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  • Mood: Wow!
  • Listening to: Cat bell jingling
  • Reading: dA!
  • Eating: Pumpkin Pie!
  • Drinking: Tea
My first Kickstarter and fifth graphic novel is going to be THE GARLICKS: Pandora Orange, Fail Vampire. I'm raising production and printing costs, I've love for you to be a backer--you'll get to be a part of a new book coming together over the course of a year.
More details, art and the requisite video are here:THE GARLICKS

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Thanks for your support! Please share this like crazy!
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Here are links to my Etsy shop, my webcomic THE GARLICKS, and my Flickr pictures.

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I am having a Black Friday/Rent Party Commission drive! I have FOUR spots open! Commissions are $60. for a 5x8" SINGLE FIGURE watercolor on acid-free paper. The price includes US Priority shipping.

I can do multiple figures. Please note me to discuss a price.

My previous commissions can be seen here:

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Commissions will be shipped before Christmas. (Along with outstanding commissions.)

Thanks, everyone!
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  • Listening to: Air conditioning
  • Reading: The Alchemyst
  • Eating: Blueberry sauce and chicken
  • Drinking: Iced coffee
It's half way over for me, since my summer is defined by the end of one school year and the beginning of the next. It's sticky season here: step out and you are overwhelmed by the weather equivalent of a warm, damp, woolen blanket. It's instantly exhausting. Sweat runs down your back and from under your hair.
The only makeup for this weather is a kiss-proof lipcolor, waterproof eyeliner and a tough mascara. (I use Rimmel, BTW. Dirt cheap, stay on better than any spendy mascara. Tried them all!) Anything else slides right off your face.

Hope you're all drawing and writing away as you dodge the northern hemisphere's heat, and my friends down under, I hope you are having a delightful winter.



Lea
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  • Eating: Bread and buttah
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My pal Josh Hechinger, who is the writer of THE MOON IS MINE (which I am drawing), is in DC's Zuda Comics competition with THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS! This means JOSH NEEDS VOTES for his series to continue.

Follow this link to Josh's blog to go to Zuda and read THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS and vote!
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I wish I could tell who was exactly the 46,000th visitor, but I can't! However, THANK YOU ALL!
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  • Drinking: Cold coffee
Just to get the last entry off the front page!

Hi!

40,000!

Mon Mar 30, 2009, 7:41 PM
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  • Watching: Dead Like Me the movie
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  • Drinking: Sweet Iced Tea
It January, I'm riding my bike, and I could use a few improvements to it! Papal a giftie to divalea @ gmail.com, and I'll do you a sketch!

Wow, that sneaked up on me! THANKS EVERYONE! <3

40,000!

Mon Mar 30, 2009, 7:40 PM
  • Mood: Wow!
  • Listening to: Gunbuster: Active Heart
  • Reading: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
  • Watching: Dead Like Me the movie
  • Playing: Music!
  • Eating: .....
  • Drinking: Seewt Iced Tea
It January, I'm riding my bike, and I could use a few improvements to it! Papal a giftie to divalea @ gmail.com, and I'll do you a sketch!

Wow, that sneaked up on me! THANKS EVERYONE! <3

KIRIBAN! 38,000!

Sat Jan 24, 2009, 3:07 AM
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  • Watching: dA
  • Playing: Music!
  • Eating: Coffee
  • Drinking: Coffee
It January, I'm riding my bike, and I could use a few improvements to it! Papal a giftie to divalea @ gmail.com, and I'll do you a sketch!

I just made 38,000. This is a piddling number for some, and a crazy high for others. For me, this is juuust right, and I thank everyone who's visited.

Visitor 38,000 is :iconlancesawyer:! Lancer, you get a wee sketch!

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This is my last call for commissions for Christmas delivery!

Any of you fine folks who've been waiting, this is the time! Hup! Hup!

To refresh memories, here are prices and samples (with new samples, too):

Decide what sort of subject you'd like, and PayPal to divalea @ gmail.com with your wants. Single figures only. (Multiple figures negotiable!)
Thanks in advance for your patronage!

Here's what I'm offering (SCROLL DOWN for NEW watercolor pieces):

$15.00: a digital drawing, 5x5, greytones, hi-resolution, suitable for printing.

$25.00: a digital drawing, 5x5, color, hi-resolution, suitable for printing. Like this!



and



$50.00 (which includes Priority shipping): a 5x8 watercolor, such as below, suitable for hanging and bragging about. Like so:





Here's Scarlet Witch and Power Girl, from what looks like will be a series of superheroines looking gorgeous, powerful and happy to be so. These pieces got big ups from Wonder Woman writer Gail Simone.





Paimon and Flora from FLORA SEGUNDA.
A painting like this is going to be a bit more than a 5x8 single figure. Feel free to email with inquiries.



Commissions for dolls can still be made, but they won't be delivered until after the holidays.



Thanks so much!
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Ooops, I have no idea who 36,000 was, but I am there!

Thanks to all the new watchers, all the long-time watchers, thanks for your comments and favs!
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Which sounds naughty, but it isn't! :iconsquirreltamer: gave :iconking-cheetah: an "L," I asked :iconking-cheetah: for a letter, and I got "M!"

Rules: If you comment on this journal, I'll give you a letter & you'll have to make a journal that lists 10 things that you like starting with the letter I give you.

I want to cheat and just spell all my favorite things with an "m," but here we go!

1. Molskine watercolor sketchbooks and notebooks.
2. Macaroni and cheese, home made and baked!
3. Miyazaki, Hiyao. I will never forget watching "Laputa" for the first time.
4. Molly from Oban Star Racers. (Even though the no-nose design drove me nuts!)
5. The Mollusk known as the octopus! They are smart and so graceful in the water.
6. That "M" makes the sound of enjoying something. "Mmmmm!"
7. Meteor showers, they fill me with wonder. Some I have seen have been so amzing they've made me cry.
8. Mraz, Jason, his songs "The Beauty in Ugly" and "A Beautiful Mess."
9. M. Night Shyamalan's "Sixth Sense" and "Lady in the Water."
10. Macro lens, because I like being able to see tiny things in closeup!
Our cars are both dead to the tune of $2,000. which means it's time for me to roll up the ol' sleeves, and start busking amongst my much-appreciated wtachers.
Imagine me wearing a fez, right? Okay!

Decide what sort of subject you'd like, and send the amount to PayPal to divalea @ gmail.com with your wants.
Single figures only, more complex images can be negotiated.
Thanks in advance for your patronage!

Here's what I'm offering:

$15.00: a digital drawing, 5x5, greytones, hi-resolution, suitable for printing.

$25.00: a digital drawing, 5x5, color, hi-resolution, suitable for printing. Like this!

$50.00 (which includes Priority shipping): a 5x8 watercolor, such as below, suitable for hanging and bragging about.

For those of you out there looking for awesome one-of-a-kind dolls or a unique cover illustration like my Can I Sit With You? pieces, email me at divalea @ gmail . com.

Here's the latest CISWY piece, again:

[link]

Thanks again for your business!

If you're between money yourselves, passing this along would be most welcome!
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  • Watching: dA
  • Playing: wif meself
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  • Drinking: Coffee

32,000

Sat Aug 2, 2008, 7:50 PM
Contributor to Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo, my story is "Ribbons Undone!"
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HAHAHHA! My daughter :iconavon-delta: was my 32,000th visitor!
Thanks, kid!

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Contributor to Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo, my story is "Ribbons Undone!"
CBT debuts at San Diego Comic-Con July 23!
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Contributor to Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo, my story is "Ribbons Undone!"
CBT debuts at San Diego Comic-Con July 23!
[link]

I am still looking for a couple more $50. sponsors for San Diego.

If you're reading this, you're likely to be in the Alphabet tables at the back of the Hall, whereas I will be walking all over Alphabet City and the show floor, so me wearing a "sponsored by" and your booth number will get people to your table.
Stickers work. I stickered people that stopped at my table a few years back, and those stickers moving around the floor brought new people to me!

You get me wearing your logo/URL for the day "sponsored by ...." Since I'm coming to promote Comic Book Tattoo (the comics anthology of TORI AMOS' songs!) (and my first appearance in San Diego since my house burnt down) and will be at several signings, parties, and the Big Comic Book Tattoo Panel on Saturday, this is a good chance for some good PR.

Paypal and/or discuss details at divalea @ gmail . com.

Thanks in advance, everyone!

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  • Listening to: Rats
  • Reading: dA
  • Watching: dA
  • Playing: wif meself
  • Eating: Coffee
  • Drinking: Coffee
Contributor to Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo, my story is "Ribbons Undone!"
CBT debuts at San Diego Comic-Con July 23!
[link]

A check I'd anticipated will probably not appear until after SDCC, so I'm looking for sponsors.

I need to raise about $300., so I need six $50. sponsors. You, in turn, get the usual "speaking part/pet/words in Rumble Girls" and assorted goodies, BUT!

You ALSO get (and this is a great deal for companies) me wearing your logo/URL for the day "sponsored by ...." Since I'm coming to promote Comic Book Tattoo (the comics anthology of TORI AMOS' songs!) (and my plucky ATF comeback) and will be at several signings, parties, and the Big Comic Book Tattoo Panel on Saturday, this is a good chance for some good PR, especially for a company/person that won't otherwise have a presence.

If you ARE going to be at SDCC, I will wear your booth number. Either way, I'll be walking all over the show, since I won't be holding down a table this year, which means your sponsorship gets all over the place.

Paypal and/or discuss details at divalea @ gmail . com.

Thanks in advance, everyone!

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  • Listening to: Rats
  • Reading: dA
  • Watching: dA
  • Playing: wif meself
  • Eating: Coffee
  • Drinking: Coffee

31,000!

Tue Jul 1, 2008, 3:55 PM
Buy me a Venti Quad Iced Raspberry Mocha and fuel my art!
PayPal to divalea @ gmail.com

The lucky 31,000 visitor was :iconking-cheeath:!

This means he is constantly checking my dA acount to see if I'm talking about him.
Not on dA, sweetie!

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Somehow, 30,000!

Sun Jun 8, 2008, 12:16 PM
Buy me a Venti Quad Iced Raspberry Mocha and fuel my art!
PayPal to divalea @ gmail.com

While I wasn't looking, because I was off crusading against TokyoPop's deplorable business practices, I hit 30,000 pageviews!

Thanks!

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DAR! IVE BEEN TAGGED

Mon May 19, 2008, 8:59 PM
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Buy me a Venti Quad Iced Raspberry Mocha and fuel my art!
PayPal to divalea @ gmail.com

BY stinkerchild :iconavon-delta:

1. Write these rules.
2. Write 8 random facts about yourself.
3. Post 'em in your journal.
4. Tag 8 people.
5. Let 'em know they were tagged.

1. I was a pinup model when I was 23.
2. I worry about my kids learning math.
3. I think my daughter is one of the funniest people I know.
4. I think My Little Ponies are kind of creepy the way they look at you over their round little butts.
5. I wish I could sing like Sarah Brighthman.
6. I never cared that I couldn't until I heard "Time to Say Good-Bye"
7. I still miss performing in flag corps and it's been 25 years since I did.
8. I feel lucky every day that I didn't die in a fire.

TAG! You're IT!

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