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Emerald City, You Are Wonderful

So for spring break, I've hopped right on up to Seattle.  Just in time for the Emerald City Comicon, in fact!  It's been a fun time; I'm staying with a very good friend and her family.  It's been all cooking and geeking out and talking video games and watching movies, and it's been fantastic.  I made bread animals!

A bread mouse, for your entertainment. 

We did go to the convention later, a couple days after I flew in.  It just so happened that, a little bit before the Comicon, there was a ceramics convention as well!  Exciting for me, having played around quite a bit with ceramics.  We went through a couple of the exhibitions in the convention center and enjoyed some art; and then we went upstairs and enjoyed significantly more nerdy art.  

I'm a little sad, because a couple of exhibitors that I wanted to see only went to Wondercon, but I did get to do some awesome things and I have grabbed some sweet con-swag, so over all I'm pretty happy.  

I met Yuko Ota, of Johnny Wander fame, and she drew me an awesome squid/dragon/eel.  It's magical!

I also got the first volume of their comic, and she drew this for me, which is amazing as well: 

All of my happies, you guys.  Every single happy. 

I also managed to find this;

My aloha girl! I’ve wanted one of these babies since I found out they existed; I’m a little sad cuz they had the red dress version when I first stopped by, but I didn’t have the moolah. So I went on an ATM adventure and by the time I got back, red dress had sold. Later on it was pointed out to me that getting the blue dress was kind of like taking the paragon option (if buying con goodies is like conversation trees in Mass Effect, at least), though, so that’s cool.

And honestly I’ll buy almost anything Chris Sanders, so it’s all good.

My feet are tired, but I am quite happy!  I think I'll make the attempt to hit the ECC again next year, too. 

Photoshop beta!

Adobe has released the photoshop beta for free!  This is awesome for now, because it means I get to muck about with photoshop without paying for it yet.  I'll take that, even with any miscellaneous bugs that might crop up.  Yesss.

I shall now paste the things I've doodled; if anyone has any critique, please send it on over!  I know I need a lot of work.  Adobe's not my medium of choice, so it's kind of like slogging through jam trying to get my art to look good in it.  Any suggestions are welcome.

I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite drawing on the blog...

So I've been playing Mass Effect 3, which, for me, means mucking about and painting aliens.  I have more doodles (most of them in my notes for history class...oops) that I've yet to scan in, but here's the first in what I'm sure will be a wave of monstrous and/or stupid creatures.  Yay!

fiddlefaddle.

It's one of those awkward moments when things are going relatively well, and I'm afraid I'm going to muss it up somehow...Especially since her skin tone is supposed to look somewhat corpsified, and I've got problems with normal skintone.

Welp, time to save and keep trying...

Edit: And more!

Fever!

It's one of those awesome weekends where my body decides that I don't get to do any of those awesome things I planned to do.  Yaaaay!

This is possibly the most accurate autobiographical doodle I've ever done.  It's pretty much all I've done since Friday morning.  On the bright side, I got to watch all of Arrested Development and also some of The Blue Planet.  Netflix is pretty awesome.

I'll leave you with the original, and my favorite, rendition of the song Fever;

More digital painting!

I think I'm getting better!  Although that might just be brain damage from painting in a darkened room for so long.  

Also a small autobiographical comic!