Banshee

I have had this idea for sometime to do a whole line of spoOoky girl pin-ups. A recent *unannounced* product finally got me off my butt and working on it. Here is my first. A wailing Banshee...

PixelVixen707

Still working on my "pin-up" style. Today I did a pic of video game fanatic and Suicide Girl columnist Rachael Webster. Hopefully she is not too tweaked by it

The entire piece from sketches to "ink" was drawn in Adobe Illustrator on my 21" Cintiq, then I copied the line work to Photoshop, turned it into a PSD. Brought that PSD into a long abandoned product called streamline where I turn it back into a vector graphic

I do this because Streamline has an amazing "Smooth Paths" function that takes all the jitter out of my line work. So after I run that a few times I save the art as an EPS which I open back up in Photoshop and begin to color. Whew!

Dr. Sketchy's Logo

I've started attending a monthly artist gathering in Seattle called "

Dr. Sketchy's anti-art school

". Every month the Dr. Sketchy's crew brings in burlesque dancers to pose as figure models. It's a lot of fun.

They are currently holding a design us a logo contest, and I had a little free-time this afternoon so I banged one out.

and here is a close-up of the girl

Wandering in a dreamy haze

That's what the past few days have been. A fluffy candy spun haze. I've had a really good week.

Soon it will rain and turn all this sweet goodness into a tacky gooey morass from which nothing can escape. a freelancer roach motel if you will.

But today, it's good.

• Hugo Awards Nominations just came out and I'm on it! Not for that odd "fan writer" suggestion that was bouncing around, but for "Best Graphic Story" as a part of the creative team on Girl Genius ( Vol 8 now available for preorder ). Ostensibly this is my 3rd such nomination via Girl Genius - but it's the first time they listed me by name on the ballot. Our chances are slim - we are pitted against "Fables" , "Y: The Last Man", and "the Joss" but maybe their awesomeness will split the vote.


• I'm almost done with the first wave of art I was contracted for, for Champions Online. Almost 4 weeks(!) earlier than we expected


• The new (march 20th) episode of PseudoPod has posted with a story I read for them. "Bait" is my 7th story for PseudoPod. I really enjoy reading for podcasts like PseudoPod, PodCastle, and EscapePod. I maintain a feed called ArcaneRadio tracking all such podcast works.  and if you folks give it a listen and like it, please leave a note in their comment section - it goes a long way to asking me back to do more stories. And Authors - ask for me by name.


• And, the City of Heroes issue 14 has hit open beta, Issue 14 is titled "Architect" and lets players design missions for the general CoH population to play. I've been trying to brainstorm ideas all week.

Horrible Awards Round 1 Voting Open

So round one of the voting has begun for the "Horrible Awards", a celebration of Dr. Horrible fan art - I am up for awards in two categories, "Best Art" and "Best Artist"

here is the link.

While it is unseemly (and expressly countermanded) that I vote for myself, It is perfectly kosher for interested third parties to follow that link and vote in the manner their conscience dictates. (Note - voting in the manner your conscience dictates will account for 90% of your grade).

and please, do not allow my ability to build a death-ray have any bearing on your decision.

to reiterate, Vote your conscience - zap zap *wink*.

here is a link to the art that got me nominated

And here is a link to all the other fine folks that are up for an award
http://community.livejournal.com/horrible_awards/1711.html

GTA 1820

This is inspired by recent talk in

Girl Genius about Gil being an Airship Pirate