Celtic Bird

Drawn by me.

February is NaNoIllMo

I have decided that February is NaNoIllMo, or National Novel Illustration Month, where the goal is to draw 50 illustrations for a literary project, in a single month.

I don't know if anyone has thought of or done anything like this before, but here goes.

I might be the only one doing it because I just made it up myself and I haven't spread awareness or made it official or anything.  But I still think its a good idea.

The saying is that a picture is worth a thousand words.  So with that exchange rate 50 illustrations would be equivalent to the 50,000 words of NaNoWriMo.  Or, to put it another way, a word is worth 0.001 pictures and 50,000 words, has the same value as 50 pictures.

Having the event in February has a nice symmetry to it too, as November is the second month from the end of the year and February is the second from the beginning.

The literary project chosen for the contest could be your NaNoWriMo novel, a different novel, a children's book, a comic book, or anything.  Or you could begin with the illustrations and write a story around them later.

If this generates sufficient interest, I would be happy to do a kickstarter and start an official website and all of that.

I don't know about anyone else but I, for one, need a kick in the seat of the pants to actually do some drawing instead of sitting around with a pencil in my hand and a blank sheet of paper in front of me, and only thinking the illustrations in my head.

Cheers,

JP

Our Lady Undoer Of Knots by PortraitsOfSaints on Etsy

So I just finished marking up the first draft of my NaNoWriMo novel, and I still have absolutely no idea what I just wrote.  The plot is tied up in a knot and I don't know what to do with it.  So I've been praying to Mary as Our Lady Undoer Of Knots to help sort it out.  My sister of the same name is also going to be marking it up with her ideas of how the story should go, and then I'll start in on the actual editing.  Today I am also getting started on the storyboarding, because I really want to illustrate it as well.

So this is me.  With my NaNoWriMo winner shirt.  And my real Celtic sword.

Prints Vs. Reality

So artwork on my deviant art, which is the place where I've been putting up my artwork, such as it is, will no longer be available as prints, because nobody ever bought any (except my mom, thanks mom).  The artwork will remain, just not as prints.

My Etsy store, where I put up my geometric paper crafts will remain.  This is because I have recieved some interest in doing custom work.

I have a new policy however, that I do not do any kind of custom artwork for people apart from my geometric paper crafts.  There has not been any interest in anything else, but I also think it would be too soul-sucking to try conform my actual artwork to anything anybody else wants.

I believe the lack of symmetry....

...enhances the wild Celticness of it rather nicely.  I have many more Celtic knots on my deviant art

Happy New Year!

Or at least a survivable new year anyway!  I decided that the old year was defective so I sent it back to the store for a refund.  I hope to come out with more artwork and more beautiful artwork this year as well as put in a lot of work on my novel.  And I'll work on the look of my website and hopefully it will look less like the back end of nowhere and be more of a fun place to hang out.