real gone girl

i have just finished my first holiday portrait commission!nu, so get your own! what are you waiting for? are you in some kind of cult that forbids graven images??

finding myself underemployed for the holidays, i'm jumping on the bandwagon of special deals on commissions for the month of december!over the years, i've enjoyed doing portraits from photos for family & friends, & now is your chance to get one of your very own! my standard paper size is 11"x14", & at that size, i'm selling inkwashes or graphite drawings for $75 (usually $100) , & watercolours for $150 (usually $200).

i'm having a lot of fun this con season, but at the same time it's getting me down, because jobnik! 8 is still going so, so, slowly.so in the interests of keeping me motivated, & you all not forgetting i'm here, have

hey guess what! no, it's not my graphic memoir class going forward. my publicity push seems to have been too little, too late, & not enough students signed up for the school to offer it. hopefully i'll get another chance in the summer.but! i actually finished a page of jobnik! yes! a new one! granted, it looks to be the second-easiest page this issue, & this issue keeps adding pages... but i soooo needed this.

firstly: new essay, (barely) finished for spx! & here's the link to buy/preview it.

maybe this will make jobnik 7 more real & motivate me to freaking finish it already:it's from fairly late in the issue, as you see, but not spoilery.

between one thing & another, i never moved forward on the new t-shirt design idea i posted here two months ago. but last night while i was trying to get to sleep, i had a sudden idea of how to make it jewy-but-aesthetic-but-it's-ok-if-you-don't-get-it, like my most successful shirts.under here is

jeez. off to spx in a few hours, i can't believe it. today has been so crazy, especially since, having totally wonked out my sleeping to try to finish the essay, my short-term memory is shot, & this whole week was pretty much one day for me.but i finished it! & my sainted printer got me a hundred beautiful copies of it in literally five hours.

i got back on the fifteenth, (my cnv signing was wonderful, photos can be seen here & here) sick in the head, & have been struggling with some success to get back into art-making brain.

wull, i spent all night doing this, & then i've gotta head out tomorrow at eight to meet a columnist from ma'ariv (one of israel's two largest dailies) (& not that i'm complaining about that appointment, god forbid!), so i might as well post this & get some feeling of accomplishment out of it (i have no idea where or how copy shops work in israel, how i'll transport the file, even how many copies i want of this)... i mean! i must stop blithering & show you the poster i made for my instore event in tel aviv!