Busy, busy, crash.
2012 started off with a computer suffering from so many problems I'm exhausted enough to skip completely over what exactly happened, except to say a hearty thank you to my good friend Rudi for getting things humming again.
Means I'm in catch-up mode, teetering and tottering between equally important projects with looming deadlines and images I can't show you until I'm done, thus the repeat of our man Trilobite Boy up there.
So what am I working on?
-Mainly, being a stay-at home dad, for realz. Our son just turned 1 shortly after Krismas. He's practicing walking, talking is ever more specific and complicated, and he's really really adept at saying, "No, Dada" in a world-weary way that lets others know how much he puts up with. He's amazing every single day, and my wife is the main reason.
-I do so freelance social media promotion for a big Canadian retailer when he naps. Was doing some from my iPhone during the crashed computer days.
-For Symbiartic, the art+science blog on Scientific American, there are a ton of half-complete interviews and posts and feelers sent out. Lots to come there, some artists and discussions I've wanted to have since before launch. There's no shortage of material to cover, and I'm hoping to get some more, shorter, "gee whiz looks at this image" posts up to go along with the usual discussions that get started. I'm lucky to be writing alongside my co-blogger Kalliopi Monoyios, mainly because her posts continue to surprise me. The whole network at Scientific American is pretty amazing, and I have a ton of new-favourite bloggers now, not least of which is Alex Wild's Compound Eye.
-ScienceOnline2012 is coming up fast, and I'll be involved in 2 discussions and I'm co-curating the science-art show. More on that over the next few days in some new posts. (Yes we've decided what we be in the show! Everyone should receive emails by Monday morning.)
-In addition, I'm plugging away having a merry time working on my first actual scientific illustration (not surreal, no arthropod-human hybrids or winged sealife). Can't wait to share.
So what's on the launchpad for The Flying Trilobite?
-March 2012 will be The Flying Trilobite's 5th blogiversary online, and I plan to mark it with a Bold! New! Direction! for Trilobite Boy and some regularity to the artwork that fizzled out with my short-lived webcomic last year. I made some progress over the non-computer days on that front, and I'm excited about where's it's going to go. Should I reveal it?
Spoiler--> The plan is one comic book cover a month, painted, showing Trilobite Boy's adventures. Or at least teasing at them. And there will be some *ahem* hidden things. Can't say any more than that.
-Hopefully I'll be able to do another contest for the 5th Blogiversary celebrations as well.
-I'm also planning on more tutorials using oil paint and ArtRage in the coming months, to share how I do what I do.
-Sales in my online store were up a bit in 2011 from 2010, and I'm hoping to get them up higher with some of the projects I have planned this year. Calendars collections still available, and you can choose the start month!
Thanks to everyone who visited and commented on The Flying Trilobite last year - I'm hoping 2012 will be full of epic awesomeness and world trilobite domination.
2012 started off with a computer suffering from so many problems I'm exhausted enough to skip completely over what exactly happened, except to say a hearty thank you to my good friend Rudi for getting things humming again.
Means I'm in catch-up mode, teetering and tottering between equally important projects with looming deadlines and images I can't show you until I'm done, thus the repeat of our man Trilobite Boy up there.
So what am I working on?
-Mainly, being a stay-at home dad, for realz. Our son just turned 1 shortly after Krismas. He's practicing walking, talking is ever more specific and complicated, and he's really really adept at saying, "No, Dada" in a world-weary way that lets others know how much he puts up with. He's amazing every single day, and my wife is the main reason.
-I do so freelance social media promotion for a big Canadian retailer when he naps. Was doing some from my iPhone during the crashed computer days.
-For Symbiartic, the art+science blog on Scientific American, there are a ton of half-complete interviews and posts and feelers sent out. Lots to come there, some artists and discussions I've wanted to have since before launch. There's no shortage of material to cover, and I'm hoping to get some more, shorter, "gee whiz looks at this image" posts up to go along with the usual discussions that get started. I'm lucky to be writing alongside my co-blogger Kalliopi Monoyios, mainly because her posts continue to surprise me. The whole network at Scientific American is pretty amazing, and I have a ton of new-favourite bloggers now, not least of which is Alex Wild's Compound Eye.
-ScienceOnline2012 is coming up fast, and I'll be involved in 2 discussions and I'm co-curating the science-art show. More on that over the next few days in some new posts. (Yes we've decided what we be in the show! Everyone should receive emails by Monday morning.)
-In addition, I'm plugging away having a merry time working on my first actual scientific illustration (not surreal, no arthropod-human hybrids or winged sealife). Can't wait to share.
So what's on the launchpad for The Flying Trilobite?
-March 2012 will be The Flying Trilobite's 5th blogiversary online, and I plan to mark it with a Bold! New! Direction! for Trilobite Boy and some regularity to the artwork that fizzled out with my short-lived webcomic last year. I made some progress over the non-computer days on that front, and I'm excited about where's it's going to go. Should I reveal it?
Spoiler--> The plan is one comic book cover a month, painted, showing Trilobite Boy's adventures. Or at least teasing at them. And there will be some *ahem* hidden things. Can't say any more than that.
-Hopefully I'll be able to do another contest for the 5th Blogiversary celebrations as well.
-I'm also planning on more tutorials using oil paint and ArtRage in the coming months, to share how I do what I do.
-Sales in my online store were up a bit in 2011 from 2010, and I'm hoping to get them up higher with some of the projects I have planned this year. Calendars collections still available, and you can choose the start month!
Thanks to everyone who visited and commented on The Flying Trilobite last year - I'm hoping 2012 will be full of epic awesomeness and world trilobite domination.
- - - - - - - -
Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite Copyright to Glendon Mellow
under Creative Commons Licence.
Portfolio
Blog
Print Shop
--> Find me on Symbiartic, the art+science blog on the new Scientific American Blog Network!
No comments:
Post a Comment
Posts over 14 days old have their comments held in moderation - I've been getting an unusual amount of spam for a guy who paints trilobites. I'll release it lickety-split though.