No April Fool's, I'm actually back. You will always see way more of me on tumblr, though. And all my art goes to this art-only tumblr, if you only want to see my art and not some ridiculous reblogs. So, what's been up with me? A lot! Char and I rewrote The Peacock King as a novel and we're publishing it in June. You might remember The Peacock King from all this art. We have new art now, and it is awesome, and you can see it over here at the Kickstarter for the novel, where you can preorder a copy as well as get amazing swag, from bookmarks to posters to an actual fully-illustrated card deck from the story! The image below is available as a p

(EDIT/UPDATE: I have a tumblr for my art now. Updates get tweeted automatically, so if you follow me on twitter already then you're good.  If not: http://irkdesu.tumblr.com Already put some new stuff up. ) I don't have the at home net speed to support deviantArt's auto-play video ads, and I don't feel like foisting them on my watchers who don't feel the need to be subscribers just to eliminate the kind of advertising that every other social network I'm on seems to feel is inappropriate and excessive. DeviantArt turned into a vehicle for advertising with a wrapper around it that made it look like a portfolio and art site.  I'm not sure whe

Right now I'm doing a lot of design for literature sites and for books.  Logos, internet ads, promotional bookmarks, book covers, you name it.  I also do illustration (often in partnership with ~Karis-Surya (https://www.deviantart.com/karis-surya)).  I'll be posting more designs I've done recently over the next few days. I'll also have rates up soon. I can design for anything, truth be told, but since I'm in the online writing community most of my clientèle are as well.  So that'll comprise the bulk of my examples.  When I design, I also offer advice on how to best display your brand and what sort of copy would be suitable for each use.  My intent is to help establish a s