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http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=62391

Four Seasons!

OMG, Taxes are done! My dragon homework is done! Kickstarter is moving along fine (update soon, hopefully tomorrow with awesome news, please continue to spread the word)! And finally, finally I was able to finish my shirt design for Shirt.woot's "Open Spaces" contest.

It's the four seasons in an art nouveau style.

I really think of myself as super lazy but I do a surprising amount of work. Anyway please give me a vote if you like it and have an account on woot that can vote (you have to have bought something to vote.)

Ha ha ha, I know I have 3 designs already in the running but I had a crash in Illustrator that lost me hours of work. So I blew off some steam making this one last entry. For Shirt Woot's Derby: Visual Puns.

Sweater Kittens!

I figure if people were okay with seamen on their chests then they'd have no problem showing off their sweater kittens. =]



Vote at Shirt Woot!

I'm totally making more of these little kittens. OMG, cuddles them.

-Diana

Reminder! My Threadless design is still up for voting!



So, the Halloween derby has started and after a frustrating two hours trying to upload my designs to Shirt Woot I now have 2 designs currently up in the running. I adjusted one of my images of Doubt and his shadow so that the coloring went from a cool blue to a nice blood red.



You can vote for this design on Shirt Woot here: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=36197

And I did some adorable pumpkins carving themselves new faces to go out laying on porches in wait. I was particularly happy with the ice cream scoop.



You can vote for this design on Shirt Woot here: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=36198

I have a few other ideas that I feel motivated to do. Which I might do here in the next few days. This derby seems considerably tougher this time around. I lot of people saved up cool Halloween art. I almost always lack the drive to finish art for holidays and Halloween is a favorite of mine so hopefully I can do a couple more pieces.

Which reminds me I need to get a Halloween costume together.

I made a cute bee image for Shirt Woot's T-shirt Derby #113: Harvest. They're harvesting flowers for their giant fat queen bee.



You can vote for it on Shirt Woot if you've bought a shirt from them. Still, I thought it'd be nice to show you guys the final version. =D

-Diana

They are sharing a taco.



-Diana

Yay, San Japan is over and I'm all recovered and rested. Both me and Shawnna sold pretty well so the con was a success for us. Which is good cause this is our first year braving a San Antonio convention and we had no idea what to expect.

We made the effort to get there and pick our table on Thursday, which was a new thing for us. I don't know if table check in needs to be quite so early, it started at 2PM but we got there in more then enough time to get an okay spot. Over all the attendees were really nice and well behaved and the con seemed very well planned out. The panels had microphones and the people running them were really good about time. I'm not sure I'm suited for public speaking or if I just need more work on it but I think the panel I did on furry art and writing went fairly well.

I loved the codes of conduct being posted up right next to the bathrooms. =>

Mostly I wished they'd turned up the air conditioning more because on Friday we were sweating our asses off. The small side rooms they had for the artist alley seemed to get hot very easily.

LOL, every time Shawnna would say "Today's going to be slow" business would totally pick up and prove her wrong. Our table neighbors were really great and friendly and everything went way more smoothly then some of the anime cons I've been to in the last few years. It helped that Shawnna's boyfriend Sterling was able to come and help us once he got off work on Friday. We were really struggling without him on Friday. We had some great roommates for our hotel room, Spizzy and her boyfriend stayed with us and we spent most of the con laughing about very weird sleep deprived stuff and making fun of our hotel room.

I'm very happy that Shawnna had a Tomtom cause even though I've driven around San Antonio a few times, the downtown area confuses the hell out of me. Got turned around more then once. The Tomtom is a life saver except for the times it would flip out and not know where we we're... LOL. Sadly overpasses and flyover confuse the hell out of it.

Also, I can't believe I have another con in less then a month. I have to plan these better, next up for me is Animefest in Dallas over labor day weekend. Me and Shawnna will have a table in the artist alley or what they call the Bizarre Bazaar that we will be set up in. Hopefully we'll be downstairs near the food and the dealers room but since tables are first come first serve I won't know until the actual con.

I have been working like crazy to get more things ready to sell and I have a lot of stuff I haven't posted about, which I'll be doing in a few days as I clear out all of my backlog and clean up around here. Rachael mentioned that when I posted about the T-shirt design on Teextile there was no vote button so here is the link again. Please vote if you want it.