Updates and such...

I have spent this weekend making my site xHTML compliant, re-arranging pages to make it more readable, adding more images etc.. Tomorrow I will be working on windharps.net, the client has made a lot of big decisions in the last few weeks on how he wants his marketing to go. We're refocussing on selling the kits online and drawing attn to Steve's new designs. It's gonna be something else. He's also having a month long gallery show at the Croswell this April featuring the debut of his historical collection!



On a non art note, I've been training the husky's using the "Perfect Dog" program you may have seen on one of those late night infomercials. They're extremely difficult and stubborn, but they're really catching on. We're only having a problem when they're around distractions.



Wytheria is getting a complete overhaul very very soon. You can read details about it up and coming in Wytheria's new blog. Wytheria.blogspot.com Jacqui Cameo and I will all be submitting to that.

Anyhow, on the art front, let's talk about contests. Contests are a great way to get your work seen. Even if you don't win these contests you will get exposure. I personally have gotten quite a few commissions this way. So if you're an artist looking for some popularity or paid work, entering contests is a nice way to do this. And of course, if yo u win them, there might be a good prize involved.

Have a good one! :)

P.S. I miss fallout3 and my laptop, they should be home tomorrow by 4:30 according to fedex..

Snow Leapord Trust

Slightly off the art vein I know, but I signed up and so should you!

For ever subscriber to snowleopard.org enews the Kearsley Fund will donate $2 to the Snow Leopard Trust's found raiser!

They are close to raising their goal of 6000 dollars, just a couple hundred people short! They're receiving a lot of support from DevArt and Facebook, let's keep it going!

sign up

p.s. This picture is why I don't draw animals....

What's been taking you so long!?!?!

Alright I sadly do not have a lot of progress to report on my WIP of Shylock, I've tried a few different tattoo designs but have hated all of them. Anyone know some awesome places for design ideas, plz let me know! Tattoo art is not my forté. He has power over pestilence so that should somehow be incorporated. I have decided on a small shadow badge over his left pec and three claw marks symbolizing his loyalty to Tsunami, on his shoulder. I'll keep working on it.





Here's a random battle enemy for Wytheria. I realise the perspective is a little off, but I still am amused.


I've also been working on one of those 25 expression sheets. Ideally I'd like to do one for all of my characters, but this is taking some time! And this guy isn't even my character!?!?! This is Alisa's Bob Russel, a well intentioned if occasionally "out of his league" politician.





What's been taking up the bulk of my time (and why I haven't gotten anywhere on these projects) is Windharps.net It may not look as amazing as it could, but I've added a blog there, that uses rss to syndicate to the site, as well as to facebook! I've been updating the blog. I tried to make a wiki page but that failed as it got deleted because I accidentally submitted it before it was done, rather than previewing. Maybe later I'll have the energy to do it again, but I spent forever and lost it all. I'm pretty irked with Wiki. We're featuring a new upcoming exhibition of some really awesome harps. I have seen them in person and they look wonderful! It's of course a secret until they're revealed at the Croswell Opera House in Adrian Michigan for Steve Cameron's solo exhibition!!! (All of the month of March) So go there, but make sure you buy your harps through the website ;)

This is it for this blog, I promise these will be better thought out and written in later posts! I'm kind of overwhelmed with all of this windharps stuff and learning about how amazing RSS is! Now if only Myspace would let you import blogs... stupid Myspace... -.-

:) As always, I love critques on my art! post your thoughts!

Broken Potters Wheel - The WEBSITE!
My Dev Art
My Facebook Page
My Myspace Page

So it begins...

Well this is my first blog..

I made this blog for two reasons. First I have a client who would like a blog on his site, so I need to get familiarized with it before I start messing with his site. And secondly, it's a good way to keep updating content on my own site, and publish sketches and concepts I don't neccesarily want uploaded to my gallery. This also allows me an opportunity to get feedback on my projects!

The above is my entry for a "Magical Forest" contest on Deviantart.
( http://desiree-joy.deviantart.com/art/Suicide-Wood-114602433# )
I was actually quite proud of the story and concept, though it was rather impromptu since I forgot about the contest until the DAY IT WAS ENDED. However, it needed, and still needs some serious editing.

I did not win, but my sibling Cameo ( http://cameoanderson.deviantart.com/ ) came in third with her Tsunami entry! I think mine turned out to be far too depressing and "mature" for the contest. The winner featured Stitch I'm pretty sure. (Since the entries were in Russian I really couldn't tell :P)



So here is my current WIP. Shylock, the guardian of Pestilence in the buff. No he doesn't normally wander around like this, but I decided I wanted to color him in all his layers. So I did one with no clothes, then I'll add one with bandages, and the one with the outfit!

Secretly I just suck at clothes so i don't wanna color them. *likes nekkid* Deal with it.

Anyways, that's the end of my first blog, I'd love input on the pieces up, I'll talk more about them later when I'm not being hounded to get offline and go to Taco Bell :P