Postpartum Depression: THE CURE.
Huh. I seem to have a finished book here. 2 years of my life and 122 painfully pencil-rendered pages, all formatted, zipped-up and delivered to SLG Publishing. Should be some news about that before too long.
I feel like I should be more… jubilant right now, but honestly I just feel sort of… deflated. I’m really happy with how the book turned out – or, well, the book feels like ME at least, it feels RIGHT, which all I can really ask for – and I’m beyond excited to see it all printed up and proper… I just don’t have that “VICTORIOUS CONQUERING HERO” feeling I thought I’d have.
Postpartum depression, probably.
But HEY, nothing cures the old “nothin’ to do stomach churns” more than having stuff to do, right? I’m currently hovering over a couple of large-ish professional-type projects right now, among other things (planning Vol. 3), but I should have some time to reopen the art commissions queue for a while. I know a couple of you guys have been waiting a while… sorry about that. Your time has come!
COMMISSIONS! are $50 ($30 for each additional character on the page) for a pencil sketch on 9×12 Bristol. I’ll draw pretty much anything you’d like, from my characters to other people’s characters to your characters to YOU to your friends to your mom to your garbage man to your garbage man’s secret lover to your garbage man’s secret lover’s vengeful spouse in the act of walling them both up forever in the basement and cackling like a madwoman to what-have-you. Stuff like this:
More details (and examples) on the COMMISSIONS PAGE. Hey, pretty snazzy!
Please, won’t you help defeat the Ennui of Completion? Thank you kindly!
(I should probably also work up some new prints of some kind…. Any suggestions?)
i say you ought to design some new shirts. me, and many of the members of your zombie fan army. we are clamouring for shirts with CHARACTERS on ’em!
i cannot WAIT to have a jen-you-ine dead tree version of volume 2! i want to sit and read with it actually in my giant hands with honest to goodness pages and everythang!
and VOLUME THREE, you say??
I would suggest drawing Sera or other characters in a more realistic form maybe for some prints, I would definitely buy one. Maybe draw Sera in fusion with something more Marvel or DC like, I’m just sayin.
WTB: Good idea! I will do some t-shirt sketches, too. With CHARACTERS, even. Some variation on that mock-up Squeek did a while back would be all kinds of keen.
And yeah, of COURSE Vol. 3! I can’t say exactly when it would start up or if there would ever be a print version, though… That all depends on how well Vol. 2 does out there in the big, scary world.
efzi: I actually had a more “realistic” sketch of Tess on the art page for a while. It was… Sorta awful. Might be fun to try again, though!
Hi. if your making new prints, you could make some kimmie66 prints. Prints of Telly and Kimmie would be nice.
Wow! Has it been two years?! (check the archive date. Holy shit! It has!)
It has been a great ride these past couple of years.
SR2: February 6, 2008 – October 20, 2009
But why stop when the last page is posted and the book is being published? Sure there should be some time for break and writing. But once you are in “The Zone”, why fall out of it?
Why not invite others to do guest strips while SR3 is in the works?
In the words of my favorite Jagermonster, Jenka:
“Dot’s just hyu body bein’ all suprised you ain’t all blowed op and dead!”
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071217
(the Foglios kick ass. Maybe not quite as elegantly as the great Alexovich, but they’re ahead in quantity!)
And since I know I’m already in line for *my* commission, I’ll just chill & letcha do what you do. 🙂
On the whole “shirts” thing….. there’s *tons* of way old stuff in the archive that would look awesome just as is – the one with Sera begoggled & bats flyin’ over, just to name one I can’t stop dreaming about……
Right! You wanted a Ham Demon, yeah?
Um, *shyly pokes her fingertips together* I think it would be nice to have something gobliny, either a shirt or a print. I am in love with the little dudes. I kind of hat a thought of one holding up half of a hotdog like a golden idol and a bunch of others huddled around with huge dreamy hopeful eyes.
Had* a thought, not hat..
That is disturbingly similar to one of my little sketches here, Seedlet…
why has no one said kelton yet ? wtf i would total buy a print with him on it and also a mary ann
and volume 3 is much needed
Actually some new buttons with characters on them would be cool as well.
Yeah, I’m dreaming of a demonic ham-Rikki for Halloween! Embellish in whatever way you’d think of but I wouldn’t. 😉
@danke: Come to think of it, I don’t think we’ve *ever* seen Kelton actually *playing* his bass…. the Spastic Rascals in concert, Tess rawkin’ out, Sera politely trying not to look *too* bored, it could work!
(maybe even the Grinding Organs impatiently waiting for Chet to wind up his banter? Agatha tryin’ ta chat Sera up? ‘Course she’d prolly make a quick exit ‘soon as she realized Tiphane was around….)
*gasp!* Yessss new prints!! Honestly, I’d want a print of the first page. “You’ve been keeping me waiting, Serenity.” LOVE IT!
Also, Stiletta CLEARLY needs a print. One of her floating in midair, and I’d totally dig a roboStiletta print, too. 🙂
Is Ham-Rikki kosher? 😀
Anyway, why not get into sculpture?
Example 1
Example 2
it MUST be…. Tavi & Rikki both signed off on the one Tavi sold me! An luverlee it is too!
I for one would like to see a young Mr. Merrick.
which reminds me: don’t forget Lois! for she is kewlth incarnate, a living channel for all that is good.
After we send in the commission request, do we pay? Or wait for approval?
Anyway, sent! *excited*