Bugs and Stuff

I'm going to be table-ing at the Wicked Comic Con this weekend in Boston! Also I printed a bunch of art, comics, zines, and stickers! Also I finally completed a book project I've been working on for WAY. TOO. LONG. Its a diary of weird creatures as told by a traveling scrivener and her trickster hanger on. While I won't post new art here until I hear that tumblr has pulled their partnership with Midjourney and are no longer scraping human effort for AI training I figure I'd at least share this news.

https://cara.app/indigobugs Well I WAS going to post a neat little illustration and share that I was in the process of FINALLY putting together a physical print bestiary, but then Tumblr went and signed a deal with the latest group of techbro scammers. So yeah, until I hear that they've cut ties with Midjourney and that stuff on this site won't automatically be scraped under any circumstances, I'll be posting new art to Cara.app. I would like to take this moment to thank everyone who's been following me over the years. I haven't been posting as much due to work recently, but I hope my little pictures have been entertaining to look at and I hope you'll still get something out of my work in the future somehow. I might come back here to post an update or two about if I'll be selling at a show or if the Game my company's working on finally announces, but I won't be posting any art here for now.

Happy Ween Ya'll. You get extra fuddy duddy clout if you get this reference. In other news, I don't like how this blog is slowly devolving into 'just the place where I post pictures of Gengar playing the Saxophone every Halloween...'

Bee -n really busy. I spend most of my art time nowadays working at the day job and when I'm off the clock I've kinda preferred to make wall hangings or paint miniatures. I also finally got married last weekend after a 1+ year engagement, so thats a lot off both me and my wife's minds.

Been really busy with work and a variety of personal life stuff. Hopefully I’ll be able to claw back some more time for personal art... someday...

A lil Christmas gift to myself.

Despite everything happening in the world, I hope you all have some Happy Holidays.

Someday I’ll get out of the Forever DM Dungeon and get to torment some other poor sap with my Illithid Barbarian character.

Happy Halloween kids.

Farewell gift for a friend moving back home to VA.

I’ve got things in the pipeline... I’m thinking after my contract is over that I’m gonna take a month or so to just finally figure some things out and set up some kind of regular rhythm for posting to social media. Finally getting to work in Concept Art for games has really helped me figure out some approaches I want to take in my personal/ professional art that I just couldn’t sort out back when I was in advertising. Its been just such a crazy couple of months after leaving my last job. Lots of things to re evaluate.

Buncha Beholders

Old bug doodle thing

I’ve been hard at work. Just can’t show anything. ...So here is a really stupid inside joke related to the idea that T-rex had tiny arms because they sexually selected for legs because they were all ‘leg men’

Dear heavens I’ve been busy lately. I’m currently working a long contract with a really wonderful client (Lotta game scenario and landscape work, its legit the best gig I’ve ever had), but that’s been really sucking my art energy dry each day. That and I’m planning a wedding. And going to weddings. So many weddings. Everyone suddenly realized how short life is and decided to get hitched I guess. That said, I never like to post without SOME kind of art, so heres my Half Orc Cleric “Iyallo Blue Shoes”. He worships knowledge (Church of Deneir in the Forgotten Realms setting) and constantly seeks out information on horrid aberrations and abysal monstrosities even though all it does is fuck him up in the head. First game is on this Friday. If anything crazy happens I’ll try and post a doodle or something.