WIPpin'... WIPpin'...

Working on this nearly broke my heart today.

Now I do save my work on a regular basis...

but I just so happened not to today and I lost a lot of colouring work when the program crashed on me.

well, argh

Anyway, this is a new big illustration... big in the sense that it's 600dpi and 6963x4700 px.

aw yeah

might a poster for an upcoming Zenpop magazine?

might be a print to sell for when I do next attend another convention?

It'll be something anyway.

Also, about VERMILION...

there are still only five pages completed

that preview for Nom-Con... I don't think went ahead as I think the copies of the new mag weren't back in time

BUT

I am off to Portugal in less than 2 weeks time.

I hope that my arm will heal with the nice hot weather and swimming (and my neck as well - that started to act up because of it).

And so I hope to get the line art to a good few more pages done while I'm there.

I hope. It's hard to promise when the pain has been bad and staying there for a few days.

But I'll try my best. C:

Diablo

I came across the album 8bit Heart by Simon Curtis today. To my surprise, it was available absolutely free from his website: http://www.simon-curtis.com/

Upon listening to the whole thing, it gave me an added boost - inspirational wise - as I felt lately I have been loosing my touch with illustrations.

The track Diablo gave me an opportunity to do something ugly, hoping that once my arm has recovered from overdoing it towards my deadline (the first 5 pages of VERMILION are complete and will preview in the next issue of Zenpop), I can paint this sucker. Like, actually paint it, not cell shade for once.

The album itself... is fantastic. The theme - about a robot boy with an 8bit heart looking for love... it's a great one for electronica enthusiasts!

I leave you with my variation of a meme that's spreading around like wildfire these days. Enjoy!