hellomightydog

wow do i have a lot of stuff on my desk and brain right now.











a couple more things for tomorrow
then next week is all finishing orders
and getting the gallery work out the door
(i'm in two shows next month o_O)
c'mon january
im going to paint a giant picture on january 23.

I just love this picture of my sister modelling the shirt for me.



Why so serious, T?

The store is back up!

New location, new layout, new stuff. Things still need a little tweaking here and there, but the important stuff is working.

New Things:

Check out the Books section. Three new books in there, including the first Bellen collection, the first Simply Sarah collection, and the Side B music anthology (published by Poseur Ink, featuring Megan Gedris and Box Brown).

You can now search by typing something into the search box, or using the tag cloud. The search results page is kind of ugly, but it does work, and will give you a list of all the products under that tag.

Christmas gifts:

I realize people do their Christmas shopping around this time. If you want it to get there in time, here are your deadlines: For orders in the US and Canada, you have until December 11th. Everyone else has until November 30th. You can still order things after that time, and you might even get them before Christmas. There’s just no guarantee.

Clearance:

There are a few shirts I am never reprinting, and some buttons as well. So get them while you can.

There are some things that I am planning on reprinting, but am low on stock. If your size doesn’t appear in the drop down menu, that means I'm out of your size.

Aaaaaand here I am, mourning the disappearance of yet another of my precious weekends. I'll be damned if I didn't make the most of this one, though.

On Saturday I went to Animal Kingdom with my childhood friend, Shawna, because we really haven't spent much quality time together in years, and because she gets us in freeeeeee. The only other time that I've been inside Animal Kingdom was when I was conducting those god-forsaken surveys in the 98 degree heat. Not only were those surveys wretched by the very nature of what they were, it kind of blew to be all up in the park, yet not permitted to check it out.

I woke up Saturday morning feeling so excited to get to go somewhere and do something. Had a GREAT time, and it was sort of impromptu, because I knew that I'd be going at some point in the coming weeks, but I didn't know exactly when, since we had to work around our schedules. We didn't decide to go until Friday night, so it was nice that it was somewhat of a surprise.

After I got back from Disney, I decided that I wanted some lasagna. tekalpha really likes it when I make his lasagna with churizo and queso fresca (instead of ricotta or cottage cheese), so I'd planned to make one of those. I ended up having to travel to three different grocery stores to get my hands on some churizo. I was ragin' by the time I hit up the third store, but after I left the second, I was like, "after all this, ain't no way I'm coming home without the goddamned churizo." HOWEVER, as I pulled in, a rainbow arched over the parking lot and a lady pulled out of her prime parking spot just in time to let me in, so fate was finally on my side.

I got the churizo, but left the pumpkin pie that I PAID FOR at the register.

I spent a few hours cooking the lasagna and assembling my practice bread cornucopia, then Josh and Joy came over to eat the food and go see Fourth Kind. I was beyond pooped by the time we got back.

Today I got up at a decentish hour, made a decentish breakfast, did some window shopping and grocery shopping, ran a few other errands and made a short-cut chocolaty dessert, because I require chocolaty, creamy goodness.

Yes. I think I've made the most of these scant hours of freedom that I am granted at the end of very week. GO ME.

i'm watching a documentary i got in my netflix called Food, Inc. it's super good, and thought provoking. it basically investigates and exposes our nation's food sources and problems. it's not even over yet and i have already asked myself "well shit, 90% of what i eat is so bad for me, why don't i just eat only natural, organic food?" then i realize i'd have to be making a shit load of money to be able to afford that kind of stuff.

it's not even that much of a help to be vegan, as most foods humans eat are all sourced from 3-8 big corporations.

they interview a real farmer who runs a natural no-bullshit chicken, beef, and pork farm in virginia, and he has this to say:

"a culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure to be manipulated by whatever creative design the human can foist on that critter will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling type mentality."

the movie also gets into why broccoli heads costs 2$ and a double cheeseburger at mcdonald's costs 99 cents. you should watch it!

Anybody know of any good female tattoo artists in town?

I'd think that this would be more of a special order type of thing, not
something that would be readily available. Or at least I'd hope.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFfffFFFFFFFUCK YES.


Also, a bonus sketch of the kangaroo I did will making the comic. Side note, does anyone want to be my colorist? Because I don't.

Alright guys!
I will be making mad posts here artspeakeasy  and hereart_exhibition

Ones for Ref, Tips, and Tutorials that I find across or get told about.

Second for showing off them banging artist you have never heard about but should.
And don't be afraid to post yourself!

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Braid needs work, we're gonna eat this one.

I try to share this video of this amazing vine lady?

So, you know this image:


The kick-ass cover I made for the TPB of LPFOS Vol 1?
Yeah, it's gone. Somehow, I forgot to save it to my backup drive, and when the triple-crash happened, it disappeared.
I still have a jpg, but those are not editable. There are no layers. I am butt fucked.

I really loved this cover. Most of the time, by the time something is a year old, I look at it and think of all the ways I screwed it up. This one still looks awesome to me, and I wanted to use it.

I am starting to find, little by little, all the things that I forgot to save, or only saved an old version of. Including... all the files for all the YU+ME books.


Luckily, the printers keep the PDFs I sent them, so whenever I need to reprint, it shouldn't be a problem. But if I ever wanted to change anything, I'm SOL.


But Scrambles the Death Dealer just jumped into my lap, and he is purring, and the leaves are pretty, and I'm getting a haircut today, so I feel alright.