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[ellenmillion]

Business as Usual

I am caught up on orders! All of them! Every single one that I had is made, packed and shipped.

My studio is somewhat more organized again, and all the little paper shreddings I use for packing swept up. It's a pleasant place to work again.

I made some serious upgrades to the Portrait Adoption system, most notably in the submitted descriptions.

The Steampunk coloring book needs your work! We've got 6 awesome pages, but that's not enough to put out a whole coloring book!

Art and Authoring

Torn World has already proven successful in every way that it needs to be for me: it inspires people. *satisfied.*

I worked on some writing and some artwork over the weekend, but can show none of it off, sorry. Also secured a commission (and possibly 3 others), which seems like a great deal of fun. I've been reluctant to open up commissions in general, but this subject sounded good, and the client is one I've done art for before and is easy to work with.

Home and Health

IT'S SNOWING! About %^* time.

Also, my ugly truffles continue to get rave reviews. Too rich to eat more than one, but OMG, good.

We cleaned downstairs this weekend, and I finished the laborious, horrible hand-painting of the border between the ORANGE wall and the white ceiling and walls. It looks HOT. Seriously good. Amazing. Will take photos.

Planning

A stop at the store, and either a quiet evening with a movie, or possibly an evening to work on Mere's paperdolls. I have some art to finish before the end of the month, and an article for EMG-Zine would be super spiff.

Comments

[bigblued.livejournal.com]

Future tip for painter's tape...After you apply the tape, hit all of the edges of the tape with your base color before painting the top color. It creates a seal along the edge of the tape and if it bleeds you won't see it because it's the same color as the base.

Did I send you my "Gear and Pinion" and "Copper Fox" line work for the Steampunk coloring book?

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I don't see them in the queue, but would REALLY love to include them.

[bigblued.livejournal.com]

Gear and Pinion has been sent via the submission form on emg-zine.

[sister-bluebird.livejournal.com]

What kind of thing are you looking for in the coloring book? I'm in the midst of doing a lot of stuff for an upcoming convention, and could scan the linework before I apply color. The clockwork Chinese dragon, for instance.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be AWESOME! Steampunk's a really broad subject - pretty much anything that can qualify would be welcome!

[sister-bluebird.livejournal.com]

Spiffy. What's the deadline?

Jenny Heidewald

[(Anonymous)]

"The Steampunk coloring book needs your work! We've got 6 awesome pages, but that's not enough to put out a whole coloring book! "

Ellen, I have two inked, and one more I am trying to make look okay, husband hooked up scanner that doesn't leave line all down the art work last night (yay for spare scanners!) Now it is just the tedious task of fixing all the mistakes I made when inking the first two. :p I am not good at mechanical stuff, or circles, but I gave it my best shot. Of course I inked the one whle at a beer fest, so there might be a reason why my lines aren't quite as good as they could be on that one....

I am trying to think of more cool stuff as subjects.

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

**HUGS**