So as I've been frantically throwing everything together for Anthrocon (because nothing works so well as procrastination for sheer productivity), I decided I didn't like my marketing materials and wanted to do new ones. I had this thought back in April, but I put off doing anything about it until.. um.. day before yesterday.

So I redesigned everything in a few hours and I was really happy with it, until I realized I had no color art that would fit on my new signage. That obviously wouldn't do, so I rummaged through my sketches and found this self portrait that looks absolutely nothing like the real me (as I am not nearly that svelte, and I don't have spots...but the hair is the right length and texture!), and thought... heeeey!

So, some of you may remember the line work... I redrew it a little, then did some quick and dirty digital painting. I had finished the painting, then that huge storm came through northern Illinois and.. (I bet you see where this is going) I had not saved when we lost power. BUT, you're thinking! You use a laptop! Surely! Yeah, I thought so too, but apparently when a lenovo laptop is docked and loses power, the laptop doesn't really know what to do with itself, so it crashes hard.

SOOO long story short, I painted this in about... 45 minutes during a MFF Staff meeting last night. It will suffice for my needs for this weekend.