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1 HOUR DRAWINGS!!!

drawing practice

today i was just copying shit out of books for fun. my new year's resolution is to stop being lazy and get a new gimmick because i need money. the end.

retail

When Paxton Gate opens its Portland store in December, you will be able to purchase my wood block drawings from them! This is exciting news for me, I love this store.

prints are imminent

at some point i'm going to figure out how i want to do prints. and then i'm going to start selling prints, instead of originals. just a thought.

it's time for something new.

Dude basically in the last few months that I've been avoiding this blog, I've been doing watercolors in my sketchbook and listening to lots of metal and art crushing hard on John Dyer Baizley, so all I'm doing is drawing ladies and poppies and bugs and dead shit.

I miss selling art online, and I miss doing custom pieces, so I have to come up with a new gimmick so it won't feel all tired and lame. Something with watercolors maybe, because they are fun?

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Well doggs, I'm gonna call it. 10 dollar drawings as it exists is no longer. I finally (FINALLY!) schlepped my ass to the post office today to mail the final drawings, so if you're waiting, thanks for your patience. I'm just sort of over it for now.

So, now I get to come up with a new gimmick for selling art online. One likely route might be making prints of some of my more popular drawings from this blog, like the bugs/owls/wreaths/etc., but I don't know. I am working on some watercolor stuff for an upcoming show. I will probably just start some all-purpose art blog. Thanks for playing, dudes!

And for the record, the stupidest-sounding request to date has been "my husband and me riding our cat like the dragon in the never-ending story." sorry, lady. i couldn't bring myself to draw that. i laughed too hard.

THANKS EVERYONE!

reconfiguring

If you're following, you're probably noticing that my updates are becoming more sparse. I've been dragging ass completing existing orders, shipping orders, and I've been outright ignoring requests for the last couple of weeks. I love doing these drawings, and I think my skills have improved quite a bit in the year and a half or so that I've been doing this, but what it boils down to is that it's not really worth the time it's taking up anymore. 10 dollars, minus a paypal fee, minus a 44 cent stamp, it's really a 9 dollar drawing. Most of you ask for really complicated, convoluted stuff that I'm happy to try for the sake of the exercise but it ends up taking a lot of time. I'm getting paid less than minimum wage to do something that I spent like 60k to get an education in, basically.

So- I don't know. I'm open to ideas at this point, and I'm going to complete the orders that I have in the queue, but I might be 86ing this blog pretty soon here. I work 4 days a week at a bakery on top of being a mom and a wife and a friend. If I'm going to be drawing as much as I have been, I need to be getting paid more than like 4 bucks an hour to do it. SO ~dramatic~~!!