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Destined Legends Box Preview by =blix-it

I didn’t design the box, I just did the painting seen in the far right photo. c: This photoset is for my vanity!! XD And to advertise that Destined Legends can now be preordered through its online store! The kickstarter is all done and great, these photos are from a test copy sent by the manufacturer before they go ahead with assembling the other 1000+ copies of the game. 

Another exciting thing is that I bought a good handful of copies of this game and I’ll be selling them at Otakon! (You can also buy the game at Anime Expo and at San Diego Comic Con, Destined Legends will be set up at both of those cons!)

I am pretty damn excited for this game. I guess to me it’s kind of the first time I’ll see someone else actually be proud of the work I created for them and they’ll go out and sell it. IT IS ACTUALLY A THING THAT IS NICE, HERE LOOK AT IT. After so many years of being turned down for everything, because of watercolor painting, because of commission rates, because I live in the US and I can’t afford to charge 5$ for a giant painting … here is an example of my work when I’m actually paid fairly to do something. Not like paid HUGELY, just paid fairly. And then I turned around and reinvested all of that money in the game by purchasing wholesale copies for myself to sell at shows. XD

Lately I’ve just felt so sick of everything. Sick of fighting with people over the rates I charge to commission. Sick of drawing comics that don’t update enough and that aren’t cared for much when they DO update… 

WELL HERE IS A THING THAT’S DONE AND NICE LOOKING, THANK GOD.

ono-mono:

quixotic by ~sirfish

School’s out, so I updated my DA today.  Work from old projects.

mleiv:

The Rose Throne is out today! Go buy it: http://www.amazon.com/Rose-Throne-Mette-Ivie-Harrison/dp/1606843656 

If you have the opportunity to go to one of Mette’s signings promoting this book, she might even have some of these cards to give away.  ^^

I woke up and felt like today is the day I paint that totoro and pangur ban.

Totoro and Pangur Ban rough drawing, Day 3 of 7 of posting an entire one thing on tumblr daily. 

This poll on my DA made me decide to seriously attempt a totoro fanart. At first it was totoro with a squirrel, beneath a shrub. Then the shrub became an illuminated manuscript shrub. So the squirrel became Pangur Ban. 

:/ I really like this image, and I might paint it, but I think most people are not going to recognize Pangur Ban. So I don’t know how I feel about that. This would probably be more popular as JUST totoro. But that isn’t what I want to paint. 8( 

Zecora WIP! To try and make today better. ><

I haven’t made a serious attempt at a digital illustration in ages. This one is kind of fun, the wings and swirls have all been done in ink on watercolor paper, and then digitally lifted from the paper and made into color!

Going with “Herbal Remedy for Gravity” as the possible title of this.

Cinna had a cruddy day, so I’m posting a thing for her. Kana and Sedna. <3 

Earlier today I decided I would pick a week and try to post something every day. MAYBE I’LL JUST DO THAT STARTING NOW. This is 2 days down, now just 5 more to go in which I will force myself to have the courage to post something. 

Thank you everyone who liked or reblogged or commented on my post yesterday. It was just nice, I guess. Maybe I’m having art block? Though I’m hesitant to give it that name if only because it isn’t an inability to draw, it’s more like a haze of depression and a complete lack of confidence and a total resolve that I’ve failed before I’ve begun. If something good happens, well that’s nice, but I did nothing to deserve it and no matter what I do, my actions won’t change my future. That’s what I’ve been feeling. And I don’t really know how to get out of it. Over the past several months I’ve slowly sunk into this darkness … years ago I did take anti depressants, and they were kind of effective. I’ve been thinking about seeing a doctor, I guess. They work for other people, they worked for me years ago. Probably I’ll give the whole thing more time to either pass or become more serious. I don’t really know.