reluctant phoenix

[egypturnash]

A second illustration (the first was this) for The Whole 9's monthly newsletter. The theme was 'varying amounts of sexuality'.



The other sketches were a lot more decadent. Ask me to celebrate sexuality and I will. I'm halfway tempted to put one or the other through AI for myself, but another month's gone by without me so much as touching Five Glasses of Absinthe...

I was also the subject of an interview in this one. Mostly it's just a bunch of Trans 101 questions, so I don't think you'll pick up anything new about me unless you didn't know already. Obviously I need to learn something about giving good interviews. Actually having projects to pimp in them would help too. Ah well.

Oh, also, the color printer Nick ordered arrived today.

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

There's an extra panel but it's a tall and slim one; the sketches are both in this wide, squat format. And I'm not sure they were decadent enough for Absinthe - I was holding way back in both!

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

That interview is almost endearingly clueless in places! Her heart was clearly in the right place, though, so I can't really fault her for a couple of faux pas.

[inaki.livejournal.com]

You know.. that first one would make an amazing dual monitor background >.>

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

'Knows nothing but curious and willing to learn' is far and away my favorite reaction to the gender thing!

Also, I am sitting here with a big box of printer in front of me. Thought you might wanna know.

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Awesome, I was tempted to call and ask but I didn't want to pester you again! If you can't resist the urge to plug it into something... NOT YOUR BUTT... I don't mind if you open it up and fool with it! It belongs to all three of us as far as I'm concerned! Consider it the wages of your awesomeness.

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Also, while I'm here, work is a bit of a clusterfuck today. I'm not in a bad mood over it in the slightest, but a late/all-nighter is looking pretty likely. :( The upshot is that I'll probably stick for much of tomorrow and have all Friday off as your escort if it all goes will. Miss you. <3

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I'm less paranoid than some people get about releasing clean, un-watermarked art into the wild, but I think 3200x800 is somewhere past my 'man, people could print that right out' threshold. o.O;

[paka.livejournal.com]

Yay! I like the afternoon photo with the horrible coat.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Where are we going to put the printer anyway? My first thought is "on the top shelf of my desk", but that makes it awkward to get to, and I have no idea whose compy we're connecting it to anyway. Should we put it in the studio and make an effort to clean that up, make it more of a workspace? I'm well enough to assist with that project now.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

That actually made me rather nostalgic for when we first met Peggy, because it's so obviously a shot from California -- it may actually have been one I took myself, I can't remember. One look and I was back on the streets of Sunnyvale with her, going to the convenience store for awful junk food. :)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking 'top shelf of your desk' myself. Nick and I have laptops so we can just plug into it, you don't. And I dunno if it's a good idea to store the inks &c in a room that's as cold as the snowy outdoors most of winter!

[inaki.livejournal.com]

Hmm thats true! A shame too. They're both beautiful pieces =>

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Awesome as always!

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

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[abirritate.livejournal.com]

Pretty. :)
(icons? :)

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Hey, I think that coat's awesome. :D

[spotweld.livejournal.com]

Just to gleeful. Reminds me a little of Xxxenophile.

[read-alicia.livejournal.com]

Congrats on surviving the interview mostly unscathed! Yeah, I hate doing Trans 101. I usually just send people over to Gunner's site.
Anyhow, with all the work you're doing, it sounds like we really need to drag you out to a party/event of your choosing in order to celebrate "Peggy Needs A Stress Break Today!"

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Am I just sleepy or are the colors off slightly?

And congratulations on the good press!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they re-jpeged the thing for their own purposes. Onea these days I'll figure out how to avoid color shifts in the future.