Show everyone how much you love green and red lions wearing vaguely Islamic headgear (and their human equivalents) with these neato mosquito user icons!







By the way: 



This is pretty neat - There's an animated menu for the Dekata project that uses my lion artwork. I especially like it because I got paid for it without having to do anything, SCORE

If you want to see it, it's behind the cut.


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I swear Black Lion Week is not an extended piece of marketing for Dekata Project

Speaking of which:



Last time I met up with this guy he told me they took 50 photographs and this was the best one.

If you weren't already drawing lion girls we could have a really neat photoshop challenge based around this picture, I want to see people inserting him into famous moments from history

Day 5 of Black Lion Week, BOIIIIIIIIYE



Still hugely impressed by the art that's still coming in for the Black Lion Girls. The end of week showcase looms! If you wanted to do something but haven't had the chance now's the effin' time, my friend

It's the launch of Dekata Project's VIRAL EP, the record for which the original black lion artwork was produced. I was supposed to be at this thing to do an artwork signing, but I'm not in London anymore- I am in sunny Scotland for a few months, in fact

Anyway, I think this is going to be pretty good and you should go to it! It's an amazing venue, for one thing, and I think Dekata Project's music is starting to be pretty well recieved in some circles

A new plug for Dekata Project on this blog means a new excuse to laugh at this photograph: 

 Safe to say it is BLACK LION WEEK right here on my blog

Drawings are still coming in for that other thing

Here's some drawings I did for the upcoming release of Cave Story on Nintendo Wiiware, as reported by Play Magazine. 




There was also a lot of talk as to why my blog had stayed silent on the 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis and Capcom's commitment to the iPhone, so I'm glad I can finally lay that controversy to rest

 I also want to show you this page from Brandon Graham (royalboiler) 's comic King City, coming soon from Image Comics. See if you can spot anyone you recognise! This is very cool.



Not only should you buy Brandon's books but I can thoroughly recommend his blog for inspirational posts about comics (though I'm sure you've added him already)

By the way, we're still having a lot of fun with the characters in the previous thing I posted, making awesome animated gifs and drawing them as real girls and whatnot, like we did with the drawings of cats from a while back.  You should mosey on over, because there's some seriously impressive stuff in there! I think I'm going to do a showcase of everyone's drawings at the end of the week, so if you're inspired to do some yourself, that'd be cool too. LATERZZZ

Artowkr for a flyer. Feel free to name them,  write poems about them, tell me what you think they are, draw them as 'real girls'

Here is a real thing that happened earlier this month
when daphaknee went to Fanime Con:

Some Girl: HEY ARE YOU OH DAPHNY FROM THE INTERNET??

Daphny: yeah

SG: OH! I LOVE YOUR BOYFRIEND'S CARTOONS!

Daphny: asgjksadfjkdsjfdskjfa



                       Design for Daphy's tooth tattoo


Ha ha. I wonder how people get the impression Daphny is my girlfriend? Is it, by chance, because 4 out of every 5 drawings I post to this livejournal seem to be related to her in some way


By the by, here is a drawing I did for Daphny's birthday:




In case you are building a fact file Daphny's boyfriend is bitterchris  on livejournal, go stalk him 

Sometimes I do drawings that don't have to do with Daphny. Look! I also did an illustration this month for Game Developer Magazine. It's a picture of a stereotypical game developer chopping down a 'file tree', to illustrate how thrilling and rewarding it can be to maximize efficiency in the workplace by streamlining your filing systems. The character with the axe is based on my friend Owen aka elfshotthefood .



Supposedly Heather Campbell did a little writeup about something I'd done in the American Play Magazine this month, too, but so far I haven't been able to see a copy... can anyone find my thing in it and scan it for me? 


This is the logo I did for the Moos Family's Race To Raise The Roof which I've mentioned on here a few times. If you don't already know about it, read this article about it in the Philidelphia Enquirer here, and then join the Facebook group here, donate money here, and buy limited edition Queen of Dorks  fundraiser jewellery here.







I guess it looks like there is enough demand for me to start making merchandise and junk and at least be able to make my money back on the printing, so expect news on that front soon. Hey I think I am going to do a group activity tomorrow, I hope ya'll are ready

Three things to talk about today (count 'em)

1.) MP3 CLUB

Daphny is running this MP3 club, I think I was supposed to be running it with her but she seems to have it covered



It's in its third week now and I think I can call it a success! I've discovered a lot of cool new music through it I would never have heard through normal means. If that sounds like the sort of thing you'd be interested in you should pop her off an email! There's also a larger version of the flyer here if you wanna print some off and flyer bomb your area http://www.maudevintage.com/jamesharvey/files/mp3club.png








Thanks for all your votes to get daphaknee past the nominations round of the LJ elections! The next round of voting has started already and perhaps predictably she is currently in LAST PLACE, so send some votes her way to stop her throwing up on herself in disappointment, perhaps she will throw up on herself in glee instead

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_election_en/31595.html

I think winning is out of the question at this stage in the game but at least we can all push her up to NOT LAST PLACE

Also, look at these swell buttons you get to post on your blog



I have an idea! I found a site that does stickers and other merch for bands and whatnot. Who would definitely pay $5 for a sticker sheet of these cats right here?



I'm going to start taking preorders in this post. If I find 20 people who're definitely interested, we will go into FULL PRODUCTION on this ok

I'm also open for suggestions on any other merchandise you would like to see, like if there's a particular design of mine you want to buy as a poster or t-shirt or whatever. As they say in germany, "lassen sie ihrer phantasie freien lauf"! 

Electric Ant #2: Exquisite Corpses should be coming out end of September and available via Same Hat, Electric Ant and some shops. This piece is part of the big illustration feature, THESE BLOODY MOMENTS: "Your one-page depiction of a moment of extreme violence from a loved piece of cultural detritus."

Other folks taking part in the THESE BLOODY MOMENTS feature include pals deforgeo and skeleteen , as well as Mimi Leung, Jon Vemilyea, Aeron Alfrey, Mickey Zacchilli, Sascha Hommer, Angie Wang, Derek Yu and others.