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LONG TIME NO SEE. No updates since … Feb. Sorry! It’s been… weird. I had the flu, more recently I fell and hurt my dominant hand, my healthcare got… complicated. So anyway… let’s catch up.

 

Spoonflower: My shop. My newest Designs. My Sprout Patterns. My Roostery Products.

I have made HUNDREDS of new designs this year! You can order fabric, furniture, SHEETS, and you can pick my designs for cut and sew patterns! So many things!

Bombsheller.

I am now selling art on the best and most wide ranging sizes of leggings! Wheee! New designs every month! Check out this blog post someone made about these leggings, and one of my designs!

Support me on Patreon! It’s the best place to see everything I do! And it’s only a buck a month if funding is tight! Bonuses these days are typically wallpapers, sometimes e-books, or free versions of some stuff I sell. I’m working on a new system for postcards for higher levels of support.

And in fan arts…

(John Hodgman, John Roderick, and my entry into the Bob’s Burger’s fan episode contest.)

A commissions of a friend’s D&D character!

The Doubleclicks hired me to create some art for the video of their cover of the MST3K theme! More info here!

And finally, on my Gumroad shop, you can buy a set of Manga/Clip Studio brushes that I made! And while you’re there you can pick up some zines, or buy a home-printable version of my astronaut coloring book!

 

My seasonal wishlist, if you’re feeling gifty!

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One week left to take advantage of my $5 (probably line art) avatar offer (usual costs here, and examples)! I try to Ustream and YouTube them when I can.

I’m also pretty busy, so this next week will be it if you want anything from me in December. I will possibly also be busy in early Jan., too…

The next Live (Donation or not) Drawing (previously 1,  2, 3 , 4, 5 ) will be Saturday the 15th, probably from about 1pm on, I can be more specific as the date nears. Same general rules for donations and requests, if you can’t well, just come along and watch me draw whatever anyway. Lively chat will help give me ideas!

Seriously, because I would love to pay bills, you know? Maybe have a fancy Christmas dinner since finances prevented thanksgiving…

 

Flame

Deer Maria

Here are some examples of holiday avatars I’ve done recently!

Kat

Flame

And here are some other general portrait style avatars I’ve done recently.

Angela Doubleclick

And then there’s the fan art style avatar, this being Angela of The Doubleclicks.

And speaking of fanart…

Dammit Liz Holiday Special

Art inspired by the Dammit Liz Holiday special, a recent live show featuring @Stepto, Kirby Krackle’s Kyle Stevens, Molly Lewis, The Doubleclicks, Nerdprov, Dammit Liz and more!

Chicazul

Sara Chicazul, Maker of Things.

C-c-caffeine Dragon

And a bonus dragon, because wheeeeecoffeewheeeee!

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I will attempt more Live Drawings on July 22nd and 29th, each day from about noon until about 4pm pacific time on UStream. I mentioned many reasons for the effort previously, but right now, I have need for a new air conditioner. My asthma has been terrible lately, and the weather has been and will be the same for a while now – very high humidity, pollution, heat, stagnant air. The air conditioner I have has been less than functional, so… Anyway. So many reasons. I continue to shake an angry fist at technology.

The results of the previous Live Drawing : Some of the drawings below, and videos here.

 

Previous Live Drawing effort. (Links to videos and sketches., and a run down of how it works in general.)

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Live Drawing Promo Video by Maria Fisher

 

Live streaming donations for sketches – Tomorrow, July 7th!

Sketches

Here are some examples of what I did with my demo effort (and here are the videos of some). The idea is, donate some amount, and in chat, e-mail, IM, or with the box you can fill in when donating, tell me what you want me to draw. You’re just donating for the live drawing entertainment. I’m planning on July 7th from noon-ish-whenever (maybe 4pm or so) Pacific time.

The suggested guidelines for my next effort:

  • Pre-donated requests will be done in between live efforts so there is less downtime. I’d like to keep the stream lively for viewers.
  • Suggested donations: 1-10 bucks for simple ideas, 10 or more for something complex or detailed. I sometimes get randomly carried away, so there’s a small chance of getting a wee bit more bang for the buck.

 

Facebook event listing.

G+ event listing.

 

Additional notes:

  • I will try to save the videos to UStream for future viewing as I go, and when I can, I will copy them to YouTube (because UStream only holds so many).
  • Those darn technical difficulties… my laptop has some major audio malfunction AND now it is giving me video drama too (I can see video within the system, but it will not send it OUT. I will not be able to be mobile while I draw. So, expect that I will take a few breaks to move about, get coffee, etc.
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Molly Lewis Poster

I was so honored to be asked by Molly Lewis to do the art for this poster.  I mean, not only do I get to do this cool thing, I get to make art of all these awesome people that I love to see. You get asked to do a thing like this, and the answer you WANT to give is “I WILL BUILD A TIME MACHINE AND GO BACK IN TIME AND TELL YOU OMGHELLSYES BEFORE YOU EVEN COULD HAVE ASKED!!1!”

Molly Lewis

Do not cross Molly, technology!

Molly Lewis and Marian Call

Ninja Marian Call with a Kazoo!

The Doubleclicks

The Doubleclicks! I wasn’t at the best angle for the photos… sorry!

Molly Lewis's MOM!

Very special guest: Molly’s mom!!

Molly Lewis

When Molly covered “Poker Face”, the lights went on in the green room, and all of the performers were dancing along! WHOOO!

Vixy and Tony

I didn’t get good photos, so I will illustrate with some fanart! Also in the show: Vixy and Tony! I made this fanart of them because boy do I ever love “Companion“!

Sunnie Larsen

Also, Sunnie Larsen! I was a little short on time, so this is a somewhat simple fanart. I’ve seen Sunny playing with Marian Call a couple of times, and dangit if she didn’t squeeze a tear out of me when she was playing with Vixy and Tony during the above song.

Open Letter to Stephen Fry

If you’ve wondered what Molly’s “Open Letter to Stephen Fry” would sound like with a full band, here you go!

It was an awesome show, and now that Molly is freed from her college bindings, you should try to catch her wherever she performs!

Supertrain

On a more personal note, I finally got to meet an hang out with a passel of Sea Monkeys (attendees of the JoCo Cruise)! Sara Chicazul, Maria and Taylor Fisher (who have a giant bag of art I dumped on them!), and Alice Lee (OMG, thank you for dinner!!). They were traveling around to West Coast Jonathan Coulton shows, and I was able to host a Supertrain party (A concept from John Roderick, planned out in a few episodes of Roderick on the Line)! I have had a VERY awesome weekend!

 

I really, really love nerds, people. I really do. They make life SO MUCH more fun!

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I was able to see the Jonathan Coulton show with John Roderick opening last night (and featuring Scarface!). WHAT A SHOW!

Setlist

JoCo’s setlist for the curious! I musta missed “Shoe” while I was in the restroom. Ba-dum-tch!

John RoderickJohn Roderick

John RoderickScarface

JoCoJoCo

JoCo

I also met glorious Sea Monkeys, ate good food, got awesome hugs, and just overall… I know this isn’t Tumblr, y’all, but after last night, I’m just all

John Barrowman Fainting

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Cave Jade

So, recently on the internet, I seem to have been trolled by slacktivist wannabees.

Now, why am I still on about it? Why do I feel like I need to say something? Because my intent in creating the comic was to communicate my view, find others like me, and be helpful in general. When someone is new to my comic, new to me in general, or who have simply not followed everything I do ever everywhere, I don’t want so much out-of-context nonsense to occur. For people to react is such immensely ridiculous ways could diminish what I try to do by scaring people away before they have a chance to learn for themselves.

So if you’re curious about RECENT me…

In terms of answering the question of was I a sexist, knuckle dragging sleazeball BACK THEN? Hardly. I did go back to the forum and browse what we used to talk about, and it really was not at all “hur hur hur ::drool:: at all, it actually WAS more about support and leaning on each other while we struggled with our sexual and romantic needs. I also did this fun thing that the internet lets us do these days, I looked back into the abyss to see who exactly was doing this sort of thing, and glass houses, y’all.

I know it’s not the best idea to engage with trolls like this, but drawing that art sure was some fun therapy! Yup, that’s me, big ‘ol Cave Jade, skeevy pervert. I also have lovely fans and friends who have had many nice things to say about the matter, and the comic in general.

Anywho… I hope the relatively open book of me is of some use to you on your path of learning in life.

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I am trying to raise money for a number of things – technology repairs and upgrades, traveling and outings (because I need to go OUTSIDE and DO STUFF more than once or twice a month, I’m so stir-crazy!), more trips to the Farmer’s Market for healthier food (there is no longer one within walking distance), SO…

I’m going to do a few things to test the waters before I start laying some bigger ideas on y’all.

First:

Live streaming donations for sketches!

Sketches

Here are some examples of what I did with my demo effort (and here are the videos of some). The idea is, donate some amount, and in chat, e-mail, IM, or with the box you can fill in when donating, tell me what you want me to draw. You’re just donating for the live drawing entertainment. I’m planning on July 7th from noon-ish-whenever (maybe 4pm or so) Pacific time.

The suggested guidelines for my next effort:

  • Pre-donated requests will be done in between live efforts so there is less downtime. I’d like to keep the stream lively for viewers.
  • Suggested donations: 1-10 bucks for simple ideas, 10 or more for something complex or detailed. I sometimes get randomly carried away, so there’s a small chance of getting a wee bit more bang for the buck.

 

The next thing is Posters. I will be taking pre-orders for these 11×7″ (These previews are not yet to scale, but I’ll fix that!) posters with a theme perhaps appealing to the JoCo Cruise Crazy crowd.

Poster Preview 2Poster Preview 1

I’m still working out the details, depending on shipping costs, I’m estimating they will be 20 bucks each (Maybe 30 for both?). I’ll need to get to a pre-order minimum of 100 50 each. I will randomly select probably 20 orders and add maybe a 1″ button with some art, and perhaps another random print… some kind of bonus! I will also likely do a limited time pre-order, because I want to make sure it’ll be sort of quicker and easier to refund if I don’t get enough orders.

 

Thirdly, this doesn’t fund raise a whole lot for me, but my Alice in Wonderland themed art for the PNWBJD Expo is now up on Deviant Art as a print.

Alice

 

If you have any questions, e-mail, tweet or something! There should be time to sort out quirks before these things go live!

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I got to see Marc Maron with Mike Drucker opening tonight! It was SUCH a riotously good time!

Mike Drucker

I first saw Drucker open for Dan Telfer, then opening for Kumail Nanjiani, and tonight for Marc Maron. Every time he’s somehow magically 10 times better than the last show. Given that I initially found him to be a fucking hilarious nerd, you can imagine my wonderment at his exponentially increasing skill. I hope this means his success trajectory is skyrocketing! I was sad to see he wasn’t at the signing after the show, but I did run across him on the way to the bus. It was exactly long enough to hand him art, but where I just moved to it is catch a bus or stay on the street in a crappy area of town until morning. So.

Marc Maron

Aaaand on to the headliner!

Marc Maron

Maron and his growing pile of detritus.

Marc Maron

Marc Maron

I assume by now if you are a fan of comedy or podcasts, you’ve been listening to Marc Maron’s podcast. I was pretty excited to see him just do his thing. Really, from the time Drucker got on stage to the end of Maron’s set I don’t think I stopped laughing. With Maron’s show, I find it appealing on so many levels, it isn’t just funny, but there is something much deeper in terms of anger and frustration and the many ways in which he presents it. Too often anger in comedy feels a bit hollow and more spoiled-brat than a fully formed emotion, but the way Maron presents it… I understand it, and it only makes it that much funnier. I’m also glad that his new romance is learning (well, I assume she must be) to separate the act from the man’s life. My partner has joked many times about wanting to make a webcomic based on our daily lives, but boy oh boy could I not handle that! It’s hard to let someone else make art based on you – and then show it to the world. The way Maron talks about his new relationship feels a bit like a missing piece to his anger puzzle. ^_~

I’m also a little sad the audience didn’t push for an encore. They were so close to tipping into it! I wonder if this is just The Neptune effect. It seems like people get really, really excited there, and eager to show the love – for which I am glad, as it may entice people to perform out here more often.

And of course, after the show I gave him art (including the one I made specifically because of this show!).

 

P.S. Sorry about the number of click throughs you need to do to get to full sized photos and art. I’m not sure how to improve that on the back end of this. Eventually!

 

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