Starhorse

My last painting was for a novel on kickstarter right now called Mark of the Conifer. It's a fantastic dinosaur epic--what's not to like about that? If you haven't checked out the kickstarter already, hop on over and help make this thing fly! We've got about a week left, but have passed the half way mark!

If you can't back, you can always help spread the word and share it around

I was tagged by !

The Rules

1. Post these rules.
2. Post 5 unknown facts about your SH character.
3. Tag 3 other characters.
4. Post their names along with their creators' avatars.

Tiago
1. Tiago was originally drafted into the Argentine cavalry. He is Uruguayan, but couldn't prove it because he had no legal documents of any kind with him.
2. The last name 'De Campos' was arbitrarily assigned to him when conscripted, otherwise, all he had to go on was his mother's last name, which was Peña.
3. He's got three major scars if you manage to get him to take his shirt off. Only one character has managed that in play so far ;D
4. I try and only write dialog for Tiago that I could actually say in Spanish to keep him from sounding overly educated.
5. His rather halting speech patterns and occasional forgotten word are a byproduct of his dyslexia. He'll often switch to Spanish if he can't remember the Sybalian word, or vice versa.

Tagging (and I'm tagging six people because I can):
with Cith
with Piedad
with SH version of Art
with Kenshin
with Edwin
with Amynta

So, Inktober is coming up! I opened up for suggestions last year, and I think about half of my drawings came out of them, which is good! So I thought I'd do it again.

This year, I'm asking for suggestions for creature designs! Suggestions don't have to be in a specific format, but I'd prefer you give me a challenge, and include a hint of their habitat (I want to work on my backgrounds a bit). A boring suggestion might be 'a horselike creature!' while a more exciting one would be 'a horse x lion creature that is aquatic!' Mythology is fair game, too. So are humanoids.

So have at it. I can't guarantee I'll do all of them, but there's also no limit on suggestions, either. 

Just finished the first (maybe it counts as second draft?) draft of my second book, the Clockwork Dog. Just over 68,000 words, 199 pages printed, which would be around 250 pages in paperback. Woo!

Now more editing...

Is there any interest in an illustrated copy of my book? It would be a draft—polished, but a draft nevertheless. It would include all the pictures from my BFA project a few years ago. (You can see all the art here: erikastudio.com/bfa.html) Hand-bound by me, probably rustic style leather cover of some sort, and would probably be finished in June. I’m making one for a friend, but it’s just slightly more trouble to make a small batch as it is to make just one. I’m guessing they’d be around $30-$40?  Shipping covered within continental US, extra elsewhere.

     

This would have to be an exact numbered, pre-order, pre-paid only type of thing, which I know sucks as a buyer, but that’s how it is. In the likely event there’s not an overwhelming number, I’ll probably do an original sketch in the front of each of them of one of the characters. 

So, thoughts? Takers? Opinions? This is just feeling the waters, I won’t be offended by anyone’s honesty here.