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No Vanity!  Don’t go in there!  It will only end badly!  Or not.

As a woman I have a problem with the animal harem dynamic.  Lopsided social arrangements suck.  For example, lionesses are badasses, lions on the other hand…  This bitterness probably stems from experiencing the profoundly one sided aspect of growing a baby/ painfully expelling said baby(ies)/ continuous painful nourishing of baby(ies)/utter destruction of my stomach.  I think we should adopt the seahorse male incubator thing, or those male penguins that do all the egg sitting while the female hunts.  Then guys could at least have some choice.

It doesn’t help that my husband’s response to this issue is along the lines of: “You’re forgetting that I have to listen to all your bitching.  It’s haaaard.”  Plus my eldest just knocked our camera off the counter today… look who’s getting a replacement Nikon lens for Christmas!!

Woot side sale brings the Fire Ninja tee back for one week only!  Overnight shipping will probably get you your tee by Christmas (only in the US I imagine).  In the meantime you can get “Creepy Hamster Ball of DoOom Eerily Levels Buildings“.

Also, here is a Sailor Moon (who I drew all the time as a preteen) having skirt issues.  It’s damn cold when that happens.  This was inspired by my brother and his current job’s kilt requirement.  You don’t want to know what they do in their down time (it partly involves joint urinal sessions).


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Eeesh!  Get the new house on Thursday and moving this weekend!  Please don’t let there be a snowstorm!

As an early Christmas present to you guys there’ll be bonus pages up this Friday and next :)

Getting into the Christmassy feeling early with a reindeer vote image that got me thinking: we’ve not decided yet how militant we’re going to be about the whole Santa thing.  Sam is only vaguely aware of the concept and he doesn’t understand that Xmas means presents too.  He’s just fixated on the lights on all the houses and that’s about it.  We don’t even have the tree up yet because I didn’t want to deal with keeping four grabby baby hands off it…plus moving.   I’m not planning on skipping the idea of Santa but I’m not sure how I feel about emphasizing that whole ‘getting’ aspect of the holiday.  I kind of like his attitude now, clueless though it may be, but I also don’t want to have the kid who ruined Christmas for everyone else and sent the whole kindergarten class home crying.

Do you get sent to the principal for that? :)

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Moving day tomorrow!  I hope to make it through still relatively sane and that the twins have no issues with the sudden and complete upheaval.  I can’t imagine waking up in the morning in one place and then going to sleep somewhere totally different and having no knowledge of what’s going on.  They freaked out when Jim shaved his beard the other day.  Owen wouldn’t go near him for 20 minutes, and he’s the brave one!

Silly show, silly fan art :)

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Merry early Christmas!  Hope all of you have a fantastic holiday of your choosing.  I will be celebrating the unpacking of boxes and very likely a ‘Bob the Builder’ movie marathon.  I can’t wait.

If you missed it, there was a bonus update on Friday and there will be another one this Friday.

Shirt Woot side sale featuring the little Unstealthiest Ninja series (1-3) on hoodies and long sleeve shirts!

A festive candy cane tiger for you!

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Forgot to set this one up last night!  I still don’t have a desk so I’m set up on the dining room table and half my office stuff is still at the old house which still needs to be cleaned and emptied.  Yet another snow storm last night is impeding that process :(

Anyway, Gay gets some revenge.  I’m sure he won’t take it too far…

Shirt Woot Unstealthiest Ninja sale on now but only until the 31st!  Hoodies and long sleeve tees available since some of us are totally mired in cold.

Here’s my late Christmas image thanks to Rogers cutting our internet off a day early ARRGH.  And the vote incentive is in honor of a friend of mine who just had twins.  I think there’s something in the water around here.

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Happy New Year everyone!

STILL in the process of moving.  We have until the 4th to get everything out and clean up.  How have I accumulated so much stuff??  Though if we eliminated all kid’s toys and clothes from the equation I think we would have been done in one day…  I have about 3 too many strollers for one thing.  And infant car seats are neither recyclable or permitted for re-sale through consignment shops, and I have three of the darn things.

And Owen has learned “no”.  Lovely.

Crack hand!

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Sorry guys, I crashed last night and didn’t get a chance to set this up.  I don’t know what it says about me but I really enjoyed drawing those two all beat up…coloring the bruises was fun, unfortunately the small web version loses some of the purply nuance :)

Babies sick, Sam keeps climbing into our bed around 1 in the morning and coughs and thrashes his way through the night.  He’s not a heavy sleeper.  It’s only January but I can’t wait for winter to be OVER.  It’s cold again today and I think I have duty day at nursery school.  You’ve never seen chaos until you see 26 toddlers all wanting out of their snow pants at the same time.

I painted something warm a couple of days ago: Smore!

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Vanity’s head is soooo lumpy :)

Thanks to one of my wonderful readers who pointed out that the Bear Bio pages image link was busted.  So were a few of the fan art pieces so bio page fixed, and fan art page fixed AND updated!  Finally!  I apologize for being freaking slow at that.  And let me know if you see any I missed and I’ll get them back up asap.

More big cats for the zoo game: lynx! Now I have to go research how to pluralize that word.


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I find lately that I’ve lost the enthusiasm for things that I used to have.  It’s not that I’m not interested in the same things, I just don’t have the same level of excitability/can’t wait to see that/OMG when does that come out?!  It’s partly that I don’t have time for video games anymore and we might make it to two movies a year.

I believe the children have burned that spirit right out of me.  Maybe when Sam finally, FINALLY starts using the potty I’ll lose my shit.

Cracker Evil Dead hand!

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I’ll admit ‘Sex in the City’ is one show I’ve never watched.  I might have gotten that movie plot a little off.

Owen now refers to himself as ‘Odin’, perhaps because it’s easier too say, or maybe from being around his uncles too much.  It’s late now so hopefully he has entered the ‘Odin Sleep’ and I can get some work done.  Evan still favors ‘No!’ and is getting more emphatic about it.  They do give each other and Sam hugs whenever I ask which is damn cute.  I wonder how long that behavior will continue.  I much prefer it to the biting stage.

Fishies! Sick of drawing fishies.

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Poor Nerdly is having a bad day.  I had a good day drawing his expressions though, fun!  I get a lot of real life reference in tantrums :)  Sam does this new thing where he covers his face with his hand when I yell at him.  I would have thought he was past the “You can’t see me if I cover my eyes stage.”  Owen now copies him which is an improvement over his old habit of throwing himself face down on the floor and sobbing. Evan just runs weeping to another room like a martyr.

Shirt Woot’s back catalogue is now available again (they shut it down to deal with all the Christmas orders). If you’ve missed any Unstealthy Ninja shirts you can order them here: Dooomcat on Shirt Woot

New Firefly shirt up for pre-order on Teeturtle (one week only):

Crack hand of Doom!

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So last weekend Jim and I were going to go to a movie, for the first time since probably last summer.  The grandparents arrived and fed the boys dinner and everything and I only felt a little guilty about leaving.  They also didn’t freak out because they were busy eating so bonus.  I double checked the times before we left; there’s not much out right now I really want to see but Jeremy Renner is in some fairy tale movie so we went for that one :)  Turns out the 7:45 showing was not the regular movie, it wasn’t even 3D, it was extra annoying IMAX 3D.  Tickets are over $20 each instead of $12 for the basic screening.  I abhor 3D, it gives me a headache and it’s harder to follow.  I definitely don’t appreciate paying more for that.  This was ‘Hansel and Gretal’s’ second weekend so it’s still a big draw but there was only two showings of the regular movie all day Saturday, one in the morning before lunch and then not again until 10:40 pm.  WTF.  We just left, I was so annoyed.  That’s a huge damn money grab and I won’t feel guilty at all downloading it later.

Maybe in a couple more months we’ll try to go out again :P

Here’s some duckies.  I had to draw a lot of duckies.

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Oh Nerd.  You need a better outlet for your zealous dedication and work ethic.  And now, a rant about ketchup chips.  God are they gross! Plus who buys them and puts a bowl out in reach of drooly toddlers?!  My husband of course.  We had company over and the chips and fruit went down fast and there was red smeared every where and mashed into the carpet… the new carpet, in our new basement.  The babies looked like extras from a zombie movie.  I should have got pictures.

Sparkly Crack hand! Apparently Bieber’s taking over the one glove style thing… can that not just die out?  It’s sad that I know this, and that bit of useless knowledge takes brain space away from something more important.

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I’ll admit I’m intensely curious to see what they do with the new Star Wars movies.  The originals were entertaining, and the new ones had Ewen Mcgregor.  I’m not a super fan that has any familiarity with the expanded universe and the Solo twins or anything so if they go with that it will still mostly be new for me… or maybe they’ll ignore all that stuff and just completely bring something new to the table.  It’s going to be interesting at least.  I do wonder a little if Disney will slowly swallow all forms of entertainment and eventually own everything and their team of copyright lawyers will descend like a swarm on every little artist trying to sell fan art at cons.

Nerd totally brought this on himself, and I’ve been excited to do this arc since I first started sketching the original incarnations of these bears.  Evil twin just seems sort of punny.

I’m having trouble keeping pants on Evan.  I hope to God he’s not going to be one of those kids that has to be duct taped into every diaper :(

Has anyone not seen the Youtube clip that inspired these otters for Tapzoo?  Heart melting cuteness levels.

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The horror!

Today only I’ve got a rather silly Supernatural t-shirt up on Tee Fury!! I would really appreciate any and all shares/links/pimpage guys!  This one was really fun to draw and have I mentioned before that I really, REALLY like that show? :)

For fun, here’s a grey version of my Avengers themed shirt (had to do this to cut it down to 5 colors for some of the t-shirt sites).  I’m curious, for those of you that saw the original on Facebook, which do you like better?  I hated having to cut a color from the image but in the end I though this version looked kind of interesting with the red and blue really popping.


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It takes less than a minute of upside down time and I’ve got a headache.  What’s happening to Tanked made me a little queazy just to draw.  Blech.  I also made a stupid mistake yesterday and told Owen to stop saying what sounded like “cock”, in Sam’s presence of course.  Then there was a chorus of three little voices chanting “cock, cock, cock!” very excitedly.  I’m trying to be very aware of what I say but sometimes things just pop out of my mouth… at least they have yet to start parroting them back at me at inopportune times, like the grocery store.  I still haven’t managed to break their habit of pointing bananas at people and going “Boom!” though.

Super Exclusive Club is up on my Society6 page as prints and shirts/etc.  I’ll let you guys know if one of the shirt sites prints the grey version but I may have to re-do it in a more copyright friendly kind of way for that.

Christmassy time Bear Nuts commissions :)

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When you have small children there’s nothing like the sudden sound of silence.  It fills me with dread.  And then you call them and one tip toes in with the guiltiest grin, urg.

There’s a nice little library down the street from our new house and we took Sam over to get his first library card.  He was very excited and picked out yet another truck book, but this one has flaps to lift and is ever so exciting.  He “reads” it by himself and looks under all the flaps and tells me what he sees.  I was doing dishes and didn’t notice that he’d left the book on the couch and Evan got quiet.  Then I hear a distinctive rip.  Great precedent we set by ripping a flap off the first library book he ever borrowed :(  The librarian sighed and said those flap books never last long; I guess I’m not the only neglectful flap endangering parent.

Check out ShirtPunch tomorrow for a “Legend of Korra” shirt by me! :)

Dragon!

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Owen’s had a runny nose for the last two weeks, but Evan’s had a runny butt.  I am all too familiar with baby diarrhea.  (Maybe he’ll read this some day as a teen… HA!).  So the diaper rash is pretty bad and he was going commando in the kitchen for a bit to air out.  I went upstairs to get more diapers and sure enough, he’d peed on the floor.  He actually went to get the dish towel and was trying to clean it up.  I was amazed; he’s always been the more helpful one.  Owen never picks up after himself, the little jerk.

I got a message from a reader looking for help in spreading the word about her sick friend.  If you have a second she would very much appreciate any help:  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/helping-ravyn-crescent/

Available today only on RIPT:  Dreaming of a Quiet Winter :)

Kitty sketches, or actually Genets.  I’ve been working on this zoo game for over a year now and the diversity of species never ceases to amaze me.  I should post some sketches of some of the weirder stuff out there, like this thing.

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Happy late Easter guys.  I hid 24 eggs for the boys and we only found 23.  I’m sure a sticky, melted mess will surface sometime in June.  In the meantime, I’ll be scrubbing chocolate handprints off the fridge for days.

Date Night for Jayne and Vera :)  Available at Soc6 or RedBubble.

I think Evil and Tanked celebrate the holiday in different ways…

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We were painting all day today, this place finally feels a bit more us.  And luckily the colors really turned out well.  I’m always a bit worried about how the paint chip will translate to a whole wall, especially under different lighting, but today was a good day.  Now the dilemma is what to paint Sam’s room; he vacillates between purple, pink, and blue, though some days green is his FAVORITE color, and other days it’s red.  I don’t want to be ogreish about gender color stereotypes but if I had a girl I still wouldn’t want to paint her room pink (I was a total tomboy).

Plus Sam is still at the age where you give him a choice between milk or water and he picks water and you ask him are you SURE? and he says YES, and then you give him the water and he has a tantrum because you didn’t give him the MILK.  I don’t want to paint his whole room and then deal with the drama of it being the wrong color.

If you missed it on Facebook, here’s two Evils and an unfortunate bag.

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