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I noticed that the last artwork I posted was in August. Yowch! I’m so lazy. So here’s an update of what I’ve been doing since then:

Those fantasy sketches I did ended up paying off, but I think the chickens had more to do with it; I got a job doing illustrations for Dog Soul, a d20 publishing company. I’m sure I’ve mentioned them before, but here you can see some of the art I’ve done for them. I ended up doing four pencil drawings for their folkloric book, Gallia:

Through Dog Soul, I also ended up on a project with their parent company, Emerald Press. It’s for a new d20 Campaign Setting called Living Nights. I’m doing 10 illustrations for them, spread across a couple of books. Here are some of the pictures of done so far (pencil, followed by Corel Painter):

That’s all that I’ve got finished so far, although I’m nearly finished another one… so I’ll post it soon. The Cintiq has allowed me to work much faster on the digital paintings, so aside from these fantasy paintings, I want to do more images from Journey to the West. Kazumi has told me that I can sell some Japan-related artwork at the Cherry Blossom Festival this spring, so that’s more incentive to get some done, as well as make prints of my Japan sketchbook.

I’m almost finished reconfiguring the site to to same level of functionality as the old one, before I start adding new things. I just finished redoing my portfolio, which you can view at matthewmeyer.net/portfolio. It still needs a few touches, but the most important thing is that it’s functional now.

I still have to fix the Category Archives so that my Kanazawa and Senior Trip journals display properly.

Once I finish updating everything, then I can focus on adding new art to the site. I like this design a lot, but it’s not my own design. (I didn’t steal it! It’s got a Creative Commons license.) So I want to add some things to it to make it a little more unique.

(Take a look at Saiyuuki. This isn’t the site I got the theme from, but I just love the flash banner at the top. I’ve just started watching this Japanese drama — the second episode aired yesterday.)