Lunarbistro.com is the
art, comics and sketch blog
of indigo kelleigh.
Hey! so I spent way too much time yesterday getting myself set up on Twitter. So now, after months of reading my friends's incomprehensible twitterings, I can start throwing out my own! My twitterfeed (did I really just type that?) is at http://twitter.com/indigokelleigh.
I'm going to look into getting one of those little twitter boxes for the blog here too, at some point.
After many months I've finally gotten my Portfolio page redesigned. The most notable addition is the section of Pixel art, including the work I did for the Thule Road Trip game, and my own 8-Bit Tarot cards. I'm planning to put some more recent Illustration work into that section as well, and soon will hopefully start rotating out some of the older stuff.
Just added the second pack of 8-Bit Tarot cards to the Lunarbistro.com store, so if you've been waiting for your chance to order some for yourself, wait no longer!
Hey, my site remodel is complete!
It took me close to a month to design it, but only a couple days to make the files work. The most recent burst of enthusiasm and inspiration for the project came actually from my day-job, of all things. I was tasked last week with designing a couple blogs - one for our company, and one for our clients. Many hours were spent tinkering with css and html templates, learning the finer points of ExpressionEngine, and looking at about a bazillion other blogs for ideas and layouts. And oddly enough, when those two projects were done, I had a much better idea about what I wanted to do with my own site.
And so, here we are! The newly redesigned and redirected Lunar Bistro! One of the things that's different is that I won't be running episodic comics at the top of the blog anymore. I'll still be posting comics here and there when time allows, but they'll just be going up on the Comics page in their entirety. Any comics that are going to be posted episodically, like the current Circle Weave run, or the upcoming Ellie Connelly, will be done on their own self-styled sites. Which brings me to the next step of the redesign:
The Circle Weave needs a site update. Not a whole new style, I'm pretty happy with how it looks, actually, but I need to update the codebase, get the blog up and running again, and re-post all the comics using the new technique I've got planned. This new technique is the key to me running episodic comics in the future, actually, and was part of what was holding me up on this whole redesign.
The way it's going to work is this: each comic's blog will be set up using MovableType, with a category set aside for 'comic updates'. When I post a new episode to this category, it shows up at the top of the homepage, separate from the other regular blog posts, and also on its own separate rss feed. Since Circle Weave has already been posted, and is currently a 'dead' comic, I don't feel bad using it to experiment with this process. I want to make sure it's good and solid before I start relying on it for Ellie.
Which brings me to Ellie. I'm only 7 pages in, and none of it is fully colored. I'm not happy about my progress so far, but it's something. And when I think about it, it's close to seven weeks worth of updates, even if I just post it in black and white, or with simple colors for the time being. I can always go back later and update the colors when I have time. It's my hope that simply posting the work regularly and getting feedback on it will encourage me to continue working and pushing forward with the project.
So, I'm hoping to have the site up and running (meaning with new comics and all) in time for Stumptown in April.
So, yeah, that's my plan. This site will continue to be my general comics/art/sketch blog, and if I manage to start regularly doing stuff for Illustration Friday it'll go here as well. And there will always be updates about the comics I'm working on, or wanting to work on.
Yep, it's true! I've finally added paid ads to my site. I know, i know. Why bother putting ads there when I never have new content? Well, I decided, it doesn't cost me anything to put them there, and my site does get a small amount of traffic... Also, there are a number of things in-the-offing for the site, and I wanted paid ads to be a part of it, so I wanted to give them a test-run.
So, new things in the works!
First, I'm going to start posting comics again! Hoorah and huzzah. This site was originally intended to be my posting ground for all of my comics, but after I finished re-running Chutney Point, I found I didn't have any new comics to post. Sadly, that's still largely the case. Work continues to progress on Ellie Connelly, but it's still too slow-going to post updates regularly. In the meantime, I've decided to re-present the first four chapters of The Circle Weave, for the first time since I cancelled the series two years ago. I won't be adding any new material, not yet. But it should be something to look at, at least, as I continue on Ellie.
Speaking of Ellie, what I would like to do is to post the story in chapters as I complete them, rather than waiting until the entire book is finished. Each chapter should be roughly 8-10 pages, of about 3-4 updates apiece. My target schedule is 3 updates a week, so figure about 10 weeks per chapter, more or less. I've just finished the 7th page today, so i'd say Chapter 1 should be ready to start posting by the time the first chapter of The Circle Weave is completed again, in April.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to seeing more activity here on the site. Woot!
So, since I upgraded my Intel-based macbook to run Adobe CS3, I discovered a severe annoyance - my Canon LiDE 50 scanner no longer worked! Canon, in their infinite wisdom, decided not to release drivers for this particular scanner that would run on an Intel Mac, only PPC drivers. And since CS3 was designed to run on Intel Macs, it wouldn't load any PPC drivers unless you forced it to by running it under Rosetta (Mac OS's built-in emulation of their older PPC processors). Unfortunately for me, Photoshop CS3 won't run under Rosetta on my Mac, and would simply crash whenever I launched it.
Well, yesterday I found the solution. Canon is releasing Intel drivers for their more recent scanners, so I thought to see if an alternate scanner driver happened to cover my LiDE 50. I discovered that the LiDE 50 and the LiDE 35 are identical scanners, aside from some bits on the plastic housing, and that the LiDE 35 drivers HAD been recently updated to run on OS X Leopard (the latest, Intel-only version of Mac OS). A quick download and install of the LiDE 35 drivers, and success! My scanner works again! it shows up in Photoshop CS3 as an LiDE 35, but hell, it works!
I would say Thanks to Canon, but they are doing nothing to spread this information, hoping (I suspect) that us LiDE 50 owners will just give up and buy a new scanner. So, no thanks, Canon! But hooray! for the internet.
My apologies to everyone who's subscribed to the feeds for this site, either rss or livejournal - my sites (along with a few thousand others hosted by Dreamhost) were compromised over the weekend, and so a bit of cleaning and rebuilding were due. Reinstalling from the backup caused some of the rss aggregators to consider my most recent entries as new, and so it collected them again. Won't happen again (i hope).
Scripted about 7 pages of the new novel tonight. I was hoping to do something a bit 'showier', you know, like a sketch or some actual art which I could scan and post, but that's how it goes. Right now I feel like it's more important that I get the thing scripted. And while I'm not going to post the full script-in-progress, I can tell you there're a lot of 'I say!'s and 'Goodness!'es. And now I need to research the Library at Alexandria. whee!
Also, I did some work on the site, setting up the php scripts so I will never need to manually update the archive pages! Booyah! Now, the only place I need to set the update is in the database - ONCE! - and it will post to the archive when that update comes up. Trust me, it's a lot more exciting than it sounds.
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