Evil genius for a better tomorrow

Your Birthdate: January 25

You excel at anything difficult or high tech. In other words, you're a total (brilliant) geek. It's difficult for you to find people worth spending time with. Which is probably why you'll take over the world with your evil robots! Your strength: Your unfailing logic Your weakness: Loving machines more than people Your power color: Tan Your power symbol: Pi Your power month: July

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Another one bites the dust

RIP, Enchanted Artists forum. You did some good stuff back in day and you will be missed.

Its rather interesting how these places rise and fall. If I needed another degree, I think I'd write a thesis paper on the common lifespan of internet forums and the standard harbringers of their demise.

*sigh*
So the Epi forum is up and down like a drunken dingo . Even when it is reachable, there's very little traffic there anymore. Trying to actually submit anything to your gallery is like pulling teeth with a dial-up modem.

EA is dead.

The yahoo group is once again emboiled in a DragonCon discussion, which, frankly people, its ONE con out of hundreds. Its not the biggest or the best paying. Every topic doesn't have to meander into a DC discussion even if the forum moderator is DC's art director. I wonder if there's a polite way to request a ban on anything DC related until New Years? Nine months should be more than enough time to work out the details for one con. Maybe ask for warning tags on the titles when a non-DC discussion takes the turn. Its just every thread somehow migrates to become all about DC. I'm DCed out right now and I don't even show that con.

rpg.net is going steady but its always felt more like a "look at my new art and hire me, Mr. Art Director Person" type of place than any sort of community. I go there whenever I want a reminder that doing gaming art just isn't worth it, money wise.

EMG forum is up and running but doesn't seem to be getting a whole lot of traffic yet. I'm hopeful on that one.

I think this is a sign that I should just withdraw from "community" life for a little while to recoup and come back with more patience/less fiestiness. Yeah, like that'll happen...

Not too bad

So the studio thing went over pretty well. I helped Anh transfer one of her pencil pieces over to watercolor board. I'd explained how I did it a hundred times but she always said it made too much of a mess. Trial and error showed us that the problem revolved around the super soft charcoal she used. Margo worked on something for her freelance design business and I layed out a new painting. Em didn't make it. She said she was coming down with something and, seeing how she's a grade school teacher and therefore exposed to every germ on the planet, I'm just as glad she didn't come. All in all, it was fun and I look forward to the next one.

My ICON artwork made it home yesterday. I sold prints and that's it, despite sending a frog original. Figures, I brag that they always sell and jinx it. Luckily, the prints covered the con and mailing fees but only just. I don't have enough pure profit from that one to buy a cup of coffee. Still, it was my first year at that con. Next year should be better. FenCon was also a bit of a bust but its only that con's second year up and running and my first year showing it. Two strikes against it, right there. Goal for next year is to average two cons per month. I should have enough inventory to pull it off by then.

Schedule for the rest of the year
Astronomicon Nov 11 - 13 . LosCon Nov 25 - 27
Philicon Dec 9 - 11

Need to find myself some con spies.

Not that you need the reminders but if you want art or prints for holiday gifts, order sooner rather than later.

One - some of my print runs are almost sold out
Two - the postal service is slow as slugs on valium after Thankgiving.