December 2015 Roundup

Have you missed some of my creative updates over the last month? I'm doing monthly roundups to try to keep some sense in the chaos!


Artwork

I posted 6 random pieces leftover from Inktober.

1 Portrait Adoption portrait.

3 Torn World portraits. (2 ink, 1 pencil)

3 pieces for River Twine:


(Secret Santa artwork. Pastels are MESSY.)

2 (very rough) sketches for Sketch Fest: http://www.ellenmilliongraphics.com/sketchfest/sketchfestartist.php?id=9&date=70

A few more gift ornaments were painted. Some I am not sharing until I know that they have been safely received...




Writing

Finish edits on my novella. It has a cover and blurb and is ready for publication in February. I am ready to be off writing something else now.


Other

Seriously? Can I be DONE with illness now for a few years? I was still recovering from my November illness-of-doom at the beginning of the month, and just as I decided I felt fully human again, I got nailed with some of the worst stomach flu of my life. Ugh!

I got all of my art supplies beautifully organized into a tool chest. Now, instead of double-stacked boxes of mystery supplies I can't get to easily, I have silky sliding drawers of artistic goodness, all at my fingertips. My studio is - for the first time in YEARS - a place of organized bliss, and a place I want to go work.

Kept local retailers stocked in coloring books and got orders out swiftly - generally within 24 hours, always within 48.

I did gifts this year! Not a LOT, but a more extended list than I usually get done.

We got sheetrock up in the bathroom! And I've even given the seams tape and two coats of mud already!

Review of Goals: 2015

My 2015 Goals:

Many of the items on the checklist will overlap; things that will fulfill my art goals, for example, may also expand my personal career goals, etc. One thing to note is that none of my system items rely on anyone else... none of them include 'get a story published,' just 'submit a story for publication.'

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