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2020 Calendar on Indiegogo!
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This year I am doing a calendar of my Yosemite artwork and crowdfunding it on Indiegogo!
I've been going to Yosemite National Park with my family a lot the past couple of years. I like to run around like a madwoman lugging my sketchbook and markers trying to capture everything! This calendar is a collection of some of my favorite drawings and paintings that I've done of Yosemite.
Among the perks in the campaign, you can get an original marker drawing of Yosemite Valley, like the ones in the calendar.
You can also get an original marker drawing of a character from The Silver Eye like this Apen!
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2019 Calendar!
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I'm still catching up on posting these paintings as deviations, but I wanted to go ahead and put them in one place!
2018 was a great year for commissions, but November rolled around and I didn't have enough new paintings of The Silver Eye characters to do my yearly calendar. I had to scramble to get 12 paintings done in a very short time frame. I based this series off of 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson. It pushed me to be more symbolic and surreal than I normally am in my art. I'm super happy with how it all came together!
Which ones are your favorite? I'm torn between 3,4,11, and 12, and I like them all for different reasons.
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The Silver Eye Art Contest!
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So the time is upon us for The Silver Eye's webcomic's second art contest! Here are the details!
Deadline: August 4th, 2017.
This contest is to celebrate the beginning of redrawing the story’s start! Winners will be chosen by me and my trusted advisers, and the winning entries will be announced Friday, August 11th!
The Theme is… Summer!
We have a lot of Secret Santa entries, but it’s time to balance that winter madness with some summer sunshine! It’s real simple: Just show the characters having some good ol’ summertime fun.
Prizes:
1st Place – $100
2nd Place – $50
3rd Place – $25
Rules:
- Entries should be PG.
- Characters should be acting like themselves – entries with things like genderbending, non-canon pairings, or people behaving very out of character are discouraged for this contest (AUs are allowed, though!)
Entries can be in any medium of 2D visual art. An entry could be a standalone drawing or could be in comic form, if you want.
The prizes will be sent through Paypal or a money order if you don’t have an account.
You can enter as many entries as you’d like!
How to Enter
There are two ways you can enter:
- Email me at qmelly@yahoo.com with your entry linked or attached and the name you would like it to be credited to.
- Or if you upload it to Deviantart and send me a note with a link to your deviation. Be sure to submit your entries to The Silver Eye group as well!
You can find a lot of reference for characters in this folder.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment!
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Etsy! Instagram!
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Yep! I set up a Etsy shop! with the following fandom/categories:
The Silver Eye
With original art from my webcomic!
The Lunar Chronicles
Including newly reworked portraits of the characters.
Percy Jackson
Here exists the highlights of my PJotO and HoO fanart!
I did a very limited print run of my Mark of Athena comic:
It was so exciting to see what my comics look like in print. You can find it here!
I've also recently set up an Instagram account if you would like to follow me over there!
The Silver Eye
With original art from my webcomic!
The Lunar Chronicles
Including newly reworked portraits of the characters.
Percy Jackson
Here exists the highlights of my PJotO and HoO fanart!
I did a very limited print run of my Mark of Athena comic:
It was so exciting to see what my comics look like in print. You can find it here! I've also recently set up an Instagram account if you would like to follow me over there!
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So for election week I voted absentee and then escaped on an internetless Shenandoah getaway. In 2012 I held my tongue throughout the election process and then made a single short election journal of my more composed thoughts and memes?. I'm gonna try and do that again, but this time I'm including photography I took in the mountains last week, partially cause I know everyone is sick to death of the election. If you want to skip the text and just look at the shiny pictures, you are most welcome to. This is mostly for myself, anyway.
I value self control and level headedness very much and it was really healthy for me to step away from things. Not only did it prevent me from getting swept up in the outcome myself, but I also appreciated being distanced from other people's various reactions. There was relatively little positivity in either campaign and it felt like a competition to see who could stir up the most fear of The Other. I can't really blame people who got caught up in that. I can understand why there are those who feel relief that their fears didn't come to fruition. I also have no wish to invalidate the feelings of those who are still fearful.
I just... have been resigning myself to getting a new president that I don't care for (to put it lightly) in the months since the primaries, so after finding out the results, there wasn't much left to process.
At the moment I am craving balance. What frustrated me the most about this election was people acting like there were absolutes. The two main candidates were so deeply flawed, so entangled in scandals and ethical shortcomings—more so than politics as usual—it seems dishonest that people could support either one without at least acknowledging the existence of those flaws. I get that it's human nature to whitewash all the problems on your team, but surely there's a point where that's no longer acceptable? I have been disheartened by watching decent people bend over backwards to defend things antithetical to what they believe.
I've also been pleasantly surprised by the people I felt sure would fall perfectly into party lines but stood their moral ground instead. I have a lot of respect for Democrats and Republicans who are big enough people that they can call out wrongs that they see in their own party. They are wonderful types of human beings who I am very proud of and they're greatly needed if anything in the two main parties is ever going to change for the better. I wouldn't have witnessed them stand for what's right if push hadn't come to shove. This is my second favorite thing about this whole experience.
My first being the idea to go to the mountains and then actually doing it. I love hiking, sadness just melts away from me. Fellow hikers smile and say hello, no matter who they are or who you are, and it seems like sadness has melted from them, too. It feels very far away from demonizing and labeling and drama and gloating and cruelty. I am very thankful for the pockets of humanity like that.
Lastly, here are some quotes from the journal in 2012 that I think are still relevant:
"This election got pretty ugly, but I think future ones will be a lot worse." (simply prophetic)
"I think that America isn't too big to fail, but it's too big for one man to bring down." (ready to see how this holds up)
"No matter what the outcome, it's important to continue to be kind, stand for your beliefs, and respect others who do not share them."
I value self control and level headedness very much and it was really healthy for me to step away from things. Not only did it prevent me from getting swept up in the outcome myself, but I also appreciated being distanced from other people's various reactions. There was relatively little positivity in either campaign and it felt like a competition to see who could stir up the most fear of The Other. I can't really blame people who got caught up in that. I can understand why there are those who feel relief that their fears didn't come to fruition. I also have no wish to invalidate the feelings of those who are still fearful.
I just... have been resigning myself to getting a new president that I don't care for (to put it lightly) in the months since the primaries, so after finding out the results, there wasn't much left to process.
At the moment I am craving balance. What frustrated me the most about this election was people acting like there were absolutes. The two main candidates were so deeply flawed, so entangled in scandals and ethical shortcomings—more so than politics as usual—it seems dishonest that people could support either one without at least acknowledging the existence of those flaws. I get that it's human nature to whitewash all the problems on your team, but surely there's a point where that's no longer acceptable? I have been disheartened by watching decent people bend over backwards to defend things antithetical to what they believe.
I've also been pleasantly surprised by the people I felt sure would fall perfectly into party lines but stood their moral ground instead. I have a lot of respect for Democrats and Republicans who are big enough people that they can call out wrongs that they see in their own party. They are wonderful types of human beings who I am very proud of and they're greatly needed if anything in the two main parties is ever going to change for the better. I wouldn't have witnessed them stand for what's right if push hadn't come to shove. This is my second favorite thing about this whole experience.
My first being the idea to go to the mountains and then actually doing it. I love hiking, sadness just melts away from me. Fellow hikers smile and say hello, no matter who they are or who you are, and it seems like sadness has melted from them, too. It feels very far away from demonizing and labeling and drama and gloating and cruelty. I am very thankful for the pockets of humanity like that.
Lastly, here are some quotes from the journal in 2012 that I think are still relevant:
"This election got pretty ugly, but I think future ones will be a lot worse." (simply prophetic)
"I think that America isn't too big to fail, but it's too big for one man to bring down." (ready to see how this holds up)
"No matter what the outcome, it's important to continue to be kind, stand for your beliefs, and respect others who do not share them."
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