Jane! Get me off this crazy thing... called love.

Long time without updating. I would like to apologize to the three of you that read this for my long absence from the blogosphere.

News in James: Keep an eye out for Kobold Quarterly #11, where I have two illustrations of dwarves. I think they're pretty good, even if they both look a little too much like me. One has probably the best lighting I've managed to pull off. As if I needed to say it again: lighting real people is the way to go. I'd love to be able to fabricate the whole thing from my head like Burne Hogarth, but the hassle of getting models and setting things up is totally worth it. The proof is in the pudding, the sweet sweet pudding. I can't post them up yet, since it's only polite to wait until they're published (I want to maintain a good working relationship, since I'm not great at networking to begin with and KQ is a top-notch magazine).

Got an iPhone. It's pretty rad, but also expensive. I can swing it, though, because I'm making a dollar more per hour at work now. Haven't been drawing like I should; work's gotten busy and I've gotten lazy with my off hours. But I did this sketch and plan on doing more and then finals:

It's already been up on Facebook, but whatever. The idea is that this girl touches the lion skin rug and it comes back to life a little. "Juno" from Tokyo Police Club's Elephant Shell album is the inspiration: "All of the lions in your bedroom, all of the tigers we ignore". I guess the underlying concept is that passions that you thought were dealt with or dead have a way of re-igniting and taking on some semblance of their former importance. Deep thoughts, man.

Future plans:

- Portfolio of black and white illustrations targeted at White Wolf games and Chaosium's "Call of Cthulu". Vampires, werewolves, changelings, mi-go, elder things and flappers, oh my! Better work on my Charleston...

- Return to comics either writing or drawing-- I have to write up a script for a story I've been refining called "The Weaver and the White Hound"; not sure if I'm going to draw it or ask my good friend Hilary to draw it. Also want to finally get that adaptation of "Detectives and Cadavers" going.

-Of course, more fantasy drawings.

- Cthulu cake for Halloween! IT WILL HAPPEN!!

I'd better get busy.