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It's been a long time, hasn't it. I'll save you the long spiel, but I'm back. I'm focusing more on original work, both digital and traditional, and not so much on the cosplay. There will probably still be cosplay, though.

I'll be using dA as another gallery, along with my website and my tumblr, where I post sketches and occasional WIPs. I can now also be found on Twitter, although most of that is either complaining or pictures of my dog, so I don't know how much you're interested in that.

One more announcement: I will be at Fanime 2015 in the Artists' Alley, at table 219! Come say hi and check out my new work.
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Hello all!
My my, how time flies.

I've been super busy, of course.  In addition to working almost full time, I am still working in the studio at UC Santa Cruz, and I recently got an internship at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley.  Put all that together and I've been putting a lot of miles on my little old car.

I'm currently working on a collaboration artbook spearheaded by lisu-c, Potato Mill volume 2 with blameshiori, and a whole bunch of other art stuff as well.  I am working on getting my Etsy store up and running, and I'll make an announcement when I've got it all set up.  I've also been doing a lot of costuming, which I will be uploading bit by bit here.

I've started a Tumblr sketchblog, although right now since I've run out of scanned sketches it's kind of becoming a cosplay spam blog.  It's here if you're interested.  I also have a Twitter now, as much as I protested that I'd never get one.  Don't expect much out of it, though.  I've got all of a dozen tweets there now.

That's about it, really.  I hope you're all well!

RabidPotato.com // Potatoart // Potatosketch
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Well hey, maybe if I update this thing a couple times a year then I'll be good.

Things I'm currently doing:
Working
Hacking my brains out with the flu
Wasting time on the internet

Things I haven't been doing:
Art (bad me)
Working on costumes
Responsible grown-up things

Places I've been so far:
ALA 2011
San Francisco touristy things

Places I will be going:
Wondercon 2011
Fanime 2011
AX 2011
SDCC 2011
CANADALAND to visit my darling Ubastyyat
(Possibly) LBCC 2011

Costumes I'm making:
Mother Gothel (Tangled)
Atom Eve (Invincible)
Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill)

Things I need to do:
Doujin/art/buttons/keychains/etc. for Fanime Artist's Alley
Update portfolio (it's sad, really)
Research grad schools

It's been kind of a quiet new year.  Things are going well on the personal life front, if not the artistic front.  I need more motivation, especially with all these Fanime deadlines coming up fast.  Eek.  

We'll see how it goes.  Hope you're all doing well.

RabidPotato.com // Potatoart // Potatosketch
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You know you've been neglecting dA when you come back and you have over four thousand messages.  Hot diggity damn do I love the delete button.

I'm slowly plowing through the messages, although I've deleted all the journals and I'm not likely to look through all the deviations (sorry).  If there's anything you particularly want me to see, note me or post here and I'll kick myself in the ass and respond.  

What have I been doing?  A whole lot of cosplay, that's what.  I just got back from Long Beach Comic Con, and July was San Diego Comic Con.  I have galleries of my photos up here if you're so inclined to see me running around in spandex and very little else.  Bought too many comic books and generally had a blast both times.  

I've been pretty artblocked for a while now, and while I'm still making prints, I haven't really drawn much of anything for probably a few months.  It feels weird and kind of disconcerting, and I'm not sure what to do to get myself back into the groove.  I've been busy as all hell, which has something to do with it, but I miss being able to look at a page and see something that I want to put on it...and then being able to put it there, sort of.  Never to the standards I want, but isn't that what practice is for?  

I suppose that's all.  I figured it was time for a new journal entry since I'm actually trying to respond to messages and post stuff at the moment.

RabidPotato.com // Potatoart // Potatosketch
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Busy busy busy.

Last minute notice, but I'll be at SDCC this weekend.  Give me a shout-out if you're going!

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