QueenGwenevere

So apparently I update this journal once a year. -_-

ANYWAY. I just realized I’ve been sort of basically absent from DA for… a month? Two months?? There was a lot of real life stuff going on, and it got awfully distracting for a while and I just kind of… forgot to check in.  

So yes, stuff has been happening! Some annoying stuff! But mostly good stuff! Among the annoying things was of course my old computer going kablooie… Two months later and I’m still hunting up old files, reinstalling and reconfiguring applications, trying to rebuild my old bookmarks, and fun stuff like that. So, yay. 

Among the good things has been a flurry of animation jobs, (fun, but they tend to have very short deadlines, so it’s kind of stressful and I keep having to drop all my side projects to meet animation deadlines.) Also among the good-but-stressful things is the fact that I snagged a table for IlluXCon this year! THIS IS MY FIRST CON. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING. AND OH MY GOD YOU SHOULD SEE THE LEVEL OF ARTISTS AT THIS THING WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO. PANIC COMMENCES NOW. So yeah, a lot of my free time should really go into preparing for this thing, because I am nowhere near ready and have no clue.

Meanwhile I’ve been desperately trying to build up a  buffer for the Wayward Queen webcomic, because it’s getting harder and harder to keep up with timely updates - I need a buffer for sanity’s sake! So far it’s, um, not going so well (I’m still basically zero pages ahead of myself)… But I’ll build up a buffer or bust, dammit!

I… guess I should reply to things. I can’t believe how long I’ve ignored my message center. This is so embarrassing.

Just FYI, I seem to be somewhat more active on Tumblr these days, if you’re into Tumbling (I’m QueenGwenevere on Tumblr.) It’s just so much easier to slap stuff up on Tumblr than on DA (I swear DA just keeps making things more complicated, so I always put off posting.) Though I should really post some of that stuff here, too.

DERP. Derpity derp-derp. Looks like I vanished from DA for a bit, there… Things got reeeeeally hectic in December. Mostly work deadlines ("We want it before Christmas!") and then the usual running around seeing family for the holidays, of course. I'm having trouble being productive on anything right now because of Family Getting in the Way and wandering around looking over my shoulder every ten minutes to say "Watcha doin'?" and sticking their noses right in my screen to get a closer look… (I've already had to hide this journal several times as I'm typing, haha.)

There's a whole bunch of stuff I meant to post - I shall post it! And oh man, look at that big stack of comments I forgot to reply to. I shall reply to stuff! (I didn't mean to let them sit for that long, agh. There were massive distractions - Sorry!) And there has been some nifty gift art, I should put together a feature journal to show it off...

Anyway, I think things go back to comparatively normal in January, so expect more life around here!

Just really discombobulated. Yeah, I seem to have been neglecting my DA for the past few weeks. This always happens when I have deadlines, and right now I've got 'em really bad. Two major projects due at around exactly the same time, so I have clients yelling at me left and right and life is becoming perpetually frantic. I think things should settle down to relatively normal around the beginning of July or so...

Man, old journal is old, I keep meaning to update it but I never have much to say except that I'm working all kinds of crazy deadlines as usual (what else is new, it's ALWAYS like this towards the end of the year...)

So I guess I'll use this space to pimp some fine folks who are currently offering commissions - because, why not? You should check all these people out!

Christmas-themed icon commissions - Regular commission Info Here

Commission Info Here

Commission Info Here

MarieAlbertine on Tumblr - Commission Info on Tumblr Here

EDIT:
is also offering commissions! Get 'em while they're hot! Commission info here

Tis the season for commissions, apparently. If I think of any more, I'll add 'em here!

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