Heyo all! I'd like to take a moment to divert your eyes to this awesome photo taken by a friend of mine;

He's taken a lot of awesome Combat Photos for the Airsoft Clubs around my area, and his page is definitely underrated! Go check him out!!
Go ahead, I'll wait.

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And now that you're back, onto the other news!
With Round 2 of the UBF going strong, I've found I've got to thank the Group for all the traffic it's bringing to my page! Almost on 600 watchers (which is a heckuva' lot!!) and coming close to 50,000 pageviews.
I figure what's a thank you without a Kiriban prize?? Whoever catches the 50K mark gets a free chibi pic from me, and if you happen to be in the UBF, then we'll make that a Chibi with your fave Pkmn too.

Before I jump into a whole bunch of Pkmn talk however, I have news about the upcoming Armageddon Expos. I will be attending both the Chch and Welly 'Geddons and will have art for sale at the Drawfest Stand during both Cons. In Chch, you'll be able to find me at the Heroes For Sale P. North Stand and at Welly, I'll be floating between both the Heroes stand and Drawfest NZ Stand.
If you're around, come and say hi! I love to meet new people, and conventions are such a great place to meet other kiwi artists!

Also speaking of the Cons, Starscape is chugging along well enough, but my major worry now is that I might not get enough money via sposorship/advertising to print it in time for Chch'Geddon.
I am taking pre-orders for Issue One still, and if there's people overseas interested, I'll happily ship it anywhere in the world. The comic will be priced at NZD$9.60, (and if international orders can chuck in an extra buck or two to cover postage, that would be sweet) and will have a blank page inside, for sketch requests for the people who buy it. The Sketch page will still be there for the Con Issues as well, so I figure I'll be busy doing a whole ton of sketches on top of my other commissions! (It doesn't hurt to dream!! XD)

Now onto the Pkmn news!! Some of you may've noticed this new club go live a week or two ago;

I encourage any Kiwi Pkmn fans to join up! Once the two coming Armageddon Expos are over, we'll be pretty much jumping into the deep end with the group! We're still in the early set-up stages at the moment, but rest assured I plan to get it rip-roaring once I've got the two big Cons outta' the way.
The aim of the group is to provide a new and unique flavour to the Pokemon Universe, with a bunch of NZ themed Pkmn, two sets of Gym Leaders for Kiwis to challenge, and even our own Cobablt League for when things really start to heat up!
IRL-wise, we also plan to set up 'Gym Battles' at the Armageddon Expos, and are keen to get more people inspired to work together art-wise, using a common interest as our muse!
And I may as well mention, that while initially, we're only letting Kiwis challenge the NZPL, we will be opening it up to International Challengers and we won't stop you from keeping tabs on all the awesome art that'll come through there!

Also, I'd like to take a moment to give out a cookie to those still reading this journal. Your support really keeps me going.

And without further ado, half the reason for this journal is because of these guys here! <3
New Watchers this round:



You're all fantastic, and I'm glad you like my stuff enough to come back for more!