Need to figure out the best way to consolidate all of my various blog/comic/social sites. So much of the stuff that I do day-to-day is process stuff, not often comics, rarely finished, but I still want to be able to share it someplace. My portfolio site wasn't the optimal place for that until I reconfigured it to be more of a sketch-blog (still light on the 'sketch' part). I can't put a lot of this stuff up on the Ellie Connelly site, because that should stay focused on Ellie. And that's tough, because while that project is getting like 80% of my traffic on any given day, I'm only working on it like 1 or 2 days a month at the moment. I don't want to start a whole 'nother blog for other projects - games, puzzles, concept stuff, shirts & merchandise ideas, writing - but I don't think either of my current sites are really conducive to presenting that kind of stuff.

I think the real problem, when I come down to it, is that so much of what I'm working on (and trying to work on) has nothing to do with any of the projects I've already got started. For example, I'm writing a couple minicomics as an exercise to stretch some long-forgotten art muscles. The style is going to be fast, black-and-white texture work, similar to my Hansel and Gretel art, or the Li'l Minotaur mini I made a couple years ago. Quick, fun little comics. Also, I'm writing a pitch for a superhero miniseries based on a minicomic I was working on in high school. Not something I'd be drawing, I'm hoping to find an artist who can do it justice, and free me up to work on other things as well. I'm also looking at other revenue stream ideas and to that end I've been working on cleaning up a couple of old board games I designed years ago, one of which still hasn't been playtested, and I'm hoping to release them as print-and-play games, just like the Dol-Dai set that's currently in my store. See, none of these things really have anything to do with Ellie so it doesn't make sense to talk about them there, and none of them are completed yet, so they don't really belong in my portfolio either.

On top of all of that is the desire to have something good going up on my Google+ page fairly regularly, but I don't want to just be republishing stuff from my other sites. Or I don't know, maybe that's what I should be doing. Does it make sense that, if someone wants to find out what I'm up to, they should have to know to check three different sites? I'd rather they be able to just check the one main site, which, I suppose, should be this one. I suppose it would work fine to start talking more about works-in-progress here on this blog, posting finished art into the portfolio areas, and keeping all of my Ellie progress over on that site, with updates mirrored here.

I know, for most of you this is hardly earth-shaking. Many folks I know have maintained multiple livejournal/facebook/blogspot/tumblrs for years now with no problem interlinking them and being awesome at it. I guess I just have a little trouble compartmentalizing my work like that.

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