i got featured [link] ! not on this account but my old one here.

i find it kind of funny that i don't get featured until i pretty much stop posting to that account for a year and start a new one. at least the modern equivalent of recognition after death doesn't require actually dying.

but still, it's never happened before so i'm happy and grateful! i don't check that account often so i didn't even notice until now, a month after it happened. that doesn't make me seem very grateful, but really, i am. i am not really happy with that picture, though. and might want to try it again in this new style. but, i'm also grateful for not liking the picture. i think that means that my art sense and skill has grown a little tiny tiny bit.

which reminds me, i guess there was a reason for starting this new account. a few of my real life friends will have a booth at anime boston this year. i've always wanted to have a booth there, with friends! even though i can't be there physically donning a pink wig as i would have loved to do, they told me that they'll happily sell prints and postcards of my things. i felt that i ought to try to come up with a "collection", a group of pictures that are roughly the same style and have a common theme. i decided to play with a manga/western (fafi, yazawa ai, and fawn gehrweiler) cartoon hybrid style, drawing candyland and other dessert-themed characters. i want to take tacky 80's and 90's drawings and make them moody and hip. i made this new account and promised myself i would only post things in my decided style. i usually can't stick to the same style for more than 2 or 3 drawings, so this really might be a challenge. well, we'll see if i can actually flesh out this collection instead of drawing & switching as is my usual habit! and... if i can pull through then i will definitely post about how the booth goes!

to dos on my candyland list:
lord licorice
king candy
mr. mint
jolly (nerdy girl with glasses or monster? i haven't decided)
nana nutt (i can't draw old ladies!)

and made-up characters:
countess cupcake
mlle. milkshake (this would pretty much be marie antionette with a flowy dress, and cherry and striped straws in her headdress)
gingerbread kids