2025/08/30- Flow

Reading: Sanju Mariko
Watching: Rose of Versailles
Playing: Cultist Simulator
Listening: Laughed the Boy

It's almost fall! It's hard to even remember how I spent the summer. Working, I guess? In mid October I will have been working at my job for a year, and I'm kind of terrified about that because I really don't feel like it's working for me. I've started looking for something new, but the job market here is pretty dried up. Hopefully it won't be too much of a struggle.

In the meantime, I've still been making art. Artfight in particular went really well! I was surprised I was able to draw so much while working full time. Instead of doing a blog post here like last year though, I think it would be cool to make a page on this site JUST for artfight, where I compile my attacks done/recieved each year!! So I guess that's going on the list of things to work on for this site, alongside updating Soren's page and getting the Artist of the Month page back up and running (having a monthly page really helps keep motivation up to keep working on things here haha)

Here's a sample though, my favourite piece I did for artfight on the left (for D&D friends), and my favourite of the art I recieved on the right (by @artbygiraffe!)

As I said in my last blog post, I've been hoping to get a bit more involved with local art spaces. I haven't done a lot, but I think I'm still succeeding in that goal! Earlier this month I went to our local comics festival to trade zines with the vendors, and I was informed about a recently formed comics collective in the city! I picked up a copy of their first anthology and joined the discord. I'm really excited to go to their next general meeting, assuming I'm not working. The comic I'm working on at the moment is erotica (which I'll be publishing online under a pseudonym), so it doesn't really fit into the art they publish/promote. I'm hoping to make a variety of things though, including sfw comics, so it's still really nice to have that community. I also went to a cyanotype workshop last weekend, which was super cool. Everyone there was so sweet, and it was really fun to be making art together with a bunch of folks (also they were all very complimentary toward my art u////u)

My cyanotype turned out a little too blurry but I still really like it and I'm excited to make more in the future!

This has also made me interested in putting some stuff together to sell at fall/winter markets, as that seems like a good way to meet other local artists and maybe shake off some of the fear I have around selling my art. I'm trying to focus on the socializing side more than the money though, because otherwise I'll psyche myself out!!! We'll see what happens.....