Traci Shepard @tashepard@witches.town

Hello Mastodon. I'm an illustrator with a focus on animals and monsters from folklore, and I just restarted my art blog on that same subject. Today was the first post in over a year but if you're new there's over 400 entries in the archive to check out.
https://arcanebeastsandcritters.tumblr.com/
My day job is killing me and living and transition expenses are piling up so I'm going to try and have a go at making a living off this art stuff, so have the standard Patreon link
https://www.patreon.com/tashepard and a Twitch stream for drawing (and some WoW) https://www.twitch.tv/tashepard/dashboard
#Mastoart #art #monsters

Wolpertinger pin/sticker rough

Short art stream tonight: Wolpertinger https://www.twitch.tv/tashepard

Charming enough flick, never great but solid, ending turned a bit rote.

I take it back, I'm just twenty minutes in but kind of love where they took this. #Creep2

Also the cold open does a real good job of conveying what the first movie was without actually rehashing or revisiting any of it, but I'd still recommend checking that out first if you haven't before jumping into this one.

There's also a documentary series on here called Myths and Monsters that should be right up my alley but it says right in the description it only draws from "European culture" and my dudes I assure you that has been covered already.

I was genuinely surprised to see there was a Creep 2 on Netflix. I have a sneaking suspicion I won't enjoy it but I'm fascinated by where they think they can go from the first one.

I liked Creep fine but it was mostly built around a question to which the ending gave such a definitive answer a sequel would have to find an entirely new direction.

Like, one of the only things I really miss about Twitter is that dude deigned to semi-regularly conversate with me

A far too regular occurrence: think of a gag, look up to see if anyone had already done it, find out I was just remembering a Michael Kupperman comic https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wn9wy9/mcgritte-the-surrealist-crime-dog-todays-comic-by-michael-kupperman-comics

Putting mango chutney in everything tonight. Chili chicken wrap? Chutney. Guacamole? Chutney. Sweet potato fries? Oh you know they got the chut.

I don't think any of my characters have gotten their second Legendary item without a long wait after the first and immediately getting a useless third at the next available opportunity.

Argus is just royally pissing me off today. Players and game alike.

Found a twinkie in a coat pocket and a slice of cake on a bookshelf. #BreakfastOfChampions

Laura Dern making laser noises is keeping me going today (GIFs via http://rosefinnrey.tumblr.com/post/171827103674/star-wars-the-last-jedi-commentary)

I could redo the pin designs as die-cut stickers, also.
Kinda just want to produce enough monster crap to warrant tabling at the local horror con next year.

Trying to figure out enamel pin pricing. Wanted to make a bunch of themed sets but at these rates maybe safer to start with one or two. Thinking making a $/month Patreon goal for covering production and have one design freely available for purchase and one exclusive to backers (wolpertinger and Flatwoods Monster maybe?).
Also want to retool it to add some books and prints but I'll hammer it all out tomorrow. 😴

This cheap planner I bought in this the year Two Thousand And Eighteen has allotted four pages of space for notes and over forty pages for phone numbers.

I'm uncomfortable just having this webpage open.

It didn't come through in the screencap but the background is constantly pulsing and the cursor turns into a pixel-art Pepsi can.

He knows I've lost my patience with him at this point and I have no iea what the little audience we had is like now but I do want to finish the series. We had the six issues plotted out at least in the abstract, I think we were gonna take it some pretty cool places.

So just found out I have a GoodReads page (neat) that links to the Mossy page (one four-star review, I'll take it) but from there Kieran is the only listed creator. (:/)

Republican lawmakers are openly vicious but Democrat ones are craven opportunists too cowardly to act if it might cost them power or money. Both are ghouls ready to feed off the citizens they claim to represent. Both parties warp their bases' intentions, and fan an unnecessary conflict between left and right when the real fight is between the government and its citizens. A broken system is not going to regulate itself, the only viable option is rise up, tear down and build something new.