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Blue Genie, Prints and X-mas cards. I fixed my store!

Blue Genie, Prints and X-mas cards. I fixed my store!

Yay! after much gnashing of teeth and one wig out I’ve managed to fix most of the problems on my shop… which would have been less annoying if updating the store and wordpress hadn’t also set all of my stock down to 0 turning off the ability to order anything. I don’t know who thought that’d be a great idea but thankfully it was easy to fix. A little pop up telling me to set my stock would have been nice but thankfully I noticed it 3 hours after updating. I need to do an update on my shops site design I’ll probably end up doing that right before I switch to a different shop setup. Wheeee. Oh the convenience of the web always proving that I am slow and lazy.

To everyone who purchased my Christmas cards, all of the orders have been shipped out pretty much the day I’ve received them. I’ve been really good about this because I want you guys to get them in time for Christmas. =D I still have cards to sell so please go buy some if you like them.

I am also going to start putting some of my older designs into the shop as prints. I’ve had them available at cons but haven’t been adding them to the store because of that whole being lazy and slow thing that I mentioned earlier. So here’s two that people have asked for: “Knittens” and “Cute has a flavor”.

The Blue Genie Art Bazaar started today. I was able to get most of my stuff up and looking good on my giant wall. The Blue Genie Art Bazaar is this art show that’s put on in Austin, Texas where artists get an 8 FT x 8 FT wall and can basically decorate it in anyway they’d like. This is my second year putting stuff up in it. Last year was really good so I hope people locally will come out again and look at the art that’s up. They have a bar so you can get drunk shopping. =D

I always feel super stressed getting stuff ready for it and so much better once all of my stuff is on the wall. I slept forever today since everything was all up and done.

I other news I finally finished my taxes… did I mentioned that I’m lazy? Thankfully I’m getting a refund back so the delay doesn’t hurt me, but I’m so happy to have that monkey off my back. I’ll try not to be so much of a hermit.

Circle of Cute T-shirt Preorder

Circle of Cute T-shirt Preorder

Looks like the Circle of Cute won so it will be the shirt printed for San Diego Comic Con. I’m just going to put this pre-order up very slap dash since I have to order the shirts on Tuesday. This is the shirt design:

Price will be 20.00 plus 3.00 to get it shipped in the US(sorry shipping has increased just slightly) and I ship international but I will have to quote you a shipping price, orders can be combined for cheaper shipping. If you’re going to SDCC there will be no shipping and the shirt can be picked up at the con.

Edit: Shirt Blanks have changed.

Men’s shirts will be on District Threads DT104 , Fresh Fatigue colored blank (sizes are S, M, L, XL, 2X, the really large sizes maybe slightly more expensive… Also they have 3X and 4X in some colors. I’m not sure if this color has them please leave a comment for those sizes anyway and I will ask). Women’s shirts will be on District Threads DT200, Fresh Fatigue colored blank (sizes are WS, WM, WL, WXL, W2X the really large sizes maybe slightly more expensive I’ll have to see). Sizing on both is similar to American Apparel but the linked sites have better sizing chart if you’re worried.

If you would like to order a shirt please comment with your name, email, address, and shirt size for each shirt you would like. I will get back to you on how much and where to send payment. Comments will not be displayed.

It would really help me with ordering the shirts if you could try to comment either today or early Tuesday. Sorry this isn’t much warning. Payment is not required right away. I do think I’m ordering enough to cover everyone who will preorder even if you request one later but just in case, I might run out of your size, earlier will be better. =D I will run another batch if I run out of sizes so there’s no worries but that extra batch will most likely be made after the con.

Turn around time on the shirts will be about 2 weeks.

Shirt Woot derby 121 entry, Threadless, greeting cards

Shirt Woot derby 121 entry, Threadless, greeting cards

My “Death Rides a Pink Pony” design is now up for voting on Threadless! Leave a comment or marvel at Death’s sad little face.

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Edit: I changed my entry quite a bit. Please vote again!

I have also entered the Shirt Woot Derby #121 where the theme is “Propaganda for Everyday Lives” in which my leg cast kitty tells people, ‘Don’t say “Good Luck”, that jinxs everything, instead say “Break a Leg.”‘ He should have taken his own advice.

Awww, poor kitty!

Finally, I have received my Knittens holiday greeting cards and they are awesome! The printing is so bright and colorful and the covers are so smooth, they are super nice. As promised pre-orders are over and those packages will go out first but I have now opened regular ordering until November the 20th! Get your orders in soon so the cards can get to you in time for the holidays! Thanks everyone for all the orders so far!

Knitten Holiday cards *Pre-orders Open*

Knitten Holiday cards *Pre-orders Open*

YAY! I just finished the art for my Christmas card based on the adorable Sweater Kitten T-shirt design I did. Although I decided to call them “Knittens” to get away from the horrible pun I was using. =D

This is pretty crazy considering how I normally forget about Christmas cards until a week after Christmas. This year I’m offering the cards for sale so everyone can send the joy that is adorable kittens made out of sweaters. They are going to be professionally printed on a thick glossy paper stock and they will come with white envelopes, they should arrive by the middle of next week. =D

I’m going to be taking pre-orders all this week until Thursday the 12th. Depending on how many orders I get I may then open regular orders on the cards until November the 20th. After that the orders will be closed so I can get everything shipped out in time for Christmas.

Preorder the cute knittens for all your holiday card needs.

Half of the cards will be taken to the Blue Genie Art Bazaar so if you live in Austin Texas you can also buy cards there from Dec the 2nd to the 24th. =]

Also I thought I’d give you guys a head up that the price on the Sun and Moon Cat pathtags are going to be going up to 10.00 each (includes shipping) after the 12th. But I plan to offer them together as a deal for 16.00. Still if you wanted to get them at 8.00 now might be a good time to order them. Store link!

My Cat Pathtags have arrived!

My Cat Pathtags have arrived!

Oh my god, my order of Pathtags came in today just in time for AnimeFest. I hadn’t mentioned ordering them cause I wanted to see what they turned out like before I talked about them. But they turned out so awesome and they actually glow in the dark!

I had a set of them made from these little circular doodles I’d drawn for the Catalyst folio that just didn’t get done in time. So, I have a Sun Cat and a Moon Cat. Pathtags are about the size of a US quarter and are made from metal so they are very sturdy. The images are based off of my cats when they are sleeping and stretching.

Here’s an image of the Sun Cat’s blueprint:

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And here’s how the Pathtag turned out:

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Special on this tag: The cat’s orange colored enamel GLOWS IN THE DARK, limited time only.

BUY SUN CAT!

Here’s an image of the Moon Cat’s blueprint:

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And here’s how the Pathtag turned out:

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Special on this tag: The cat’s light blue colored enamel GLOWS IN THE DARK, limited time only.

BUY MOON CAT!

Now I just need to make a large sign for Animefest for these guy. So much to do!

PUKE CATS, index card prints, and one last convention!!!

PUKE CATS, index card prints, and one last convention!!!

Wheee, I have new art.

I have made an image of the cute puke cats from this image as their own hellish repeating design. =D


Buy this image as a print at my online store!

In Photoshop this tiny image of bright colored kittens can be tiled forever… think about that. I know I have. =P I had fun making multiply sized prints of this by just using the pattern fill option in Photoshop.

After all the cons I’ve been to in the last three months I’m glad that Animefest, next weekend in Dallas, is the last on I have planned for a long time. Me and Shawnna will be in the Artist alley somewhere. We’re going to have to go up there early again and pick hopefully a good table. But it should be fun. There are a bunch of people that I’ll be happy to see in the Dallas area again. Hopefully it will go smoothly like San Japan did and not like how Animefest went 2 years ago. I have much hope. =D

And now some images of the 4×6 post card prints that I had printed recently. The printing came out so nicely. I had four images printed:

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Cat Puking Kittens

Cat Puking Kittens

A-kon was really good this year… which I’m posting as if it’s news because even I didn’t realize that I made close to 3 times what I made last year until I got home and checked the numbers. Woot, estimated tax money and health care! The laminated signs and extra larger weird cat prints really seemed to help draw people into the booth to get clobbered by both me and Shawnna’s adorable buttons and art. My most popular piece of art for people to stare at and point friends to, was this image of the “Cat Puking Kittens” from the new Catalyst folio.


Buy this image as a print at my online store!

Speaking of the Catalyst folio, YAY! Oh my god, it printed soo nicely. I got the book from the printer and ran around the house showing it to both of my cats… they seemed to like sleeping on it. The paper is all smooth and glossy and the printing is very rich and sharp. I’m so happy with them. It’s 16 pages of weird kitties doing odd things in a convenient 5.5″ x 8.5″ inch size. Look I offer photos!

It has a wrap around cover!
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Meow World! A 4-page comic of adorable alien cats flying space ships in the shape of cat heads.
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And here’s a link where you can order this folio: Catalyst! Also there more photos and links to some of the cat images inside the folio. Um, it’s weird!

In other news my iMac’s hard drive exploded… freak death, it just stopped working and now it won’t boot. Thankfully I’m totally covered by Apple Care so, woot, free hard drive. The only bad part is they’re not sure they can save my important data from the dying drive. I have to cross my fingers and hope that I can backup most of the new My Muse comics, some of my prints/art, and hopefully my tax info for last year when I take it back in. Thankfully, I do most of my art work on my laptop. Which reminds me I really need to back up some data on that computer. Sigh. Well, at least I’m not paying for the repair.

My Muse, Comic kids

My Muse, Comic kids

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More My Muse characters, every comic needs some kids right? Okay, okay, I’m kidding, these guys were designed for an upcoming muse comic that I haven’t posted yet. When I create new characters for my comics I tend to draw them a few times to get a feel for how they should look. So, I also did this little marker version of them to post. You can probably tell what these kids are going to be talking about in the comic, right? Well, you might be surprised. =D

The Blank Canvas + DarkStalkers Tribute book

The Blank Canvas + DarkStalkers Tribute book

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The artist’s worst enemy!

This is the background I used for one of my weird cat images but I liked the background so much I thought I’d post this piece as it’s own image. Also I spent most of the time on the background so here is all my effort. =D

In other news the hardcover version of the DarkStalkers Tribute book is now available for order. Which I’m pleased about because my super cute image will be in it along with a bunch of amazing artists… I can’t wait to see it myself. =D They’ll have a soft cover version available later in the year.