February Review

Finished this piece: http://hotlink.ellenmilliongraphics.com/ellen/dung002.jpg
Did this piece from start to (color!) finish: http://hotlink.ellenmilliongraphics.com/ellen/honey002colorcropped2-sm.jpg
Finished the pencils for this piece (excerpt): http://hotlink.ellenmilliongraphics.com/ellen/big-pencils-peek.jpg
Fixed the pencils and inked this: http://hotlink.ellenmilliongraphics.com/ellen/1798.jpg
Finished a color PA piece (not scanned yet).

Got a sale up at EMG, added images to the periodic newsletters, started a new advertising campaign.
Got the new business CC that I was supposed to get in December.
Got stock for the anthology and coloring books.
Stayed abreast (barely) with orders.

Coding: Fixed art board voting at EMG-Zine, also created an adult filter, and fixed a few minor buggy things (ads not showing), gave FAS a skip forward link, fixed some things with submissions. At TW, got art submissions worked on (I won at thumbnail generation!) and fixed several minor bugs (and one not so minor).

Unexpected things:
Got a virus (computer)
Glasses broke three times.
Ran out of fuel in the middle of the night.

Unavoidable things:
Working. About 30 hours a week.

Social things:
Henna baby shower
BSG viewing night!
Gaming x2.

Summary: Not enough writing. Happy with the art output. Good business progress, though orders could go out faster.

Goals for March

For March:

Torn World:

Finish-edit 2 stories.
Draft another.
Finalize art and fiction submissions.
Start credits and karma coding.

FAS:

Stay abreast of orders and submissions.
Get **anything** more done on wishlists.
New look!

Print Services:

Finish backend pages.

EMG-Zine:

Change credits spending from $_GET to $_POST. (Allow various quantities)
Finalize design for anthology vol 2 and select work. Want it out by July.

Portrait Adoption:

Scan new piece.
Complete one more.
New look!

Other:

Some piece of artwork.


For today:

Business cards
Ad for horror magazine
Work 8 hours
Pack orders
Mailed packed orders
laundry
get new artists set up

*thud*

Oh god, my inbox. I'm so sorry if you're waiting on a reply from me. I've got some 250 emails to deal with right now. I am attempting to answer priority stuff immediately, but I'm sure I've missed some in the slush, so prod me again on anything time sensitive, or be patient a little longer.

Am, understandably, feeling a little snowed under with workstuff. I spend a few hours everyday after work getting through the most time critical stuff, but several projects that are *this* close to being done are not likely to get past that last lump immediately. Somehow, more keeps getting added to my list, instead of the other way around!

In other news, we have lost both of our extension cords for the car and truck to the whirling machinery of the vicious snow blower. I'm just glad no one got electrocuted. I took a picture and will post it later. It was below zero this morning, but our vehicles still started (if with complaints).

Sunny today, which is good.

I needed some sunshine.