A Welcome to New Readers!

To anyone reading this blog after meeting me at Boston Comicon earlier today, welcome! I'm so happy you decided to check my humble little website out. Every page view makes a rainbow in my heart, it really means a lot you don't even know.

I not only showcase my illustrations and sketches here, I also write (an awful lot some would say) about drawing, animation, film, literature, and anything else interesting that comes up. (For example, right now, I'm in the middle of a vintage paleoart kick.) Note that comments are moderated, but welcome. Some of my favorite older features are listed in this anniversary post.

I'll have my Comicon thoughts after they're organized, hopefully there will be a new post this coming Tuesday, maybe a little later and more off-the-cuff than usual. It is going to take me a long time to sort through my freebies, purchases, photos, sketches, and contacts. As always, I've had a lot of fun and met a lot of really awesome people and exchanged lots of business cards with other illustrators. Illustration isn't a very social career choice, so anytime large numbers of artists get to talk face-to-face is wonderful. (Plus, it's like Christmas 2 if you like to read.)

My DeviantArt Page can be found here, and if you'd like your own Awesome Overload shirt, my Zazzle Store is here. (As a word of warning, Zazzle unisex tees run a little large.)

For those of you standing, please hold on to the handrails throughout our journey and stay clear of the doors. Por favor mantangense alejado de las puertas! For the comfort of others, no smoking please. Thank you, and welcome to our highway in the sky!

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Art of the Day!

Instead of the usual sketch of the day, here's a grab-bag of a few character designs and drawings from observation (highlights from my portfolio in other words). These are all from Flickr, so click the image to see it big:

Yahoo to shut down Geocities "Later this year".

I got a nice email after asking exactly what "later this year" means when I got the news yesterday. "Later this year" means sometime in December. Probably.

If you've been paying attention to the Internet like I have for the past ten years or so, you know that this is going to be huge. Most of the Geocities sites that are still around are the first websites their respective owners made fresh out of high school or college and -in general- forgot about. A good quarter of the most useful websites I know as far as looking up the names of things I'm selling on Ebay and such are going to vanish completely simply because their owners stopped paying attention to them.

Unless you're me and you keep updating your cheap-as-free Geocities site. Then you got the news and a serious pain in the butt to contemplate. LaGremlin's site is... yeah. Given that I haven't updated it in more than a year, I think the wiser thing to do would be to simply move its worthwhile features here. So you'll get to read the Disney Animated Canon here over the summer.

On the other hand, I believe Nessie's site is worth saving (maybe not in its entirety, but I don't want to let it just die either). I like writing those reviews and I think it may be time for the Realm to be a Real Website. I just need to find an inexpensive host. Now I have a project for the summer. Yay.

In case you're wondering, yes, Ive got two very different online personas for two Very Different online communities. It made sense when I joined them ten years ago.

Enjoy the crazy Internet wilderness of sites like Quacker County while you still can!

"Lost" season finale tonight! (I love, love, love their fifth prediction.)