I'm going to San Antonio for Thanksgiving! >3< YAAAAAAAAAAY! Having Thanksgiving with and her family. For two and a half weeks, I will not paint with watercolor or work on TG! O_o ...... I will work strictly in pencil! WHAT WILL THAT BE LIKE!?!?!?!?! I DON'T KNOW. IT'S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. I'll come around long enough to post pencil drawings for TG and maybe reply to comments if I can be persuaded to do something so strenuous as typing.  

By now you have probably read about *Neolucky's possible liver transplant! Please consider being generous to her cause. ^^ If you've ever thrown your money at somebody's kickstarter for a book, think about it this way ... you're throwin' your money at somebody's mortal life. That's pretty powerful. That's hopefully a whole library full of Neolucky books. 8D

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

EDIT: Downloaded sai. Made giant doodlyscribble. ooooo ..... I think I like this program. The color blending is what I read other artists loving about it. And it doesn't freeze and gripe and bitch at me like Painter. NOW FOR A REAL DRAWING!

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I want to download it. I see a couple sites offering downloads. I'm not sure which one to pick.

+___+ I'M 24 AND I'VE NEVER USED PAINT TOOL SAIWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? Time to fix this deficiency.

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

Getting from Seattle to Calgary. 8D

All I've come up with for trains are Amtrak and Via Rail ~ which seems to involve taking a train to Edmonton and a bus to Calgary. O_o This seems odd to me. Is there something I'm not understanding? Are there additional train services?

Rant:
I've wanted to go to Calgary Expo for three years! X3 and I have a table! yaaaaay! So everything should be fine, yes? NO. My parents are having a shitflip over it. This is the thing about living with parents. :/ Nothing is your own business. Family vacations are community misery. I LOVE MY DARLING PARENTS, BUT. First they don't want me to drive myself (I've driven all over America, I'm an accomplished driver, but the instant you cross the Canadian border, the roads become immediately made of ice. Even at the end of April. <~ parentthink.) Then they want to drive me, and now the whole thing has evolved to wanting to take a family vacation through Canada, taking a rail train. Oh joyous day, we may spend weeks together, getting from one place to another. IT WILL BE ENDLESS FUN. (Endless, yes. Fun, no.)

I'm completely fine with my family coming with me. I'm completely fine with trains. But the only options I'm seeing are trains that will take a minimum of 3 days of travel to use for what should be a one day car trip.

If it comes to it, I will buy a plane ticket out of desperation. A 700$ plane ticket.

But I'm really hoping there are train options I don't know about. 8(

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

Updated TWC with the lineart of a painting I've been working on. oAo I don't think I've ever done a circular shaped painting before!

Note ~ if there are enough votes, there will be more postcards given away next week. ^^ So far there's been a super lot of people guessing! Nearly 100, so that's really amazing. <3 Only one person has guessed right on (the number was -798), so there are still 4 numbers out there, yet unguessed, some without any guesses within 50 of them either direction.

You don't have to read TG to participate, either. All that's required is vote to read directions, guess number, maybe win. 8D



TG finally made it to 100 pages. ;__;

I still remember writing the very first ever journal for preorders of chapter 1, being uncertain if a printed book could even exist for my lack of funding. (I don't think anyone knew what a big deal preorders were at the time. XD In 2010, there were several months where I spent everything I could scrape together on books and cons, to the point where I nearly had a pile of overdue credit card debt over it ... and then miraculously whatever con I went to that month saved my ass from hundreds of dollars of overdue fees.) That was barely making it work. 8(

And I still remember making a journal or poll or something about debating between going back to ASPS (my first webcomic) or starting something new. I remember the votes being overwhelmingly for ASPS, and then I decided to go off and start an entirely new thing anyway. ASPS was filled with too many sad memories.

None of these 100 pages have been easy. In fact most of them even qualify as a Bad Romance. D8< TAKE TAKE TAKE AND NO GIVE. But when TG is done, I know that I'll miss it. It is the embodiment of more artistic and personal growth in one little chunk of time than there's ever been in any previous part of my life. ><

I don't miss TG yet, though. I got another 150 pages to go.

Thank you for sticking with me and with TG.

In a few months, I'll draw you some disturbing valentines that remind you again of how much I love you.

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

There's a right and a wrong way to give them.

Good way:
Point out what is and isn't working in a piece.
Describe how you would personally fix the problem.
Understand that this is your personal opinion that another is not obligated to agree with or be grateful for.
Hopefully save in depth critiques for when a person asks for them. If you feel really compelled to help anyway, perhaps give a brief summary of what might be improved and ask them if they'd like you to elaborate or if they'd rather not know so they can just be satisfied with it.

Bad way:
Point out how much of the piece is terrible.
Do not elaborate on how it might be solved, simply state that you hate it.
Conclude that you are right in all things.
Do not bother to consider how much care and effort has gone in to something, only elaborate thoroughly as to why you will never view this artist's work again if they don't do everything you say immediately.
When they respond badly to your "critique", call them names.
Go get your friends to also call them names.

:/

There is this attitude that a creator is ungrateful, stupid, and incapable of taking critique if they don't accept all opinions of their work as valid.

THIS IS WRONG.

Critique should always be given politely and graciously! Only then does it merit a polite and gracious response!

I write this journal for anyone who suffers on a weekly basis the way I have. D:< We don't have to take it up the ass just because we're artists and we're expected to take every hateful comment like a ray of sunshine! Who thought up this damn idea?! Why do people get to come tell me why they hate my comic and why they'll never read it again and I'm expected to thank them for their brilliant opinion?

I AIN'T DOIN' IT AND OTHER ARTISTS SHOULDN'T HAVE TO EITHER!

You like my work and want to help it improve?! GOOD! Please tell me what you like, what you don't like, and how you'd make it better. Even when I don't ask for critiques, these are the sorts of comments I can still respect. (If I still send you a slightly barbed comment, please forgive me, I am only human, but I am trying.)

For everything else, STFU.

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

Where Anya and Skittlez come back. [link]

Yup, decided in October to try a little harder with TWC. So this month there will be a few midweek messages with extra voting things. ^^

To answer previous questions ~ yes, TWC can actually matter, just a little. Not because it's a happy number that makes people feel good when they're at the top and less good when they're at the bottom. Only because when a thing is in the top 100, it tends to get more random visitors that might never have seen the comic before. SO, FREE ADVERTISING. I want it. 8D

Thank you very much for supporting this project, and faving the pics that go up on this account, and leaving kind comments that often make the difference between me wanting to draw the next page or just wanting to crawl under a rock. ><

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

O_______O; I never called 911 until today.

Everything was completely normal. I was watching a local news channel in the evening (maybe I'm old fashioned. T_T) They cover a variety of things on the channel. Mostly events and businesses. When there's a serious crime, they report it. Tonight they showed a photo of a man wanted for a crime against children. He was 5'7", white, curly reddish brown hair, and not in the photo but described, he had a cross tattooed on his left shoulder.

I met my parents for dinner tonight.

We were driving, and my father pointed at this car by the road and made the comment that that guy had been sitting there about 40 minutes (the time between my parents coming and leaving.) I don't usually pay attention to people on roadsides unless they're waving their arms frantically. I looked up to see the person and the car .................

You totally know where I'm going with this by now.

What you don't know about me is that my memory is semi photographic and I am strictly a visual learner. I've spent all of my public school years perfecting the art of seeing something and recounting it perfectly (spelling tests especially.) For a long time I struggled with not trusting my freakishly accurate memory for seen things until in highschool I made a determined effort to experiment with seeing and trusting. The result was that about 4 out of 5 times, my visual memory is accurate.

The man in the car looked like the man from the photo. >< Except that between the photo and today, he must have cut his hair.

His left shoulder was towards the road, the car door was open, he wore a muscle tank top, and I saw there on his arm a 5 or 6 inch tattoo of an ornate cross.

For a minute we kept driving, I was silent, probably making a weird face, inwardly trying to convince myself not to flip shit over a man with a cross tattoo sitting by a roadside checking his phone in a nondescript black car. I told my parents to turn around so I could have another look, so we did. We were going the wrong direction, though, and the door of the car was blocking the man from view.

We rounded another corner, and turned around again (this time with pencil and paper for taking down the car's plate number.) When we went back the other direction for a third time, the man had driven off (after sitting there for 40 minutes, and probably he must have taken off fast, because were only out of view for less than a minute.)

I was in my parents' car. They drive a white Lincoln, which I guess could be construed as an undercover cop car ... but for reals. What are the chances of a dude just sitting there for so long and taking off right at that moment for reasons other than that someone had noticed him? It's POSSIBLE he just decided to leave at that moment randomly .... but FOR REALS.........

Unfortunately I live in a tiny mountain pass with no cel reception. I had to get to the restaurant and dial 911 from a land line.

But even then I shamefully didn't do anything immediately. T_T It was ME who saw the dude, it was ME who saw the photo on TV, neither of my parents could comment on thinking it was him or not. It took five minutes of indecisiveness over suddenly having to DECIDE something so drastic as accusing a stranger of child rape, and even then, I only decided to make the call because even just the slightest chance that he could have had a child in his trunk was making me too sick to eat. ><

I mean, WHAT KIND OF RETARD DOESN'T COVER HIS DEFINING FEATURE (a cross tattoo) AND THEN DRIVES OFF INTO A MOUNTAIN PASS WITH ONLY TWO EXITS? WHAT KIND OF RETARD?

So I was understandably dubious.

But what sort of stellar genius rapes children? Probably the same sort of retard who drives into an easily cut off mountain pass without a cover.

I called.

After establishing my lack of emergency and that I thought I'd possibly seen a criminal, the next question was if he had a child in the car with him. O_O;

THAT KIND OF FREAKED ME OUT.

IS IT SUSPECTED HE HAS A CHILD IN THE CAR WITH HIM?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

But anyway, I told them what I could. 9__9 which was only to describe the man, the car, and the times we saw him. It was probably remarkably unhelpful, and probably not even the dude the warrant was out for.

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT it freaked me out enough to write a journal.

I'm writing this journal now to suppress my rage at myself. I should have been more intelligent and taken a mind photo of his plates. Staring dumbfounded at his face and arm was completely not helping anyone.

///////////// EDIT: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! The thing that's been nagging me since the event is figuring out why a criminal would just sit along a roadside like that in plain view when he's got a working car. 8( I just realized why. The valley is so narrow, there are only a few parts that get cel reception. That one area he was sitting is where everyone goes to get reception. The closest alternate reception area is another 20 or 30 miles away in a more densely populated region.

He could still be a completely random dude! oAo ... A complete random dude who fits the photo and description of a missing child rapist.

Uuuuuuuh I don't want to understand!

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

Amanda made a super cool Dragon illustration for Dragon Con. 8D

Dragon Con is the last big show of the year for me. X3 I feel bad for all the show attendance journal spam. I'll have to find new interesting things to write about once the shows are done!



I've kind of dreamed of Dragon Con since I was 13. *__* It and Sakura Con were the first shows that I ever knew existed.

I'm pretty afraid, actually. When I exhibited at SDCC last year, it was a LEARNING EXPERIENCE of the money sucking sort. I learned that selling books when giant hollywood companies are giving away trade paperbacks for free is kind of hard.

loool....

So ever since then, I've been paranoid of any giant con that isn't an anime show. ><

BUT HEY. I'll give it a try once. It's a dream.

And maybe if the artist area isn't busy, I'll go in search of networking opportunities and freelance. Wish me luck. T_T

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At the end of September is Jet City Comic Show! It's a pretty sweet little show that's in its second year. Last year was really great for a first year show! So I thought I'd go exhibit again. 8D Rainy Seattle, you are my favorite city ~~~ <3 Last year, friends and I discovered the best Pho noodle joint ever. I'm gonna surround and dominate that bowl of Pho just like old times.

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

8DDDD At Spocon! I'm actually doing two short workshops. Friday 8:30pm - 9:30, a watercolor overview. I'll paint a small image and discuss how to use watercolor and take questions. Saturday 2:30pm - 3:30, how to make webcomics. I'll have a small hand out for this webcomic lecture, it will instruct on website design and preparing for print. More questions will be asked and answered.

See my event schedule here.
_{I know, it says author reading, but how am I supposed to read a comic outloud with no visual aids? T____T}

I'm most excited for the watercolor demonstration because it's the first demonstration I'll have ever given! It's kind of a full circle for me in that I first began painting with watercolor here in central WA state, and now I will teach it for the first time a short car ride from where I first learned it.

Even in all these things, I feel so insufficient. T_T But at least I have failed so thoroughly in all things artistic that I have the benefit of superior knowledge gained through pain. XD



I've just come home from Otakon and San Japan and they were absolutely wonderful and I am humbled by so many people who supported TG and my illustrations. This year has been sort of shocking, like an icy bath. I don't know how to talk about it. I don't know how it makes me feel. I am so thankful to everyone who has left such kind comments about TG. I've floundered so much with how I feel about the project. I've loved it sometimes, but other times it has been a noose. x__x I love how drawing piles of pages has begun to sharpen my baby skills. I love the characters themselves and I love chapter 3 and finally getting to go through all the character development necessary for the huge heart rending mess that is chapter 3's climax. XD

Anyway .... THIS WINTER.............. I've decided to do something special. X3 A FANART CONTEST! Prizes will include books, prints, and at least one request painting. In a few weeks, TG will reach 100 pages! And this month of August marks the second year of TG having its own website (which I guess I consider to be TG's birthday month. April is when I started drawing pages, so April is conception month?) So more details later on a fanart contest. I've just wanted to do one for so long, I am bursting. Fanart is the best part of drawing any sort of anything original.)

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

They're pretty cool!

did this cover art for One Eyed Doll's latest album. I'm listening to the sample song currently and wow, I actually approve and find it decent.

The other thing that's pretty cool is that the band created a facebook fanpage for *RadiusZero

Reportedly, if 500 of us like this page, there is going to be a gift art! Possibly involving more space boobs! LET'S GET THIS DONE.

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

I'm really super glad this tutorial has been so helpful to so many!

If there is a way in which I can be more helpful, I'd like now to try to be!

It's been on my mind that I should write a journal or some further tutorial accepting and answering any sort of watercolor or other art (or even non art) related questions you might have about any topic I can possibly pretend to be knowledgeable on!

Now seems like a good time. ^^

I'm not really sure how to prompt questions ~ so just ask... if you have any. ><

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

I don't ever really try and sell original art. I feel like I want too much for it, and most people are completely happy with having a print anyway. But OTAKON 2011. These pokemon paintings will be on display in the art show. They're also for sale, but for the right price. o__o/ I guess I write a journal about it because they're just so cool. XD So much thought and effort went in to their creation and now also their presentation. <3 The mats are beautiful, the paintings are the best fanart I've ever done. ^^ I'm really excited just to be able to show ART. A lot of times, art comes down to money for me (gotta eat to live, gotta live to create), and so I shamelessly count myself as a commercial artist, but no expense has been spared in the creation and presentation of these 5 paintings! Here is one time where it isn't about the money, it is about the passion. I love painting, I love animals, I love nature, I've loved pokemon since I was 13 or something like that, and I LOVE combining these things and creating true one of a kind items.



The photos of charmander and bulbasaur came out blurry. ;_; They're already in plastic bags, so I cant really photograph them now. OH WELL.

These paintings are for sale and auction in the Otakon art show!
Ninetails Canvas Print ----------------- 120$
Pikachu ----------------------------------- 350$
Charmander ----------------------------- 60$
Bulbasaur -------------------------------- 45$
Squirtle ----------------------------------- 45$

I have decided that if Pikachu goes 500$ or more at auction, I will finally let go of the money it would take to buy a nice computer monitor for my digital art. >< My monitor is 8 years old and is a key deciding factor in my decision to make more traditional art than digital art. >_>;



#AmyaChronicles and I will be running a very special deal! TG ch1, Amya ch1, + two prints (one from each of us) =20$!
_{You can't afford a ninetails canvas print? XD That's fine! All 11x17 cardstock prints are available through this super cheap deal. c:}

Sorry this journal is so huge. XD It's just that Otakon will be sort of special for me this year, with so much original art there. >3< I'll have also TG prints in the art show, and some TG originals in my binder at my table. c: Triple efforts in on this show! >< Please wish good luck to my original paintings. ~ 8D

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

I know there are piles of websites out there, but I've lost my bookmarks. T_T

What websites do you go to?

_{Though I'm totally hopeless with anatomy, so I don't know why I'm overly concerned...}

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S NINJA LLAMA!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!



YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Everyone else is totally over llama badges. XD I never have really cared. But but. ... Ninja llama. >_> I want Ninja llama! And my llama is under 100 away from it. Please help my llama level up! ><

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

AND SO MANY PILES OF OTHER AMAZING PEOPLE ARE THERE TOO!

AX is gonna be so awesome. X3 I've never, ever, ever been before, and there are so many great artists, so much stuff I really wanna buy and I'm not even there yet. T_T



Maybe see you there?!

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

Gonna dye my hair. c: Do you dye? What brand do you find is best?

I've only ever dyed my hair blueblack. oAo And that sort of color is a color of doom! It permanently dyes everything it touches, seemingly all brands are the same level of effectiveness.

This time I'm dyeing my hair red. 8D I don't want it to be an unnatural red. My hair is already medium brown/red. I just want it to be a lighter shade of red, but dyeing hair lighter is much more difficult than dyeing it darker. >_>

So, recommendations!

_{This dye job is totally in preparation for going to the beach in CA and then going to AX. I'm so excited! When I lived in CA, I never had money for a nice cut or dye. ;_; I just looked boring all the time...}

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

Gonna be there. In the webcomic section, which in years past has been on the ground level floor, the island farthest back from the door. Look for a webcomic banner. c:

Hard to tell on the map where in that island I'll be though. ><

But I see my little table surrounded by a pile of other awesome webcomics. X3 .......... _{*prepares to agonize over wishing to be better*}

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

I think my scanner has finally died. o___o;

It has been my wonderful scanner since 2002! ;_; I will miss it so much! Even though I almost definitely cursed at it on occasion. XD My computer things were like some people and their cars in highschool. I worked annoying jobs and begged parents for money to buy my computer equipment.

But now, the scanner is scanning with weird color bands in its scans, and today, it will not scan at all. ;_; I've checked that the power and usb cords are plugged in correctly, I've uninstalled and reinstalled the software - actually the software won't recognize that there is a scanner at all when I try to reinstall. >< Anything else I should check?

The computer is only a few years younger than the scanner, so I worry it is computer error, but more likely the scanner is the problem.

So, scanner suggestions? What do you use that you like?

Stuff I'm looking for in a scanner:
scans up to 1200 dpi
9 x 12 inch is fine, since bigger scanners are so expensive
This current scanner I have is really convenient in that it has these slightly raised edges around the glass scanning bed, so when I'm scanning a giant painting, I can line up a strait edge of the paper with the slight raised scanner edge.
But I guess a completely flat scanner could be modified to make me happy.

If you're curious, my current scanner that I'm fond of is by Hewlett Packard. 9 years of solid scanning satisfaction. XD

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.

Maybe if the United States Postal Service would stop being asinine to its customers, it would be in a better financial situation.

I know some of your parents or even you yourself work for this business, but I'm sorry, your employer as made me miserable repeatedly.

In the process of mailing books, dealing with the post office as been the worst part of the entire process. I will not recount all the previous assy things multiple post offices have done in the past year.

Today was the candle on the cake though.

I put together a big box of comic books to mail to *RadiusZero for A-kon. I packed it all nicely, weighed, measured, looked up shipping rates, everything was prepared. I planned to send it media mail, because it is a BOX OF BOOKS.

Definition of "Media Mail":
Media mail is used for certain types of books, films, manuscripts, printed music, printed test materials, sound recordings, play scripts, printed educational charts, loose-leaf pages and their binders consisting of medical information, video recordings, educational reference charts, and computer-readable media.

I sent the nicely prepared box with my parents, because I live so far away from the nearest post office.

Now understand. In the many cities I've lived in, in the many things I've mailed, I've sent comics via media mail MANY times. Sometimes by themselves, sometimes in collections of other books, sometimes with fiction paperbacks, sometimes with textbooks.

BUT TODAY, NOOOO. NOOOOOOOOOOO WE CANNOT MAIL COMICS IN MEDIA MAIL.

Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL.

Are paperback fictions educational? Are sheets of music educational? Are books about God educational? Are books about evolution educational?

YES. YES. YES. AND YES.

It is all educational, whether or not its fiction or nonfiction, whether or not the music is good or bad, whether or not it's a religion that may someday be outdated, whether or not it's science than changes every other hour!

What makes my comic different from a sheet of music? Or a novel? Or religious myth? Or constantly outdated science?

I'm not saying my comic is GOOD, but why are those things better than a comic? Since when does the post office define what is worth reading and what is not?

You go to hell, post office.

I'm not proud about what I said to that woman on the phone when I called her with my complaint, but damn it felt hella good. And to be fair, the next person that tells me comics aren't educational will also be called an idiot and hung up on. (No, I did not curse at her. Basic English is sufficient.) I'm no saint. I'm some sort of crazy bitch. Whatever. I give back what I get. Jesus forgives so I don't have to.

I wish there was ANYTHING I could do to change such a stupid mind set, but trying to explain why a comic can be worth reading wouldn't help anything. At the end of the day, they'll just claim shipping comics as media mail is against their (rather ambiguous) definition of media. Anything to make me pay a higher price to ship less. <~ which is actually the point. More money.

At the end of the day, comics would have shipped just fine if all my mother had said was "books" instead of "comic books."

But my point is why should it even matter? A BOOK IS A BOOK. What about childrens' books or art books or illustrated novels? Educational?!?

a;ljdf;lajdfaf Sorry for this rage journal. I'll have to find something happy to write about in the near future. This is just the combination of both my frustrations with the post office and my frustrations with telling people I draw comics and getting weird reactions. I don't want a different passion. I WANT TO KICK PEOPLE.

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WHAT IS TOILET GENIE?
TG is a weekly webcomic that I draw, write, and publish. c: It is dark fantasy, currently rated 13+. The story follows a pug which discovers a genie living in a toilet. Through a series of odd events, the pug is turned into a woman. Before she can forfill her destiny (whatever that may be...) she must learn the story of how the genie came to live in the toilet.

WHEN DOES TG UPDATE?!
TG updates ~ Thursdays. But if the page is done early, it updates early. If the page would benefit from more time, it updates late.

COMMISSIONS/TRADES/FREE ART
I'm always interested in commissions, but I may turn them down if I'm cramped for time. Trades are a possibility, but unlikely. If you have to *ask* me for free art, chances are I will not give it to you.