have a holiday card you can download and print out to send to folks, if you’d like! I did this last year and people seemed to get good use out of it, so here’s a new one! The image is free to use, change and distribute, as long as my url stays on the back, and no one’s making money off of it. Feel free to add your own caption and inside message, for whatever holiday you celebrate this season.

Download the hi-res tif file here!

... Let's just not pretend, as some healthcare reformers would have us do, that we can easily get more equality without paying the price in efficiency.

Put simply, the healthcare reform bill would make the United States more like western Europe. That may mean more security about healthcare, but it also means that future generations of Americans will likely spend more time enjoying leisure.

Testing Zoundry Raven, a desktop blogging client. Using an image by Emma Vieceli to do so. You can find the print for sale here. Post2Blog never did drag and drop very well. I’d like a desktop client that was as smooth and easy as Tumblweed for Tumblr, to be honest, but there doesn’t seem to be one that clever and slick for Wordpress.

If the bumf is to believed, then swiping this image of Emma doing a bookstore PA should just paste in here:

(Sorry, Em, I’m using you as an experimental animal, but I had to google the link for your print shop and this was right underneath in the search results.)

Tumblweed is a clever app because it matches the intent of Tumblr: fast, easy scrapbooking for the internet. Wordpress clients tend to match the intent of Wordpress, as a place to write long blogposts. No matter how the theme of your Wordpress site actually changes that supposed intent. This site has gone through its tumblelog phases, but it’s hard to tumblelog in a big complex client, and bookmarklet apps don’t seem to work so well any more.

Anyway. Let’s see if this actually works.

EDIT: the Flickr image broke within moments, and on a subsequent post with four images in, it only posted one of them. Windows Live Writer, which has also been suggested to me, is currently refusing to post any entry containing an image, using any of three different methods.