Work
Work is a bitch, but I'm getting used to it. This is where I'm working at now: http://www.craft-haven.com . Meh manager and I am gonna buff and spruce the website up one of these days ... Everything is new to me in the store. I've not work in a retail setting before. But when you made a sale, you know that money goes into your pocket. It's satisfying. Not to mention all the interesting characters you get to meet that walk into the store. I wouldn't say more, but interesting should cover the spectrum of human stereotypes. It's awful to judge people, but the human-animal is an animal after all. Encounter enough of 'em, you'd develop an instinctive ability to categorize everyone you meet. And service them accordingly. People are far easier to read than they imagine themselves to be. Love learning new things.
Art
Let's list my WIPs:
1) Siamese Kitten - polymer clay sculpture painted with acrylic. About 2.5" tall, I think. 1" wide. It's almost done, so expect it to be posted soon. It's for sale. Store work.
2) The Qing Princess Calendar - I forgotten to take their pictures ... I made four of those direct mailer thingies. The A5 sized calendars went into purple-glossy handmade paper bags (made by me) together with a promotional letter of course. It wouldn't be a direct mailer if there aren't a sales literature with it. The letter is atrociously pink, so suffer it soon! Store work.
3) Map of Mythical Ur - 6000 x 5000 pixel. A world map of my fictional universe. And it's not as big as I like it. Not enough for all the details I wanna incorporate. Plaster-white cities. Dragon roosts. Mermaid coves. Et cetera. You get the idea. But my Wacom® tablet has given up on me! On Me! I'm gonna burn her on the Black Altar of Things Best Forgotten. And replace her with something bigger. Size does matter.© Personal work. Category: Project Ur
4) Aroth Ceinar - The Guiding Sun. Pencil work. I've done enough line work so far to have defined the figure and pose. Approximately A3-sized drawing block. Because my tablet has given up On Me, I'm forced to revert back to my original calling. Pencil work. It's the image of the handsome felinoid Sun-God Aroth hovering in the sunlit sky, pointing for his believers the Door of the World. As Rothaur had passed the Door to keep the Sun in the sky, so shall all the noble souls i.e. the believers of Aroth pass under the Black Arch to enter the Void and join the Creator in creating new worlds. Personal work. Category: Project Ur
5) Felinoid Cyber Punkster - It's still something swimming in the embryonic fluids of my Muse. But the image is of a tall, scrawny man with cybernetic implants and suspicious fashion taste. So my inspiration is swinging back and forth through the deep mythical epochs and distant futures of my fiction, which happens all the time in disconnected chains of reasoning. Category: Project Ur
Life
I decided to visit the movies by myself from now on. In secret. Due to something that my hubbie does habitually everytime we go there. We have different ideas of how to enjoy a show, and definitions of a good film. Among other things.
Quote of the Day
Something I picked up from the anime AQUARION last night: The miserable deserves to be. Because the character hesitated a nanosecond to take the hand of her beloved when a mark of the enemy appeared in him. For that nanosecond, her beloved was turned to the enemy. She blamed herself for adding another formidable opponent in the enemy's rank. A simpleton consoles her with Why should you do anything at all in the first place? in relation to her beloved being born with the enemy's mark. For there was nothing she could have done ... but to love him without hesitation.
