In the last month I’ve done Wellington Armageddon and Overload (Auckland) which were both great!
I have definitely Run Out Of a lot of stuff, so now that I have no big cons in the next while I’m planning on restocking pins etc & making some new designs. At some point. I have other work to do also.
My next event is the Comics Zine Market on May 5! Obviously being a comics focused event, I’m not going to have most of my stuff - just a few copies of older comics or display copies to read through, and maybe my bookmarks. I’m also planning on doing the Newtown vintage & craft market on June 1, if it’s on (depends if enough people sign up).
I somehow have 10k followers on tiktok?? Which of course means I spent a number of days sorting everything into playlists (and replacing all of those deleted audios..). I have playlists for process/speedpaints, events, book fanart, bookmarks, book design, as well as a few others. I love to organise and sort things. Tiktok is probably the most consistent place I post speedpaints if you want to find those!
Also i’m nominated for a hugo again. woohoo
New Art
The last Scapegracers book came out, and I drew a scene from it to celebrate! (Maybe not the most celebratory scene….. but yknow.)
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My newest piece of This Is How You Lose The Time War fanart! This has been rotating in my brain for a while, and I’m glad a lot of people like it!
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Finished an old wip of Dumai from A Day of Fallen Night! I’ve been wanting to a) do more landscapes in my fanart and b) try out some sketchier/flat styles for art like this.
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At overload we did a fish/ocean themed stamp rally, and I made this design for it. rock pool orb :)
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New prints!
I’ve started to get sorted printing prints from home - so I can do prints on demand now! My printer doesn’t like super dark saturated blue/greens, so it does depend on the individual piece - but if you have any requests for prints I can probably do that (from postcard to a4 size). I print them on 230gsm matte paper, so they’re thinner than my usual a5 prints, and 100% matte (the usual ones from the shop have a slight shine)
So I do now have prints of a few new things as pictured above. I also printed some of my To Shape A Dragon’s Breath sketches onto brown card as some mini prints, and with those (plus the A5 art) I’m currently donating profits to the author’s fundraiser to get to the Nebulas.
I have two new sticker designs! A transparent purple rock crab, and the rock pool sticker that I made as a prize for the overload fish stamp rally.
I also made some little murderbot stickers that I’ve been giving away with the bookmarks, but you can also buy them now if you want! And I restocked a version of my Jim/OFMD dagger without the name on the hilt, for people who just like oranges I guess.
That’s all!
Good Books I’ve Read
The Skin and Its Girl - litfic with a little magical realism about Palestinian & queer identity
Someone You Can Build a Nest In - such a fun and weird monstery fantasy romance
Dear Wendy - a great YA aroace friendship/anonymous rivalry story
Compound Fracture (arc) - fantastic YA thriller. AJW did it again….